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One owner polishes his 1937 Ford while an admirer checks out the vintage car. It was one of the many cars on display last year at the Tri-Lakes Cruisers benefi t car show. Please see more photos and story, page 9. File photo by Lisa Collacott

READY TO CRUISE

Committee for Palmer Lake seeking ideas, members � e Awake the Lake committee needs citizens to take an active role in helping to � ll lake, raising funds By Lisa Collacott [email protected]

The Awake the Lake commit-tee in Palmer Lake needs more members and is hoping others step up to serve on sub commit-tees to help with the effort to fi nd ways to fi ll the lake and keep it

fi lled.At a committee meeting on

May 21, Jeff Hulsmann, owner of O’Malley’s and active member of the board, told those in atten-dance that people need to take active roles. He said there are two ways to be active and that is to form committees where people can get together and try to fi nd solutions and to join the Awake the Lake board.

Hulsmann said that the cur-rent condition of the lake is the worst it has ever looked and it is going to take a lot of money to fi ll it.

“Let’s fi nd a way to fi ll the lake

and keep it full,” Hulsmann said.Hulsmann briefl y talked about

the water level of the lake, pos-sible sources of where water can come from, hiring consultants and current fundraising efforts.

He explained that Palmer Lake is a water table lake and is spring fed. There is an alluvial fan which is a deposit of sediment that is built up by streams. He said what most likely happened, centuries ago, was that water came down from the mountains into the streams but over time erosion covered those streams and now they’re underground streams.

Palmer Lake has dried up due to the drought and lack of snowfall. The Awake the Lake committee, which was formed several years ago to restore the lake, is hoping citizens step-up with ideas to fi ll the lake and keep it full, serve on committees and help with fundraising eff orts. Photo by Lisa Collacott

Bull riders charge into Monument Bull riding competition to take place on the Fourth of July By Lisa Collacott [email protected]

The town of Monument is the place to be to celebrate the Fourth of July this summer. The annual parade and street fair is always a draw to historic down-town Monument and this year the fi re-works will take place at Monument Lake.

New this year to the events will be the Monument Bull Bash.

TNT Events will host the fi rst bull riding competition that will take place in the afternoon. Ty and Nancy Rinal-do, who grew up competing in rodeos, went before the Monument board of trustees at the May 20 board meeting to talk about their plans for the bull riding competition and seek approval to host the event.

There will be 20 riders at the Monu-ment Bull Bash with the top fi ve going on to the fi nals.

The Rinaldo’s raise their own bulls which they take to professional bull riding events all over the country. They recently hosted a bull riding event in Castle Rock in February.

“Similar to the one in Castle Rock we plan to have a nice military appre-ciation. We feel very strongly about the military and their service,” Nancy Rinal-do said.

The Rinaldo’s will bring a portable arena and said it’s the same type of are-na the professional bull riders use. The location for the bull riding competition will be on the empty lot east of Grace Best Elementary School and west of Beacon Lite Road, south of the former Pankratz Studio.

Ty Rinaldo said they will not sell any food or beverages. He said they are okay with people bringing food into their lo-cation but will prohibit any alcohol.

In addition to the bull fi ghting the Rinaldo’s will also have two fl oats in the parade.

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Tri-Lakes cadet re� ects on four years at the academy � e 2009 LPHS grad enjoyed his education at the Air Force Academy, will leave for pilot training in a few months By Lisa Collacott [email protected]

On May 29 Cadet First Class Wil-liam LaRivee will join more than 1,000 other cadets as their four years at the United States Air Force Academy comes to an end and they receive their hard-earned diplomas and become offi cers.

For LaRivee graduation is bitter-sweet. He has thoroughly enjoyed his time at the academy but is looking for-ward to what his future holds.

“I’m excited,” LaRivee said.Going to the academy was a given

for the 2009 Lewis-Palmer High School graduate and he knew at times it was going to be really hard.

“I always knew I was going to go to end up at the academy. I come from a military family. I was ready for the challenge,” LaRivee said.

Both of LaRivee’s parents were in the Air Force. He is scheduled to go to pilot training at Sheppard Air Force

Base in Texas. Until he leaves for training in six months he’ll be casual status at the academy.

As he thinks back to his four years LaRi-vee said he has made some great friends and considers what

he’s taking away from the academy.

“It teaches you to handle all those things like clubs, academics and train-ing and being able to excel at them. Another important thing is that you realize how important other people are. It’s not just about you,” he added.

One of the things he liked the most about his time at the academy was the opportunities it afforded him such as traveling. LaRivee spent one semester abroad in Austria and went on a month long language emergent program in Germany. He also spent a week in Tanzania. He had a hard time trying to fi nd anything that he didn’t like about the academy and said it would probably have to be not having

the freedom to leave all the time.Being so close to home helped him

get through his freshman year and the fact that he made friends easily and quickly. He said all cadets have those moments when it seems to tough. On his third day of basic training he wasn’t sure if he could go on.

“Everyone has those awful days when you think you’re not going to make it. But there are 1,000 other kids going through the same thing and my squadron helped. I made great friend-ships,” LaRivee said.

Now that those four years are be-hind him LaRivee is taking 60 days of leave and will be heading to Japan and Thailand with another cadet to go backpacking. His sister graduates from Harvard the day after his gradu-ation but he will be unable to attend her graduation. He just recently came back from Boston where he got to spend some time with her.

Like many cadets he’s disappointed that there will be no Thunderbird fl y-over at graduation but he is looking forward to the air show with World War II airplanes.

“The academy has some really great people. I’ll remember them for the rest of my life,” LaRivee said.

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Commissioners recognize top squadron at USAFA Special to The Tribune

At their regularly scheduled meet-ing on May 21, El Paso County Com-missioners adopted an offi cial proc-lamation recognizing the 2013 “Top Squadron” of the United States Air Force Academy.

This year’s winner, as selected by academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mi-chael Gould, went to Cadet Squadron 22, The Raptors.

This is the third consecutive year that the Raptors have won the honor, beating out 39 other squadrons.

On hand to receive the proclama-tion was Col Joseph Sanders, Direc-tor of the Center for Character and Leadership Development and Lt. Col. Brandy Walton, Air Offi cer Com-manding, CS-22. Also in attendance were members of Cadet Squadron 22: Cadet First Class William Suys, Cadet Second Class Jaime Ramey, Cadet Third Class Andrew Miller-Bissell and Cadet Fourth Class Anne Von Seggern.

