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A week ago Friday Vail reported 9 to 10 inches in what some were fearing was the last powder day of the year.

They were wrong. Snowfall continued to fall this week

and especially this weekend, bringing snowfall totals for the last 8 days to 24 inches in Vail as of 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

Heavy snow and accidents closed Vail Pass in both directions again Friday, as numerous accidents and slippery condi-tions clogged traffic so badly that au-thorities were forced to stop motorists for more than three hours on both sides of the 10,000-foot pass.

Despite the trouble on the roads Fri-day, front-range skiers were able to make it in Saturday morning with mini-mal problems, and were excited by what greeted them.

“I am absolutely stoked to be here and be seeing all this snow,” said Andy

Smith, who drove up from the Longmont area Saturday morning and was among the first chair crowd at Beaver Creek. “I thought the season was over, boy was I wrong. Hopefully it will continue.”

Smith speaks for many in his hope for a late season barrage of snow. Season to-tals for Vail were 248 inches for the sea-son as of Saturday, which would mean we have another 100 inches coming in the next three weeks if Vail were to hit the 350 inch average the area boasts.

However, since Vail received nearly 900 cumulative inches for the two pre-ceding seasons, the resort is still well above average over the last three years.

Despite the hopes of many like Smith, the conditions are expected to lighten up.

“Expect mostly sunny conditions over the next couple days with highs around 45 today, 48 tomorrow,” reports the na-tional weather service.

Two weekends, two feetPowder lovers celebrate large late-season surge of snow

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Crowds gather in the Lionshead parking structure after the Vail structure filled up yesterday morning. Vail had reported 24 inches of new snowfall in the last eight days as of 5:30 a.m. Avery Cunliffe photo.

46 South Korean marines missing;

explosion unexplainedMilitary divers plunged into the wa-

ters near South Korea’s tense maritime border with North Korea on Saturday, searching in vain for 46 missing ma-rines from a naval ship that exploded and sank, officials said.

The exact cause of the explosion was unclear, but North Korea did not appear to be to blame, officials said. Families voiced their anger as hopes faded for the missing crew after the ship sank in one of South Korea’s worst naval disasters. Divers tried twice to get to the wreck-age, Rear Adm. Lee Ki-sik of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told lawmakers.

The explosion tore open the rear hull of the Cheonan, shut down its engine, wiped out power and caused the ship to sink a little over three hours later, the Joint Chiefs said. A survivor, Staff Sgt. Shin Eun-chong, 24, told relatives he

Four-time Olympian and Vail local Sar-ah Schleper, pic-tured here with her dad Buzz, is happy to be home in Vail after a successful come-back season that included two top-20 finishes at the Olympics and a U.S. national championship in slalom. She said she was excited to compete against longtime rival Caroline Lalive, a three-time Olym-pian, at the Direc-tors Invitational on Golden Peak yesterday.

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2 Vail Mountaineer Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Vail Valley lost a lot of character last Monday with the loss of a Valley favorite, Fred “Bullit” Diette, due to a stroke. He left this world surrounded by a room full of equally big characters telling old-day Vail Ski Patrol tales. Bullit, so nicknamed because of his famous speed down the hill while being probably one of the smallest men in the Patrol, was well remembered with great rounds of laughter while reminiscing about various colorful events; things that could have only happened in a by-gone time when rules of the moun-tain were few.

Although he was in the process of leaving this world for the next one, everyone in the room had the sense that he was enjoying the stories as well. Undoubtedly he could not have asked for any sweeter music to his ears than the chuckles of his old buddies, fondly “roast-ing” him, as he made that last journey.

Bullit was born May 4th, 1934 in Lowell, Vermont and after a successful skiing career heading the ski school at Okemo, Vermont and patrolling at the Camel Back Ski Area in Pennsylvania, he ventured to Colo-rado to join the young skiing community of Vail. While he deeply loved this valley, he remained a staunch and real Vermonter through every part of him. Colorful lan-guage is a recognized part of the Vermont dialogue, and he had it down to an art form. In any conversation with him you might as well be prepared for a blast of it and a good belly laugh as well.

A good friend to many in the area, his closest were his hunting friends, those he worked with in construction, and his Ski Patrol and Ski School comrades. His stories almost always included all of them as well as his fierce pride in being raised on a Vermont farm, developing a great love for tractors and draft horses that began as a young boy handling a team in the field.

And loyal to the end, Bullit’s wishes were that his ashes be returned to the Lowell, Vermont cemetery where many others of his family rest.

It was his wish that his funeral service be held there, but be assured, there will be one heck of a celebration for him in Eagle as weather becomes more fitting for large outdoor gatherings. The public will be well noti-fied when that date is determined.

Fred “Bullit” Diette is survived by sisters Connie Daigle of Newport Vermont, Claudette (Conrad) Hall of Zephyrhills, Florida and Poughkeepsie, New York, and Paulette (Vincent) Vitale of Moore, Oklahoma, and a brother, Maurice Diette (Sandra) of Colchester, Ver-mont. A daughter, Patricia Miles and a precious new grandaughter, Madyson Taylor of Connecticut.

He also had many beloved nieces and nephews.Condolences can be sent to Rosie Shearwood, PO

Box 114, Eagle, Co. 81631 to be forwarded to his fam-ily. Also, because of his love of children, donations may be made in his name to the Masonic/Greater Eagle Fire Toy Drive at PO Box 783, Eagle, Co., 81631.

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One person was pronounced deceased at the scene yesterday at a single vehicle rollover accident on Interstate 70 be-tween Wolcott and Eagle.

