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Volume 3, Number 37 | October 27, 2011

By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun

he Carbondale trustees tooktheir first step toward whatsome hope is a town-wide banon plastic bags but the ordi-

nance could prove to be less restrictive thanmost observers expected.

The trustees voted 5-1 to ban plasticcarry-out bags and charge a 20-cent fee onpaper bags at the town’s only grocery storeTuesday night, but exempted “thin filmbags derived from starch-based biodegrad-able polymers.”

Trustee John Hoffmann proposed thestarch-based bag exemption and said allow-ing such recyclable bags is preferable to ban-ning plastic bags altogether. He said it is away to “encourage the manufacture of aproduct that doesn’t choke the environment.”

The new ordinance won’t take effectuntil May.

Acting on a suggestion from the Com-munity Office of Resource Efficiency(CORE), Carbondale, Basalt and Aspen aredealing with ways to reduce the use of plas-tic carry-out bags for environmental reasons.

A previous public hearing on a bag banbrought out more supporters than oppo-nents but most of them stayed at home onTuesday night. Not so for four opponents,including Mary Boucher.

Boucher, who told the trustees she shopsfor a family of six, lugged in the plastic bagrecycling barrel from City Market to

demonstrate that bags bags can be recycled.She also had dozens of plastic bags hung onher arms and said that if the town charges20 cents per plastic bag (which was one op-tion under consideration), it would cost her$820 per year. “I use 20 bags, four times aweek,” she told The Sopris Sun during abreak in the action. She also called the no-tion of a ban “ridiculous.”

Joanne Teeple spoke against the pro-posed ordinance. She said a plastic bag banwill place a burden on pedestrians and thosewithout “transportation diversity.”

Liquor store owner Terry Kirk got upand told the trustees a plastic bag ban is“ …coming my way … that’s the goal.”

Jimmy Nadel, who owns a catering busi-ness, also opposed the ban and said if heswitched to reusable bags such as the canvasvariety, he risked cross contamination whenhe put tomatoes into a bag that previouslycarried chicken.

Later in the meeting, trustee JohnFoulkrod, a bag ban supporter, dismissed theidea that cross contamination is a major con-cern. “I’ve eatcn raw chicken out of dump-sters,” he said during a passionate discoursethat brought laughs from other trustees andthe audience alike. “We’re the worst con-sumers in the world,” he said at one point,“… where do recycled bags go? … recycling isa way for people to consume and feel goodabout it … .” He linked emphysema in chil-dren to plastic, pointed out that Colorado

Trustees vote 5-1to ban some bags

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The deadline to mail in election ballots is Oct. 27, but Carbondale residents can still dropthem off Carbondale Town Hall until 5 p.m. on Nov. 1. The 5 p.m. drop off deadline is forCarbondale only, according to the Roaring Fork RE-1 school district.Other drop off locations are as follows:

Garfield County residents, the office of clerk and recorder at the Garfield CountyCourthouse, 109 8th St., Glenwood Springs, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1;

Eagle County residents, the office of clerk and recorder, 20 El Jebel Road, El Jebel,8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1;

Pitkin County residents, Pitkin County office of clerk and recorder, 530 East Main St.Aspen, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1;Snowmass Village residents, town hall from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1.

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Fed upDear Editor:

I’m more than a little fed up with the no-tion that you only love and truly believe inyour community if you advocate its re-maining as it was in the 1960s.

Such is the bullying attitude of a smallbut well-orchestrated group of activists inCarbondale who, for years, have blockedany reasonable attempt to move our towninto the current millennium, simply becauseany advancement does not conform to theirnarrow view of “what’s right.”

By its definition, economic developmentis not a negative concept. In fact, by its char-ter, the Carbondale Economic DevelopmentPartnership is committed “To preserve ourcommunity culture, enrich Carbondale’sidentity and enhance the Town’s ability tocompete for sustainable economic opportu-nity.” Pretty scary, eh?

As our tax base erodes in comparison toour more progressive neighboring commu-nities, we’re beginning to lose our ability tomaintain both the basic infrastructure andthe amenities that make us a truly specialplace in the valley.

Let the more reasonable residents of Car-bondale move to the front of the line in urg-ing our council to approve measures that arevital to the current and ongoing success ofour community.

Al HigdonCarbondale

Consider the Lowe’s exampleDear Editor:

I read in the Denver Post last week thatLowe’s, the 103,000-square-foot anchorstore of the redeveloped Alameda ShoppingCenter at Federal and Alameda in Denverthat opened a mere 19 months ago, has justannounced that it’s closing the store.

No surprise, as this model of commercialdevelopment is a thing of the past, which isone of the many reasons why so many Car-bondale folks have been opposed to a bigbox, suburban-style shopping mall on theMarketplace (now Village at Crystal River)property. Sadly, there are still people herewho think we made a mistake by not wel-coming Home Depot a few short years ago.

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School Resource Officersshould not work with ICEBy Edgar Niebla

The Association of Students United in Action (AJUA in Spanish) was formed in 2010by Roaring Fork Valley students who decided to take on the issue of ICE/SRO collabora-tion after hearing reports from across the valley that School Resource Officers were con-ducting operations with ICE, and to provide a policy solution to the problem.

AJUA is a leading member organization of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition(CIRC),which has over 70 member organizations from throughout the state.CIRC’s mem-bers work with thousands of immigrants and refugees from across Colorado to ensurethat we are a welcoming state for new Americans. At no point does CIRC profit or pro-vide direct services to the community; instead,CIRC focuses on creating policies that allowall Coloradans to build safe and thriving communities.