Lt. Col. Walton, who has been in command of The Raptors throughout their three year run as top squadron, thanked the commissioners for their recognition and praised the time and effort the squadron has logged in the name of excellence.

“I can’t tell you how proud I am of my squadron,” said Lt. Col. Walton, “These cadets behind me epitomize the Air Force core values and have

built a culture of excellence within the Air Force Academy.”

District 1 Commissioner Darryl Glenn, who presented the proclama-tion, spoke to the cadets on a person-al level.

“It’s unbelievable what you are do-ing and what you’ve stepped up to do, volunteering to serve this coun-try. I am incredibly proud of you and I want welcome you to the Air Force family.”

Commissioner Glenn, who is a 1988 academy graduate, plans to the make the top squadron proclamation an annual presentation of the board.

The proclamation, coincidentally, came on the same day the BOCC ad-opted a proclamation in honor of Me-morial Day.

Chair of the Board Dennis Hisey spoke to that connection and thanked the cadets for their current and future service to the nation.

Commencement exercises for the newest graduating class at the United States Air Force Academy will be held on May 29 at Falcon Stadium starting 9:40 a.m. with gates open at 7 a.m.

Air Force Secretary Michael Don-ley will deliver the commencement address.

Members of Squadron 22, The Raptors, received the honors of top squadron at the Air Force Academy for three consecutive years. On May 21 they were recognized by the El Paso Board of County Commis-sioners when commissioners adopted a proclamation recognizing the top squadron. Courtesy photo

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Tri-Lakes Monument welcomes new fire chiefChris Truty takes the reins at fire protection districtBy Norma [email protected]

When Chris Truty was sworn in as the new Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protec-tion District chief on May 22, it was just a formality. He had already been officially sworn in at a special meeting on May 13 so that he could get a jump on his new job.

The second swearing in was an occa-sion for the public and the firefighters to meet the new chief, his wife Heidi and his parents and other family members who

already make Colorado their home. Heidi Truty is helping her husband with house hunting but will also be going back and forth to Illinois until she can make the move permanent.

“This is my first cross country move,” she said.

Once the new chief was sworn in by fire district board President Jake Shirk, Chief Truty in turn swore in all the districts fire-fighters and emergency medical person-nel.

“Firefighter is one of the most danger-ous jobs in the world,” he said. “They are typically the first on the scene in any disas-ter and it’s a great honor to be swearing in these dedicated men and women.”

After his swearing in as the new Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District’s fire chief, Chris Truty, standing center, swears in the district’s firefighters and emergency medical responders. Photos by Norma Engelberg

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Colorado planes once topped the worldAt one time, from 1928 and on into

1929, the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world operated right here in Colorado.

Even today, as you wander through Denver International Airport (DIA) you can still see a reminder of the once successful Colorado plane company hanging at the west end of Concourse B. An Alexander Air-craft Company 1930 Model A-14 Eaglerock that the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado took 25 years to restore, resides there in the upper reaches of the airport to greet air travelers from all over the world.

“The Eaglerock biplane, made famous by barnstormers during the 1920s, was manufactured in what is now downtown Englewood, Colorado, and later in Colora-do Springs, by the Alexander Aircraft Com-pany. Barnstormers landed the Eaglerock in farm fields across rural America in the 1920s and ‘30s, giving rides in these `new flying machines’ to the brave souls willing to take the risk of flight. Ten-minute rides sold for 50 cents to a dollar,” wrote Ronald E. Newberg, exhibits manager at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in SWAviator in 2000.

An older Model 24 Alexander Eaglerock aircraft also can be found at the Wings Over The Rockies Air and Space Museum, (also rebuilt by the Antique Airplane As-sociation).

The Alexander brothers, J. Don Alex-ander and S. Don Alexander first business

venture was in selling street advertising, and after a brief detour in the chicken business, they established the Alexan-der Film Company which focused on big screen advertising. As the business grew, they relocated to Englewood, Colo., from their home state of Washington in order to be more centrally located.

“It was J. Don Alexander who came up with the idea of equipping his grow-ing sales force with airplanes. This would serve two purposes: first, it would attract attention, and second, it would expedite distribution of the advertising films. The first plane, purchased by older brother S. Don Alexander, was a 1920 Laird “Swallow,” powered by an OX5. When the Swallow ar-rived in Denver it landed at Lowry Field, lo-cated at 38th and Daliah Streets in Denver. The next additions to the Alexander aircraft fleet were Longren biplanes,” according to Newberg.

“J. Don Alexander wanted to purchase

some forty to fifty planes for his salesmen. However, no one, not even the govern-ment, was buying that many aircraft in the 1920s, so the existing aircraft manufactur-ers would not take Mr. Alexander’s pro-posal seriously. This prompted him start his own aircraft manufacturing company,” Newberg said.

The company built more than 900 planes in 1920s and 1930s, and by 1928, it needed to expand again.

“Forced out of the Denver area by a landowner’s refusal to sell the land needed for expansion, Alexander Aircraft relocated to Colorado Springs.”

“The Alexander Aircraft Company went on to build the unsuccessful “Alexander Transport,” a high wing, seven-passenger monoplane. However, other more suc-cessful models followed. In the 1928 - 1929 time frame the Alexander Aircraft Com-pany was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, with the capacity of manufac-turing eight airplanes a day,” according to Newberg.

In 1927, J. Don Alexander wrote “Some fifteen months ago we of Alexander Industries began construction of a new light commercial airplane. The new ship’s performance was exceptional and price quoted in Denver was less than manu-facturer’s costs on the first fifty produced. Therefore, as Emerson once said, `the world should have made a beaten path to’

the manufacturer’s door. But careful and expectant watching showed no signs of such a movement. We soon saw that we would have to carefully survey the path, pave it, and put signposts up along its course before the public would even look in this very right direction.”

That same year J. Don noted that only a year earlier, the company could only produce one ship per month but now were producing one per day and were still behind. “At this writing, we are forty-one ships behind sales.”

But not all reports were positive.“One area manufacturer of planes about

that time was the Alexander Company in Colorado Springs, which produced the Eaglerock plane. These aircraft...had more than their share of crashes. It got so bad that people made crude jokes about them such as: They call the planes Eaglerocks because they fly like an eagle and fall like a rock. Their track record finally became so bad that, as I understand, the authorities in charge of flying regulations banned further manufacturing of the Eaglerock,” wrote Robert Esterday in his 1993 book “A Kid’s-Eye View of Early Greeley.”

Unfortunately, because of the depres-sion, the company was forced to liquidate in the early 1930s, though remnants of the company lived on as Air Mechanics Inc., and even designed a five-seat low-wing monoplane in 1934.

