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By Carie Canterbury

Goals Set HighArcher alreadyworking towarddream of beingflight nurse

Chace Archer hasa clear-cut goalset for his future,and he is workinghard toward at-

taining it.Chace, a junior at Florence

High School, frequently is seenon the basketball court, foot-ball field or running track —but recently he also can befound in the school’s Med Prepc l a s s.

“I want to be a flight nurse inFlight For Life,” he said. “I’llhave to get emergency roomexperience before I can dothat, so I will be in the emer-gency room for a while.”

The first step toward reach-ing his goal is the Med Prepprogram. Applicants must in-terview and meet criteria to beaccepted in the class, whichonly accepts 10 students. Hedoes not mind that he is the on-ly guy in this year’s class.

“T h e re ’s so much you learnin there,” he said. “I can’t evenexplain how much I’ve learnedin that class – everything fromdoing vital signs to charting in-take and output to giving some-body a shower.

“We do clinicals in the morn-ing — really early — and thenwe come to school later.”

Clinicals are at 6 a.m. at Pro-gressive Care Center and theBruce McCandless State Veter-ans Nursing Home, then stu-dents head back to school be-fore their first class begins at

7:30 a.m.District Nurse and Med Prep Instruc-

tor Sheryl Ooton said the year-longcourse is intense.

Students cover 22 units in 18 weeks,and complete CPR and First Aid train-ing through the American Heart Asso-ciation, as well as complete a course inmedical terminology. The secondsemester is spent on hands-on training.

“Chace is very committed,” O o to nsaid. “He is very organized, he is verycompassionate, he has a heart — hehas made it very clear he wants to bean ER nurse or a flight nurse, andChace will succeed in whatever hechooses to do.

“He has very high moral and ethicals ta n d a rd s. ”

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Florence High School junior Chace Archer, left, takes Bryli Bethel’s blood pressure during theirMedical Preparation class. He wants to pursue a nursing degree and be a flight nurse.


Florence HighSchool’s ChaceArcher, left, drives tothe basket againstCuster County’sAaron Mullett earlierthis season. Chace, ajunior at FHS, playsbasketball, footballand runs track — butrecently he also canbe found in theschool’s Med Prepclass. His goal is tobe a flight nurse inFlight For Life.See A RC H E R / Page 51

Chace Archer


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By Brandon Hopper


AMR EMT Chris Clear talks with a group of children in anambulance about being safe and what to do during an emergencyat the annual Fremont County Head Start Safety Town event in2009. Below: Clear holds the pin that was discharged from arototiller into his brain.

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and into his brain.Doctors said had he been any taller or

shorter, or had his tilted one way or the other,he would’ve been dead.

Almost three years later, Clear is doing justf i n e.

He’s still chasing his dreams of being a fire-fighter. The volunteer at the Penrose Volun-teer Fire Department is looking to find a paidposition with a nearby fire department. He re-cently interviewed for the Colorado Springsdepartment and said things went well.

“I’m just trying to get on with a paid depart-ment somewhere,” Clear said. “I’m not reallyup to a whole lot right now, just kind of testingfor fire departments and finding a way to goback to school.

“I’ve been testing around here. ... I’d like tobecome a firefighter and go back to schooland become a paramedic and get my associ-ate degree in fire science.”

He said the tests are video-based and sub-jective on how you react in certain situations.He said he did well on his test for the Springsdepartment, but it was a test where you had toplace in the top 20, and he missed that cut.

He said being afirefighter is justsomething he’s al-ways wanted to do.

“I grew up aroundit. My dad did it andstill does it up in(Colorado) Springs.I was just around itsince I was a kid,and it’s just what Ilove to do,” Clears a i d.

“Saving people’slives. Going outthere and playingwith fire. Getting toride in a big truck.It’s rewarding. I like doing it to help people —especially here in Penrose where it’s my com-m u n i t y. ”

Just because it’s a volunteer departmentdoesn’t mean he takes his job lightly.

On the contrary.“I’ve been down here quite a bit lately —

working on grants and stuff to try and getsome new equipment. I could easily be downhere anywhere between three hours a week

and 15 hours a week,” said Clear, whoseposition is medical lieutenant. “We ’vebeen doing our academy for our newpeople coming on. We just put on fournew guys. I try to be down here helpingwith it as much as I can.”

In his downtime, Clear said he likes toride his 2005 Polaris Predator 500 four-wheeler on Independence Trail.

He said it has its similarities to fight-ing fires.

“It’s exciting to go do, kind of anadrenaline rush,” Clear said. “Plus Ilike doing it just get out a relax, too.Just get out there and ride around.”

But free time isn’t something Clearhas much of.

Between the possible 15 hours at thefire station and the 36 hours Clear spends as aconstruction worker, he said he might get togo out twice a month to ride.

Then add in the 36 hours a week he’s expect-ing to work at the job he just took at St.Thomas Moore Hospital, ironically where hewas first taken after his accident, and Clear islucky if he gets to ride at all.

But luck, for Clear, always has been on hiss i d e.

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An X-Ray from St. ThomasMore Hospital shows the pinlodged in Clear’s brain.



By Charlotte Burrous

Former Cañon City mayor stillcontributes to his communitywith a number of organizations

He may have retired several years ago,but he continues to stay busy. FormerMayor William “Bill” Jackson startedhis public life in 1994 when he waselected to Cañon City Council, where

he remained for 10 years, of which four were as may-o r.

Since leaving office in 2007, he has spent his timegardening and taking care of his house on 15th Street.

But 83-year-old Jackson continues to stay busy inseveral organizations. He serves as the secre-tary/treasurer of the Hydraulic Ditch, the UpperArkansas Water Conservancy District board, the GISboard, associate member of the Chamber of Com-merce and is a member of the Lions Club.

His involvement in the Upper Arkansas River Con-servancy District began with the petition drive to getit on the ballot. After losing the first battle in court,the committee continued to pursue it, bringing it to avote of the people in 2007. After the district wasformed, he joined the board, where he served his firstterm, which was six months. He is serving his secondterm.

During his tenure, the board has focused on main-taining and gaining more storage of water in case ofa shortage similar to 2002.

“T h e re ’s an enterprise aspect to the UpperArkansas, which is different,” Jackson said. “We con-tinue to work to get more storage and water for backup in an augmentation plan.”