The fact that School Resource Officers in the Roaring Fork Valley are cross-designatedto work with ICE is a serious problem for our community.AJUA believes strongly that thefear that immigrant youth live with every day should not extend to our schools, where wego to learn and to feel safe. When a young person sees a police officer in their school, heor she needs to be able to look at that officer as a resource, and not as the officer who con-ducts immigration raids in our community. The School Resource Officer is not just a po-liceman who happens to spend part of their day at the school; he or she must be an exampleto the students and therefore have a higher ethical code.

There are only a limited number of officers per department who have been cross-des-ignated to work as liaisons with ICE. These are not normal “police officers doing policework.” They are a select group of officers who have been trained to do immigration en-forcement. When that officer works with ICE, he or she is unable to maintain the trustthat the students place in them and that in turn erodes the welcoming environment that hasto exist in our schools.

The SRO program is an important resource and has already proven to be an effectivemechanism to create respect and understanding for law enforcement officers and the hardwork that they do to keep us safe.AJUA proposes, and CIRC endorses, the idea that sepa-rating SRO's from ICE will help that program regain the respect it deserves, and help manykids who are now afraid to become familiar with the SRO’s to use them as a resource.

Every member of the immigrant community takes crime and gang issues very seriously-- after all, criminals most often prey on the most vulnerable among us. There are manygang prevention training programs available for law enforcement officers, such as theGREAT program, which has nothing to do with ICE. AJUA is encouraging the police tolook into this and other programs as options for preventing gang activity, while preserv-ing the trust of all the students at the school, regardless of status.

The school board will be taking this issue up, and we hope that they make the right de-cision and require that School Resource Officers be separated from ICE. That is the bestway to regain the trust of the community, while simultaneously increasing the participa-tion of students and parents in the schools.

Edgar Niebla is a co-founder of AJUA and a CIRC board member representing theMountain Region.

Carbondale Commentary

CorrectionLast week’s Sopris Sun incorrectly

described the proposed “sharrows”(shared-use-lanes) on Main Street. Dar-ryl Fuller — chairman of the Carbon-dale Bicycle, Pedestrian and TrailsCommission — states:“Shared-use-lanemarkings invite cyclists to ride downthe center of the lane in either directionas if they were a car. By positioningthemselves in the middle of the lane, cy-clists can ride confidently, visibly andpredictably, and hopefully everyone canget to where they’re going in an efficientand safe manner. The so-called “shar-rows” (on-street markings consisting ofa silhouette of a bike followed by twochevron arrows) indicate that bikes areinvited to “take-the-lane” if needed.”

LETTERS page 11

By Katie MarshallSpecial to The Sopris Sun

Three generations are working togetheron a fundraiser for the Roaring Fork FamilyResource Centers.

The Halloween Happening (slated forBridges Center in Carbondale from 4 to 7p.m. on Oct. 28) is in its third year. Thisevent was created to fill a gap for parents ofyoung children looking for a fun, safe eventfor their little ones.

Originally Students for a Better World, agroup of sixth and seventh graders, createdgames for preschoolers and ran the carnivalgames. Now they are eighth and ninthgraders and still love to plan the games andget their families and friends to take part inthe fun.

Marc Bruell (Emily Bruell’s father) is theSleeping Troll where children creep up to himsleeping on a couch and try to steal an eggwithout waking him. Debbie Bruell (Emily’smother) will be busy face painting; Emily willblindfold children so they can guess what fla-vor of skittle they are eating. The kids makeup games they think will be fun for all.

Meanwhile, the RVR Loopers, a group of

local retirees, have been busy paintingspooky photography backdrops, makingwitches’-finger cookies and getting ready tosell popcorn donated by Ace Hardware.

Since you can’t have a Halloweenevent without a Haunted House, BridgesHigh School students are working ontransforming the locker room at the gyminto a Haunted Hall of Terror. Not tooscary, but just right, since they ask thegroups of kids at the door if they want it“scary” or “not scary?”

Usually the kids go for “not scary” thefirst time through and they come back andtry it “scary” the next time.

Pizza will be served along with Hal-loween food. A silent auction and profes-sional obstacle course top off the event andbest of all, money from ticket sales will go toa good cause, Roaring Fork Family ResourceCenters, which provides health and humanservices for local families and children.

TheBridgesCenter is located in theoldCar-bondale Middle School at 455 S.Third Street.

(KatieMarshall is Special EventsCoordinatorfor Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers).

By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

Just in time for the Carbondale trustees’Village at Crystal River discussion on Nov. 1,the town has posted the entire project’sdocuments and agreements on its Web site.

The seven documents, compiled bytown planner Janet Buck, are named: Sum-mary, Draft Development Agreement,Draft PUD, Architectural and Site DesignStandards and Guidelines, TVCR PUD-Sign Criteria, TVCR Application andTVCR Sustainability.

To access the documents, go to the town’sWeb site at www.carbondalegov.org; on theright side of the homepage below “Currenttopics” click on the heading “TVCR docu-ments.” That takes you to the planning andzoning page; at the bottom of that page is“The Village at Crystal River.”Click on thatand the whole project opens up.

The Village at Crystal River, proposed byDenver-developer Richard Schierburg, is amixed use development covering 24 acreson the west side of Highway 82 that callsfor up to 125,000-square-feet of commer-cial space (including 58,000 square feet fora grocery store), 15,000 square feet of of-fice space and up to 164 residential units.

Trustee John Foulkrod has recused him-self from discussions and voting due to apotential conflict of interest.

Much of the project’s meat can be foundin the 28 page Draft Development Agree-ment, which contains all the “whereas’s.”The phasing infrastructure schedule (exhibitD) is also in this section.

