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PAGE 3Dogs

PAGE 4Dance

PAGE 6Wild

Carbondale’s weekly community connector

Carterspay avisitIn a much-anticipatedvisit, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter gave a relaxed talk before asold-out house of about200 at Thunder RiverTheatre on Tuesdayevening. Roaring ForkCultural Council members reserved about half the ticketsseveral months ago; thepublic snapped up theremaining 100 withinan hour after the councilannounced tickets wereon sale two weeks ago.The former presidentand first lady appearedat the Aspen Instituteearlier in the day thenheaded downvalley fortheir Carbondale talk,which was arranged andmoderated by long-timefriend Jim Calaway.After Carbondale, theCarters were off to Vail.For more photos, pleaseturn to pages 7-8.

Photo by Jane Bachrach

By Patrick HunterMary Harris of the Audubon Society was

recently before the Carbondale EnvironmentalBoard seeking a recommendation to create anordinance to help reduce the killing of birds bycats. The numbers of birddeaths are staggering. Birdpopulations are in decline.

However, the larger issue presented by Har-ris is one of yet another effect of the growth ofthe population of humans and the resultingdevastation to the “natural” world. Unfortu-nately, it is largely only people with a strong in-terest in birds that have knowledge of thisproblem. I put the word “natural” in quotes be-cause even though we have but one world, mostof us have little knowledge of things outside ourdaily lives.

Few people are aware, for example, that weare in the sixth great extinction of species.Species of both animals and plants are dyingout at a faster rate in the Anthropocene(human) era than ever before. In previous ex-tinctions, the rate was far slower. Some scien-tists and observers are predicting that we Homosapiens will be one of the species casualties.

Domestic cats may not have been compan-ions of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. But thebeginning of agriculture produced a need tocontrol the critters that were suddenly takingadvantage of crops growing in the fields andfoodstuffs and seed stored in our buildings. Catsbecame an essential part of the human com-munities in the new war against birds thatwanted to eat the crops and the rodents thatwanted to eat the stored produce.

While house cats may have had supplemen-tal food, many cats had to fend for themselves.Only the best hunters would survive. My fam-ily’s all-black cat was born wild, captured andthen found by us at the shelter. His huntingskills are keen. Such is natural selection.

But we have steered the evolution of all of

our domestic animals. We have pigeons thatcarry messages, dogs that herd sheep or pointout game, horses that are ever faster or everstronger to pull the plow, and cows that pro-duce copious amounts of milk. There are a myr-

iad of dog breeds in everyimaginable shape, coat, size, skillset, color and disposition. Yet

every dog has the wolf as an ancestor. All of this variety happened only because

human selection stepped in to take over for nat-ural selection. The natural instincts of dogs havebeen varied to make pit bulls more aggressiveand golden retrievers more docile. Greyhoundswere bred to race, and terriers to chase smallcritters in small places.

Which brings us to the big “if.” If humanscould be convinced that it would be in our bestinterest to breed cats that do not slaughter thebird population, it could be done. It wouldwork as follows. Among any breed of cats, onlythe least inclined to hunt birds or small mam-mals, or both, would be allowed to breed. Intime, most cats would lose their instinct to hunt.The number of wild cats would decline. Undervoluntary rules, pet breeders would be able tosell non-hunting cats. Under government edict,only non-hunting cats would be offered for sale.

Of course, a black market in hunting catswould develop in the same way dogs and cocksare bred to fight. Rodents would still have to becontrolled. More pet snakes anyone?

So the big question about “sustainability” iswhether or not we humans can not only recog-nize the challenges to our survival but also cre-ate the will to meet those challenges.

Patrick Hunter is a Colorado MountainCollege sustainability studies student, theOutreach and Education member of theCarbondale Environmental Board, and amember of the local Citizens’ ClimateLobby. He lives outside of Carbondale.

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Carbondale CommentaryThe views and opinions expressed on the Commentary page do not necessarily reflect those of The Sopris Sun. The Sopris Sun invites all members of the community to submit letters to theeditor or guest columns. For more information, e-mail editor Lynn Burton at [email protected], or call 510-3003.

By Carl SmithAs many of you may be aware, the Car-

bondale and Rural Fire Protection District isin the process of developing a master planfor the next 10 years. A significant part of theplanning process has beento seek the input of the citi-zens of the fire district. Oneof the methodologies to do this has beenpublic meetings and a survey. As Fire BoardPresident, Gene Schilling has written articlesfor the local newspapers and been on theradio seeking the citizen’s help by completingthe survey.

In newspapers and radio announcements,Mr. Schilling has also expressed his personalbelief that the fire district needs to seek a milllevy increase (additional increase in propertytaxes) at the November General Election. Iwould like to take a few minutes and offermy thoughts on a mill levy increase this No-vember. I would like to state there are multi-ple factors and in my opinion it is way tooearly to make a decision about a mill levy in-

crease at this time; here is why:First, the fire district is in the process of a

$90,000 master plan Study. This process willnot be completed until early August at best.How can a tax increase be proposed when

the citizens, the Master PlanSteering Committee and thedistrict board have not made

decisions on what directions will be taken inthe next 10 years?

Second, the Fire District Board appointeda Master Plan Steering Committee to reviewthe process and to make recommendationsto the Fire District Board. The steering com-mittee will not receive all of the draft plansby the two consultants the district hired untilJuly 29. The review process will not be com-pleted by the steering committee until earlyAugust at best.

Third, the 2016 property valuations de-termination is still in process. Individual res-idential property valuations increases arewidely different. I have met with individuals

Too early to talk fire mill levy

Bike thanksDear Editor:

On behalf of the Carbondale Cham-ber and Tourism Council of Carbondale,I would like to thank everyone whomade the Carbondale-leg of the 21st an-nual Bicycle Tour of Colorado a success!

A special thanks to the following: Bi-cycle Tour of Colorado, town of Car-bondale trustees and staff, Roaring ForkHigh School, Aspen Embroidery Works,CCAH, Crystal River Spas, EverGreenEvents, featured massage therapists, In-terMoutnain Waste & Recycling, Roar-ing Fork Beer Company, Sopris Liquor& Wine, True Nature Healing Arts, Za-pazoo Inkworks, El Zocalo, MamaBearsOrganics, and Slow Groovin’ BBQ.

Thank you to the Cowboy Choir andLet Them Roar for the energetic music,Marcel Kahhak for the live painting, andour media partners for the coverage.

A special thank you goes out to theCarbondale Chamber staff and count-less volunteers, and last, but certainly notleast, the Carbondale residents and busi-ness community for welcoming the rid-ers with open arms. We invite you to postyour Bicycle Tour of Colorado photosand videos to our Facebook page,www.facebook.com/Carbondale, #Visit-CarbondaleCO.

Andrea StewartExecutive DirectorCarbondale ChamberExecutive Director

Moving inside for tennisDear Editor:

Generous volunteers and donors aremaking a spectacular impact in bring-ing year-round tennis to the RoaringFork Valley. The facility in El Jebel willinclude after-school programs andyouth tennis events, and its indoorcourts will enable mid-valley highschools to form girls’ and boys’ teams.Of course, the facility will also welcomeadult play and tournaments.

The non-profit Advantage IndooorTennis group already has raised abouthalf the $1.1 million needed to build thefacility. Crown Mountain Park Districtwill provide operating funds, and no tax-payer money is involved or will be sought.

Valley residents are invited to a fund-raiser, generously hosted by PortfolioAspen Properties and sponsored by sev-eral local companies, to be held at the St.Regis Hotel in Aspen from 5:30 to 7:30p.m. on June 30. Tickets are $75 each ortwo for $100 at the door or at www.In-doorTennisEvent.com. All donations aretax-deductible and will help support agreat cause.

Robert HubbellCarbondale

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Here’s an idea: if you tape up “yard sale”signs on public property, why not take themdown when the yard sale is over? This signwas posted on a Friday, and was not re-moved until someone else came along toput up a new sign. Photo by Lynn Kirchner

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The Carbondale Council on Arts andHumanities (CCAH) is holding a celebra-tion and benefit for arts-leader Ro Mead onJuly 1-3 at the Launchpad. The Y’Art Saleand 24 Hours of Art will raise funds forMead, who is dealing with cancer and re-lated issues, according to a press release.

Drop off art supplies and art for sale onJune 29-30. The sale will operate on July 1-3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in front of theLaunchpad. On July 2, local artists will startpainting a collective piece of art at 6 p.m.and finish on July 3 at 6 p.m. The celebra-tion for Mead will follow. During all theseevents a Wishing (Ro) Well will be set upand people can throw in wishes and money.

“Every once in a while a person comesalong in a community that has such impactit is hard to define,” said a CCAH spokes-woman. “Their work reaches a wide swathof diverse people. Their ideas and commit-ment to those ideas manifest into realitiesthat grow and strengthen a place. Ro Meadis one of those people. Her work in Car-bondale affected development, educationand arts and continues today.”

Mead said her first experience of Car-bondale was at Mountain Fair. The yearwas 1976 and Ro had moved to Redstonewith her then husband, Henry. Both wereceramicists and had a booth at the fair. AsRo tells the story, “We set up our booth andI told Henry I was going to take a walkaround and I would be back in about anhour. Three days later I made it back.”

Folks say Carbondale Mountain Faircan have that affect on people and it usu-ally leads to many laughs, good friendshipsand a life-long commitment to the commu-nity that caused it. Mead has fulfilled thatcommitment to the Carbondale communitythrough her work with youth, artists and

the Carbondale Council on Arts and Hu-manities, of which she was director from2004-2010.

Mead was first known in the RoaringFork Valley for her art. She created func-tional pottery and tiles for clients. Her workand techniques inspired many other artists,especially after she began teaching at Col-orado Mountain College. “People reallyloved her as a teacher,” said former businesspartner and friend Candace Resnick. In the1990’s Mead and Resnick teamed up inbusiness opening Architectural Accents,which created tile and ceramic installationsfor the home. Around 2000, she changed herdirection back to teaching art at YampahHigh School. It was during this time thatCCAH approached Ro to take the helm.

In her tenure as executive director ofCCAH, Mead helped form the CarbondaleCommission on Public Art, and First Fri-days. She helped broker the deal with thetown and the RE-1 School District, resultingin the Third Street Center. This deal also cre-ated an opportunity for CCAH to start anendowment, which continues to growtoday. Always passionate about education,Mead started many of the education pro-grams that CCAH still funds today includ-ing free after school art classes for CrystalRiver Elementary School and curriculum-based arts programming at CarbondaleMiddle School. Mead started the R2Gallery and created the space CCAH occu-pied at the Third Street Center.

