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Volume 3, Number 20 | June 30, 2011

Kate Oldham (center) was one of several young pianists who took part in a recital at Steve’s Guitars to help wrap up the Sopris Music Fest on Sunday. MarilynLindquist (left) sang vocal backup for two of Kate’s pieces. Kate’s piano teacher, Elizabeth Gauger, is on the right. For more Sopris Music Fest photos, please turn topage 15. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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Bike race workedDear Editor:

I brought my family to Carbondalespecifically to watch the criterium race lastSaturday. It was a blast.

I am a business owner within theperimeter of this race, and though I don’trely on walk-in business like some of thefolks who are complaining about this race,I will share a couple of thoughts.

I noticed that the streets were almostcompletely devoid of cars. What a greatthing. My boys and I took advantage of itby riding our bikes within the safe-zonecreated by the race. By contrast, if you rideyour bike within 15 feet of one of the Val-ley Cruisers’ cars, you will get a stern ad-monishment. Those guys are overtlynon-bike-friendly.

By my estimation there were far morepeople out on Main Street than on a normalSaturday. How does this NOT turn into in-creased business? If this type of event is em-braced by the business community andmarketed properly, there should be nothingbut benefits for downtown businesses.

It’s true that business is slow in down-town Carbondale, and not just when there’s

a bike race. I see many empty storefronts,and it is very disconcerting. But we don’tneed to point fingers. Most of the blamecan be laid squarely on the fact that we’rein a major recession.

Have you disgruntled business ownersconsidered that this race brings in a wholenew crowd of people that would not nor-mally have been in town? Do you see theopportunity to market your business to anew clientele? It seems that many of youare already convinced that a street closureis going to hurt your business. I know forcertain that if you close your doors, youwill get no business at all, you will get nomarketing, and in my opinion, you can’t re-ally complain. If you were open and youhad slow business that day, I’m listening.

Watching pro cyclists speeding aroundour streets was a true pleasure for so manyof us. Great job by the Omnium organizersand Aloha Mountain Cyclery, and thanksto Jeff Dahl at Carbondale Beer Works. Wespent $60 there instead of eating peanutbutter sandwiches at home.

I believe that in a town like Carbondale,bikes mean business. I will be lobbying hardto have this race return next year, and will

make sure that all of my friends and associ-ates know about it. We will have anothermuch bigger cycling event in the valley inAugust with the USA Pro Cycling Chal-lenge. (The challenge for Carbondale beinghow to capitalize on it). Put it on your radarand get ready. It’s going to be a huge influxof affluent, educated potential clients.

Oh, and I should mention that when Irequested my first street closure for anevent, it was summarily rejected by thetrustees. Thanks a lot, people. There aresome of us out here who are OK with streetclosures, and I, for one, will be requestinglots more of them.

Steven NovyCarbondale

Bring back the car showDear Editor:

When the town ran out the car showand opted for the bike race, most everyonein town that I spoke to were disappointedthat that particular event was run off. Itwas clear to the majority that the car showbrought in a lot of people, most of whomhung out on Main Street for the majorityof the day looking at cars, listening to themusic and spending their money at local es-tablishments. It would be nice if a few ofthe outspoken people in town could take aback seat to what the town could really use.

Jon Nell ReedsCarbondale

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SG Interests has history of responsible developmentBy Robbie Guinn

SG Interests has a long history of developing natural gas resources in Colorado in anenvironmentally responsible manner. Prior to selling natural gas properties in the SanJuan Basin in 2005, SG was consistently ranked as one of the top natural gas produc-ers in Colorado. And since SG acquired its first lease in Gunnison County in 2000, SGhas been working to bring more clean-burning natural gas to market. We are confidentthat the Thompson Creek area also holds significant natural gas resources and we candevelop those resources while protecting natural values.

Protecting the landscapes, clean air and water, and abundant wildlife is important toSG, and our employees take very seriously their charge to protect these values, whichmake Colorado so special. This commitment to the environment is one reason SG hasasked the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to create a federal unit encompassingSG’s valid existing leases in the Thompson Creek area in Garfield and Pitkin counties.

An alternative development scenario would be for SG to drill a well on each lease thathas been included in the proposed Lake Ridge unit. This approach could result in moreimpacts than the federal unitization process.

SG is not the first operator to explore the oil and gas resources in this area, and wellpads and roads exist from previous attempts and from existing gas production and stor-age, and from historic coal mining exploration. SG hopes to be able to use some of thisexisting infrastructure as we move forward to minimize impacts and leave as little traceof our activities as possible.

Creating the federal unit will help to ensure that environmental impacts are mini-mized. Unitization begins a coordinated process for exploration and potential futuredevelopment that requires significant planning and engineering. This process is the bestway to make sure that impacts are minimized and development proceeds in a well-planned and orderly manner.

In no way does the unitization process short-circuit any federal requirements for gas ex-ploration and development on public lands.The BLM and/or Forest Service will still haveto fully comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (and all other environmentallaws) and conduct a full and rigorous analysis of all applications to drill wells.The publicwill be invited to provide comments as in any federal land management decision.

Robbie Guinn is vice president (land) for SG Interests Houston, Texas.

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Community should oppose Divide proposalBy Peter Hart

The Thompson Divide, southwest of Carbondale, has lived under the threat of natu-ral gas drilling for years. That threat is suddenly very real.

Last month, the biggest leaseholder in the area, Houston-based SG Interests, filed aproposal with the Bureau of Land Management for an exploratory unit on 32,000 acresin the heart of the Thompson Divide. The unit agreement would “unitize,” or group, 18leases on federal lands stretching from Sunlight Peak to Coal Basin. It amounts to a long-term development plan.

The proposed unit poses a major threat to the 220,000-acre landscape that theThomp-son Divide Coalition is campaigning to permanently protect from energy development.That effort has received nearly unanimous community support since it formally launchedin 2009. The entire community should unite now in opposition to this proposal.

The Thompson Divide holds extraordinary value to local communities. It contains theSki Sunlight and Spring Gulch ski areas, extensive snowmobiling terrain accessed via Mar-ion Gulch, rock and ice climbing crags, mountain bike trails, and two of the best huntingunits in Colorado. It provides summer range for livestock operators – ensuring workingranches on our valley floors aren’t subdivided – and clean water for domestic and agri-cultural users.

Now SG Interests’ unit proposal threatens everything the Thompson Divide Coalitionhas worked for.

The company, which is facing 2013 expiration dates on most of its leases, is attempt-ing to use a backdoor process to extend its development rights indefinitely. It acquired theleases for an average of $2 an acre, with 10 years to develop. Now, knowing that it can’tget approvals to drill all of its leases in two years, it’s trying to hold on to them with theleast possible investment.

Especially troubling is that 13 of the 18 leases in the proposed unit overlay theThomp-son Creek Roadless Area. Because these so-called gap leases were issued after implemen-tation of the 2001 Roadless Rule, they should contain prohibitions against road-buildingwithin roadless areas, but they don’t.

SG Interests’ unit proposal concerns leases of dubious legality, in an area the commu-nity agrees should be protected, and (unless we can change it) the process is being con-ducted outside of public view.

In the coming weeks, the Wilderness Workshop will work through bureaucratic chan-nels to challenge this proposal.At the same time, federal land managers and our membersof Congress need to hear citizens demand a formal public review process of the proposal.

Peter Hart is staff attorney for the Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop.

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Food independence, food sovereignty,food security. Those terms are being heardmore frequently in a world of rising foodprices, high fuel costs, climate change andhealth concerns, according CarbondaleCommunity Food Cooperative board pres-ident Laurie Loeb.

To help deal with the aforementionedissues – plus offer locally grown fruits,vegetables and meats – the co-op haslaunched its “Declare Your Food Inde-pendence!” membership drive through themonth of July.