The“Sustainability”document is appar-ently new for Carbondale. Buck said “sus-tainability” can be broadly defined ashaving to do with solar orientation, energystandards,“green”considerations, the com-

munity garden, conservation and more.Recently, trustee Frosty Merriot said he

had a lot of questions about sustainability,which he planned to bring up at the Nov. 1trustee meeting. In response, town consult-ant Dan Richardson drafted a five pagememo that addresses 14 points from thesustainability document.Item No. 1 in the sustainability docu-

ment says, “The Applicant shall constructno less than 50% of all residential units tohave south facing glass that is equivalent toat least 7% but no more than 10 % of con-ditioned floor area. Employee units locatedon Area 4 shall not be required to meet thiscondition. The Applicant shall provide ade-quate glazing/floor area calculations withbuilding permit applications.The Town Of-ficial shall verify buildings were constructedas submitted prior to issuance of Certificateof Occupancy.”

In his memo to the town, Richardsonreplies, “This condition requires that theresidential units specified (50% employeeunits exempted) will be built to best prac-tice passive solar/‘sun-tempered’ design,widely considered to be a cost-effective en-ergy efficient design strategy in terms of oc-cupant lifecycle costs. Common rules ofthumb indicate this design approach will re-duce utility bills by 10%-30% by itself.”Item No. 4 states, “ … the new com-

mercial construction within Area 4 (gro-cery store) shall be constructed to EnergyStar Certified.”

Richardson’s memo states in part, “Thiscondition requires that the grocery store willbe built to Energy Star standards. EnergyStar standards are performance standardsthat allow flexibility in how performance isachieved, based on a score of 0-100. A min-imum of 75 is required for certification …

verification of this condition is dependentupon the credibility of the person complet-ing the Energy Star certification.”Item No. 7 states: “The Applicant shall

be required to install piping from the atticsof the commercial building to the mechan-ical room in order to allow the installationof solar in the future.”

Richardson states, “This condition willmake it easier to install solar hot water in thefuture if desired by the occupant … I wouldconsider this to be a best practice standard.”Item No. 8 states in part, “ … the Board

shall have authority to require than anurban farm be established on 25% of thepublic park. … The applicant shall provideirrigation, construct a garden shack and pro-vide tools at the time the park is improved.”

Richardson states in part, “ … I wouldconsider this to be above and beyond a bestpractice standard.”Item No. 12 states,“The Applicant shall

provide preferred parking for 5% of spacesfor alternative fuel vehicles.”

Richardson states in part, “I have notseen this implemented in our area and

would therefore consider this to be aboveand beyond best practice standard.”

Richardson’s overall comments state inpart, “If all the conditions above are met,the project would be above typical con-struction standards in terms of green build-ing quality. In order to put the minimumrequirements for energy efficiency … in per-spective … I offer the following:

“The Village at Crystal River buildingswould not be as energy efficient as: 1) com-parable grocery stores such as recently builtCub Foods,Whole Foods, Food Lion, Han-naford Supermarkets; or 2) or comparably-sized retail stores such as Walmart, Target,JC Penny, or many other large format retailstores; 3) or recently built buildings in thearea such as the Basalt Library, the Car-bondale Recreation Center, Rifle AlpineBank, the Third Street Center, and everyAspen Skiing building built in the last sev-eral years. However, they would likely bemore energy efficient than existing grocerystores and various comparable commercialdevelopments built in the area over the pastseveral years.”

VCR documents posted; trustees near a decision

Halloween Happeningbrings generations together

Matt Nieslanik helped bring cattle across town via Colorado Avenue last week. Heand the herd were headed to pastures east of town. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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Agon supporters present petitionSopris Sun Staff Report

Local resident Reyna Nevarez presented Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling with apetition with 165 names supporting community resource officer Alvaro Agon on Tuesday.

“I would like to greet you by way of this letter and also comment and put things in orderas far as Mr. Agon,” reads a letter accompanying the petition.

The short letter continues in part,“We are living with more security because he has beencollaborating to end delinquency. … He is a person that one can trust and as an officer tous he is only doing his job.”

The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and Asociacion de las Jovenes Unidos en Ac-cion (AJUA) have asked that Agon be removed from the schools due to his collaborationwith the federal Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

voters turned down a mandatory deposit on glass bottles several years ago, told the trusteesthe town has to make a step somewhere “to do better, ” made two or three other commentsthen as part of his concluding remarks picked up a pencil in front of him and said,“I don’tknow the carbon footprint of this pencil.”

Trustee Elizabeth Murphy spoke next and glancing at Foulkrod said, “I don’t know if Ican follow that.”

The night’s only bag-ban supporter, who identified himself as Evan, said a ban is good forthe environment and for people to shift to reusable bags is a “change in habit and lifestyle.”

After the public had their say and the trustees started their discussion, CORE spokesmanJason Haber said his group and the Carbondale Environmental Board looked at the poly-mer bags that Hoffmann suggested. When asked about whether the bags are actuallybiodegradable, he said,“They break down … when you put a gallon of milk in them.”

Mayor Stacey Bernot, who indicated she favors a town-wide ban on plastic bags and notone directed at the grocery store, voted against the ordinance.

Near the end of the discussion, Hoffmann said the ordinance is “a good first step.”The trustees agreed they’d continue to address the plastic bag issue and monitor the new

ordinance’s performance.

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Public Input Open House

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Mary Boucher borrowed the recycling barrel from City Market to demonstrate totrustees on Tuesday night that plastic bags can be recycled. Photo by Lynn Burton

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Immigrant rightsactivists rallyPhotos and story by Lynn Burton

An estimated 200-300 people filled the Orchard auditoriumfor a rally sponsored by the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coali-tion (CIRC) and the Association of Students United in Action onOct. 20.

The rally, brought on by the two groups’ opposition to localschool resource officers (police) collaborating with ICE, includedMaricela (no last name available), Ivonne Martinez and TeresaGarcia (to the left in the top photo) who gave accounts of ICEcoming to their homes; Ross Montessori School substituteteacher Anita Sherman (top photo, far right) told the crowd someof her students were afraid of a Carbondale school resource of-ficer after he helped with an ICE immigration raid.

