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Vol. 15, N o. 15 | THURSday, april 14 - WEDNESday, april 20, 2010 | watchnewspapers.com Four-Day Festival to Raise Funds for Kids Montrose Wine money for programs for kids. The Black Canyon Boy and Girls Festival Adds Club, Voices for Children of Court Food and Beer to Appointed Special Advocates and for the first time, the Kids Aid Downtown Event backpack food program will share in the proceeds, which last year By Beverly Corbell amounted to $50,000. The benefit has raised more MONTROSE – For the than $230,000 in the past, Bean eighth straight year, the Montrose said. Wine and Food Festival will raise “This year we expect to go money for local nonprofits that over $300,000 in net dollars back benefit children in the area. to the community,” he said. “The The festival started in 2004, community has really gotten be- said festival boardmember Gary hind this event.” Bean, one of the founding mem- bers, and the purpose was to raise see wine on page 6 RIVER FLOWS – The San Miguel River reflected the morning sun at Keystone Gorge Wednesday morn- ing. So far, the Western Slope has been unlucky in a year that, for the rest of the state, has seen record amounts of precipitation, but river watchers say that could change. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost) San Miguel, Dolores Watershed Snowpack Levels Below Average

What Spring Brings Statewide the snowpack pend on river flows for guided level is 114 percent of average, rafting fish-fishing excursions. Is Seen as Biggest with the highest snowpack lev- “What happens over the Factor for Summer els found in the Yampa/White next couple of months may be WINE & FOOD FEST – The four-day Montrose Wine and Food Festi- (133 percent of average) and even more important than what val has expanded this year to include a downtown outdoor event on Rafting Flows North Platte (138 percent of av- has come before us,” Duncan Saturday, May 15, with live music from The Last Bus and more than erage) watersheds in northwest- said, discussing what kind of 20 restaurants setting up food booths, along with plenty of wine and By Gus Jarvis ern Colorado. weather the Western Slope can microbrews. (Courtesy photo) “There are just those two expect over the next couple of WESTERN SLOPE – With areas in the state that are pre- months. More snow and a cold a number of strong winter storms dicted to have below-average spring, for example, would seeming to bypass southwestern stream levels this summer,” mean a later runoff – and a lon- Telluride Bluegrass Colorado this past winter, it’s no said soil conservationist Lenny ger rafting season, while warm surprise that San Miguel, Dolo- Lang, from the Natural Re- temperatures through early June res, Animas, San Juan, and Rio sources Conservation Service’s could lead to an early runoff Stirs ‘A Perfect Storm’ Grande watershed snowpack Grand Junction office. “It was a – and a shorter season. Then, levels are below the overall state La Niña year, and most of the throw in the possibility of one By Marta Tarbell setting one hour. “It started going average of 114 percent. For raf- storms favored the northern of those snowpack-killing dust- so fast. ters and anglers eager for a long mountains. Basically everything storms blowing in from Arizona, TELLURIDE – Those pro- “My professional opinion is summer of fun on the river, in the state looks really good ex- and the melting process speeds verbial earlybirds got this year’s that it’s really a perfect storm,” there’s no need to panic, though, cept for those two areas.” up even more. “Those are the worm, when it came to four-day “You’ve got a couple of seri- because a lot can happen in the But while the numbers are a factors that dictate the runoff (and merchant) passes to the 2011 ous headliners,” he said, pointing next couple of months. fairly reliable indicator of where schedule,” Duncan said. Telluride Bluegrass Festival, in a to Sarah McLachlan, who even According to the most recent snowpack levels currently stand, Judging from the current ticket-selling frenzy that Promot- five years back, he pointed out, snowpack percentages provided one must take them with a grain snowpack percentages, and er Craig Ferguson said, in hind- was selling out “20,000-seat ven- by the Natural Resources Conser- of salt, because the weather we hoping for favorable weather, sight, surprised even him. ues,” making her “probably hotter vation Service, the San Miguel, experience between now and Duncan anticipates that the “I don’t know what I could than anyone on the lineup – except Dolores, Animas and San Juan June is crucial, when trying to 2011 rafting season will extend have done differently,” Ferguson for Led Zeppelin,” in its heyday watersheds, as a group, are cur- anticipate summer river levels, to the Fourth of July. said this week, of getting out the (whose lead singer Robert Plan is rently at 88 percent of average, says Telluride Outside co-own- “I think we are going to have word about the rapid-fire ticket the closing-night headliner). while the Upper Rio Grande is at er John Duncan, who believes a shorter-than-normal rafting sales to a festival featuring per- Then there are the bands that 79 percent. And these two water- snowpack percentages in April season,” he said. “Even though haps an even wider-than-usual appeal to the indie-rock crowd – shed groups are the only two in mean very little. Telluride Out- it’s been windy lately, we have range of talent, which saw mer- Colorado reporting average lev- side is just one of a handful of chant passes sell out in a record- see bluegrass on page 16 els of below 100 percent. outfitters in the region that de- see river on page 13

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shutting the offenders up in kind of Catholicism, imbued Watch mandatory seclusion. Or send- with Jeffersonian principles Out of a ing them off into the world, and Catholic Worker tenden- Publisher Seth Cagin excommunicated. Or (God for- cies. Many spiritual green- Financial Editor Marta Tarbell bid) turning them over to the horns like myself embraced e D i t o r i a l civil authorities … As a young the near heretical writings on Hole Associate Publisher Patrick Nicklaus man I had such hope for reli- the Omega Point by Jesuit phi- Associate Editor Gus Jarvis gion. I was a believer. Even losopher-paleontologist Pierre Act One of the budget bill drama Montrose County Editor Up Be a r Cr e e k with the allure of Fifties rock Teilhard de Chardin, as well as in the Colorado Senate is over, with Beverly Corbell By Art Goodtimes & roll parties and eighth grade the complete oeuvre of Trap- the final reading of the bill package Ouray County Editor Peter Shelton first dates, I decided at 14 to pist poet, pacifist and celebrity Senior Reporter Karen James CONFESSIONS OF AN EX- dedicate my life to making this monk Thomas Merton, who Gu e s t Co m m e n t a r y Managing Editor Jessica Newens MONK … The dawn of the 21st a better world with a better life pioneered interfaith dialogue Report From Capitol Hill Online Editor Barbara Kondracki Millennium of the Christian for all. Which, in my young among East and West religious By State Senator Ellen Roberts Era has not showered its grac- mind, translated into entering a traditions and bridged the PRODUCTION calendared for early this week. As- es upon the Byzantine stained diocesan seminary south of San spiritual chasm between mod- Creative Director/Production Manager suming they pass, the bills then head Anne Reeser glass of Roman Catholicism. Francisco (Colorado Supreme ern literature and contempla- to the House for consideration, de- Art Director Cecily Bryson Revelations of widespread sex- Court Justice Greg Hobbs was tive life (Cables from the Ace, bate, and passage there. If amended, Graphic Designers Barbara Kondracki ual abuse among deviant mem- just a class ahead of me there). New Directions, 1968) … But they return to the Senate. Christine McGrady bers of the Roman Catholic My intent was clear – I would the retrenchment of the Ro- It’s probably confusing that the Photo Editor Brett Schreckengost clergy have rocked the faith- help convert the world into be- man Curia once Blessed John state’s budget is being debated at the Photo Intern Dale Kondracki ful and non-believers alike. lievers in the gospels of the RC the XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe same time that there’s much media Bishops and Cardinals have Christ ... Of course, the deeper Roncalli) died and my own ad v e rt i s i n g attention on the federal budget bill. been touched by the smolder- I got in my studies, the more wrestling with existential phe- Advertising Director The federal bill is way behind sched- ing, decades-old scandal (even, my goal morphed. We aspiring nomenology (and a looming Patrick Nicklaus ule, while the state’s budget is nor- some claim, the Pope). Not for clerical Turks wanted to get rid vow of celibacy) led me out Advertising Associates mally handled now for the upcom- any predatory sexual behavior of the old Latin Mass. Bring of St. Patrick’s Seminary and Aronado Placencia ing fiscal year beginning on July 1. themselves, but for allowing the ritual into English, so all off to Montana and the land of Eric Slayman The federal fiscal year starts on Oct. Ouray and Montrose Counties ordained predators to continue could participate. And under- 1. Neither of these match a calendar Peggy Kiniston in the priesthood – instead of stand. Ours was an American see ubc on page 18 year, so there’s good reason to be Jeanette Cannady confused! What’s also different between c o n tr i b ut o rs our two budgets is the magnitude Martinique Davis, Art Goodtimes, We Have Met the Enemy and of the dollars involved, although Rob Schultheis, Peter Shelton ANDY SAWYER 1965–2008 it’s still daunting to be dealing with GRACE HERNDON 1924-2009 millions and billions of taxpayer It Is Us (Part Two) dollars rather than the trillions at c i r c u l at i o n stake at the federal level. The most Circulation Director New Orleans, the faulty dykes, the and congressmen have wrought in notable difference between the state Scott Nuechterlein pathetic failure to deliver aid to the the last few months. Right here in and federal budget process, though, Circulation provided by victims, the racist response to the Colorado, Republicans in the State is Colorado’s requirement for a bal- Telluride Delivers disaster from all too many Ameri- Legislature are trying to eliminate anced budget. cans, and the fact that the city’s core the state tax on cigarettes because it To get to a balanced budget, giv- offices is still a dysfunctional mess, and supposedly “hurts small businesses” en the current economy, Colorado Telluride they decided that the Great Satan (they don’t explain how), and plan can’t avoid cuts to education, roads, 125 W. Pacific Ave. in the was way past his prime, and wasn’t to make up the resulting shortfall in Diamondtooth Building healthcare and many other services. Phone: (970) 728-4496. Dispatches worth the trouble and expense of state revenue (by cutting $200 mil- I’ve long maintained that setting the Fax: (970) 728-9066 another big-time assault. lion from public school funding!). By Rob Schultheis budget is the single most important Ridgway Why waste bullets on a coma- That’s what I call far-sighted, task before the state legislature and 171 N. Cora Ave. According to friends of mine tose behemoth taking its last gasp- visionary thinking (not), and it’s we’re faced with many hard, but in- Phone: (970) 626-6839 in the intelligence community, one ing breaths? taking effect across the entire na- evitable, choices. Fax: (970) 626-3147 reason we haven’t experienced an- And events since Katrina only tion, on both the federal and state Before the ink was dry on this other 9/11 type attack over the past provide more evidence to support levels. TPs are using a budget year’s first draft of the budget, emails ADDITIONAL several years is Hurricane Katrina. such a condescending viewpoint. It crunch they created by cutting taxes and phone messages to all legislators CONTACT Bin Laden and his terrorist would take a thousand bin Ladens to the wealthy as an excuse to pun- were flooding in with pleas to spare INFORMATION cohorts evidently took note of our decades to wreak the kind of havoc cuts to many areas of the state bud- Advertising: [email protected] pathetic response to the flooding of a few hundred Tea Party governors see dispatches on page 22 get. The members of the joint bud- Editorial: get committee, (JBC), have been [email protected] working on the proposed bills for Classifieds: months and they’ve got their work [email protected] cut out for them as fellow legislators or phone (970) 626-6839 Do We Really Want a Family try to amend the bills in any number Circulation and Subscriptions: of ways to save their preferred pro- [email protected] grams. or phone (970) 626-6839 Dollar Store in Norwood? But, with few exceptions, the Calendar: Senate JBC held their ground on [email protected] or fax (970) 728-9066 It was bound to happen. As as just another face across counter somehow still functional retail es- their proposals. Leadership from both sides of the aisle had consider- small and remote as our little town of commerce. This is one of those tablishments. Our local shopkeep- Various editions of The Watch are able input to the original proposals of Norwood is, there is no way to truths we take to be self-evident ers have spent a great deal of time, published on Thursdays by here in small town Colorado…until effort, and creative energy to carve and the Senate Republican caucus The Slope, LLC, P.O. Box 2042, u e s t o m m e n t a r y G C now. out a space where they can sell their spent many hours discussing what Telluride, CO 81435. By John Herndon, Wright’s Yes, I am talking about a box wares not just as merchants, but as was needed in the bills that we could The Watch is a tradename of The Slope, Mesa Master Plan Advisory store in Norwood. A proposal has part of a service entity to a close knit vote for to achieve the goals of a LLC. All rights reserved. Boardmember, Norwood Parks been presented to the Town of Nor- community. Retail life here is a per- balanced budget and putting Colora- and Recreation Boardmember, dans back to work. and business owner wood to build a Family Dollar store sonal experience. It brings together at a prominent location on the east- the too often separated concepts of I’ve made it no secret either in 2010 escape the scrutiny of corporate ern gateway to Norwood. (No, this service and functional retail. It is these columns or at the Capitol that Associate Member opportunists. We have been living is not a delinquent misprint from the still a place where the owner of the I feel we’re not truly balancing the “out of the box” so to speak, enjoy- April Fools edition.) As I walk down establishment is often times the face budget when we transfer severance tax money to fill budget holes. Yet, ing locally-owned stores and res- the streets of Norwood today, I have across the counter and his product COLORADO taurants whose owners and clien- come to appreciate the character of PRESSASSOCIATION tele we know more as friends than our sometimes funky, quirky and see herndon on page 22 see roberts on page 22 the watch THURSDAY, april 14 - wednesday, april 20, 2011 | 5 community San Juan Region Named a ‘Model Autism Site’

