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Four-Day Festival to 

Raise Funds for Kids 

Montrose Wine 

Festival Adds 

Food and Beer to 

Downtown Event 

By BEVERLy cORBELL 

MONTROSE – For the 

eighth straight year, the Montrose 

Wine and Food Festival will raise 

money for local nonprofits that 

benefit children in the area. 

The festival started in 2004, 

said festival boardmember Gary 

Bean, one of the founding members, 

and the purpose was to raise 

By maRta taRBELL 

TELLURIDE – Those proverbial 

earlybirds got this year’s 

worm, when it came to four-day 

(and merchant) passes to the 2011 

Telluride Bluegrass Festival, in a 

ticket-selling frenzy that Promoter 

Craig Ferguson said, in hindsight, 

surprised even him. 

“I don’t know what I could 

have done differently,” Ferguson 

said this week, of getting out the 

word about the rapid-fire ticket 

sales to a festival featuring perhaps 

an even wider-than-usual 

range of talent, which saw merchant 

passes sell out in a record- 

money for programs for kids. 

The Black Canyon Boy and Girls 

Club, Voices for Children of Court 

Appointed Special Advocates and 

for the first time, the Kids Aid 

backpack food program will share 

in the proceeds, which last year 

amounted to $50,000. 

The benefit has raised more 

than $230,000 in the past, Bean 

said. 

“This year we expect to go 

over $300,000 in net dollars back 

to the community,” he said. “The 

community has really gotten behind 

this event.” 

see WInE on page 6 

WInE & FOOd FESt – The four-day Montrose Wine and Food Festival 

has expanded this year to include a downtown outdoor event on 

Saturday, May 15, with live music from The Last Bus and more than 

20 restaurants setting up food booths, along with plenty of wine and 

microbrews. (courtesy photo) 

Telluride Bluegrass 

Stirs ‘A Perfect Storm’ 

setting one hour. “It started going 

so fast. 

“My professional opinion is 

that it’s really a perfect storm,” 

“You’ve got a couple of serious 

headliners,” he said, pointing 

to Sarah McLachlan, who even 

five years back, he pointed out, 

was selling out “20,000-seat venues,” 

making her “probably hotter 

than anyone on the lineup – except 

for Led Zeppelin,” in its heyday 

(whose lead singer Robert Plan is 

the closing-night headliner). 

Then there are the bands that 

appeal to the indie-rock crowd – 

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RIVER FLOWS – The San Miguel River reflected the morning sun at Keystone Gorge Wednesday morning. 

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 

Is Seen as Biggest 

Factor for Summer 

Rafting Flows 

By GUS JaRVIS 

WESTERN SLOPE – With 

a number of strong winter storms 

seeming to bypass southwestern 

Colorado this past winter, it’s no 

surprise that San Miguel, Dolores, 

Animas, San Juan, and Rio 

Grande watershed snowpack 

levels are below the overall state 

average of 114 percent. For rafters 

and anglers eager for a long 

summer of fun on the river, 

there’s no need to panic, though, 

because a lot can happen in the 

next couple of months. 

According to the most recent 

snowpack percentages provided 

by the Natural Resources Conservation 

Service, the San Miguel, 

Dolores, Animas and San Juan 

watersheds, as a group, are currently 

at 88 percent of average, 

while the Upper Rio Grande is at 

79 percent. And these two watershed 

groups are the only two in 

Colorado reporting average levels 

of below 100 percent. 

Statewide the snowpack 

level is 114 percent of average, 

with the highest snowpack levels 

found in the Yampa/White 

(133 percent of average) and 

North Platte (138 percent of average) 

watersheds in northwestern 

Colorado. 

“There are just those two 

areas in the state that are predicted 

to have below-average 

stream levels this summer,” 

said soil conservationist Lenny 

Lang, from the Natural Resources 

Conservation Service’s 

Grand Junction office. “It was a 

La Niña year, and most of the 

storms favored the northern 

mountains. Basically everything 

in the state looks really good except 

for those two areas.” 

But while the numbers are a 

fairly reliable indicator of where 

snowpack levels currently stand, 

one must take them with a grain 

of salt, because the weather we 

experience between now and 

June is crucial, when trying to 

anticipate summer river levels, 

says Telluride Outside co-owner 

John Duncan, who believes 

snowpack percentages in April 

mean very little. Telluride Outside 

is just one of a handful of 

outfitters in the region that de- 

pend on river flows for guided 

rafting fish-fishing excursions. 

“What happens over the 

next couple of months may be 

even more important than what 

has come before us,” Duncan 

said, discussing what kind of 

weather the Western Slope can 

expect over the next couple of 

months. More snow and a cold 

spring, for example, would 

mean a later runoff – and a longer 

rafting season, while warm 

temperatures through early June 

could lead to an early runoff 

– and a shorter season. Then, 

throw in the possibility of one 

of those snowpack-killing duststorms 

blowing in from Arizona, 

and the melting process speeds 

up even more. “Those are the 

factors that dictate the runoff 

schedule,” Duncan said. 

Judging from the current 

snowpack percentages, and 

hoping for favorable weather, 

Duncan anticipates that the 

2011 rafting season will extend 

to the Fourth of July. 

“I think we are going to have 

a shorter-than-normal rafting 

season,” he said. “Even though 

it’s been windy lately, we have 

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Montrose Farmers Market Moves 

MONTROSE – The Montrose 

Farmers Market, one of a handful in 

Colorado that open early in May, 

will return Saturday, May 14, to the 

Centennial Plaza downtown area, at 

South First and Uncompahgre, after 

spending last season at the Oxbow 

Crossing Shopping Center. 

The market is accepting vendor 

applications for all market 

days: Saturdays, May-October; 

Wednesdays, June-September and 

Thursday evenings at Main in Motion 

(June 2-Aug. 18). For vendor 

rules and regulations, and applications 

visit the website at www.montrosefarmersmarket.com 

or call 

970/209-8463. 

Vendors selling meats, eggs, 

baked items, and value added food 

products should first check with 

Vera Stouffer, the Montrose County 

food service inspector, at 970/240- 

5000 making sure all health requirements 

and permits are in order. 

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DURANGO – Area museums 

will host the Colorado-Wyoming 

Association of Museums Annual 

Meeting, April 14-17, in Durango. 

Over 130 museum professionals 

from Colorado, Wyoming and the 

Four Corners area will attend workshops 

and seminars based at the 

historic Strater Hotel. This year’s 

theme is “Museums and Tourism: 

Stopping Visitors in Their Tracks.” 

The keynote address will be 

on Friday, April 15 at 9 a.m. at the 

Henry Strater Theatre. The keynote 

speaker will be Judy Walden, president 

of the Walden Mills group, a 

firm devoted to helping local communities 

across the U.S. strengthen 

the economic impacts of heritage 

tourism. Walden, who works with 

museums, historic sites and historic 

downtowns to keep abreast of everchanging 

travel trends, hosting a 

signature workshop called “How 

to Make Money in Tourism,” has 

served as director of marketing for 

the Colorado Travel and Tourism 

Authority from 1998-2000, coordinating 

sales and production of 

Colorado’s Official State Travel 

Guide and www.colorado.com. For 

eight years she owned an inbound 

tour company which brought Asian 

travelers to the American Southwest. 

Walden has also consulted the 

ministries of tourism in Asia and the 

South Pacific in ecotourism development. 

In November she spoke at 

the China National Tourism Conference 

in Shanghai on Competing for 

the International Tourism Dollar. 

In her keynote address, Walden 

will share her passion for tourism 

and explore the unique relationships 

between museums and tourism 

and what it means for museums 

to “stop visitors in their tracks.” 

Public admission to the keynote 

address is $10. Please reserve your 

seat by calling the Animas Museum 

at 970-259-2402. 

ScHool DiSTRicT ART 

SHow openS AT Region 10 

MONTROSE – Montrose 

County School District Re-1J’s 

Annual Student Art Show opens 

Tuesday, April 19, at the Region 10 

Enterprise Center, running through 

April 29. Come and view artwork 

and ceramics by students from 

Cottonwood, Johnson, Oak Grove, 

Northside, Olathe and Pomona elementary 

schools, as well as artwork 

by students from Centennial 

and Columbine middle schools, 

Olathe Middle/High School, and 

Montrose High School. The show 

is made possible through the cooperation 

of the Region 10 League for 

Economic Assistance & Planning, 

the City of Montrose and Montrose 

County School District Re-1J. 

Contact afleming@mcsd.k12.co.us 

for more information. 

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and tenth grader Samantha Masker, 16. (Courtesy photo) 

Pilates Instructor 

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RIDGWAY – I started Pilates 

four years ago as part of rehabilitating 

a long-term shoulder/upper 

Gue s t Co m m e n t a r y 

By Michelle Kodis 

back injury that was primarily 

caused by 20 years as a professional 

writer, a career that required 

me to sit in front of a computer for 

many hours each day. Simultaneously, 

I did too much over-stretching 

via yoga, and any weight- 

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the more superficial muscles of 

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Help With Future 

Interest Rates 

Going from an A-minus bond 

rating to an A rating by Standard 

& Poor’s may not sound like a 

big step, but it’s indicative of 

the fiscal health of Montrose 

County, which is going strong, 

even in a recession, county 

leaders say. PAGE 6 

6-Year-Old Directs 

Birthday Bounty to 

Strays 

Kaden Ramsey saw a 

commercial about dogs and 

cats with no beds, no toys, no 

chewable treats, and decided to 

help. PAGE 12 

36th Annual Black 

Canyon Ascent Takes 

Runners Up Trails of 

Black Canyon 

Now in its 36th year, the sixmile 

run and “challenge walk” 

will benefit the Montrose 

Community Foundation. 

PAGE 9 

Main in Motion Gets 

$6,000 from Downtown 

Development Authority 

The popular Thursday 

afternoon event will use 

the grant to pay the City 

of Montrose to shut down 

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The tiny town of Norwood is 

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Dominate at National 

Championships 

The Telluride Ski and 

Snowboard Club snowboard 

team sent eight of its riders to 

Copper Mountain last week to 

finish out the winter of 2010- 

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head snowboard coach Dylan 

Cooney described it. “All of 

these kids did a phenomenal 

job,” he said. PAGE 9 

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A ‘Model Autism Site’ 

Autism coach Bret Mixon 

brings specialty teacher 

training to Telluride, Ouray, 

and Ridgway Schools. PAGE 5 

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we’re being smart with taxpayers’ 

money and the way we handle it.” 

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CONFESSIONS OF AN EX- 

MONK … The dawn of the 21 st 

Millennium of the Christian 

Era has not showered its graces 

upon the Byzantine stained 

glass of Roman Catholicism. 

Revelations of widespread sexual 

abuse among deviant members 

of the Roman Catholic 

clergy have rocked the faithful 

and non-believers alike. 

Bishops and Cardinals have 

been touched by the smoldering, 

decades-old scandal (even, 

some claim, the Pope). Not for 

any predatory sexual behavior 

themselves, but for allowing 

ordained predators to continue 

in the priesthood – instead of 

It was bound to happen. As 

small and remote as our little town 

of Norwood is, there is no way to 

escape the scrutiny of corporate 

opportunists. We have been living 

“out of the box” so to speak, enjoying 

locally-owned stores and restaurants 

whose owners and clientele 

we know more as friends than 

shutting the offenders up in 

mandatory seclusion. Or sending 

them off into the world, 

excommunicated. Or (God forbid) 

turning them over to the 

civil authorities … As a young 

man I had such hope for religion. 

I was a believer. Even 

with the allure of Fifties rock 

& roll parties and eighth grade 

first dates, I decided at 14 to 

dedicate my life to making this 

a better world with a better life 

for all. Which, in my young 

mind, translated into entering a 

diocesan seminary south of San 

Francisco (Colorado Supreme 

Court Justice Greg Hobbs was 

just a class ahead of me there). 

My intent was clear – I would 

help convert the world into believers 

in the gospels of the RC 

Christ ... Of course, the deeper 

I got in my studies, the more 

my goal morphed. We aspiring 

clerical Turks wanted to get rid 

of the old Latin Mass. Bring 

the ritual into English, so all 

could participate. And understand. 

Ours was an American 

as just another face across counter 

of commerce. This is one of those 

truths we take to be self-evident 

here in small town Colorado…until 

now. 

Yes, I am talking about a box 

store in Norwood. A proposal has 

been presented to the Town of Norwood 

to build a Family Dollar store 

at a prominent location on the eastern 

gateway to Norwood. (No, this 

is not a delinquent misprint from the 

April Fools edition.) As I walk down 

the streets of Norwood today, I have 

come to appreciate the character of 

our sometimes funky, quirky and 

commenTARY 

Looking Back on Vatican II 

Up Be a r Cr e e k 

By Art Goodtimes 

GUe s t Co m m e n t a r y 

By John Herndon, Wright’s 

Mesa Master Plan Advisory 

Boardmember, Norwood Parks 

and Recreation Boardmember, 

and business owner 

kind of Catholicism, imbued 

with Jeffersonian principles 

and Catholic Worker tendencies. 

Many spiritual greenhorns 

like myself embraced 

the near heretical writings on 

the Omega Point by Jesuit philosopher-paleontologist 

Pierre 

Teilhard de Chardin, as well as 

the complete oeuvre of Trappist 

poet, pacifist and celebrity 

monk Thomas Merton, who 

pioneered interfaith dialogue 

among East and West religious 

traditions and bridged the 

spiritual chasm between modern 

literature and contemplative 

life (Cables from the Ace, 

New Directions, 1968) … But 

the retrenchment of the Roman 

Curia once Blessed John 

the XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe 

Roncalli) died and my own 

wrestling with existential phenomenology 

(and a looming 

vow of celibacy) led me out 

of St. Patrick’s Seminary and 

off to Montana and the land of 

see Ubc on page 18 

We Have Met the Enemy and 

It Is Us (Part Two) 

DiSpATcHeS 

By Rob Schultheis 

According to friends of mine 

in the intelligence community, one 

reason we haven’t experienced another 

9/11 type attack over the past 

several years is Hurricane Katrina. 