The rally was peaceful and well organized. Headphones werepassed out at the door for those requiring translation to English.Silt-resident Bruno Kirchenwitz (far left) and another manshowed up wearing black T-shirts that said“Deport All Illegals.”A pair of private security guards (center) stood watch. Many inthe crowd (right) wore white and carried signs that said“No IceIn Schools.”

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Attorney Tom Adgate addressed the audience while community organizer Alex Alvarado asked for quiet.Adgate has filed a defamation of character lawsuit on behalf of Carbondale community resource officerAlvaro Agon over statements made about him in a press release from CIRC and AJUA.

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Local ink hits PostThe Denver Post published a guest com-

mentary by Bill Fales and Auden Schendleron Oct. 22. The topic? Proposed naturalgas drilling on Thompson Divide a fewmiles west of Carbondale.

Under the headline “We don’t need todrill it all,” Fales and Schendler point out

that Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennetasked the BLM to allow for more inputfrom stakeholders before the federal gov-ernment decides whether to permit drilling.

The column references the Oct. 8 rallyfor Thompson Divide in Carbondale andstates in part: “The assembled group ex-pressed fear of truck traffic … water con-

tamination from fracking fluid spills andpolluted air. Gas is temporary … butThompson Divide is forever.”

Items of noteThe Red Rock Diner now serves

espresso … the Goat is kicking in the Smil-ing Moose’s old stall out at the Cowen Cen-

ter … Elephant Revival thunders over fromNederland for a gig at PAC3 on Dec. 10 …City Market’s parking lot as black as ever,thanks to a new coat of paint … and in an-swer to the question that nobody seems tohave an answer for until right now – Day-light Savings Time begins Nov. 6 (and not“right around Halloween” as more thanone Sopris Sun informant speculated).

Win a trip to GlenwoodThe grand prize in History Colorado’s

“Share Your Story” Facebook photo andstory contest is an all-inclusive stay for fourin Glenwood Springs. The entry deadline isNov. 13. For details, go to www.face-book.com/HistoryColorado.

CMC launches radio stationColorado Mountain College is launch-

ing a student-powered, low-wattage radiostation based in Glenwood Springs. Housedbehind City Market, Radio CMC will offera training ground for students to preparethem for 21st century internships and jobswith radio stations in the valley and else-where, according to a press release. Once it’sup and running, Radio CMC will be heardworld-wide at www.RadioCMC.com.

They say it’s your birthdayBirthday greetings go out to: Ruth

“Ditty” Perry, Paul Hassel and RichardFuller (Oct. 28), Chuck Dorn (Oct. 30), andJustin Marshall and Jay Riley (Nov. 1).

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By Will GrandboisSopris Sun Correspondent

Bruce Randolph High School is betterknown as a model for educational reformthan an athletic powerhouse. When theRoaring Fork Rams took to their own fieldfor the first round of the 3A boy’s soccerplayoffs, however, they worried less aboutthe Denver school’s tip of the hat in the Stateof the Union, and more about the Grizzlies’10-4-1 record for the season.

The Rams record had improved to 9-5after a 7-0 slaughter against Coal Ridge onOct. 22. What the stats don’t show is Roar-ing Fork’s near-perfect record since CRMSstudent Tommy Adgate started playing inearly October. Adgate, coupled with theoriginal strong-but-young lineup includingSam Carpenter, Enrique Abarca and LaloClemente, fell to Glenwood Springs on Oct.6 but haven’t lost a game since.

Even so, when the first raindrops sentspectators scrambling for cover, Tuesday’s32-team first round was tied with a pointeach, and there were six and a half minutesleft in the first half. Sam Carpenter’s spiritswere apparently not dampened, and beforeall the umbrellas were open he’d turned anassist from Adgate into a lead the Ramswould keep for the rest of the game. Just be-fore the end of the half, Adgate boosted thelead to 3-1.

After a chilly break, the Grizzlies coun-tered with an elegant shot through RoaringFork’s defenses. It wasn’t enough. Though acouple of close calls on either side kept the

crowd on its feet, neither team made anothergoal before the whistle blew.The final score:3-2 Rams.

At the beginning of the season, coachAaron Anderson was cautiously optimistic.With such an underclassmen heavy team, hehoped for a state-ready team in the next cou-ple of years. As the last light was fading onthe heights above town, he didn’t even wantto talk about next year: “There’s no need towait for the future. We’re on it. We actuallyhave the skill.We have the drive, we’ve put in

a lot of hard work and we can get it done.”The boys travel to Colorado Springs on

October 29 for a game against ClassicalAcademy. Time and location were unavail-able at press time.

VolleyballThe soccer boys won’t be alone in Col-

orado Springs on Saturday. After falling toseveral of the area’s top teams at the begin-ning of the month, the volleyball girls gottheir groove back, squeaking by Aspen 3-2,

then stomping Grand Valley and Basalt 3-0each. Their resulting 15-4 record is justenough to put them in the playoffs.

Colorado Springs Christian will host thefirst round on Oct. 29, with Roaring Forktaking on Trinidad at 10:30 a.m. and Brushat 1:45 p.m.

FootballThough their loss to Cedaredge on Friday

dropped the Rams to 2-6 for the season, thegame was not without its moments for Roar-ing Fork. When the Bruins took the openingkickoff in second half and turned it into atouchdown, Trae Moxley countered with acatch and a 43-yard gain, dragging severalopponents with him for several yards. Tren-ton Reeds converted the distance into atouchdown, bringing the score back to amore manageable 27-19.

After the teams traded scores, a 10-pointgap didn’t stop coach Tory Jensen frompulling out all the stops. With just over aminute left in the game, receiver DakotahGrett turned a catch into a hook and lateral(aka “hook and ladder”), tossing the ball toTrenton Reeds and getting the Rams in close.