Colorado State patrol was notified of a crashed Jeep Wrangler with four pas-sengers yesterday around 2:39 p.m. The crash site was on eastbound Interstate 70 near milepost 149; after arriving on scene three people who were initially in the Jeep were found thrown from the ve-hicle, while one was found in the Jeep.

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Then it began to roll and collided with an animal fence. The vehicle continued to roll and three of the four occupants were ejected, while the right-side front-seat passenger remained in the vehicle.

The three surviving men were trans-ported by ambulance to Vail Valley Hospital. Alcohol, drugs, nor reckless driving factored in the fatal crash. Those transported to the hospital are alive and are reportedly not facing life-threatening injuries.

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You could walk away from your credit card debt, but you’re taking a chance, says a local credit counselor.

Susan Balcomb is The Debt Doctor. She makes her living listening to people explain the mess they’re in, then helping them forge a way out.

“Credit cards are unsecured debt, so there’s not much they can do, but they’re likely to do what they can,” Balcomb said. “The worst they can do is take you to court and get a judgment. That dings your credit. The odds are high that they’ll do it, especially if they have no communication from you.”

Because it’s an unsecured debt, it’s the one people will walk away from first, Balcomb said. The house and car you need. Credit cards are way down people’s lists.

But credit card companies are not going to play nice. You owe them money and they want it.

They can attach bank accounts. In some bankruptcy cases, trustees have been known to give credit card holders some assets.

They don’t care if you want to go on vacation, or if you owe other credit card companies. They care that they get paid, Balcomb said.

They’ll all take most of the same steps.First, you get a letter that says your account is being

turned over to a collection agency or an attorney. Then the attorneys fees start rolling up.

Then they’ll reduce your lines of credit so they’re maxed out. After that, they’ll raise the interest rates and fees as high as they can, under the new federal regulations.

“You’ll end up paying the attorney fees, higher inter-est rates, and with no more use of the card,” Balcomb said. “Ultimately, it will end up in a judgment against you – they can get a property judgment, attach bank accounts. Any number of things.”

They could garnish your wages, but unless you have a pretty good paying job, they probably won’t, Balcomb said. If you really cannot pay because of job loss or in-creased expenses, you might qualify for a hardship.

“All companies, including credit card companies, will ask you to define your hardship,” Balcomb said. “If you’re on unemployment, that’s an automatic hard-ship. People in the construction industry have a shot at a hardship. It’s a hardship if you have a medical condi-tion that keeps you from working.”

What to doYou need information, especially how much money

you have and what you need to survive, Balcomb said.“You need to keep a roof over your head, get your car

down the road to your job or to look for a job, and to provide food for your family. That’s your spending plan. Now you know what you have to work with,” she said.

Let’s say your minimum credit card payments are $1,500 and you have $1,000 left to pay them. You know that you have two-thirds of what you need. Now you need to try to talk to your credit card companies and explain that.

“A lot of them are coming around to the fact that get-ting something is better than getting nothing,” Balcomb said. “They’ll want to see some sort of financial report, but you don’t have to give it to them.”

Debt relief industryCompanies are popping up like kudzu that say they’ll

negotiate with credit card companies on your behalf. Some have tens of thousands of clients, and can make credit card companies understand that there is strength in numbers.

Those debt relief companies also have experts who have already talked to credit card companies, so they know who to talk to and how to talk to them, Balcomb said.

“When an individual calls and they get someone who listen to nothing anyone says, callers either get mad or cower down,” Balcomb said.

Most claim they can slash your credit card debt by 50 percent, but the legitimate ones are careful not to guarantee that.

“Marketing is one thing and actual production is an-other,” Balcomb said. “They cannot make promise that they can get a 50 percent reduction on your credit card debt. They can tell you what their average is.”

They do it for a living, and their fees usually run be-tween 6 percent and 20 percent, Balcomb said.

Usually, you make monthly deposits into a bank ac-count the company sets up for you. At the same time, you stop making payments to credit card companies. When the collection calls start rolling in, you send them to the debt relief company.

Eventually, the credit card company gets together with the debt relief company and they strike a deal to settle – usually in the neighborhood of 50 cents on the dollar, sometimes less. The credit card company is paid from the savings account into which you’ve been pay-ing.

But let the borrower beware.“Scams are everywhere,” Balcomb said. “There are

many ways to scam the public out of their money and not provide what you need or paid for. The public needs education to see those things coming, and how to get the information they need to protect their assets.

Other debt relief companies will pay your creditors a percentage of what you owe, based on the amount of money you have to pay them, Balcomb said. You will still pay your total debt, but they’ll reduce fees and in-terest rates to help you work through it faster.

“Then you’ll want to follow up with lenders to make sure it’s happening, because it is your money,” Bal-comb said. “And get a contract with an exit clause, in case you want out, Balcomb said.

Like any relationship, communication is the key. When credit card companies start calling, and they will, pick up the phone and talk to them. If they don’t want to to work with you, then they’re taking their chances.

“Bankruptcy is your last step. Working with your creditors is your first step,” Balcomb said. “Being in debt and losing everything you worked for is pretty emotional. People have to remember that they can get through it and it will be better on the other side. Right now it just sucks.”

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The Dillon Ranger District of the White River National Forest is pro-posing several changes to the fees charged for use of recreation facili-ties on or around the Green Moun-tain Reservoir. Green Mountain Reservoir receives about 34,000 visitors during the season of May through October, many from the Vail Valley, with the high use oc-curring in July and August. The proposed increase in fees would be used to offset increased operating expenses for the recreation facilities at the Green Mountain Reservoir.

