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Vail Restaurant Month con-tinues with this week’s theme “Health, Wellness & Outdoors,” a perfect combination for peo-ple who enjoy burning calories almost as much as consuming them.

Vail Restaurant Month fea-

tures more than 80 events and activities, this week focusing on delicious and nutritious fall din-ing paired with Vail’s favorite outdoor adventures.

“This week is all about body, mind, spirit and adventure!” says Vail Restaurant Month co-

founder and former Bon Appétit Associate Publisher Ilene Rap-kin, “If you love running, bik-ing, hiking with your dogs, fly-fishing, yoga, gourmet cooking, or if you adore one-of-a-kind foodie experiences, you’ll find unforgettable Vail adventures

all this week.”Among this week’s activi-

ties are events with a celebrity cookbook author, a bike ride and a trail run with athletes fea-tured in Runner’s World and Bicycling magazines, cook-ing classes for both kids and adults, dog-friendly activities, hiking and fishing seminars, yoga classes, and free wine and champagne tastings.

Vail’s star chefs are serving

up a weeklong feast of inspir-ing, entertaining fall-themed cuisine and tastings, from a Krug Champagne breakfast at Centre V at the Arrabelle, to a combined luncheon and free fly-fishing demo co-created by Gore Creek Fly Fisherman and Blu’s Restaurant, to La Tour’s “Wild Mushroom Dinner” and Sweet Basil’s “Sustainable Din-ing” menus.

And the little foodies of the valley will come together to-morrow at the new 7one5 restaurant at the Vail Mar-riott Mountain Resort & Spa, where they will receive a spe-cial after-school master cook-ing class with Executive Chef Mark Millwood. It’s part of the first annual “Little Foodies in

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Bailey looking to shrink funding gap

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Local students got to play the taiko drums on stage at yes-terday’s STARS series event at the Vilar Performing Arts Center. Since 1973, San Jose Taiko has been mesmer-izing audiences with the powerful and propulsive sounds of the taiko, which is the Japanese word for “drum.” The STARS (Support The Arts Reaching Students) series of performances is offered to promote artistic, educational and cultural enrichment to local students with in-school workshops and daytime shows at the theatre. Each year, the VPAC provides free transportation and tickets to more than 5,000 Eagle and Lake County students to expose them to the thrill of live performing arts. Yester-day’s San Jose Taiko performance was the first event of the school year for the daytime children’s series and was generously underwritten by Susan and Harry Frampton.

Vail Restaurant Month hosting activities for runners, bikers, fishermen and their dogs

STARS series kicks off at Vilar

[See HEALTH, page 18]

Hoy: no changes to El Jebel patrols

Contrary to some rumors, there are no changes in the works for law enforcement in the El Jebel area, Eagle County Sher-iff Joe Hoy assured county residents last night.

Though the Eagle County Sheriff’s Department has had to cut more than $1.75 million from their budget for 2011, they are not looking at making serious cuts to their presence in the unincorporated area, which sits near the southwestern corner of the county.

Hoy held a meeting Monday night at the Eagle County building in El Jebel, where he addressed just less that 40 lo-cal residents. Hoy said he was made aware two weeks ago of rumors that the department had plans to cut or eliminate patrols in the area.

Hoy said he received more than a dozen emails and at least three phone calls about the rumors. He originally planned the meeting as a small one between himself and a few members of the local homeowner’s association to clarify the depart-ment’s position, but emails sent throughout the community over the past weeks have expanded public attention.

Hoy said in the meeting that he has no intentions of ceasing operations in El Jebel, nor does he plan to eliminate service from the hours of midnight to 6 a.m. He is considering reduc-ing the police presence in the area during the early morning

Sheriff says department will not pull out of unincorporated town

By Matt MinichMountaineer Staff Writer

[See HOY: NO CHANGES TO EL JEBEL, page 18]

--48.22Stocks took a pause yesterday from

their big September rally as worries about the financial sector offset ex-citement over a fresh round of corpo-rate dealmaking. The Dow Jones in-dustrial average closed down 48.22 at 10,812.04. The S&P 500 closed down 6.51 at 1142.16, and the Nasdaq closed at 2369.77 down 11.45.

Mayor Emanuel?CNN is reporting Rahm Emanuel has

told colleagues he’s all but certain to run for mayor of Chicago.

President Barack Obama’s top political adviser says White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is really drawn to the idea of running for Chicago mayor. Da-vid Axelrod says family considerations are a big factor, and he says Emanuel is working through those issues.

Wisconsin flood hits hard

Flood waters from the burgeoning Wisconsin River turned a rural neigh-borhood into a virtual island yesterday, cutting off dozens of homes from the outside world. The river was seeping through and surging around a levee pro-

[See THE UPDATE, page 16]

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I read with interest a letter in your paper of September 23rd, written by Mr. Ian Allison of Germany, expressing his support for Mr. Van Beek for Sheriff in the upcoming election. Mr. Allison did a good job of describing how Mr. Van Beek had served our country well in war torn Kosovo and used this experi-ence as his sole reason for support-ing Mr. Van Beek for Sheriff of Eagle County.