Breaking away from relying on social media Does anyone out there ever get days when

they feel like giving up social media? I mean, it’s not like we can’t live without it.

Before Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and even text messages we sent emails, wrote letters and actually picked up the phone. We would survive without it. I know I just wrote a column telling our graduates that because of social media they can keep in touch with their classmates easier as op-posed to those of us who graduated let’s say years ago. And it’s true.

But sometimes I find I have to keep myself away from Facebook just because of what everyone else is writing. I wholeheart-edly believe in freedom of speech but I really get sick of reading others political views, their complaints and drama. It always seems like the drama is from the same people.

I have a second cousin; she’s my cousin’s

daughter, who is a total drama queen. She’s cussing someone out and praising the Lord in the same sentence! One friend is always writing about something negative.

I guess I could just delete them as friends but the nice person in me thinks that would be rude and I might hurt their feelings.

I am always reading articles online and

came across one that talked about how many people delete their Facebook accounts and never open them back up for many reasons.

The article, from NBC News writer Devin Coldewey, said a study done at Cornell University polled Facebook users and said a third of users polled deactivate their ac-counts and one-in-10 never activate them again. My brother-n-law deleted his account and never reopened it and my brother and another friend of mine have closed and opened their accounts so many times I can’t keep up. The study said that Facebook us-ers delete their accounts for many reasons. Some people said they use Facebook too much and others felt they should close their accounts for professional reasons or to avoid certain awkward situations. Hmm, I wonder what those awkward situations where?

A lot of times I get on Facebook to see

what everyone else is posting but rarely post anything anymore. Some things are fun to learn about like new babies, engagements and even accomplishments. It’s easier to make one announcement about something for everyone to see on Facebook rather than having to contact a bunch of people. But that can go too far. I read awhile back that two parents learned about their college-aged child’s death through the Facebook.

Some things are ridiculous. I don’t care to see a picture of what someone had for lunch. Speaking of pictures don’t get me started. You really do learn who is vain. And I’m not talking about family pictures or vacation or a night out on the town pictures. I’m talking about the ones people take of themselves in the mirror or in the car.

I hate to lose contact with some but maybe it’s time to take a break.

Weather is weird, especially hereThis is Colorado, AKA Weird Weather Cen-

tral, the state you know you’re in when you use the air conditioner and the furnace on the same day. Lately it seems weirder than usual doesn’t it? The Colorado State University’s Colorado Climate Center website, http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/, welcomes visitors with a message that pretty much says it all:

“The climate of Colorado is fascinating in every way. Being located as a mid-latitude in-terior continental state (and having the high-est average elevation in the United States), combined with complex topography, results in dramatic climate differences from place to place and from year to year. From the Great Plains of eastern Colorado to the high peaks of the Rockies and the Continental Divide, to the valleys, canyons and plateaus of western Colorado, the various climates are each very different.”

You might want to add `day to day’ and `hour to hour’ after that part that says “year to year.” Weather in Colorado is a quick-change artist. It doesn’t take long for a beautiful warm sunny day to become cold and stormy and vice-versa. At altitude and in our dry climate, which doesn’t hold heat well, even stepping into a shadow can feel like a 10- or 20-degree drop in temperature. There are a few things Coloradans have learned about climate and weather. For example, we learn a lot about graupel, including how to spell it. Graupel is also called soft hail or snow pellets and it looks like Styrofoam beads. It’s defined by the climate center as “snowflakes that become rounded pellets due to riming.”

You experience riming every time you chip frozen fog from your car windshields. If I recall, I was doing that just last month or was it last week? The same thing happens to form graupel but, instead of your car, the nucleus

is a snowflake and the rime ice isn’t thick enough around it to turn it into hail.

Another thing we learn is that there is never a good time to pack away your winter things. Even when you no longer need them in the daytime, you’ll probably need them at night. After spending a lot of time travel-ing across the region to get the story, I’ve also learned that it always pays to carry water in your vehicle to stave off dehydration; you might be a long way from the nearest water-ing hole. It also never hurts to carry some nonperishable food items, a change of cloth-ing, a first-aid kit and other items of a survival persuasion.

You can even make a coffee-can survival kit. You can get lists of the items that you should include at http://www.isu.edu/out-door/survkit.htm, http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/winterdriving/survival-kit.htm (if anyone knows about winter driving it has to be Wisconsin) and http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5343128.pdf.

Recent storms in the Midwest and last year’s wildfire season and drought show how much damage bad weather can cause. Be careful and be prepared but don’t let the pos-sibility of weather-related disasters keep you from enjoying everything our area has to offer.

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Monument takes part in feasibility study Study includes other water districts and municipalities and looks at partnerships and options for renewable water By Lisa Collacott [email protected]

The Monument board of trustees voted to authorize the use of 2A funds to take part in a regional feasibility study that would research options for renewable water.

The board of trustees was presented with the study, which involves other municipali-ties and water districts, at the May 20 board meeting and gave approval to use $5,000 to-wards the study.

The purpose of the study is to promote the development of sustainable water sup-plies for northern and central El Paso County through a shared focus of jointly utilized proj-ects and infrastructure.

“The study is really predicated on the idea that regional water solutions make a lot of sense in affordability in terms of how we chase renewable water supplies and how we maximize those supplies and the reuse of those supplies in the future,” Sean Chambers, president of the regional water authority and general manager of Cherokee Water District, said.

Chambers said there have been a lot of studies that have gone before this study and said this particular study is really based on a

number of different ideas to deliver renew-able water from the Arkansas River or other sources and to reuse them on Fountain Creek.

Will Kroeger from Forsgren Associates said more than 400,000 people are very dependent on the Denver Basin Aquifers. He said the aquifers are nonrenewable and are being di-minished and everyone in the region is look-ing at ways to bring in more renewable water. He said that it is projected that by the year 2050 the municipal and industrial water sup-ply gap will exceed 22,000 acre feet. Kroeger said that is made up of more than 13,000 acre feet of water needed just to replace the lost production of the Denver Basin Aquifers plus more than 9,000 acre feet that is anticipated for urban growth in the unincorporated areas of the county to occur by 2050.

He said the goals of the study are to iden-tify each of the participant’s infrastructure and supply objectives, identify and analyze joint infrastructure projects and to plan the actions that are needed to implement those projects.

“We want this to not be just another study on the shelf but to be an action plan that is an actual usable tool to move forward with,” Kroeger said.