“Ro brought CCAH and the communitytogether in a way no one else could’ve. Sheinstinctively knew how to touch on thethings that were important to this commu-nity and make it even better,” said currentCCAH Director Amy Kimberly.

On her own, Mead also participated inthe Economic Road Map project in the

early 2000’s. She also worked tirelessly onmany political campaigns.

After stepping down as director, Meadcontinued with CCAH for one more year aseducation coordinator before moving on in2011. In the last year, Mead has been diag-nosed with pancreatic cancer. While she iscancer free at the moment, her pancreas isnot functioning, as it should. This is the

biggest battle Ro Mead has ever fought andit is now that the community can give back.

The Y’Art Sale and 24 Hours is thebrainchild of two local artists, RochelleNorwood and Olivia Pevec, who said theybelieve that art is a way to bring commu-nity together.

For more information, go to carbon-dalearts.com.

CCAH honoring Ro Mead with two events at the Launchpad

Bill Lukes guides his dog over an obstacle in last weekend’s Dogs on Course NorthAmerica regional agility trials at Bridges Center. Dogs on Course will return to Car-bondale for its national trials in September. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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By John ColsonSopris Sun Staff Writer

With repeated assurances that the actionwould not carry over to broader approvalsor “entitlements” for this or other nearby de-velopment proposals, Carbondale’s Board ofTrustees on Tuesday agreed to waive a Com-munity Impact Assessment requirement fora planned new 58,000-square foot CityMarket grocery store, on land once tied totwo failed, large-scale development propos-als — the Village at Crystal River (VCR) andthe Crystal River Market Place (CRMP).

The 7.8-acre project site, at the northwestcorner of Main Street and Highway 133 onland once owned by the Colorado RockyMountain School, also would contain a gasstation and a smaller retail building.

The grocery store is meant to replace theexisting City Market store, which the owner,Kroger Corporation, called “outdated anddysfunctional” in a memo to the trustees.

Waiver of the Community Impact As-sessment (CIA) was the first step in Kroger’sapplication process, which planner JanetBuck and other town officials said would in-clude examination of many of the project-related impacts covered by the CIA.

Town staff recommended approval for

the CIA waiver, which Buck reported wouldhave included impact analysis for five mainareas: the environment, traffic, municipalservices, the community at large and the fis-cal effect on town finances.

Target legislationTown Manager Jay Harrington told the

trustees on Tuesday that the CIA processwas created by “target legislation” duringthe controversial approval, and later rejec-tion by voters in 2012, of the relatively mas-sive VCR project. The VCR, if it had wonvoter approval, would have involved devel-opment of the entire 25-acre parcel that in-cludes the piece being eyed by Kroger.

Harrington reported that the CIA prob-ably will be eliminated from the town’scodes as part of an ongoing rewrite knownas the Unified Development Code process.

Kroger plans to buy the project site fromthe current owners, Crystal River Market-place LLC, and observers have expressed thehope that the application is a sign thatKroger has no intention of finding anotherbuilding site, perhaps closer to GlenwoodSprings, for its replacement-store project.

Town officials had reacted in alarm ear-lier this year when the Galloway planning

firm, which handles development projectsfor Kroger, was involved in an applicationto Garfield County to rezone a 43-acre par-cel of land near the intersection of Highway82 and Cattle Creek Road, from residentialto commercial status.

The application, which would have per-mitted a grocery store in any subsequent de-velopment, was withdrawn in early May.

The Carbondale relocation plan will fol-low the town’s traditional development re-view process, Buck wrote in her memo tothe trustees, including subdivision and sub-mission of a utility plan, a drainage plan, atraffic impact study and compliance withthe town’s zoning laws for the commer-cial/retail/wholesale and planned-commu-nity-commercial zones that overlay theproject site.

Missing info?At Tuesday’s meeting, Trustee Pam Zent-

myer asked Buck, “So, what kind of usefulinformation would we be missing out on” ifthe waiver were approved.

Buck replied that there would not bemuch, although she noted, “There are in-tangibles in the CIA that does give the boardmore discretion” in negotiations with devel-

opers, such as certain design criteria thatcould make the project “look like a smallmountain town.”

But the exemption is written into thetown’s development review process for gro-cery stores, specifically, in large part becausethe fiscal impact is well known — the exist-ing City Market is the town’s largest gener-ator of sales tax revenues, which make upthe bulk of the town’s annual income.

And, Buck stressed, Kroger still facespublic hearings and other review re-quirements for full subdivision rights, aspecial use permit for the gas station, anda conditional use permit for the separateretail building.

When asked by Zentmyer why Krogerwas seeking the exemption, the company’sassistant director of real estate, Joel Star-buck, replied that it was suggested by townstaffers early in pre-application meetings,and conceded, “It saves us a good deal oftime” in the review proceedings.

Trustee Frosty Merriott, who was an op-ponent of the two earlier development pro-posals for the larger site, remarked that hedoes not see much to fight about in this cur-rent application.

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Town Manager Jay Harrington reported in his weeklymemo to the Board of Trustees and employees that “It appearsthat the Crystal River has peaked for the runoff (season).” Headded that the “wall extension” at the town’s ditch head gatehad four inches of remaining height above the water level lastweek, on what was deemed to be the peak day.

The first Mexican Rodeo of the summer is scheduled forthe evening of Saturday, June 27, at the Gus Darien RidingArena, Harrington wrote.

Also planned for this Saturday is the 15th Annual Mt.Sopris Music Festival at the 4th Street Plaza.

The annual Carbondale Clay Center Cajun Clay Night willbe held June 27 from 4-9 p.m. Main Street will be blocked offbetween 2nd Street and Snowmass Drive for that event.

And the annual River Valley Ranch Open Tennis Tour-nament is to be held on June 26-27, involving the use of ten-nis courts at Triangle Park, as well as the courts at NorthFace Park.

The town’s utility department continues to deal with odorsissuing from the Carbondale wastewater treatment plant, Har-rington wrote, including a visit by “control technicians” work-ing on modifications to the air blowers at the plant. Themodifications include a timing device that brings the blowersonline periodically during peak load periods, which Harring-ton indicated had cut down on the odor problems in the past.

After reporting that all of the town’s ditches are functioningnormally, Harrington also noted that the main Carbondaleditch was due to be turned off on June 22-23, to accommo-date construction activities at the Thompson Park subdivisionadjacent to the juncture of Highway 133 and Weant Boule-vard. The closure, affecting laterals on either side of Weant

Boulevard, was to last from 7:30 a.m. on June 22 to 7:30 p.m.on June 23.

As the parks crew settles into its summertime intensive workschedule, Harrington reported, crews rototilled the Sopris Parkvolleyball court following a complaint that the sand was toohard. The crews also have applied topsoil and grass seed tosunken graves at the Weaver (Evergreen) Cemetery, and fixedup some damaged turf at Gianinetti Park, and fixed an irriga-tion line at North Face Park that was damaged on June 13.

In addition, the parks staff got a little help from the Car-bondale Fire Department, which watered down the River Val-ley Ranch/Triangle Park ball field, to loosen the soil sufficientlyfor town workers to “rip, drag and groom it” for summer play.

The town street crew has been busy repairing asphalt atvarious points around town, including the bike trail alongHighway 133 near City Market, and pavement in the RiverValley Ranch subdivision damaged by a water main breaklast winter.

Highway crews continue working on Highway 133, boththe in-town stretch where crews have been doing landscapingand on the stretch between Carbondale and Redstone, wheredelays of up to 15-20 minutes can be expected as a contractorupgrades the road surface.

Harrington reported that the recreation programming atthe Carbondale Recreation and Community Center is hum-ming along, with a full slate of participants (18) in the StartSmart Soccer program for pre-schoolers, and 28 players in theT-ball program starting this week. Other ongoing programs in-clude Girls Only T-ball, skateboarding lessons, youth tennis les-sons, Friday Field Trips, the Trails & Tents hiking program,and the youth baseball and softball programs. Registration forall programs is available at www.carbondalerec.com.

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Cop ShopFrom June 11 to June 18, Carbondale officers handled232 calls for service. During this period, officersinvestigated the following cases of note:

FRIDAy, June 12: At 7:21 a.m. police got a reportabout a vehicle that had been “rummaged through,”according to the reporting party. The victim saidnothing was taken this time, but added that a weekearlier she had a bike carrier-bag stolen, which wasvalued at about $50.

FRIDAy, June 12: At 3:35 p.m. officers were toldthat a local man persisted in keeping a rooster at hishome, in violation of the town’s Domestic Chickenordinance. The man was issued a ticket.

FRIDAy, June 12: At 3:41 p.m. police got a callabout a fight taking place at a location on MerrillAvenue. On arrival, police found no fight inprogress, but four men were sitting around drinkingbeer. The men reported that there had been an ar-gument between one of them and another man,who had left, but that it “had not been physical.”Upon running the names of the four men throughthe police computer, officers learned that one ofthem was subject to a restraining order that pro-hibited the consumption of alcohol. The man wasarrested and taken to the Garfield County Jail.

MONDAy, June 15: At 11:31 p.m. police stoppeda car at the corner of Weant Boulevard and EuclidAvenue for weaving. The driver was arrested oncharges of drunk driving, driving on a revoked li-cense, and other alleged violations.

WEDNESDAy, June 17: At 7:17 p.m. a localwoman reported that her ex-boyfriend threatenedto burn her Jeep.


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The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities has released its 2016 lineup for itsR2 Gallery, and it ranges from big group shows to small shows with big names, plus twosolo shows.

CCAH’s Gallery Committee reviewed 27 proposals from emerging and establishedartists from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond. “The quality reflected in the proposalsthis year is very exciting,” said Dave Durrance, Gallery Committee chair. “I believe that’sbecause of our incredible gallery space."

When CCAH moved into the Launchpad in 2014, it dedicated much of its space to twogalleries and other display areas, and also transferred the R2 Gallery name to the newbuilding. The name honors the late Ron Robertson. “We were thrilled to have so manyartists respond with a variety of themes and media, but it was really tough to narrow itdown,” said R2 Gallery Manager Brian Colley.

The Gallery Committee followed a list of criteria for evaluating the 2016 exhibitionproposals, including: maintaining the quality of artwork, representing all segments of thelocal artistic community, balancing the types of exhibitions, providing opportunities foremerging and established artists, creating educational connections to the shows, and in-troducing new ideas and themes that haven’t been exhibited at CCAH.