While we should all be proud of all of our people serving abroad, I’m afraid I find it a substantial log-ic leap to assume Mr. Van Beek’s experience in Kosovo makes him better qualified to be our Sheriff than Joe Hoy who served his coun-

ty in Vietnam and has been serving Eagle County so well for the past 8 years.

Consider the following:Eagle County is not Kosovo and

the issues faced by a Sheriff here are quite different from those face by a police here as evidenced by the examples described by Mr. Allison in his letter;

While Mr. Van Beek may well have been an excellent policeman in the Kamenica Police Station, it has been a long time since he was a Deputy Sheriff in Eagle County;

I note that Mr. Allison describes himself as a retired British police-man and I submit that British po-liceman operate and think very

differently from their counterparts in the United States - not better or worse, but differently. Accordingly, I question the merits of having a re-tired British policeman tell us who to vote for;

I also note that Mr. Allison says he lives in Germany - again, not a great qualification for telling us who to vote for in the United States.

Sheriff Hoy has done an excellent job for us to date and has an excel-lent track record. There is simply no good reason not to re-elect him in November and we should do so.

Tom Howard - a concerned citi-zen of Eagle County

This letter is in support of James Van Beek for Eagle County Sheriff. I met James in 1989. I was on his interview board for the Eagle County Sheriff’s office. We were quite impressed with James’s deep convic-tions and integrity. James is honest, trustworthy, and very fair with everyone he deals with. Mr. Van Beek’s experience in law enforcement, including dealing with multi-national forces in Kosovo and Afghanistan, will be extremely valuable in dealing with the population diversity in the county. In his more than 20 years of experience in law enforcement Mr. Van Beek has been a deputy for the ECSO, a field training officer, and an

investigator. In his recent law enforcement role, he has been a supervisor and training officer of multi-national police forces. James Van Beek is a permanent resident of Eagle County, is raising his family here, and has al-ways participated in community affairs in our county. His extensive experiences in law enforcement, his hon-esty and integrity, his commitment to Eagle County and its residents and seasonal guests, and his forward-looking ideas and attitudes, make him the ideal candi-date to become Sheriff of Eagle County.

Ken Wilson, ECSO Captain/Undersheriff, Ret.

James Van Beek for Sheriff

Re-elect Sheriff Joy Hoy

LETTERS

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Bailey looks to shrink funding gap

Congressional candidate Stephen Bailey will come through Eagle County this week, but most county residents won’t see him.

The Republican challenger for the District 2 seat in the House of Representatives will be in the coun-ty today and tomorrow for private parties in Gypsum and Edwards. The fundraisers will be hosted by wealthy homeowners, and are ex-pected to be intimate affairs, with only about 20 potential donors on each guest list.

This week, Bailey will be at-tending events like these all across his district, which includes Eagle, Summit and Boulder counties. He is currently scheduled for five fund-

raisers in the next six days.“Living room to living room is

how grassroots campaigns work,” said Michele Haedrich, the finance director for the Bailey campaign. Haedrich said she also worked with Gubernatorial candidate Ken Buck in the early stages of his campaign, and said he started his fundraising efforts the same way.

“We did it living room to living room, $50 to $50, and look where he is now,” she said.

Haedrich could not say for sure how much money the campaign ex-pects to get from the parties. Those invited have been asked to provide $50 donations, but organizers hope that high-income attendees will break out their checkbooks to give much more.

Even two or three thousand dol-

lars would go very far with the cam-paign, which has established a large volunteer base, she said.

Come November, Bailey is hop-ing to unseat a financial behemoth. In his last election, incumbent Dem-ocrat Jared Polis, a wealthy entre-preneur, spent more than $5 million of his own money to win the seat.

In an attempt to mitigate the fund-ing disparity, Bailey challenged Polis earlier this month to agree to limiting campaign spending to $350,000. The Polis campaign quickly rejected the limitation as “absurd,” and said they had already raised more than $350,000, and that they expected the campaign to spent at least $1 million. As of the end of July, the Polis campaign that they had raised more that $600,000

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[See BAILEY, page 15]

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The community of Eagle-Vail is hosting an Autumn Celebration and pre-holiday shopping party at the Ea-gle-Vail Golf Course Clubhouse this Friday, October 1, from 4 to 8 p.m.

There is no charge for the party, and a free cocktail, light appetizers, and cash bar will be featured along with 25-50% savings on all Golf Club merchandise, from tees to clothing to clubs. Party goers will also find other vendors and a chance to do some early holi-day shopping. Fine sterling silver jewelry by Silpada

Designs, Miche bag, the purse you change in seconds, Scentsy wickless fragrance warming pots, Colorado Mountain Passes by Rick Spitzer, Mary Kay cosmet-ics, and handcrafted Santas by Kim Andre are among the other vendors.

“We’re grateful to the entire valley for their patron-age of the Eagle Vail Golf Club and this is our way of offering thanks,” said head golf professional Ben Welch.

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Ascent Physical Therapy began leasing clinic space in the Avon Recreation Center this month creat-ing a strategic partnership between the two organizations that will serve the community’s health and well-ness needs.