By Martinique Davis ated in an effort to enhance and vidual basis, Mixon has regularly tation” is imperative for success their curriculum to improve com- restructure autism education observed how consequential just when dealing with autism. munication with their autistic SAN MIGUEL/OURAY across the state. Of the program’s a small amount of coaching is for In a situation like this, an au- students,” Mixon says. COUNTIES – Since he first evolution, Sate of Colorado Se- teachers and their autistic stu- tistic student’s ability to adapt to For Telluride Elementary assisted with a study of autistic nior Autism Consultant Brooke dents. the rules of the classroom can be School Principal Trish Green- children while working toward Young says: “As numbers for He gives the example of a developed in a positive way sim- wood, having a specialist like his master’s in speech and lan- autism have increased through- teacher in a first-grade class- ply by his teacher changing her Mixon available to provide teach- guage pathology, autism spe- out the country, we’re finding room, who starts the day by ask- tone when she speaks to him. ers with the tools to best serve cialist Bret Mixon has been that school districts need a sys- ing her students to settle down “I’ve had teachers tell me the school’s autistic students has stirred by the unique challeng- tem in place to help with train- so they can get started with their that their entire perspective on a been incredibly valuable. Ac- es autistic children face within ing and building collaborations lessons. The child with autism, kid changed simply because they cording to Greenwood, Mixon today’s traditional educational so there’s capacity built across who cannot process what is be- said that kid’s name in a more “is exceptionally bright, intuitive setting. the state.” ing said to him as quickly as positive way,” says Mixon. and [he’s] making us think a lot “I’ve really clung to working about how we can best serve our with the hardest of the hard, those students with this learning dis- most impacted by a communica- ability. I am working with a lot tion deficit” on account of autism, of people on this topic and he he says. “Those young people ‘Our job is to educate them, and not baby them or seems to stand out when it comes give me a chess match.” to what should be done in schools Mixon has since dedicated ostracize them from the typical population of kids.’ to help these kids adapt to a regu- his career to deciphering the lar classroom.” “chess match” that is autism. – Bret Mixon, Autism Specialist From Mixon’s perspective, Thanks to a recent grant from his new role as a regional au- the Colorado Department of Ed- tism resource through the CDE ucation, Mixon (an autism con- grant has offered him yet an- sultant based out of Grand Junc- As Mixon says, autism pres- his peers, does not immediately It’s little practices like these other avenue through which he tion) has been able to expand ents unique educational challeng- settle down. His teacher, there- that can truly make a difference in can assist children with autism. his scope to schools and educa- es that teachers haven’t typically fore, loudly repeats the child’s an autistic child’s success in the “The primary emphasis I can tors beyond the Grand Valley. been trained to manage. name, growing frustrated when traditional educational setting, bring to school districts is that Last spring, the Uncompahgre “Autism is frustrating to most he still does not respond. which is the basis of Mixon’s ap- students with autism are more Board of Cooperative Services teachers,” Mixon says, noting “Quickly, the classroom proach to educating children on than capable of learning – they (or UnBoCS, a regional educa- that most teaching institutions knows who the ‘bad’ kid is, just the autism spectrum. are not the outliers in education,” tional support service serving do not provide comprehensive by the way the teacher says his “I’m giving teachers gentle Mixon says. “Our job is to edu- southwest Colorado schools special needs training, and the name,” Mixon says, noting that reminders about the activities cate them, and not baby them or including Telluride, Ridgway, special needs training that is pro- gaining a child’s trust and offer- they’re using, their methodolo- ostracize them from the typical Ouray, and the West End) was vided often does not deal specifi- ing him the “language of expec- gies, and how they can modify population of kids.” selected as one of two “Model cally with autism. Autism Sites” in Colorado. This Working with autistic five-year grant has enabled children requires “a different school districts in the region to type of methodology,” Mix- garner comprehensive coaching on says, and that is where his with Mixon, who has since led role as autism coach comes in. “Monte, you need to monthly training programs in “It’s about trying to fill the call Lynn at Major Mortgage for your Telluride, Ridgway, and Ouray chasm between the amount of in an effort to expand educators’ knowledge people can spew home financing needs. They have local knowledge about the unique in- about autism, and the ability underwriters, low rates and great tricacies of autism. people have on a day-by-day customer service to get the “The purpose of my involve- basis to analyze behaviors and ment, through the CDE, is to care for these kids. 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wine fest organizers – The wine from page 1 also at the culinary academy, and board of directors of the Mon- also for $100 per ticket, Chef As- trose Wine and Food Festival By keeping the number of re- prinio and Master Sommelier Jay hopes that more in the communi- cipients small, the event can have Fletcher will give another cook- more impact on the budget of just ty will come out for the four-day, ing demonstration, along with a few agencies, he said. wine pairing. multi-venue event, particularly on This year’s Montrose Wine Asprinio, who was featured Saturday, May 15, when the fes- and Food Festival will be big- in season one of Top Chef on the tival will move outdoors and fea- ger than ever, Bean said, starting Bravo network, studied at the Cu- ture live music and food booths with a cooking demonstration and linary Institute of America and by more than 20 area restaurants wine pairing at the Western Cu- was formerly sommelier for Nob on Main Street in downtown linary Academy on May 12, and Hill restaurant at the MGM Grand Montrose. (Courtesy photo) ending on Sunday, May 15, with in Las Vegas, according to the Bra- “bubbles, burgers, barbecue and vo website. music” at Centennial Plaza in “He describes his cooking downtown Montrose. style as being light years ahead The festival officially begins of traditional chefs and feels his on Thursday, May 12 at the cu- background as a sommelier only linary academy with a chef’s makes him a more valuable chef,” cooking demonstration and wine the site states. It’s Who We Are. pairing from 6:30-9 p.m. (ticket Later that evening, from 5:30- price, $100). 10 p.m., a sponsors-only dinner On the next day, Friday, May will be held at the Montrose Pa- 13, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., vilion, followed by disco dancing Chef Stephen Asprinio will give a open to the public, starting at 10