The Forest Service has been looking at a fee increase for Green Mountain for the past three years. The current fee structure for facili-ties at Green Mountain Reservoir, in place since 1997 when the area was designated a recreation fee site, does not generate sufficient revenue to offset the increasing cost of op-erating or upgrading the facilities. This fee proposal was developed with the help of representatives of Heeney businesses, local recreation users, and other organizations.

The District proposes to charge $13 per campsite per night for camping (current fee is $5 per ve-hicle). This allows a group to have two vehicles parked in a camping spur. For groups with more than two vehicles, an additional $5 per vehicle per night would be charged. A $65 season pass which would provide an individual or family un-limited camping at any of the camp-grounds all summer would continue to be offered.

The proposed fee schedule would apply to Prairie Point, McDonald Flats, Cataract Creek, Elliot Creek, Willows, Cow Creek North, and Cow Creek South campgrounds. “The proposed fees are comparable to those charged at Dillon Reser-

voir and the Arapaho National Rec-reation Area at Grand Lake,” says Ken Waugh, Dillon Ranger District Recreation Staff Officer.

There will no longer be a fee at the trailheads in the Cataract area (Surprise, Eaglesmere, and Cata-ract Lake). There also will be no fee for day use (fishing, picnicking, or boating) unless vehicles or per-sons are occupying a camping site. There will no longer be a fee to park at the McDonald Flats Boat Ramp.

Specific comments about the fee amount, the season pass, and the per site fee structure are especially de-sired. The public is asked to submit comments to this proposal by mail-ing comments to Jan Cutts, Dillon Ranger District, P.O. Box 620, Sil-

verthorne, CO 80498 or by e-mail to [email protected]. Submit comments no later than April 1, 2010.

“If proposed increase in fees at Green Mountain is not approved, the Forest Service will be faced with some very serious decisions as to how we manage these popular rec-reation facilities. Without the abil-ity to manage these facilities at the basic level, we run the risk of com-promising public health and safety, and that is unacceptable,” says Jan Cutts, Dillon District Ranger.

Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Dil-lon Ranger District office at 970-468-5400.

As the crow flies, Green Mountain Reservoir is only 13 miles from Vail. To get there, however, you have to take Highway 9 out of Silver-torne for 20 miles. It’s worth the trip. The Dillon Ranger District is currently proposing upping the charge of campsites there to $13 per vehicle from the current fee of $5. Kiera Nichols photo.

Campsite costs could more than double at Green Mountain ReservoirProposal calls for fees to rise from $5 to $13 per vehicle

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Imagine working non-stop from eight in the morning until eight at night.

Now, imagine that work taking place in the tropical heat of Central America, and doing it for free.

It may be difficult to imagine that scenario, but for Dr. Devinder Mangat of Mangat Plastic Surgery Center in Edwards, it’s simply part of the yearly schedule.

Dr. Mangat, a plastic surgeon, has been going down to the Orange Walk hospital in Belize for the past four years to correct cleft lips and palates, vascular malformations, and skin lesions, among other surgeries. Many of the reconstruc-tive surgeries that the locals require don’t register as high priority. The fact is they simply don’t have the means to perform some of the specialized surgeries that the locals require.

Dr. Mangat first launched the idea while involved with the non-denomina-tional Horizon Community Church; his team was added to the relief and build-ing team that the Horizon had already been sending each year. Mangat says it was necessary to collect a surgical team that had to bring their own equipment, as the hospitals simply did not have all the necessary facilities.

The first year a team of three surgeons and associates performed 50 operations on a group of patients considered to be most in need. This year a team of five surgeons, two anesthesiologists, one an-esthetic nurses, five general nurses, and three medical assistants went to Belize and performed 74 reconstructive opera-tions.

Upon their arrival the team assessed over 120 potential patients, due to time constraints the team then chose the most needful candidates, then from Saturday to Tuesday, Dr. Mangat and his team worked non-stop.

“We start operating at eight in the morning, and sometimes we don’t get done till six or seven or eight at night,”

said Dr. Mangat. The work was so in-tense that some of the operations were broken into segments so that Dr. Mangat and his fellow, Dr. Chris Savage, could tag-team the procedures.

Chris Dr. Savage, is out of residency

and completing his final year as a fel-low to become a fully practicing plastic surgeon. Dr. Savage said that the trip to Belize was eye opening.

“It kinda gives you more purpose with what you do,” he said. “You realize that

you have the means to help these people and these people don’t have the means to get [the surgeries] done.”

Dr. Savage said that he was drawn to working with Dr. Mangat because of his stellar reputation as a plastic surgeon, and when he was asked to accompany Dr. Mangat to Belize he didn’t think twice.

There is a rotation of surgical relief groups consistently working in Belize to alleviate the maladies of the Beliz-eans; without surgical teams following up, some of the operations would be left incomplete.

“There’s just a continual need for things to be done,” Dr. Savage said.

Dr. Mangat admitted his awe at the spirit of the Belizean people. “It’s amaz-ing that when you go from here and you go to a country like that, you see people that are so poor, but they all seem to be happy and content and have smiles on their faces,” he said. “And you think wow they really have god in their hearts or something that gives them that spir-it.”

A spirit so strong that the locals were often compensated the staff any way possible.

“They will bring food to the hospital for the Doctors and nurses, and the just do whatever they can to ... in their way pay back.”

Without the surgeons like Dr. Mangat and Dr. Savage many of the disabling conditions of the Belizean people would go untreated, and sometimes even while working they would cede the operating rooms to higher priority surgeries.