The drive’s goal, said board memberAllyn Harvey, is to raise enough money forthe co-op to expand its 450-square-footstorefront in downtown Carbondale – lo-cated just west of the Dinkel Building (andbehind the Buddha statue that kids love tocrawl all over in the summer).

Among the benefits of becoming a co-opmember: weekend discounts, greater dis-counts on special and bulk orders, the op-portunity to work at the co-op in exchangefor 25 percent off shelf prices, a vote inboard elections and a say in what the storecarries on its shelves.

Store manager Avtar Perreault stressedthat non-members are always welcome toshop the store, and as the summer continuesit will be stocking such produce as cherries,peaches and even later on Red McClure po-tatoes “if enough people grow them.”

The co-op started as an organizedbuyer’s club in response to a need to makehealthy, affordable organic food availablein Carbondale, according to the group’sWeb site.

In 2007 the CCFC began selling mem-berships to build equity towards opening a

natural food store.In 2010, gross sales exceeded $400,000

– approaching $1,000 per square foot.“We’re a year-round, seven-day-a-week

farmer’s market in many respects,” saidPerreault.

In all, the co-op at various times of theyear helps to support 14 Western Slopefarms and food producers, including:

• Osage Gardens, a family farm locatednear New Castle, growing certified or-ganic culinary herbs, produce and eggssince 1992;

• Big B’s Organics in Hotchkiss;• Avalanche Cheese Company in Paonia;• Sustainable Settings in Carbondale;• High Wire Ranch southeast of Grand

Junction.With all those suppliers and a growing

demand, the co-op suffers from limitedshelf space for inventory and back stock,and lacks amenities such as office space, areceiving area for shipments, an area forpeople to consult catalogs from which toplace special orders and a gathering placefor educational events.

“So the co-op is now seeking to doubleits size to offer a broader range of healthy,organic and sustainable foods and house-hold products,” Harvey said.

Memberships in the Carbondale Com-munity Food Co-op are $200 for an indi-vidual or $250 for a family; after the firstyear of membership, annual dues are $25.

“One of the best ways to support localproducers and consumers is by joining the

co-op,” Harvey said.“It might seem expen-sive, but the benefits are real, both for theindividual member who gets a meaningfuldiscount, and to the broader community,which gets a natural food grocery right intown. We invite everybody who isn’t amember to consider becoming one.”

Membership forms are available in theco-op’s brochure, which is available at thestore (located at 559 Main Street). Thehours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdayand noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. The tele-phone number is 963-1375 and the Website is carbondalecommunityfoodcoop.org.

Getting back to the quality side of theco-op equation, Harvey said produce gen-erally offered in supermarkets is usuallyharvested many days or even weeks beforematurity, then stored and shipped. “Thatdiminishes both nutritional value and fla-vor by the time it reaches the consumer,”he


Watch out for renegades up and downMain Street on the Fourth of July.

The individuals in question comprise theCarbondale Renegade Marching Band,which makes its debut at 4 p.m. in theFourth of July parade.

“This year’s parade is bigger than everwith the debut of the Carbondale Rene-gade Marching Band and great prizes forfloats and groups,” said Carbondale Coun-cil on Arts and Humanities spokeswomanAmy Kimberly.

The parade is open to folks of all ageswith prizes awarded for Most Patriotic,Most Environmental, Best Animal, MostCreative and Best Wheels. Paraders willmeet in front of KDNK on Second Streetby 3:45 p.m. to line up for the parade.

This year’s Independence Day celebra-tion is called “Boogie in Bonedale” and is

sponsored by CCAH, the town of Carbon-dale and Moms for Moms Communities.

Festivities kick off with the parade onMain Street, followed by live music, foodand free watermelon, chalk art and gamesin Sopris Park.

Halia Franzich will sing the Star Span-gled Banner at 4:30 p.m. followed by theC’Dale Starlettes and the InterdependenceDaze, an all-star group of local musiciansfronted by some of the best women singersin the valley.

The singers include: Ananda Banc,Olivia Pevec, Megan Goodwin and ShantiGruber. They are backed by Chris Bank,Tim Fox, Matteo Sandate, Aaron Taylorand others. Most of their songs are Mo-town and soul influenced.

“It should be rockin,” Kimberly said.“Many of these folks are also involved inthe Carbondale Renegade Marching Band.”

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Boogie in Bonedale: July 4

Susie Jimenez(pointing at theTV) threw a partyat the CarbondaleBeer Works Sun-day night to watchan airing of “TheNext Food Net-work Star.” Whydid Susie throwthe party? Becauseshe’s on the show.Jimenez, who livesin Swiss Villagebetween Carbon-dale and Redstoneand owns Spice ItUp catering, is oneof seven contest-ants vying to wina show of theirown on the FoodNetwork. Theshow airs Sundaysat 7 p.m. and yes,Jimenez made thecut last week andwill appear againon July 3. Photoby Tess Freeman

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Food co-op launches membership drive, capital campaign

John Tangen (left) was on his second day of work at the Carbondale Community Food Co-op when the Sopris Sun caught up withhim and store manager Avtar Perreault. The co-op is holding a membership drive through July and hopes to expand their downtownstore. Photo by Jane Bachrach


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Olivia Pevec (the tall one) gallops toward the finish line to wrap up a kid’s treasure hunt at a Sustainable Settings shindig southof Carbondale on Sunday. Sustainable Settings is a non-profit educational organization that offers programs related to sustainablegardening/farming/ranching. Photo by Jane Bachrach

The following events are drawn fromincident reports of the Carbondale Po-lice Department.

SATURDAY June 18At 11:23,four policeofficers responded to a disturbance call inthe 900 block of Garfield Avenue. Whenthe dust settled, police issued disorderlyconduct summonses to two women.TUESDAY June 21 At 2:14 p.m., a po-lice officer observed an “older VW Bee-tle” visibly speeding in the 900 block ofMain Street. The officer clocked the Bugat 34 mph in a 20 mph zone, and gavethe driver a speeding ticket.TUESDAY June 21 At 2:43 p.m., a po-lice officer gave a motorist a ticket forfailure to yield to pedestrians at SoprisShopping Center.WEDNESDAY June 22 At 8:16 p.m. amotorist reported a blonde motorcyclistpassed six vehicles and was driving errat-ically on Highway 133 near the Co-op.Police searched Main Street where themotorcyclist apparently went but wereunable to locate him.THURSDAY June 23 At 11:43 p.m., anoff-duty police officer reported a fight atthe North Face skateboard park. He toldpolice the combatants jumped into a vanwith graffiti on it and headed to thenearby baseball field.When police locatedthe van driver blew a .141, was issued asummons for DUI and was released to thecustody of his mother. The van wasparked and locked for the night.

By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

Maybe that was the deal.With two major agenda items continued

Tuesday night (a development applicationand medical marijuana zoning) the towntrustees ended up with more time to dissect,discuss and make remarks about issues thatmight not otherwise get much play.

Like potholes in the Delaney Nature Park(aka Delaney dog park).

Trustee Ed Cortez said he is concernedabout the number of holes that dogs havedug at the south end of the 33-acre DelaneyNature Park, and someday one is going tofall in a hole and break its leg. Cortez’s pro-posal was to haul in some dirt and solicit vol-unteers to fill in the holes.

Cortez’s idea brought a laugh fromtrustee Pam Zentmyer, and he shot back,“This is pretty serious stuff … dogs havefallen in on several occasions.”

Mayor Stacey Bernot replied there aremore serious issues at the park, such asweeds, and the town staff is strapped for timeanyway.“ … you kinda use the park at yourown risk,” she said.

Public works director Larry Ballengertold the trustees he could haul in a load ofdirt and dump it in the parking lot, “Butthen I’d get complaints about taking up aparking space.”

The trustees took no action on Cortez’sdog park pothole proposal. They did takesome action, sort of, on drafting a letter to

Garfield County concerning the River Edgedevelopment proposal at Cattle Creek onHighway 82 between Glenwood Springsand Carbondale.