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Potential areas for kids and teens and more By Beverly Corbell on closing the street, and that the vendors can contact Krista Mon- events for the whole family, includ- $6,000 pencils out to $500 a week talvo at 708-9029 or gingermagno- ing the Artists’ Corner, sponsored MONTROSE – Main in Mo- for an extra $750 worth of staff and [email protected]. by DMEA, at the corner of Main MAIN IN MOTION – The weekly tion, the weekly summertime cel- summer celebration in downtown services, but that it would be ab- More sponsors are also be- Street and Uncompahgre Ave. ebration when Main Street shuts Montrose will go from 12 to 13 sorbing some of that cost. ing sought, with longtime sponsors Plans are still being formu- down on Thursday afternoons for weeks this year and feature musi- But most of the work for Main Flower Motor Co. and Delta Mon- lated for each week’s theme, but food, fun and live music, had a cians on every street corner of a in Motion is done by volunteers, trose Electric Association already one Thursday will be “Pet Week,” windfall recently, and can now go six-block section of Main Street Morrow said, which were in short on board. Companies interested in sponsored by Murdoch’s Ranch and ahead with plans for an even bigger that will be closed every Thursday supply last year, so a handful of being a sponsor should contact Mor- Home Supply, which will have pet- event this year. afternoon from June 2 through boardmembers ended up doing all row at 249-2886 or at gallegosken- centered activities and contests. The windfall comes in the form Aug. 18. Vendors with food booths, the work, including cleanup. [email protected]. Sponsors need to In addition to musicians on ev- of a grant from the Downtown De- expanded kids areas and a special This year the board has been get their logos in by May 15 to be ery block, for the first time the event section for teens will be part of the velopment Authority, which agreed summer event. (File photo) expanded, she said, but more vol- included in promotional materials, will also have a main stage with a to pay a fee of $6,000 for the city to unteers, sponsors and vendors are she added. weekly headliner, Morrow said. shut down Main Street from Junc- needed. This is Main in Motion’s elev- Even though its funding has tion to Townsend avenues, a six- The nonprofit, which lost city Volunteers do all sorts of things, enth year, Morrow said, and the event been iffy this past year, the grant block stretch. The fee is a tenfold funding last year,was turned down from patrolling the festivities and an- from 6-8:30 p.m. on Thursdays has from DDA to pay for closing the jump from the $600 the city charged again last week by the Montrose swering questions to setting up tents become a mainstay of the summer streets is essential, Morrow said. last year for closing the three blocks City Council, said Main in Mo- to the inevitable cleanup, when the social scene. 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COONEYS AT COPPER - Four golds for Molly Cooney and a silver for Beecher Cooney at the high-level season-ending USASA event. (Courtesy photos) With Cooneys Leading the Charge, Telluride Snowboarders Dominate at National Championships

By Martinique Davis Telluride’s flurry of medal-winning style, slalom, and giant slalom, and groomed racecourses with gusto. “His division is competitively runs throughout the course of the took fifth in boardercross. She easily “She was killing it in practice, one of the hardest-hitting age groups COPPER MOUNTAIN – The five-day contest. won the title of top woman overall in and I think she really just wanted there is,” Dylan said. “It’s made up Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club “All of these kids did a phe- the five combined events. to take as much advantage of those of all the up-and-coming guys in the snowboard team sent eight of its rid- nomenal job,” he said, noting that as Molly, who competes in the phenomenal facilities as possible,” industry… and Beecher was right in ers to Copper Mountain last week a team, Telluride far out-placed the women’s Jams (age 18-22) age brother and co-coach Dylan said of there with them.” to finish out the winter of 2010-11 majority of other, often much-larger class, had not had a regular presence her performance at the 2011 Nation- Beecher’s proficiency in the in style at the USASA’s National teams representing other resorts from in the competitive snowboarding al Championships. other disciplines earned him second Championships. around the country. circuit this winter, opting instead to Youngest brother Beecher place overall in the combined event Upon their return, TSSC head Telluride garnered some good spend many of her weekends coach- Cooney wasn’t left out of the win- rankings. snowboard coach Dylan Cooney attention from the national snow- ing alongside her older brother Dy- ner’s spotlight either, blazing into The other Telluride rider Lu- had one word to describe the team’s boarding community thanks in part lan at TSSC. Yet her lack of time second place in the ultra-competitive cas Foster cranked up the intensity overall performance at this high- to Telluride’s best-known snow- in starting gates this winter appar- Junior Men’s (age 16-17) division in in the Menehune (age 10-11) boys level, season-ending event: “Amaz- boarding brood, the Cooneys. Molly ently didn’t slow this Telluride-bred halfpipe. This is in spite of this young age division for the slopestyle event, ing.” Cooney was literally on fire all week boarder in the slightest, as she tack- competitor having very little training launching to eighth place. “It was the best performance long, claiming gold in four of five led Copper Mountain’s perfectly time in halfpipes this winter, owing “Watching his run you could Telluride has ever had” at a Nation- events. She swept her field of nearly manicured terrain park, Olympic- to Telluride’s lack of a halfpipe this als event, Cooney said, pointing to 30 other women in halfpipe, slope- sized halfpipe, and meticulously ski season. see snowboard on page 23

36th Annual Black Canyon Telluride Playwrights Festival Ascent Takes Runners Up ‘Forgiving John Trails of Black Canyon Lennon’ Comes Six-Mile Race Will to Telluride for Benefit Montrose Summer Run Community Foundation TELLURIDE – The Telluride Playwrights Festival, now in its fifth year of providing a summertime laboratory setting for actors, By Beverly Corbell playwrights and directors to network and nurture new work that seeks to inspire and engage, will bring a full production of a new MONTROSE – The Western dark comedy by William Missouri Downs called Forgiving John Slope has a lot of running enthu- Lennon to the Sheridan Opera House July 14-17. siasts, and one of the most chal- Part of the University of Wyoming’s Summer Theatre Program, lenging races on their agenda is the the play explores a clash of cultures in a world where, as Lennon Black Canyon Ascent, set this year once said, “nothing to kill or die for” might not be so easily imag- for May 14. RACE TO THE TOP – Dozens of runners and walkers joined in the ined. Black Canyon Ascent last year, a race from the bottom of Black Can- As with all TPF productions, feedback from the audience after In its 36th year, the six-mile run yon that will again benefit the Montrose Community Foundation when and “challenge walk” will benefit the it is held on May 14. (Courtesy photo) the performance, is a valued step and assuredly there will be plenty Montrose Community Foundation. of discussion after this thought provoking play. To register, log onto www.black- In addition to Forgiving John Lennon, TPF will continue its canyonraces.com/ascent2.html. for more details. an accurate and recordable time.” staged reading series this year, as well as work on new plays by es- Registration and packet pickup will “This year’s race will be bigger At the end of the race, runners tablished Colorado playwrights, presented free to the public. be held the day before, on May 13, and better than ever,” Shine said. and onlookers can enjoy great food, Plays germinated at TPF are now blossoming all over the coun- from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at 316 East Main “We’ve drawn in more sponsors raffles and entertainment at the end try, in larger locales, including Phantom Killer, Jan Buttram’s 2009’s St. Contact race director Scott Shine than ever, we’re bringing in profes- at 970/901-9667 [email protected] sional chip timing so runners will get see race on page 23 see lennon on page 23 10 | THURSDAY, april 14 - wednesday, april 20, 2011 the watch THIS WEEK IN sports Not Just Your Normal Final Round at the Masters drama with a knife. It was what and I am a slut for a good story- to watch. Fortunately he’s young for them. And when it was appar- everybody should want in the fi- line. I must have changed who I and I’m sure he will have another ent that Schwartzel was going to nal round of a golf tournament, wanted to win the tournament at good crack at winning the Green win, I’m not even sure CBS knew in that you had no idea who was least five or six times on Sunday. Jacket in years to come. enough about him to give their going to win it until the final hole First, I really wanted the young As much as I dislike Tiger viewers any insight. was played. A maddening eight northern Irishman, Rory McIlroy, Woods’ attitude, I found myself Normally, as the winner putts players held or tied for the lead to hold strong, as he had done all going for a Tiger comeback on out on 18, they are zooming in in the back nine. The tournament week at Augusta, and win, to be- Sunday. It was fun to see the fist- on that player’s wife or family. Sp o r t s Wa t c h really was up for grabs. come the second-youngest Mas- pumping intensity from this man Jim Nance is usually giving you By Gus Jarvis In the end, the coveted Green ters Champion since Tiger Woods who hasn’t quite made it back the calm talk on where the fam- Jacket went to South African won it when he was 21. to his old winning self since the ily has come from, the hardships I have never been glued to Schwartzel, who shot a 66 and the TV like I was on Sunday for birdied the final four holes to the final round of the Masters. I win the Masters. This was the must admit that I normally only best final round by a winner in watch the last couple of hours of 22 years, and his four final bird- It was what everybody should want the Masters, not wanting to be ies made for the best finish in the in the final round of a golf tournament, locked inside on a clear spring tournament’s history. day. So when I turned the tube While he didn’t seem to be in that you had no idea who was going on in the morning to see what the in contention to win the Masters leader board looked like, it was (at least the gold-talking heads to win it until the final hole was played. a mistake, because I didn’t leave didn’t say so), Schwartzel started the vicinity of the television all the day off hot and never looked day. A wasted day? back. Besides his final birdie to Yes. win, his two most memorable Worth it? shots were at hole one, where he I, and I think a lot of other collapse of his marriage in the they have survived to get here, Absolutely. chipped in a birdie from 75 feet people, wanted to see him suc- face of multiple sex scandals. etc, etc. When Schwartzel was The final round had every- out, and then on hole three where ceed through the Sunday pres- Tiger had a chance on Sunday, 18, CBS zoomed in on someone thing from spectacular shots he dropped it in he cup from the sure at the Masters and win it. He but couldn’t go the extra mile on closely tied to Char, but they from some to guy named Charl fairway for eagle. He was hav- was going to be the next genera- the greens and sink three or four didn’t tell us whether it was his Schwartzel, a resurgence of Tiger ing one of those spectacular tion golfer with the win. Instead, putts he needed to stand out from wife, girlfriend, friend. Here was Woods, to the sad and disappoint- golf days, and it stuck with him he had a monumental collapse, the rest. Tiger is almost back, but the final drama moment and we ing collapse of a 21-year-old who through the day. and fell completely off the leader not quite. didn’t know anything about the seemed to have the Green Jacket Now, the final round of the board. He succumbed to the pres- I also wanted to go for Phil man who was going to win the all but won. You could cut the Masters is all about story-lines, sure, and it was almost unbearable Mickelson, because I always Masters. “Why should I be tearing like a repeat-champion storyline. up during this moment?” I asked Well, Phil was out of it early on myself. “What is this man’s vic- Sunday. I liked the possibility of tory story?” This is CBS’s meat a repeat win by Angel Cabrera, as and potatoes and they had noth- he was playing aggressive, seem- ing for us when he won. I think ingly care-free golf on Sunday they were caught by surprise by but he couldn’t hang on as well. his win as well. So when it came down to the But, then, maybe there just possibility of players like Geoff wasn’t any drama to be told Ogilvy, Adam Scott, Jason Day, when Char won the Masters. He Luke Donald, or K.J. Choi, I was just the best golfer on the didn’t know who to go for, be- course that day, and that’s all cause I don’t watch enough golf there is to say about it. I can’t to understand what their stories wait for next year. I may have to There’s no are, and why I should be going clear an entire weekend. off-season 2 / < 1 3  ;CA71 at 47:; two skirts / 1B7<5 NEW ARRIVALS DAILY