Dr. Mangat considers the work he does in Belize to be, “without a doubt the most gratifying work that I do. The need is so great. It’s such a poor country, yet the people are so grateful, so deserv-ing, because they have nothing.”

The positive impact that Dr. Mangat has on the treated indiduals is no doubt incalculable. Unfortunately the time Dr. Mangat has to spend in Belize is limited. He remarks that his only regret is “not having enough time to do more.”

Local surgeon does 74 good deedsDr. Devinder Mangat back from annual trip to Belize to help people in need

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TOP: Dr. Devinder S. Mangat and his assisting surgeon perform a delicate procedure, in an operating room of the Orange Hospital, in Belize. Many of the tools used during these procedures had to be brought in by the team. BELOW: Dr. Devinder S. Mangat and a member of the seven-person team sent by Hori-zons Church in Cleveland, OH. The team had to screen more than one-hundred individuals to select the highest priority cases for surgery.

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VanHee wins silver at Smartwool Ski Cup/Garner Championships

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The Smartwool Ski Cup/Garner Games Championships began Fri-day in Telluride with a Giant Sla-lom, and SSCV’s Kendall Vanhee took the silver behind Aspen’s Dan-ielle Brownell-Patty. Katie Talbot and Leah Newton placed 11th and 16th for the day.

On the men’s side, Clayton Kir-

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For Saturday, the Championship slalom was slated, but after the ski area was blanketed with 22 inches of snow, the organizers decided to move Sunday’s dual races to Sat-urday, and SSCV took the gold and silver with Caroline Byrne in 1st

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The Championships conclude to-day with slalom racing for the men and women

Romano 1st J2 at Southern Series FinalsSki and Snowboard Club Vail’s Anthony Romano

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Justine Nadherny slides one of the rails in Beaver Creek’s Lumber Yard yesterday at the Love for the La-dies rail jam. Nadherny helped organize event, which is a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness in the Vail Valley. The competition was co-ed and brought together both skiers and riders for a good cause. The day was “dedicated to unifying the community, spreading knowledge about the Breast Cancer and raising money for the Vail Breast Cancer Awareness Group,” Nadherny said.

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Steadman Phillipon Golf Classic set for SanctuaryAnnual event raises money for research

One of the nation’s most revered golf locations will host a benefit tournament for one of the nation’s top non-profits.

Vail’s Steadman Philippon Research Institute has been selected by RE/MAX International to hold its an-nual Golf Classic at Sanctuary, one of the nation’s pre-mier golf properties.

The event is scheduled for August 19. Sanctuary is located south of Denver near Castle Rock.

This is their seventh event at Sanctuary, and it’s like hitting a 300-yard drive. You set things in motion, then stand back and admire it as it flies.

“Everything is there. It was created to accommo-date non profits,” said John McMurtry, the institute’s vice president for program advancement. “It’s a one of a kind golf course, and they donate the course to the charity for the day.”

Sanctuary has a staff in place that runs everything. About all you have to do is show up and register play-ers as they roll in.

“To run a tournament in most places, you have to build a staff,” McMurty said. “They make it so easy.”

Charities have to apply to play Sanctuary, and it’s based on performance. You need a successful track re-cord to be considered, McMurtry says.

“You have to demonstrate that your organization has run its own golf tournament and raised at least $100,000,” McMurtry said.

Thirty teams can play in the Golf Classic, and they’ve been sold out six to eight weeks in advance almost ev-ery year.

The money will help support the joint-preservation research and education programs of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute, the world’s most pub-lished orthopedic sports medicine research organiza-tion.

If you play, you’ll be supporting research that’s de-veloping new procedures and methods to battle degen-erative arthritis, a condition that afflicts one in three Americans.

About SanctuarySanctuary was conceived as a golf experience to sup-

port charitable organizations devoted to the arts, chil-dren, health care, and crisis management.

Sanctuary was the vision of RE/MAX International co-founder Dave Liniger, and was designed by Jim Engh, Golf Digest’s first-ever Architect of the Year in 2003.

Playing Sanctuary is like strolling through a stunning

nature preserve. Engh wound the Sanctuary carefully through a fragile ecosystem, and it was that work that won him the honor from Golf Digest.

Liniger makes the course available to Colorado non-profits each year.

It has worked out splendidly for both Liniger and the non-profits.

During the first six years of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute Golf Classic, the Institute has raised more than $900,000 to support its research programs.

Over the past 10 years, 260 charities have raised more than $47 million, hosting events at Sanctuary to support their programs.

Individual spots and foursomes are available. Call John McMurtry at 970-479-5781, or email [email protected].

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The Steadman Philippon Research Institute Golf Classic is set for Aug. 19, at the Sanctuary. Indi-vidual spots and foursomes are available. Call John McMurtry at 970-479-5781, or email [email protected]. Dr. Marc Philippon, above, will be play-ing in the event.

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Fedrigo wins Criterium stage 1Contador beats Armstrong in first meeting since Tour

Lance Armstrong burst to the front about 5 miles from the finish Saturday at the Criterium International, but his energy faded and he fell away about 2 1/2 miles later leaving way for winner Pierrick Fedrigo and rival Alberto Contador gain a hefty lead on the seven time Tour de France champion.

Contador finished in the pack, 1 minute, 21 seconds behind winner Pierrick Fedrigo of Bouygues Telecom, in his first competitive race with former teammate Armstrong since last year’s Tour de France.

Armstrong was almost 5:01 behind Fedrigo.“In the beginning I thought I was either really, really

good or really, really bad, and it was the latter,” Arm-strong said.

“There are a couple of things at play here—I don’t have that many race days under my belt like a lot of other guys and we’re in March. If we were having this discussion in July (during the Tour de France) I’d have to answer, ‘Yeah I’m disappointed.”’