The 2016 R2 Gallery schedule is as follows, with dates subject to change:• “36th annual Valley Visual Art Show” on Jan. 15 to Feb. 20;• “Wilderness Workshop Artists-In-Residence” and Greg Watts’ “Walls” solo photogra-

phy show on March 4 to 25;• Shelly Safir Marolt’s “Private Lives” solo painting show on April 1-22;• Painting and sculpture show featuring Dan Sprick, Dean Bowlby, Andrea Kemp and

Gregory Tonozzi on April 29 to May 27;• Richard Carter’s “Mandalas” solo painting show June 3-24;• “40-Year Photography Retrospective” from Anderson Ranch Arts Center on July 1-30; • “Clay National XI” collaboration with the Carbondale Clay Center on Aug. 5 to Sept. 2;• Patricia Ringer’s “Mind Trips” solo painting show and a group sculpture show on

Sept. 9-30;• “From Art to Artifact: The Malleability of Metal” and “Prints & Poetry” on Oct. 7

to Nov. 5;• “Deck the Walls: A Holiday Show” on Nov. 18 to Dec. 29.“This is the culmination of years of hard work to improve our gallery and support artists

in an even deeper, more meaningful way,” said Amy Kimberly, CCAH executive director.“There have been many people that have helped us get there and it is thrilling to see suchamazing artists and exhibitions wanting to show in the R2 Gallery!"

Exhibition proposals are available for anyone to submit; the deadline is typically at thebeginning of May.

“The R2 Gallery has developed a great reputation and is becoming a world-class spacefor all artists in the Roaring Fork Valley to show and experience curation,” said GalleryCommittee member Staci Dickerson. “Each year brings new opportunity.”

CCAH R2 Gallery slates 13 for 2016 seasonPhotos by Lynn Burton

Bikes, bikes, bikesBicyclists were coming and going every-which-a-wayon June 20 and June 22, as CASA’s inaugural Ridefor the Child, and the Bicycle Tour of Colorado,rolled in two days apart. The Ninth Judicial District’sCourt Appointed Special Advocates fund-raiser attracted a field of more than 200 (clockwise fromupper left, the first three photos). Bicycle Tour ofColorado participants pitched their tents at RoaringFork High School then headed over McClure Passand on to Paonia the next morning (lower left).


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Sneak preview Dance of the Sacred Fire will perform a fire

show/dance on Fourth Street Plaza at 9 p.m.during First Friday on July 3. The Mile Markerswill warm up the crowd (so to speak) before theshow. On a semi-related note, fireworks will notbe launched inside the town limits of Carbon-dale on July 4 but if you find a high perch andlook downvalley you might spy some.

Footnote to the showWord has it the first Summer Music in the

Park concert on June 14 went pretty well froman organizational end … although the closingact, the Fireside Collective, was 90 minutes late.It turns out the North Carolina-based quartettook a detour in Glenwood Canyon to checkout Hanging Lake and lost track of time. Oncethey found Carbondale, the blazing blue-grassers saved some time by setting up only onemicrophone rather than their customary six,and an abbreviated show went on. After thepark, they headed to Steve’s Guitars and playedanother set.

let’s go bass fishingIf you’re an angler who thinks he really

knows how to use his rod, you might thinkabout making your way to Ridgway State Parkon July 11-19. More than $5,000 in prizes isbeing offered in Colorado Parks and Wildlife’ssmallmouth bass fishing tournament. CPW willtag 10 smallmouth bass of all sizes and anglerswho catch one of the chosen fish will be eligiblefor prizes. There is no entry fee and the contest

is open to anglers with Colorado fishing licenses.There are lots of trout in the Roaring Fork Val-ley but not so many bass. If you’re wonderingwhat a bass looks like, check out one or two ofthe banners on Main Street.

Theatre Aspen garners nominationsTheatre Aspen has received seven nomina-

tions for the 2014 summer season ColoradoTheatre Guild Henry Awards, according to apress release. The productions included “TheFull Monty,” “Little Women, the Musical,” and“The Cottage.” One of the nominations was forOutstanding Season for a Theatre Company,Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Dane Agosti-nis, “The Full Monty”), Outstanding Actress ina Musical (Alison Luff, “Little Women”), Out-standing Supporting Actress in a Musical (AlieWalsh, “Little Women”), Outstanding Support-ing Actor in a Musical (Ken Krugman, “LittleWomen”), Outstanding Musical Direction(David Dyer, “Little Women”), Outstanding En-semble Performance (“Little Women,” directedby Paige Price, musical director David Dyer).Theatre Aspen opens its 32nd season of reper-tory on June 26, in the Hurst Theatre in RioGrande Park.

They say it’s your birthdayFolks celebrating their birthday this week in-

clude: Olivia Pevec and Mark Burrows (June25); Zack Ritchie (June 26); Colton Mesner(June 27); Beth Mulry (June 28); Patty Phelan(June 29); John Stickney (June 30) and Jax Moss(July 1).

Petunia Davis blows out the candle at the Third Street Center’s fifth birthdayparty on June 18. The gala event included chocolate sheet cake from the PourHouse, root beer, food, a band and open houses. As for Petunia, she was laterseen weaving through the crowd on rollerblades, serving up a tray of cup-cakes. Photo by Jane Bachrach


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Poss Architecture + Planningchecked out the progress ontheir current project at theBank of Colorado in GlenwoodSprings during the Break theBank charity fund-raiser demolition party on June 19.Prior to the event, bids wereaccepted on behalf of localnon-profits for a chance totake a turn at the controls ofthe large track hoe. The topbidders were Roaring ForkLiquors, represented by KenRobinson; Poss Architecture +Planning, represented by AndyWisnoski and Dave Ritchie; andR&H Mechanical, representedby Brian Bahr. The project’sgeneral contractor, D.M. Neuman, and the owner, Bankof Colorado, combined to putup matching funds to the donations. The total raised was$16,000. Benefitting non-profitswere Youth Zone, AdvocateSafe House, LiftUp and Habitatfor Humanity. Poss employeesfrom the Carbondale officein attendance were from leftto right: Kevin Laut, AndyWisnoski, Curtis Vaughn,Sarah Wisnoski, Sean Durgee,Stephen Holley, Drew Wisnoski, Treonna Villasenor,Chris Dwyer and DaveRitchie. Photo by Terri Ritchie


Teaming up in Carbondale

Ask Lon Winston what impressedhim most about Jimmy and Ros-alynn Carter, and he’ll tell you it’s thesimplicity of their message and thatthey are so “genuine on every level …there was no pretention.”

The former president and firstlady gave a talk at Thunder RiverTheatre on the evening of June 23.Winston, the Thunder River The-atre’s executive director, said he wasimpressed with what the Carterssaid but their genuineness put every-one at ease.

Winston met with the SecretService four times in the days lead-ing up to the event. They brought ina special trained dog for a bombsweep, but the agents were mostlyconcerned with how to handle amedical emergency. As for the agentsthemselves, “they were kind andeasy to work with” and arrangedmeetings around his schedule.

On a scale of 1 to 10, the whole night was a10. “It was fabulous. The discussions went well.Jim (Calaway) prepared his questions and theywere good … they (the Carters) are a team.”

Opposite page, clockwise: Former president JimmyCarter exits a Secret Service SUV in front of ThunderRiver Theatre; left to right: Judy Welsh, Carbondalepolice officer Fred Williams and Emma Danciger; theCarters and a Secret Service agent enter the theatre;Carbondale police officers; Connie Calaway.

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THURSDAY June 25“FORKS OVER KNIVES” • Davi Nikentand Heart Healthy Meals present the docu-mentary film “FORKS OVER KNIVES” at 7p.m. at the Third Street Center. The suggesteddonation is $10.

KOROlOGOS • The Korologos Galleryin downtown Basalt hosts a reception forthe show “The Feminine Eye” from 5 to 7p.m. The show runs through July 5 andfeatures photographers Sandra Lee Kaplanand Kathryn Rabinow, and paintersRoseta Santiago and Dinah K. Worman.Info: 927-9668.

RODEO CONTINUES • The CarbondaleWild West Rodeo continues at the GusDarien arena (east of town on County Road100) Thursdays rain for shine through Aug.20. Gates open at 5:30 p.m., slack at 6 p.m.and grand entry at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10per adult; $30 per car load (up to six people)with additional adults $5 each. Kids under10 are free if accompanied by an adult. Ad-vance and discount season tickets are avail-able at the Roaring Fork Valley Coop. Info:carbondalerodeo.com.

ROTARy • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets atMi Casita at noon every Thursday.

FRI.-SAT. June 26-28THEATRE • Thunder River Theatre Com-pany continues its run of the MichaelHollinger comedy “Red Herring” at 7:30p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. onSunday. The play, set in Cold War 1952,combines three love stories, a murder mys-

tery and a nuclear espionage plot. The TRTCproduction is directed by Wendy Moore, andfeatures David Collier, Lisa Langer, JenniferMichaud, Bob Moore, Sophie Sakson andChris Wheatley. Tickets are $25 for adults,$17 for 20-30 somethings and $14 for full-time students, and are available at thunder-rivertheatre.com. The play continues July2-4. Thunder River Theatre is located indowntown Carbondale, west of the DinkelBuilding between Main Street and ColoradoAvenue. Info: 963-8200.

FRI.-SAT. June 26-27MUSIC FEST • The Mt. Sopris Music Festtakes place at Fourth Street Plaza and othervenues around town.

FRIDAY June 26MONKS RETURN • The Monks of GadenShartse drop in at Sustainable Settings at 10a.m. to perform a blessing and snag somechow. After that, the monks are off to Basaltbefore noon.

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“Love & Mercy” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. June26-July 2 and “Far from the MaddingCrowd” (PG-13) at 5 p.m. June 27-28 (cap-tioned on June 28).

BIKING • Aloha Mountain Cyclery hostsa Friday Bikes and Beers mountain bikeride. Meet at the store in La Fontana Plazaat 6 p.m.

DAVI NIKENT • Misha gives an introduc-tory talk about bio energy at 6:30 p.m. at theThird Street Center. Admission is by dona-tion. Info: 970-318-0198.

SATURDAY June 27CAJUN ClAy NIGHT • Music will be sup-plied by Electric Lemon, gumbo by AndreasFischbacher, and bowls by Carbondale ClayCenter students and teachers at Cajun Claynight starting at 6 p.m. There’ll also be a silentauction, libations, crazy costume contest, kidsfair and the CCC’s famous gator cake. Ticketsare $35 for adults ($40 at the door); $20 forkids 6-16 in advance ($25 at the door). Info:carbondaleclay.org.

lIVE MUSIC • The Black Nugget on MainStreet presents the Boston-based Kristen Ford.Her current release is “Tighten it Up.”

lIVE MUSIC • The Magic Moments concertseries kicks off at Redstone Park from 6 to 9p.m. with the Starletts (four powerhouse vo-calists belting out Motown, soul and rock). It’sfree. Info: redstonecolorado.com.