Bin Laden and his terrorist 

cohorts evidently took note of our 

pathetic response to the flooding of 

New Orleans, the faulty dykes, the 

pathetic failure to deliver aid to the 

victims, the racist response to the 

disaster from all too many Americans, 

and the fact that the city’s core 

is still a dysfunctional mess, and 

they decided that the Great Satan 

was way past his prime, and wasn’t 

worth the trouble and expense of 

another big-time assault. 

Why waste bullets on a comatose 

behemoth taking its last gasping 

breaths? 

And events since Katrina only 

provide more evidence to support 

such a condescending viewpoint. It 

would take a thousand bin Ladens 

decades to wreak the kind of havoc 

a few hundred Tea Party governors 

and congressmen have wrought in 

the last few months. Right here in 

Colorado, Republicans in the State 

Legislature are trying to eliminate 

the state tax on cigarettes because it 

supposedly “hurts small businesses” 

(they don’t explain how), and plan 

to make up the resulting shortfall in 

state revenue (by cutting $200 million 

from public school funding!). 

That’s what I call far-sighted, 

visionary thinking (not), and it’s 

taking effect across the entire nation, 

on both the federal and state 

levels. TPs are using a budget 

crunch they created by cutting taxes 

to the wealthy as an excuse to pun- 

see DiSpATcHeS on page 22 

Do We Really Want a Family 

Dollar Store in Norwood? 

somehow still functional retail establishments. 

Our local shopkeepers 

have spent a great deal of time, 

effort, and creative energy to carve 

out a space where they can sell their 

wares not just as merchants, but as 

part of a service entity to a close knit 

community. Retail life here is a personal 

experience. It brings together 

the too often separated concepts of 

service and functional retail. It is 

still a place where the owner of the 

establishment is often times the face 

across the counter and his product 

see HeRnDon on page 22 

Climbing 

Out of a 

Financial 

Hole 

Act One of the budget bill drama 

in the Colorado Senate is over, with 

the final reading of the bill package 

GUe s t Co m m e n t a r y 

Report From Capitol Hill 

By State Senator Ellen Roberts 

calendared for early this week. Assuming 

they pass, the bills then head 

to the House for consideration, debate, 

and passage there. If amended, 

they return to the Senate. 

It’s probably confusing that the 

state’s budget is being debated at the 

same time that there’s much media 

attention on the federal budget bill. 

The federal bill is way behind schedule, 

while the state’s budget is normally 

handled now for the upcoming 

fiscal year beginning on July 1. 

The federal fiscal year starts on Oct. 

1. Neither of these match a calendar 

year, so there’s good reason to be 

confused! 

What’s also different between 

our two budgets is the magnitude 

of the dollars involved, although 

it’s still daunting to be dealing with 

millions and billions of taxpayer 

dollars rather than the trillions at 

stake at the federal level. The most 

notable difference between the state 

and federal budget process, though, 

is Colorado’s requirement for a balanced 

budget. 

To get to a balanced budget, given 

the current economy, Colorado 

can’t avoid cuts to education, roads, 

healthcare and many other services. 

I’ve long maintained that setting the 

budget is the single most important 

task before the state legislature and 

we’re faced with many hard, but inevitable, 

choices. 

Before the ink was dry on this 

year’s first draft of the budget, emails 

and phone messages to all legislators 

were flooding in with pleas to spare 

cuts to many areas of the state budget. 

The members of the joint budget 

committee, (JBC), have been 

working on the proposed bills for 

months and they’ve got their work 

cut out for them as fellow legislators 

try to amend the bills in any number 

of ways to save their preferred programs. 

But, with few exceptions, the 

Senate JBC held their ground on 

their proposals. Leadership from 

both sides of the aisle had considerable 

input to the original proposals 

and the Senate Republican caucus 

spent many hours discussing what 

was needed in the bills that we could 

vote for to achieve the goals of a 

balanced budget and putting Coloradans 

back to work. 

I’ve made it no secret either in 

these columns or at the Capitol that 

I feel we’re not truly balancing the 

budget when we transfer severance 

tax money to fill budget holes. Yet, 

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San Juan Region Named a ‘Model Autism Site’ 

BY MaRtiniqUe DaviS 

SAN MIGUEL/OURAY 

COUNTIES – Since he first 

assisted with a study of autistic 

children while working toward 

his master’s in speech and language 

pathology, autism specialist 

Bret Mixon has been 

stirred by the unique challenges 

autistic children face within 

today’s traditional educational 

setting. 

“I’ve really clung to working 

with the hardest of the hard, those 

most impacted by a communication 

deficit” on account of autism, 

he says. “Those young people 

give me a chess match.” 

Mixon has since dedicated 

his career to deciphering the 

“chess match” that is autism. 

Thanks to a recent grant from 

the Colorado Department of Education, 

Mixon (an autism consultant 

based out of Grand Junction) 

has been able to expand 

his scope to schools and educators 

beyond the Grand Valley. 

Last spring, the Uncompahgre 

Board of Cooperative Services 

(or UnBoCS, a regional educational 

support service serving 

southwest Colorado schools 

including Telluride, Ridgway, 

Ouray, and the West End) was 

selected as one of two “Model 

Autism Sites” in Colorado. This 

five-year grant has enabled 

school districts in the region to 

garner comprehensive coaching 

with Mixon, who has since led 

monthly training programs in 

Telluride, Ridgway, and Ouray 

in an effort to expand educators’ 

knowledge about the unique intricacies 

of autism. 

“The purpose of my involvement, 

through the CDE, is to 

build school districts’ capacities 

to work with autism with more 

competence and finesse,” Mixon 

explains, with the ultimate goal 

being to identify and train leaders 

in those different schools who 

can then disseminate that knowledge 

to other schools and educators 

around the state. 

The CDE grant was cre- 

ated in an effort to enhance and 

restructure autism education 

across the state. Of the program’s 

evolution, Sate of Colorado Senior 

Autism Consultant Brooke 

Young says: “As numbers for 

autism have increased throughout 

the country, we’re finding 

that school districts need a system 

in place to help with training 

and building collaborations 

so there’s capacity built across 

the state.” 

As Mixon says, autism presents 

unique educational challenges 

that teachers haven’t typically 

been trained to manage. 

“Autism is frustrating to most 

teachers,” Mixon says, noting 

that most teaching institutions 

do not provide comprehensive 

special needs training, and the 

special needs training that is provided 

often does not deal specifically 

with autism. 

Working with autistic 

children requires “a different 

type of methodology,” Mixon 

says, and that is where his 

role as autism coach comes in. 

“It’s about trying to fill the 

chasm between the amount of 

knowledge people can spew 

about autism, and the ability 

people have on a day-by-day 

basis to analyze behaviors and 

care for these kids. The end result 

is training educators to use 

the skills they already have to 

build autism leaders who can 

help their peers,” he says. 

Since he began working as 

an autism consultant more than 

a dozen years ago, serving as 

autism consultant for the Grand 

Junction school district as well 

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observed how consequential just 

a small amount of coaching is for 

teachers and their autistic students. 

He gives the example of a 

teacher in a first-grade classroom, 

who starts the day by asking 

her students to settle down 

so they can get started with their 

lessons. The child with autism, 

who cannot process what is being 

said to him as quickly as 

his peers, does not immediately 

settle down. His teacher, therefore, 

loudly repeats the child’s 

name, growing frustrated when 

he still does not respond. 

“Quickly, the classroom 

knows who the ‘bad’ kid is, just 

by the way the teacher says his 

name,” Mixon says, noting that 

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when dealing with autism. 

In a situation like this, an autistic 

student’s ability to adapt to 

the rules of the classroom can be 

developed in a positive way simply 

by his teacher changing her 

tone when she speaks to him. 

“I’ve had teachers tell me 

that their entire perspective on a 

kid changed simply because they 

said that kid’s name in a more 

positive way,” says Mixon. 

‘Our job is to educate them, and not baby them or 

ostracize them from the typical population of kids.’ 

– Bret Mixon, Autism Specialist 

It’s little practices like these 

that can truly make a difference in 

an autistic child’s success in the 

traditional educational setting, 

which is the basis of Mixon’s approach 

to educating children on 

the autism spectrum. 

“I’m giving teachers gentle 

reminders about the activities 

they’re using, their methodologies, 

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For Telluride Elementary 

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Mixon available to provide teachers 

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the school’s autistic students has 

been incredibly valuable. According 

to Greenwood, Mixon 

“is exceptionally bright, intuitive 

and [he’s] making us think a lot 

about how we can best serve our 

students with this learning disability. 

I am working with a lot 

of people on this topic and he 

seems to stand out when it comes 

to what should be done in schools 

to help these kids adapt to a regular 

classroom.” 

From Mixon’s perspective, 

his new role as a regional autism 

resource through the CDE 

grant has offered him yet another 

avenue through which he 

can assist children with autism. 

“The primary emphasis I can 

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Montrose County Receives S&P Ratings Boost 

Will Help With Future 

Interest Rates 

BY BeveRlY coRBell 

MONTROSE – Going from 

an A-minus bond rating to an A 

rating by Standard & Poor’s may 

not sound like a big step, but it’s 

indicative of the fiscal health of 

Montrose County, which is going 

strong, even in a recession, county 

leaders say. 

County spokeswoman Kristen 

Modrell said the county recently 

got a letter from S&P about the improved 

rating, and it shows that the 

county is fiscally sound. 

wine feST oRgAnizeRS – The 

board of directors of the Montrose 

Wine and Food Festival 

hopes that more in the community 

will come out for the four-day, 

multi-venue event, particularly on 

Saturday, May 15, when the festival 

will move outdoors and feature 

live music and food booths 

by more than 20 area restaurants 

on Main Street in downtown 

Montrose. (Courtesy photo) 

“I think mainly it shows that 

the county is being financially responsible, 

and Standard & Poor’s 

said the county has a strong financial 

operation and a low debt 

profile,” she said. “That goes to 

show that we’re being smart with 

taxpayers’ money and the way we 

handle it.” 

County Manager Jesse Smith 

said the county also received the 

“excellent rating” for maintaining a 

strong unreserved fund balance and 

good management practices. 

The county has added to its fund 

balance over the years to make up 

for the expiration of a county sales 

and use tax in 2006, he said. 

Smith said the county’s over- 

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all debt burden in fiscal 2009 was 

“very low,” at less than $1,000 per 

capita and at less than 1 percent of 

market value. 

To remain fiscally sound while 

the country is still in a recession, 

the county has frozen all hiring, 

salary increases and cost of living 

adjustments, and positions are 

not being filled when people retire 

unless it’s a crucial position, said 

County Finance Director Cindy 

Bennet, These are steps the county 

must continue until the economy 

improves, Bennet said, but in the 

meantime, the future looks a little 

brighter. 

“It’s like having a good credit 

rating,” she said. 

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With the improved rating, the 

county would get a better interest 

rate if it decided to issue more 

debt in the future, Bennet said, and 

would potentially be able to borrow 

more. 

“We’re not in the business to do 

that right now, but it speaks to the 

overall fiscal health of the county 

because of good, sound fiscal practices,” 

she said. 

Standard and Poor’s is a 

leader of the financial market intelligence, 

according to a news release 

from Montrose County, and 

according to its website, www. 

standardandpoors.com, the bond 

credit rating is an “opinion on the 

general creditworthiness of an ob- 

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By keeping the number of recipients 

small, the event can have 

more impact on the budget of just 

few agencies, he said. 

This year’s Montrose Wine 

and Food Festival will be bigger 

than ever, Bean said, starting 

with a cooking demonstration and 

wine pairing at the Western Culinary 

Academy on May 12, and 

ending on Sunday, May 15, with 

“bubbles, burgers, barbecue and 

music” at Centennial Plaza in 

downtown Montrose. 

The festival officially begins 

on Thursday, May 12 at the culinary 

academy with a chef’s 

cooking demonstration and wine 

pairing from 6:30-9 p.m. (ticket 

price, $100). 

On the next day, Friday, May 

13, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 

Chef Stephen Asprinio will give a 

class on “creating the perfect romantic 

summer lunch” at the culinary 

academy (ticket price, $100). 

Later that day, from 1:30-3 p.m., 

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Bennet and county leaders are 

gratified by the improved rating, 

she said, but ratings can go up to 

double-A or even triple-A. 

“There’s definitely room to 

improve,” she said. 

Still, the better rating is an 

honor and was unexpected, Bennet 

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“It’s probably unusual for governments 

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also at the culinary academy, and 

also for $100 per ticket, Chef Asprinio 

and Master Sommelier Jay 

Fletcher will give another cooking 

demonstration, along with a 

wine pairing. 

Asprinio, who was featured 

in season one of Top Chef on the 

Bravo network, studied at the Culinary 

Institute of America and 

was formerly sommelier for Nob 

Hill restaurant at the MGM Grand 

in Las Vegas, according to the Bravo 

website. 

“He describes his cooking 

style as being light years ahead 

of traditional chefs and feels his 

background as a sommelier only 

makes him a more valuable chef,” 

the site states. 

Later that evening, from 5:30- 

10 p.m., a sponsors-only dinner 

will be held at the Montrose Pavilion, 

followed by disco dancing 

open to the public, starting at 10 

p.m. (ticket price, $10). 

On Saturday, May 14, the 

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C O M M U N I T Y V A L U E S E R V I C E


Main in Motion Gets $6K From Montrose DDA 

Summer Event Grows 

In Size and Scope 

BY BeveRlY coRBell 

MONTROSE – Main in Motion, 

the weekly summertime celebration 

when Main Street shuts 

down on Thursday afternoons for 

food, fun and live music, had a 

windfall recently, and can now go 

ahead with plans for an even bigger 

event this year. 