He added he wasn’t looking to be in good condition until the Tour of California in late May.

Contador dropped from the leaders with about a mile to go. The two-day event finishes today.

RIGHT: Lance Armstrong crosses the finish line dur-ing the 79th International Criterium cycling race in Porto Vecchio, southern Corsica island yesterday. Armstrong finished 5:00 behind winner Pierrick Fe-drigo. Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador finished in the pack 1:21 behind Fedrigo.

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Dumoulin wins stage 6 of CataloniaFrenchman Samuel Dumoulin

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Fellow pro plays with TigerBen Curtis says the world’s No. 1 looked ‘rusty’

Ben Curtis was likely kidding when he said with a grin that the world No. 1 Tiger Woods looked a bit ‘rusty.’

Curtis, a member at Lake Nona and former British Open champion, decided to practice at Isleworth two weeks ago and wound up playing 18 holes with the bil-lionaire golfer that he admittedly doesn’t know very well.

“I didn’t know him that well before, anyway,” Curtis said. “But I could see where some of the guys that might have known him pretty well—like Mark O’Meara—it might be a little bit different for them now than it was before. But I don’t know. That’s hard to say. I try to just treat it as we are just going out there and playing golf and just having some fun.”

Curtis said Woods appeared to be nervous, perhaps because it might have been his first time playing with a PGA Tour colleague. They were joined by Steve John-son, the swing coach for Curtis and a disciple of Hank Haney, and a friend of Woods that Curtis did not recog-nize. Curtis said no one kept score, and their conversa-

tion was strictly about golf.Tiger Woods is the favorite to win the Masters when

he tees it up for the first time since his world came apart last November.

Tiger Woods and Ben Curtis chat during one of the few competitive rounds the pair has played togeth-er. Curtis played with Woods at Lake Nona recently in an impromptu practice round.

Ernie Els going for two straightErnie Els put himself in position

Saturday at Bay Hill for a victory, one week after he snapped a two-year winless drought at the Transi-tions Championship.

Els made a 10-foot putt to save par on the 18th hole for a 3-under 69, giving him a one-shot lead over Ben Curtis, who is fresh off his friendly round with Tiger at Lake Nona.

Two weeks after his four-shot vic-

tory at Doral that ended the longest drought of his career, Els broke 70 for the third straight round at Bay Hill and is at 10-under 206.

“There’s a lot of work left,” said Els, who last won at Bay Hill in 1998.

Ben Curtis, the former British Open champion had a two-shot lead until he chopped up the par-5 16th hole from 60 yards short of the green. He bladed a wedge some 70

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“That last putt on 18 was big,” Curtis said. “You always want mo-mentum going forward.”

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was on night duty when he heard a huge boom behind him that split the ship apart. The vessel started tilting, and his glasses fell off his face as he hit the deck, rela-tives at a naval base in Pyeongtaek told The Associated Press.

U.S. troop deaths double in Afghanistan

The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban’s momentum.

Those deaths have been accompanied by a dramatic spike in the number of wounded, with injuries more than tripling in the first two months of the year and trending in the same direction based on the latest avail-able data for March. U.S. officials have warned that ca-sualties are likely to rise even further as the Pentagon completes its deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and sets its sights on the Taliban’s home base of Kandahar province, where a major operation is expected in the coming months.

“We must steel ourselves, no matter how successful we are on any given day, for harder days yet to come,” Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a briefing last month.

Palin rouses Tea-Party rally in Nevada

Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists as-sembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.

The wind whipped U.S. flags behind the former Alas-ka governor as she stood on a makeshift stage, holding a microphone and her notes and speaking to a cheering crowd. She told them Reid, fighting for re-election, is “gambling away our future.”

“Someone needs to tell him, this is not a crapshoot,” Palin said. About 7,000 people streamed into tiny Searchlight, a former mining town 60 miles south of Las Vegas, bringing American flags, “Don’t Tread on Me” signs and outspoken anger toward Reid, President Barack Obama and the health care overhaul.

Palin told them the big-government, big-debt spend-ing spree of the Senate majority leader, Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is over.

Obama circumvents Congress with 15 federal

appointmentsPresident Barack Obama’s senior political adviser is

defending a decision to do an end run around Congress on 15 appointments to federal boards and agencies. David Axelrod says the administration faces a “huge number of vacancies” and Republicans won’t act on

the nominations of 77 people.He tells CNN’s “State of the Union” in an interview

to be aired Sunday that former President George W. Bush had far fewer nominations stacked up when he made 15 recess appointments. Now, Axelrod says, sen-sitive positions in Treasury, Homeland Security and more cannot continue to go unfilled.

Republicans are particularly upset over the appoint-ment of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. They fear he’ll bring a radical pro-union agenda to the job.

GOPers were originally for health care reform

Republicans were for President Barack Obama’s re-quirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it. The obligation in the new health care law is a Republican idea that’s been around at least two decades. It was once trumpeted as an alternative to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s failed health care overhaul in the 1990s. These days, Republicans call it government overreach.

Mitt Romney, weighing another run for the GOP presidential nomination, signed such a requirement into law at the state level as Massachusetts governor in 2006. At the time, Romney defended it as “a personal responsibility principle” and Massachusetts’ newest GOP senator, Scott Brown, backed it. Romney now says Obama’s plan is a federal takeover that bears little resemblance to what he did as governor and should be repealed.

Republicans say Obama and the Democrats co-opted their original concept, minus a mechanism they pro-posed for controlling costs. More than a dozen GOP attorneys general are determined to challenge the re-quirement in federal court as unconstitutional.