FINDHORN FIlM • The documentary film“Fifty Years of Findhorn” will be shown at theCarbondale Branch Library at 5:30 p.m. Find-horn is a Scottish community of free thinkers,garden spirits and New Age ideas, according toa press release. Former Findhorn participantsand members of the Carbondale Co-HousingCommunity will be on hand to discuss the filmand related matters. Admission is free.

BREAD BAKE • There’ll be a bread bake atthe Community Bread Oven at the ThirdStreet Center. Bring your yeast loaves ready toput in at 1 p.m. It’s free. Info: Facebook.

SENIOR MATTERS • A tech class aboutstoring, retrieving and deleting data is offeredthrough Senior Matters from 10:30 a.m. tonoon at the Carbondale Branch Library.

lEMONADE DAy • Basalt celebrates Pan &Fork Lemonade Day downtown from 11 a.m.to 3 p.m. A parade kicks things off at 11 a.m.,followed by a chalk art contest at noon. BigDog 7 the Midnight Badgers provide the musicall day. Elsewhere today, kids up and down theRoaring Fork Valley will be station themselvesat the own lemonade stands serving up coldbeverages so drop in and drink up. LemonadeDay is organized by the Buddy Program toteach kids how to operate their own business.Info: 920-2130 or rfv.lemonadeday.org.

SUNDAY June 28POETRy • The Aspen Poets’ Society kicksoff its summer at 6:30 p.m. at Victoria’sEspress and Wine Bar. Live music will be pro-vided by Breton McNamara. There’ll be anopen mic and guest poetry Robert King. It’sfree. Info: 379-2136.

TUES.-WEDS. June 29-30y’ART DEADlINE • CCAH at theLaunchpad is accepting donations of old orunwanted art supplies for the Y’Art Salefrom 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info: 963-1680.

MONDAY June 29REIKI • Claire O’Leary presents “Reiki I Train-ing & Attunement” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at1915 Colorow Rd., Glenwood Springs. Info:303-525-6893.

WIlDFlOWER WAlK • Wilderness Work-shop and the Aspen Center for EnvironmentalStudies go on a free wildflower walk in theHunter Creek Valley. Registration is requiredat wildernessworkshop .org. Info: 510-0697.

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HEPWORTH DOES STEVE’S • Spokenword artist/musician Myrlin Hepworth doesan adult-oriented show at Steve’s Guitars at8:30 p.m. It’ll be a mix of music and poetry.Though he is best known locally for his workthe last three years in middle and high schools,Hepworth performs frequently at clubs in thePhoenix area and at colleges and universitiesaround the country. His songs “Mixaca’s AlterEgo Walks the Blvd” and “Arizona I Love YouBut …” were featured recently on NPR’s “AltLatino” show. The suggested donation is $10.Info: 963-3304. Hepworth will also give a freeworkshop for middle and high school stu-dents while he’s in town. Info: 963-5782.

TUESDAY June 30CCAH • Head over to the Third Street Centerfrom 6 to 8:30 p.m. for CCAH’s Art & WineBreak. It’s Collage Night with Lisa Singer.CCAH will supply wine, snacks and Singer tofacilitate collage art projects. The cost is $25.To reserve a spot, go to carbondalearts.com.

lIBRARy • The Carbondale Branch Libraryhost an ice cream social at 10:30 a.m. Info:963-2889 or gcpld.org.

FAMIly CONSTEllATIONS • Carol Shuregives an introductory talk about SystematicFamily Constellation from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at theThird Street Center. The fee is $25. Info: 831-218-5770 or [email protected].

INDOOR COURTS • Ad-In! holds a fund-raiser at the St. Regis in Aspen from 5:30 to7 p.m. Proceeds go toward covering four ten-nis courts Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel.Tickets are $75 for one or $100 for two.Info: 927-4693.

WED.-MON. July 1-4y’ART SAlE • Come celebrate Ro Meadand all things art at the CCAH Launchpad(76 S. 4th Street). There’ll be great deals onart supplies and an art project at the MakerTable from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 1. Pro-ceeds benefit Mead (a former CCAH direc-tor) to help with her medical expenses. Acelebration of Mead starts at 6 p.m. on July3, which coincides with 24 Hours of Art, inwhich 12 local artists will create an installa-tion for the Rio Grande Trail. Info: 963-1680or carbondalearts.com.

WEDNESDAY July 1THEATRE • Theatre Aspen presents“Cabaret” through Aug. 15. Tickets and info:844-706-7387 or theatreaspen.org.

FARMER’S MARKET • The CarbondaleFarmer’s Market at Fourth and Main Streettakes place on Wednesdays through Sep-tember. It starts at 10 a.m., according to thetown’s website.

ROTARy • The Rotary Club of Car-bondale meets at the Carbondale FireStation at 6:50 a.m. on Wednesdays.Info: rotarycarbondale.org.

MINDFUlNESS • Way of CompassionDharma Center in the Third Street Centerhosts a meditation and Dharma teachingswith John (Chophel) Bruna on Wednesdaysfrom 5:30 to 7 p.m. Info: 510-0583 orwayofcompassion.org.

lIVE MUSIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts an openmic night at Rivers restaurant in GlenwoodSprings from 8 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday.

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Further OutTUESDAY July 7CRMS PRESCHOOl • CRMS preschool holds an open house and registration from 4 to 6 p.m.Children’s Rocky Mountain School is located on the CRMS campus at 1493 County Road 106(look for the open house sign). Info: Debbie at 963-3216.

MAyOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat withCarbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdaysfrom 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy.

“12 By 2 CONTINUES” • The CarbondaleCouncil on Arts continues “12 by 2: A Con-versation Between Poets and Visual Artists” atthe Launchpad. The show features painters,sculptors, photographers and fiber artists whowere paired with a local poet to inspire oneanother to create new works. The show con-tinues through July 31, with a poetry readingat 5:30 p.m. on July 10. Info: 963-1680 or car-bondalearts.com.

ART AROUND TOWN • CPAC’S 2015 ArtaRound town sculpture exhibition kicked offon June 4 and continues through the year. Thejuried show features 14 sculptors from acrossthe U.S., plus Carbondale’s very own JoeBurleigh and Mark Cesark. Maps the showsculpture locations are available at town hall.

SENIOR AEROBICS • Seniors are invited totake part in an aerobics class at the El JebelCommunity Annex Building on Tuesdays andThursdays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. the sug-gested donation is $2 per class. Info: Christy at970-328-7682.

lIBRARy • The Carbondale Branch Libraryhosts “Gaming & Lunch” from noon to 1

p.m. on Thursdays through the summer. Freelunch is provided for those 18 and under. Theprogram is partnership with the Food Bank ofthe Rockies as part of its Summer Food Serv-ice program. Info: 963-2889 and gcpld.org.

SATURDAy CRAFTERNOONS • The WylyArt Center offers Saturday Crafternoons from11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. It’s for all ages;kids 4 and under must bring a parent. The costis $5 per project. Info: 927-4123.

BRIDGE • The Carbondale Bridge Clubmeets at the Senior Matters room in the ThirdStreet Center Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Youmust have a partner and the fee is $3 per per-son. Info: 963-0425.

CARBONDAlE lIBRARy • The Carbon-dale Branch Library holds Family Story Timeevery Wednesday at 10:30 a.m., andTablab/Wii Gaming at 4 p.m. on Thursdays.

PATHFINDERS • The grief and loss supportgroup Pathfinders meets at Core Healing Arts1101 Village Road, Suite 2D) from 6 to 7:30p.m. on the first and third Monday of themonth. Pathfinders is a non-profit, psychoso-cial support program for people dealing withchronic illness, disability, bereavement. Info:pathfindersforcancer.org or 319-6854 or925-1226.


Community Briefs Please submit your community briefs to [email protected] by noon on Monday.

Help solve thorny problemsThe deadline to apply to join Carbondale’s

Noxious Weed Management Task Force isJune 26. The task force will advise the towntrustees as they draft an integrated weedmanagement plan, and will work with mem-bers of the E-board and Parks and RecreationCommission. Address letters to: Larry Bal-lenger, Town of Carbondale, 511 ColoradoAve., Carbondale, CO 81623. Info: 510-1217or [email protected].

On a related noteTrustees AJ Hobbs is organizing a weekly

weed-pulling effort at North Face Bike Park,as promised when the board approved previ-ously approved a weed eradication projectusing chemicals. The community weed pullswill take place at 5 p.m. every Thursday andcontinue until sunset. For details, call Hobbsat 618-9213.

CR106 updateAt Monday’s meeting, the Garfield County

Board of County Commissioners decided tomove continued discussion of County Road106 through CRMS from July 13 to July 20.The reason: one of the commissioners willbe out of town on July 13 so there will notbe a meeting.

Tosho Con: Call for workThe Carbondale Branch Library is seek-

ing submissions for a teen art contest to takeplace during “Tosho Con: A Fandom Festi-val” on July 15. Participants must be be-

tween 14-18. Submissions are due at the li-brary by 5 p.m. on July 14. The winner willbe given free registration to the Aspen WordsSummer graphic novel workshop that willtake place the week of July 27. For more in-formation, call 963-2889.

Fair volunteers head onlineFolks can now sign up for a Mountain

Fair volunteer shift (or shifts) at carbon-dalearts.com. Get your prime spots now:trash on Saturday and Sunday morning,Peace Patrol on Friday night, T-shirt sales anytime. Volunteers who put in four hours re-ceive a 44th annual Mountain Fair T-shirt.Info: carbondalearts.com or 963-1680.

Basalt hosting free music seriesCircle Wednesdays on your calendar for

July 8 through Aug. 12, as Basalt is offeringup a free series in Lions Park starting with theBo Hale Treatment (classic rock), followed byCrowlin Ferlies (Celtic bluegrass) on July 15,the Starletts (Motown/soul) on July 22, theDrunken Hearts (alt-Americana) on July 29,Latin Jazz Express (Afro-Cuban jazz) on Aug.5, and Trout Steak Revival (Colorado blue-grass) on Aug. 12. Each show starts at 6 p.m.

Sign up nowThe Wilderness Workshop, and Mary

Harris of the Roaring Fork chapter of theAudubon Society, go on a free birding walk atHay Park (the base of Mt. Sopris) from 7 a.m.to 1 p.m. on July 8. Registration is required atwildernessworkshop.org. For details, call510-0697.