“We believe the partnership will introduce new members to the Rec-reation Center while growing new programs and clients for Ascent Physical Therapy” said Recreation Center fitness supervisor Danita

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on Thursday, October 14th between 4 and 8 p.m. at Ascent Physical Therapy in their new location at the Avon Recreation Center for the op-portunity to meet Keith McCarroll, owner and physical therapist, and his team, receive a tour of the facil-ity and equipment, and enjoy com-plimentary appetizers and drinks.

Keith McCarroll, has twenty years of experience in orthopedics,

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Ascent Physical Therapy has provided quality, personal physi-cal therapy in Avon for the last five years. Ascent Physical Therapy practices and acknowledges the value of preventive injury through education. For more information re-garding hours and services, please call Ascent Physical Therapy at 949-9966.

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The Town of Vail will be hosting a second planning meeting on the community garden project at 5 p.m. Sept. 30 in the Community Development Offices, 75. S. Frontage Rd. All are welcome to participate as the town gauges interest from residents and begins the goal-setting and design process. So far, the small com-

mittee has a conceptual design and general timeline but is looking for assistance from local gardening and fund-raising enthusiasts to help develop a proposal to take to the Town Council for approval in November. For details, contact Kristen Bertuglia, the town’s envi-ronmental sustainability coordinator, at 477-3455.

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NEWS


A group dedicated to the ouster of three state Supreme Court justices reacted yesterday to a Friday ruling that the group must register as a political committee, argu-ing that the ruling “undermines transparency and ac-countability in judicial retention vote.”

The Friday ruling by Administrative Law Judge Rob-ert Spencer essentially sets a precedent, stating that committees that advocate for or against the retention of a state judge or justice must register as a political com-mittee. Clear The Bench Colorado had registered as an issue committee.

The issue for Colorado Ethics Watch – which filed a lawsuit against Clear The Bench Colorado, setting up Spencer’s ruling – is about restrictions on campaign fundraising and reporting. Issue committees have no limitations on contributions, but political committees are limited to $525 per person.

On Friday, Ethics Watch – which has been accused of being a liberal-leaning organization, though Ethics Watch maintains it is bipartisan in its approach – said the ruling is a victory for Colorado voters who ap-proved Amendment 27 in 2002. The voter-approved state campaign finance overhaul required that judges being voted for retention on an election ballot be con-sidered candidates, argued Ethics Watch.

“The law does not permit a wealthy few to unduly influence the judicial retention process through large contributions against judges and justices whose rul-ings they don’t like,” said Luis Toro, director of Colo-rado Ethics Watch. “Ethics Watch prevailed (Friday) in setting precedent to keep big money out of judicial elections, but today’s decision is also a victory for an independent, nonpartisan, merit-based judicial system in Colorado.”

Clear The Bench Colorado – which like Ethics Watch has been accused of being partisan in nature, except leaning to the right – is seeking to oust the three state

Supreme Court justices standing in retention elections this fall. The justices are Michael Bender, Alex Mar-tinez and Nancy Rice, all of whom were appointed by Democrat former Gov. Roy Romer.

The group is berating the justices for a past ruling in favor of a plan by Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter to freeze property tax mill levies in local school districts, as well as allowing the Legislature to eliminate tax credits and exemptions for businesses without a vote of the people. The group believes the justices have redefined taxes as fees to allow for tax increases without a vote of the people under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.

In a news release issued Monday, Clear The Bench Colorado director Matt Arnold said Judge Spencer’s ruling “makes a mockery of the process of citizen civic engagement.” He said the ruling achieves the oppo-site of Colorado Ethics Watch’s intention of restricting campaign finance spending.

“Big-money special interests will now be more prone to attempt to influence judicial retention elections be-hind the scenes, using vehicles other than the open and accountable ‘Issue Committee’ organization types such as Clear The Bench Colorado,” wrote Arnold.

“In fact, big-money legal establishment special-in-terest groups are already active this year in promoting a ‘retain’ vote for judicial incumbents,” continued Ar-nold. “They’re just significantly less honest about their intentions.”

Spencer ordered Clear The Bench to register as a po-litical committee within 20 days, but declined to sanc-tion the group. Arnold had argued that his organization worked closely with the Secretary of State’s office in deciding to register as an issue committee.

Clear The Bench is concerned that it is now required to comply with the judge’s ruling at such a late date – mail ballots are currently being prepared to go out to voters.

“Forcing CTBC to re-file under a different set if rules, changed in the final quarter, makes a mockery of justice,” said Arnold.

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Vail Valley competitors faced some tough luck at the Xterra USA Championship in Snow Basin Re-sort this past weekend. Xterra is the world’s premier off-road triathlon series, and the national champi-onship is open to an international field.

Brad Zoller’s goggle strap snapped just before the start of the freezing cold 1-mile swim, while fellow local Josiah Middaugh man-aged to get about 50 yards into his dip in the chilly water before having his goggles knocked off his face.

Despite having the goggle gods against them, Middaugh went on to take third (first for the Americans) and Zoller took 16th overall – 14th in the Men’s Pro division. On Sun-day The Vail Mountaineer incor-rectly reported that Zoller had taken 31st after some inconsistencies were posted on the Xterra Web site. Our apologies to the Avon Dunk n’ Dash champ and his supporters here, who must have been thrilled to hear he did twice as well as we had reported.