The windfall comes in the form 

of a grant from the Downtown Development 

Authority, which agreed 

to pay a fee of $6,000 for the city to 

shut down Main Street from Junction 

to Townsend avenues, a sixblock 

stretch. The fee is a tenfold 

jump from the $600 the city charged 

last year for closing the three blocks 

between Townsend and Park avenues. 

It was the first year the street 

was closed for Main in Montrose. 

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Farmers Market will open in 

downtown Montrose at 8 a.m.; at 

the same time, the Black Canyon 

Ascent begins at Black Canyon of 

the Gunnison National Park. 

Saturday Wine Festival 

events rev up, 11 a.m. to 12:30 

p.m., at the culinary academy, 

when Riedel glassmaker Doug 

Reed gives a demonstration on 

how the shape of a wine glass 

can affect the flavor of the wine 

(ticket price, $55). 

But the big news this year 

is that the festival will move 

outdoors to Main Street, part of 

which will be closed off on Saturday, 

May 14, between 1 and 4 

p.m. for food, wine and microbrewed 

beer with live music from 

main in motion – The weekly 

summer celebration in downtown 

Montrose will go from 12 to 13 

weeks this year and feature musicians 

on every street corner of a 

six-block section of Main Street 

that will be closed every Thursday 

afternoon from June 2 through 

Aug. 18. Vendors with food booths, 

expanded kids areas and a special 

section for teens will be part of the 

summer event. (File photo) 

The nonprofit, which lost city 

funding last year,was turned down 

again last week by the Montrose 

City Council, said Main in Motion 

Director Kendra Morrow. The 

group also requested funding from 

the Montrose Association of Com- 

The Last Bus, all for a wristband 

cost of $55. 

So far, more than 20 local restaurants 

have promised to have food 

booths for the downtown event, including, 

to name a few, Café 110, 

Stone House, Red Barn, Cowboy 

Ciao, Asii, Sushi Tini, Simmer, 

Mouse’s Chocolates, Ginger Magnolia 

and Jerry’s Wild Meats. 

Downtown restaurants will 

offer discounts and specials to festivalgoers 

with wristbands on Saturday, 

and festivalgoers also get 

free admission at 7 p.m. to “Rock 

the Night Away with Pineapple 

Crackers” at Canyon Creek Bed 

and Breakfast. 

“We’re really excited about 

the opportunity for it to move 

outdoors and become more of a 

festival,” Bean said. “The com- 

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merce and Tourism, but has not yet 

received a reply, she said. 

Morrow said the city council 

explained it was losing money 

on closing the street, and that the 

$6,000 pencils out to $500 a week 

for an extra $750 worth of staff and 

services, but that it would be absorbing 

some of that cost. 

But most of the work for Main 

in Motion is done by volunteers, 

Morrow said, which were in short 

supply last year, so a handful of 

boardmembers ended up doing all 

the work, including cleanup. 

This year the board has been 

expanded, she said, but more volunteers, 

sponsors and vendors are 

needed. 

Volunteers do all sorts of things, 

from patrolling the festivities and answering 

questions to setting up tents 

to the inevitable cleanup, when the 

party’s over, Morrow said. Anyone 

who wants to lend a hand should call 

Tammy Hernandez at 901-6817. 

munity here economically is 

struggling, but there’s been a lot 

of cooperation from the Montrose 

Association of Commerce 

and Tourism and the Downtown 

Development Authority.” 

Sunday morning, the Mission 

Vendors are just now being 

lined up, Morrow said, but more 

than ever are expected since more 

of the street will be closed. Potential 

vendors can contact Krista Montalvo 

at 708-9029 or gingermagnolia@yahoo.com. 

More sponsors are also being 

sought, with longtime sponsors 

Flower Motor Co. and Delta Montrose 

Electric Association already 

on board. Companies interested in 

being a sponsor should contact Morrow 

at 249-2886 or at gallegoskendra@yahoo.com. 

Sponsors need to 

get their logos in by May 15 to be 

included in promotional materials, 

she added. 

This is Main in Motion’s eleventh 

year, Morrow said, and the event 

from 6-8:30 p.m. on Thursdays has 

become a mainstay of the summer 

social scene. For more details, find 

Main in Motion on Facebook or log 

onto maininmotion.com. 

This year’s Main in Motion 

to Ride bike race begins at 6 a.m. 

at Centennial Plaza. The plaza will 

also be the site of the final event of 

the Wine Festival, with “Bubbles, 

Burgers, BBQ and Music” from 

11 a.m. to 3 p.m., when barbecue 

master chef Bob Sammons fires 

 

Big 

will not only be bigger, but much 

improved Morrow said, with each 

week having a theme, expanded 

areas for kids and teens and more 

events for the whole family, including 

the Artists’ Corner, sponsored 

by DMEA, at the corner of Main 

Street and Uncompahgre Ave. 

Plans are still being formulated 

for each week’s theme, but 

one Thursday will be “Pet Week,” 

sponsored by Murdoch’s Ranch and 

Home Supply, which will have petcentered 

activities and contests. 

In addition to musicians on every 

block, for the first time the event 

will also have a main stage with a 

weekly headliner, Morrow said. 

Even though its funding has 

been iffy this past year, the grant 

from DDA to pay for closing the 

streets is essential, Morrow said. 

“It’s much safer for everybody,” 

she said. “Parents can enjoy themselves 

as well, and can have a good 

time and not worry about traffic.” 

up his smoker to turn out some 

“tasty barbecue delights.” 

Tickets for the Wine and 

Food Festival are available at the 

CASA office at 300 N. Cascade 

Ave. or online at montrosewinefestival.com.

By Martinique Davis 

& 

COPPER MOUNTAIN – The 

Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club 

snowboard team sent eight of its riders 

to Copper Mountain last week 

to finish out the winter of 2010-11 

in style at the USASA’s National 

Championships. 

Upon their return, TSSC head 

snowboard coach Dylan Cooney 

had one word to describe the team’s 

overall performance at this highlevel, 

season-ending event: “Amazing.” 

“It was the best performance 

Telluride has ever had” at a Nationals 

event, Cooney said, pointing to 

Telluride’s flurry of medal-winning 

runs throughout the course of the 

five-day contest. 

“All of these kids did a phenomenal 

job,” he said, noting that as 

a team, Telluride far out-placed the 

majority of other, often much-larger 

teams representing other resorts from 

around the country. 

Telluride garnered some good 

attention from the national snowboarding 

community thanks in part 

to Telluride’s best-known snowboarding 

brood, the Cooneys. Molly 

Cooney was literally on fire all week 

long, claiming gold in four of five 

events. She swept her field of nearly 

30 other women in halfpipe, slope- 

sports and entertainment 

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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 

style, slalom, and giant slalom, and 

took fifth in boardercross. She easily 

won the title of top woman overall in 

the five combined events. 

Molly, who competes in the 

women’s Jams (age 18-22) age 

class, had not had a regular presence 

in the competitive snowboarding 

circuit this winter, opting instead to 

spend many of her weekends coaching 

alongside her older brother Dylan 

at TSSC. Yet her lack of time 

in starting gates this winter apparently 

didn’t slow this Telluride-bred 

boarder in the slightest, as she tackled 

Copper Mountain’s perfectly 

manicured terrain park, Olympicsized 

halfpipe, and meticulously 

36th Annual Black Canyon 

Ascent Takes Runners Up 

Trails of Black Canyon 

Six-Mile Race Will 

Benefit Montrose 

Community 

Foundation 

By Beverly corBell 

MONTROSE – The Western 

Slope has a lot of running enthusiasts, 

and one of the most challenging 

races on their agenda is the 

Black Canyon Ascent, set this year 

for May 14. 

In its 36th year, the six-mile run 

and “challenge walk” will benefit the 

Montrose Community Foundation. 

To register, log onto www.blackcanyonraces.com/ascent2.html. 

Registration and packet pickup will 

be held the day before, on May 13, 

from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at 316 East Main 

St. Contact race director Scott Shine 

at 970/901-9667 slshine@me.com 

race to tHe top – Dozens of runners and walkers joined in the 

Black Canyon Ascent last year, a race from the bottom of Black Canyon 

that will again benefit the Montrose Community Foundation when 

it is held on May 14. (Courtesy photo) 

for more details. 

“This year’s race will be bigger 

and better than ever,” Shine said. 

“We’ve drawn in more sponsors 

than ever, we’re bringing in professional 

chip timing so runners will get 

an accurate and recordable time.” 

At the end of the race, runners 

and onlookers can enjoy great food, 

raffles and entertainment at the end 

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groomed racecourses with gusto. 

“She was killing it in practice, 

and I think she really just wanted 

to take as much advantage of those 

phenomenal facilities as possible,” 

brother and co-coach Dylan said of 

her performance at the 2011 National 

Championships. 

Youngest brother Beecher 

Cooney wasn’t left out of the winner’s 

spotlight either, blazing into 

second place in the ultra-competitive 

Junior Men’s (age 16-17) division in 

halfpipe. This is in spite of this young 

competitor having very little training 

time in halfpipes this winter, owing 

to Telluride’s lack of a halfpipe this 

ski season. 

“His division is competitively 

one of the hardest-hitting age groups 

there is,” Dylan said. “It’s made up 

of all the up-and-coming guys in the 

industry… and Beecher was right in 

there with them.” 

Beecher’s proficiency in the 

other disciplines earned him second 

place overall in the combined event 

rankings. 

The other Telluride rider Lucas 

Foster cranked up the intensity 

in the Menehune (age 10-11) boys 

age division for the slopestyle event, 

launching to eighth place. 

“Watching his run you could 

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telluriDe playWrigHts Festival 

‘Forgiving John 

Lennon’ Comes 

to Telluride for 

Summer Run 

TELLURIDE – The Telluride Playwrights Festival, now in its 

fifth year of providing a summertime laboratory setting for actors, 

playwrights and directors to network and nurture new work that 

seeks to inspire and engage, will bring a full production of a new 

dark comedy by William Missouri Downs called Forgiving John 

Lennon to the Sheridan Opera House July 14-17. 

Part of the University of Wyoming’s Summer Theatre Program, 

the play explores a clash of cultures in a world where, as Lennon 

once said, “nothing to kill or die for” might not be so easily imagined. 

As with all TPF productions, feedback from the audience after 

the performance, is a valued step and assuredly there will be plenty 

of discussion after this thought provoking play. 

In addition to Forgiving John Lennon, TPF will continue its 

staged reading series this year, as well as work on new plays by established 

Colorado playwrights, presented free to the public. 

Plays germinated at TPF are now blossoming all over the country, 

in larger locales, including Phantom Killer, Jan Buttram’s 2009’s 

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Not Just Your Normal Final Round at the Masters 

Sp o r t S Wat c h 

By Gus Jarvis 

I have never been glued to 

the TV like I was on Sunday for 

the final round of the Masters. I 

must admit that I normally only 

watch the last couple of hours of 

the Masters, not wanting to be 

locked inside on a clear spring 

day. So when I turned the tube 

on in the morning to see what the 

leader board looked like, it was 

a mistake, because I didn’t leave 

the vicinity of the television all 

day. A wasted day? 

Yes. 

Worth it? 

Absolutely. 

The final round had everything 

from spectacular shots 

from some to guy named Charl 

Schwartzel, a resurgence of Tiger 

Woods, to the sad and disappointing 

collapse of a 21-year-old who 

seemed to have the Green Jacket 

all but won. You could cut the 

drama with a knife. It was what 

everybody should want in the final 

round of a golf tournament, 

in that you had no idea who was 

going to win it until the final hole 

was played. A maddening eight 

players held or tied for the lead 

in the back nine. The tournament 

really was up for grabs. 

In the end, the coveted Green 

Jacket went to South African 

Schwartzel, who shot a 66 and 

birdied the final four holes to 

win the Masters. This was the 

best final round by a winner in 

22 years, and his four final birdies 

made for the best finish in the 

tournament’s history. 

While he didn’t seem to be 

in contention to win the Masters 

(at least the gold-talking heads 

didn’t say so), Schwartzel started 

the day off hot and never looked 

back. Besides his final birdie to 

win, his two most memorable 

shots were at hole one, where he 

chipped in a birdie from 75 feet 

out, and then on hole three where 

he dropped it in he cup from the 

fairway for eagle. He was having 

one of those spectacular 

golf days, and it stuck with him 

through the day. 

Now, the final round of the 

Masters is all about story-lines, 

There’s no 

off-season 

at 

two skirts 

THiS weeK in SpoRTS 

and I am a slut for a good storyline. 

I must have changed who I 

wanted to win the tournament at 

least five or six times on Sunday. 

First, I really wanted the young 

northern Irishman, Rory McIlroy, 

to hold strong, as he had done all 

week at Augusta, and win, to become 

the second-youngest Masters 

Champion since Tiger Woods 

won it when he was 21. 

I, and I think a lot of other 

people, wanted to see him succeed 

through the Sunday pressure 

at the Masters and win it. He 

was going to be the next generation 

golfer with the win. Instead, 

he had a monumental collapse, 

and fell completely off the leader 

board. He succumbed to the pressure, 

and it was almost unbearable 

to watch. Fortunately he’s young 

and I’m sure he will have another 

good crack at winning the Green 

Jacket in years to come. 

As much as I dislike Tiger 

Woods’ attitude, I found myself 

going for a Tiger comeback on 

Sunday. It was fun to see the fistpumping 

intensity from this man 

who hasn’t quite made it back 

to his old winning self since the 

collapse of his marriage in the 

face of multiple sex scandals. 

Tiger had a chance on Sunday, 

but couldn’t go the extra mile on 

the greens and sink three or four 

putts he needed to stand out from 

the rest. Tiger is almost back, but 

not quite. 

I also wanted to go for Phil 

Mickelson, because I always 

like a repeat-champion storyline. 