The River Edge proposal calls for 366single and multi-family housing units at Cat-tle Creek on former ranch land that wasscraped bare several years ago by a Texas de-veloper before he declared bankruptcy, anda subsequent developer got tangled up in fi-nancial difficulties.

The current development applicationplaces residential units along Highway 82and leaves about one-third of the propertyas open space along the Roaring Fork River.The trustees main focus Tuesday night wason a draft letter to Garfield County askingfor an intergovernmental agreement (IGA)between Carbondale, Glenwood Springsand the county to create communicationabout the project between the three govern-mental entities.

The main issue is that River Edge liesoutside the county’s Three Mile Area of In-fluence for both Carbondale and Glen-wood Springs, and as such there is noformal process for Carbondale to use forcommenting.

“I don’t see there is a place for us in theexisting process,”said trustee John Foulkrod.“Are we saying we need an IGA to a processthat doesn’t exist? That doesn’t make senseto me, at least not legally.”

Mayor Bernot countered that sendinga letter to the county asking for an IGA is

at least a good place to start in openingcommunications.

Two of the trustees, Frosty Merriott andCortez, indicated they are against the devel-opment application. Merriott said he’drather see the area preserved as open space(possibly through the Aspen Valley LandTrust), although he admitted it might be“like closing the barn door after the horsesare gone.”

Cortez said, “This town has never likedthat piece of property developed.”

Later in the discussion,Bernot pointed outthe development application is still being con-sidered by Garfield County, and if the townsays it doesn’t want any development at Cat-tle Creek,“We’re going too far.”

The town’s draft letter to the county saysin part,“The Board and (planning and zon-ing) Commission also question the commu-nity need for the development and noted thatthe proposed price point of the developmentis consistent with several existing nearbycounty developments such as Midland Pointand Ironbridge. … With the absorption rateat 50 units per month valley wide and theproposed development taking up 8% of thedemand, the loss of sales in existing develop-ments needs to be considered. Constructionof more homes may provide an influx of jobsfor a very limited amount of time. Once thehouses are built there is no guarantee thatthey will be sold in a timeframe that is bene-ficial, thereby negating the benefit of the tem-porary jobs created during construction.”

The trustees referred the letter back tostaff for refinement.

•••When the trustees reviewed the town’s ac-

counts payable for the month, trustee Zent-myer pointed out the non-profit MountainRegional Housing Corporation is chargingthe town $12,000 for one housing lotterythat occurred in the past quarter year.“That(the $12,000) seems a little extreme in myview,” she said.

Town planner Janet Buck said the towndoes not have a contract with MRHC.Foulkrod pointed out that the $12,000 forone quarter is close to the $50,000 the townhas budgeted for MRHC for the year 2011.

“You create a monster, it has to eat,”Foulkrod said.

The trustees seemed to agree the townneeds a written contract with MRHC,which according to its Web site is Carbon-dale’s administrative agent for the town’scommunity housing program. It was createdin 1993 “to provide affordable housing op-tions and services to households in the Roar-ing Fork Valley and West to Parachute,” theWeb site states.

•••Four of the five Carbondale & Rural Fire

Protection District board members, plus firechief Ron Leach, gave the trustees an updatethat included the likelihood the district willask voters for a mill levy hike in Novemberto make up for a 30 percent loss in revenues

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Recession beans co-ed leagueThe sour economy continues to leave folks out of work

and businesses hurting. Most recently, Carbondale’s co-edsoftball league took the hit.

Or in this case, players are not taking any hits.Or walks.Or after-game beers.According to folks in the recreation department, only

three businesses stepped up to fork over the dough to spon-sor a co-ed team this summer and that’s not enough for anactual league. As a result, the only organized softball beingplayed this summer is the men’s competitive league.

Flood wins book awardLocal author Nancy Bo Flood won the award for best

juvenile fiction for her book“Warriors: In the Crossfire”atlast week’s 2011 Colorado Book Awards ceremony at theAspen Meadows.

Flood told Aspen Daily News reporter Andrew Traversshe attended her first writers’ conference at an Aspen Writ-ers’ Foundation’s summer workshop in 1984. Since then,she has published several children’s books but “Warriors”was her first novel.

Flood’s family has owned a home between GlenwoodSprings and Carbondale for 30 years and her daughter,Dr. Elizabeth Flood-Spidell, practices at Roaring ForkFamily Physicians. She and her husband, Dr. WilliamFlood, are working on the Navajo Reservation in Chinle,Navajo Nation, Arizona.

Wondering about those Shelby Cobras?Performance vehicle fans got an eyeful last Thursday af-

ternoon when a line of 10 Cobras cruised up Highway 133toward Highway 82. One laggard filling up his tank andslathering on the suntan oil at Carbondale Car Care told a

Sun staffer the drivers are part of a Cobra club from Den-ver and about 25 of them had rumbled west to Moab andwere looping back through Glenwood Springs for the nightbefore heading home.

The Cobra crowd brings this news from Moab – themosquitoes were really bad.

How time fliesSolar Energy International is celebrating its 20 birth-

day at the Third Street Center on Aug. 13. The public willbe officially invited as the big day nears.

Speculation: Will the 20 candles be lit by some sort ofsolar device?

Tall grass conditionsTall grass turding rules are now in effect at Delaney dog

park, according to the Sun’s self-appointed ruler maker.Tall grass conditions mean you only have to look for

your mutt’s droppings for 10 seconds after he clips a yam.You must, however, pick up the next turd you see, regard-less of its location or dog of origin.

Crystal River Spas plants gardenCrystal River Spas has put in a raised garden for its

staffers. They’ve also put in radishes, carrots, celery, broc-coli, lettuce, green beans, snap peas and potatoes.

“Over the years we have been striving to green up ourbusiness,” said owner Jake Boyle.“So far we have installeda large array of solar panels, converted to a paperless office,recycle all cardboard, glass, cans, and plastic, offer re-us-able shopping bags, recycle the water used for filling hottubs, installed timers on the lights in our warehouse andput a bicycle in service for all our employees to use aroundtown.We also strip down and recycle as many parts as pos-sible out of expired hot tubs.”

Sounds like enough to work up an appetite and nowwith that garden, who whole thing’s come full circle.

They say it’s your birthdayBirthday greetings go out to: John Stickney (June 30),

Staci Dickerson, Jeanie Chestnutt, Dean Harding and Lau-rie Loeb (July 2), Sissy Sutro (July 3), Brad Geddes andDick Allenby (July 4), Herb Feinsig (July 5) and DavidClark (July 6).


Scuttlebutt Send your scuttlebutt to [email protected].

Where is this sign and how long has it been there? If youthink you know, e-mail your answer to [email protected] first person to answer correctly gets their name in nextweek’s Sun. Here’s a hint for the tough part of the question:look to the south and you have a fair chance of figuring itout. Photo by Lynn Burton

brought on by lower property values.Fire board president Gene Schilling esti-

mated the property tax increase wouldamount to about $35 per year on a$500,000 house.

After property tax discussion, thetrustees asked about the fireworks show,which the district cancelled due to safetyand financial concerns. Leach, who madethe call to cancel the show, said the only safeplace he can think of to shoot off aerial fire-works would be the Crystal River Market-place property on Highway 133 “and Idon’t see that happening.”

Fire district volunteer Jeff Wadley ad-dressed the fireworks cancellation and of-fered a bit of hope for next year.“A laser lightshow has been mentioned,” he said. “Twogroups are working on it.”

•••Out at the rodeo grounds on County

Road 100, the deed restrictions placed on theproperty when the Carbondale Roping Clubdonated the land to the town expire on Fri-day, but trustees agreed they’d like it to beused for rodeos, equestrian events and simi-lar functions for years go come.