With Roaring Fork pressed for time,however, quarterback Clay Gross couldn’tquite connect with Johnny Nieslanik, and the41-31 score stuck.

Though the Rams won’t be followingtheir classmates to state, their season isn’tover. On Oct. 28 they’ll travel to Grand Val-ley, then play Aspen at home for their finalgame on Nov. 4.

Ram soccer boys nip Randolph, advance in playoffs

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THURSDAY Oct. 27ROTARY • The Mt. Sopris Rotary Clubmeets at Mi Casita every Thursday at noon.Today, the speaker will be Cynthia Meyers(wine specialist for Republic National Dis-tributing Company).

LIVE MUSIC • Bluesman Anders Osborneplays PAC3 in the Third Street Center at 8p.m. Osborne is a Grammy award winnerwho has been compared to Bob Dylan,Woody Guthrie, and Van Morrison. Helanded in New Orleans by taking the longway – trekking through Africa and Egypt,and working odd jobs to get to his next des-tination. Paste magazine says,“Osborne hasan impossibly great, soulful voice and thesongs to match.” His Alligator Recordsdebut,“American Patchwork,”is a collectionof soul-baring rock, blues and ballads. Manyof the songs deal with healing and redemp-tion, spirituality and acceptance. It is aboutrebuilding what has been destroyed, not onlya ravaged city, but also a hollow man. Info:www.pac3.com.

SWAN FINALE • The Embrey FamilyFoundation and the Carbondale Council onArts and Humanities close out SWANmonth with Valerie Haugen and “The Heal-ing Power of Art”at Thunder River Theatre.It’s free. The performance features TRTC’sAssociate Artistic Director Valerie Haugen.In a unique personal performance, Haugenwill share how art saves lives. “Art is notextra-curricular, it is essential to life.Art helpsus give meaning to the events of our lives,events both joyful and tragic.Theatre, poetry,literature ... allow us to grow ourselves as hu-

mans, to enlarge our humanity.Art has savedmy life on more than one occasion.” Hau-gen’s reading debuts passages, harrowingand hilarious, from an original perform-ance piece entitled “What Drips inSleep Against the Heart.” Cur-tain time is 7 p.m. The the-atre is located downtownat 67 Promenade.

THURS.-SUN.Oct. 27-30“INHERIT THEWIND” • ColoradoMountain College The-atre presents “Inherit theWind” at its Spring Valleycampus between GlenwoodSprings and Carbondale. Curtain time onOct. 27-29 is 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. mati-nee on Oct.30.Tickets are $15 for adults and$10 for students, seniors, staff and faculty andcan be reserved at svticketsales@col-oradomtn.edu or at the door. Info: 947-8177.

HALLOWEEN • The Roaring Fork FamilyResource Center is hosting its third annualHalloween Happening fundraiser at theBridges High School gym (Fourth and SoprisAvenue) from 4 to 7 p.m. There’ll be pump-kin bowling, seasonal stories, an obstaclecourse, costume contest, the not-too-spookyhall ofTERROR kids’ carnival games (prizes)plus food, and a silent auction.This commu-nity event is co-organized by Students for aBetter World and Bridges students, with thehelp of adult volunteers (including the RVRLoopers). Admission is free and volunteersare still needed. Info: 384-5689.

FRI.-SUN. Oct. 28-30GHOST WALK • The Frontier Historical

Society in Glenwood Springs con-cludes its 12th annual HistoricGhost Walk through Linwood (Pio-

neer) Cemetery on Oct. 28-30.Times vary. Tickets are $15.Info: 945-4448 or e-mail his-tory@rof.net.

FRIDAY Oct. 28MOVIES •The CrystalTheatrepresents “The Help” (PG-13) at7:30 p.m. Oct. 28-Nov. 3; “The

Guard” (R) at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 28-29 and “Sarah’s Key” (PG-13) at

5:15 p.m. Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

BEATLES TRIBUTE • The Crested Butte-based Beatles tribute band Doctor Robertperforms at Carnahan’s in the Dinkel Build-ing at 9:30 p.m. The band dresses in Ed Sul-livan-era suits and plays songs from everyBeatle’s album. Instrumental details includea Hofner violin bass made famous by PaulMcCartney and Epiphone Casino played byGeorge, Paul and John on every album start-ing with Rubber Soul, according to the band.

LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Workspresents Mile Markers.

FOOTBALL • RFHS travels to Grand Val-ley for a 7 p.m. game.

SATURDAY Oct. 29LIVE MUSIC • PAC3 throws a Halloweenparty with Euforquestra. Info: www.pac3.com.

LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works

presents E3 (jazz).

DRUMMING • Laurie Loeb offers a handdrumming workshop from 10 a.m. to 12:30p.m. at the Carbondale Community School.The fee is $35, with a $10 drum rentalcharge. Info: 963-2798.

SUNDAY Oct. 30POETRY • The Aspen Poetry Society hosts areading and Halloween celebration at theHotel Lenado from 6:30 to 9 p.m. There’llbe music from Tom Edman, and open micfor poets and readings from David Mason(Colorado’s Poet Laureate). Info: 379-2136.

TUESDAYNov. 1DIA DE LOS MUERTOS • Everyone is in-vited to help create a Dia de los Muertos alterfrom 7 to 9 p.m. at the Third Street CenterRound Room. Bring a candle, family photoor other relic in memory of a loved one toplace on the altar, which will be displayedthrough First Friday.

WEDNESDAYNov. 2DAY OFTHE DEAD • Thunder River The-atre Company and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’sFolklorico Dancers present the eighth annualEl Dia de lose Muertos celebration at 6 p.m.TRTC actors will also give readings.The eventis free. Info: www.thunderrivertheatre.com

ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary meetsat the firehouse Wednesdays at 7 a.m.

OPENMIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts open micnights at Rivers restaurant every Wednesdayfrom 8 to 10 p.m.