Well, Phil was out of it early on 

Sunday. I liked the possibility of 

a repeat win by Angel Cabrera, as 

he was playing aggressive, seemingly 

care-free golf on Sunday 

but he couldn’t hang on as well. 

So when it came down to the 

possibility of players like Geoff 

Ogilvy, Adam Scott, Jason Day, 

Luke Donald, or K.J. Choi, I 

didn’t know who to go for, because 

I don’t watch enough golf 

to understand what their stories 

are, and why I should be going 

for them. And when it was apparent 

that Schwartzel was going to 

win, I’m not even sure CBS knew 

enough about him to give their 

viewers any insight. 

Normally, as the winner putts 

out on 18, they are zooming in 

on that player’s wife or family. 

Jim Nance is usually giving you 

the calm talk on where the family 

has come from, the hardships 

It was what everybody should want 

in the final round of a golf tournament, 

in that you had no idea who was going 

to win it until the final hole was played. 

they have survived to get here, 

etc, etc. When Schwartzel was 

18, CBS zoomed in on someone 

closely tied to Char, but they 

didn’t tell us whether it was his 

wife, girlfriend, friend. Here was 

the final drama moment and we 

didn’t know anything about the 

man who was going to win the 

Masters. “Why should I be tearing 

up during this moment?” I asked 

myself. “What is this man’s victory 

story?” This is CBS’s meat 

and potatoes and they had nothing 

for us when he won. I think 

they were caught by surprise by 

his win as well. 

But, then, maybe there just 

wasn’t any drama to be told 

when Char won the Masters. He 

was just the best golfer on the 

course that day, and that’s all 

there is to say about it. I can’t 

wait for next year. I may have to 

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Peaks, effective June 4. 

“The new programs will kick 

off June 4,” said Eliot Brown, a 

managing member of the Telluride 

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Opening Day Celebration, Saturday, 

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Men’s Mixers take place Tuesdays, 

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Bed for Four? Debunking the 

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is one able to sleep parallel in 

bed? 

Rai s i n g El l E 

By Martinique Davis 

I can assure you, it is not before 

3 years old. 

Valiantly, the Prohaska family 

has canned our plans for a spring 

break camping trip to the beach, 

opting instead to stay home and 

replace the carpet. Funny what a 

couple of kids do to your sense 

of what’s essential… and your 

budget. 

pARenTing 

Valiantly, Craig has spent the 

last few days installing a tidy new 

laminate floor in the girls’ bedroom. 

Which has meant the girls 

have had no bedroom. Which has 

meant our bedroom, and, specifically, 

our bed, has been overrun by 

two small children who double as 

sheet-twisting, appendage-flailing 

whirligigs, come nightfall. 

I used to pride myself on being 

a champion of “the family bed.” 

Sleeping together with your kids 

is, hypothetically, good for everyone; 

a natural, instinctual custom, 

deeply fusing the family bond 

subliminally. I still believe this, 

on a theoretical level. In practice, 

however, bed-sharing is hell. 

9 p.m.: I calmly express my 

desire for Elle to stop slamming 

her legs up and down against the 

mattress. 

9:02: I calmly tell Elle that if 

she’s going to sleep in my bed, 

she’s going to have to follow my 

rules, which include maintaining 

stillness and silence. And not 

waking up her sister, For Goodness’ 

Sake. 

9:03: I become conscious of 

the reality that stillness and si- 

A 6-Year-Old Directs His 

Birthday Bounty to Strays 

It has been said many times 

that a man’s best friend is a dog. 

guE s t Co m m E n t a R y 

By MAPA President 

Bill Cunningham 

There are times, also, when 

the reverse is true. Man can be a 

dog’s (or cat’s) best friend. It can 

happen anytime, and can come 

from where it is least expected. 

Kaden Ramsey is a great example. 

Kaden saw a commercial 

about dogs and cats who had so 

very little: no beds, no toys, no 

chewable treats. He asked his parents 

if, instead of presents for his 

sixth birthday, he could just have 

the money that would be spent, so 

that he could get supplies for unfortunate 

small animals. 

Of course his request was 

honored and when all was done, 

Kaden was the proud possessor of 

$150. 

Kaden’s mother, Heather, 

BRinging HAppineSS TO HOMeleSS 

peTS – Kaden Ramsey, with 

Bill Cunningham, above; Kaden 

shopping for the lucky pets. (Courtesy 

photos) 

called the Montrose Animal Protection 

Agency, where we explained 

that the organization does 

not foster cats and dogs. Our mission 

is to help pet owners get their 

animals spayed or neutered. 

But, we told her, there was a 

group called Hoof and Paw in Nu- 

see elle on page 18 

cla that did shelter, and could certainly 

use the help Kaden offered. 

At our invitation, Kaden and 

his mom attended the MAPA 

fundraiser “Spay-ghetti Dinner,” 

at the Stone House restaurant in 

see STRAYS on page 18


San Miguel County Snowfall 

Nearly Average for 2010-11 

BY MaRtiniqUe DaviS 

TELLURIDE – After the last 

snowflake fluttered to rest on the 

slopes of the Telluride Ski Resort 

at the end of ski season, snow reporters 

confirmed that snow totals 

for the season were almost exactly 

normal compared to the 35-year average. 

This news comes as a surprise 

to some local skiers and riders, who 

spent much of the 2010-11 season 

lamenting their home mountain’s 

dearth of powder. Yet at the end of 

March, the five-month season total 

added up to 211.15 inches: 96 percent 

of Telluride’s longterm average 

of 218.7 inches. 

Although snow totals for the 

just-concluded ski season were just 

about average, an “average” win- 

RiveR from page 1 

not had many dust-storms. If we 

make it rafting until July 15, we 

are jumping for joy. We have only 

made that one time in the last 

three years. 

“With 80 percent snowpack 

on the ground right now, and kind 

of normal weather conditions, I 

think we’ll make it to the Fourth 

of July.” 

Looking back further at his 

outfitter’s history of rafting on the 

San Miguel, Duncan noted that 

between 1984 and 2001, the average 

closing date for rafting on the 

San Miguel River was Aug.1. 

“In the last ten years we had 

hit August first exactly once,” he 

said, adding that meteorologists 

say that the 1970s, 80s, and 90s 

were abnormally wet. “Whether 

this is the new norm or it’s just 

ter may have indeed felt sub par, 

at least to those with short-term 

memories. After all, the slopes at 

Telluride were blessed with bountiful 

amounts of snow throughout 

the previous three seasons, each of 

which boasted many above-average 

and even some record-breaking 

months for snowfall. 

“The last three years were all 

record or near-record winters, so 

I think everybody’s gotten used to 

having a lot more snow than we 

typically have,” says Craig Sterbenz, 

Snow Safety Director for the 

Telluride Ski Area. 

By comparison, 277 inches fell 

during the winter of 2009-10; 292 

were reported in 2008-09; and skiers 

reveled in a whopping 342 inches 

in 2007-08. 

The winters of 2007-08 and 

a return to weather as normal remains 

to be seen.” 

For rivers relying on reservoir 

storage, Lang said, the data corresponds 

(to snowpack averages), 

with reservoir levels statewide at 

103 percent of average, and the 

San Miguel, Dolores and Animas 

watershed reservoir storage average 

coming in at 82 percent. 

For boaters seeking a trip on 

the Dolores River below McPhee 

Reservoir, indications are there 

will be a release sometime in 

May, but precisely when is unclear. 

According to an updated 

press release issued on April 12 

by the Dolores Water Conservation 

District, the release of 800 

Cubic Feet per Second (CFS) intended 

for Memorial Day weekend 

is now expected to come 

May 20. 

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2008-09 both boasted months of 

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inches falling in January of 2008 

(compared to the historic January 

average of 43). Ninety-five inches 

fell in December of that winter, and 

90 fell in February, putting totals for 

each of those months far above average. 

December of the next ski season 

brought 114 inches (in a month 

with snowfall averages closer to 40 

inches). 

During the 2009-10 season, 

snowfall during December, February 

and March were all well above 

average. 

With snow accumulations as 

bountiful as they’ve been in the previous 

three seasons, it’s no surprise 

that snowfall during the winter of 

2010-11 felt nominal, but the snowpack 

fell below average in only two 

filled early, and the releases had to 

start on May 11,” the press release 

states. “In 2010, reservoir capacity 

allowed holding back until 

May 24, but started five feet lower 

(20,000 acre-feet). So the timing 

of the spring melt will be the primary 

driver (temperature and solar 

ManY FactORS – Spring dust storms like this one last year on Lizard 

Head Pass accelerate snowmelt. (File photo) 

months during the just-concluded 

ski season. January was, as some 

powder-hounds will remember, dismal, 

with only about 28 inches of 

snow when closer to 45 is normal. 

March came in only slightly below 

normal, at 92 percent of average, 

with 46.5 inches. 

radiation). Basically we’re back to 

a fill and spill operation and we 

will try to update the controlling 

parameters of reservoir elevation, 

inflow and outflow.” 

The Dolores Water Conservation 

District officials will also 

continue to monitor dust-storms 

Because t\he Telluride Ski Area 

has not, historically, recorded April 

snowfall, the seven-inch storm that 

blanketed the slopes on Closing Day 

(April 4) would, if recorded, bring 

the season total to exactly average. 

(and anything that may hasten the 

runoff and raise the reservoir earlier 

that anticipated). 

For more information on the 

Dolores River releases visit doloreswater.com 

and for updated 

snowpack levels visit co.nrcs. 

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Attention 

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Be sure not to miss the 

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May 11–15, 2011 

see SnOw on page 16 

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MOnTROSe 

friday, april 15 

Get out your dancing shoes, polish up your spats and 

shimmy into your flapper fringe for this year’s annual 

fundraiser for CASA, Voices for Children, which is 

celebrating the Roaring 20s with “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” 

Held at the Bridges Golf and Country Club on Friday, 

April 15, the evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with appetizers 

and entertainment followed by a gourmet dinner, dancing, 

and silent and live auctions. 

April is Prevent Child Abuse Awareness Month, 

and that’s what Voices for Children does. When an 

abused or neglected child’s case goes to court, Voices for 

Children volunteers meet the child and report to the judge 

in each case. These trained, court-appointed volunteers 

become the child’s voice in the legal system. 

Tickets for the fundraiser are $50 per person and can 

be purchased at Montrose Bank, at the CASA Voices 

for Children office at 300 N. Cascade Ave., or online at 

www.casanow.org. 

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sunday, april 17 

Join Weehawken this Sunday, April 17 at 3 p.m. 

for a “Dance Off” at the Wright Opera House in 

Ouray, featuring works by the dancers and teachers 

of Weehawken Dance Company (also known as the 

Wee Company). Dancers will perform pieces learned 

throughout the year as well as solo choreography created 

by individually. Each company member has chosen 

their own music, costumes, and created their own 

choreography to be showcased at the event. They will 

also present ensemble dances learned in class. Tickets 

will be sold at the door for $5. Call 318-0150 or visit 

weehawkenarts.org for more info. 

MOnTROSe 

sunday, april 17 

Music in celebration of children will be performed on 

Sunday, April 17, at the free spring concert of the 

Montrose Community Band. The concert begins at 

3 p.m. in the Montrose Pavilion. Under the baton of 

Toby King, the band will play music from Disney and 

other movies, as well as a Karl King circus march. The 

concert also will include music by the band’s saxophone 

ensemble and a performance by Los Angeles-based singer 

Debbie Carter. Sponsored by TEI Rock Drills, the concert 

is being presented in cooperation with the Dolphin House 

Child Advocacy Center. Dolphin House Director Sue 

Montgomery will be the emcee. No tickets are necessary. 

calendar listings for 4/14 through 4/20 

MOnTROSe cOUnTY 

FRiDAY, ApRil 15 

Puttin’ on the Ritz – Voices for 

Children gala fundraiser, Bridges 

Golf and Country Club, 6:30 p.m. 

Roaring 20s costumes encouraged. 

Appetizers, live entertainment, 

gourmet dinner, dancing, silent 

and live auctions. Tickets $50, 

available at Montrose Bank, CASA 

Voices for Children office (300 N. 

Cascade), or online, casanow.org. 

SATURDAY, ApRil 

16-SUnDAY, ApRil 17 

Stunning Landscapes – Workshop 

in oil and/or pastels with Barbara 

Churchley, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 

Around the Corner Art Gallery, 

all levels; $150. Call 249-4243 or 

email info@montroseart.com. 

SUnDAY, ApRil 17 

Montrose Community Band 

Spring Concert – Music in 

celebration of children, 3 p.m. at the 

Montrose Pavilion. Free, no tickets 

necessary. 

TUeSDAY, ApRil 19 

Relax With Colored Pencils – 

Instructor Loretta Casler teaches 

fundamentals of colored pencil 

painting, all levels, Around the 

Corner Art Gallery, 249-4243. 

TUeSDAY, ApRil 

19-FRiDAY, ApRil 29 

Montrose County School 

District Re-1J Annual Student 

Art Show – Featuring artwork 

from Cottonwood, Johnson, Oak 

Grove, Northside, Olathe and 

Pomona elementary schools, 

as well as artwork by students 

from Centennial and Columbine 

middle schools, Olathe Middle/ 

High School, and Montrose High 

School, on display at the Region 10 

Enterprise Center. For more info 

email afleming@mcsd.k12.co.us. 

SATURDAY, ApRil 23 

Annual Stupid Band Earth 

Day Dance – Turn of the Century 

Saloon (117 NW Fourth St.); doors 

open at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $10 

and a non-perishable food item. 

Don’t make a “stupid mistake,” 

come celebrate your home planet 

with one of the greatest rock-n-roll 

bands in the valley! Call 970/249- 

8250 for information. 

weDneSDAY, ApRil 27 

The Power Behind the Throne: 

Maya Women and Warfare 

– Presentation at monthly 

meeting of the Chipeta Chapter 

of the Colorado Archaeological 

Society, 7 p.m., Montrose United 

Methodist Church, 19 S. Park 

Ave. Speaker Barbara Hughes, a 

cultural anthropologist, teaches 

at Metropolitan State College 

of Denver. Free and open to all, 

contact Tricia at 249.6250 for more 

information. 