There were more than 500 com-petitors from all over, including

South Africa’s Conrad Stoltz, who won the race and has been domi-nating the sport for the last couple years.

“Having my goggles knocked off kind of broke up my momentum,” Middaugh said. “The race isn’t usually won in the swim, but it definitely can be lost there. I think I lost some time in the water, which is really critical point in the race because it sets you up in the right pack for drafting.”

Middaugh managed to fight through it and, coming out of the water, was ahead of France’s Nico-las Lebrun, who took second over-all in the race. The two worked their way up through the field together to fifth and sixth place, and then Leb-run broke away over the last six miles of the race.

Middaugh came off the bike in fifth and went on to have the fastest run time of all the guys in the over-all top-10. But it wasn’t easy catch-ing up to Dan Hugo, who ended up in fourth. The two battled it out in a final sprint for the last spot on the podium – Middaugh catching Hugo

with less than 100 yards to go.“It definitely took everything I

had,” he said.After Stoltz, who beat the field by

5 minutes, it was a close race with only 61 seconds separating the sec-ond and fifth place finishers. Mid-daugh took home $1500 for his ef-forts.

He said his knee, which was op-erated on last winter to repair the iliotibial band (or IT band), is feel-ing surprisingly good – welcomed news heading into the Xterra World Championship in Maui at the end of next month.

Zoller, a former Ironman triath-lete, was ranked 14th heading into the event and was hoping to break into the top-10 in anticipation of the upcoming World Championships.

He was riddled with tough luck throughout the race, beginning with the goggle strap snap.

“I very gingerly put them back on and didn’t even clear them of the fog for the start of the race in fear of them breaking again,” Zoller said.

Despite the trouble, he managed to stay in the lead pack until a wake knocked him off his orientation.

On the bike ride, Zoller nearly hit a squirrel and spectator, and then his

Stellar finishes for Vail locals at Xterra USA Championship

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Little Foodies in the Kitchen: "Winners Dinners" Eagle County Schools 5th grade cooking contest winners help prepare a healthy dinner with the chef at one of our restaurants: Marriott, Cucina (Lodge at Vail) and Tavern on the Square (Arrabelle at Vail Square). (970) 479-6995

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Captains: No tweeting during Ryder CupStuart Cink’s one million Twit-

ter fans are going to have to wait to here from the 2009 British Open champ until after the Ryder Cup as U.S. and European players have been banned from using Twitter and other social networking sites during the Ryder Cup.

U.S. captain Corey Pavin and Eu-ropean counterpart Colin Montgom-erie say there will be a blanket ban in place this week to keep players focused on the three-day competi-tion, which begins Friday at Celtic Manor.

“We have decided as a whole to not tweet this week,” Pavin said. “It can be a little bit distracting some-times. I think it’s important to focus on the Ryder Cup and playing the matches and just enjoying camara-derie with the team itself.

“But first thing a week from to-day, I’m sure tweeting will be all over the place.”

Montgomerie also told his play-ers to avoid Twitter and other sites and “focus on the job at hand this week.”

“We feel that tweeting and Face-book and all of these social sites can get one’s self into trouble,” Mont-gomerie said. “On Monday, Oct. 4, yes, you’ll find the team probably on social network sites. But not un-til then.”

Montgomerie said his decision

was prompted by the incident in-volving England cricketer Kevin Pietersen, who was fined earlier this month for making a profane com-ment on Twitter after discovering he had been dropped by his country for the first time.

“Kevin Pietersen’e error changed my view as to that, yes,” Montgom-erie said.

U.S. player Rickie Fowler con-firmed his team’s Twitter ban, tweeting on Monday: “Guys I’m sorry to inform you but the news is true … we will not be allowed to tweet while we are in Wales … Cpt’s orders!!”

Stewart Cink wrote for his last tweet, “We’re finally off to Wales!! Won’t be tweeting until we get back. I guess I’ll have to pass the down time actually reading or something,” Cink tweeted before the U.S. team’s charter flight from Atlanta to Cardiff.

Steward Cink is pretty disappoint-ed about not being able to tweet to his more than 1 million followers during the Ryder Cup. AP photo.

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Carmelo Anthony wouldn’t come out and say he wants out of Denver. His inaction has indicated other-wise.

Anthony hasn’t signed a $65 mil-lion extension that’s been on the ta-ble since June, leading the Nuggets to engage in trade talks for their superstar forward who has led them to the playoffs in each of his seven seasons.

The All-Star fidgeted in his seat during media day yesterday and talked around questions concerning his future with the team.

“I’m here, man. I’m here today. Whatever the future holds, it holds,” Anthony said. “Practice starts to-morrow and we’ll go from there.”

Anthony arrived wearing his white, powder blue and gold uni-form. But just how much longer he may be donning that jersey didn’t get any clearer. He said he planned to be “committed 100 percent” when training camp begins today.

“There’s been a lot of specula-tion, a lot of rumors going on this summer about where I’m going to end up, the Nuggets want to trade me, I want to be traded,” Anthony said. “That’s for my team and front office to discuss. I’m here to focus on basketball and training camp.”

The Nuggets have been engaging in talks with teams interested in ac-quiring Anthony. A potential mega-deal with New Jersey hit a snag over the weekend, putting the Nuggets and Anthony in the awkward posi-

tion of being together with camp set to start.