“I don’t want to get wheeled out fromHeritage Park and see a bunch of houses outthere,”said Bernot, who grew up in Carbon-dale and graduated from Roaring Fork HighSchool in the late 1980s.

As of Friday, however, the town will havethe right to use the property as it sees fit.

Trusteescontinued om page 5


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If country rocker Hayes Carll didn’t sell out the PAC3 on June 23, he came pretty darn close according to folks who attendedthe show and gave it two thumbs up. Some of those two thumbers included a bunch in cowboy hats from New Castle whorented a bus to motor them over so they could concentrate on having good time and not have to worry about getting them-selves back home. Photo by Jane Bachrach


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Artist/printmaker/gallery owner Frank Norwood haslived in Carbondale for 34 years and has owned MainStreet Gallery and The Framer for 30 of those years.For the first time in all those years, Frank hasdecided to bring not only his prints to thegallery, but the large etching press neces-sary to the process.

Beginning July 1, Norwood will beinking,wiping and printing from cop-per plates created in his 40-somethingyear career as a printmaker.

“Bringing the press to the galleryis something I’ve thought about for along time,”said Norwood.“I’m finallyable, with the help of several friends, todo it.”

Few people have experienced the print-ing of an etching first-hand, so Norwood saidhe wanted an opportunity to explain the process(including the joys and the difficulties of creating etching)and to share with people the art form he has come to love.

Norwood’s first introduction to etching was at the Uni-versity of Georgia in 1967. Charles Morgan was histeacher “and etching gripped me in a way that nothingelse had in four previous years of art school.”

The physical fact of preparing the plate – cutting, filing,

polishing and “grounding” the plate before the drawingbegan – was appealing in a kind of painstaking way.

Drawing through the dark brown waxyground (an acid resistant coating) re-

vealed a thin gold line of incredibledelicacy, later to be etched into

the copper with nitric acid.After the lines, dots and

patterns of the drawing are“etched” into the copper,the plate is cleaned, thickink is applied in the lines,the surface is wiped clean

and the print is printed ontodampened paper on a flatbed

etching press like the one Nor-wood is bringing to the gallery for

First Friday.“I’m looking forward to talking about

the process and showing folks some of my recentlyhand colored etchings,” he said.

Norwood will give demonstrations from 5 to 8 p.m.on Friday night, and at other times through July.

“As a special treat for me, my daughter Lindsay is com-ing over from Denver to assist in the printing process. Ihope to see lots of people there.”


The new First Friday celebration shows the town what it’sgot from 5 to 9 p.m. on July 1, with street performers, bicy-cle rickshaws, free shuttles, action on Highway 133 and afterhours dancing.As usual, galleries and stores will be open late.

A sampling from Carbondale businesses reveals:• The Floral Boutique will host book signings by local au-

thors Russ Decker (“This Crazy Life”) and Carol Deckard(“Mountains of Inspiration: Reflections on Climbing Moun-tains.”) The hours are 6 to 8 p.m. The Floral Boutique is lo-cated at 453 Main St.

•RainyDayDesignshostsa reception featuringnewworkbyjewelry designer Dawn Ogren, painter Staci Dickerson, wood-worker and printmaker Frank Smith, and ceramic artist Anne

Goldberg.The hours are 6-8 p.m. Rainy Day Designs is locatedat 16 N.4th St.For more information, contactAnne 379-5050.

• Ravenheart (formerly Parkside Gallery) hosts a sneakpreview before its July 28 grand opening.The gallery featuresa collection of gems, minerals, jewelry and whimsical art.They’ll be serving up wine, ice tea and treats.Ravenheart is lo-cated at 50 Weant Blvd.

New First Friday unfurls itself July 1

“Child’s Eye” features the work of 20 young artists whohave been using digital cameras to capture images (such asthis one) and manipulate them on the computer.

Frank Norwood explains and demonstrateshow prints such as these are created beginningon July 1. The hours are 5 to 8 a.m. and theevent is part of First Friday. Norwood willkeep his etchings press in his Main StreetGallery through the month.

Norwood brings out his etching press Sopris Sun Staff Report

The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities, FlyingDog Studio, Creative Spark Studio, and Drinker-DurranceGraphics presents the “The Child’s Eye, Artistic ExpressionThrough Photography” starting at the Third Street Center at6 p.m. on July 1.

“This exhibit is the result of the work of 20 young artists,ages 9 through 18, who have been using their digital camerasfor the past five months to capture intriguing images and ma-nipulate them on the computer to further dramatize their per-sonal seeing,” said Ro Mead, CCAH executive director.

The Child’s Eye project, conceived by George Stranahan atthe Flying Dog Studio, was created in order to enable youngartists to explore and develop skills to express themselves usingthe camera as a starting place rather than the final product.

“The Child’s Eye curriculum was developed around theproposition that when we, at any age, function as the childwithin us, we can take photographs as a question, not an an-swer, in innocence rather than judgment.The resulting workstake photography to a different and uniquely fresh creativity,reflecting the possibilities which manipulation can offer,”Mead said.

Stranahan (Flying Dog Studio), Sheri Gaynor (CreativeSpark Studio) and Sue Drinker (Drinker-Durrance Graphics)will be on hand for the show in the CCAH’s R2 Gallery. Theexhibit is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 9a.m. to 5 p.m.For more information,visit: carbondalearts.comor call 963-1680.

CCAH showcases “Child’s Eye”


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THURS.-FRI.June 30/July 1ROCK BOTTOM RANCH • Kids sevento 10 years old are invited to a photo work-shop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Rock BottomRanch. Info: 927-6760.

THURSDAY June 30MEADOWLANDS RIVER TOUR • TheRoaring Fork Conservancy leads a guidedriver walk along the Roaring Fork River andCastle Creek on Meadowlands open spacefrom 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Meet at the BenedictMusic Tent in West Aspen. Register at roar-ingfork.org/events. Info: 927-1290.

FRI.-SAT. July 1-2THEATRE • Camp Chair Productionspresents Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in thePark” at the Cardiff School in South Glen-wood Springs at 7:30 p.m. For tickets, call945-6247.

FRIDAY July 1MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“Midnight in Paris” (PG-13) at 8 p.m. July1-7 and “Water for Elephants” (PG-13) at5:30 July 2-3.

CERAMICS • The show “Pairings” con-cludes at the Carbondale Clay Center, lo-cated at the east end of Main Street.

LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s in downtownCarbondale presents Echo Monday at 10 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in theDinkel Building presents Justin Roth (Jacob

Russo will open). Info: 963-3304.

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant inGlenwood Springs presents Porch-lights (rock, folk, bluegrass) from 9p.m. to midnight. There’s no cover.

THURS.-SAT. June30-July 2THEATRE • Thunder River The-atre Company concludes its run of“The Trip to Bountiful”at 7:30 p.m.“The Trip to Bountiful,” by HortonFoote, tells the story of an elderlywoman who wants to return hometo the small town where she grewup, but is consistently stifled fromleaving Houston by her daughter-in-law (portrayed by Valerie Haugen)and an overprotective son (portrayed byBrad Moore). The cast is rounded out byAriel Gilman, Gerald Delisser, Lana Karp,Olivia Savard and Tripp Watts. The pro-duction is directed and designed by LonWinston.Thunder River Theatre Companyis located in downtown Carbondale (westof the Dinkel Building). Ticket info: thun-derrivertheatre.com.

SAT.-SUN. July 2-3ARTIST VISITS • Richard Fitzgerald payshis annual visit to the Redstone Art Centerfrom 1 to 4 p.m. Recognized as one of thefinest wood turners in the country, Fitzger-ald’ was a featured artist in the annualGovernor’s Art Show in April. His showcontinues through September. Info: BevGoss at 963-3790.