Community Calendar To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. Events takeplace in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the CommunityCalendar online at soprissun.com.

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Further OutTHURSDAYNov. 3SUN FUN • The Sopris Sun, Carbondale’snon-profit newspaper, throws a fund-raisingparty from 5 to 7 p.m. at Dos Gringos Burritosin La Fontana Plaza on Highway 133. There’llbe free food, cash bar and opportunity to sup-port community-based journalism.

STEVE’S GUITARS • Cheryl Wheeler playsSteve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building. Info onWheeler: www.cherylwheeler.com.

ART OPENING • Carbondale artists OliviaPevec and Jill Scher are included in the RedBrick Center for the Arts show “The Five Ele-

ments of Sculpture,”which opens with a recep-tion from 5 to 7 p.m. The center is located at110 E. Hallam St. in Aspen. Info: 429-2777.

FRIDAYNov. 4DAY OF THE DEAD • The CarbondaleCouncil on Arts and Humanities hosts a Dayof the Dead-inspired puppet and mask show atthe Third Street Center at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30p.m., plus an exhibit of altars, shrines and re-lated art. Info: 963-1680.

STEVE’S GUITARS • 4 - Steve Forbert playsSteve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building. Info:www.stevesforbert.com.

SATURDAYNov. 5STEVE’S GUITARS • Lisa Dancing-Light andPenny Nichols present a concert at Steve’s Gui-tars in the Dinkel Building at 8:30 p.m. Nicholswill perform songs from her new CD “Colorsof the Sun: the Early Songs of Jackson Browne”and songs from her previous recordings. Danc-ing-Light will perform songs from her recentlycompleted CD “Light Years.” Tickets are $15at the door or by reservation at 963-3304.Dancing-Light and Nichols also offer a vocalworkshop on Nov. 6. Info: 963-3330.

LIVE MUSIC • The Roaring Fork Valley Pin-

ups host their Rockabilly Ball at PAC3 at 9 p.m.Music will be provided by The Rhythm Get-ters. The Pinups will also be releasing their2012 calendar to benefit Colorado Animal Res-cue (CARE). Tickets are $10 at the door.

TASTEOF BASALT • The Basalt EducationalFoundation presents the 16th annual Taste ofBasalt at the Roaring Fork Club. The night in-cludes food, drinks, dancing to Milemarkersand a raffle. Tickets are $85 per person/$160per couple in advance at Midland Show orwww.tasteofbasalt.com. Sponsors includeAlpine Bank and American Family Insurance.

OngoingTEENPHOTOSHOW • The Gordon CooperLibrary presents a photo show from local teensbased on their favorite book titles.

MAYOR’S COFFEEHOUR • Chat with Car-bondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdaysfrom 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy, locatedat 26 S. Third St.

FREEDANCE LESSONS • Crystal River Bal-let School is offering a free contemporary jazzworkshop for ages 7 and up at Bridges HighSchool Wednesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. throughOctober. Info: 704-0114.

CCAH • As part of SWAN month activities,the Carbondale Council on Arts and Human-ities presents“United We Art: New Work from42 Contemporary Women”at the Third StreetCenter. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Fri-day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info: 963-1680.

LYLA GOLDSTEIN • S.A.W. presents newwork by ceramist Lyla Goldstein. S.A.W. is lo-cated at 978 Euclid Ave., and the hours are 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or byappointment. Info: 963-0201.

ART SHOW • The Redstone Art Center pres-ents Western landscape watercolor artist KurtIsgreen through October. Info: 963-3790.

PHOTO SHOW • The Colorado MountainCollege Gallery in downtown GlenwoodSprings presents the photographs of CMCgraduate Elizabeth Moreno through Nov. 29.

GLENWOOD ART CENTER • The Glen-wood Art Center presents “Evolution ofFlight”with the works of more than 50 artists.Info: 945-2414.

TEXTILE ARTS • The Carbondale Councilon Arts and Humanities’ School of Textile Artsoffers classes in sewing, block printing, batikand more through Nov. 4. Class costs vary.Info: 963-1680 or www.carbondalearts.com.

GORDON COOPER • The Gordon CooperLibrary presents activities for kids from kinder-garten through fifth grade from 4 to 5 p.m. onTuesdays, and toddler and infant story time onThursdays at 10:30 a.m. Info: 963-2889.

BOOK CLUB • The Senior Matters Book

Club meets the third Tuesday of the month atthe Third Street Center from 11 a.m. to 1:30p.m. Info: 945-7094.

BLOOD DRIVE • Valley View Hospital inGlenwood Springs holds its monthly blooddrives from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the third Tuesdayof the month. Info: 384-6657.

CONVERSATIONCIRCLES • Literacy Out-reach holds conversation circles for non-Eng-lish speakers to practice their English at theGordon Cooper Library Mondays from 2 to3:30 p.m. and Fridays from 10 to 1 a.m. Vol-unteers are needed. Info: 945-5282.

LINX NETWORKING • The Linx network-ing group meets each Tuesday morning at 7:15a.m. at the Chaffin and Light Real Estate of-fice in downtown Basalt. Linx is a business net-working organization whose members worktogether to grow and promote their businesses.All dues not used for administration are givento local charities each December. Info: Keith at(970) 390-8401.

GORDON COOPER • The Gordon Cooper

Branch Library offers numerous activities forkids from kindergarten through fifth gradeTuesdays from 4 to 5 p.m.The activities rotate.Info: 963-2889. New Toddler and Infant StoryTime takes place Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP • Pathfindersholds its support group at the Third Street Cen-ter the fourth Tuesday of every month. Info:Elizabeth Miller at 925-7792.

KIDS • Weekly winter activity for 0-4 year olds(physical movement, games, obstacle course,climbing wall, bubble and more) is offered atBridges High School from 10:30 a.m. to noonon Tuesday all winter. The fee is $12 per fam-ily. Info: 977-0109.