The new management team of vice president of basketball opera-tions Masai Ujiri and president Josh Kroenke began entertaining offers for their star when he let the three-year, $65 million contract sit with-out his signature.

Asked if signing the extension still remained a possibility, Antho-ny said, “Right now, I’m leaving my options open.”

“At the end of the season, I’ll sit down with my team, sit down with the Nuggets, we’ll discuss it and go from there,” said Anthony, who showed up at the news conference wearing no shoes.

He also insisted he’s never re-quested a trade.

“I never once said that,” he said.When Ujiri came on board in late

August, he maintained that keeping Anthony in a Nuggets uniform for the long-term remained at the top of his to-do list. But he said Monday was the first time he and Anthony had spoken face to face.

Before that, they had only spoken by phone.

“Obviously, me and Melo have talked and he’s told me exactly how he feels. I’ve told him how I feel,” Ujiri said. “We’re going to continue talking about it.”

Ujiri wouldn’t say whether he’s still chatting with other teams about trades. Or if it remains a possibil-ity to hold onto Anthony and poten-

tially deal him at the trade deadline in February.

If the Nuggets don’t deal him by then, they risk losing him with-out compensation. By trading him away, they could get a young player in return plus draft picks and vet-erans with expiring contracts that would give them maneuverability after this season to reshape their roster.

“I’m not going to talk about time frames,” Ujiri said. “Melo is a Nug-get and I’m excited he’s here and we’ll go from there.”

On Monday morning, teammate J.R. Smith posted “He back!” on Twitter, along with a picture of An-thony in the locker room.

Smith remained hopeful that An-thony will stay his teammate for a while.

“I’m expecting him to be here. I’m expecting and hoping,” Smith said. “I talked to him a couple of days ago and he said he was going to be here today. He’s a man of his word so I wasn’t surprised when he showed up.

“A lot of hype going around ex-pecting him to leave, so it’s tough to watch ESPN every day and trying to see where everyone else is at.”

In chatting with Anthony, forward Kenyon Martin simply told him to keep his head up.

“He’s got enough people in his ear about basketball,” said Martin.

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Largest registration yet for SOSDirector: Eagle County University Program fully registered within 15 minutes

SOS Outreach, a Vail Valley based nonprofit commit-ted to getting youth outdoors while teaching life skills, held its annual Eagle County University winter pro-gram orientation last weekend at Berry Creek Middle School.

“It was our largest student turnout in the history of SOS,” said Dan Ben-Horin, a SOS Program Director. “The Eagle County University Program was fully reg-istered within the first 15 minutes.”

The orientation was held for all Eagle County stu-dents enrolled in the multi-year University program. To accommodate all the participants this year SOS held two days of orientation. On Saturday and Sunday SOS had 165 students register for University programs.

University is the most intensive program SOS pro-vides. It requires students to commit to a four-year pro-

gram, with each year offering an increased commitment to community service and personal growth. Students engage in year-round leadership training with a consis-tent adult mentor, take part in service learning and life skills workshops as well as participate in skiing, snow-boarding and/or summer wilderness experiences.

“It was awesome to see how important SOS is to this community. Judging by the people who signed up, this should be a very exciting season for the Sherpas and the whole SOS staff,” said Ryan Robinson, a SOS Pro-gram Coordinator.

Of the 165 slots in Eagle County’s University, 94 stu-dents are returning for their third, fourth, or fifth year with SOS Outreach. Another 25 graduates are return-ing as peer mentors to lead younger students through the SOS core value and service learning curriculum.

Aidan Crawford, a year two University participant, said “its fun to do SOS because I can help the com-munity and I like the community service they have this year.”

The weekend’s orientation was also a time for new University students to meet their mentors for the sea-son, as well as for existing participants and mentors to catch up.

Marco Parra, a year one University student said, “I’m really excited because I get five days of SOS and extra days to go with parents and friends,” out on the moun-tain.

SOS is expected to serve 3,600 winter participants this year, 500 in Eagle County.

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HERE’S “NOWHERE” DIRECTOR JUSTIN HOSTYNEK enjoying the entire Vilar Center to himself before the premiere of the new movie at Beaver Creek last week. “NowHere” is the latest from Absinthe Films, which has chosen the Vilar as the local venue to premiere their last few flicks. Glad to have you in town, Justin!

FROM LEFT is Tom Choate, organizer Raj Manickam and volunteer Janet Gaskell at last week’s 6th annual Steammaster charity golf tournament. Organized by SteamMaster Restoration & Cleaning LLC as a way to give back to the community and as a memorial to Kim Matthews, local resident who lost her battle with liver cancer in 2005, the annual golf tournament raises money for local non-profit organizations. This year’s proceeds will raise awareness and provide much needed funding to the Matthews Family Education Fund, Minturn Community Fund, Vail Symposium and Vail Valley Charitable Fund.

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from outside sources.While Polis also makes the rounds at parties in pri-

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The gap in spending is not the only reason members of the Bailey campaign paint the race as a “David vs.

Goliath,” scenario. The District 2 seat is one of the saf-est Democratic seats in the Colorado. The seat has been held by a Democrat since 1975, but Bailey hopes to capitalize on voter anger over Washington spending to take a victory this year.