The fi rst part of the scope of work for the study would be to have scoping meetings and identify the objectives and put together a preliminary analysis which would include individual entity meetings to discuss the cur-rent water supply and infrastructure of the participants as well as what they are planning in the future and identify their priorities. That

would lead to a partnering matrix to look for commonalities and ways to bridge the gap and help those entities work together.

Kroeger said three main corridors have been identifi ed and those include the Pueblo Reservoir to the south side of Fountain, the south side of Fountain to Black Forest and from Black Forest to a central delivery point in the Palmer Divide area.

“We would look at three alignment alter-natives to make that jump to the Monument area,” Kroeger added.

The study would also look at alternative assessments such as water storage, return fl ow reuse, interconnections and infrastruc-ture for regional and statewide water projects.

Kroeger said once all that is complete there would be a project work session to bring all those potential opportunities together, look at land-use projections and how all the pieces fi t together.

“That would then give us the discussion of what are the best alternatives to move for-ward with, which ones offer the most prom-ise. We would then look at in greater detail those alternatives. And that would move us forward with developing the feasibility study whereby we look at the cost estimates, what are the obstacles of each project (and) what’s it going to take to develop those projects,” Kroeger added.

Cost of the study The cost of the study would be approxi-

mately $180,000. Kroeger said they anticipate more than $20,000 of in-kind support from

participants and that will account for staff time, meeting with the regional feasibility study committee and providing support in terms of mapping and reports. They are look-ing to receive approximately $98,000 from participant funding, $30,000 from the Arkan-sas Basin grant account and $30,000 from the Colorado Water Conservation Board. They have about $78,000 of the $98,000 needed from participant funding.

The grant funding would total approxi-mately 33 percent of the project cost and par-ticipant costs and in-kind support would be about 67 percent.

Kroeger said they plan to move forward and go before the Arkansas Water Basin in June and meet with the Colorado Water Con-servation Board in September. That would put them at preparing all the funding agree-ments by November and the preliminary analysis alternatives and developing the al-ternatives next spring. If all goes as scheduled the study would be wrapped up by October of 2014.

Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District, the town of Palmer Lake, Donala Water and Sanitation District, Tri-View Metropolitan Water District, Cherokee and the city of Foun-tain have all committed to participate in the study.

Gary Barber, the water consultant the town of Monument hired in March, was at the meeting and said he a cheerleader for this study.

Mayor Travis Easton abstained from the vote because of a confl ict of interest.

� e Dinky Train on Pikes Peak So, after I did that last item on the

Dinky up Ruxton, I was asked, “What hap-pened after the line closed?” Now usually that is not much of a good story, but this one is. Of the three cars that were used on the line only one is still known. I suspect the other two were scrapped. One car was taken up on the cog track to Minnehaha.

The track maintenance crew, common-ly known as “section crews” since they were assigned to a maintenance section of the track, lived on the mountain in the summer.

They would walk their section to do the repairs. There were three section crews, Minnehaha, Mountain View and Windy Point. The section houses, where they lived, are still at the upper two, most vis-ibly, Windy Point, which is a stone build-ing. Mountain View used one of the cog’s old passenger cars and part of it is still used as a shelter. The Minnehaha building is gone.

The Minnehaha section house was a little frame building, but in the 1930s the enclosed dinky was moved up and placed next to it. It was used for more storage. I would not know this had it not been for the Taggart family.

Johnny Taggart’s father, Brough Taggart was the Section Boss at the cog for many years. He lived as a kid in the section houses along the line, later working in the shops and as an engineer.

He had a collection of old family pic-tures, a couple of which showed the dinky at Minnehaha.

There were stories that it was a car from the Midland Terminal, but once I saw the pictures I knew what it really was. The whole set of buildings there were removed in the early 1960s.

The Windy Point building is still used

for storage. The doors, windows, and wooden fl oor are now gone. The building got a new roof years ago, and the open-ings fi lled in. Plywood covers the doors and windows, but the marmots chew on the wood.

A few years ago one door was eaten away up as far as the marmots could stand. The section crew put in a new door cover, but rather than have it just bare wood it was painted. Now if you go by the building it looks like it has nice doors and windows. Those are only “scenery,” actually painted to look like that. The door even has Brough Taggart’s name on it.

One end, where the Taggarts lived has a face looking out that is supposed to be Johnny Taggart! The scenery was painted, and is maintained by a local artist, me. It is fun to each spring to touch up the artwork. It gets rather beaten up in the winter winds.

Each year it is a bit different, fl owers and curtains in the windows for example. It is fun to see a hiker walk up to a door and try to grab the door knob that is only painted on the door!

Mel McFarland, artist, author, retired teacher and railroader, is a Colorado Springs native who has a strong interest in the events of this area’s past.

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Capstone Cyclogyro Project praised by BoeingSpecial to The Tribune

United States Air Force Academy Cadets were recognized for their award winning design of a search and rescue and medical evacuation air-craft for the year 2045.

Nine cadets from the Aeronautical Engineering 482 class designed “The Night Owl,” a futuristic cyclogyro that can direct thrust in any direction, al-lowing for a hover, forward or back-ward flight.

The team spent a year on the cap-stone project and took first place May 9 in a Boeing competition against the U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy.

“This is a very impressive piece of work,” Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s executive vice-president, said to the cadets. “This competition gets tougher every year and you guys knocked it out of the park. Your ability to take ideas, put them into a design and build a working prototype is what differenti-ated the academy in the competition. Congratulations, this is clearly sophis-ticated work.”

Cadet 1st Class Zachary Adams, chief engineer of the team, said the requirements set forth by Boeing in-cluded that the aircraft must have an operational radius of 100 nautical miles and would be able to complete its mission in an hour.

“This was the toughest part of the requirements, since the aircraft had to

be vertical takeoff and landing capa-ble,” Adams said. “Speed was crucial to our design since seconds matter when someone’s life is on the line and it turns out a cyclogyro design is VTOL-capable and can more than double the speeds of current helicopters.”

The team also showed attendees a voice control demonstration they designed for aeromedical evacuation and search-and-rescue crew mem-bers.

“One of the biggest complaints from the (aeromedical evacuation) and SAR personnel is they can’t touch screens because they’ve got gloves on, blood all over the hands and they have to be sanitary for the patients,” said Cadet 1st Class Patrick Waters, who helped with communications and navigation for the project. “What we decided to go for was voice control; a lot of programs already use a similar voice control. While the technician is working they would say something like ‘blood pressure,’ and then it would recognize what’s happening.”