He said the latest project cost $800,000 and includessetting up measuring devices to maintain streamflows in the upper basin and regulate reservoir ca-pacity through SCADA, a technological systemhooked to the satellite to control the head gates with-out going to the locations to regulate the outputs andstorage aspect.

He also is working on the same thing for the Hy-draulic Ditch.

“Because the ditch follows the contour around thenorth side of the city and all the floodwater above itenters the canal, we can’t handle all of it,” Jacksonadded. “We get more and more stormwater (whilethe) impermeable area continues to increase. Hope-


Former Cañon City Mayor Bill Jackson talks about the work he does as thetreasurer of the Cañon City Hydraulic Ditch.

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fully, we’ll install SCADA head gates along the canal so we can catchthe excess stormwater.”

While the hydraulic ditch was built in 1863, maintenance continuesto be a big problem, he said.

“It’s an old ditch, and it needs maintenance,” Jackson said. “Whenthings are tough, maintenance is always the first thing to go. We’retrying to clear the right of way (because of encroachment).”

Since 1998, he has served chairman of the application process withthe Lions, serving on the council to provide glasses for the disadvan-taged and children on an application basis. In a year, the councilserves 50 people, helping them obtain glasses.

“Lions is pretty well committed to sight,” Jackson said. “We have aChristmas party for foster children. There are a lot of various pro-grams that the Lions are involved in.”

When he isn’t participating in the Lions, he is involved in theKnights of Columbus, where he is serving as Grand Knight again.

“Our biggest accomplishment this year is establishing Esquire Cir-cle, which involves young men from 10 to 18,” Jackson said. “We got itestablished back in the ‘60s, but it (faded away).”

Another organization he has been involved in is the Sister City Val-dai, Russia, program, where he visited Russia several times andhosted Russian residents when they visited the area.

Prior to and during his council years, Jackson served with the Fre-mont County Planning Commission and the City Planning Commit-tee, as well as serving as the president of the Cañon City Chamber ofCommerce a couple times and with the Starpoint board for 21 years.

“We ’ve seen a lot of change in the county,” he said. “It started wayback with a regional plan, but (it never was implemented).”

Born May 27, 1927, in Los Angeles, Calif., he moved to the San LuisValley when he was 6 months old. After graduating from SargentsConsolidated Schools, he went into the Army at the end of World WarII. He never saw combat or left the states during his military year.

After he was discharged, Jackson worked as a carpenter for abouta year, building several homes and the Abbey gym in Cañon City,along with the first Angel Walk at the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park.From there, Jackson attended junior college at the Abbey when itwas offered. Then, he transferred to the University of Colorado,where he graduated in 1952 with a degree in geography. At that point,he moved to San Luis Valley, where he worked for a year and marriedhis first wife, Shirley. He transferred to Southern Colorado Power,where he worked as chief clerk for 40 years, retiring in 1993.

Jackson purchased the house on 15th Street in 1963 and remodeledit extensively. When his first wife died in 1975, he met and marriedJanet in 1980. On the side, he and Janet ran a greenhouse, sellingtrees and plants for 40 years. Four years ago, the Jacksons closed then u rs e r y.

A member of St. Michael Church since 1947, he also has served invarious aspects of the church.

In his leisure time, Jackson and his wife garden together, go fish-ing and work in a smaller edition of the nursery. Recently, he tookover the breadmaking for holiday dinners and for their own use.

Together, he and Janet have nine children, numerous grandchil-dren and great-grandchildren.

“It’s been quite a journey,” Jackson said.






Kayla Kammrad, center, reads a book with Rocky Mountain Children’s Discovery Center children Caspian Hurst, left, Tanner Kammradand Heather Thomas. Kayla returned to work in March 2010 after a four-month leave to recover from the H1N1 virus.

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Kayla and Jeff Kammrad with their two sons,Jordan and Tanner, in a family photo. Kayla wasdiagnosed with H1N1 in October 2009 and washospitalized for four months.

A FULL RE C OV E RYKammrad happy to beback at home, work aftersevere bout with H1N1

It was touch and go for severalmonths. But now more than ayear later, she has recovered.Kayla Kammrad, 23, was di-agnosed with the H1N1 virus

in October 2009 and was sent to a Col-orado Springs, where the Cañon Cityresident remained for four months, re-cuperating from her ordeal.

“I’m still on oxygen, usually at nightor sometimes when I get headaches,”she said.

When Kammrad returned to CañonCity, she went through speech, physi-cal and occupational therapy for fourmonths before going back to work inMarch 2010.

A teacher’s aide, she returned towork at Rocky Mountain Children’sDiscovery Center, where she monitorsstudents in a classroom.

When Kammrad was first diagnosed,her husband, Jeff, who was deployed in

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Iraq, returned to the communityto be with her and their two sons,Jordan, 5, and Tanner, 3.

“(Being in the hospital) was ac-tually very hard because (mysons) weren’t able to come seem e, ” Kammrad said. “I was onlyable to see them one time when Iwas in the hospital and that wasfor Christmas, but they weren’tallowed in my room.”

Today, a normal day includesgoing to the same school, whereshe works at the Rocky MountainC h i l d re n ’s Discovery Centerp re s c h o o l .

During the evening, they playWii games, such as bowling andMario.

Then, she cooks dinner for herfamily. Sometimes she visits hermother or just stays at home.

“When I was in the hospital, mymom was a big part of my kids’l i ve s, ” Kammrad said. “She had

them a lot of the time. If shewa s n ’t with my kids, she was usu-ally at the hospital. She neverworked during that time.”

On Mondays and Tuesdays, herhusband, Jeff, who works at thefederal prison, is home.

Born in Colorado Springs, shewas raised in Cañon City, whereshe attended Cañon City HighSchool.

After attaining her GED, shemarried and had two children. In2009, she started taking collegecourses but had to drop out whenshe contracted H1N1.

But she vows she will return toher early childhood studies in thenear future to become a teacher.

Her interest in becoming ateacher began when she neededdaycare for her oldest son.

“I was working and needed tofind childcare,” Kammrad said.

She said after bringing her sonsto the preschool, she began volun-teering. The director offered hera job cooking. Later, she became

a teacher’s aide in the Poohroom, with her younger son whileher oldest son is in the caterpillarro o m .

“He’ll be starting kindergartenin September,” Kammrad said.

Being a part of the school hasled to yearning to become ateacher because she enjoys beingaround children, she said.