Because he has not taken a socially conservative stance, Bailey will not necessarily alienate voters in Boulder, the largest community in District 2, Haedrich said.

“Polis can’t come after him on social issues,” she said. “He’s going to have to go after him on financial issues, and he’s got a lot of blood on his hands where that’s concerned.”

According to a press release from the Bailey cam-paign, four debates have been organized for late Sep-tember and October.

chain came off. So he had to pick up the bike and run with it cyclocross style for a little while. At that point, Ingrid Mid-daugh (Josiah’s wife) made sure he knew that a girl, Melanie McQuaid, the even-tual female winner, was beating him. If

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tecting the Blackhawk Park neighborhood in the town of Caledonia just southeast of Portage. The only road in was covered by nearly a foot of rust-colored water.

A few homes in the neighborhood’s low-lying areas were surrounded by water, but most of the houses stood on high ground and remained untouched yesterday af-ternoon.

Emergency workers asked people to leave on Sunday as the river began to rise after last week’s heavy rains overwhelmed rivers. About 75 of the neighborhood’s 300 residents chose to stay in their homes, however, said Columbia County Emergency Management direc-tor Pat Beghin.

George Blanda dead at 83George Blanda, who played longer than anyone in

pro football history and racked up the most points in a career that spanned four decades, mostly with the Chi-cago Bears and Oakland Raiders, died yesterday. He was 83.

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of the great George Blanda,” the Raiders said yesterday in confirm-ing his death. “George was a brave Raider and a close personal friend of Raiders owner Al Davis.” The Pro Football Hall of Fame said on its website that Blanda died after a brief illness.

Blanda retired a month shy of his 49th birthday be-fore the 1976 season. He spent 10 seasons with the Bears, part of one with the Baltimore Colts, seven with the Houston Oilers and his final nine with the Raiders.

General Jong-unNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il promoted Kim Jong

Un to the rank of general in the Korean People’s Army, the state news agency reported, the clearest signal yet that the younger Kim is on track to succeed his father in ruling the impoverished country.

Kim Jong Il issued an order handing six people - including son Kim Jong Un - the rank of general, the Korean Central News Agency reported in a dispatch published early today, though dated yesterday. Also promoted was Kim Kyong Hui, which is the name of Kim Jong Il’s sister. Her name was listed ahead of Kim Jong Un’s in the report.

The Korean-language report gave only the names of those promoted and did not offer any personal descrip-tions. However, it appeared highly likely that the peo-ple named are Kim’s son and sister given their names and the timing of the promotions hours ahead of the start of the country’s biggest political meeting in three decades and amid intense speculation they could also be given key posts at the gathering.

China accuses U.S. of chicken dumping

The group representing the nation’s chicken export-ers said U.S. producers did not sell their products at unfairly low prices in China and plans to appeal new tariffs imposed by China.

The Chinese government said Sunday that its investi-gation found that U.S. chicken products are being sold at low prices which undermine the local market. New import duties ranging from 50.3 percent to as much as 105.4 percent took effect yesterday and last for five years.

The USA Poultry & Egg Export Council said in a news release yesterday that the yearlong investigation, which culminated in the tariffs, was in retaliation for another trade dispute with the U.S.

Shares of chicken producers fell in afternoon trading yesterday.

Cheating at the FBIA Justice Department investigation has found that

FBI agents, including several supervisors, cheated on an important test covering the bureau’s policies for conducting surveillance on Americans.

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine said yesterday that his limited review of allegations that agents improperly took the open-book test together or had access to an answer sheet has turned up “signifi-cant abuses and cheating.”

Fine called on the bureau to discipline the agents, throw out the results and come up with a new test to see if FBI agents understand new rules allowing them to conduct surveillance and open files on Americans without evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said that in cases in which misconduct has been determined, personnel ac-tions were taken, and that process continues.

Mayor stoned to deathA small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned

to death yesterday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-Au-gust.

Michoacan state Attorney General Jesus Montejano said the bodies of Tancitaro Mayor Gustavo Sanchez and city adviser Rafael Equihua were discovered in a pickup truck abandoned on a dirt road near the city of Uruapan.

Montejano’s spokesman, Jonathan Arredondo, said initially that the victims were hacked to death with a machete, but the attorney general said they were killed with stones.

Arredondo said police were trying to determine a possible motive.

Good news for addictsThe company that gave us the BlackBerry - still the

dominant phone in corporate circles - thinks its busi-ness customers will have room in their briefcases for at least one more device: the PlayBook.

Research in Motion Ltd. showed off the tablet for the first time yesterday and is set to launch it early 2011, with an international rollout later in the year. With it RIM is betting on a smaller, lighter device than Ap-ple Inc.’s iPad, which kicked-started the tablet market

when it launched in April. The PlayBook will have a 7-inch screen, making it half the size of the iPad, and weigh about to the iPad’s. And unlike the iPad, it will have two cameras, front and back. RIM didn’t say what it would cost, but said it would be in the same range as the iPad, which starts at $499.

Gold is hotCustomers who step into the offices of Heritage West

Financial in San Diego always have favored gold as an investment on paper, a place to park their money. But in the past few years, Ralph Weston began to notice a change in his clients’ orders.