SATURDAY July 2HIDDEN GEMS HIKES • Another Wilder-ness Workshop Hidden Gems hike takesplace on Huntsman Ridge (Hayes Creek)near McClure Pass at 8 a.m.The fairly steepascent opens up panoramic views. For reg-istration and info: whiteriverwild.org

LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s presents JulieNewmark & the Highlifes at 10 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Pianist/singer John Rigerplays Fin’s in downtown Glenwood Springsevery Saturday night through the summer.

SUNDAY July 3LIVE MUSIC • Steve Earle (and the Dukesand Duchesses) plays the PAC3 in Carbon-dale at 7 p.m. Info: 925-1663.

MONDAY July 4LIVE MUSIC • The Carbondale Councilon Arts and Humanities presents ShannonMcNally and Hot Sauce at Sopris Park in afree concert at Sopris Park at 7 p.m. Theconcert is part of other CCAH’s other hol-

iday events. For details, see related story inthis issue of the Sun.

BUDDIES RUN • The Buddies program’sannual Boogies Diner Buddy 5-Mile Raceand 1-Mile Family Walk takes place inAspen at 9 a.m. Race fees range from $40to $80. Info: [email protected].

TUESDAY July 5FIREFLIES & ORCHIDS • The RoaringFork Conservancy takes folks on a fireflyand wild orchid tour of Filoha Meadows(between Carbondale and Redstone) from7 to 9 p.m. Registration is required at roar-ingfork.org/events. Info: 927-1290. Toursare also offered at the same time on July 7and 13.

TRAIL WORK • Roaring Fork OutdoorVolunteers does trail work on the Ute Trailin Aspen every Tuesday through July. Workbegins at 4 p.m. but volunteers can join atany time throughout the early evening.Tools, instruction and beverages are pro-vided. Info: 927-8241.

LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s in the DinkelBuilding presents Greg Masse at 10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY July 6FARMER’S MARKET • The CarbondaleFarmer’s Market at Fourth and Main St.continues from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There’smusic, new vendors and old favorites, plusfish, prepared food, flowers and more. Themarket is sponsored by American NationalBank and runs through Oct. 5.

Community Calendar To list your event, email information to [email protected]. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday.Events take place in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event

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July 7WYLY RSVP • The Wyly Community ArtCenter in Basalt holds its seventh annual galaevent “Flower Power,” hosted by Charles andDee Wyly at their ranch at Little WoodyCreek, on July 21. The deadline to RSVP isJuly 7. The evening includes an al fresco din-

ner, music from the 1960s-70s and silent auc-tion. Period dress is encouraged. Sponsorshipand tickets are available at wylyarts.org.HPC MEETS • Carbondale’s HistoricPreservation Commission meets the firstThursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

FARMER’S MARKET • The Fresh FridaysFarmer’s Market is held behind the RedstoneCompany Store every Friday from 3 to 7 p.m.Info: 963-3408.

SAILING • The Aspen Yacht Club holds sail-boat races at Ruedi Reservoir on Sundaysthrough the summer. The club’s facility hasvehicle parking, boat storage, a mast raisingyard arm, club house, camping lawn, volley-ball court, fire pit, beach, 60 boat slips, rig-ging dock & concrete launch ramp, porta

potties and two rescue boats. Info: aspen-yachtclub.com.

CMC SHOW OPENS • The ColoradoMountain College Gallery in downtown Glen-wood Springs shows the work of Basalt artistMichael Raaum. The show features 28 ab-stract impressionist paintings and continuesthrough July 27. Raaum is a full-time coun-selor and art instructor at CMC’s Aspen cam-pus. The gallery is located at 831 Grand Ave.Info: 947-8367.

Hold the PressesFRIDAY July 1CLAY CENTER OPENS NEW SHOW •The Carbondale Clay Center opens “Atmos-pheric Fired 2011.” The show is a nationallyjuried, invitational exhibit featuring morethan 40 ceramic artists.

MONDAY July 4FREE CONCERT • Symphony in the Valleygives a free concert at Two Rivers Park inGlenwood Springs at 8 p.m. Conductor Car-los Elias will lead the community orchestrain popular favorites from Sousa, Coplandand other American composers. Fireworks

will follow the concert, and Two Rivers Parkprovides a good location for viewing the aer-ial show.

VETS INVITED TO MARCH • All U.S. mil-itary veterans, locals and visitors are invitedto walk with the Tribute to our Veterans entryin Aspen’s Fourth of July parade. Meet atPaepcke Park at 11:15 a.m. Rides are avail-able by calling ahead. Info: 927-4194.

WEDNESDAY July 6LIVE MUSIC • Matt Haslett & the Tippetts(Coffee house originals) plays White HousePizza from 7 to 10 p.m.

The Carbondale and Basalt fire districts held joint swift-water rescue training ses-sions last weekend on the Crystal and Frying Pan rivers. Shown here is Basalt Po-lice Chief Roderick O’Connor playing a victim catching a rope thrown by FrankNadell (not shown) of the Carbondale Fire District. Photo by Julie Albrecht


Lots of Roaring Fork Valley folks knowsinger/songwriter Steve Earle primarilythrough Carbondale Community Accessradio station KDNK, so here are a few thingsyou might not know about him:

• He performed Townes Van Zandt’s“Colorado Girl” on the Late Night WithDavid Letterman show;

• “Washington Square Serenade” won aGrammy for him in the Folk category in2007 (one of three such awards to his credit);

• His first novel, titled“I’ll Never Get Outof This World Alive,” was published earlierthis year by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

“I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive”is also the title of Earle’s current CD/DVD/album (180 gram vinyl), some of which he’llbe performing when he plays PAC3 in theThird Street Center at 7:30 p.m. on July 3.

After many years of touring solo and

acoustically worldwide, Earle is touring withThe Dukes (and Duchesses) featuring Alli-son Moorer.

A protégé of legendary songwritersTownes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Earlequickly became a master storyteller in hisown right, with his songs being recorded byJohnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Har-ris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pre-tenders, Joan Baez and others.

The year 1986 saw the release of his debutrecord,“Guitar Town,” which shot to No. 1on the country charts and immediately es-tablished the term “New Country,” accord-ing to Earle’s Web site.

What followed was a varied array of re-leases including the biting hard rock of“Cop-perhead Road”(1988), the minimalist beautyof “Train A Comin’” (1995), the politicallycharged“Jerusalem”(2002) and the GrammyAward winning albums “The Revolution

Starts ... Now” (2004),“Washington SquareSerenade”(2007) and“Townes”(2009).“I’llNever Get Out Of This World Alive,” isEarle’s 14th studio album.

Earle is a strong supporter of labor unions.His songs “Harlan Man” and “The Moun-tain” are two-track digital singles with allprofits benefiting The America Votes LaborUnity Fund, according to his Web site.

Originally appearing on Earle’s criticallyacclaimed 1999 bluegrass album with the DelMcCoury Band (“The Mountain”), both“Harlan Man” and “The Mountain” depictlife as a card-carrying union miner. “HarlanMan” features the lyric “I’m a union man,just like my daddy and all my kin, I took aunion stand, no matter what the companysaid, I got me two good hands, and just aslong as I’m able I won’t give in.”

“Unions are a fundamental componentof democracy throughout the free world,”

Earle said.Most Steve Earle fans in Carbondale

probably know about his pro-union philoso-phy from his recordings. The town has afairly high number of radio-listening folkswho don’t own a television set or limit theirviewing to the History Channel, however, sosome might not know this about Earle: Heappeared in the critically acclaimed series“The Wire” and “Treme,” playing a street-musician character named Harley.

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Ellen Grenko passedaway peacefully athome on Sunday, June26, 2011.

She was born in Arkansas City, Kansas,on June 25, 1923 and was raised in Black-well, Oklahoma. She married the love of her

life, Vance Grenko, in 1947. Together theymoved to Aspen in 1962 with their twodaughters and bought Hillside Lodge whereshe made every guest feel like family. She wasa grand lady who extended her family wellbeyond her two daughters. From 1968 untilshe retired in 1980, she managed the Northof Nell building.