Digital SLR Camera Class for 

Beginners – With professional 

landscape photographer Andy 

Cook, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., The Canyon 

Gallery, Montrose, $119, 970/249- 

4711. Learn mechanical features 

and settings; cost includes CD for 

reviewing class materials. 

AnnOUnceMenTS: 

Youth for Understanding has 

foreign exchange students profiles 

now online at www.yfu-usa.com for 

high school academic year 2011- 

12. Hosts provide place to sleep, 

study and food; insurance provided. 

Or is your student interested in 

studying abroad? Local volunteer: 

chapmanjanet@yahoo.com, 

970/240-9146. 

Mending Hearts Hospice 

Grief Support Groups meet in 

Montrose, Mondays, 1-2:30 p.m. 

and Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., 645 S. 

5 th St. Contact Don Barr, 240-7734. 

Montrose Farmers Market 

Accepting Vendor Applications 

– For all market days: Saturdays, 

May-Oct.; Wednesdays, June-Sept.; 

Thursday evenings during Main in 

Motion, June 2-Aug. 18. (Saturday 

market has moved from Oxbow 

Crossing to Centennial Plaza.) 

For vendor rules and regulations 

and applications visit www. 

montrosefarmersmarket.com or 

call 970/209-8463. Vendors selling 

meats, eggs, baked items, and value 

added food products should first 

check with Montrose County Food 

Service Inspector Vera Stouffer for 

requirements and permits, 970/240- 

5000. 

OURAY cOUnTY 

THURSDAY, ApRil 14 

Ouray County Historical 

Museum Open to the Public – 

Hours, Thurs.- Sat., 10 a.m. - 4:30 

p.m. 


A Century of Ouray County 

Ranching, 1875-1975 – New 

exhibit opens at Ouray County 

Historical Museum. Exhibit closes 

July 5, reopens August 19-Nov. 19. 

Call 970/325-4576. 


Apple’s Numbers vs. Microsoft 

Excel – Computer class with 

John Clark, Ridgway Town Hall, 

10 a.m.-noon, $20, no sign-up 

required. 

MOnDAY, ApRil 18 

San Juan High School Choir 

Festival – At the Ridgway 

Secondary School Commons, 7 

p.m. Sixty-plus high school singers 

from Ridgway, Ouray, Norwood, 

Nucla, Olathe and Paonia, directed 

by Mr. Jan Tuin. Free and open to 

the public. 

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ApRil 18 

Weehawken Zumba Classes 

Begin – Get fit dancing to Latin and 

international music with dynamic, 

simple exercise moves. New 

students get one free Zumba class 

the first week, taught by instructors 

Kendra Manley and Vicky Hartlein. 

Ouray Wright Opera House: Mon., 

10:30 a.m.; Tues., 6:30 p.m.; Wed./ 

Fri., 6:15 a.m. Ridgway: Wed., 6 

p.m. Call 970/318-0150 or visit 

weehawkenarts.org. 


Uncompahgre Watershed 

Partnership Meeting & Potluck 

– Discussion of findings from 

Rapid River Habit Assessment of 

Oct. 2010, summer events, and 

introduction of new AmeriCorps 

VISTA, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Ridgway 

Community Center. Potluck dinner 

follows. Contact: Rachel Boothby, 

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to Peak Bicycles, 640 Sherman 

St., Ridgway, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; for 

RACC members only (and their 

guests). 

Local Alternative Energy 

Initiatives Discussion by SMPA 

President Wes Perrin, 7 p.m., 

Ridgway Community Center. 

Sponsored by ROCC. 

THURSDAYS, ApRil 21- 

MAY 26 

Wood, Water, Rock: Painting 

Trees, Rivers, Snow, Clouds and 

Mountains – Thursday morning 

watercolor series with Meredith 

Nemirov, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 

in Ridgway. More info and 

registration (deadline April 15) 

available at weehawkenarts.org or 

by calling 970/318-0150. 


Ouray Elks Easter Egg 

Preparation Potluck – Help stuff 

candy eggs, 6 p.m., Ouray Elks 

Lodge. Bring a dish to share. Call 

626-4239 for details. 

FRiDAY, ApRil 

22-SATURDAY, ApRil 23 

Stencil Madness: Monoprint 

Gone Crazy – Printmaking 

workshop with visiting artist 

Jennifer Ghormley, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 

Weehawken Ridgway. Tuition: 

$150-$165, plus $20 materials. 

Call 970/318-0150 or visit 

weehawkenarts.org. 

SUnDAY, ApRil 24 

44th Annual Ouray Elks Easter 

Egg Hunt – For Ouray County kids 

up to 12 years old, 2 p.m. sharp, 

Ouray’s Fellin Park. Really bad 

weather location, Ouray Elks lodge. 

Call 626-4239 for information. 

weDneSDAY, ApRil 27 

Abandoned Mines & 

Water Quaility Conference, 

3:30-8:30 p.m., go to http:// 

uncompahgrewatershed.org for 

more info. 


Ouray County Weed Symposium 

– Featuring Commissioner of 

Agriculture John Salazar and weed 

management professionals, 9 a.m.-4 

p.m., 4H Event Center, Ridgway. 

RSVP by April 15, 970/626-9775 x 

23. Hosted by Ouray County Weed 

Department. 

THURSDAY, ApRil 

28-SATURDAY, ApRil 30 

Ouray School Presents Annie, 

Jr. – Featuring all ages of students 

and some community members, 

7:30 p.m., Ouray School stage. 

Tickets on sale now at Buckskin 

Booksellers and Khristopher's 

Culinaire, in Ouray, Ouray School 

or at the door on performance 

nights. Seats are limited. 


Casino Night Fundraiser for 

Ridgway River Festival – 

Blackjack, Texas hold’em and 

roulette on authentic tables with 

experienced dealers. Cash prize 

for player with highest chips, plus 

prizes for second and third place


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winners. Ouray Location TBA, 

6-11 p.m. Contact: Erika Gordon, 

egordon@telluridecolorado.net, 

626-3137. 

SatURDaY, apRil 30 

Ouray Elks Public Golf 

Tournament – At Black Canyon 

Golf Course in Montrose. Fourplayer 

scramble format; registration 

8 a.m., tee time 9 a.m.; lunch 

included after play. $65/player 

entry fee benefits the lodge and its 

charitable programs. Hole-in-one 

prize: 2011 Suzuki 750cc 4X4 ATV. 

Early registration encouraged, call 

Danny Wesseling 970/626-5058, 

970-729-1174; or Dick Spirek 

970/626-5862. 

SUnDaY, MaY 1 

Tea and Traditions – At historic 

Colona School., 2-4:30 p.m. A high 

tea with traditional goodies served 

on fine china. Entertainment, party 

favors for all, and wonderful door 

prizes. Vintage attire encouraged, 

but not required. Admission is free; 

donations are requested to benefit 

restoration efforts. Historic Colona 

School is located about a quarter mile 

west of U.S. Highway 550 on Ouray 

County Road 1. Info, call Joyce at 

249-4217 or Jane at 626-5075. 

annOUnceMentS: 

Free Fly Tying Seminars – Every 

Saturday through April, 10 a.m.-12 

p.m., RIGS Fly Shop & Service. 

Call for Artists and Vendors – 

Weehawken Creative Arts invites 

artists, craftspeople and food 

concessionaires to participate in the 

27th Ridgway Rendezvous Arts 

and Crafts Festival, Aug. 13-14 

in Ridgway Town Park. For more 

info, visit weehawkenarts.org or call 

970/318-0150. 

Friends of Ridgway State Park 

Scholarships – Two $1,000 

scholarships for college students 

who have completed one semester 

of post-secondary education or 

more. Available to high school 

grads from Mesa, Delta, Montrose 

and Ouray counties. Available from 

Ridgway Sate Park Office, 970/626- 

5822, email johnorglenda@q.com. 

Application deadline, April 30. 

Wayne Mayfield Fine Arts 

Scholarship – $1,500 scholarship 

sponsored by Ouray County Arts 

Assn. Available to Ouray County 

graduating seniors majoring in 

visual arts. Applications available 

at Ridgway and Ouray school 

counselors' offices. Application 

deadline is April 15. 

2011 WISE Emma Lou Wilder 

Memorial Scholarship – Open to 

female residents of Ouray County, 

Ridgway/Ouray high school 

graduates who have completed 

one full year of college, or enrolled 

in graduate program. Application 

deadline April 22. For more 

information or application materials 

please contact Sheila O'Leske, 626- 

3276. 

SomaSensory Meditation – Body 

Centered Practices to Clarify 

the Mind and Awaken the Spirit, 

Thursdays, 7-8:15 p.m., on the 

boardwalk next to Lupita's (use back 

door entrance). For information 

contact Julia, 318-0074. 

Meditation and Spiritual 

Discourse – Satsang with Joi 

Sharp, Sundays, 6 p.m. at Ridgway 

Community Center, 201 N. 

Railroad St. (north end Town Hall). 

Sliding scale, $10-$15. For more 

info, satsangwithjoi.com, infor@ 

wholeheartsangha.org, 970/708- 

7131. 

San MiGUel cOUntY 

thURSDaY, apRil 14 

MV Heritage Parking Garage 

Will Be Closed to the public for restriping. 

Free public parking will be 

available in the North Village Center 

parking lot, behind the Shirana and 

Westermere buildings. 

FRiDaY, apRil 15 

Mountainfilm Event – Screening 

of Bag It, Eastern Rises, Fishman, 

and Alone on the Wall, 7 p.m. at 

the Livery in Norwood; fundraiser 

for After-Prom party, $10 adults, $5 

students; visit aceofnorwood.com. 

FRiDaY, apRil 15thURSDaY, 

apRil 21 

Movies at the Nugget – Source 

Code (1:34, PG-13); Paul (1:44, R). 

For times and dates, call 728-3030 

or visit nuggettheatre.com. 

tUeSDaY, apRil 21 

Mountain Village Town Council 

Meeting, MV Town Hall, 8:30 a.m. 

Telluride Regional Airport 

Authority Meeting, Telluride 

Airport, 12 p.m. 

FRiDaY, apRil 22 

Palm Dollar Movie Series – Palm 

theatre, 3:30 p.m. Call Palm events 

line for film title, 369-5669. 

The Housemaid – Rated R, Palm 

Theatre, 6 p.m.; $8 adults, $6 

students. 

FRiDaY, apRil 22- 

SUnDaY, apRil 24 

First Lead’s Wilderness 

First Aid and WFR Recert 

Training – Includes CPR. and 

recertifies Wilderness First 

Responder; Norwood Community 

Center. Go to www.firstlead.com. 


Met Opera on the Big Screen: 

Capriccio – Live in HD, Palm 

Theatre, 11 a.m.; $20 adults, $15 

students, telluridepalm.com. 


TFF Sunday at the Palm Presents 

A Little Princess – (1995, 97 min., 

G), Palm Theatre, 4 p.m., free. 

MOnDaY, apRil 25 

Met Opera on the Big Screen: Le 

Comte Ory – Encore presentation, 

6 p.m., Palm Theatre. Tickets: 

$20/adults and $15/students; 

telluridepalm.com. 


TFF Presents Cedar Rapids – 

Featuring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly 

and Anne Heche, ons SHOW only, 

8:30 p.m., Nugget Theatre. (87 mins, 

R). No Nugget Passes, please. 


Telluride Education Foundation 

Fundraiser – An evening at 

Castlewood, featuring cocktails, 

dinner and auction, 6:30 p.m. Free 

transportation available. Tickets 

$75, available at Zia Sun starting 

April 18. More info on TEF at 

tellurideeducationfoundation.org 

annOUnceMentS 

2012 CCAASE Calendar 

Deadline: May 13, 5 p.m. 

Application available at www. 

telluride-co.gov or at Parks and Rec. 

office in Town Park, 728-2173. 

Bottom Up Economic 

Development Survey – Sponsored 

by Gov. Hickenlooper; open for 

participation by all Colorado citizens. 

Go to www.advancecoloradocom/ 

bottomup. 

Fitness and Zumba Classes – With 

Melissa Currie at the Norwood 

Livery. Fitness: Mon./Wed., 5:15-6 

p.m.; Zumba, Tues./Thurs., 9-9:45 

a.m., Tues. 6:15-7 p.m. 

African-Style Drum Circle – 

Second/fourth Thursdays, 7-8 

p.m., ACE at the Livery, Norwood, 

$3; bring your own drum. Visit 

aceofnorwood.com. 

Open Figure Studio – Mondays, 

6-8:30 p.m. at the Ah Haa School. 

Registration appreciated; $15/session. 

Call 728-3886. 

University Centers of the San 

Miguel Upcoming Classes: For 

specific times and more info, call 

369-5255 or visit ucsanmiguel.org. 

Knitting Classes/Events – At 

Needle Rock Fiberarts, 320 W. 

Colorado Ave.; call 970/728-3427 or 

visit needlerock.blogspot.com. 

Silent Meditation at Christ Church 

– Classes, third Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; 

gatherings, every Thursday, 7:30 p.m. 

All welcome. Call 728-8855. 

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Friendship Force International 

Meeting – Western Colorado 

Chapter, 6:15 p.m., Community 

Hospital’s Lower Conference 

Room, 2021 North 12th Street 

in Grand Junction. Featuring 

presentation on Uganda by Lee 

Frost. Visitors are welcome. FFI 

is a non-profit worldwide travel/ 

cultural exchange program with 385 

chapters in 55 countries. 241-9122, 

thefriendshipforce.org. 