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By Martinique Davis ter may have indeed felt sub par, 2008-09 both boasted months of at least to those with short-term record-breaking snowfall, with 105 TELLURIDE – After the last memories. After all, the slopes at inches falling in January of 2008 snowflake fluttered to rest on the Telluride were blessed with boun- (compared to the historic January slopes of the Telluride Ski Resort tiful amounts of snow throughout average of 43). Ninety-five inches at the end of ski season, snow re- the previous three seasons, each of fell in December of that winter, and porters confirmed that snow totals which boasted many above-average 90 fell in February, putting totals for for the season were almost exactly and even some record-breaking each of those months far above av- normal compared to the 35-year av- months for snowfall. erage. December of the next ski sea- erage. “The last three years were all son brought 114 inches (in a month This news comes as a surprise record or near-record winters, so with snowfall averages closer to 40 MANY FACTORS – Spring dust storms like this one last year on Lizard to some local skiers and riders, who I think everybody’s gotten used to inches). Head Pass accelerate snowmelt. (File photo) spent much of the 2010-11 season having a lot more snow than we During the 2009-10 season, lamenting their home mountain’s typically have,” says Craig Ster- snowfall during December, Febru- dearth of powder. Yet at the end of benz, Snow Safety Director for the ary and March were all well above months during the just-concluded Because t\he Telluride Ski Area March, the five-month season total Telluride Ski Area. average. ski season. January was, as some has not, historically, recorded April added up to 211.15 inches: 96 per- By comparison, 277 inches fell With snow accumulations as powder-hounds will remember, dis- snowfall, the seven-inch storm that cent of Telluride’s longterm average during the winter of 2009-10; 292 bountiful as they’ve been in the pre- mal, with only about 28 inches of blanketed the slopes on Closing Day of 218.7 inches. were reported in 2008-09; and ski- vious three seasons, it’s no surprise snow when closer to 45 is normal. (April 4) would, if recorded, bring Although snow totals for the ers reveled in a whopping 342 inch- that snowfall during the winter of March came in only slightly below the season total to exactly average. just-concluded ski season were just es in 2007-08. 2010-11 felt nominal, but the snow- normal, at 92 percent of average, about average, an “average” win- The winters of 2007-08 and pack fell below average in only two with 46.5 inches. see snow on page 16 river from page 1 a return to weather as normal re- filled early, and the releases had to radiation). Basically we’re back to (and anything that may hasten the mains to be seen.” start on May 11,” the press release a fill and spill operation and we runoff and raise the reservoir ear- not had many dust-storms. If we For rivers relying on reservoir states. “In 2010, reservoir capac- will try to update the controlling lier that anticipated). make it rafting until July 15, we storage, Lang said, the data cor- ity allowed holding back until parameters of reservoir elevation, For more information on the are jumping for joy. We have only responds (to snowpack averages), May 24, but started five feet lower inflow and outflow.” Dolores River releases visit do- made that one time in the last with reservoir levels statewide at (20,000 acre-feet). So the timing The Dolores Water Conser- loreswater.com and for updated three years. 103 percent of average, and the of the spring melt will be the pri- vation District officials will also snowpack levels visit co.nrcs. “With 80 percent snowpack San Miguel, Dolores and Animas mary driver (temperature and solar continue to monitor dust-storms usda.gov. on the ground right now, and kind watershed reservoir storage aver- of normal weather conditions, I age coming in at 82 percent. think we’ll make it to the Fourth For boaters seeking a trip on of July.” the Dolores River below McPhee Looking back further at his Reservoir, indications are there outfitter’s history of rafting on the will be a release sometime in San Miguel, Duncan noted that May, but precisely when is un- between 1984 and 2001, the aver- clear. According to an updated age closing date for rafting on the press release issued on April 12 San Miguel River was Aug.1. by the Dolores Water Conserva- “In the last ten years we had tion District, the release of 800 hit August first exactly once,” he Cubic Feet per Second (CFS) in- Attention said, adding that meteorologists tended for Memorial Day week- say that the 1970s, 80s, and 90s end is now expected to come were abnormally wet. “Whether May 20. Birdwatchers this is the new norm or it’s just “Remember, in 2009 McPhee of the Southwest! 3PRING#LEANING4IME
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MONTROSE COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS: VISTA, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Ridgway Youth for Understanding has Community Center. Potluck dinner FRIDAY, APRIL 15 foreign exchange students profiles follows. Contact: Rachel Boothby, Puttin’ on the Ritz – Voices for now online at www.yfu-usa.com for [email protected]. Children gala fundraiser, Bridges high school academic year 2011- Business After Hours – Peak Golf and Country Club, 6:30 p.m. 12. Hosts provide place to sleep, to Peak Bicycles, 640 Sherman Roaring 20s costumes encouraged. study and food; insurance provided. St., Ridgway, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; for Appetizers, live entertainment, Or is your student interested in RACC members only (and their gourmet dinner, dancing, silent studying abroad? Local volunteer: guests). pick and live auctions. Tickets $50, [email protected], Local Alternative Energy dance & sing! available at Montrose Bank, CASA 970/240-9146. Initiatives Discussion by SMPA Voices for Children office (300 N. Mending Hearts Hospice President Wes Perrin, 7 p.m., Cascade), or online, casanow.org. Grief Support Groups meet in Ridgway Community Center. Montrose, Mondays, 1-2:30 p.m. Sponsored by ROCC. SATURDAY, APRIL and Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., 645 S. 16-SUNDAY, APRIL 17 5th St. Contact Don Barr, 240-7734. THURSDAYS, APRIL 21- Stunning Landscapes – Workshop Montrose Farmers Market MAY 26 in oil and/or pastels with Barbara Accepting Vendor Applications Wood, Water, Rock: Painting Churchley, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., – For all market days: Saturdays, Trees, Rivers, Snow, Clouds and Around the Corner Art Gallery, May-Oct.; Wednesdays, June-Sept.; Mountains – Thursday morning all levels; $150. Call 249-4243 or Thursday evenings during Main in watercolor series with Meredith email [email protected]. Motion, June 2-Aug. 18. (Saturday Nemirov, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., market has moved from Oxbow in Ridgway. More info and SUNDAY, APRIL 17 Crossing to Centennial Plaza.) registration (deadline April 15) Montrose Community Band For vendor rules and regulations available at weehawkenarts.org or Spring Concert – Music in and applications visit www. by calling 970/318-0150. celebration of children, 3 p.m. at the montrosefarmersmarket.com or Montrose Pavilion. Free, no tickets call 970/209-8463. Vendors selling FRIDAY, APRIL 22 necessary. meats, eggs, baked items, and value Ouray Elks Easter Egg added food products should first Preparation Potluck – Help stuff TUESDAY, APRIL 19 montrose check with Montrose County Food candy eggs, 6 p.m., Ouray Elks Relax With Colored Pencils – Service Inspector Vera Stouffer for Lodge. Bring a dish to share. Call friday, april 15 Instructor Loretta Casler teaches requirements and permits, 970/240- 626-4239 for details. Get out your dancing shoes, polish up your spats and fundamentals of colored pencil 5000. shimmy into your flapper fringe for this year’s annual painting, all levels, Around the FRIDAY, APRIL fundraiser for CASA, Voices for Children, which is Corner Art Gallery, 249-4243. OURAY COUNTY 22-SATURDAY, APRIL 23 celebrating the Roaring 20s with “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” Stencil Madness: Monoprint TUESDAY, APRIL THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Gone Crazy – Printmaking Held at the Bridges Golf and Country Club on Friday, 19-FRIDAY, APRIL 29 April 15, the evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with appetizers Ouray County Historical workshop with visiting artist Montrose County School Museum Open to the Public – and entertainment followed by a gourmet dinner, dancing, Jennifer Ghormley, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., District Re-1J Annual Student Hours, Thurs.- Sat., 10 a.m. - 4:30 and silent and live auctions. Weehawken Ridgway. Tuition: Art Show – Featuring artwork p.m. April is Prevent Child Abuse Awareness Month, $150-$165, plus $20 materials. from Cottonwood, Johnson, Oak Call 970/318-0150 or visit and that’s what Voices for Children does. When an Grove, Northside, Olathe and FRIDAY, APRIL 15 weehawkenarts.org. abused or neglected child’s case goes to court, Voices for Pomona elementary schools, A Century of Ouray County Children volunteers meet the child and report to the judge as well as artwork by students Ranching, 1875-1975 – New SUNDAY, APRIL 24 in each case. These trained, court-appointed volunteers from Centennial and Columbine exhibit opens at Ouray County 44th Annual Ouray Elks Easter become the child’s voice in the legal system. middle schools, Olathe Middle/ Historical Museum. Exhibit closes Egg Hunt – For Ouray County kids Tickets for the fundraiser are $50 per person and can High School, and Montrose High July 5, reopens August 19-Nov. 19. up to 12 years old, 2 p.m. sharp, be purchased at Montrose Bank, at the CASA Voices School, on display at the Region 10 Call 970/325-4576. Ouray’s Fellin Park. Really bad for Children office at 300 N. Cascade Ave., or online at Enterprise Center. For more info weather location, Ouray Elks lodge. www.casanow.org. email [email protected]. SATURDAY, APRIL 16 Call 626-4239 for information. Apple’s Numbers vs. Microsoft SATURDAY, APRIL 23 Excel – Computer class with WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 ouray Annual Stupid Band Earth John Clark, Ridgway Town Hall, Abandoned Mines & Day Dance – Turn of the Century 10 a.m.-noon, $20, no sign-up Water Quaility Conference, sunday, april 17 Saloon (117 NW Fourth St.); doors required. 3:30-8:30 p.m., go to http:// Join Weehawken this Sunday, April 17 at 3 p.m. open at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $10 uncompahgrewatershed.org for for a “Dance Off” at the Wright Opera House in and a non-perishable food item. MONDAY, APRIL 18 more info. Ouray, featuring works by the dancers and teachers Don’t make a “stupid mistake,” San Juan High School Choir of Weehawken Dance Company (also known as the come celebrate your home planet Festival – At the Ridgway THURSDAY, APRIL 28 Wee Company). Dancers will perform pieces learned with one of the greatest rock-n-roll Secondary School Commons, 7 Ouray County Weed Symposium throughout the year as well as solo choreography created bands in the valley! Call 970/249- p.m. Sixty-plus high school singers – Featuring Commissioner of by individually. Each company member has chosen 8250 for information. from Ridgway, Ouray, Norwood, Agriculture John Salazar and weed Nucla, Olathe and Paonia, directed management professionals, 9 a.m.-4 their own music, costumes, and created their own WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 choreography to be showcased at the event. They will by Mr. Jan Tuin. Free and open to p.m., 4H Event Center, Ridgway. The Power Behind the Throne: also present ensemble dances learned in class. Tickets the public. RSVP by April 15, 970/626-9775 x Maya Women and Warfare will be sold at the door for $5. Call 318-0150 or visit 23. Hosted by Ouray County Weed – Presentation at monthly STARTING WEEK OF Department. weehawkenarts.org for more info. meeting of the Chipeta Chapter APRIL 18 of the Colorado Archaeological Weehawken Zumba Classes THURSDAY, APRIL Society, 7 p.m., Montrose United Begin – Get fit dancing to Latin and 28-SATURDAY, APRIL 30 montrose Methodist Church, 19 S. Park international music with dynamic, Ouray School Presents Annie, sunday, april 17 Ave. Speaker Barbara Hughes, a simple exercise moves. New Jr. – Featuring all ages of students cultural anthropologist, teaches Music in celebration of children will be performed on students get one free Zumba class and some community members, at Metropolitan State College Sunday, April 17, at the free spring concert of the the first week, taught by instructors 7:30 p.m., Ouray School stage. of Denver. Free and open to all, Kendra Manley and Vicky Hartlein. Montrose Community Band. The concert begins at Tickets on sale now at Buckskin contact Tricia at 249.6250 for more Ouray Wright Opera House: Mon., 3 p.m. in the Montrose Pavilion. Under the baton of Booksellers and Khristopher's information. 