John Pletcher, an instructor in the academy’s Aeronautics Department who helped mentor the team, said ca-dets were excited about working on a real world project rather than simply an academic exercise.

“Boeing provided $50,000 in gift funds for the project, which not only paid for the supplies and materials to build two cyclorotors, but also al-lowed the cadets to travel to meet with Air Force experts in various disciples

to determine Air Force needs, as well as new technology that is being devel-oped in the Air Force Research Labs,” Pletcher said.

Adams said the project has been a pioneering effort for everyone on the team.

“Not many universities or organi-zations are conducting research on cyclogyros and by investing so much in a new concept our team has set out to accomplish cyclogyro ‘firsts,’ or in other words achieve something that has never been done before,” he said. “It certainly lends credibility to the academy’s undergraduate research programs and simply merits bragging rights.”

Cadet 1st Class Lillian Pryor, pro-gram manager of the team, said the team hopes that flying this unique aircraft will inspire future cadets to at-tempt the impossible.

“It gave us the opportunity to apply everything we learned as aeronauti-cal, systems engineering aeronautical, mechanical and systems engineer-ing management majors,” Pryor said. “We’re very excited that we’re able to show the cyclogyro’s potential and are attempting to achieve forward flight with our model, which would be the first recorded controlled forward flight of a cyclogyro.”

The seniors involved in the project are Lillian Pryor, Zach Francis, Wolf Thielmann, Jordan Potterton, Luke Hantla, Kristin Long, Patrick Waters, Trey Cottingham and Zach Adams.

Pictured is the futuristic cyclogyro, a search and rescue evacuation aircraft, that aeronautical engineering cadets from the Air Force Academy designed. The team took first place in a Boeing competition. Courtesy photo| USAFA

State ramps up enforcement for Click it or TicketBy Special to The Tribune

The Colorado State Patrol and 63 law enforcement agencies across Colorado are joining the nationwide Click It or Ticket campaign by increas-ing enforcement of seat belt and child passenger safety laws.

The ramped up enforcement began May 20 and continues through June 2. The goal is to get more Coloradans to buckle up and ultimately save lives across the state.

In 2012, 159 people who weren’t buckled up lost their lives in traffic crashes on Colorado roadways, which are down from 185 unrestrained fa-talities in 2011. The Colorado Depart-ment of Transportation is focusing its public awareness campaign on male pickup truck drivers between the ages of 18 and 34 as they have the highest propensity for not wearing their seat belts. Sixty-one men between the ages of 18-34 who died in a crash were not wearing a seat belt. And pickup trucks have a seat belt usage rate of 72%, which is 10% less than the state aver-age usage rate.

“Troopers at the Colorado State Pa-trol are reminded nearly every day of the needless deaths that occur when someone neglects to wear a seat belt. And we are relieved when we respond

to a crash where everyone survives be-cause they took two seconds to buckle up,” said Colonel Scott Hernandez, chief of the Colorado State Patrol. “We would much rather write a seat belt citation than a fatal crash report. That means no excuses and no warnings if you’re not buckled up.”

“We’ve made progress over the past year in reducing the number of people killed on Colorado roadways but still far too many motorists aren’t buckling up,” said Darrell Lingk, CDOT’s direc-tor of highway safety. “The Click It or Ticket campaign gives us an opportu-nity to remind everyone that seat belts save lives and that there are serious risks when people don’t buckle up.”

High-visibility enforcement such as the Click It or Ticket mobilization is credited with increase seat belt use in Colorado. Since Click It or Ticket started in 2002 seat belt use has in-creased from 72% to 82% in 2012. There has also been a 58% decline in unrestrained deaths—380 in 2002 and 159 in 2012. During the Click It or Ticket enforcement the Colorado State Patrol also will be asking motorists to buckle up with radio messages as part of its commercial vehicle summer-long safety campaign which reminds motorists to give trucks more room on our roadways.

Last year during the May Click It or Ticket enforcement period, 8,803 seat belt violations were issued.

Colorado’s Seat Belt Laws•Adults - Colorado has a secondary

enforcement law for adult drivers and front-seat passengers. Drivers can be ticketed for violating the seat belt law if they are stopped for another traffic violation. Click it or Ticket enforce-ment focuses on speeding and aggres-sive drivers. Drivers who are stopped for a traffic violation and are not using a seat belt will be ticketed. The mini-mum fine is $65.

•Teens - Colorado’s Graduated Drivers Licensing law requires all driv-ers under 18 and their passengers, no matter what their age, to wear seat belts. This is a primary enforcement, meaning teens can be pulled over sim-ply for not wearing a seat belt or hav-ing passengers without seat belts.

•Children - Colorado’s child pas-senger safety law is primary enforce-ment, meaning the driver can be stopped and ticketed if an officer sees an unrestrained or improperly restrained child under age 16 in the vehicle.

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Stratton’s philanthropic legacy celebratedWestern Museum of Mining & Industry to open new exhibit in JuneBy Norma [email protected]

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Stratton’s philanthropic legacy celebrated Western Museum of Mining & Industry to open new exhibit in June By Norma Engelberg [email protected]

The Western Museum of Mining & Industry has long been a repository for Winfi eld Scott Stratton’s papers and other artifacts and Stratton owned some of Colo-

rado’s richest mines so it’s fi tting that the museum offer a glimpse into the life of this man in a new exhibit called “Scott Strat-ton-Gold King of Colorado and His Chari-table Legacy: The Myron Stratton Home.”

The exhibit will open at 5:30 p.m. on June 20. The opening will be followed by a lecture by Mark Turk, Executive Director of the Myron Stratton Home, at 7 p.m.

Stratton struck it rich on July 4, 1891 at the Independence Gold Mine in the Crip-ple Creek Gold Mining District. He was not an overnight success.

He spent most of 17 summers prospect-

ing for gold, plying his trade as a carpenter during the winters and taking some time off to learn about metallurgy at the Colo-rado School of Mines.

He only lived another 11 years after his big strike but he accomplished much dur-ing that period.

He was instrumental in the planning and building of Colorado Springs and many of the buildings he planned are still in use.

One of those became his legacy: the Myron Stratton Home, which was built with the fortune he left behind when he

died in 1902.The home, named after his father, was

dedicated to helping the working poor and their families

According to the Myron Stratton Home website, www.myronstratton.org, the home opened in 1913 and has operated continuously since, serving the economi-cally disadvantaged for 100 years.

The opening and lecture are free, but reservations are necessary by calling 719-488-0880 or email at [email protected]. The exhibit runs through August 15.