Have a blast in KremmlingThere are a few spots left in Colorado

Parks and Wildlife’s women-only “Cast, Blastand Twang” in Kremmling on June 27.Women can learn the basics of fly-fishing,archery and how to handle a shotgun. No ex-perience or equipment is required. The fee is$20 and pre-registration is required. For de-tails, call 970-725-6200.

Emergency 911 callsHere are the Carbondale & Rural Fire

Protection District’s 911 calls for the week

of June 14-20:• Medical emergencies (8);• Swift water responses (3);• Fire alarm responses (3);• Trauma emergencies (2);• Motor vehicle accidents (2);• Requests for standby (2);• Citizen assist (1);• Community event (1);• Unauthorized burning (1);• Structure fire/assist Glenwood Springs

Fire Department (1);• Smoke sighting/nothing found (1).


The Task Force will review the Colorado Noxious Weed Act and make recom-mendations to the Trustees on the development of a Town of CarbondaleIntegrated Weed Management Plan that will meet the requirements of the Act.The Task Force will be comprised of a member of the Board of Trustees, a mem-ber of the Parks and Recreation Commission, a member of The EnvironmentalBoard and four knowledgeable Carbondale community members. If you areinterested in serving on the Task Force, please submit a letter of interest to theTown of Carbondale.

Letters of Interest are due by June 26, 2015.Contact

Larry Ballenger at:510-1217 Office618-7254 Cell

[email protected]

Address letters to:Larry Ballenger

Town of Carbondale511 Colorado Avenue

Carbondale, CO 81623

NOXIOUS WEED TASK FORCE OPENINGSThe Town of Carbondale is forming a

Noxious Weed Management Task Force to advise the Mayor and the Board of Trustees on the

Control of noxious weeds on public lands andright-of-ways within the Town of Carbondale.

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Town wideBy John ColsonSopris Sun Staff Writer

Carbondale’s Environmental Board this week recom-mended that the town expand its ban on plastic shoppingbags to include all businesses, instead of just City Market,the town’s largest grocery store and its biggest generator ofsales tax revenues.

The E-Board, as it is known, on Monday approved a pro-posed ordinance to be sent on to the town’s Board of Trustees.

It was the E-Board that came up with the town’s exist-ing bag ban, passed in 2011, which outlaws the use of plas-tic shopping bags by all grocery stores larger than 3,500square feet, and requires grocery stores to charge a 20-centfee on any paper grocery bags handed out to customerswho do not have a reusable bag for their purchases.

A portion of that fee can be retained by the grocer, foruse in educating consumers about the bag ban, under theoriginal ordinance.

The proposal to expand the bag-ban came up duringan April 21 work session of the board of trustees and theE-Board, where it was mentioned by Trustee A.J. Hobbs,who also sits on the E-Board.

Trustee Frosty Merriott also raised the possibility of ban-ning plastic water bottles within town limits, but there wasno supporting discussion by the two boards.

The ordinance forwarded by the E-Board to the trusteeswould be an amendment to the 2011 law, applying it to

“any business operating within town limits,” as part of thetown’s “duty to protect the public health, safety and wel-fare, including the natural environment and the health ofits citizens and visitors,” according to the text of the pro-posed ordinance passed on Monday night.

The proposal is based on the E-Board’s finding that “theuse of all single-use shopping bags (plastic and paper) hasseveral environmental impacts on a local and global scale,including greenhouse gas emissions, litter, harm to wildlife,atmospheric acidification, water consumption and solidwaste generation.”

The language of the proposed ordinance also concludesthat, despite efforts to the contrary, “very few disposablecarryout bags are recycled” and end up in landfills orswirling around in the winds and the oceans, blockingstorm drains and creating other environmental problems.

The E-Board estimates that fewer than five percent ofthe roughly two-billion bags used every year in Coloradoare recycled.

The board also concluded that the use of disposablepaper bags is only marginally better than plastic, “becausethe production of these types of bags contributes to naturalresource depletion (in the form of trees cut down for pulp),greenhouse gas emissions and waterborne wastes.”

Plastic bags also are known to be a constituent compo-nent of large, swirling masses of ocean-born trash that areconcentrated in what are known as “gyre” currents, mostnotably in the Pacific Ocean.

According to the Smithsonian Institute’s “Ocean Portal,”

a website dedicated to oceanic information, the North Pa-cific Gyre is formed by four major ocean currents converg-ing together, and is also known at the “eastern Pacificgarbage patch.”

First publicly discussed in the 1990s, the patch is esti-mated to contain up to eight million metric tons of plastictrash, which can drown or otherwise incapacitate fish andbirds when they are entangled in the mess.

One aspect of this garbage patch, according to theOcean Portal (or OP) information, is that, while the plasticdoes not biodegrade, it is slowly disintegrated by the sun’slight and heat into tiny particles that are being eaten by fishand fowl and even becoming hosts to a new kind of “mi-crobial ecosystem” that the OP describes as having an “un-known effect” on the larger ecology.

One way to combat the growth of the patch, the OP re-ports hopefully, is the banning of plastic shopping bags bygovernments around the world.

The new ordinance, if approved by the trustees, wouldbe effective as of Jan. 1, 2016, and would mandate that“disposable plastic bags shall not be sold or distributed, re-tail or wholesale, within town limits by any business.”

The ordinance leaves it to business owners whether theywant to sell or give away renewable bags to customers, andestablishes penalties for violation of the amended bag ban.

The ordinance calls for “large retail businesses” to con-tinue to sell disposable paper bags to customers at a cost of20-cents apiece, and to record the number of such bags soldand the amount of cash collected through the sales.

E-Board recommends expanding ban on plastic bags

By John ColsonSopris Sun Staff Writer

The debate was heated at times during Tuesday night’sBoard of Trustees meeting, when talk turned to enforcementof the town’s “open container” laws against drinking in pub-lic and how that affects the atmosphere at town-sponsoredconcerts in Sopris Park.

The issue came up in response to complaints from a Car-bondale man when he got a $130 ticket for bringing wine tothe park for a concert on June 14.

Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling told the trusteesthat he has given his officers permission to exercise “discre-tion” in such cases, but noted that the buck stops with himin this instance.

“It was my directive” that the officer followed, Schillingtold the trustees, most of whom seemed sympathetic to thedifficulties encountered by police enforcing the law.

Trustee Allyn Harvey, however, was testily critical of thepolice role in the incident.

“Going around and asking people to open their coolersis not discretion,” Harvey declared, adding that if the policesee someone with booze in the park they should simply“have them put it away” and caution the citizens againstfurther violations of the town’s laws.

“I find it offensive. I find it offensive that the trusteeswere blamed for it,” Harvey continued, in a reference to re-marks by Schilling indicating that he was acting on thetrustee’s orders.

Schilling assured the trustees that he has talked with hisofficers about his policies, noting, “I’ll guarantee you, search-ing coolers was not OK. That’s not the way we’ve done it.”

At another point in the meeting, Schilling commented,“Warnings would have been appropriate,” and described an-other enforcement episode when police found people drink-ing at Miners Park and issued warnings rather than tickets.

Trustee Pam Zentmyer, while sympathetic to the cops, saidshe agreed with Harvey that the police attitude should not be,“let’s go in there and be heavy-handed” at a public event.

It was generally agreed that what is needed is more de-tailed signs than the existing signs at the parks, whichstate that dogs and glass containers are not allowed, butsay nothing about prohibitions against public consump-tion of alcohol.

Mayor Stacey Bernot recalled having seen a sign oncethat depicted a dog with a cigarette between its lips and abottle of beer in its paw, overlaid with the standard red cir-cle with a slash indicating such behavior is prohibited.

After the laughter died down, she said she was unsurewhere she saw it, “but it covered all the elements. And it’snot derogatory in any way. It just says, ‘don’t do this stuffin the park.’”

Trustee A.J. Hobbs agreed with the need for discretion and

better signs, but warned Schilling, “It could go very wrong,very quick, if we are too strict” in enforcing such laws.

Schilling, after assuring the trustees he would work onthe issue, noted that his officers had reported that one ac-tivity he might have expected was nowhere in evidence —the smoking of pot by concert attendees. Pot use is legal foranyone over 21 in Colorado, but not in public.

“The guys told me they didn’t see one person that wassmoking at the concert,” he reported happily.

“Hats on” to Steve Skinner (left) and Louis Meyer (right) for dressing for the occasion at the Rotary Club ofCarbondale’s annual Happening at the Orchard. It’s the club’s biggest fund-raiser of the year and helps itdonate thousands of dollars to local non-profits. Photo by Jane Bachrach


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The Wyly Art Center presents “Reinterpreta-tions: what you think you know to be true,” fea-turing paintings by Basalt High School studentSavy Cheatham with mentor Nancy Lovendahl.

“Reinterpretations” features acrylic, wa-tercolor and ink portraits. The show runsthrough July 4. Gallery hours are Tuesdaythrough Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Originally, I explored the reinterpreta-tion of places, real or imaginary, and howdifferent people perceived them differently,”Cheatham said. “Later in the year, I began tofocus on drawing.”

This exhibition is offered through TheClaudette Carter Art Mentors Program foryoung women and is directed by internation-ally known artists Nancy Lovendahl. Eachyear, Lovendahl and Ingrid Magidson workone-on-one with a Basalt High School andRoaring Fork High School junior from Sep-tember through June. Students learn first-handwhat it takes to become a working artist. Theyare introduced to the full cycle of the exhibi-

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Upon successful completion of the men-torship, the student helps to select the nextyear’s mentee. The program is for a highschool junior who is considering the arts as acareer path. “This mentorship is invaluable inapplying for admission and scholarships tocolleges,” said a Wyly spokeswoman.

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The Wyly Art Center will feature SarahPeterson in a show titled “Retrospective: In-timate Gestures.” The opening is scheduledfor 5 to 7 p.m. on July 10. The show featuresPeterson’s watercolors. She will discuss herwork at the Wyly at 5:30 p.m. on July 9. Sheis also the recipient of the Wyly’s CreativeForce award for 2015.

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whose increases have ranged from 12 to 84 percent.These valuations are in the protest period with the threecounty assessors — Garfield, Gunnison and Pitkin —and the preliminary assessed valuations will not beavailable to the Fire District until Aug. 25. These valu-ations are what the fire district uses to determine the2016 budget. This is complicated, but do all of us knowwe need more taxes for the fire district if we don’t knowhow much the fire district will be getting for 2016?

Fourth, the Roaring Fork School District is planningto ask voters in its district for approval to issue bondsand increase the mill levy to pay for those bonds. Thisprocess is still in the development state. What the milllevy increase the school district will be asking for hasnot been determined. I am concerned that the local gov-ernments will be asking for too much at the same time.