10:30 a.m.; Tues., 6:30 p.m.; Wed./ Culinaire, in Ouray, Ouray School Toby King, the band will play music from Disney and Fri., 6:15 a.m. Ridgway: Wed., 6 or at the door on performance other movies, as well as a Karl King circus march. The SATURDAY, APRIL 23 p.m. Call 970/318-0150 or visit nights. Seats are limited. concert also will include music by the band’s saxophone Digital SLR Camera Class for weehawkenarts.org. ensemble and a performance by Los Angeles-based singer Beginners – With professional FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Debbie Carter. 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Hickenlooper; open for player scramble format; registration MV Heritage Parking Garage participation by all Colorado citizens. 8 a.m., tee time 9 a.m.; lunch Will Be Closed to the public for re- Go to www.advancecoloradocom/ included after play. $65/player striping. Free public parking will be bottomup. entry fee benefits the lodge and its available in the North Village Center Fitness and Zumba Classes – With charitable programs. Hole-in-one parking lot, behind the Shirana and Melissa Currie at the Norwood prize: 2011 Suzuki 750cc 4X4 ATV. Westermere buildings. Livery. Fitness: Mon./Wed., 5:15-6 Early registration encouraged, call p.m.; Zumba, Tues./Thurs., 9-9:45 Danny Wesseling 970/626-5058, FRIDAY, APRIL 15 a.m., Tues. 6:15-7 p.m. 970-729-1174; or Dick Spirek Mountainfilm Event –Screening African-Style Drum Circle – 970/626-5862. of Bag It, Eastern Rises, Fishman, Second/fourth Thursdays, 7-8 and Alone on the Wall, 7 p.m. at p.m., ACE at the Livery, Norwood, SUNDAY, MAY 1 the Livery in Norwood; fundraiser $3; bring your own drum. Visit Tea and Traditions – At historic for After-Prom party, $10 adults, $5 aceofnorwood.com. Colona School., 2-4:30 p.m. A high students; visit aceofnorwood.com. Open Figure Studio – Mondays, tea with traditional goodies served 6-8:30 p.m. at the Ah Haa School. on fine china. Entertainment, party FRIDAY, APRIL 15- Registration appreciated; $15/session. For 4.15.11 favors for all, and wonderful door THURSDAY, APRIL 21 Call 728-3886. prizes. Vintage attire encouraged, Movies at the Nugget – Source University Centers of the San but not required. Admission is free; Code (1:34, PG-13); Paul (1:44, R). Miguel Upcoming Classes: For donations are requested to benefit For times and dates, call 728-3030 specific times and more info, call NuggetTheatre.com restoration efforts. Historic Colona or visit nuggettheatre.com. 369-5255 or visit ucsanmiguel.org. april 15 - 21 School is located about a quarter mile Knitting Classes/Events – At Fri Sun Tue Thu aT 6:00 • SaT Mon Wed aT 8:15 • 1:34 • PG-13 west of U.S. Highway 550 on Ouray TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Needle Rock Fiberarts, 320 W. County Road 1. Info, call Joyce at Mountain Village Town Council Colorado Ave.; call 970/728-3427 or 249-4217 or Jane at 626-5075. Meeting, MV Town Hall, 8:30 a.m. visit needlerock.blogspot.com. sourCe Code Fri Sun Tue Thu aT 8:00 • SaT Mon Wed aT 6:00 • 1:44 • r Telluride Regional Airport Silent Meditation at Christ Church ANNOUNCEMENTS: Authority Meeting, Telluride – Classes, third Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Airport, 12 p.m. paul OVER 3500 SQ. FT. Free Fly Tying Seminars – Every gatherings, every Thursday, 7:30 p.m. WWW. UGGET HEATRE.COM N T ANTIQUES • FURNITURE Saturday through April, 10 a.m.-12 All welcome. Call 728-8855. Telluride Film FesTival, Telluride FoundaTion, Town oFTelluride FRIDAY, APRIL 22 OLD • USED • HANDCRAFTED p.m., RIGS Fly Shop & Service. 207 w Colorado avenue 728-3030 BOOKS Palm Dollar Movie Series – Palm OLD • USED • OUT OF PRINT Call for Artists and Vendors – REGION LOCAL ART theatre, 3:30 p.m. Call Palm events Weehawken Creative Arts invites Old School House EmpOrium JEWELRY - CARDS - GIFTS artists, craftspeople and food line for film title, 369-5669. THURSDAY, APRIL 14 REFRESHMENTS concessionaires to participate in the The Housemaid – Rated R, Palm Friendship Force International 1075 Sherman, Hwy 62 at the west end of Ridgway ANTIQUES FURNITURES Open: 10-6 Daily • 970-209-3191 27th Ridgway Rendezvous Arts Theatre, 6 p.m.; $8 adults, $6 Meeting – Western Colorado OLD • uSED • HANDCrAFTED and Crafts Festival, Aug. 13-14 students. Chapter, 6:15 p.m., Community in Ridgway Town Park. For more Hospital’s Lower Conference BOOKS info, visit weehawkenarts.org or call FRIDAY, APRIL 22- Room, 2021 North 12th Street OLD • uSED • OuT OF priNT SUNDAY, APRIL 24 970/318-0150. in Grand Junction. Featuring LOCAL ART • JEWELERY • CARDS • REFRESHMENTS Friends of Ridgway State Park First Lead’s Wilderness presentation on Uganda by Lee Scholarships – Two $1,000 First Aid and WFR Recert Frost. Visitors are welcome. FFI 1075 Sherman On Hwy 62 at the West end of Ridgway OVER 3500 SQ.FT. 970-209-7426 Seasonal Hours: 11:30 - 5:30 p.m. Thurs-Mon scholarships for college students Training – Includes CPR. and is a non-profit worldwide travel/ Open by chance or appointment Tuesday and Wednesday who have completed one semester recertifies Wilderness First cultural exchange program with 385 • of post-secondary education or Responder; Norwood Community chapters in 55 countries. 241-9122, more. Available to high school Center. Go to www.firstlead.com. thefriendshipforce.org. grads from Mesa, Delta, Montrose and Ouray counties. Available from SATURDAY, APRIL 23 SUNDAY, APRIL 24 Ridgway Sate Park Office, 970/626- Met Opera on the Big Screen: Easter Celebration Service – Unity 5822, email [email protected]. Capriccio – Live in HD, Palm Church, 3205 N. 12th St., Grand Application deadline, April 30. 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bluegrass from page 1 beat The Decemberists, The Head and the Heart, and Grammy-sweet- hearts Mumford and Sons. sheet When they performed at last year’s Telluride Bluegrass Fes- NORWOOD tival, Ferguson observed, Mum- The Blissters ford and Sons weren’t yet the Fri., April 15, Two Candles, huge draw they would become, 8:30 p.m., no cover just a few months later. But he and other Bluegrass stalwarts MONTROSE were so enamored, Ferguson said, Lobo & Sheryl Loggins that he called Mumford’s agent in Fri., April 15, Red Barn September to say, “We haven’t Alternate Route done this in ten years,” and invite Fri., April 15, Cobble Creek the band back for this year, even Clubhouse, 7:30 p.m. though they were hardly part of Cyrus James, Jeff Fields the festival’s sprawling “house Sat., April 16, Horsefly Brewing band,” whose members return Stupid Band Earth Day Dance year after year after year. Sat., April 23, Turn of the The manager “got back to Century Saloon me maybe a month later,” Fergu- 10th Annual Sippin' Into son said, saying: “I’ve got good Spring with Last Bus, Sons of news for you – and I’ve got bad the Addicted news.” Fri., May 6, Turn of the Century The good news: Mumford Saloon MAN AT WORK – Telluride Bluegrass Festival Promoter Craig Ferguson said that the festival’s relatively and Sons “asked me to schedule Alternate Route small size lets his organization keep to a mellow game plan. (File photo) their North American tour around Sat., May 7, Pickin' & Dancin the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.” Benefit, Turn of the Century The bad news: “They don’t “So I told him, ‘We aren’t re- tique festival,” in a world with “a tions to that rule. “And if you Saloon, 8 p.m., $20 ally a bluegrass festival. I’ve got ton of festivals, with 30 or 40 that want to bring really cool shows to Open Mic Poetry Night want to play – they just want to 2nd Wed. of every month, Jovis come to the festival.” a spot before Robert Plant, and I are bigger than us.” Telluride,” he added, “it’s not go- Coffee, 6:30 p.m. At this point, Ferguson went don’t think anyone would confuse On the positive side, Fergu- ing to happen if you leave it to the Live Music into back-burner mode with the him with a bluegrass band.’” son said, that smallness lets his producer to do it all by himself. Thursdays, Canyon Creek B&B, message that, sure, they could So Mumford and Sons signed organization keep to a relatively “I go in and say, ‘Here’s my 6:30 p.m. come, but as for not playing, no, on – and, in these heady days mellow game plan. “We don’t spreadsheet,’” he said, and “peo- Alan Virgil “that just wouldn’t do.” with their two early-June shows really plan where to go until we ple tell me they need to recover Fridays, Damiano's Ferguson explained his strat- at Denver’s Fillmore selling out start going,” he said. their direct costs. They want to egy. “You know, they’re from “in just five minutes” – at Tellu- This year, look for some pass on all their expenses to me. RIDGWAY England,” he said of the band, ride Bluegrass prices. beefing up of the Nightgrass of- “If there was a way to work Just the Tip “and they have such a real admi- “They certainly aren’t the ferings, and for newcomers like with the lodging community and Fri., April 22, White Horse ration for all the roots musicians only band on the bill outside of Abigail Washburn and Tram- Marketing Telluride Inc. and the Saloon, 8 p.m., $5 in our lineup. They’ve become the Bluegrass pay scale,” Fer- pled by Turtles filling out the town governments, so they would Chris Hughes deep friends with Jerry Douglas; guson said, going on to observe, long list of festival regulars and chip in some of the revenues” Sun., April 24, True Grit they hang out in Nashville all the “There’s quite a lot of diversity longtime friends. they see from Bluegrass – he esti- Open Mic at the Sherbino time, going out of their way to in what’s happening in festivals” Asked about a reprise of mates the Town of Mountain Vil- 2nd/4th Wed., White Horse pick with Old Crow and Gillian these days, ricocheting from the something like last year’s sell- lage alone gets roughly $250,000 Saloon Welch; one of their main influ- recent demise of Denver’s Mile- out Phish concert, which Fergu- in Bluegrass parking revenues – ences is Allison Krauss.” High Festival to mega-festivals son promoted, he said: “It’s still maybe a Phish reprise could hap- PALISADE He saved the clincher, how- “like Bonnaroo and Coachella,” quite frustrating to bring in any pen. He went on to hint that he Live Acoustic Fridays ever, for the band’s manager. “A which although easily quintu- kind of new show, to try to figure fielded an offer to host “the most Palisade Brewery, 6 p.m. lot of thought goes into a band pling Telluride Bluegrass atten- out everything from the camping epic show you could ever see in like that,” he said of Mumford, dance figures, “are selling out in to the gondola and the parking Telluride” sometime this fall, but GRAND JUNCTION “that all of a sudden blows up a day.” and the lodging. that current economics make that Open Mic Nights into one of the hottest bands in Ferguson said he’s OK with “The Phish thing was such a virtually impossibe. Every Wed., Palisade Brewery; the country. And one of the things his festival’s scale – “I like to rarity,” he said, mostly because “Most band’s business man- every Thurs., Rockslide Brew the manager considers is not get- think Telluride Bluegrass relies the band, with its early Telluride agers won’t let them come here,” Pub ting pigeonholed. on its reputation as much as on history, “wanted to play in Tellu- with what Telluride can afford to who’s the headliner” – and that ride so much that they were will- pay, he said. Instead, they’ll tell while it once was “the biggest ing to do it for a discount. them: “Go play the Hollywood festival in the country” in its “Not many bands can shoot Bowl,” where the pay-scale starts 1990-91 heyday, those days are into Telluride and sell out,” he at $500,00, “take some of that gone. said, citing Lyle Lovett and Jack- money, and go to Telluride for a “Now, we’re just a little bou- son Browne as two more excep- nice vacation.”