Ellen was wildly creative. She was a tal-ented silversmith and worked in stainedglass. She was an avid card player, especiallyquiddler, cribbage and bridge.While she was

always competitive; in later years she enjoyedtrouncing Vance at gin rummy. She was a vo-racious reader and shared her talents incooking and baking with anyone whowanted to learn.

Ellen was preceded in death by herbeloved husband of 59 years, Vance. She issurvived by her loving daughters, Vicki(Chris) Peterson and Toni Grenko of Car-bondale, and her grandson Vance (Crystal)McKenzie of Broomfield, Colo.

Loved and respected by everyone who

knew her, Ellen will be deeply missed byher family and the many friends whoselives she touched.

A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m.on Wednesday, July 13 in the barn at RiverValley Ranch, 333 River Valley Ranch Dr.in Carbondale.

In lieu of flowers, send donations in hername to Homecare and Hospice of theValley,PO Box 3768, Basalt, CO 81621 or the Col-orado Talking Book Library, 180 SheridanBlvd., Denver, CO 80226.

Next steps:Steve Earle and the Dukes (andDuchesses) at PAC3 in the ThirdStreet Center on July 3. Doors open at 7p.m.; all ages. Tickets: $35 advance/$40the day of show at Dos Gringos orpac3carbondale.com.

Community BriefsRotary holds restaurant draw

The Mt. Sopris Rotary Club of the Roaring Fork Valley holds a restaurant draw at MiCasita at noon on Aug. 18. Between now and then, anyone can buy tickets for a draw-ing that offers a first place prize of $500 in gift certificates, $250 in gift certificates and$150 in gift certificates. Denominations range from $20 to $75. Restaurants include: BellaMia, Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli, Hesita, Mi Casita, Phat Thai,The Pour House, Russets, Six89,Smoke, Blend, the Pullman, Zheng, Down Valley Tavern, White House pizza, El PolloRico, Fine Line Bar & Grill, Konnyaku, El Horizonte, Peppino’s, Red Rock Diner, VillageSmithy, Mi Casita, and Bejin Tokyo.

Drawing tickets ($10 each or three for $20) are available at Alpine Bank, Mi Casitaor from any Mt. Sopris Rotary Club member. Proceeds benefit local charities.

Chamber looking for action picsThe Carbondale Chamber of Commerce is holding a photo contest that depicts area

biking or rafting action. Four prizes are up for grabs, with a grand prize of: a GlenwoodCanyon Resort gift certificate good for one express zip ride. Second prize is a RFTA prizepack, water bottle, lip balm, keychain flashlight, T-shirt and drawstring pack. Third andfourth prizes are Bonedale hats.

Contestants must be 18 years old and reside in the United States. The contest endsJune 30 at 3 p.m. For more info, go to facebook.com/Carbondale or call 963-1890.

Edwards, Stranahan teach clayJan Edwards and Michael Stranahan teach a Carbondale Clay Center class in tiles and

hand built forms (functional and sculptural). The class is for teens and adults of all lev-els and runs July 5-8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For details, call 963-2529.

In other news from the Carbondale Clay Center, there’s still room in most children’sand teen classes. Bring a friend and you get a discount.

Carbondale Community School benefits from EMUProceeds from the Eco Climb-It Challenge in Snowmass Village, slated for July 1, go to

four local schools, including the Carbondale Community School, according to a press release.The 3,000-vertical-foot uphill race is part of the EMU Eco Music Festival and the reg-

istration fee is $25. The race starts at 9 a.m. For details, to go emufestival.com.Money donated to the Carbondale Community School goes to fund appliances for

their school lunch program to make it more energy efficient and eco-friendly, said thepress release.


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The Town of Carbondale is soliciting proposals from qualified professionallandscape construction/installation companies to install landscaping and irriga-tion systems at the intersection of Main Street/Snowmass Drive/County Road100. The plant list contains 8 trees; 23 deciduous shrubs; 12 evergreens; 238ornamental grasses; and, 1,054 perennials.Sealed proposals will be received at Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue,Carbondale, Colorado 81623 until 2:00 p.m., Monday, July 11, 2011. Any pro-posals received after this time will be returned to the proposer unopened. The Planting Plans and Details may be obtained at Town Hall between the hoursof 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Questions should be direct-ed to Larry Ballenger, Director of Public Works 970-963-2733 or by email [email protected] Town reserves the right to award to the best bid based on a consideration ofcost, contractor’s qualifications and experience. The Town reserves the right toreject all or portions of any or all proposals; to waive irregularities and techni-calities; to re-advertise or to proceed to provide the service in the best interest ofthe Town. The Town of Carbondale may, at its sole discretion, modify or amendany and all provisions herein.

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William Alton Smith and Nettie LauraWard became “I thee wedd’s” in1891.Their would-have-been 120th an-niversary was honored recently as “faces”on a brand new Facebook page for the re-cently formed 4 Rivers Historical Alliance(FRHA).

“That was the idea,” said Cindy Hines,director of the Frontier Historical Societyand one of the founders of FRHA. “whenwe thought of what ancestral family’s line-age most encompassed the communitiesrepresented, it was Bill and Nettie.”

The Frontier Historical Society in Glen-wood Springs is, as is our own Mt. SoprisHistorical Society, a participant in the 4Rivers Historical Alliance, a composite ofeight to 10 historical societies from NewCastle, Rifle, Eagle, Glenwood Springs,Cardiff, Carbondale, Aspen, Redstone andMarble.

Bill and Nettie’s trailAs Cindy explained, which all our his-

torical groups in this area have learned,many of our early pioneer families criss-crossed all over the Western Slope and es-pecially our Roaring Fork/Crystal valleys.

It turns out Bill and Nettie have an in-teresting tale — and trail — to follow.

I settled into a research desk in the base-ment of the Frontier Museum, to find outthe Smith family life and connectionsaround here. They began circa 1880.

First thing I learned is that Bill’s earlychildhood was pretty rough, much like myown great-granddad’s. Born in 1860 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Bill was a runawaychild at age 11 after shooting at his tyrantstepfather. Young Billy didn’t look back tosee where the lead landed. He kept running‘til he got to Dodge City, Kansas. He mayhave invented the saying “time to get outtaDodge” because he ended up tagging alongon a cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail thatexpanded his horizons from Abilene,Kansas through Oklahoma and Texas.

At the age of 20 in 1880, and by then“hard as flint,”Bill became a freighter, driv-ing four and six-horse teams. He ended upone day in Schofield at the headwaters ofthe Crystal River. Bill helped build theSchofield mining and smelter industries andwas eventually lured downstream to Crys-tal City and then into Marble and on downto Ashcroft.

First comes loveBill’s true love was horses, cattle and

wide-open spaces. That roaming life even-tually led to Bill becoming the pool boss forthe Divide Creek Cattlemen Associationand pretty soon, he settled down, more orless, on Mamm Creek on the Grand River.He put his boots down in the pioneer soci-

ety and became the favorite caller for thedance quadrilles in the New Castle areawhere a beautiful young teenager namedNettie played mandolin tunes at countrydances. Not that all that dancing and musicsoftened Bill up any, though. He was still afrontiersman – a force yet untamed. Untilhe met his match-and his past came backto haunt him.

Then comes jailHere in the story enters one Jasper Ward

who resided in Garfield County and wasthe first settler to file (aka homestead) onland that became New Castle.

Weighing in at“a tenth of a ton,”over 6-feet tall and lean as a rail, Jasper (Jack)Ward was a famous frontiersman of theday, an Indian fighter and guide who wasfearless and aggressive, especially during hisdrinking spells.

Jasper’s reputation as a “bad-man” gun-man put fear in the hearts of the meek andmild, especially when they heard storiesfloating around about a big gunfight in TinCup that Ward had been in the middle ofone night. They said 100 shots were firedbefore he was captured and paid his fine.Yes, just a fine.