For ticket prices, visit www.wmmi.org.

The Myron Stratton Home, still operating after 100 years to help the disadvantaged, is the subject of a new exhibit at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry from June 20-Aug. 15.

It took Win� eld Scott Stratton 17 years to � nd the gold that made him one of Colorado’s richest gold miners. His legacy lives on in the many buildings he left behind and the Myron Stratton Home that, after 100 years, is still helping the disadvantaged in Colorado Springs. Courtesy photos

Water still fl ows from the mountains to Palmer Lake but Hulsmann said it hits bed-rock and looks for the lowest place it can surface and fi nds the springs so it can fi ll Palmer Lake.

“So in very, very wet years the springs charge and that’s what fi lls the lake up,” he added.

Hulsmann said the railroad built the two reservoirs above Palmer Lake and built a pipeline that goes to the lake, turned a valve on and that subsidized the lake. This offset water that went into the steam engines and water lost to evaporation.

The lake continued to be subsidized like that for years. He said there is a railroad right that the town is trying to rekindle but the right is considered obsolete and is in water court right now.

He said around 2000 the state found out that Palmer Lake was fi lling the lake with water from the reservoir as they had been for more than 100 years and put a stop to it.

“We feel we have rights (but) the state says we don’t so we feel like we have to fi nd alternatives,” he said.

He told attendees that essentially what has happened to the lake has been little snowfall and drought conditions.

Hulsmann said the last time the lake was full the group said they need to keep the lake full and there are ways to do that but they all involve money.

Currently the committee has a little more than $24,000 in their account and that’s for lake and park developments

SolutionsPossible ways to get water is through

downstream water purchases, the Mission

Center Training Wells even drilling into the Laramie-Fox Hills Aquifer.

“I am open to any new ideas. No matter what we do we have to raise money,” Huls-mann added.

Current fundraising efforts include Awake the Lake t-shirts which are avail-able for $15 at local restaurants, an online gift card program where fi ve percent of any gift card sold from local restaurants will go to the lake fund, the annual Taste of Palmer Lake which will take place on Aug. 24 and starting June 23 the Summer Festival 2013 which is a series of outdoor concerts at the Villa. Advance tickets are $10 and available at Palmer Lake restaurants. Included in the line-up will be CS 432, Skin and Bones, Tim Yunker and the Sound Junkies, The Pha-raohs, Latigo and FUNction Pro DJ. There will be raffl e tickets available soon to win a trip to Mexico.

Committees that are forming include grant writing, fundraising, sustainabil-ity committee for after the lake is full and committees made up of citizens who will take on the task of talking to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and the Colo-rado Division of Water Resources and other governmental entities.

For more information or to get involved visit www.AwakePalmerLake.com.

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Lake ‘We feel we have rights (but) the state says we don’t so we feel like we

have to � nd alternatives.’Je� Hulsmann

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D-38 student take field trip to town hallSpecial to The Tribune

Fifty second-grade students from Palmer Lake Elementary School spent the afternoon of May 14th exploring Monument town hall.

Monument board of trustee John Howe explained how local government works as the stu-dents experienced a mock board

of trustee meeting. Students played the parts of

the mayor, trustees and the pub-lic as they officially proclaimed their teachers Linda Wilson and Phyllis Robinette and teacher’s aide Ms. McConnell to be the best teachers.

The students representing the public asked very insight-ful questions of the board such as what they would do to make

Monument a better town. The board unanimously recom-mended the addition of a water park to the area.

Monument police Chief Shirk and Officer Sam Griebel took the students on a tour of the police department and that included the inside of the holding cells, which delighted the students.

The students questioned the chief and Griebel on what it’s

like to be a police officer and investigated all the tools of the trade.

Public Works Director Tom Tharnish provided the students with an overview of what the public works department is re-sponsible for.

The students enjoyed learn-ing about making clean water for the town to drink but they had mixed feelings on snow re-

moval once they learned the correlation between efficient snow removal and fewer snow days at school.

Fleet manager Robert Enoch concluded the field trip with a game of show and tell where he displayed the town’s backhoe.

The staff at Monument town hall enjoyed hosting the second graders from Palmer Lake El-ementary School.

Monument board of trustee John Howe explains to Palmer Lake Elementary School students how local government works as they had a mock board of trustee meeting. Students took the board of trustee seats and acted as mayor and trustees while other students sat in the audience as members of the public. It was all part of a field trip to the Monument town hall on May 14. Photos by Courtesy photo

Students got to see the inside of a jail cell when Monument Police Officer Sam Griebel opened up a jail cell. As part of their field trip to Monument town hall Palmer Lake Elemen-tary students learned about the police and public works departments. Courtesy photo

The Air Force Brass Quintet plays a surprise concert for the WW II veterans (red shirts) as they arrive at Baltimore at the start of the Rocky Mountain Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C. Photo by Tom Munds

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Bene� t car show cruises into downtown Monument Tri-Lakes Cruisers will host annual car show to bene� t Tri-Lakes Cares By Lisa Collacott [email protected]

Once again the streets of historic down-town Monument will be lined up with cars of all makes and models when the annual Tri-Lakes Cruisers Benefi t Car Show rolls into town in June.

The annual car show is in its 12th year and will take place on June 29. Proceeds from the car show benefi t Tri-Lakes Cares. The Tri-Lakes Cruisers have raised more than $22,000 over the past 11 years for TLC and other local charities.

The car show will feature trucks and cars of all makes and models including vintage cars, mustangs, corvettes and Camaros and there will even be displays from the Tri-Lakes Fire Protection District and the Monument Police Department. Several of the Tri-Lakes Cruiser Car Club members will have their cars on display as well as non-members. Anyone who wants to enter the car in the show must pay a $20 pre-reg-istration fee. The cost goes up to $25 the day of the car show.

Participants will receive a free breakfast from the Coffee Cup Café the morning of the car show at Si Sibell’s barn.

“The more cars the more Tri-Lakes Cares benefi ts,” said Dale Schendzielos, secre-tary/treasurer of Tri-Lakes Cruisers.

Trophies and prizes from local business-es will be given out to the winners. Attend-ees can vote on their favorite cars. There will also be music and food vendors and the United States Air Force Academy live falcon mascots will be on hand.

The cars will line up on Front and Sec-ond Streets up to Jefferson Street and there will be some located on a portion of Wash-ington Street.

The car show will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 9 and is free.

“It’s to show people different cars from different years,” Schendzielos added.