AL-ANONMEETS • Al-Anon for friends andfamilies of alcoholics meets at the OrchardTuesdays. Info: 963-8773.

GRIEF GROUP • Hospice of the Valley, inpartnership with Grand River Hospital, is of-fering an ongoing Grief and Loss SupportGroup that meets the first and third Mondayof every month. Info: 544-1574.

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Community BriefsDia de los Muertos seeks artists

The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities is ac-cepting work for a gallery show honoring Dia de los Muer-tos. Altars, sculpture and visual works will be included.

Works must be dropped off at CCAH in the Third StreetCenter on Nov. 1. For details, call 963-1680. The showcontinues through November.

Dia de los Muertos is a three-day Mexican festival in

which families pay their respects to loved ones whohave died.

Parent/teacher conferences slatedThe Roaring Fork School District holds parent/teacher

conferences Nov. 10-11 at all schools in Basalt, Carbon-dale and Glenwood Springs. For details, call 384-6004 orgo to www.rfsd.org.

Medical pot and schoolsThe Roaring Fork School District, Youth Zone and the

Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association present adiscussion on how medical marijuana is impacting kidsfrom 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 at the Glenwood SpringsCommunity Center.

Teen Book Circle startedThe Gordon Cooper Library has started a Teen Book

Circle. Participants will read and discuss a different literarygenre each month. For details, call 963-2889.

English in Action receives matching grantEnglish in Action has received a $5,000 grant from the

Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. The grant includes a$2,500 matching component, according to a press release.English in Action’s primary service is a one-on-one tutor-ing program, where volunteer community members meetwith students for an hour a week. For details, go towww.englishinaction.org.

Exhibit seeks artistsThe Glenwood Springs Art Center is accepting entries

for its 20th annual Winterfest Artful Gift exhibit, whichruns Nov. 9 through Jan. 3. Artwork will be accepted onNov. 3. For details, call 945-2414.

Little kids on big horses were the order of the day at the 10th annual Harvest Party at Rock Bottom Ranch onOct. 22. Kids also got to carve pumpkins (under parental supervision), tour the grounds, observe chickens andpigs, and pet the goats. The Hell Roaring String Band provided musical entertainment in the ranch’s pole barn.Rock Bottom Ranch is located between Carbondale and El Jebel, and is part of the Aspen Center for Environ-mental Studies. Photo by Lynn Burton

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Our trustees are once again about toapprove or deny another of these dinosaurdevelopments, albeit a smaller version thistime around. We, the public, are beingasked to pay for the developer’s infra-structure improvements through a PIF (i.e.tax) on all purchases made there (groceriesincluded), travel farther (more likely bycar) to a 20 percent larger City Market tobe located at the northern end of the prop-erty, approve a pad for another bank, an-other gas station, and a drive-throughrestaurant, and maybe some day more res-idential units and maybe more commercialand maybe, maybe, maybe who knowswhat else in the vague future of this devel-opment proposal?

What is sure, however, is that this devel-oper is unwilling to incorporate any re-newable energy production, or varioussustainability and design elements to setthis project above and beyond all the otherhomogenized, anywhere U.S.A. shoppingmalls that have killed so many downtownsmall independent businesses around thecountry. What a waste of a golden oppor-tunity to develop that property in a fashion

that truly reflects Carbondale’s commit-ment to natural beauty, uniqueness, thearts, sustainable development and renew-able energy, a development that could be afeather in the hat of the town and a for-ward-thinking developer, if done well. Butthis one sure doesn’t look any better thanwhat’s been presented in the past.

I urge all concerned residents of ourbeloved town to show up at the trusteemeeting on Nov. 1, which might be the finalpublic hearing on this proposal, and de-mand that this development be put beforea vote of the people!

Laurie LoebCarbondale

Disappointed with CMC(Editor’s note: This letter was sent to theColorado Mountain College board andpresident).Dear Editor:

It is with great disappointment that Ihear CMC is not providing a space for theCMC Art Share Gallery in the new districtoffice. This is a tragedy; a slap in the face;a degradation of the arts at the community

level.The Art Share Gallery is the only trulyprofessional honoring of fine arts thatCMC has offered to those of us in the artsand patrons of the arts.

What are you thinking? The arts arenecessary for joy and beauty and creativityand they support all the other subjects ineducation in ways that nothing else can.This act will demoralize your fine-arts staffand students, whereas the continued exhi-bition of art will continue to lift the spiritsand morale of all.

I urge you to rethink this shortsighteddecision as it will not serve CMC or ourcommunity in the future.

Wewer Keohane, Ph.DCarbondale

Vote yes on 3E –A kid’s perspectiveDear Editor:

I’m too young to vote but not too youngto create an awareness. My name is EmilyAdams; I am 12 years old and a seventhgrader at Basalt Middle School. I wouldlike to express the importance of art, music,team sports and field trips in our schools. Ihave put together a series of photos andwords titled “If you give a kid…” and cre-ated a Web site to share the importance anda way to express to voting citizens why theyshould vote yes on 3E.

My Web site is titled“Just Emily I”a kidmaking a difference step by step. Pleasevisit me at www.justemilyi.com and you'llsee why to vote yes on 3E.

To all of you that can vote, just imaginethe difference you can make in our schoolsand community by voting yes!

Thanks so much.Emily AdamsBasalt

Vote yes on 3EDear Editor:

For the past nine years I have workedtoward making positive changes in theRoaring Fork School District. As a parentvolunteer, grant writer and school boardmember, my perspective and vision have re-mained the same: Public schools are theheart of every community and the key toour nation’s future; our children and ourcommunities are incredibly fortunate tohave the outstanding teachers and out-standing schools that we have here in theRoaring Fork School District; there are nu-merous ways we could be drawing on ourdistrict’s strengths to provide an even bettereducation for our children.