Fifth, there will be a question on the ballot from thestate of Colorado dealing with a tax refund or per-mission to expend funds on specific projects andgroups. At this time it appears to me a very complexballot issue; does the fire district want to compete forthe attention of the voters in November for this issue?On my 2014 property tax statement, due in 2015, is11 different governmental programs with taxing au-thority. Will all 11 of these governmental taxing agen-cies take full advantage of the increased propertyvaluations or will some of them curtail their expendi-tures for 2015 and reduce the amount of taxes theyare able to collect? Colorado Mountain College hasalready stated it will maintain their tuition levels forresidents and to do so take full advantage of the in-creased property valuations. Which other govern-mental agencies utilize the full valuation increase,including the largest benefiter of the increased valua-tions, the Roaring Fork School District.

Sixth, the Fire District Board approved the staff ofthe fire district to compete a comprehensive wage and

benefit survey. Are the wages and benefits of the Car-bondale and Rural Fire Protection District competitivewith the other fire agencies in the Roaring Fork Valley,or do adjustments need to be made? If so, which per-sonnel — all or the lower ranks? Will this survey re-quire additional funds or reduced funds? It will not beknown until the survey is completed and the Fire Dis-trict Board reviews it.

Seventh, when the 2004 master plan was devel-oped, all of the district board members and manage-ment staff have continued to serve the fire district insome fashion — as board members, staff, consultantsor newly elected board members. Using my crystal ball,I forecast that all of the Fire District Board membersand upper management of the fire district, will nolonger be with the organization. I hate to admit it, buta majority of us are getting old and will be moving on.The 2015 master plan must be written so that the fu-ture Fire District Board and management will need torely on the documents and not the institutional mem-ory of us old guys. So what is the hurry?

The Carbondale and Rural Fire Protection Districtis at a critical turning point for the future. The citizens,the Master Plan Steering Committee and the Fire Dis-trict Board are making decisions for the next 10 years.That year is 2026! The United States will have elected,or reelected, three presidents by the time this plan iscompleted. So what is the hurry, and why do we needvote on more taxes in November? If needed, the FireDistrict Board can offer the voters a chance to reviewits tax levy in May of 2016 without the competing is-sues that they will be facing in the November election.

Thank you for your consideration.

Carl L. Smith is a board member of the Carbondaleand Rural Fire Protection District, and holds a BSin public administration.

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CARBONDALE TOWN OF 2015 Drinking Water Quality Report For Calendar Year 2014

Public Water System ID: CO0123167Esta es información importante. Si no la pueden leer, necesitan que alguien se la traduzca.

We are pleased to present to you this year’s water quality report. Our constant goal is to provide you with a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. Please contact MARK O’MEARA at 970-963-3140 with any questions about the Drinking Consumer Confidence Rule (CCR) or for public participation opportunities that may affect the water quality.

General InformationAll drinking water, including bottled water, may reason-ably be expected to contain at least small amounts ofsome contaminants. The presence of contaminants doesnot necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk.More information about contaminants and potentialhealth effects can be obtained by calling theEnvironmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking WaterHotline (1-800-426-4791) or by visitinghttp://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants.Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminantsin drinking water than the general population.Immunocompromised persons such as persons with can-cer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have under-gone organ transplants, people with HIV-AIDS or otherimmune system disorders, some elderly, and infants canbe particularly at risk of infections. These peopleshould seek advice about drinking water from theirhealth care providers. For more information about con-taminants and potential health effects, or to receive acopy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk ofinfection by Cryptosporidium and microbiological con-taminants call the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at(1-800-426-4791).The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottledwater) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs,springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface ofthe land or through the ground, it dissolves naturallyoccurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive mate-rial, and can pick up substances resulting from the pres-ence of animals or from human activity. Contaminantsthat may be present in source water include:• Microbial contaminants: viruses and bacteria that maycome from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agri-cultural livestock operations, and wildlife.• Inorganic contaminants: salts and metals, which canbe naturally-occurring or result from urban stormwaterrunoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oiland gas production, mining, or farming.• Pesticides and herbicides: may come from a variety ofsources, such as agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, andresidential uses.• Radioactive contaminants: can be naturally occurringor be the result of oil and gas production and miningactivities.• Organic chemical contaminants: including syntheticand volatile organic chemicals, which are byproducts ofindustrial processes and petroleum production, and alsomay come from gas stations, urban storm water runoff,and septic systems.In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, theColorado Department of Public Health and Environmentprescribes regulations limiting the amount of certain con-taminants in water provided by public water systems.The Food and Drug Administration regulations establishlimits for contaminants in bottled water that must providethe same protection for public health.

Lead in Drinking WaterIf present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious healthproblems (especially for pregnant women and young chil-dren). It is possible that lead levels at your home may behigher than other homes in the community as a result ofmaterials used in your home’s plumbing. If you are con-cerned about lead in your water, you may wish to haveyour water tested. When your water has been sitting forseveral hours, you can minimize the potential for leadexposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 min-utes before using water for drinking or cooking.Additional information on lead in drinking water, testingmethods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure isavailable from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791) or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.

Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP)The Colorado Department of Public Health andEnvironment has provided us with a Source WaterAssessment Report for our water supply. For generalinformation or to obtain a copy of the report please visithttp://wqcdcompliance.com/ccr. The report is locatedunder “Source Water Assessment Reports”, and then“Assessment Report by County”. Select GARFIELDCounty and find 123167; CARBONDALE TOWN OF orby contacting MARK O’MEARA at 970-963-3140. TheSource Water Assessment Report provides a screening-level evaluation of potential contamination that couldoccur. It does not mean that the contamination has or willoccur. We can use this information to evaluate the need toimprove our current water treatment capabilities and pre-pare for future contamination threats. This can help usensure that quality finished water is delivered to yourhomes. In addition, the source water assessment resultsprovide a starting point for developing a source waterprotection plan. Potential sources of contamination in oursource water area are listed on the next page. The Townof Carbondale has submitted a revised SWAP to the Statein 2015, it is available on line on the Town web site underthe Utility Department directory.Please contact us to learn more about what you can do tohelp protect your drinking water sources, any questionsabout the Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report,to learn more about our system, or to attend scheduledpublic meetings. We want you, our valued customers, tobe informed about the services we provide and the qualitywater we deliver to you every day.

Summary of Disinfectants Sampled in the Distribution System

Contaminant Name Month Results Sample Size

TT Requirement TT Violation

Typical Sources

Chlorine Lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting TT requirement: 100%

0 For any two consecutive months, At least 95% of samples (per month) must be detectable

No Water additive used to control microbes

Lead and Copper Sampled in the Distribution System

Contaminant Name Time Period 90th Percentile Sample Size

Unit of Measure

90th Percentile

AL

Sample Sites

Above AL

90th Percentile AL

Exceedance

Typical Sources

Copper 09/17/2014 to 09/18/2014

0.61 20 ppm 1.3 No Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of

natural deposits

Lead 09/17/2014 to 09/18/2014

4.1 20 ppb 15 1 No Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of

natural deposits

Detected ContaminantsCARBONDALE TOWN OF routinely monitors for contaminants in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table(s) show all detec-tions found in the period of January 1 to December 31, 2014 unless otherwise noted. The State of Colorado requires us to monitor for certain contaminants less thanonce per year because the concentrations of these contaminants are not expected to vary significantly from year to year, or the system is not considered vulnerableto this type of contamination. Therefore, some of our data, though representative, may be more than one year old. Violations and Formal Enforcement Actions, ifany, are reported in the next section of this report.Note: Only detected contaminants sampled within the last 5 years appear in this report. If no tables appear in this section then no contaminants were detected in thelast round of monitoring.

Terms and Abbreviations

• Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) − The highest level of a contaminant allowed in drinking water.• Treatment Technique (TT) − A required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water.• Action Level (AL) − The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment and other regulatory requirements.• Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL) − The highest level of a disinfectant allowed in drinking water. There is convincing evidence that addition of a disinfectantis necessary for control of microbial contaminants.• Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) − The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for amargin of safety.• Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal (MRDLG) − The level of a drinking water disinfectant, below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLGsdo not reflect the benefits of the use of disinfectants to control microbial contaminants.• Violation (No Abbreviation) − Failure to meet a Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulation.• Formal Enforcement Action (No Abbreviation) − Escalated action taken by the State (due to the risk to public health, or number or severity of violations) to bring a non-compliant water system back into compliance.• Variance and Exemptions (V/E) − Department permission not to meet a MCL or treatment technique under certain conditions.• Gross Alpha (No Abbreviation) − Gross alpha particle activity compliance value. It includes radium-226, but excludes radon 222, and uranium.• Picocuries per liter (pCi/L) − Measure of the radioactivity in water.• Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) − Measure of the clarity or cloudiness of water. Turbidity in excess of 5 NTU is just noticeable to the typical person.• Compliance Value (No Abbreviation) – Single or calculated value used to determine if regulatory contaminant level (e.g. MCL) is met. Examples of calculated values are the90th Percentile, Running Annual Average (RAA) and Locational Running Annual Average (LRAA).• Average (x-bar) − Typical value. • Range (R) − Lowest value to the highest value.• Sample Size (n) − Number or count of values (i.e. number of water samples collected).• Parts per million = Milligrams per liter (ppm = mg/L) − One part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000.• Parts per billion = Micrograms per liter (ppb = ug/L) − One part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2,000 years, or a single penny in $10,000,000.• Not Applicable (N/A) – Does not apply or not available.

Our Water Sources

Source Source Type Water Type Potential Source(s) of Contamination

WELL RFWF NO 1 Well Groundwater UDI Surface Water Septic systems transportation and roadways, agricultural practices, solid/hazardous waste, gravel pits, developed and degraded riparian areas and, future land use planning



WELL CRYSTAL RIVER NO 2 Well Groundwater

Septic systems oil and gas operations, wildfire, residential practices, agricultural practices, above/below ground storage tanks and, degraded riparian areas future land use planning

SOUTH NETTLE CREEK DIVERSION Intake Surface Water

The highest priority potential contaminant sources and/or issues of concern are wildfire residential, agricultural, storm water, agriculture, outdoor recreation and, camping and hiking

NORTH NETTLE CREEK DIVERSION Intake Surface Water

The highest priority potential contaminant sources and/or issues of concern are wildfire residential, agricultural, storm water, agriculture, outdoor recreation and, camping and hiking



Inorganic Contaminants Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System

Contaminant Name Year Average Range Low – High

Sample Size

Unit of Measure

MCL MCLG MCL Violation

Typical Sources

Barium 2014 0.05 0.04 to 0.06 2 ppm 2 2 No Discharge of drilling wastes; discharge from metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits

Fluoride 2014 0.09 0 to 0.18 2 ppm 4 4 No Erosion of natural deposits; water additive which promotes strong teeth; discharge from fertilizer

and aluminum factories

Nitrate

Nettle Creek Treatment Plant

Roaring Fork Treatment Plant

2014

0.49

0.36

0.43 0.36 to 1 3 ppm 10 10 No Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks, sewage; erosion of natural deposits

Nitrite

2014

0 to 0.01 2 ppm 1 1 No Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks, sewage; erosion of natural deposits

Unregulated or Secondary Contaminants** **Secondary standards are non-enforceable guidelines for contaminants that may cause cosmetic effects (such as skin, or tooth discoloration) or aesthetic effects (such as taste, odor, or

color) in drinking water.