Skirmish near Gaza raises Israeli-Palestinian

tensionsIsrael withdrew its troops from the Gaza Strip Sat-

urday after some of the fiercest gun battles with Pal-estinian militants in the Hamas-run territory since last year’s military offensive.

Israeli troops used bulldozers to “remove infrastruc-ture used by terrorists to attack soldiers” before the ear-ly morning withdrawal, a military spokeswoman said. Gaza militants, meanwhile, fired a rocket into southern Israel on Saturday, but no injuries were reported, the military said. Two others fell short of Israeli territory.

The violence began Friday when soldiers patrolling the border crossed into Gaza after spotting Palestinians planting explosives near the fence with Israel. Two Is-raeli soldiers and two Palestinian militants were killed in the gun battle, the military said. Palestinian medics said one civilian was killed and seven were wounded in the fighting. Militants reported one wounded and one missing.

Israel’s military held Gaza’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers responsible for the violence.

Ayad Allawi’s victory historic but contested

The secular challenger who stunned Iraq with his razor-thin parliamentary election win turned his atten-tion to negotiations over a future government Satur-day even as supporters of the prime minister vowed to fight the results. Ayad Allawi’s two-seat win was hailed as a startling comeback for a politician who just four years ago was shunned as a U.S.-backed puppet, but the closeness of the race meant his road to regaining the premiership was anything but guaranteed. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s bloc has demanded a re-count, claiming fraud. The Shiite leader, who angrily denounced the results after their Friday release, did not appear in public on Saturday, but his supporters prom-ised a fight to keep him in his post.

“There are two options in front of us. The first, to continue the challenge in a legal and constitutional way and the second is to continue demanding the manual recount,” adviser Sami al-Askari said.

Regardless of the final outcome, the results of the parliamentary vote were a turning point and served as a rejection of the domination of Shiite religious parties who are closely aligned with Iran and rose to power after the U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime in 2003.

Scientology devotees used as ‘slave laborers’

At the edge of arid foothills far outside Los Ange-les, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing the works of founder L. Ron Hubbard and creating the church’s teaching and promotional materials.

The church says its 5,000 so-called Sea Organization members are religious devotees akin to monks who are exempt from wage requirements and overtime. But two lawsuits filed by two former Sea Org members, as they are known, allege the workers are little more than slave laborers, forced to work 100-hour weeks for pennies and threatened with manual labor if they cause trou-ble.

Marc Headley and his wife, Claire, are seeking back pay and overtime that could add up to $1 million each, according to their attorney, Barry Van Sickle. Experts say the plaintiffs face an uphill battle; one similar law-suit in state court has already been dismissed, although the plaintiff plans to appeal.

Iran planning two new nuke sites

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ern intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands, according to the New York Times.

The United Nations inspectors assigned to monitor Iran’s nuclear program are now searching for evidence of two such sites, prompted by recent comments by a top Iranian official that drew little attention in the West, and are looking into a mystery about the whereabouts of recently manufactured uranium enrichment equip-ment, reports the Times.

In an interview with the Iranian Student News Agen-cy reported by the Times, the official, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had ordered work to be-gin soon on two new plants. The plants, he said, “will be built inside mountains,” presumably to protect them from attacks.

Small town scale of national

economic troublesWorkers at Duckwall’s Hometown Variety Store here

dismantled cabinets Thursday that days earlier were packed with everything from yarn to plumbing supplies to fishing gear. Profits from the store, owned by a na-tional chain, had evaporated in the past year. Now the town’s second-biggest employer, the Huerfano County Correctional Center, was set to lay off 188 employees and close its doors April 2, making the store’s pros-pects for a financial rebound unlikely.

After a 16-year run, Duckwall’s did not renew its lease for the building on the corner of Sixth and Main streets, and so six more part-time employees in this southern Colorado town of about 4,000 — already hard hit by the recession lost their jobs.

“The economy of this town is zilch. The prison clos-ing down is going to hurt,” said Joe Kancilia, who owns a gun and furniture shop a few blocks west of Duckwall’s. Walsenburg is one of many small Colorado towns where privately run prisons drive the economy. But many states, including Colorado, are cutting their contracts with private jailers

Movie record made for worst opening day

It should have been a red carpet event. When just one British cinema was given exclusive permission to launch Uma Thurman’s new film earlier this month, the film’s producers presumably hoped that exclusivity would create a buzz around the movie. Though limiting the release would obviously limit takings, they must have hoped word of mouth could make it a slow-burn-ing success, reports the Guardian.

But the tactic backfired catastrophically. Instead of audiences lining round the block of the Apollo West End in Piccadilly Circus, London, to see the star of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, they stayed away in record-breaking numbers, reports the Guardian.

Over its opening weekend, no more than a dozen people went to see Motherhood, a semi-autobiograph-ical account of stressed-out Manhattan parenting writ-ten and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, reports the Guardian adding that the film made just $131 over the

weekend of March 5. On its Sunday debut, the total box office was $13, the price of a single ticket.

LGBTQ community not amused by

transexual comedyA film selected for the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival

called “Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives” hasn’t been screened there yet, but it’s already had that very effect on members of the transgender community and their supporters, prompting an advocacy group to call for the film’s removal from the festival lineup as well as a rapid defense from its creators and festival organizers.

In the official online listing for “Ticked-Off Tran-nies,” a comedy by Israel Luna that is making its world premiere at the Tribeca festival, the film is described as a “campy homage to the exploitation films” in which “a group of transgender women are violently beaten and left for dead,” but then “the violated vixens turn deadly divas.”