Hot rods are on display outside of La Casa Fiesta on Front Street during the 2012 annual Tri-Lakes Cruisers bene� t car show. The car show bene� ts Tri-Lakes Cares and will take place on June 9. File photo by Lisa Collacott

Pictured are all the trophy winners from last year’s bene� t car show put on by the Tri-Lakes Cruisers. More than $22,000 has been raised over the past 11 years for Tri-Lakes Cares and other charities. Courtesy photo

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Tri-Lakes area girls golfers score well at StatePalmer Ridge’s Maggie Geolat finishes 20th in final state appearanceBy Danny Summers

ENGELWOOD – It’s an understate-ment to say that Jessica Hedgpeth was thrilled to play in last week’s Class 4A girls’ state golf tournament.

She just wishes she had another op-portunity to go back to the dance.

“It’s kind of bittersweet,’ said Hedg-peth, who will attend the University of Saskatchewan to study animal science. “I shot the best round of my life at state, and now it’s over.”

Hedgpeth graduated on May 24 – three days after playing her first and only rounds of state competition.

She failed to qualify for the state tour-nament her first three years on the team.

“I’m starting to figure things out,” Hedgpeth said. “I wish the season could go longer.”

Hedgpeth finished 44th overall among the 83 girls who squared off at Broken Tee

Golf Course in Englewood. Her two-day total of 187 (43 over par) was one shot better than teammate Megan McCutch-eon.

Palmer Ridge senior Maggie Geolat had the best showing of any Tri-Lakes are golfer. She finished 20th – 38 over par.

Other Tri-Lakes area golfers in the tournament were Discovery Canyon sophomore Lizzy Saxer (67th), Discov-ery Canyon senior Hannah Brigger(69th) and Palmer Ridge junior Teegan Sullivan (83rd).

Hedgpeth fired a 91 on Day 1 of the tournament – her best score of the sea-son. Her round included six pars.

Hedgpeth shot a 96 the second day. “The state tournament is a little intimi-dating,” Hedgpeth said.

“But at the same time it was fun and

exciting.”McCutcheon was happy to make the

state tournament, but felt she could have played much better.

“I’m glad I got to go, but I didn’t do as well as I was hoping,” said McCutcheon, a junior, who has qualified for state three times. “It just didn’t come together. I’d have some good holes and then a blow-up hole when I’d shoot a nine.

McCutcheon shot a 92 on Day 1. Her round included five pars. She had four pars on day 2, including two on par 5s.

“When my consistency goes up my scores will go down,”

McCutcheonsaid. “I plan to focus on junior golf this summer because they are more focused on college.” Geolat, a four-time state qualifier who will play golf for Colorado State University-Pueblo next

fall, had rounds of 85 and 87. According to Palmer Ridge coach Paul Gagnon, Geo-lat never got into a rhythm.

“Maggie did not play her best,” Ga-gnon said. “her short game failed her. Too many bad holes. She’d play real steady, and then have a triple (bogey).

“She hung in there, though. Bless her heart. She’s a trooper. She’ll be a great player at Pueblo.”

Gagnon announced after the tour-nament that he is stepping down as the school’s girls coach, but will stay on to coach the boys this fall.

He took over the girls program this season after his daughter, Lauren Ga-gnon, stepped down to focus more on her family.

“I wanted to stay on this season to work with Maggie,” said Gagnon, who previously coached the boys and girls teams at Harrison for 26 years. “I assisted Lauren for three years and wanted to stay on so Maggie would have continuity.”

Gagnon won’t have much of a break between seasons.

His boys’ squad will have its first prac-tice Aug. 5 at 9 a.m. at Monument Hill Country Club. The golf course is sched-uled to reopen June 1.

Palmer Ridge senior Maggie Geolat finished 20th at last week’s Class 4A girls state golf tournament at Broken Tee Golf Course in Engelwood. Photo by Danny Summers

TCA comes up just short in quest for state soccer titleBy Danny Summers

The Classical Academy girls’ soccer team came up short in its bid to win last week’s Class 3A state title game.

The Titans fell to Peak to Peak, 1-0, in double overtime of their game played on May 21 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City.

Peak to Peak got its goal in the 109th minute off of a header by Belle Morel that slipped by Titans goal keeper Claire La-Valley. The goal came via a corner kick.

The title tilt marked the second the second time the teams had met this sea-son. They played to a scoreless tie on April 3. From that point on, TCAoutscored op-ponents 57-2.

TCA (15-3-1) has played in the state

championship game three of the last four seasons. The Titans won it all in 2011.

Senior Meghan Troupe and freshman Mikayla Murphy led TCA in goals this sea-son with 14 apiece, while senior Joanie Jacks was next with 12.

JORDAN SCOTT UPDATERecent Lewis-Palmer graduate Jordan

Scott is still deciding on where he will

continue his basketball career.According to Rangers athletic director

and boys basketball coach Russ McKin-stry, Scott is now considering playing for a prep school in Florida for a year before heading onto college. McKinstry added that Scott could make his decision as ear-ly as this week.

‘The state tournament is a little intimidating. But at the same time it was fun and exciting.’

Jessica Hedgpeth

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Government Legals Public Notice

SECTION 00020INVITATION TO BID

Owner and address of Owner:Triview Metropolitan District

16055 Old Forest Point, Suite 300Monument, CO 80132

Sealed bid will be received by OWNER at16055 Old Forest Point, Suite 300, Monu-ment, CO 80132 until 2:00 PM MDST onJune 10th, 2013. Any bids received afterthis time will not be accepted and will bereturned unopened.

At said place and time, and promptlythereafter, all Bids that have been duly re-ceived will be publicly opened and readaloud. All interested parties are invited toattend. The OWNER reserves the right toreject any and all Bids and to waive irregu-larities or informalities in any bid.

Copies of the Bidding Documents areavailable from the ENGINEER at 545 E.Pikes Peak Ave., Suite 300, ColoradoSprings, CO 80903. Bidding Documentsmay be obtained from the ENGINEER fora $75.00 non-refundable deposit at theabove address during normal workinghours on and after 2:00 P.M., May 22,2013.

A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be heldat10:00 AM, June 3rd, 2013 at the DistrictOffice.

The Work to be performed generally in-cludes: construction of a 1-room (805 SF)above grade potable water booster pumpstation, retaining wall, providing and in-stall two (2) 10 HP pumps/motors with in-tegral VFD’s, (1) 40 HP pump/motor, pip-ing, valves and fittings, connections to ex-isting line, MCC, HVAC, electrical, vari-ous site work, and building. The buildinggenerally consists of excavation and soilreconditioning, cast-in-place concrete floorslab and foundation, wooden framing androof supports with sheet metal roof, smallamount of HVAC, electrical service, andservice plumbing.