Turning over some hard-earned cash inthose days must have had a sobering effecton Jasper. For a while, some say about fouryears, he became a preacher, got marriedand had three daughters and three sons, oneof whom was our aforementioned Nettie.

Poetically, Jasper also became a justice ofthe peace and was all too happy to catch ayoung ruffian who was a darn good shot buthad been irritating the heck out of Jasper forshooting out those brand new street lightsall over town. He tossed his young antago-nist into the pokie, where little Nettie deliv-ered meals to her future husband.

Jasper Ward died in 1887 trying to quellthe Ute wars. He had become a good friendof Colorow, a Ute Indian leader. Later, Net-tie became close with a Ute woman whogave a birth blanket for her first baby,Annie Elsie in the fall of 1893. Annie Elsiebecame a Fenton of Glenwood Springs.Theyoungest, Ida, became the wife of anotherlegendary pioneer, Elmer Bair (who livedfor many years on Carbondale).

Why the icons?By 1890, Bill was hired on as Ward’s

wagon master and became one of the fam-ily when he and Nettie married in 1891. Hewas famous for his “Black Bill’s BaseCamp” and must have been the inspirationfor Western movies of the day because hewas known for his habit of whistling songson the open range.

Bill and Nettie settled on Ashley Creek,north of Vernal, Utah, smack in the middleof the Hole-In-The Wall gang headquar-ters. When their family grew to four girls,Bill figured it was time to return to NewCastle and had a job waiting for him aspool boss for the Garfield Creek Cattle-men’s Association.

In 1912, Bill went to work at the Sun-light Coal Mine (outside of GlenwoodSprings) as a boiler master. After the Lud-low Massacre in the southern part of the

state in 1914 (a previous “Mem-oir” story) Sunlight closed and theSmiths moved up to Marble.

Bill worked in the marble milland had a blacksmith shop. Hecarried mail from Marble to Crys-tal, which must be where son-in-law Elmer Bair got the idea ofhauling mail later on, as I haveshared before a story about hismail carrier days in Volume 1 ofMemoirs of A River.

Ironically, Bill ended up wherehe started, at the headwaters ofthe Crystal River where he oper-ated the old sawmill he hadhelped build some 20 years earlier.After a couple tough wintersshoveling massive snow slidesover the Devil’s Punchbowl, Billdecided to buy a retirement homefor Nettie on Eighth Street inGlenwood Springs.

When Nettie died in 1928 atthe age of 53, Bill returned toMarble where he operated hisblacksmith shop, carried mail andoperated a dray and freight serv-ice until he died in 1936 at the ageof 76. His Marble home was de-stroyed in the 1941 CarbonateCreek flood.

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The 4 Rivers Historical Alliance is using “BlackBill” and Nettie Smith on its Facebook page. Thepair met when Nettie brought “Black Bill” mealswhile he was residing in her dad’s jail in New Cas-tle; they were married in 1891. At various times,Bill worked at the mill in Marble and carried mailfrom Marble to Crystal. Nettie died in 1928 at theage of 53. Bill died in 1936 at the age of 76. Photocourtesy the 4 Rivers Historical Alliance.

The Sopris Music Fest, organized bySteve Standiford, delivered tunes andsmiles at Fourth Street Plaza and othervenues around town June 24-26.

Below and right, Steve Skinner andband mate Louis Girardot helpedlaunch Friday night’s action.

Clockwise from right: Shannon O’Gara-Standiford and Mustang Molly Irwin (left and right), Betsy McMichael and her son, and All the Pretty Horsesdrummer Aaron Taylor. Photos by Jane Bachrach and Lynn Burton

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will follow at 7 p.m. Jon Pareles of the NewYork Times said, “She has the voice:bruised, smoky and ornery, right at homewhere country and soul meet. … She hasthe melodies and the timing … she’s irre-sistible.”

KDNK will broadcast the McNallyshow live.

The schedule is as follows:4 p.m. – Parade (all ages);4:30-6 p.m. – Water fun, games with theCarbondale Recreation Department;4:30 p.m. – Chalk art at the pavilion and freewatermelon;5 p.m. – C’dale Starlettes and the Interde-pendence Daze;7 p.m. – Shannon McNally & the Hot Sauce.

Food Co-op continued om page 3said. “Of course, cross-country or inter-national transportation uses huge quanti-ties of fossil fuels, contributing to thecarbon footprint and climate change.”

Harvey added that an expandedfood co-op will also bring more peopleinto the downtown core to do their gro-cery shopping, adding vitality to thebusiness district.

“Visit the Carbondale CommunityFood Cooperative today,” he said. “De-

clare your food independence by becom-ing a member-owner, and help this greatcommunity asset to grow.”

Next steps:The Carbondale Community FoodCooperative’s “Declare Your Food Inde-pendence” membership drive runs throughJuly. For details, call 963-1375, visit thestore at 559 Main St., or go to carbon-dalecommunityfoodcoop.org.

No fireworks, ever?Citing safety issues and personnel con-

siderations, the Carbondale & Rural FireProtection District will not shoot off Fourthof July fireworks this year and probablywon’t in years to come.

“That’s probably it (shooting of fire-works),” said Fire Chief Ron Leach. “Wekinda ran out of places to do it and keepit safe.”

For years, the Carbondale fire districtshot off fireworks from White Hill near St.Mary of the Crown Catholic Church at thesoutheast side of town, although in someyears the pyrotechnic displays were cancelleddue to dry conditions and fire dangers.

After Crystal River Elementary Schoolwas built at the base of White Hill, the firedistrict moved the fireworks launch site be-tween the softball fields and high schoolafter hot embers burned holes in the roof ofthe new building.

Leach said the new location still presentedproblems because viewers were attracted to

close proximity of the falling embers.The other main concern had to with

staffing the show. Leach said the district hasfour members certified to shoot off fire-works, but it really needs six to eight. Pay-ing to train additional personnel became anissue in light of decreased property tax rev-enues the district is coping with this year.

Leach said it was his decision, not thefire board’s, to cancel the fireworks.

As for light-it-yourself fireworks, youroptions are extremely limited.

“If it leaves the ground, it’s not allowed,”Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling toldthe town trustees on Tuesday night.

What remains in the public’s arsenal arepretty much sparklers, snap caps, and thosecones or candles that sit on the ground andspew out colorful sparks.

“Firecrackers are not allowed,”Schillingsaid.

Responding to a question from trusteePam Zentmyer, Schilling said he isn’t addingany extra patrol officers for Monday night’sFourth of July celebrations.

John Tangen (right) rings up a customer at the Carbondale Community Food Co-op.The co-op carries meat and produce from several Western Slope food producers, in-cluding Osage Gardens, Big B’s Organics, Avalanche Cheese Company, SustainableSettings and High Wire Ranch. Photo by Jane Bachrach

Time is a funny thing.The last place I expected orwanted to spend four daysthis June was in a town thathas been relocated fourtimes, was named after agun-slinging“businessman,”and was once a major waystation on the Pony ExpressLine. Not to mention, Jules-burg (population 1,400) issmack dab in the middle ofthe prairie. Or what has be-come the prairie, as weknow it: extensive corn andwheat fields, little dots oftrees indicating homes or water courses, andreally good bird hunting.

In the first moments of our initiation tothe prairies we waited for theAAA tow truck(which also ended up being our mechanic) toshow up and I felt confident in my RoaringFork Conservancy cammo hat that wewouldn’t get hosed. I wandered off the shoul-der of the highway into grass: grass thatstretched beyond the fence and over therolling hills for as far as I could see.When thetow arrived, I talked bird hunting and fishinguntil we got to the mechanics.“We’re good,”I thought.“We’ll be on the road by this after-noon,” said my sister.“Oh man,how much isa transmission going to cost?” asked Adam.