“I like to see how they workwhen I’m showing them how towrite or (how to say) their ABCs,”Kammrad said. “I love being ableto give back to them. It’s difficultbeing in my son’s room becausehe’s attached to me.”

With their work schedules, it’shard to spend time with her hus-band, but sometimes, the coupledrives to Pueblo, where they havedinner or go to the movies withtheir children.

Also, the couple enjoy partici-pating in geo caching around thea re a .

“We use the GPS then downloadstuff off the Internet,” Ka m m ra d

said. “When you find a trinket,you either swap it out with anoth-er trinket or you can sign on apiece paper. It’s usually in a filmcannister then you put it back likeyou found it.”

They became interested in geocaching through her dad.

“It gives us something to do forexe rc i s e, ” Kammrad said.

She appreciated the supportfrom the community when shewas ill.

“Thanks to everybody,” Ka m m -rad said. “It was surprising howthe community had come togeth-er. I didn’t know anything thathad actually happened until I gotout of the hospital.”

Even today, she has difficultytalking about being away fromher family and almost losing herlife. While in the hospital, hermother kept a journal of whathappened each day, but she saidshe could not read it yet.

“It’s still very emotional,”Kammrad said.




By Brandon Hopper

Living LifeTo Its Fullest


Jake Kehret talks about his hospitalization while receiving a bone marrow transplant at the Children’sHospital in Denver at his home in 2009. Above: Kehret now wears bracelets to support the cure for cancer.

Kehret reachesmajor steppingstone in his fightagainst leukemia

Jake Kehret isgrateful to bealive. After beingdiagnosed withleukemia in 2008

when he was just 14 years oldand going through more than50 surgeries — including abone-marrow transplant in2009 — Jake has gottenthrough the toughest part,with not much showing fromit other than a few scars.

Jake, 17, celebrated histwo-year anniversary of hismost major surgery, thebone-marrow transplant,Jan. 6 and just a few monthsago had his Medi-port takenout. He said getting his porttaken out was a huge step-ping stone for him.

“I’ve gotten it all removednow so I’ve just got scars. Acouple months ago, I got myMedi-port removed so I washappy for that. That was kindof the end step of it all.”

The Medi-port was used forhis frequent chemotherapyt re a t m e n t s.

“When I got that removedthat was kind of the end of itfor me,” Jake said. “I was ex-cited that I won’t have to getanymore chemo, and surg-eries are supposed to be overafter that.

“That was when you kind of realize that it’s allove r. ”

Jake knows his battle is not completely finished.He said he has to be in remission for five years be-fore they can call it completely cured, and even af-ter that, there will always be a chance it could comeback.

And Jake still has some lasting effects from thepast three years of his life. He is mostly blind in hisleft eye and has some problems with his feet.

“I came out really lucky with what I’ll be dealing

‘It’s impossible for me toget bored now. I could siton the porch all day and

not get bored.’— Jake KehretSee KEHRET / Page 33

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with the for the rest of my life,” Jake said.“Because I got that emergency eye surgerythey had to cut open my lens and retina to getthe infection out, so I’m pretty much blind inmy left eye.

“I also have neuropathy, which is nerveproblems, mainly in my feet. You’ll never seeme without socks on in the house and any-thing other than socks it hurts to walk.”

Jake said he has more than a 50 percenthigher chance of getting frostbite in his feet,since he can’t feel them like normal.

“It’s just my feet and my eye, other thanthat I’d be as good as new.”

Since Jake was diagnosed his freshmanyear at Cañon City High School and had tolive in seclusion for so long, when he was fi-nally able to be in public again, re-enrolling inCCHS would’ve meant being in school an ex-tra two years to get caught up with enoughcredits to graduate.

He said he didn’t want to do that, so he de-cided to take an alternative path.

He earned his diploma from Cañon CityHigh School on Feb. 24 through an alternativeprogram offered through Pueblo CommunityCollege. He would’ve been a junior in highschool had the cancer never happened.

He said he wanted to go back to CCHS whenhe was able for the extracurricular activities,such as wrestling, football and the normalhigh school activities but said he made thebetter decision not to.

Now Jake is taking tests to get into DeVryUniversity in hopes to someday earn his de-gree as an electronics engineer.

Before the cancer sidetracked his life, Jakewas heavily into downhill mountain bike rac-ing, which he still is able to do, just not at theextreme levels he had before.

He said he’s determined not to let theleukemia stop his life now that he’s throughthe hardest parts.

Jake said he was trapped in the hospital forabout a year, so he’s not about to be trappedinside now.

“I live every day likes its going to be mylast,” Jake said. “After staying in the hospitalfor as a long as I did... It’s impossible for me

to get bored now. I could sit on the porch allday and not get bored. I sat in the hospital forso many days, that everything seems excitingafter that.

“I like being outdoors and keeping active. Idon’t like staying indoors. I always want to bebusy. I like being outside and the social part,being with friends and experiencing that dif-ferent type of stuff.”

Jake has taken up hiking with friends andrecently made a hike in five hours that wassupposed to take seven.

Jake also said he’s better now at pool, evenwith his blindness in his left eye, than he wasbefore the cancer.

He said he still likes to play football andbasketball, but takes a different, more fun-in-spired, approach than he used to.

He knows none of it would have been possi-ble without the support of the Cañon Cityc o m m u n i t y.

“(The people of) Cañon City have helped mea lot through the whole cancer thing,” he said.“They held fundraisers and the Orchard ofHope Foundation helped.”




By Carie Canterbury


Corina Martinez, 11, works on some class material during school at the Harrison School.Martinez was 9 when she was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in December 2008.

Two years after beingdiagnosed with a braintumor, Martinez, 11,healthy, back at school

Although it never fully went away,Corina Martinez has her familiarbright twinkle back in her bigbrown eyes. One year ago, shewas barely beginning to venture

out of her house after more than a year fightinga brain tumor.

Corina, 11, was 9 when she was diagnosed withmedulloblastoma in December 2008.

She started having headaches, walking off bal-ance, vomiting quite often and collapsed in thedoorway of the school health office.

After an eye examination, an MRI showed asignificant sized brain tumor.

The next morning, on Dec. 24, Corina under-went surgery to remove the malignant tumorand stayed in the hospital for the next 10 days.

The surgery affected the entire right side ofCorina’s body, and she had to re-learn how towalk, write and feed herself.