They wanted to take the 33-ounce blocks home with them. “I don’t know what they do with it,” said Weston, an analyst. “Do they use it as a doorstop or what?”

The price of gold keeps going up, setting records week after week. Gold prices climbed to another re-cord Friday, briefly touching $1,300 an ounce. Just two years ago, it was trading at about $900.

Low interest rates, a falling dollar and anxiety over holding government debt have prompted investors and central banks alike to buy the metal - something tan-gible instead of a promise.

Segway accident claims owner of Segway Co.

All police found at the bottom of a cliff was a man’s body in a frigid river and a Segway, the two-wheeled electric device that was supposed to revolutionize per-sonal transport.

It was Jimi Heselden, a one-time laid-off coal miner turned self-made millionaire who had bought the Seg-way company only 10 months earlier. He apparently fell to his death while riding one of the sleek black-and-silver scooters. Authorities said yesterday his body was found in the River Wharfe at the base of a 30-foot cliff.

Details remained sketchy — police say only that the death was not suspicious, meaning foul play is not sus-pected — but the incident seems certain to raise fresh questions about the safety of the Segway, which is banned on British motorways and in some U.S. cities because of safety concerns.

Los Angeles hits 113 (not Dodger batting average)

California’s blistering fall heat wave sent tempera-tures to an all-time record high of 113 degrees in down-town Los Angeles yesterday, and many sought refuge at the beach.

Downtown hit 113 degrees for a few minutes at about 12:15 p.m., breaking the old all-time record of 112 de-grees set on June 26, 1990, said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist at the National Weather Service office in Ox-nard. Temperature records for downtown date to 1877.

Electrical demand was much higher than normal for this time of year but no problems or shortages were ex-

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Obama pushes for longer school year

President Barack Obama says a longer school year would be a good idea, but state and local officials around the country say it’s easier said than done.

The mayor of Mesa, Ariz., Scott Smith, says, “It costs money to keep kids in school.”

And Kansas education commissioner Diane DeBack-er says a move to year-round schooling in a Topeka-area school failed after just one year, because students and their families didn’t want to give up their vacations.

Teachers’ unions say they’re open to the discussion of longer classroom time. But they say teacher salaries need to be part of the conversation.

Charlie’s bait-and-switchRepublicans aren’t giving up their quest for refunds

of donations they gave Gov. Charlie Crist’s U.S. Sen-ate campaign before he abandoned the GOP to run as an independent.

The attorney for two GOP donors said yesterday he will appeal a Naples judge’s denial last week of class-action status in the case. The ruling means each con-tributor to the Crist campaign would have to seek a refund through individual court action.

Some Republicans contend Crist should return at least $7.5 million given to his Senate bid before he left the GOP and became an independent last spring. Crist’s attorneys say donors have many reasons besides party affiliation to contribute money.

An appeals court in Tallahassee is being asked to pre-vent the Crist campaign from spending the money in question.

Would you really want his stuff hanging

on your wall?Watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler

are up for sale today, forcing a tiny auction house in southwest England to install multiple telephone lines to accommodate an expected crush of bidders from Canada to New Zealand.

The 21 watercolors and two sketches were found in a farmhouse in Belgium, not far from where Hitler — then an aspiring artist — was stationed in Flanders dur-ing World War I.

The anonymous owners of the works — mostly landscapes — had the paper tested to determine its age, confirmed the signature and matched landmarks in the paintings to sites where Hitler was posted, said Chris Walton, a spokesman for Jefferys Auctioneers at Lostwithiel in Cornwall.

California governor delays execution by 45 hours

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday delayed by nearly two days an execution that had been scheduled for Wednesday.

The delay means Albert Greenwood Brown is now scheduled to die by lethal injection at 9 p.m. Thursday, Corrections Department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. Brown initially was scheduled for execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

Surveillance satellite in orbit after Calif. launch

A new Space Based Surveillance satellite is orbiting Earth after a successful launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast.

Diana Bell—a spokeswoman for the satellite’s build-er Boeing—said Sunday it was a “picture-perfect” launch on a “beautiful” Saturday night for the Minotaur 4 rocket carrying the satellite.

Ball says the launch team was able to see the satellite for a long stretch on the warm, clear night.

A pair of Los Angeles television stations said they received several calls from viewers asking about the fireball they’d seen in the sky.

The satellite was designed to detect and monitor de-bris and space objects that could be a threat to national security and communications. It will be operated from Schriever Air Force Base, Colo.

Space vacations coming soon from Virgin GalacticRichard Branson, the billionaire owner of Virgin At-

lantic, announced yesterday his space tourism company could be ready for tourists in 18 months. Virgin Galac-tic has created an aircraft named Spaceship Two, which is designed to carry passengers into suborbital space.

“We just finished building SpaceShip Two. We are 18 months away from taking people into space,” Branson is quoted by Agency France Presse at a business con-ference in Kuala Lumpur.

Branson says the next project for the company, is to develop a space hotel.

Howard Stern is packing heat

A recent report lists stars who have concealed weap-ons permits in the ciy of New York. The list includes a range of celebrities like Howard Stern and Marc An-thony, Jennifer Lopez’s husband.