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notices ubc from page 4 The Talking Gourd STAFF REPORT NEW BUSINESS the Absaroka (but that’s another April Aubade legal 1. Town Planner 1. The approval of the Liquor License Re- tale) … All of this to say I have newal Application for GBH Holdings LLC/ RICO TOWN BOARD MEETING 2. Town Attorney a confession to make. I’m ad- RICO COURTHOUSE 3. Town Clerk Mountain Top Liquor When you finally dicted. Every spring, as my mail April 20, 2011 4. Public Works 2. Discuss the July 4th Event sleep with the 7:00 P.M. 5. Town Manager 3. Consideration of a Resolution Concerning box fills up with lurid photos of Call to Order 6. Board of Trustees the EPA’s Proposed Remediative Actions for the most beautiful creatures, I window open in Emissions at the Four Corners Power Plant Roll Call and San Juan Generating Station have come to accept that I am a century old Approval of Agenda OLD BUSINESS 4. Executive Session: CRS Section 24-6-402 addicted to the pornography of 1. The Consideration of 2nd Reading for Approval of Minutes: March 16, 2011 (4) (e) for a conference with the Town Attor- Ordinance No. 2011-2, an Ordinance Pro- garden catalogues … Omygod- Approval of Bills ney for the purpose of receiving legal advice house, the itch hibiting Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Approval of Treasurers Report regarding West Rico dess, I could leaf through their the Town of Rico of April enters, Public Comment: ADJOURN Technicolor pages for hours. Entranced with the beauty of a highway breathes this bulb. Lusting to purchase through, trains woo that flowering annual. Pining and bounce Emme around the a human child slumber? I de- elle from page 12 for the rarest heirloom spud darkly westward. Come room until she decides to give cide it is incalculable, at around seed … And, honestly, I’m not a lence is not a part of a 3-year- up the fight and fall asleep. 3 a.m. when I awake to Elle find bit ashamed. When it comes to morning, wood pecker old’s bedtime repertoire. And Children are small. If you set stretched crosswise between the sin of gardening, I’m com- drills a hole that waking up a sleeping baby a small child in the middle of a the sheet-covered mounds of pletely unrepentant. into your waking sister is exactly what a 3-year-old large sofa, she doesn't appear to her father and me, as comfort- hopes to achieve with repeated take up that much space. Some- able as if she were lounging in a DICK BRETT … An old sem mind. A pin leg-slams against the mattress. thing strange happens when you hammock in the backyard. buddy of mine reporting from She accomplishes this goal. set a small child on an average- I imagine the hammock in the interior of China sometime of light shines. There was a time when cud- sized bed, however. They expand the backyard, probably still last week … “The weather is Air sucks your dling up against a sleeping child like those sponge animals that frosty with the remnants of the Chengdu gray here. Spring closed door against was my idea of heaven. There “hatch” out of their little capsule last snowstorm, to be a more in- is not in the air … The Chi- is just something enchanting eggs when placed in warm wa- viting place to spend the rest of nese just finished celebrating its frame, trying about being in sync with a ter. To crawl into my bed, I must my night. But I resist the urge their tomb-sweeping three-day baby’s butterfly breath, or fall- first arrange my 3-year-old’s to dig the 0° sleeping bag out holiday where they remem- to make a ing asleep touching knees with sprawled-out appendages into of the closet and retire to the ber their beloved dead. I was path through you. a toddler. If only those babies some kind of order, then position freezing cold, since my absence the only foreigner in Pingle, a Wood knocks wood. and toddlers would stay put, the oversized package that is my would mean one-half of the 2300-year-old Chinese town, like normal, parallel-sleeping 10-month-old into some zone of sleep cage that is my bed would where human beings first used Your metal mechanism adults. safety where she will neither be be left without its human guard- natural gas. I was surrounded 9:35: Elle is asleep. But suffocated by a pillow nor re- rail, leaving my children in dan- with Chinese who have gotten clicks in its now Emme is not. I try to pre- ceive a kick to the mouth from ger of catapulting themselves a little bit bigger piece of their lock, hinges almost tend like I’m asleep, but it’s her older sister. I then make my- onto the floor. ever growing economic pie. The creak. Everything begs hard when a small child is self as small as possible, testing When we finally emerge Chinese know how to relax with pulling your hair like it's grass my balance as half of me hangs from the tousled family bed the their family and friends, tea a thin opening. being ripped out of the lawn. off the edge of the bed. This is next morning, I know from the and beer by the river -- talking, Exuding an aura of rest and re- how I remain, until I receive a bleary-eyed look on my hus- playing cards or mahjong, and laxation all the while, I endure heel to the mid-back. band’s face that the night of eating fresh, delicious food … - Rachel Kellum this until Emme becomes bored. I roll over, rearranging the “sleep-bonding” with our chil- The four hour trip back to the Brush But instead of laying down her knot that is my snoozing chil- dren was as enjoyable for him big city was worth it.” sleepy head, she then launches dren, and attempt sleep again. as it was for me. her next offensive: Scrambling Until a flailing arm smacks me I’ve never seen Craig work WEEKLY QUOTA … In a let- each other. It is a huge gang across the bed’s sleeping (and in the Adam’s apple. as diligently to finish a chore ter to Nicaraguan poet and cul- battle, using well-meaning law- pretending to sleep) bodies like It's going to be a long like re-flooring our children’s tural minister Ernesto Cardenal, yers and policemen and clergy- a crazed gerbil. night. bedroom, thus returning our Thomas Merton wrote: "The men as their front, controlling 9:45: I decide this isn’t In how many positions, be- family’s bed assignments to world is full of great criminals papers, means of communica- working. I get out of bed, walk sides straight up and down, can normal, as he did that day. with enormous power, and they tion, and enrolling everybody in are in a death struggle with their armies."