Easter Celebration Service – Unity 

Church, 3205 N. 12 th St., Grand 

Junction, 10:30 a.m. Easter egg 

hunt, weather permitting; Love 

Dove release, 11:45 a.m. For more 

info, call 970/243-3550. 

thURSDaY, MaY 12 

Friendship Force International 

Meeting – Western Colorado 

Chapter, 6:15 p.m., Community 

Hospital’s Lower Conference 

Room, 2021 North 12th St., Grand 

Junction. Final planning for June’s 

“Western Colorado Adventure 

Experience” hosting Northern 

Colorado’s FFI, plus $5 all you can 

eat pizza. Visitors always welcome. 

FFI is a non-profit worldwide travel/ 

cultural exchange program with 

385 chapters in 55 countries. Call 

970/241-9122 for information or 

visit www.thefriendshipforce.org. 

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anytime by going to www.telluridewatch. 

com; click on calendar and follow 

the prompts. Dated events for the 

print version of the calendar should 

be emailed separately to calendar@ 

watchnewspapers.com. Deadline for 

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noon. No phone calls, please. 

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Cyrus James, Jeff Fields 

Sat., April 16, Horsefly Brewing 

Stupid Band Earth Day Dance 

Sat., April 23, Turn of the 

Century Saloon 

10th Annual Sippin' Into 

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Open Mic Poetry Night 

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blUeGRASS from page 1 

The Decemberists, The Head and 

the Heart, and Grammy-sweethearts 

Mumford and Sons. 

When they performed at last 

year’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival, 

Ferguson observed, Mumford 

and Sons weren’t yet the 

huge draw they would become, 

just a few months later. But he 

and other Bluegrass stalwarts 

were so enamored, Ferguson said, 

that he called Mumford’s agent in 

September to say, “We haven’t 

done this in ten years,” and invite 

the band back for this year, even 

though they were hardly part of 

the festival’s sprawling “house 

band,” whose members return 

year after year after year. 

The manager “got back to 

me maybe a month later,” Ferguson 

said, saying: “I’ve got good 

news for you – and I’ve got bad 

news.” 

The good news: Mumford 

and Sons “asked me to schedule 

their North American tour around 

the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.” 

The bad news: “They don’t 

want to play – they just want to 

come to the festival.” 

At this point, Ferguson went 

into back-burner mode with the 

message that, sure, they could 

come, but as for not playing, no, 

“that just wouldn’t do.” 

Ferguson explained his strategy. 

“You know, they’re from 

England,” he said of the band, 

“and they have such a real admiration 

for all the roots musicians 

in our lineup. They’ve become 

deep friends with Jerry Douglas; 

they hang out in Nashville all the 

time, going out of their way to 

pick with Old Crow and Gillian 

Welch; one of their main influences 

is Allison Krauss.” 

He saved the clincher, however, 

for the band’s manager. “A 

lot of thought goes into a band 

like that,” he said of Mumford, 

“that all of a sudden blows up 

into one of the hottest bands in 

the country. And one of the things 

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MAn AT wORK – Telluride Bluegrass Festival Promoter Craig Ferguson said that the festival’s relatively 

small size lets his organization keep to a mellow game plan. (File photo) 

“So I told him, ‘We aren’t really 

a bluegrass festival. I’ve got 

a spot before Robert Plant, and I 

don’t think anyone would confuse 

him with a bluegrass band.’” 

So Mumford and Sons signed 

on – and, in these heady days 

with their two early-June shows 

at Denver’s Fillmore selling out 

“in just five minutes” – at Telluride 

Bluegrass prices. 

“They certainly aren’t the 

only band on the bill outside of 

the Bluegrass pay scale,” Ferguson 

said, going on to observe, 

“There’s quite a lot of diversity 

in what’s happening in festivals” 

these days, ricocheting from the 

recent demise of Denver’s Mile- 

High Festival to mega-festivals 

“like Bonnaroo and Coachella,” 

which although easily quintupling 

Telluride Bluegrass attendance 

figures, “are selling out in 

a day.” 

Ferguson said he’s OK with 

his festival’s scale – “I like to 

think Telluride Bluegrass relies 

on its reputation as much as on 

who’s the headliner” – and that 

while it once was “the biggest 

festival in the country” in its 

1990-91 heyday, those days are 

gone. 

“Now, we’re just a little bou- 

SnOw from page 13 

The seemingly ubiquitous 

presence of high winds throughout 

the past season may have 

underscored the impression 

that the snow gods did not look 

kindly on Telluride this winter, 

since many windy days resulted 

in high terrain being completely 

stripped of snow. Longtime ski 

patroller Peter Inglis claims 

that this winter saw more days 

of winds above 45-mph than he 

can remember in his more than 

20 years here. But that’s a purely 

empirical observation, since 

the Telluride Ski Resort neither 

tique festival,” in a world with “a 

ton of festivals, with 30 or 40 that 

are bigger than us.” 

On the positive side, Ferguson 

said, that smallness lets his 

organization keep to a relatively 

mellow game plan. “We don’t 

really plan where to go until we 

start going,” he said. 

This year, look for some 

beefing up of the Nightgrass offerings, 

and for newcomers like 

Abigail Washburn and Trampled 

by Turtles filling out the 

long list of festival regulars and 

longtime friends. 

Asked about a reprise of 

something like last year’s sellout 

Phish concert, which Ferguson 

promoted, he said: “It’s still 

quite frustrating to bring in any 

kind of new show, to try to figure 

out everything from the camping 

to the gondola and the parking 

and the lodging. 

“The Phish thing was such a 

rarity,” he said, mostly because 

the band, with its early Telluride 

history, “wanted to play in Telluride 

so much that they were willing 

to do it for a discount. 

“Not many bands can shoot 

into Telluride and sell out,” he 

said, citing Lyle Lovett and Jackson 

Browne as two more excep- 

records nor charts wind events, 

unlike its careful documentation 

of snowfall. 

Sterbenz agrees that this 

ski season did seem especially 

windy; he points out, however, 

that with the ski area expanding 

into more alpine terrain in recent 

years, the wind factor could 

simply be a perception spurred 

by more observers traveling in 

those high altitude, windswept 

locales. 

This season Telluride did not, 

fortunately, witness as many dust 

events as have been observed 

in recent ski seasons. Sterbenz 

chalks up the absence of snow- 

tions to that rule. “And if you 

want to bring really cool shows to 

Telluride,” he added, “it’s not going 

to happen if you leave it to the 

producer to do it all by himself. 

“I go in and say, ‘Here’s my 

spreadsheet,’” he said, and “people 

tell me they need to recover 

their direct costs. They want to 

pass on all their expenses to me. 

“If there was a way to work 

with the lodging community and 

Marketing Telluride Inc. and the 

town governments, so they would 

chip in some of the revenues” 

they see from Bluegrass – he estimates 

the Town of Mountain Village 

alone gets roughly $250,000 

in Bluegrass parking revenues – 

maybe a Phish reprise could happen. 

He went on to hint that he 

fielded an offer to host “the most 

epic show you could ever see in 

Telluride” sometime this fall, but 

that current economics make that 

virtually impossibe. 

“Most band’s business managers 

won’t let them come here,” 

with what Telluride can afford to 

pay, he said. Instead, they’ll tell 

them: “Go play the Hollywood 

Bowl,” where the pay-scale starts 

at $500,00, “take some of that 

money, and go to Telluride for a 

nice vacation.” 

pack-ravaging dust-storms to the 

fact that nearby deserts received 

more snow cover overall this 

winter, and to the fact that most 

of this winter’s storms arrived via 

northwest flow patterns (southwest 

flows are more prone to 

picking up dust from the deserts 

in Arizona.) 

“We’ve been spoiled the 

last few winters because snowfall 

has been so good,” Sterbenz 

says. “This winter was a bit of 

a wakeup call, because although 

it felt low it was really just normal. 

It did seem windier than 

usual, but it’s hard to say [if] it 

actually was.”

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All applicants must be willing to work holidays, nights and weekends. 

All positions are part time. For Pool and Box Canon positions we expect 

commitment from June 1st-August 15th. 

For more detailed information on our area and positions, City application form and job 

descriptions visit www.cityofouray.com or pickup application packet at City Hall office. 

Application and background check form must accompany resumes and be received at City Hall 

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vehicles 

motorcycles 

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legal 

RICO TOWN BOARD MEETING 

RICO COURTHOUSE 

April 20, 2011 

7:00 P.M. 

Call to Order 

Roll Call 

Approval of Agenda 

Approval of Minutes: March 16, 2011 

Approval of Bills 

Approval of Treasurers Report 

Public Comment: 

elle from page 12 

lence is not a part of a 3-yearold’s 

bedtime repertoire. And 

that waking up a sleeping baby 

sister is exactly what a 3-year-old 

hopes to achieve with repeated 

leg-slams against the mattress. 

She accomplishes this goal. 

There was a time when cuddling 

up against a sleeping child 

was my idea of heaven. There 

is just something enchanting 

about being in sync with a 

baby’s butterfly breath, or falling 

asleep touching knees with 

a toddler. If only those babies 

and toddlers would stay put, 

like normal, parallel-sleeping 

adults. 

9:35: Elle is asleep. But 

now Emme is not. I try to pretend 

like I’m asleep, but it’s 

hard when a small child is 

pulling your hair like it's grass 

being ripped out of the lawn. 

Exuding an aura of rest and relaxation 

all the while, I endure 

this until Emme becomes bored. 

But instead of laying down her 

sleepy head, she then launches 

her next offensive: Scrambling 

across the bed’s sleeping (and 

pretending to sleep) bodies like 

a crazed gerbil. 

9:45: I decide this isn’t 

working. I get out of bed, walk 

STAFF REPORT 

1. Town Planner 

2. Town Attorney 

3. Town Clerk 

4. Public Works 

5. Town Manager 

6. Board of Trustees 

and bounce Emme around the 

room until she decides to give 

up the fight and fall asleep. 

Children are small. If you set 

a small child in the middle of a 

large sofa, she doesn't appear to 

take up that much space. Something 

strange happens when you 

set a small child on an averagesized 

bed, however. They expand 

like those sponge animals that 

“hatch” out of their little capsule 

eggs when placed in warm water. 

To crawl into my bed, I must 

first arrange my 3-year-old’s 

sprawled-out appendages into 

some kind of order, then position 

the oversized package that is my 

10-month-old into some zone of 

safety where she will neither be 

suffocated by a pillow nor receive 

a kick to the mouth from 

her older sister. I then make myself 

as small as possible, testing 

my balance as half of me hangs 

off the edge of the bed. This is 

how I remain, until I receive a 

heel to the mid-back. 

I roll over, rearranging the 

knot that is my snoozing children, 

and attempt sleep again. 

Until a flailing arm smacks me 

in the Adam’s apple. 

It's going to be a long 

night. 

In how many positions, besides 

straight up and down, can 

a human child slumber? I decide 

it is incalculable, at around 

3 a.m. when I awake to Elle find 

stretched crosswise between 

the sheet-covered mounds of 

her father and me, as comfortable 

as if she were lounging in a 

hammock in the backyard. 

I imagine the hammock in 

the backyard, probably still 

frosty with the remnants of the 

last snowstorm, to be a more inviting 

place to spend the rest of 

my night. But I resist the urge 

to dig the 0° sleeping bag out 

of the closet and retire to the 

freezing cold, since my absence 

would mean one-half of the 

sleep cage that is my bed would 

be left without its human guardrail, 

leaving my children in danger 

of catapulting themselves 

onto the floor. 

When we finally emerge 

from the tousled family bed the 

next morning, I know from the 

bleary-eyed look on my husband’s 

face that the night of 

“sleep-bonding” with our children 

was as enjoyable for him 

as it was for me. 

I’ve never seen Craig work 

as diligently to finish a chore 

like re-flooring our children’s 

bedroom, thus returning our 

family’s bed assignments to 

normal, as he did that day. 

Ubc from page 4 

noTiceS The Talking Gourd 

OLD BUSINESS 

1. The Consideration of 2nd Reading for 

Ordinance No. 2011-2, an Ordinance Prohibiting 

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in 

the Town of Rico 

NEW BUSINESS 

1. The approval of the Liquor License Renewal 

Application for GBH Holdings LLC/ 

Mountain Top Liquor 

2. Discuss the July 4th Event 

3. Consideration of a Resolution Concerning 

the EPA’s Proposed Remediative Actions for 

Emissions at the Four Corners Power Plant 

and San Juan Generating Station 

4. Executive Session: CRS Section 24-6-402 

(4) (e) for a conference with the Town Attorney 

for the purpose of receiving legal advice 

regarding West Rico 

ADJOURN 

the Absaroka (but that’s another 

tale) … All of this to say I have 

a confession to make. I’m addicted. 

Every spring, as my mail 

box fills up with lurid photos of 

the most beautiful creatures, I 

have come to accept that I am 

addicted to the pornography of 

garden catalogues … Omygoddess, 

I could leaf through their 

Technicolor pages for hours. 

Entranced with the beauty of 

this bulb. Lusting to purchase 

that flowering annual. Pining 

for the rarest heirloom spud 

seed … And, honestly, I’m not a 

bit ashamed. When it comes to 

the sin of gardening, I’m completely 

unrepentant. 

DICK BRETT … An old sem 

buddy of mine reporting from 

the interior of China sometime 

last week … “The weather is 

Chengdu gray here. Spring 

is not in the air … The Chinese 

just finished celebrating 

their tomb-sweeping three-day 

holiday where they remember 

their beloved dead. I was 

the only foreigner in Pingle, a 

2300-year-old Chinese town, 

where human beings first used 

natural gas. I was surrounded 

with Chinese who have gotten 

a little bit bigger piece of their 

ever growing economic pie. The 

Chinese know how to relax with 

their family and friends, tea 

and beer by the river -- talking, 

playing cards or mahjong, and 

eating fresh, delicious food … 

The four hour trip back to the 

big city was worth it.” 