Also on the list is movie star Robert DeNiro, who may or may not have his pistol connected to an old typewriter slider.

George Lopez leaving wife; keeping kidney

A publicist says George Lopez and his wife are end-ing their 17-year marriage. The couple got attention when the comedian received a kidney from his wife.

A brief statement issued yesterday by publicist Ina Treciokas says the comedian and his wife Ann came to the decision together and the breakup will be ami-cable.

It did not offer further details, other than to say the pair would remain business partners in a charitable foundation.

Report: US would make Internet wiretaps easier

The Obama administration is pushing to make it eas-ier for the government to tap into internet and e-mail communications. But the plan has already drawn con-demnation from privacy groups, and communications firms may be wary of its costs and scope.

Frustrated by sophisticated and often encrypted phone and e-mail technologies, U.S. officials say that law enforcement needs to improve its ability to eaves-drop on conversations involving terrorism, crimes or other public safety issues.

Critics worry the changes are an unnecessary invasion of privacy and would only make citizens and businesses more vulnerable to identity theft and espionage.

Drew drops 70 poundsInspired by his young son, and scared by the early

death his father met, Drew Carey has lost weight; And a lot of it. He reports to be living life at its fullest, now that feels he is going to live past 60 years old. “The Price is Right” host is 52, and said he always felt like he would die before his 60th birthday. Carey has lost more than 70 pounds.

Ben & Jerry’s dropping ‘All Natural’

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is dropping the phrase “all natural” from all labels after a request from a health advocacy group.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest and the company confirmed the move yesterday. The CSPI told the company last month it should not use “all natural” if products contain alkalized cocoa, corn syrup, hydro-genated oil or other ingredients that are not natural.

Ben & Jerry’s, a unit of consumer products giant Uni-lever, said it’s not changing any recipes, just removing the label from all products. The Food & Drug Admin-istration has no formal definition for “natural.” But it won’t object to term as long as products do not contain added color, artificial flavors or synthetic substances.

Would your mother loan them money?

The state treasurer’s office is negotiating with banks for a short-term loan of about $5 billion to be issued im-mediately after a budget is signed, said spokesman Joe DeAnda. The short-term borrowing would be replaced with a longer-term loan of about $10 billion about a month after the budget takes effect, he said.

Without a budget, state Controller John Chiang said a lack of money may force the state to begin issuing IOUs early next month, as it did last year for just the second time since the Great Depression. He had esti-mated IOUs would begin in mid-September, but the government reported higher revenue and lower spend-ing in August than had been expected.

Budget negotiators are counting on that trend con-tinuing as they work to close the $19 billion gap. They have settled on about $7.5 billion in cuts, though aides would not say what programs would be affected.

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“Fish 101” on Friday will continue Sweet Basil’s focus on education and in-spiration, with Chef Paul Anders hosting a seminar on food source sustainability with hands-on insider chef tips for fish butchering and preparation at home.

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hours, because the department receives such a low vol-ume of calls during that time.

If implemented, this cut in services would mean an officer would be on-call during those hours instead of actively patrolling.

“He would have to sleep with his boots on,” Hoy said. Because El Jebel is so far from the Eagle Valley, where most of the department’s personnel are concen-trated, the officer on call would be among those who live in the area, or a bunkhouse would be used by of-ficers from farther away. If this system were used, Hoy said response times would be about ten minutes.

Hoy also said that he is “totally against” contracting out law enforcement to the nearby town of Basalt or to any other law enforcement agency.

Roderick O’Connor, the chief of police in Basalt, said that his department consistently collaborates with the Eagle County Sheriff’s Department, and that their forces would be able to mitigate the effects of a reduced presence in the early morning.

Hoy agreed that there was a strong, if informal, bond between the two groups.

“We watch out backs. It’s nothing in writing, it’s just a common cop practice,” Hoy said.

In an interview after the meeting, Gina Shaw, the of-fice manager for Blue Lake Homeowner’s Association, said she had heard directly from Hoy that he was be-ing pressured by the county commissioners to “farm out” law enforcement in El Jebel to the Basalt Police Department. When she heard this, Shaw said she was disappointed but not surprised.

“We are the forgotten red-headed stepchild of Eagle County,” she said.

When asked about this statement, both Hoy and Com-missioner Sarah Fisher said Shaw was misinformed. The idea of contracting out enforcement had been on the table, they said, but no pressure was applied to the Sheriff.

“We have never put the pressure on him,” Fisher said. “It’s his office, he has to make those decisions.”

Fisher is the only county commissioner running for re-election this year. Though she did not plan to speak, she spent about 15 minutes of the meeting discussing county funding issues with the audience. Her opponent, Claudia Alexander, was also present but did not speak or ask questions.

Overall, comments given to Hoy were positive. Many present said he had done an excellent job enforcing the law in the area, and that they were glad to learn that there would be no change.

Hoy’s opponent in the upcoming election, James Van Beek, was among those in attendance. In an interview after the meeting, he said Hoy had done a good job, but that he would have been even more open in establish-ing a line of communication between his office and the area of El Jebel.

He also said that he would formalize the “gentle-men’s agreement,” between the sheriff’s department and the Basalt Police Department.

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