Sample Size Unit of Measure Secondary Standard

Total Dissolved Solids 2014 157.32 346 to 395 2 ppm 500

Violations, Significant Deficiencies, and Formal Enforcement Actions

Violations

Name Category Time Period Health Effects Compliance Value

TT Level or MCL

CHLORINE RES DISINFECT CONCENTRATION (SWTR) - TREATMENT TECHNIQUE

10/01/2014 - 10/31/2014 Some people who use water containing chlorine well in excess of the MRDL

could experience irritating effects to their eyes and nose. Some people who drink

water containing chlorine well in excess of the MRDL could experience stomach

discomfort.

0.2 MG/L .09 MG/L

Additional Violation Information

Note: If any violation relates to failing to install adequate filtration or disinfection equipment or processes, or have had a failure of such equipment or processes then the water may be inadequately treated. Inadequately treated water may contain disease-causing organisms. These organisms include bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can cause symptoms such as nausea, cramps, diarrhea, and associated headaches. Explanation of the violation(s) and the steps taken to resolve them: On October 1, 2014 the recorded disinfectant residuals from our on line instrumentation dropped to below 0.2 mg/L for 21 hours at the Nettle Creek Treatment Plant site ID.#007 (from 12:30 pm . September 30, 2014 to 9:00am. October 1, 2014). The standard is that levels may not drop below 0.2 mg/l for more than 4 hours. An automated valve on the disinfection feed system had failed to fully open, this was immediately repaired. The problem was resolved by 9:15am October 1, 2014. This episode included a failure on the on call alarm system which failed to notify staff of the low disinfection level. Disinfection residual testing was performed immediately at the entry point to the distribution system. Actual laboratory results of the chlorine residual level were measured to be 0.23m g/1 while the reporting instrumentation was reading 0.09mg/l. Upon repair, the disinfection residual was adjusted to standard operational levels. Failure of the alarm system was addressed for early detection and on call personnel call out . A public notification was sent out on December 3rd via E-Mail and posting on the web site.

On September 2, 2014 annual standardization and calibration was performed on the instrumentation by factory representatives at the Roaring Fork Treatment Plant. The output recorder signal had been changed from 0-1 to 0-100 which amplified the scaling span by l00. This in turn placed the recorded values to zero on the instrumentation used for compliance. The remedial action to this was to average the filtrate turbidity values for reporting. This did not enact a treatment technique violation or violation of drinking water quality.

Published June 25, 2015 in The Sopris Sun.

Total Organic Carbon (Disinfection Byproducts Precursor) Removal Ratio of Raw and Finished Water


Sample Size

Unit of Measure

TT Minimum Ratio

TT Violation Typical Sources

Total Organic Carbon Ratio 2014 All TOC tests were below reporting limit�

1 to 1 4 Ratio 1.00 No Naturally present in the environment

*If minimum ratio not met and no violation identified then the system achieved compliance using alternative criteria.

Summary of Turbidity Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System

Contaminant Name Sample Date Level Found TT Requirement TT Violation

Typical Sources

Turbidity Nettle Creek Treatment

Plant Roaring Fork Treatment

Plant

Date/Month: September

September

Highest single measurement: 0.999 NTU

0.66

Maximum 1 NTU for any single measurement

No Soil Runoff

Turbidity Month:

Lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting TT requirement for our technology: 100 %

In any month, at least 95% of samples must be less than 0.3 NTU

No Soil Runoff

Disinfection Byproducts Sampled in the Distribution System

Name Year Average Range Low – High

Sample Size

Unit of Measure

MCL MCLG Highest Compliance

Value

MCL Violation

Typical Sources

Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)

2014 2.8 2.4 to 3.2 2 ppb 60 N/A No Byproduct of drinking water disinfection

Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)

2014 7.5 6.8 to 8.2 2 ppb 80 N/A No Byproduct of drinking water disinfection

Radionuclides Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System


Sample Size

Unit of Measure

MCL MCLG MCL Violation

Typical Sources

Combined Radium 2012 0.2 0.2 to 0.2 1 pCi/L 5 0 No Erosion of natural deposits

Combined Uranium 2013 2.8 2.8 to 2.8 2 ppb 30 0 No Erosion of natural deposits

(Editor’s note: This is Hamilton Pevec’slatest installment from Nepal, where he ishelping to organize volunteer relief mis-sions to rural parts of the country).

By Hamilton PevecSpecial to The Sopris Sun

There is a feeling among all the reliefworkers and local people that when themonsoon hits, so will disaster. The surfacehas been loosened by earthquakes andprepped to wash away in the rain. “Themonsoon is coming” has added a new levelof urgency to our work.

At the beginning of June. Robin, Collin,Devika and myself went back to the Dalit vil-lage, Bonpale, to determine if they wanted tolearn to build earth bag houses. We knew wehad to pass through Palungtar, the villagethat previously ignored half of it inhabitantsbecause they were from a lower caste. I feltcompelled to go back and deliver the suppliesrequested by those excluded in an attempt tobalance things out, right the social injustice.On one hand it felt good, but on the other Icouldn’t help but wonder if this will only per-petuate the caste divisions. Just talking aboutit, even writing about it is a way of ac-knowledging that the system is in effect. I be-lieve that if you want to induce major socialchange, one must begin with the language.“Choose your words carefully.”

The villagers in Palungtar were well or-ganized. They had a list of requests and anorder of priority for the anticipated short-age. My wife, Devika, did very well inter-preting and being our liaison. In Palungtarshe explained to Laxman, as the villagers lis-tened: “You must give to the most needyfirst, make sure that the people are helpedfairly.” Laxman nodded in agreement. Hegave us a short tour of the houses that hadbeen damaged or destroyed.

There was one old woman living alone ina house with the end walls ready to collapse,leaning precariously outward. This has be-come a familiar look because the way themud and stone are joined at the corners, theend walls aren’t really connected to the sidewalls and bare little weight of the roof, sothey are the first to fall. Her buffalos werestill living under this leaning wall of stoneand mud 18-inches thick 15-feet tall. We in-structed her to move the buffalos, “butwhere?” she replied. The old woman wassleeping in someone else’s shelter. Now shewill have her own place and hopefully pro-tect her buffalos.

Recon in BonpaleBonpale, our next stop, sits on the side

of a paved road. The village had beenskipped by the NGOs. Half a mile on eitherside villages had received aid. This stop wasa reconnaissance mission. Is it possible tobuild an earth-bag house in Bonpale? Dothe villagers want it? I have revisited this vil-lage a few times. Each time I return I feelmore respect and admiration for these peo-ple; they are more kind, better organizedand more communicative than most otherplaces I’ve visited.

We spent about two hours doing siteanalysis. Robin and Collin decided that itwas possible to bring in supplies. We all satdown to have a village meeting and the vil-lagers unanimously agreed the rice fields

took precedent over building because thefields are a year’s worth of food. All the peo-ple in the village would be preparing the ricefields; the monsoon waits for no one.

Collin, from France, was spearheadingthe earth-bag project and was on a tight timelimit so he and Robin needed to find anothercandidate village. I was going to go withthem, but the timing overlapped with mynext mission, delivering corrugated tin to avery remote village in a district I had neverbeen to — Dhading.

Dhading (June 7)At first they wanted tin tunnel houses,

then we offered them only tin and the wholevillage agreed. They had already begun thewood-beam frames of their new homes andonly needed tin to complete the roof. A reliefworker named Micole, a 24-year-old singlemother and rare Nepali punk rocker withtattoos, was my village contact. When Iasked how she knows this village she ex-plained “It’s my mother’s ancestral home.”

I was nervous about this mission becauseit was so far away in a slide prone area andneeded a big budget. We spent over $2,500(U.S.) on tin and transportation, enough for32 homes. The morning of our departureour truck did not show up, amplifying mynervous condition. Three hours late, we hadthe truck loaded and I rode in the back asthe sun slowly heated the 4,000 pounds ofmaterials; it was my first time inside a solaroven. We also carried a load of medicines,sanitary pads and snacks.

The drive to Dhadingbesi (Dhading’scapital) took about five hours. Upon arrivalwe had to change trucks because the next legof the journey was four-wheel-drive only.

Dhadingbesi was crowded and busy. Theinflux of refugees was evidenced in the fewshelter camps that had been set up. Fancy-aid SUVs stood out among the old Mahin-dra four-wheelers. Within a few minutes ofarriving, randomly, Micole met a friend ofhers who she hadn’t seen in 12 years. “My

friend was shot in the arm during the revo-lution” she casually informed me. “She willfind us a four-by-four truck,” and she did!Two hours later we were slowly climbing upthe hill heading into the backcountry. Overlooking Dhadingbesi I could see sevenrefugee camps. We passed a big one and ourdriver told us that all these people were fromthe village where we were heading. It felt likea confirmation that we chose the right place.

Forest-fire smoke thickened the air. Ilaughed at the thought of adding wild firesto earthquakes and landslides. A fine beigeclay dust covered the road and most every-thing else around. A billowing dust cloudfollowed us up the mountain and filled ournostrils, as the windows on the truck did notclose. In some places the dust was eightinches deep, the cloud so thick we couldn’tsee three feet. The weather was good and Iprayed for it to stay that way because I couldnot imagine passing this road if it was wet.This was perhaps the single worst road Ihave been on, even by Nepali standards. Wecrawled in 4-low until we reached our relaypoint six hours later.

The villagers were waiting in the nightfor us in a dirty roadside village calledDharkaphedi. People spooned togethersleeping on tarps in the road under the stars.The steep valley walls left few options. Everyflat spot near the buildings was taken. WhenI asked where I could put my tent theycouldn’t tell me. When I looked around fiveguys came with me. It felt strange. Micolewhispered to me “They are worried aboutyou. They say this is a dangerous village thatyou need to stay close.” I was too tired andout of it to take them seriously.