That summary alone was enough to prompt many angry comments at the tribecafilm.com Web site. One commenter who gave her name as Marie wrote, “This movie trivializes people dying for being who they are. You need to consider whether you want to be remem-bered for such transphobic trash.” Another commenter named Margaret B wrote, “I can’t imagine a more of-fensive film to denigrate and demean a minority group. Please remove this film from your line up.”

‘Jersey Shore’ stars unhappy with portrayal

of realityA New Jersey judge has again denied a request to

block the release of episodes of the MTV reality se-ries “Jersey Shore.” State Superior Court Judge Jo-seph Foster rejected the request of three people who say their reputations will be damaged because they’re shown fighting with cast members.

An attorney for the three complained after a published report said MTV planned a global release of the series, which focuses on the escapades of eight 20-something Italian-Americans at a shore house.

Last month the judge denied a man’s request to block the DVD release of the show’s first season. The man says he was beaten during an episode. The other two litigants are a police officer fired after an episode showed him in a fight with cast members and the of-ficer’s wife.

Arrest yourself before you wreck yourself

Police in Michigan have released a copy of a 911 call where a suspected drunken driver chats with an emer-gency dispatcher for about 20 minutes before she is pulled over and arrested.

In the first moments of the March 13 call, the dis-patcher asks: “Are you intoxicated?” and the woman replies: “Absolutely.” The dispatcher pleads with the woman to pull over and she tells him she “shouldn’t be driving.” The dispatcher helped officers find the driver

in East Lansing.Police say the 27-year-old Charlotte resident placed

the call at 5:40 a.m. The woman was issued a citation for operating while intoxicated and faces up to 90 days in jail. Her name hasn’t been released.

At least it wasn’t Punxsutawney Phil

Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resus-citate a long-dead opossum along a highway. State police Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling be-fore the animal and gesturing as though he were con-ducting a séance. He says another saw Wolfe attempt-ing to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Levier says the animal already had been dead a while.

Miley, Lautner victorious at world’s gooiest

awards showTeam Jacob is triumphant at the Kids’ Choice Awards.

“Twilight” star Taylor Lautner picked up two orange, blimp-shaped trophies at Saturday’s 23rd annual she-nanigan-packed Nickelodeon spectacle inside UCLA’s

Pauley Pavilion. Lautner snared the favorite actor honor for his role as hunky were-wolf Jacob Black in “New Moon” as well as the inaugu-ral cutest couple award with his “Twilight” co-star Kristin Stewart.

“I have to ad-mit I have always dreamt of winning one of these or-ange blimps,” said Lautner.

The fan-favorite ceremony’s host, “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” actor-come-dian Kevin James, kicked off the show by performing a hip-hop dance routine as Adam Sandler serenaded him from above while dressed as an angel and fountains of green slime spontaneously gushed on the first few rows of the audience. James said over 115 million votes were received this year.

Katy Perry, wearing a bright blue wig and skintight flowery dress, was blasted with slime before present-ing the favorite movie actress trophy to Miley Cyrus. The gooey “I Kissed a Girl” singer chased the “Hannah Montana” actress around the stage, but co-presenter Jo-nah Hill grabbed Perry before she could embrace the 17-year-old singer-actress a slimy hug.

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BIG GIGANTIC - Jeremy Salkenm on drums and Dominic Lalli on sax - blew the audience away at Samana on Thursday night. Their music is a unique blend of elec-tronica, jazzy saxophone and heavy drum beats. The show was sick. Check them out next time they’re in the area.


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Baggage Cheque Riverwalk in EdwardsSuccessful Luggage Store and Real Estate for sale. 31 year local business,

873 sq ft, excellent location with out-front customer parking, southern exposure, bathroom, fully equipped business includes inventory and is turnkey with training included. Seller will entertain sale of business and/or real-estate but are listed

together. Please call for additional details.

250 Hackmore Road- SingletreeWonderful 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths duplex with large bonus room. Built in 2007

and in excellent condition. Gourmet kitchen with granite counter and stainless steel appliances. Fireplaces in the living from and master suite, hardwood floors, laundry

room, oversized two car garage.

$689,000

Season’s at Arrowhead #208Ideal Arrowhead ski and golf condo! 2 bedrooms and 3 baths in excellent condi-tion next to Coutry Club of the Rockies golf, Vista Restaurant and Arrowhead ski

lift. Fully Furnished! This property has it all.

$575,000

490 Winslow Rd. SingletreeLarge single family home located on the 16th fairway of the prestigious Sonnenalp Golf Course with great ski slope views. 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths 4800 sq. ft. with

3 separate living areas. Terrific family home or for the second home owner.

$1,295,000

Contact Gary Pesso • 970.331.6927 • [email protected] East Meadow Drive • Vail, Colorado, 81657 • 970-477-5300 • SonnenalpRealEstate.com

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Close to bus stop, quiet neighborhood, sunny deck.

Own bed/bath, walk-in closet in 3 BD house, W/D, fireplace,

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F/L/Sec. Dep. NegotiableAvailable as soon as April 1st

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Great 2 BD condo in Chapel Square. Great rental history. Southern views. Offered fully furnished. Convenient to everything. Walkable distance to the gondola.

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Rare offering in the exclusive Arrowhead Mountain Estate Community. Ski in - Ski out home site above Arrowhead Village. Panoramic views of mountain ranges.

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Nestled against a beautiful hillside and boasting magnificent views, this residence features an open floorplan, 5 Bedrooms, and is steps to world-class skiing and golf.