WEEKLY QUOTA … In a letter 

to Nicaraguan poet and cultural 

minister Ernesto Cardenal, 

Thomas Merton wrote: "The 

world is full of great criminals 

with enormous power, and they 

are in a death struggle with 

Montrose, where Kaden received a 

MAPA T-shirt, a new book, and a 

commemorative certificate. 

A couple weeks later, Tonya 

Stephens (from Hoof and Paw), 

Kaden, his mom, MAPA Treasurer 

Karen Arnold and I shopped for pet 

supplies. With Kaden leading the 

way, stopping only once in awhile 

to confer with the others on certain 

items, he shopped for over an hour. 

April Aubade 

When you finally 

sleep with the 

window open in 

a century old 

house, the itch 

of April enters, 

a highway breathes 

through, trains woo 

darkly westward. Come 

morning, wood pecker 

drills a hole 

into your waking 

mind. A pin 

of light shines. 

Air sucks your 

closed door against 

its frame, trying 

to make a 

path through you. 

Wood knocks wood. 

Your metal mechanism 

clicks in its 

lock, hinges almost 

creak. Everything begs 

a thin opening. 

- Rachel Kellum 

Brush 

each other. It is a huge gang 

battle, using well-meaning lawyers 

and policemen and clergymen 

as their front, controlling 

papers, means of communication, 

and enrolling everybody in 

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 

and paid for his choices. 

There were beds, toys, collars, 

leashes and chew treats. With a little 

help, Kaden loaded everything into 

Tonya’s SUV. 

The next stop for Kaden was to 

stop for an ice cream, and then head 

home to play with his new kitten, 

Tulip. 

The work was over, he was broke, 

but he was immensely satisfied.


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20 | ThUrsDAY, April 14 - weDnesDAY, April 20, 2011 The wATch 

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her 

blog, Jane at janebook.tumblr.com 

answers questions from readers. A 

Fr e e Wi l l As t r o l o gy 

By Rob Brezsny 

recent query went like this: “Who 

would win in a steel cage match, 

Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?” 

Jane said, “Easter Bunny, no question; 

he has those big-ass teeth.” But 

I'm not so sure. My sources say that 

Santa has more raw wizardry at his 

disposal than the Bunny. His magical 

prowess would most likely neutralize 

the Bunny's superior physical 

assets. Likewise, Aries, I'm guessing 

you will have a similar edge in upcoming 

steel cage matches – or any 

other competitions in which you're 

involved. These days you've simply 

got too much mojo to be defeated. 

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): 

“Dear Rob: Last January you predicted 

that 2011 might be the best 

year ever for us Bulls to commune 

with the invisible realms and get 

closer to the Source of All Life. 

And I have been enjoying the most 

amazing dreams ever. I've had sev- 

Solution to 

today'S puzzle 

iS on thiS page 

eral strong telepathic experiences 

and have even had conversations 

with the spirit of my dead grandmother. 

But that God character remains 

achingly elusive. Can't I just 

have a face-to-face chat with his/ 

her Royal Highness? – Impatient 

Taurus.” Dear Taurus: The coming 

weeks will be one of the potentially 

best times in your life to get up 

close and personal with the Divine 

Wow. For best results, empty your 

mind of what that would be like. 

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I 

was reading about how fantasy 

writer Terry Pratchett made his 

own sword using “thunderbolt 

iron” from a meteorite. It made me 

think how that would be an excellent 

thing for you to do. Not that 

you will need it to fight off dragons 

or literal bad guys. Rather, I suspect 

that creating your own sword 

from a meteorite would strengthen 

and tone your mental toughness. 

It would inspire you to cut away 

trivial wishes and soul-sucking influences 

that may seem interesting 

but aren't really. It might even lead 

you to rouse in yourself the zeal of 

a knight on a noble quest -- just in 

horoscope 

time for the arrival of an invitation 

to go on a noble quest. 

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Over 

the years I have on several occasions 

stood at a highway exit ramp with a 

handmade cardboard sign that reads, 

“I love to help; I need to give; please 

take some money.” I flash a wad of 

bills, and offer a few dollars to drivers 

whose curiosity impels them 

to stop and engage me. I've always 

been surprised at how many people 

hesitate to accept my gift. Some assume 

I have a hidden agenda; others 

think I'm crazy. Some are even angry, 

and shout things like “Go home, 

you freak!” If a comparable experience 

comes your way anytime soon, 

Cancerian, I urge you to lower your 

suspicions. Consider the possibility 

that a blessing is being offered to you 

with no strings attached. 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Nearly all 

men can stand adversity,” said Abraham 

Lincoln, “but if you want to test 

a man's character, give him power.” 

According to my analysis of the astrological 

omens, that thought will have 

extra meaning for you in the coming 

weeks. So far in 2011, you have gotten 

passing grades on the tests that 

adversity has brought you. But now 

come the trickier trials and tribulations. 

Will your integrity and impeccability 

stand up strong in the face of 

your waxing clout and influence? 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It 

would be a good week for you to 

assemble a big pile of old TVs you 

bought for $5 apiece at a thrift store 

and run over them with a bulldozer. 

It would also be a favorable time to 

start a blazing fire in a fireplace and 

throw in the photos of all the supposedly 

attractive people you used to 

be infatuated with even though you 

now realize that they were unworthy 

of your smart love. In other words, 

Virgo, it is a perfect moment to destroy 

symbols of things that have 

drained your energy and held you 

back. There's an excellent chance 

this will provide a jolt of deliverance 

that will prime further liberations in 

the coming weeks. 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The style 

of dance known as the samba seems 

to have its origins in the semba, an 

old Angolan dance in which partners 

rub their navels together. In the African 

Kimbundu language, semba also 

means “pleasing, enchanting,” and in 

the Kikongo tongue it denotes “honoring, 

revering.” In accordance with 

the astrological omens, I invite you 

Libras to bring the spirit of semba to 

your life. Use your imagination as 

you dream up ways to infuse your intimate 

exchanges with belly-to-belly 

reverence and enchantment. Be serpentine 

and worshipful. Be wild and 

sublime. Bestow your respectful care 

with all your slinky wiles unfurled. 

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 

the Philippines, there is a geographic 

anomaly I want to call your attention 

to: a volcanic island in a lake 

that's on a volcanic island in a lake 

that's on an island. Can you picture 

that? Vulcan Point is an island in 

Crater Lake, and Crater Lake is on 

Volcano Island, and Volcano Island 

is in Lake Taal, and Lake Taal is on 

the island of Luzon. It's confusing 

-- just as your currently convoluted 

state is perplexing, both to you and 

those around you. You could be aptly 

described as fiery earth within cool 

water within fiery earth within cool 

water within fiery earth. Whether 

that'll be a problem, I don't know 

yet. Are you OK with containing so 

much paradox? 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): 

For the Navajo, the quality of your 

life isn't measured by your wealth 

or status, but by whether you “walk 

in beauty.” It's an excellent time, 

astrologically speaking, for you to 

evaluate yourself from that perspective. 

Do you stop to admire a flock of 

sparrows swirling toward a tangerine 

cloud at dusk? Are you skilled at giving 

gifts that surprise and delight others? 

When your heart isn't sure what 

it feels, do you sing songs that help 

you transcend the need for certainty? 

Have you learned what your body 

needs to feel healthy? Do you know 

any jokes you could tell to ease the 

passing of a dying elder? Have you 

ever kissed a holy animal or crazy 

wise person or magic stone? 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): 

smile you makes that news 

O T O O L E A N T H E M I C E S E W 

R E P L A N L A M E S A B O N J O V I 

G R E E N T E A P A R T Y E N D E M I C 

A N A G R A M C R A B C A K E W A L K 

L E T O N T E A M 

U T I C A R I P E S T F A S T 

L O W C U T C L A S S H A I R T I E S 

N A I L F I L E A I R C A N A D A D R Y 

A S S S I R E N Y O Y O S P A A R 

E T H A N N O N P A N C A L L S 

D I R T Y B L O N D E J O K E 

L A D L E L A P O R A A R Y A N 

T I L E P R I O R C R A Z Y A W E 

H E A D C O L D C A S E S Z E C H W A N 

O F C O U R S E H O N E Y P O T P I E 

K N I T S A G E S T P S S T S 

C O L A H O A G Y 

C A T F O O D F I G H T A N O R A K S 

A V I A T O R B L U E S T A T E B I R D 

M E S T I Z O I A G R E E T A I P A N 

S C H S E M S W O R D S O D E S S A 

Answers for ToDAY’s nY 

Times crossworD (pg.22) 

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ToDAY’s pUzzle 

“He who wants to do good knocks 

at the gate,” says Bengali poet Rabindranath 

Tagore in one of his “Stray 

Bird” poems, while “he who loves 

finds the gate open.” I agree completely. 

That's why I advise you, as 

you get ready to head off to your next 

assignment, not to be burning with a 

no-nonsense intention to fix things. 

Rather, be flowing with the desire 

to offer whatever gifts and blessings 

are most needed. 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): 

“Once bread becomes toast, it can 

never become bread again.” Today I 

saw that piece of wisdom scrawled 

on the wall of a cafe's restroom. I 

immediately thought of you. Metaphorically 

speaking, you're thinking 

about dropping some slices in the 

toaster, even though you're not actually 

ready to eat yet. If it were up to 

me, you would wait a while before 

transforming the bread into toast – 

until your hunger got ratcheted up 

to a higher level. The problem is, if 

you make the toast now, it'll be unappetizing 

by the time your appetite 

reaches its optimum levels. That's 

why I suggest: Put the bread back 

in the bag. For the moment, refrain 

from toasting. 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don't 

try so hard, Pisces. Give up the 

struggle. As soon as you really relax, 

your subconscious mind will provide 

you with simple, graceful suggestions 

about how to outwit the riddle. 

Notice I just said you will be able to 

“outwit the riddle.” I didn't say you 

will “solve the riddle.” Big difference. 

Outwitting the riddle means 

you won't have to solve it, because 

you will no longer allow it to define 

the questions you're asking or the answers 

you're seeking. 

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Herndon from page 4 

is a personal representation of who 

he is. Norwood is a place where the 

customer comes first as a friend and 

family, not as corporate protocol in 

some bulk printed manual. 

So how does a corporate box 

store like a Family Dollar fit into the 

scheme of things here? The answer 

is simple: it doesn’t. I realize that a 

corporate business analyst has probably 

looked over reams of data and 

concluded that Norwood is somehow 

suited to this type of business, 

but somewhere in this analysis a 

few vital concepts have been over 

looked. I would like to point out a 

few of the more obvious ones: In 

roberts from page 4 

there’ll be real and difficult consequences 

to the cuts we must make 

even with the severance tax transfer. 

This financial hole we’re in will take 

years to climb out of, but, as we do 

that, I’ll continue to argue for true 

budget balancing measures that are 

not disproportionately burdensome 

to the less populated areas of the 

state. 

As the “long bill” and other budget 

related measures work their way 

through the House committees and 

floor debates and votes, the Senate 

will return to the bills remaining before 

us. This hasn’t been an easy session, 

but no one could’ve reasonably 

expected otherwise. 

Across 

1 Henry II player in 

“Becket” 

7 Something that 

might get a rise 

out of people? 

13 Clinch 

16 Clinch, with “up” 

19 Arrange again 

20 Suburb of San 

Diego 

21 “Livin’ on a 

Prayer” band 

23 Chinese 

restaurant 

offering / 

Wonderland 

affair / Group on 

the left? 

25 Indigenous 

26 Neo, for one 

27 Baltimore 

specialty / 

Effortless task / 

Move on all 

fours with the 

belly up 

29 Admit 

31 Skins, e.g. 

32 Ancient city NW 

of Carthage 

36 Most red, maybe 

39 Firmly fixed 

43 Plunging / Play 

hooky / Vulgar 

47 Scrunchies 

51 Tip reducer? 

52 Northern flier / 

Mixer maker / 

Put on the line 

55 Buffoon 

56 Lure 

For any three answers, 

call from a touch-tone 

phone: 1-900-285-5656, 

$1.49 each minute; or, 

with a credit card, 1-800- 

814-5554. 

58 Idiots 

59 “Up to ___,” 

1952 game show 

60 ___ Hunt, Tom 

Cruise’s 

character in 

“Mission: 

Impossible” 

63 Sénat vote 

64 God of shepherds 

65 Dials 

67 Yellowish brown 

/ Bit of “dumb” 

humor / Many a 

forwarded e-mail 

72 Hot cider server 

74 Seat for toddlers 

75 Time, in Torino 

76 Indo-___ 

80 Item for a mason 

81 Previous 

84 Idiotic 

86 Wonderment 

87 Cause of 

congestion / 

Detective’s 

challenge / 

Loony 

90 Style of chicken 

93 “Naturally!” 

94 Winnie-the-Pooh 

possession / 

Baked entree / 

Sweetie 

96 Grow together 

97 Best to follow, as 

advice 

100 Attention 

getters 

101 It’s no good 

when it’s flat 

102 Hero 

106 Fancy Feast 

product / 

Cafeteria 

outburst / “Mean 

Girls” event 

114 Hooded jackets 

San Miguel County there are no stop 

lights. There isn’t a single corporate 

chain store. Most of the successful 

retail outlets are either owned or 

managed by local interests. This is 

not by chance. This is by economic 

evolution and social selection. 

The absence of box stores here 

is not because some business analyst 

has simply overlooked the region. 

Box stores don’t exist here because 

many people who live here simply 

don’t want them and wouldn’t patronize 

them if they were here. Many 

people feel that box stores degrade 

the overall level of commerce and 

service we currently enjoy as well 

as diminishing our way of life by 

cheapening up the visual appearance 

dispAtcHes from page 4 

ish the most vulnerable members 

of our society, the unemployed 

and poor, in addition to teachers, 

EMTs and other people who actually 

do something useful, in contrast 

to the CEOs, bankers, glorified 

loan sharks and swindlers who 

make up most of the top 1 percent 

of our country. 