That night we ended up at theBudget Host off the freeway exitwhere four of the seven buildingswere boarded up. The sign nearthe bathroom sink said “Clean-ing fowl is prohibited in thishotel.”It wasn’t bird season any-way, and we didn’t have guns.

As storm clouds rumbledand spit off in the distance,Adam and Jessie put on theirroad biking gear and pedaledaway. I slipped on a pair of run-ning shoes and soon found my-self on a gravel road parallelingthe South Fork of the Platte

River, peering into patches of head-high poi-son ivy and in one moment of startled verti-cality, jumping two feet in the air over what Ilater identified as a bull snake.

The next day as repairs came to a suddenhalt when the used transmission from a junk-yard showed up without certain importantparts, we walked the 2.5 miles into town andtoured two antique stores, three museums,and theTwistedTurtle Liquor Store.But whatimpressed me more than the four sets of traintracks running through town, the newlypainted white water tower with a blue PonyExpress logo on it, or the serenity the localsbestowed upon us, were the songbirds, the


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A view of Mount Sopris as seen from Missouri Heights near the schoolhouse. Thisshot was taken late in the afternoon on June 26. Photo by Lynn Burton

We may be intelligent, but we’re hardlyin the same league as the Clark’s nutcracker,a member of the keen Corvidae family.They cache “up to 100,000 nuts in dozensof different spots at the end of spring, andcan find them all again up to nine monthslater,”says scienceblogs.com.And the birdsdig up those nuts when snow covers theirhiding places. Given birds this clever,wildlife biologist John Marzluff wonderedwhether crows, also corvids, could betaught to work for the U.S. military, distin-guishing between human faces and search-ing for – you guessed it – Osama bin Ladenhimself, at that time still at large. Marzluffwon some military funding to test his the-ory and discovered that, yes, the crows hestudied could learn who’s who, and re-member it. If you were the mean guy wear-ing a caveman mask who trapped the birdsonce, those birds would recognize you inthe same mask several months later. What’s more, the crowsalso passed down that knowledge to their young, so that any-body wearing the caveman mask – even if it was worn upsidedown – would be scolded and mobbed.Readers were amusedand horrified at the notion of birdbrains put to military use;one said,“None of my crow friends would ever participate insuch nonsense; they just cawed their heads off.” Yet animalshave been shanghaied for military purposes before: Bats werestudied for their bomb-delivery smarts during World War II,and pigeons were trained to steer guided missiles.

MontanaAlumni magazines can sometimes knock your socks off.

In the recent issue of the University of Montana’s Montanan,Chad Dundas profiles Megan Fisher, a 2006 graduate who

says modestly that she’s really just a“five-foot-nothing, one-legged girl.” More accuratelyshe’s a super-athlete who’s turned herself intoa more-or-less “four-legged girl.” It’s all due toher steely resolve to come back stronger thanever after a horrific car accident maimed herleft foot, leading to an amputation.Afterward,Fisher could walk only a short distance beforeexperiencing excruciating pain, so she optedfor a second amputation just below the knee“because that’s where the (prosthetic) technol-ogy is.”Now, her left leg sports one of four spe-cialized prosthetics that allow her to walk,bicycle, rollerblade or run, all of which she cando fast: The first time she tried running withher elegant new racing leg, she clocked a milein six minutes, 30 seconds. Since then, Fisherhas won several world paratriathlon champi-onships sponsored by the internationalTriathlon Union and hopes to compete in theParalympic Games.“I think I’m a positive per-

son because I’m stubborn,”she says.“I refused to let this beatme; being sad stinks ... I mean, it stinks to be disabled. Shoot,it stinks to be abled. We all get happy and we all get sad. Ichoose to be happy.”

The WestRanchers and farmers be warned: Thieves have begun

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The prairies are wild (not mountain goat wild, butrattle snakes in the ruins wild). It turns outAdam got histransmission replaced for about half of what it wouldhave cost to get a new transmission from Subaru. Thismeant four days of crickets creeping into our hotelroom, runs and bike rides along vast expanses of road,and food consisting of fried chicken, chicken friedchicken, and chicken fried steak.Did we ever make it toMinnesota? No. But we did head to Fort Collins for afew days of brewery tours and sibling time beforeAdamand Jess headed up north to Glacier National Park.

If you get the chance, you should load the road bikes,fishing equipment, guns and family in the car, and in-stead of driving into the desert, or to some secludedmountain range, head into the really secluded Mid-western prairies for your next vacation. Just don’t blowa transmission on the way.

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It takes a villageDear Editor:

I am finding it hard to express the grat-itude I feel for the love and support I’ve re-ceived during this difficult time. One of theblessings of being in a small town when dif-ficulties arise, is finding out how many kindand generous individuals are willing to stepin to offer support.

I have to start by thanking my amazingangels who have taken over Creative SparkStudio in my absence: my dear friend andco-conspirator Mr. George Stranahan, whoworked tirelessly to carry our program for-ward; my Equine and Creativity retreat co-creators, Laura Kirk, Susan Gibbs, LisaJones and Rita Marsh, who carried forthour amazing weekend with brilliance andgrace without me; Beth White, RochelleNorwood and Sue Drinker who kept thedoors to the studio open and the Child’s Eyeand Summer Camp Programs moving for-ward; and to all of you who have called, e-mailed and sent your love. Your wordsbrought me much comfort during the chal-lenging days.

I have a feeling there were many morewho made this time away from Carbondalepossible that I may never know about. If I’vemissed you by name, I apologize; it was notintentional. Please come by the studio in thenext few weeks and I’ll give you a hug. I am

grateful each day for living in such an ex-traordinary community. I look forward tohealing my heart at the base of Mt. Sopris.

Sheri GaynorCreative Spark StudioCarbondale

Bike race a successDear Editor:

As local business owners, we were verydisappointed in both the headline“Bike racegoes flat, throwing some businesses”and thebiased reporting that followed in the article.

From comparing the number and lengthof negative comments to that of the positiveones, Lynn Burton implied that the largermajority of local businesses thought theevent was a flop.

As both a sponsor of the race and an ac-tive participant (we hosted race registrationFriday night and ran the wheel pit/mechanicstation all day Saturday), we felt the racewas a great success. Anyone who saw howmuch fun the kids and adults had togetherriding in the Cruiser Crit would be able tocome to the same conclusion. Remember,this is only the second year that the race hasbeen held. What does everyone expect?Events need time to build a following.

Recreation is Carbondale’s No. 1 busi-ness attraction, and if we continue to losethese types of events, all of our businesses

will suffer (does everybody remember weare still in a recession?)

Race director Mitch Hyra delivered 200-plus racers and their family members toCarbondale’s front door (90 percent ofthese people were from the Front Range). Itis the responsibility of every single businessowner to do whatever it takes to get theminto your shops, restaurants, bars, etc. I doknow one thing: if you’re not open, you ab-solutely, positively cannot do any business.

Frank Norwood from the frame shopstated that he closed his doors at 11 a.m.due to lack of customers. Our wheel pit wasdirectly across the street.We noticed four tofive customers attempting to enter his storeabout 15 minutes after he closed. We eventook a picture of one customer, dressed fullyin racing apparel, who walked up carryinga 3-foot by 3-foot picture and turnedaround in frustration when he saw Mr. Nor-wood’s sign explaining his store’s closure.

Here is an example of a local businesstaking advantage of the race atmosphere:Carbondale Beer Works sent someone towalk the sidewalks and hand out flyers fortheir “Beer and Swine $15 all you can eatbarbecue special.” Every time one of uspassed their establishment, there was a fullpatio of people eating pig and drinking beer,so obviously they get it.

In today’s business environment, suc-

cessful businesses are proactive, not reactive,so to all of those who feel they suffered be-cause of the race, we say “think outside thebox,” get involved, get out from behind theregister and go get your customer.

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