508E East Arrowhead Drive$1,895,000Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement970.376.5417

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This masterpeice sits on the Eagle River and features 4 exquisite bedroom suites, stunning finishes, an expansive covered deck with FP, and dramatic canyon views.

Rainbow Trout Lodge$2,595,000Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement970.376.5417

Charming and Traditional with great space in an amazing location.

40 Garfield #F$374,500Susan MatthewsFuller Sotheby’s International Realty303.388.7200

3BD, 2.5BA, Juniper Hills end-unit condo. Across from Eagle elementary school, close to downtown. Good condition, great rental history. Low condo dues.

$265,000Mary Isom, Sonnenalp Real Estate970.331.9650

Perched above the Eagle Ranch Golf Course w/ 360 degree views of the surrounding mtns. This lot has full custom plans, soil tests & surveys ready to go!!

.65 Acre LotOffered below competition @ $150,000Linda Miner, Sonnenalp Real Estate970.390.4658

New 3BR 3Ba SF homes. Featuring Lake Creek views, hardwood floors, stone FPs, & large covered deck. www.gatewayland.com

709 Edwards Village Blvd$695,000Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement970.376.5417

Charolais Circle southwestern home. 4BD, 3 BA, 3 car garage. Quiet street. Close to shools, hiking and park. Under appraisal price. All offers considered.

This completely remodeled 3BD/3.5BA mountain contemporary SF home offers exceptional finishes, southern views and open floor plan. Heated drive and entry.2610 Arosa Drive$1,175,000Julie Retzlaff, Sonnenalp Real Estate970.376.0836

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Beautiful 5 Bedroom, 4.5 bathroom Willowstone Home. 2 car garage, fenced yard for toys, Huge walkout guest suite,Hot tub on the deck. Short Sale.

90 Willowstone Place$399,000Bob New, Colorado Mountain Properties970.390.3336

Best fractional value offered in Vail Village, on Gore Creek. Includes valet parking, bellmen, front desk, pool, spa, athletic club, ski valet, storage and maid service.Austria Haus ClubPriced from $205,00 - $360,000Jean Mitchell, Sonnenalp Real Estate970.331.3236

European constructed 5BD Chalet built in 2005 w contemporary finishes. Offering family floor plan w landscaped yard and nanny lock-off, close to bus stop.1718 Geneva Drive$2,399,000Tyra Rudrud, Sonnenalp Real Estate970.376.2258

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Opportunity to own Christmas and New Years weeks FOREVER in this 3BD/4BA condo in Vail Plaza Club, interval ownership.Vail Plaza Club$475.000Terry Hoffman, Hoffman West Real Estate970.949.1902

Price Reduced AGAIN! Beautiful 3BD/BA remodel w stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and hardwood floors. TOV free bus out front door.1746 W Gore Creek Drive$529,900Tyra Rudrud, Sonnenalp Real Estate970.376.2258

Village Center 3C/D, 3BD + Study Condo overlooking Gore Creek. Spectacular views of Vail Mountain. Totally remodeled. Two parking spaces included.

$3,395,000Jean Mitchell, Sonnenalp Real Estate970.331.3236

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$200,000Bob New, Colorado Mountain Properties970.390.3336

Enjoy the fabulous views of the Vail Valley from these two newly constructed residences.

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Priced to Sell! 4BD, 4BA, 4th Bedroom can be used as a family room or nanny area (separate entrance w privacy.) Near the park and bus stop.

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11,026 sf masterpiece, insp by romantic style found in Italian mtn villages. Stone terraces overlooking Spring Creek, 2 acres of open space, unrivaled outdoor living.

50 Spring Creek$9,500,000Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement970.376.5417

802 Beard Creek Trail. Modern mountain luxury. 5BR, multiple stone verandas, fire pit, large rec room, wine cellar, elevator, & gorgeous views from every room.

802 Beard Creek Trail$4,675,000Suzi Apple, Gateway Land & Developement970.376.5417

3 BD, 3BA Large 3rd floor 3 bedroom end unit on one level with views north and west. Ski in/ski out building, easy access to Beaver Creek Village.

#328 Kiva Lodge, 2057 Sq. ft.$1,375,000 John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate

970.949.1902

2BD, 3 BA, Completely remodeled. Excellent location in the building. Ski in/ ski out location. Easy walk to Beaver Creek Village.#327 Kiva Lodge, 1520 Sq. Ft.$969,000John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate970.949.1902

2BD, 2BA penthouse. Location is everything and this unit has it: Ski in - Ski out, short walk to the village, overlooks the creek.Townsend Place$940,000Jane Ross, Vail Realty www.vailrealty.com970.476.8800 or 970.376.3510

Lots of Updates, Combined with the Fabulous Charm of 1908

740 Marion Street$1,050,000Susan MatthewsFuller Sotheby’s International Realty303.388.7200

The Iverson TeamKathy Iverson970.569.2112

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Matt Iverson970.569.2104

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5 Buckhorn Lane § $2,395,000 3BD/3.5BA § Web ID: M30235

4 Dakota Court § $1,495,0005BD/5.5BA § Web ID: M30202

Historic And Updated - Five Bedrooms on a Large Lot - Bromwell School

130 Gaylord Street$1,875,000

Susan MatthewsFuller Sotheby’s International Realty303.388.7200

4 Bedroom, 3 Bath + Office, 3 Car Garage, Irrigated Horse Property, Up to 4 Horses.

916 Mayne Street$749,000

FSBO970.471.1830

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Please contact Barbara Murray • 970.331.7070 • [email protected] Banker/Timberline Real Estate

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2 Car Garage3,800 sq. ft.

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