DONE SHOPPING - Kaden Ramsey spent all his birthday money on toys and treats for homeless pets now living at Hoof and Paw, in Nucla. (Courtesy photo)

strays from page 12 When at last he was done, he moved his purchases to the cash register Montrose, where Kaden received a and paid for his choices. MAPA T-shirt, a new book, and a There were beds, toys, collars, commemorative certificate. leashes and chew treats. With a little A couple weeks later, Tonya help, Kaden loaded everything into Stephens (from Hoof and Paw), Tonya’s SUV. Kaden, his mom, MAPA Treasurer The next stop for Kaden was to Karen Arnold and I shopped for pet stop for an ice cream, and then head supplies. With Kaden leading the home to play with his new kitten, way, stopping only once in awhile Tulip. to confer with the others on certain The work was over, he was broke, items, he shopped for over an hour. but he was immensely satisfied. the watch THURSDAY, april 14 - wednesday, april 20, 2011 | 19

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her eral strong telepathic experiences time for the arrival of an invitation to have its origins in the semba, an “He who wants to do good knocks blog, Jane at janebook.tumblr.com and have even had conversations to go on a noble quest. old Angolan dance in which partners at the gate,” says Bengali poet Rabi- answers questions from readers. A with the spirit of my dead grand- CANCER (June 21-July 22): Over rub their navels together. In the Afri- ndranath Tagore in one of his “Stray mother. But that God character re- the years I have on several occasions can Kimbundu language, semba also Bird” poems, while “he who loves Fr e e Wi l l As t r o l o g y mains achingly elusive. Can't I just stood at a highway exit ramp with a means “pleasing, enchanting,” and in finds the gate open.” I agree- com By Rob Brezsny have a face-to-face chat with his/ handmade cardboard sign that reads, the Kikongo tongue it denotes “hon- pletely. That's why I advise you, as her Royal Highness? – Impatient “I love to help; I need to give; please oring, revering.” In accordance with you get ready to head off to your next recent query went like this: “Who Taurus.” Dear Taurus: The coming take some money.” I flash a wad of the astrological omens, I invite you assignment, not to be burning with a would win in a steel cage match, weeks will be one of the potential- bills, and offer a few dollars to driv- Libras to bring the spirit of semba to no-nonsense intention to fix things. Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?” ly best times in your life to get up ers whose curiosity impels them your life. Use your imagination as Rather, be flowing with the desire Jane said, “Easter Bunny, no ques- close and personal with the Divine to stop and engage me. I've always you dream up ways to infuse your in- to offer whatever gifts and blessings tion; he has those big-ass teeth.” But Wow. For best results, empty your been surprised at how many people timate exchanges with belly-to-belly are most needed. I'm not so sure. My sources say that mind of what that would be like. hesitate to accept my gift. Some as- reverence and enchantment. Be ser- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Santa has more raw wizardry at his GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I sume I have a hidden agenda; others pentine and worshipful. Be wild and “Once bread becomes toast, it can disposal than the Bunny. His magi- was reading about how fantasy think I'm crazy. Some are even an- sublime. Bestow your respectful care never become bread again.” Today I cal prowess would most likely neu- writer Terry Pratchett made his gry, and shout things like “Go home, with all your slinky wiles unfurled. saw that piece of wisdom scrawled tralize the Bunny's superior physical own sword using “thunderbolt you freak!” If a comparable experi- SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In on the wall of a cafe's restroom. I assets. Likewise, Aries, I'm guessing iron” from a meteorite. It made me ence comes your way anytime soon, the Philippines, there is a geographic immediately thought of you. Meta- you will have a similar edge in up- think how that would be an excel- Cancerian, I urge you to lower your anomaly I want to call your atten- phorically speaking, you're thinking coming steel cage matches – or any lent thing for you to do. Not that suspicions. Consider the possibility tion to: a volcanic island in a lake about dropping some slices in the other competitions in which you're you will need it to fight off dragons that a blessing is being offered to you that's on a volcanic island in a lake toaster, even though you're not actu- involved. These days you've simply or literal bad guys. Rather, I sus- with no strings attached. that's on an island. Can you picture ally ready to eat yet. If it were up to got too much mojo to be defeated. pect that creating your own sword LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Nearly all that? Vulcan Point is an island in me, you would wait a while before TAURUS (April 20-May 20): from a meteorite would strengthen men can stand adversity,” said Abra- Crater Lake, and Crater Lake is on transforming the bread into toast – “Dear Rob: Last January you pre- and tone your mental toughness. ham Lincoln, “but if you want to test Volcano Island, and Volcano Island until your hunger got ratcheted up dicted that 2011 might be the best It would inspire you to cut away a man's character, give him power.” is in Lake Taal, and Lake Taal is on to a higher level. The problem is, if year ever for us Bulls to commune trivial wishes and soul-sucking in- According to my analysis of the astro- the island of Luzon. It's confusing you make the toast now, it'll be un- with the invisible realms and get fluences that may seem interesting logical omens, that thought will have -- just as your currently convoluted appetizing by the time your appetite closer to the Source of All Life. but aren't really. It might even lead extra meaning for you in the coming state is perplexing, both to you and reaches its optimum levels. That's And I have been enjoying the most you to rouse in yourself the zeal of weeks. So far in 2011, you have got- those around you. You could be aptly why I suggest: Put the bread back amazing dreams ever. I've had sev- a knight on a noble quest -- just in ten passing grades on the tests that described as fiery earth within cool in the bag. For the moment, refrain adversity has brought you. But now water within fiery earth within cool from toasting. come the trickier trials and tribula- water within fiery earth. Whether PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don't tions. Will your integrity and impec- that'll be a problem, I don't know try so hard, Pisces. Give up the cability stand up strong in the face of yet. Are you OK with containing so struggle. As soon as you really relax, your waxing clout and influence? much paradox? your subconscious mind will provide VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): you with simple, graceful sugges- would be a good week for you to For the Navajo, the quality of your tions about how to outwit the riddle. assemble a big pile of old TVs you life isn't measured by your wealth Notice I just said you will be able to bought for $5 apiece at a thrift store or status, but by whether you “walk “outwit the riddle.” I didn't say you and run over them with a bulldozer. in beauty.” It's an excellent time, will “solve the riddle.” Big differ- It would also be a favorable time to astrologically speaking, for you to ence. Outwitting the riddle means start a blazing fire in a fireplace and evaluate yourself from that perspec- you won't have to solve it, because throw in the photos of all the suppos- tive. Do you stop to admire a flock of you will no longer allow it to define edly attractive people you used to sparrows swirling toward a tangerine the questions you're asking or the an- be infatuated with even though you cloud at dusk? Are you skilled at giv- swers you're seeking. now realize that they were unworthy ing gifts that surprise and delight oth- of your smart love. In other words, ers? When your heart isn't sure what © 2011 Rob Brezsny Virgo, it is a perfect moment to de- it feels, do you sing songs that help stroy symbols of things that have you transcend the need for certainty? You can call Rob Brezsny, day or night drained your energy and held you Have you learned what your body f o r y o u r e x p a n d e d back. There's an excellent chance needs to feel healthy? Do you know this will provide a jolt of deliverance any jokes you could tell to ease the w e e k l y h o r o s c o p e that will prime further liberations in passing of a dying elder? Have you 1-900-950-7700 $1.99 per minute. 18 and over. the coming weeks. ever kissed a holy animal or crazy Touchtone Phone required. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The style wise person or magic stone? C/S 612/373-9785 of dance known as the samba seems CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Rob’s Website: www.realastrology.com/