Corina began radiation in February 2009, andwhile the MRI showed the cancer was gone, shestill underwent chemotherapy and began losingher hair.

Corina completed her treatments in February2 010 .

“T h ey ’re pretty confident that I don’t needanymore medicine,” she said.

Now instead of dealing with needle pokes,blood transfusions, and doctor visits, Corina fillsher time with homework, outings with friends,reading and swimming lessons.

See M A RT I N E Z / Page 35

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Last month, she had surgery to remove her medicine port that wasinstalled just beneath her collarbone, and her hair is growing back.

“Now that she is better we do look back and think, ‘wow, she did gothrough a lot,’ and we are very thankful and very blessed that she’swhere she’s at now and that every day she gets better,” her mother,Amanda Deluchi said. “It’s nice to see her get healthy and eating.”

With the help of her tutor, Corina completed third and fourth gradeand returned to Harrison School last fall as a fifth-grader.

She said the work in fifthgrade is pretty demanding,but she continues to getstraight As. If she needs torest, she can do so in thehealth office.

“She gets wore out real, reale a sy, ” her mother said.

Deluchi volunteers a lot atthe school, just to keep an eyeon her daughter and goes onthe field trips with the fifth-g ra d e rs.

This year, Corina and herclass have gone to theNutcracker Ballet in Pueblo, alocal organic farm and a day-long trip to Denver, where theyvisited the state Capitol build-ing and the Downtown Aquari-um.

Her friends are happy to have her back in school and they are quickto lend a hand when she needs it — oh, and the boys are eager to carryher books for her. While the gesture is nice, she is not impressed byboys yet.

“All boys are good for is carrying books,” Corina said.What is important to her, however, is her education.“I want to get good grades because I want to go to college to be a ra-

diologist” she said.Corina keeps in touch with a friend she met while going through

treatment more than a year ago.The girls get together for lunch when Corina has a routine checkup

with her doctor in Colorado Springs, and she even went to a sleepoverat her friend’s house.

Next on the radar for Corina and her family is a trip to Disney Worldin May through the Make-A-Wish foundation.

“A lot of nurses told me how awesome it was before the Make-A-Wish people came,” Corina said. “I had a really good feeling about it.”

She and her parents and brother, Jakob, 6, will spend a week inFlorida.

“The hotel is like Candyland,” she said. “They have an ice creamstore that’s open 24 hours.”

She said the Disney characters even will tuck in the children atnight, and Corina hopes to meet one of the Disney princesses.

But then again, she only needs to look in the mirror to see a truep r i n c e s s.



Corina Martinez, right, 11,spent the last two yearsfighting brain cancer with hermom, Amanda, by her side.




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She had hoped to work longer,but it wasn’t meant to be.

Today, former children’s librar-ian Emily Sutton is happy withher pursuits.

“One of the things was funny,”she said. “I could go out any timeof the day and go anywhere Iwanted. I felt almost like a kidskipping school.”

Sutton, 81, worked as the chil-d re n ’s librarian at the Cañon CityPublic Library. She still gets re-quests to read stories to children,which she can no longer do be-cause of asthma.

At first, Sutton kept up with herknitting and reading variousbooks and magazines, along withcompleting sudoku and crosswordpuzzles and learning to work onher computer. In between, she vis-its family members back Eastand around the area.

When she first retired, Suttontook turns baking and deliveringcookies to the teachers at differ-ent schools through her churchbefore working for the FamilyCenter a short time.

It wasn’t until she met ShirleyBaney, of the St. Thomas MoreFoundation, who suggested shework in the gift shop that Suttonfound her niche.

“Then, I started doing that, andI love it,” she said. “When I firststarted, I did just one afternoon aweek. Now, I do two afternoons.It’s the best thing that could havehappened to me.”

Sutton said she enjoyed gettingout and meeting people.

But also, she enjoys workingwith Paula Sheagley, who runsthe gift shop.

“She is very good with what shed o e s, ” she said. “She knows hercommunity and the people. Sheknows what’s in style and has en-thusiasm. It’s going for a good

c a u s e. ”As part of her responsibilities in

the gift shop, Sutton waits on peo-ple, takes the money and writesthe prices on the tags of the mer-c h a n d i s e.

During her stint at the CañonCity Public Library, she providedan outreach program, where shevisited all the classes in thepreschools once a month.

“Most of the time, I saw morethan 500 kids a month and had astory hour for them,” Sutton said.

Born June 1929, in New Bed-ford, Mass., she was the youngest

of five girls, born during the De-pression. Several months later,her father died of a heart attackon Dec. 29, 1929.

After grade school, she went tohigh school, where she worked asa page at the library then trans-ferred into clerical department atthe library. She received a schol-arship to Boston University, butno women were allowed to enrollin the mechanical engineeringprogram at that time.


St. Thomas More Hospital volunteer Emily Sutton, 81, talks about items available in the gift shop, where sheworks two afternoons a week. Sutton previously worked at the Cañon City Public Library for 10 years as thec h i l d re n ’s librarian.

Emily Sutton

See SUT TON / Page 38


The Daily Record T H U R S D AY, M A RC H 31, 2011, Page 37WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

By Karen Lungu

New Lease On LifeTaylor thankful for new freedomafter kidney donation from sister

As he is taking one of his routine walksalong the Riverwalk, Ron Taylor often re-flects back to where he was a couple ofyears ago and offers thanks for his im-proving health.

The time now spent on volunteer work and long walks,once was spent on weekly dialysis. About a year and ahalf ago, Taylor received a new kidney, donated by hissister, Becky Taylor-Wolfe. Taylor was diagnosed withkidney disease in 2006. He began three-day-a-week dialy-sis in 2008. He was put on a transplant list as soon as hisdoctor determined his kidneys were failing.

Taylor said he and his sister always have been close,with him often dropping by her house in the evenings.Since receiving his new kidney, they now take frequentwalks along the Arkansas River together.

Taylor-Wolfe never wavered in her decision to donateher kidney. Her main concern was the medical financinguntil she learned of recipient’s insurance, which coversthe donor and recipient in a donation transplant.

“There is a lot testing you have to go through,” Tay l o r -Wolfe said about a week before her kidney donationsurgery in January 2010. “They check for everything youcan imagine. They do X-rays and scans, glucose toler-ance tests. A lot of it we had done here and in Pueblo.And, a lot of it, we had to go to Denver.”