Don’t like my description of 

our nabobs and plutocrats? Here are 

a few facts you might like to consider. 

The oil and gas and mining 

companies who get rich pillaging 

our public lands pay next to nothing 

to the government in return. 

Lumber companies logging on 

National Forests are only profitable 

TRIPLE BONDS By Oliver Hill and Eliza Bagg / Edited by Will Shortz 

118 ___ sunglasses 

119 Democratic 

territory / 

Cardinal, e.g. / 

“Over the 

Rainbow” flier 

122 Biracial Latin 

American 

123 “Ditto!” 

124 1966 best seller 

set in Hong 

Kong 

125 See 126-Across 

126 Half a 125- 

Across year: 

Abbr. 

127 They might be 

crossed 

128 “The Battleship 

Potemkin” 

setting 

Down 

1 Alternative to gov 

2 Trillion: Prefix 

3 Word with French 

or U.S. 

4 Olive genus 

5 Cross-country 

skiing 

6 ___ deux âges 

(middle-aged: 

Fr.) 

7 John Wayne 

western, with 

“The” 

8 Toddler’s need 

9 Nickname for a 

seven-time 

N.B.A. All-Star 

10 Frau’s partner 

11 Billionaire’s 

home, maybe 

12 Halfhearted 

R.S.V.P.’s 

13 Letter-shaped 

support 

14 Bean 

15 German finale 

of our small town. I would suggest to 

the developers of Family Dollar that 

they seriously consider whether the 

cheap plastic junk they sell is even 

wanted in Norwood. Why would 

we want to take a portion of the retail 

market away from the stores we 

already have and jeopardize their 

existence just to save a few pennies. 

We have a trove of delightful box 

stores in Montrose to choose from, 

and since most of us have to go there 

on a regular basis to buy products the 

Family Dollar doesn’t sell, we have 

excellent opportunities to buy our 

trivial plastic junk at multiple outlets 

there. 

Then there is the thought Family 

Dollar may bring shoppers from 

because we, the public, pay for the 

roads they use to access our timber, 

for which they pay little if anything. 

Offshore oil drilling outfits, 

like British Petroleum, pay zero for 

the right to suck oil out of our seabed 

and sell it back to us. Huge agribusiness 

depends on governmentfunded 

irrigation projects and price 

supports to become richer and richer. 

And these 14-carat-gold-plated 

cheats, swindlers and parasites talk 

about “welfare chiselers” (masses of 

jobless Americans who supposedly 

would rather live on unemployment 

benefits than find honest work) and 

arrogant unionized teachers, cops, 

firemen and the like (whose “overinflated 

salaries” are bankrupting 

our governments!). 

n.y. times crossword 

16 “Brave New 

World” drug 

17 ___ eye 

18 Lit part 

22 Ashkenazi, for 

one 

24 Take in 

28 Polo locale 

30 New Deal inits. 

32 They turn on 

hinges 

33 A goner 

34 “If only!” 

35 Third-century 

year 

37 “This ___ 

outrage!” 

38 Reciprocal 

Fibonacci 

constant 

39 Bomb 

40 Suffix with drunk 

41 Desk item 

42 Kind of wave 

44 “___ the season 

…” 

45 Black in a 

cowboy hat 

46 “Sleigh Ride” 

composer 

Anderson 

48 Enero starts it 

49 Times to 

remember 

50 Med. land 

53 Cornelius who 

wrote “A Bridge 

Too Far” 

54 Creature 

worshiped by the 

Incas 

57 As one 

61 Appended 

62 Zip 

64 101-Across, e.g. 

66 Alias initials 

68 Bit of homework 

69 Actress ___ 

Flynn Boyle 

70 Rub out 

71 Stimulating 

72 Gladly 

73 Old cry of 

dismay 

77 Barks 

78 Anticipate 

79 Yucatán youth 

80 Howe’er 

82 “Treasure Island” 

inits. 

around the region to Norwood, giving 

our business district a little ”economic 

shot in the arm.” Somehow, 

I can’t’ see shoppers from Naturita 

or Nucla driving 20 miles, burning 

gasoline at nearly four dollars a gallon 

to save fifty cents on some plastic 

item manufactured in Asia and 

still have enough change left to run 

next door for a double latte at the 

Happy Belly Deli. This “economic 

shot in the arm” is starting to sound 

like some corporate form of illegal 

substance instead of commercial 

adrenalin. 

There are many sensible arguments 

to dissuade the foreign 

developers from trashing the entrance 

to our little town, but for this 

It would be hilarious if it weren’t 

incredibly obscene. 

And all this is going on in an 

America where there are 120,000 

Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan 

vets living on our streets, homeless, 

victims of PTSD and a society that 

pretends to honor them but would 

rather buy a bigger SUV and a 

couple of extra ATVs than upgrade 

the VA’s overwhelmed medical 

system; where poor schoolchildren 

go without lunches, and poor families 

have to forego medical care 

because they can’t afford it; where 

it’s becoming almost impossible 

for middle-class Americans to send 

their sons and daughters to college 

without virtually bankrupting themselves; 

where the new federal bud- 

83 Words before any 

month’s name 

84 Fortune 

profilees, for 

short 

85 “Uh-huh” 

88 ___ bono (for 

whose benefit?: 

Lat.) 

89 “___ Bangs” 

(Ricky Martin 

hit) 

91 Check, as text 

92 Bklyn. ___ 

95 Kind of power, in 

math 

98 Outs 

99 Speech blocker 

101 One going into 

a drive 

103 Hall’s partner 

104 Santa ___ 

105 Bugged 

106 They take vids 

107 ___ plaisir 

108 “Oh, pooh!” 

109 Butcher’s 

trimmings 

No. 0403 

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26 27 28 

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118 119 120 121 

122 123 124 

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long time resident, it distills down 

to this: Our stores reflect what we 

buy and the kind of people we are. 

A Family Dollar store reeks of 

cheap import products supported 

by people who prefer quantity over 

quality, and I find this reflection 

rather degrading to all of us who 

live here. For all of you like-minded 

souls in San Miguel County, I 

would suggest that you attend the 

meeting of the Norwood Planning 

and Zoning Board at Town Hall on 

April 18 at 7 p.m. and voice your 

opinion directly to the developers 

who will be present. Additionally, 

you can appeal directly to the developer 

via email: Mac.McCall@ 

FranklinStreetFinancial.com. 

get rammed through by the TP-ers 

will cut the EPA’s budget in half, at 

a time when air and water pollution 

in “National Sacrifice Areas” like 

the low-income outskirts of Houston 

and the Navajo Indian Reservation 

is poisoning generations of 

people…. 

Behold the future the Tea Party 

is laying out for us: a third rate country 

controlled by a tiny elite class of 

super-wealthy men and women, a 

21 st century Banana Republic where 

those with the gold make the rules 

and the rest of us live out our lives 

in quiet desperation. 

Maybe “class warfare,” that 

bugaboo of Republican propagandists 

and their hacks in the media, 

isn’t such a bad idea after all. 

110 Soulful Redding 

111 Slime 

112 Venezuela’s 

Chávez 

113 Colonial land: 

Abbr. 

115 Rose’s beau 

116 ___ Bay 

(Manhattan area) 

117 Sp. titles 

120 But: Lat. 

121 Some evidence 

Crossword answers are on page 20


pilateS from page 2 

teacher. Having been a high school 

cheerleader myself, I understoofrom 

personal experience the extreme 

pressure the body can take 

from the jumps and the necessity to 

stand for long periods of time. My 

goal with the Ridgway cheerleading 

team was to teach them to find 

and develop their core strength, 

and then use that strength to land 

with a sense of lightness on jumps, 

SnowboaRD from page 9 

tell that all the training and fundamentals 

he’d learned since last 

year just clicked. He definitely 

had the best style out there,” 

Coach Cooney said of Foster’s 

slopestyle run. Foster came in 

12th overall in his division’s 

combined rankings. 

Sarah Miller (whose older sister 

Fern made her World Cup debut at 

the parallel giant slalom competition 

in Telluride in December) finished 

out a season burdened by injury with 

Race from page 9 

of the race at the Visitor’s Center of 

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National 

Park, Shine said. 

The race starts at the base of 

Black Canyon and covers “a tough, 

scenic six-mile course starting at an 

elevation of 6,500 feet and climbing 

almost 2,000 feet,” according to the 

website. Walkers will start at 7:30 

a.m. and runners will begin at 8 a.m. 

As an added incentive for runners 

and walkers, Shine said entrants 

will get a discount to the Montrose 

Wine and Food Festival events, 

which will be going on the same 

weekend. This year’s race will also 

feature custom printed T-shirts, 

overall and group awards and a $200 

bonus incentive for a new course record. 

Course records for runners to 

lennon from page 9 

TPF dramatic staged reading (also 

produced Off-Broadway last year 

at the Abingdon Theatre, in New 

York City) and Tracy Shaffer’s 

(W)Hole, a staged reading at the 

Paragon Theatre in Denver. This 

summer, Drew Larimore’s Out of 

Askja will be in a New York City 

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to stand in a position that would 

remove pressure from the spine, 

and to learn to use their upper back 

musculature properly to maintain 

good posture. 

I am amazed at how quickly 

the girls learned the key concepts, 

and their enthusiasm for Pilates 

has truly been heart-warming. 

Darin Fletcher, founder and owner 

of Integrative Movement Center 

in Ridgway, has been committed 

from day one to forming alliances 

a healthy seventh place finish in GS 

for the Junior Women (age 16-17) 

division. 

Grommit (aka 8-9 year old division 

competitor) Peter Danner 

showed up to his first-ever Nationals 

event wide-eyed, but ready to throw 

down: He took seventh place in 

slopestyle, and eighth in halfpipe. 

“He was pretty overwhelmed 

by the whole experience… his performance 

was impressive, especially 

considering how big the park and 

pipe were compared to how tiny a 

kid his age is,” Dylan said. 

beat are a time of 40:08 by Simon 

Gutierrez in 2008 in the men’s division, 

and 45:06 in 2009 by Brandy 

Erholtz in the women’s division. 

Awards will be given for overall 

first, second and third in male 

and female categories; masters 

first, second and third, both male 

and female, and first place for male 

in female in one of six age groups, 

from under 19 to over 60. Youth 

under 13 can register for free with 

an adult registration. 

The Black Canyon Ascent is 

organized and run by the San Juan 

Mountain Runners, and a major 

sponsor of this year’s race is the 

Montrose Association of Commerce 

and Tourism, Shine said. 

San Juan Mountain Runners 

will also run the first annual North 

Rim 20K at Black Canyon on Oct. 9 

theatre festival, and next spring, 

James Still’s Love Me Some Amnesia, 

a TPF 2010 staged reading, 

will be produced in Chicago, at 

the American Blues Theatre. 

TPF welcomes community actors, 

playwrights and interns who 

want to learn and work with professionals. 

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with the local schools in order to 

teach young people proper body 

mechanics so that they can avoid 

the high risk of future chronic pain 

caused by compensatory movement 

patterns that many adults in 

our society experience on a daily 

basis, simply due to lack of knowledge 

about how best to use and 

move their bodies. 

Darin and I plan to continue 

to work with the schools, teaching 

youth the techniques for life-long 

Other Telluride competitors 

who qualified for Nationals 

and flew the TSSC flag last 

week at Copper included Noah 

Perkovich, Jack Clark, and Hobie 

Plumber. All told, the eight local 

riders whose season-long performances 

earned them spots on the 

Nationals start list made up the 

biggest team of Telluride snowboarders 

to qualify for Nationals 

that Cooney can remember. 

“I’m hoping this strong showing at 

Nationals will boost our local program 

even more,” Cooney said. 

and the Winter Rim Romp featuring 

snowshoe races and adventure hiking 

on Jan. 14, 2012. 

The website of the running 

club, www.sjmr.org, states that it’s 

“a group of enthusiastic runners of 

all ages and abilities,” and most hail 

from Montrose, Gunnison, Delta, 

health and vitality. All high school 

kids are welcome to attend our 

classes for free; upon graduation, we 

will give them the same discount we 

offer to all public school teachers. 

Working with the cheerleaders has 

definitely been one of the highlights 

of my Pilates career! 

Kodis has lived in Ridgway 

for the last four years, coaching 

the Ridgway High School Varsity 

Cheerleaders for three years, 

after teaching and coaching in 

Arizona for four years. A onetime 

high school cheerleader, she 

says, “because of the lack of body 

knowledge I had, I damaged and 

injured my body repetitively during 

cheerleading because of the 

high impact of the sport. Having 

this background, and knowing of 

these resources in our community, 

I have tried to provide my squad 

with tools, knowledge and awareness 

of their own bodies so that 

they can remain injury free.” 

tSSc boaRDeRS - Wrapped up a great season at Copper Mountain. 

(Courtesy photo) 

Ouray and San Miguel counties. The 

club holds local races for runners and 

walkers as well as “fun runs” and 

potluck dinners throughout the year. 

Club membership applications are 

available at the website, at a cost of 

$10 for individuals or $15 for family 

memberships. 

The right person can make 

all the difference. 

Four town council Candidates Needed 

Deadline 5 p.m. Friday, May 13 | Election June 28, 2011 

Candidate Qualifications 

+ Registered Mountain Village elector, and 

+ Mountain Village resident for at least 120 days prior to the election 

Members of the running club 

also participate in other fundraising 

races, including the Run for Shelter 

to benefit Tri County Resources on 

April 30 and the Mount Sneffels 

Half-Marathon on Aug. 13, a fundraiser 

for the Mounts Sneffels Education 

Foundation. 

interested candidates must submit a 

+ Letter of interest: full name, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address and/or fax number 

+ Candidate Affidavit: available on the Web at townofmountainvillage.com/juneelection 

interested candidates are also encouraged to submit a 

+ Photograph 

+ Biographical Information Form, also available on the Web 

More information: (970) 369-6406 or mvclerk@mtnvillage.org

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