It is for these same reasons that I urgeeveryone to vote yes on 3E. Our schoolsneed adequate funding in order to maintainthe high quality of education we provideand to make our schools stronger.

Voting against the mill levy will notmake improvements happen. Votingagainst the mill levy will mean more cuts inthe coming years. It will mean the loss ofteachers, larger class sizes and out-datedmaterials. Voting no will make it more dif-ficult to make improvements to our district.Voting no will shortchange our childrenand our communities.

Over the years, many of the issues I haveraised and the votes I have cast have beenquite controversial. Ballot initiative 3E isseparate from those issues. Whatever otherchanges we may desire for our district, 3Eis critical to the education of our children.Please vote yes on 3E and keep working tomake our district the best it can be.

Debbie BruellRFSD School Board memberCarbondale

Berit Daniels of Carbondale rollerblades to get into shape for cross-country skiingon the Rio Grande Trail near Aspen Glen. That’s the Prince Creek drainage in thedistant shadows behind her. Photo by Julie Albrecht

Legal NoticeNOTICE OF BUDGET

Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget hasbeen submitted to the Town of Carbondale Board ofTrustees for the ensuing year of 2012; that a copy ofsuch proposed budget has been filed in the office ofthe Town Clerk at Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue,Carbondale, Colorado, where same is open for pub-lic inspection; that such proposed budget will be con-sidered for adoption at a regular meeting of theBoard of Trustees to be held at Carbondale TownHall on November 29, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.

Any interested elector within the Town of Carbondalemay inspect the proposed budget and file any ob-jections thereto at any time prior to the final adoptionof the budget.

Town of CarbondaleBy:___________________Jay Harrington, Town Manager

Date: 10/14/2011

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In the 1980s I spent the vast majority of my pre-teenyears bopping out to Cindy Lauper, trying to decide if Iliked Pepsi or Coca Cola better, and popping throughmogul fields on straight-edged skis. If not slightly abnor-mal, I was, for a kid growing up in Colorado and Wash-ington, kind of typical, with one exception:each summer my family would load up intoan Airstream and head out to central Ore-gon where my dad was doing field work.

He was, is, and probably always will bea rock-licking, andesite dating, beer drink-ing geologist. A volcanologist to be exact.And while his field work has taken him allover the world from Alaska to the Philip-pines, I spent most of the ’80s carryingpieces of pumice for him, puking up tunafish sandwiches on Crater Lake and in cin-der cones, and just generally getting com-pletely covered in dust, dirt and ash.

Like most things in life, I didn’t knowhow atypical and rad I actually had it untilthe 1980s became the 1990s and I transformed into agrunge-infused teenager rocking out to Alice In Chains.While there is nothing particularly wrong with grunge in-fusion, rad is just better.

As chance would have it, I landed in Chiloquin, Ore-gon this October as a Writer in Residence at the localhigh school.

Chiloquin is smack dab on a reservation that is nolonger a reservation. A place with a long history of havingwounds just start to scab up before they get ripped off again(kind of like a bad string of mountain biking wipe-outs,only for decades instead of weeks). A place just south ofwhere I used to spend most of my summers as a kid.A placethat could generally use less grunge infusion and more rad.A place where I can’t help but reminisce about those un-

fettered and unfledged days of childhood.I guess we all have those places: farms, backwoods,

mountains, oceans, lakes, and rivers that remind us abouthow lucky we are. My refuge here, from both not quite fit-ting into the community and in order to re-center, has been

Crater Lake National Park. As the numberof days I have spent in the park have in-creased, my comfort levels in the area havegone up. No matter how tough, stressful,good, or bad of a day I’ve had at the school,I can always slip into the park and com-pletely disappear into the trees or up a trail.Life is better in the trees.

Trails generally lead us to beautiful places.Plus I don’t have to worry about being shotat during hunting season in a national park.

One of the general half-formed, crack-pot, high-noon theories I’ve been thinkingabout recently is how every adult needssome sort of playground. That our refugesoften coincide with where we play is no co-

incidence. Neither is it coincidence that we often are foundplaying in our refuges.This type of tree climbing, cow rop-ing, cloud surfing happiness is essential to our well beingand all too often we decide we don’t need or deserve thiskind of freedom.

That is not to say work is bad. Once back from my ex-cursion to Crater Lake National Park yesterday I beganan article for a magazine, went to the Klamath Dam re-moval open house at the library, and then met up with awriting colleague to suss out the finer points of the writinglife. More than anything, all of this is just to say, likeWilliam Carlos Williams once did, that sometimes youhave to eat the plums. Or as Chiloquin has taught me overand over again: sometimes you have to give up the grungeand just go for the rad.

Giving up grunge; going for the rad

TailgateBy Cameron Scott

Some Rivers“Each day goes by, the current boiling around the rockyou have made of your life.” – Michael Delp

Each day goes by, the current boiling around the rockyou have made of your life.

Every river is different, but not your rock.

Your rock is always the same. Char hide behind you.

Moss forms on the side that sees the least amountof sun.

Sometimes ferns begin to grow on you.

Sometimes a tree.

Some rivers try to bury you. Some rivers undercut you.

Some rivers attempt to scrim you away.

Some leave algaeic slime. Some leave angelic kisses.

Open the floodgates! Let loose the barges!

Your life is a rock that will never move!

Your life is a rock that must move!

Your life is a rock the size of a fist.

Your life is a rock the size of seventeen cedars.

You can argue with a river about your rock.

If you want to argue it will be like jumper cablesconnected to two dead batteries.

Your rock needs to be prepared for anythingand everything.

Some rivers will try to run through you.But you are a rock.

You are a rock and don’t say much.Some rivers push and push and push against you.You will make them sing.

– Cameron Scott