The siblings also were tested for blood type compatibil-ity, tissue matching before transplant surgery, whichtook place Jan. 14, 2010, at University of Colorado Hospi-tal. Shortly before surgery, Taylor-Wolfe said she feltvery blessed to be able to donate to her only sibling.

“I think we’ll have a bond a lot of other siblings don’thave because of this,” she said. “It’s just kind of a reallyunique and cool experience. It’s a privilege. We’reblessed to have each other.”

Since the surgery, Taylor has continued to gainstrength and renewed health. He no longer has to makefrequent trips to Denver.

“Last year, after the operation, I had to stay aroundDenver for a couple of weeks because I had to go in aboutevery other day to give blood,” Taylor said. “Then theschedule drops to once a week, and then once a month.Now, I don’t have to drive to Denver anymore. I just goover to Pueblo about once a month to get my bloodc h e c ke d. ”

His sister felt better a little quicker than he did, Taylorsaid, and was able to get back to work in a few weeks.

“She had her blood checked at the six-month mark andeverything was fine,” he said. “She’s doing as well as she

See TAY LO R / Page 39


Ron Taylor, right, and his sister, Becky Taylor-Wolfe, walk on the Riverwalk nearSouth Ninth Street. Becky donated a kidney to Ron in January 2010 at theUniversity of Colorado Hospital. Shortly before surgery, Taylor-Wolfe said she feltvery blessed to be able to donate to her only sibling.

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So Sutton didn’t go to college until much later when she enrolled inSouthern Colorado State College in Pueblo, where she earned an asso-ciate’s degree. Later, her sister helped pay for four years at SCSC,where she majored in speech.

While living in the Denver area, she worked at the University ofDenver library, where she worked up to supervisor of circulation.Then, she moved to Fleming, where she set up the school library andlater, she worked at the library in Rocky Ford.

When a position came up in the Cañon City area, the head of the dis-trict sent an application to Sutton. Several days later, she was hiredfor the position.

Since growing older, only her older sister and Sutton are left fromthe family.

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did before the operation. As far aseither one of us goes, there arenot any activities that we’ve cur-tailed or had to stop because ofthe surgery.”

The things he does to maintainhis health after surgery arethings he feels most people shoulddo anyway, Taylor said.

“Keep your weight down and ex-ercise, watch your blood pressure,eat a good diet — those type oft h i n g s, ” he said. “And, with a kid-ney transplant, it’s important todrink a lot of water every day.They want me to drink roughlytwo and a half to three liters everyday. You want to keep your bodyand kidney as flushed out as pos-s i b l e. ”

Taylor was on high doses of im-munosuppressant drugs for awhile after the transplant, butsaid those have tapered over thepast year.

“The dosages I’m on now willprobably be the same for the rest

of my life,” he said. “Beckydoesn’t have to take any type ofdrugs at all since donating.”

Before the surgery, Taylor wason blood pressure medications,but with the successful trans-plant, he’s been able to get hisblood pressure back to normal.Since the surgery, Taylor saidhe’s glad to be back doing his vol-unteer work at Loaves & Fishesand as a driver for Senior Ser-vices Solutions Plus.

“You just take as good of care ofyourself as much as you can, andlive each day as it comes,” Tay l o rsaid. “From time-to-time, I getvery thankful for the new freedomthat I didn’t have before. I am sothankful I am able to get out anddo things today. I think that’s whyI am more aware of other people’sneeds, and that’s what makes mewant to go volunteer and help oth-er people do things. I just feel thatwith this new freedom I have,there is more responsibility to useit in a wise and good way to helpother people.”



Ron Taylor and his sister, Becky Taylor-Wolfe, visit in early 2010 abouttheir kidney transplant. The surgery was Jan. 14, 2010, at University ofColorado Hospital. Since the surgery, Taylor has continued to gainstrength and renewed health.




C o m m u n i t y - Mi n d e d


Former Cañon City Mayor George Turner talks about the several organizationshe works with and operating the train at Buckskin Joe.

Turner continues to giveback to area with serviceon number of boards

He may have served as mayor for six years,but he continues to stay active in the com-munity. “When I decided not to seek re-election for mayor, the seat for HD44 be-came available when Bob Kirsch, who

was the legislator at that time, decided he wanted to begove r n o r, ” said George Turner, 71. “That opened up thatseat. I thought that would be kind of fun to go to Denverto become a legislator.”

In fact, Kirsch made the nomination speech for Turner.When Kirsch lost being in the primary, he changed hismind and decided to run for his former seat. Rather thansplit the party, Turner chose to withdraw from the race.Kirsch eventually lost the election anyway.

After that, Turner worked as an assessor technicianwith Don Packard at Pueblo Community College. Fromthere, he was hired to represent Cañon City, FremontCounty and Florence through the Cañon City Chamber ofCommerce as a lobbyist in Denver to bring anotherprison to Fremont County.

During that time, the Federal Bureau of Prisons tookan interest in the Abbey as a prison camp, but when itdidn’t work out, Turner contacted them to bring the fed-eral prison to Florence.

After successfully completing that project, Turnerjoined the chamber as an interim executive director in1991 when the former one resigned.

More than 15 years later, he was still there.“It kept me involved in the community,” he said. “It

seemed to fit as far as I’m concerned.”In 2007, because of health problems, Turner resigned as

executive director.“I miss the good times working with the chamber,” he

said. “I enjoyed it (and) had good employees, too.”Soon after, Turner began helping Randy Roberts stake

uranimum claims in Canada. When Vicki Casey calledhim to join their operation at Buckskin Joe, Turner trans-ferred to the Royal Gorge Scenic Railway to drive thetrain around the property.

“I needed something to do,” he said. “You have to havea reason to get up in the morning. Since then, I’ve driventhe train in the summer time. That has been great fun for

See TURNER / Page 41

George Turner



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m e. ”Turner also conducted marketing for the railway throughout the

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Cañon City Rotary Club since he was president in 1988-89. He servesas treasurer of the Cañon City Rotary Foundation, secretary/treasur-er of the Cañon City and Oil Creek Ditch Company, treasurer of thePueblo Pachyderm Club, co-chairman of the Community RelationBoard of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

“(The board helps) to keep them informed of what’s going on in thecommunity and keep us informed of what’s going out there,” Tu r n e rs a i d.