I walked down the road and up the hill ashort ways and found a suitable spot. In thenight I heard falling rocks crashing, but thedistant river flowing 1,500 feet below wasquiet and soothing. At dawn I could see manycracks in the earth around where I slept.

The villagers began unloading the tin.“HamilTIN!”

Micole found me. “I was worried about you. I didn’t know

where you slept. Three guys came and sleptnext to you to protect you.”

“Really!?” I replied, because I didn’t hearanyone come close.

“Why would they do that?”Micole said, “They don’t trust these vil-

lagers. They were worried because you are aforeigner, you are here because of them.”

As the sun rose, the tin was distributed in10-piece bundles, each bundle weighingabout 140 pounds. They were rolled orstacked, then tied and secured in the tradi-tional Nepali way of carrying heavy loads

Nepalese expect disaster with upcoming monsoon


A full bundle of tin weighs 140 pounds andconsists of 10 pieces. Some villagers carriedpartial bundles. Photo by Hamilton Pevec

It took several hours to transport a load of tin and other supplies to where roads ended due to mudslides and April’s earthquakes. Afterdriving as far as they could, volunteers and others trekked in their loads for several more hours. With monsoon upon them, mostNepalese are worried that mudslides and flooding will make life even more difficult than it is now. Photo by Hamilton Pevec

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— a strap around the forehead so the spinecan take the weight. Men, women, youngand old — some with a full bundle — beganthe six-hour trek to our target destination.The physical strength of these people alwaysimpresses me.

We walked down to the river, crossing twoslide areas. The first is where the road gotwiped out, leaving only a single track to cross.The reconstruction had begun with six guyswatching one guy work. Going up the 50-de-gree slope in 110-degree heat with 95 percenthumidity felt normal to me. I had one of those“Wow” moments, realizing I have been herelong enough to handle these conditions.

Each village we passed was gone but stillthere. Piles of rubble had been transformedinto stacks of materials. The sound of toolsperforated the stillness, clacks and scrapes oflives being rebuilt. Some people used onlywood; others were stacking stone again.This area was mostly Tamang caste, speak-ing another dialect I had never heard thatsounded like Chinese.

The slow march carrying the heavy tin

loads up the mountain showed visibly on thesweaty faces. I must have drunk three litersof water every hour, refilling my bottle ateach spring. As we gained elevation the viewshowed many different slide areas pockingthe other hills, unhealed wounds, more dis-asters waiting to happen.

We rested in a bamboo grove at the peakof noon heat. Napping in the shade, and eat-ing cheese and bread, reminded me of thepersonal satisfaction I get from these supplymissions. The incline steepened after thenaps. Did my legs betray me?

Reaching our target, the village was a fa-miliar sight, everything ruined or damaged,wooden structures still standing. There weretwo collapsed churches. One was now ashelter. Basically the new tin roof held itsshape while the stone walls collapsed. Therewas no centralized village area. The farmswere spread out over the mountainside. Thepath led along the knife-edge of the ridge.Cracks in the earth along this side of themountain made me question the stability ofthe ground. I have heard that bamboo isgreat for maintaining surface integrity andthere was lots of it around.

That evening Dong, the 40-somethinghead of the village, wearing a cap that saidBOY, formally expressed his gratitude to me.I explained to him that I was just the deliv-ery guy. The money was coming from hun-dreds of people from all around the world.Dong was impressed with the quality of thetin. “Deri ramro,” he said. “Very nice.” Heinvited me to his shelter for dinner; I did mybest to respectfully decline. I went back tomy tent to eat my bread, cheese and honey.

Dangerous villageThe next day our host cracked open his

hive and gave me some honey and somefresh green bean coffee he had grown. Hewouldn’t let me pay for it and I felt weird.Micole relayed some stories to me she hadheard at Dong’s place. About 25 years ago aman from this village, who was a trekkingguide, found another man half dead in thesnow; his expedition had left him there todie. The local villager carried him down themountain and saved his life. The Frenchmanturned out to be a millionaire. Since then hehad built many schools, hospitals andchurches. Most of the infrastructure of thearea came from this one guy.

A few years back, a group of Frenchcame to the opening of a high school andwhile they were passing throughDharkaphedi, the relay point, the villagerstook the whole group hostage brandishingKhukuris, the traditional Nepali curvedblade weapon. The angry villagers said“Why do you go there? Why are you alwayshelping those other villagers, why don’t youhelp us?!” I don’t know if the situation gotresolved, but in the end the French group

had to be airlifted out. Micole went on totell me that a man was murdered by thosesame villagers. She gestured with her handshow his arms and legs were cut off.

Due to the timing and distance, we had togo back to Dharkaphedi because it waswhere the road ended. We wanted to campone night about a kilometer away fromthere. Even if the village was half as danger-ous as they say, we didn’t want to be therefor longer than we had to, or put ourselvesin a risky situation. We opted instead to tryto make it back to Dhadingbesi in one day.Another five hours of endless shaking. Thegood-old Mahindra provided a smooth ridecompared to the truck.

After five hours of dust and epic views wecrested the hill that overlooked Dhadingbesi.We stopped at the refugee camp to unload.One man told us there were about 200 peo-ple living there. I wondered if any of thosepeople would go back home now that therewould be a roof over their heads. But thetruth is that these people have left not be-cause of the condition of their houses, butthe instability of the mountainsides. They areafraid and I don’t blame them. I have toadmit that I am, too. I don’t want to do thesedeliveries anymore. At dawn I looked outover the valley. The air was cool, the pave-ment wet and dark clouds hung low in thenorth. The monsoon is here.

Hamilton Pevec is a documentary film-maker and former Carbondale resident.He and his Nepalese wife, Devika Gu-rung, live in Pokhara. He is not a trainedaid worker but is working to get suppliesinto isolated areas of Nepal.

Villagers at Dharkaphedi wait for relief supplies. Dharkaphedi is the last village beforeits road was washed out by a landslide. Hundreds of villages in rural parts of Nepal re-ceive food and supplies from NGOs and volunteer relief efforts. Some villagers are moreorderly than others as they step up for supplies. These residents of Dharkaphedi are look-ing toward a village leader who is counting them off. Photo by Hamilton Pevec

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Among the concerns expressed about theexemption, Trustee A.J. Hobbs wonderedabout Kroger’s commitment to honor Car-bondale’s emphasis on energy-efficient,green buildings in its commercial zones.

Carl Schmidtlein, a principal with theGalloway planning group, replied thatKroger is “very risk averse” and would be

striving to meet or exceed the town’s re-quirements in this arena.

Mayor Stacey Bernot commented thatshe believes Kroger will be a good partnerin the development process, which standsto benefit the town as well as the company,and said she feels that “this is not an overlyphased project, [but is] one that we can ap-preciate on its merits,” compared to theearlier, failed development projects at thesame site.

The waiver was approved unanimouslyby the trustees.

In other action the trustees:• Approved a liquor license for the up-

coming Mountain Fair, set for July 24-26in Sopris Park.

• Accepted an audit of the towns fi-nances for 2014, in which the auditors,McMahon and Associates, praised town fi-nance director Renae Gustine and otherstaffers for their thorough, reliable work inhandling the town’s finances.

• Approved a statement of conceptualsupport for a proposal to grant Wild &Scenic designation to 39 miles of the Crys-tal River, from its source to the diversionpoint for the Sweet Jessup ditch. The re-

quest came from a committee of activistsworking on the designation, made up ofvalley residents Dorothea Farris, BillJochems and Chuck Ogilby. Town staff willlook over a proposed Act of Congress doc-ument to make sure it does not containanything conflicting with Carbondale’s ex-isting water uses and plans for future wateruses linked to the Crystal River.

• Agreed to hire a traffic engineer tostudy circulation issues at the ClevelandPlace affordable housing neighborhood,where residents have complained abouttraffic hazards related to narrow streets andan alleyway that attracts speeding cars.

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By Barbara DillsSopris Sun Correspondent

Is it a spy story? A detective “whodunit”?Or a commentary on love? As you’ll soondiscover if you go, Thunder River Theater’s(TRTC’s) final show of the 2014-2015 sea-son, “Red Herring,” is all of that … andmore. To quote the press release: “Three lovestories, a murder mystery, and a nuclear es-pionage plot converge in this noir comedyabout marriage and other explosive devices.It’s 1952: America’s on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower’s on the cam-paign trail, and “I Love Lucy” is on Mondaynights. Meanwhile, Sen. Joe McCarthy’sdaughter just got engaged to a Soviet spy,and a Boston detective has to find out who

dumped the dead guy in the harbor or elselose out on a honeymoon in Havana.”

Sound crazy? It is. Crazy fun. Like a cir-cus with more than three rings. And plentyof clowns.

The actors—a cast that includes theever-amazing Bob Moore and SoL The-ater’s executive director, JenniferMichaud—each (except Michaud) playmultiple roles (18 total), which could behard to keep straight if they didn’t all do itso well. The set is equally mercurial, chang-ing often and fast, with feats of furnituremoving so clever and deft, they add to thefun and furious pace of the play. Moore(the funniest corpse alive in this play, hewas also Weller Martin in TRTC’s recent

production of “The Gin Game”) andMichaud (a tough-minded detective in“Red Herring,” she also played Stella in “AStreetcar Named Desire”) are joined byDavid Collier and Lisa Langer in theirTRTC debuts, and Sophie Sakson (most re-cently Ophelia in the TRTC production of“Hamlet”) and Chris Wheatley (last seenon the TRTC stage as Dale in “SomethingIntangible”). The play is directed by formerRFHS Principal Wendy Moore. While it isher directing debut at TRTC, Moore hasmany other such credits, including most re-cently at the helm of local playwrightKristin Carlson’s heralded “Unmarried inAmerica” at Vintage Theater in Aurora.

“Red Herring” is the third play by Michael

Hollinger to be produced by Thunder RiverTheater. He also wrote 2006’s “An EmptyPlate in the Café du Grand Boeuf” and2012’s “Ghost-Writer.” Hollinger is a formerstudent and colleague of TRTC’s artistic di-rector, Lon Winston.

“Red Herring” continues its romp June26, 27, 28, and July 2, 3, 4. Curtain is at 7:30p.m., except for the June 28 matinee, whichstarts at 2 p.m. Thunder River Theatre is lo-cated in downtown Carbondale on the redbrick walkway. Ticket prices are $25 foradults, $17 for 20-30 something youngadults, and $14 for full-time students. Tick-ets are available online at www.thunder-rivertheatre.com. Further information orinquiries at 970-963-8200.

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