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herndon from page 4 San Miguel County there are no stop of our small town. I would suggest to around the region to Norwood, giv- long time resident, it distills down lights. There isn’t a single corporate the developers of Family Dollar that ing our business district a little ”eco- to this: Our stores reflect what we is a personal representation of who chain store. Most of the success- they seriously consider whether the nomic shot in the arm.” Somehow, buy and the kind of people we are. he is. Norwood is a place where the ful retail outlets are either owned or cheap plastic junk they sell is even I can’t’ see shoppers from Naturita A Family Dollar store reeks of customer comes first as a friend and managed by local interests. This is wanted in Norwood. Why would or Nucla driving 20 miles, burning cheap import products supported family, not as corporate protocol in not by chance. This is by economic we want to take a portion of the re- gasoline at nearly four dollars a gal- by people who prefer quantity over some bulk printed manual. evolution and social selection. tail market away from the stores we lon to save fifty cents on some plas- quality, and I find this reflection So how does a corporate box The absence of box stores here already have and jeopardize their tic item manufactured in Asia and rather degrading to all of us who store like a Family Dollar fit into the is not because some business analyst existence just to save a few pennies. still have enough change left to run live here. For all of you like-mind- scheme of things here? The answer has simply overlooked the region. We have a trove of delightful box next door for a double latte at the ed souls in San Miguel County, I is simple: it doesn’t. I realize that a Box stores don’t exist here because stores in Montrose to choose from, Happy Belly Deli. This “economic would suggest that you attend the corporate business analyst has prob- many people who live here simply and since most of us have to go there shot in the arm” is starting to sound meeting of the Norwood Planning ably looked over reams of data and don’t want them and wouldn’t pa- on a regular basis to buy products the like some corporate form of illegal and Zoning Board at Town Hall on concluded that Norwood is some- tronize them if they were here. Many Family Dollar doesn’t sell, we have substance instead of commercial April 18 at 7 p.m. and voice your how suited to this type of business, people feel that box stores degrade excellent opportunities to buy our adrenalin. opinion directly to the developers but somewhere in this analysis a the overall level of commerce and trivial plastic junk at multiple outlets There are many sensible ar- who will be present. Additionally, few vital concepts have been over service we currently enjoy as well there. guments to dissuade the foreign you can appeal directly to the de- looked. I would like to point out a as diminishing our way of life by Then there is the thought Fam- developers from trashing the en- veloper via email: Mac.McCall@ few of the more obvious ones: In cheapening up the visual appearance ily Dollar may bring shoppers from trance to our little town, but for this FranklinStreetFinancial.com.

roberts from page 4 dispatches from page 4 because we, the public, pay for the It would be hilarious if it weren’t get rammed through by the TP-ers roads they use to access our timber, incredibly obscene. will cut the EPA’s budget in half, at there’ll be real and difficult conse- ish the most vulnerable members for which they pay little if any- And all this is going on in an a time when air and water pollution quences to the cuts we must make of our society, the unemployed thing. Offshore oil drilling outfits, America where there are 120,000 in “National Sacrifice Areas” like even with the severance tax transfer. and poor, in addition to teachers, like British Petroleum, pay zero for Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan the low-income outskirts of Hous- This financial hole we’re in will take EMTs and other people who actu- the right to suck oil out of our sea- vets living on our streets, homeless, ton and the Navajo Indian Reser- years to climb out of, but, as we do ally do something useful, in con- bed and sell it back to us. Huge agri- victims of PTSD and a society that vation is poisoning generations of that, I’ll continue to argue for true trast to the CEOs, bankers, glori- business depends on government- pretends to honor them but would people…. budget balancing measures that are fied loan sharks and swindlers who funded irrigation projects and price rather buy a bigger SUV and a Behold the future the Tea Party not disproportionately burdensome make up most of the top 1 percent supports to become richer and rich- couple of extra ATVs than upgrade is laying out for us: a third rate coun- to the less populated areas of the of our country. er. And these 14-carat-gold-plated the VA’s overwhelmed medical try controlled by a tiny elite class of state. Don’t like my description of cheats, swindlers and parasites talk system; where poor schoolchildren super-wealthy men and women, a As the “long bill” and other bud- our nabobs and plutocrats? Here are about “welfare chiselers” (masses of go without lunches, and poor fami- 21st century Banana Republic where get related measures work their way a few facts you might like to con- jobless Americans who supposedly lies have to forego medical care those with the gold make the rules through the House committees and sider. The oil and gas and mining would rather live on unemployment because they can’t afford it; where and the rest of us live out our lives floor debates and votes, the Senate companies who get rich pillaging benefits than find honest work) and it’s becoming almost impossible in quiet desperation. will return to the bills remaining be- our public lands pay next to nothing arrogant unionized teachers, cops, for middle-class Americans to send Maybe “class warfare,” that fore us. This hasn’t been an easy ses- to the government in return. firemen and the like (whose “over- their sons and daughters to college bugaboo of Republican propagan- sion, but no one could’ve reasonably Lumber companies logging on inflated salaries” are bankrupting without virtually bankrupting them- dists and their hacks in the media, expected otherwise. National Forests are only profitable our governments!). selves; where the new federal bud- isn’t such a bad idea after all.

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All high school Arizona for four years. A one- remove pressure from the spine, teach young people proper body kids are welcome to attend our time high school cheerleader, she teacher. Having been a high school and to learn to use their upper back mechanics so that they can avoid classes for free; upon graduation, we says, “because of the lack of body cheerleader myself, I understoo- musculature properly to maintain the high risk of future chronic pain will give them the same discount we knowledge I had, I damaged and from personal experience the ex- good posture. caused by compensatory move- offer to all public school teachers. injured my body repetitively dur- treme pressure the body can take I am amazed at how quickly ment patterns that many adults in Working with the cheerleaders has ing cheerleading because of the from the jumps and the necessity to the girls learned the key concepts, our society experience on a daily definitely been one of the highlights high impact of the sport. Having stand for long periods of time. My and their enthusiasm for Pilates basis, simply due to lack of knowl- of my Pilates career! this background, and knowing of goal with the Ridgway cheerlead- has truly been heart-warming. edge about how best to use and Kodis has lived in Ridgway these resources in our community, ing team was to teach them to find Darin Fletcher, founder and owner move their bodies. for the last four years, coaching I have tried to provide my squad and develop their core strength, of Integrative Movement Center Darin and I plan to continue the Ridgway High School Var- with tools, knowledge and aware- and then use that strength to land in Ridgway, has been committed to work with the schools, teaching sity Cheerleaders for three years, ness of their own bodies so that with a sense of lightness on jumps, from day one to forming alliances youth the techniques for life-long after teaching and coaching in they can remain injury free.” snowboard from page 9 a healthy seventh place finish in GS Other Telluride competi- for the Junior Women (age 16-17) tors who qualified for Nation- tell that all the training and fun- division. als and flew the TSSC flag last damentals he’d learned since last Grommit (aka 8-9 year old di- week at Copper included Noah year just clicked. He definitely vision competitor) Peter Danner Perkovich, Jack Clark, and Hobie had the best style out there,” showed up to his first-ever Nationals Plumber. All told, the eight local Coach Cooney said of Foster’s event wide-eyed, but ready to throw riders whose season-long perfor- slopestyle run. Foster came in down: He took seventh place in mances earned them spots on the 12th overall in his division’s slopestyle, and eighth in halfpipe. Nationals start list made up the combined rankings. “He was pretty overwhelmed biggest team of Telluride snow- Sarah Miller (whose older sister by the whole experience… his per- boarders to qualify for Nation- Fern made her World Cup debut at formance was impressive, especially als that Cooney can remember. the parallel giant slalom competition considering how big the park and “I’m hoping this strong showing at in Telluride in December) finished pipe were compared to how tiny a Nationals will boost our local pro- TSSC BOARDERS - Wrapped up a great season at Copper Mountain. out a season burdened by injury with kid his age is,” Dylan said. gram even more,” Cooney said. (Courtesy photo) race from page 9 beat are a time of 40:08 by Simon and the Winter Rim Romp featuring Ouray and San Miguel counties. The Members of the running club Gutierrez in 2008 in the men’s divi- snowshoe races and adventure hik- club holds local races for runners and also participate in other fundraising of the race at the Visitor’s Center of sion, and 45:06 in 2009 by Brandy ing on Jan. 14, 2012. walkers as well as “fun runs” and races, including the Run for Shelter Black Canyon of the Gunnison Na- Erholtz in the women’s division. The website of the running potluck dinners throughout the year. to benefit Tri County Resources on tional Park, Shine said. Awards will be given for over- club, www.sjmr.org, states that it’s Club membership applications are April 30 and the Mount Sneffels The race starts at the base of all first, second and third in male “a group of enthusiastic runners of available at the website, at a cost of Half-Marathon on Aug. 13, a fund- Black Canyon and covers “a tough, and female categories; masters all ages and abilities,” and most hail $10 for individuals or $15 for family raiser for the Mounts Sneffels Edu- scenic six-mile course starting at an first, second and third, both male from Montrose, Gunnison, Delta, memberships. cation Foundation. elevation of 6,500 feet and climbing and female, and first place for male almost 2,000 feet,” according to the in female in one of six age groups, website. Walkers will start at 7:30 from under 19 to over 60. Youth a.m. and runners will begin at 8 a.m. under 13 can register for free with As an added incentive for run- an adult registration. ners and walkers, Shine said entrants The Black Canyon Ascent is will get a discount to the Montrose organized and run by the San Juan Wine and Food Festival events, Mountain Runners, and a major The right person can make which will be going on the same sponsor of this year’s race is the weekend. This year’s race will also Montrose Association of Commerce all the difference. feature custom printed T-shirts, and Tourism, Shine said. overall and group awards and a $200 San Juan Mountain Runners bonus incentive for a new course re- will also run the first annual North cord. Course records for runners to Rim 20K at Black Canyon on Oct. 9

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