He also spent 23 years with the Planning Commission, from 1977 to1985 and from 1991 to 2007.

Born Feb. 20, 1940, Turner graduated from Cañon City High Schoolin 1958, then attended Colorado State University for two years, but hadto quit when his father became ill during his sophomore year. At thatpoint, he operated the OK Dairy until it become El Cañon Holsteins.After he sold the cows in 1975 and shut the operation down, he spentfive weeks in Fairbanks, Alaska before getting involved with theCañon City Council.

In his leisure, Turner has traveled to Europe several times, as wellas Mexico. He spends his winter vacations in Nogales, Ariz.

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Cañon City High School senior David Leonard works on a computer at the school during histechnology intern period.

CCHS senior hopesto turn technologyinterest into a career

If it involves technology,David Leonard is in-volved. The Cañon CityHigh School senior en-joys working with infor-

mation technology systems, andoften helps the high school officestaff with their computer systems.

Co-editor-in-chief of the highschool yearbook, David, 18,spends most of his spare time atthe high school, often photograph-ing school activities and events.He also is president of the localFuture Business Leaders of Amer-ica chapter.

“I’m just kind of all over thep l a c e, ” David said.

His love of technology drew himinto the CCHS Tiger Paws Publish-ing program, where he is ChiefExecutive Officer.

“That’s probably what takes upmost of my time,” he said. “It isjust so much fun being in a class,doing what I’m going to be proba-bly for my career.”

David hopes to pursue a liveli-hood in design and development ofwebsites, graphic design and mak-ing flyers for advertisements andthe selling of products.

David spends the first part of his

morning as a student information technologytechnician at the high school.

“I’m around to help the school district outwith any IT issues here at the school,” he said.

His love of computers began around age four,when he first played on the family system,learning by trial and error.

“I’ve always strived for the best I can do,”

David said. “I don’t let roadblocks hit me. I tryto, if I can find somebody to help me, go whereI want to go.”

David and his parents, Cindy and David, Sr.,moved to the Cañon City area from Texas whenhe was in fifth grade. His four older sisters had

David Leonard

See LEONARD / Page 44



By Carie Canterbury

Faces In the Crowd

‘A Natural Athlete’FHS senior topursue interest inequestrian arena

Katie Gray will at-tend college thisfall without hav-ing to give upsomething she

loves — show horses and com-pete in the equestrian arena.

Katie, 18, was recruited byfour colleges for equestrian.

“It was really down to A & Mand TCU,” she said. “When Iwent out and visited both ofthem I just decided TCU is thep l a c e. ”

As a Texas Christian Universi-ty Women’s Equestrian, Katiewill participate in the NCAA Di-vision 1 Team this fall.

“They give us all of the swagjust like the football players,”she said. “We have our own per-sonal trainers, gear, everything –swag, horses, our barn, facility,c l o t h e s. ”

Katie said TCU competesagainst other schools, but thecompetition is a little differentthan her previous experience.

“Through equestrian, it’s ahead-to-head competition,” shesaid. “So you verse another teamand the whole team draws hors-es and whichever girl draws thesame horse as you, you competeon the same horse and you’rescored that way. It’s level play-ing ground, it’s just on the riderand not the horse’s ability.”

Katie, a senior at FlorenceHigh School, plans to major inn u rs i n g .

“They have the masters pro-gram I want to go through to bea nurse anesthesiologist,” shesaid. “I chose it because I want-ed to go to medical school to bean anesthesiologist, but it’s less

schooling and TCU has one ofthe number one nursing pro-grams and one of the fewschools that has that program.”

She will enter college with 26credit hours, having maxed outthe available math and sciencecourses at her school.

“I’m just shy of the 30 creditsthat would allow me to be asophomore at TCU,” she said.“All that will take is an onlineclass, and I can make that up.”

Ka t i e ’s grade point is higherthan a 4.0.

“I’m kind of in a little bit of arace for valedictorian/salutato-rian,” she said. “The last coupleof years I’ve been trying to holdas high of As as I can.”

Katie said everything herhorses have taught her has bene-fited her in her school career.

“Like working hard for some-thing — it might seem like youdon’t want to do it right now, butit makes it so much better in theend when you can look back on itand say ‘that wasn’t that badand look at where I am at now,’”she said. “In school, I look at itlike I should work hard now towhere the rest of my life is kindof easy, and I can do what I wantinstead of just float now andstruggle later.”

Ka t i e ’s father, Tim, said beinga world title holder in equestrianevents requires a good deal ofathleticism.

“It takes a good athlete,” hesaid. “Bottom line she was agood athlete in school, and ittakes an athlete to ride the hors-es — t h e re ’s a lot of balance andstrength involved in that. She’skind of a natural athlete and rid-e r. ”

Katie played basketball, trackand volleyball, and went to statein track her freshman andsophomore years. She recentlywas the manager for the FHSgirls basketball team.

“But I just decided that eques-trian was where college was go-ing to be for me,” she said. “Iwas definitely more likely to get


Florence High School student Katie Gray talks about her 12-year-old paint Robbie that she travels to showswith across the country. She will be attending Texas Christian University with an equestrian scholarship tostudy nursing.

See G R AY / Page 44

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moved out of the home by thetime he came along, he said.

“We don’t have any other familyaround, but we love it here,”David said. “It’s a great town.”

His mother works at HeadStart, and on his days off, Davidoften can be found at his mother’sschool, helping those studentswith their computers.

“I try to help them with theircomputer issues,” David said,“and I try to help them with theirstudent machines, so I volunteer abunch of hours up there.”

His dad has been the one to en-courage his love of computers.

“My dad used to be into comput-ers a whole lot,” he said. “He justkind of got me started on it. It wasso amazing what a computercould do. It was so limitless.”

Most of his time on the comput-er is spent working, though,David said, he does enjoy a goodcomputer game now and again.

David recently was accepted in-to Colorado State University –Pueblo, where he wants to contin-ue his work in information tech-nology. Eventually, he wants tocomplete a master’s in computerinformation systems. He will beleaving with a treasure trove ofpositive memories and experi-e n c e s.

“All of the staff I’ve interactedwith here — everybody has givenme something great,” David said.“It’s so hard to single anybody outat this school, because everybodyhas given me a great, positive ex-p e r i e n c e. ”

David also credits his parentswith encouraging him.

“My parents have been a greatinspiration for me,” he said.“They have always worked hardall their lives. It is somethinggreat to have them as role mod-els. I definitely have to thank myp a re n t s. ”

Continued from Page 42a full ride through equestrian.”

She started competing at thenational level when she was 6 andhas ranked in the top in nationalsever since. She has a total of fiveworld titles – two reserves andthree world championships – inthe American Paint Horse Associ-ation. Katie also won four circuitchampionships and High PointWestern Horse at the 2011 Nation-al Stock Show.

“I’ve been blessed with beingable to naturally ride well,” shesaid. “I’ve always had reallystrong horsemanship and equi-ta t i o n . ”

In school, Katie is involved inFuture Business Leaders ofAmerica, student council, Nation-al Honor Society and F Club. Shealso is active in the NationalPaint Horse Association andRocky Mountain Paint Horse As-sociation.

She has one older step-brother,Tim Jr., and parents Tim and An-

nette plan to head to Fort Worthwhenever their daughter has acompetition.

Riding and competing at herlevel is a huge time commitment,but Katie said it has been worththe ride.

“Overall, it has helped me be-come the person I am,” she said.“I really think one thing that hasbeen different for me is my par-ents haven’t put me on the nicestor the most made horses — mostgirls get put on extremely expen-sive horses and everything is kindof handed to them and their hors-es stay at their trainer’s — but Ikeep my horse here and do all thewo r k . ”

She said she also has learned astrong work ethic.

“It made me stick with it be-cause I really loved it and a lot oftimes if it’s just handed to you youdon’t stay with it very long,” shesaid. “But it’s something I trulylove and it just makes when I dogo out there and win world cham-pionships mean that much more.”

G R AYContinued from Page 43


The Daily Record T H U R S D AY, M A RC H 31, 2011, Page 45Faces In the Crowd

By Karen Lungu


Garden Park High School student Audrey States, right, visits with Hildebrand Care Center resident Millie Hall. She volunteers at thecenter as a musical therapist assistant. Her favorite activity is joining in on the drum circles with the residents.

GPHS senior found her calling afterbeing a volunteer at care center

She loves her job so much, that when she’s not on theschedule to work, Audrey States heads to HildebrandCare Center to volunteer as a musical therapist as-sistant. Her favorite activity is joining in on thedrum circles with the residents.

A high school senior, Audrey, 19, will graduate from Garden

Park High School this spring. In anticipation of a medical ca-reer, Audrey is taking classes at Pueblo Community College, asshe works toward her Certified Nursing Assistant certification.

“I work two days a week, but I go up there and volunteer on mydays off as often as I can,” Audrey said.

She feels fortunate to have found such a supportive staff atGPHS, Audrey said.

“The teachers are positive, and they help you toward your ca-re e r, ” she said. “They help you mature and get on the right

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tification, Audrey hopes to com-plete her Emergency MedicalTechnician licensing.

Audrey wants to stay close toher mother, Peggy, and 4-year-oldniece, Alia, who lives with Audreyand her mother.

“I help out with her a lot,” Au -drey said of her niece, the daugh-ter of her only sister. “It’s reallyfun for me.”

A Cañon City native, Audreyhopes to be able to settle in thearea after completing her collegedegree. She credits her motherwith encouraging her to stay inschool and complete her degree,as well as helping her discoverher love of working with people.

“She encourages me and keepsme on the right path by helpingme out with my CNA stuff,” Au -

drey said. “She was a CNA, too.She taught me to help people, andthat honesty is the best policy.”

Audrey began volunteering atHildebrand after a guest speakeraddressed the students at GPHS.

“She asked us for any volun-t e e rs, ” Audrey said. “I went oneday and tried it out, and I reallyliked it. It was great to help there s i d e n t s. ”

She enjoys the drum circles be-cause they help people who haveexperienced strokes. Another fa-vorite activity at Hildebrand, Au-drey said, is participating in sing-a l o n g s.

“We play a lot of gospel,” shesaid. “I like the music, and I’mlearning to read music from thelady I work with. She also taughtme to play a tin-whistle.”

Audrey said she doesn’t thinkshe would be doing as well inschool if it were not for the GPHSs ta f f .

“They encourage us to get onthe right road before we leavehigh school,” she said. “That way,when we get out in the real world,we ’ll be set to work or go to col-lege. Cathy Bergin has helped melearn to write some poetry. She’shelped me to learn to keep a posi-tive attitude every day. Becky An-derson also has helped me. We’veboth bumped heads a lot, but shewas just trying to help me to keepon the right path.”

Audrey continues to write poet-ry for herself as a way to keep intouch with her feelings.

Another area in which theGPHS staff has helped Audreyhas been in offering her supportafter her lap band surgery a yearand a half ago. She’s lost morethan 100 pounds since then.

“It’s been really positive,” shesaid. “My teachers here havebeen a big support of it. They’veworked with me through my ap-

pointments. I feel a lot healthier,now. The kids here also encour-aged me. We support each other.”

Audrey said her health was fail-ing before the surgery, and shewants to continue losing weightand learning to live a healthierl i f e s t y l e.

“I still want to lose weight in thef u t u re, ” Audrey said. “The lapband is a tool, but I have to watchwhat I’m eating. I have to exer-cise regularly. I take my niece ona lot of walks. I eat a lot more veg-e ta b l e s. ”

She hopes her experiences willhelp encourage others to seekhelp when they need it, Audreys a i d.

“I just thank the people whohave been here for me,” she said.“I know people are here to helpme, especially the staff at GardenPark High School.”




By Carie Canterbury


Florence High School senior Matt Kay, right, talks with sophomore Tyler Correa during school. He has been a peer counselor/tutor fortwo years and also is involved in student council and his church.

Matt Kay

Senior an exemplary student who standsfirm in his leadership role at school

He is rarely seen without his trademark vest andpolished cowboy boots — and usually a Diet Cokeclose by. That’s the way Matt Kay likes things:organized and predictable. The Florence HighSchool senior is a natural born leader, exemplary

student and has a servant’s heart.Matt is the Head Boy for the FHS Class of 2011 and with the job

comes some pretty hefty responsibilities. One of his duties is to

help run student council.Not a problem — he has plenty of experience in that arena.Matt started participating in student council activities back in

his elementary school days, and one of his favorite aspects is thecommunity service.

“I’ve just always found community service to be fun,” he said.“It’s just fun to help out with different things.”

FHS counselor Sandra Miller said Matt is a young man that,as a leader, is committed to standing by what’s right for thegroup and what needs to be done. She said he takes into accountwhat everyone wants, what the group wants, and then looks at

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what the best thing is for all in-vo l ve d.

“It may not necessarily be thepopular thing to do, it may not bethe easy thing to do, but he knowsthat’s what needs to be done forthe group and he’ll do it,” Millersaid. “He’ll sometimes take theheat for it, that’s a hard thing foran adult to do much less a highschool student, and he’s real goodabout standing firm in leadershipthat has to take place.”

Matt, 18, was the Elks studentof the month twice and the Ma-rine Corps League Student of themonth. He also is in NationalHonor Society and is a secondyear peer counselor.

“Basically, we’re counselorsslash aids,” he said. “We help thecounselors out if they need helparound the office and we also domediations between students, ifthey are arguing and they needhelp, we’ll sit down with them,talk to them and try to help themsolve the problem.”

Peer counselors also offer tu-toring during their counseling pe-r i o d.

“I’ve always enjoyed helpingp e o p l e, ” Matt said. “It’s just whatI’ve always kind of wanted to do.I’ve even thought about becominga counselor — I thought counsel-ing, being a priest, it all kind ofgoes along the same line — beinga teacher — I don’t know what Iwould want to do; it all soundsfun.”

Joining the priesthood hascrossed Matt’s mind, he said.

He has attended St. Benedict’sCatholic Church in Florence hisentire life and served as an altarserver for about 11 years.

Matt recently became a Eu-charistic minister and helps thepriest distribute communion.

He said not many young peoplewill step up and take on such re-s p o n s i b i l i t i e s.

“We have quite a few altarservers, but after altar serving, itseems like most of the kids kind ofdrop out of the church or moveaway, ” he said. “I am the youngest

one that’s there.”Matt also enjoys teaching Sun-

day school to freshmen andsophomores and helping them tolearn more about their faith.

“In my opinion, it’s kind of sadto see how much kids don’t knowabout their religion these days,”he said. “Sometimes, I’ll ask thembasic questions they should know— like about sacraments — andthey look at me like I’m speakinganother language; it’s kind of dis-appointing to me that parentsdon’t teach their children, theyjust take them to mass and figurethat’s it.”

Matt’s grade point average is3.9, he said, and after graduation,he plans to attend CSU Pueblo,where he will major in biologywith an emphasis in forestry andwildlife. He will commute, so hecan remain close to his familyand church.

He also enjoys the outdoors,hiking and exploring with his par-ents, Chris and Tina Kay, and old-er siblings, Josh Kay, VanessaTrujillo and Jessica Miller.

What little spare time he has,he watches “Law and Order: Spe-cial Victims’ Unit” and enjoys lis-tening to Reba McIntyre.

Matt does have one other obses-sion — one that some may consid-er kind of cheesy.

“One thing that’s real big in ourfamily is the Green Bay Packers,”he said. “The Super Bowl was ahuge deal at our house. We’vebeen Packer fans forever.”

Matt said his dad is from Mil-waukee, and the devotion to thegreen and yellow runs in the fami-l y.

January’s Super Bowl was a bigdeal to the Matt family, but hesaid every week is a big partywhen Green Bay plays.

Matt admits, however, he is an-t i - Fav re.

“The second he left the Packers,I was like ‘good, he’s gone,’” hesaid. “He was OK when he was onthe team, but the second he’s offthe team, goodbye — I don’t likehim.”



By Karen Lungu

Enjoying The SilenceCCHS studentembraces quietmoments in life

Having a fatherwho preaches, itis no wonderAngela Kettleknows how to

write and deliver an inspira-tional message, and she prac-tices what she teaches. A ju-nior at Cañon City High School,Angela is active on the school’sSpeech and Debate squad. Shealso is involved in Encore!, stu-dent council, Key Club and Fu-ture Business Leaders ofAmerica.

Outside of school, Angela, 17,is an active part of her churchyouth group, where her father,Larry, is a pastor, and she singson the worship team. Angelasaid she is close to her family,and especially her mom, Mari-lyn, whom she said is her maini n s p i ra t i o n .

“We ’re both shy at first,” shesaid. “But we warm up to peo-ple pretty quickly. We don’t liketo get in anyone’s way, which issometimes a weakness. My dadis really funny, really friendlyand very outgoing, like my sis-t e r. ”

Angela also has a sister,Amanda, and an older brother,Joshua, who she adores.

“My brother and I are veryclose, but we tend to butt headsmore often,” she said with alaugh.

Though Angela is involved inmany activities, she has notsettled on her life’s career, yet.

“Right now, I’m really ex-ploring a lot of options,” shesaid, “but my main interestsare communications, writing,speaking and things around

that field. I would really love totravel with a magazine andwrite stories or be a colum-nist.”

After she graduates in 2012,Angela thinks she will head offto Washington State to go tocollege. She said she especiallyenjoys being an active part ofthe Speech and Debate team,which helps her hone her inter-ests in writing and public

speaking.“In speech and debate, I com-

pete in what’s called originalo ra to r y, ” Angela said. “It’s a10-minute speech that youwrite yourself about any topic.You write, memorize and per-form. That’s really my passionright now.”

She enjoys working on non-concrete topics, Angela said.Her latest speech is on the im-portance of silence.

“I really like writing aboutbig concepts like that, and thenrelating them to things in ev-eryday life,” Angela said.

She practices her own appre-ciation of silence by taking aquiet moment every morningto have a cup of tea by herselfat her kitchen table.

“I think it’s important be-cause there is so much noise inthe world,” Angela said.“Sometimes it is hard to seewhat is important and what’snot. By exercising silence, Ithink we can get a better graspon what’s important. And also,sometimes silence says morethan words.”

In her oratory, Angela usesan example from the movie,“Up,” when one of the charac-ters quietly presents his futurewife with a balloon in a hotel.

“I think it’s really importantwe form relationships that aredeeper than speech,” A n ge l asaid. “Sometimes, I think peo-ple talk to hear their voice, or


Cañon City High School student Angela Kettle, right, rehearses a duet with classmate MichaelaChisholm for an upcoming concert.

Angela Kettle

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‘By exercising silence,I think we can get a better

grasp on what’simpor tant.’

— Angela Kettle

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