Basis of award will be the lowest respons-ive and responsible Bid as determined byOWNER.

No Bids may be withdrawn within a periodof sixty (60) days after the date Bids areopened. The OWNER reserves the right toreject any and all bids or to accept that Bidor combination of Bids, if any, which, in itssole and absolute judgment will under allcircumstances best serve the OWNER'sinterest. No Bid will be accepted from anyfirm, person, or corporation who is a de-faulter as to surety or otherwise, or isdeemed incompetent, irresponsible or un-reliable by the OWNER. A Bid Bond of 5% of the Bid will be required.

TRIVIEW METROPOLITANDISTRICT/s/ Valerie Remington,District Manager

Legal Notice No.: 932105First Publication: May 22, 2013Last Publication: May 29, 2013Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Government Legals

Public Notice

SECTION 00020INVITATION TO BID

Owner and address of Owner:Triview Metropolitan District

16055 Old Forest Point, Suite 300Monument, CO 80132










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Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGFOR THE FY 2013-2014 PROPOSEDBUDGET FOR ACADEMY SCHOOL

DISTRICT 20

Notice is hereby given that the proposedbudget has been submitted to the Boardof Education of Academy School District20 for the fiscal year beginning July 1,2013 and is available for public review atthe District Education and AdministrationCenter located at 1110 Chapel Hills Driveand on the Distr ict 20 website at:http://www.asd20.org/departments/busi-nessservices/transparency/Pages/default.aspx

The Board of Education will hold a publichearing on the proposed budget on June6, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. at the District Educa-tion and Administration Center, 1110Chapel Hills Drive. The Board will adoptthe budget during its meeting on June 20,2013.

Any person paying school taxes inAcademy School District 20 may at anytime prior to the final adoption of thebudget file or register his objectionsthereto.

Dated: May 17, 2013BOARD OF EDUCATIONEl Paso County School District 20Jean Opitz, Secretary

Legal Notice No.: 932110First Publication: May 29, 2013Last Publication: May 29, 2013Publisher: The Tribune

Government Legals Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGFOR THE FY 2013-2014 PROPOSEDBUDGET FOR ACADEMY SCHOOL

DISTRICT 20

Notice is hereby given that the proposedbudget has been submitted to the Boardof Education of Academy School District20 for the fiscal year beginning July 1,2013 and is available for public review atthe District Education and AdministrationCenter located at 1110 Chapel Hills Driveand on the Distr ict 20 website at:http://www.asd20.org/departments/busi-nessservices/transparency/Pages/default.aspx





Government Legals

proposedbudget has been submitted to the Boardof Education of Academy School District20 for the fiscal year beginning July 1,2013 and is available for public review atthe District Education and AdministrationCenter located at 1110 Chapel Hills Driveand on the Distr i ct 20 website at:http://www.asd20.org/departments/busi-nessservices/transparency/Pages/default.aspx





Public Notice

Notice of Annual Meeting

Mountain View Electric Association Inc.’s2013 Annual Meeting of Members willbe held at Falcon High School, 10255Lambert Road, Falcon, Colorado 80831,on Thursday, June 13, 2013, with thebusiness portion of the meeting commen-cing at 7 p.m. for the purposes:

To elect two Directors of the Association:One from District 3 and one from District5, all as provided by the Association’s By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation;

To approved and confirm the minutes ofthe last Annual Meeting of Members;

To receive and act upon the report onbusiness transacted since the last AnnualMeeting, and to report on financial trans-actions during calendar year 2012; and

To conduct such other business as mayproperly come before the meeting or anyadjournment or adjournments thereof.

Dated this 15th day of January 2013, atFalcon, Colorado, by Order of the Boardof Directors.Milton L. Mathis, Secretary

Note: This notice is directed to those whoare members of Mountain View ElectricAssociation, Inc. as of the close of busi-ness on April 25, 2013; notice is herebygiven of the 2013 Annual Meeting of Mem-bers and your eligibility to vote in the 2013Director Elections.


Government Legals

Public Notice

Notice of Annual Meeting

Mountain View Electric Association Inc.’s2013 Annual Meeting of Members willbe held at Falcon High School, 10255Lambert Road, Falcon, Colorado 80831,on Thursday, June 13, 2013, with thebusiness portion of the meeting commen-cing at 7 p.m. for the purposes:

To elect two Directors of the Association:One from District 3 and one from District5, all as provided by the Association’s By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation;

To approved and confirm the minutes ofthe last Annual Meeting of Members;

To receive and act upon the report onbusiness transacted since the last AnnualMeeting, and to report on financial trans-actions during calendar year 2012; and

To conduct such other business as mayproperly come before the meeting or anyadjournment or adjournments thereof.

Dated this 15th day of January 2013, atFalcon, Colorado, by Order of the Boardof Directors.Milton L. Mathis, Secretary

Note: This notice is directed to those whoare members of Mountain View ElectricAssociation, Inc. as of the close of busi-ness on April 25, 2013; notice is herebygiven of the 2013 Annual Meeting of Mem-bers and your eligibility to vote in the 2013Director Elections.


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Scott is still being pursued by South Alabama and Longwood (Va).

Scott averaged 18.0 points and 9.8 rebounds this season while helping Lewis-Palmer to a second consecutive 4A state title. His older brother, Josh, led the Rangers to the 2012 state title and is now play-ing for the University of Colorado.

TRI-LAKES ALL STARS PLAY ON BIG STAGE

Several Tri-Lakes area se-niors and juniors got to par-ticipate in the 52ndAnnu-alSouthern Colorado High School All-Star Game May 27 at Security Service

Field. The game is the longest running high school all-star event in Colorado.

Two games were played; one featuring top juniors from 5A, 4A and 3A schools, and another featuring top seniors from those clas-

sifi cations. Results of the games were not available at press time.

Among the Tri-Lakes area seniors selected to play were Palmer Ridge’s Jake Fishlock, Derek Lar-son, Bryce Rone and John Swecker; Lewis-Palmer’s Matt Prudhomme; Discov-ery Canyon’s Isaac Holt, and The Classical Academy’s Kellen McDonald.

The Southern Colorado High School All-Star Games have been featuring the top players in the junior and senior class from the Colo-rado Springs region in a two-game event since 1962.

Famous Southern Colo-rado All-Star Game partici-pants include Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Goose Gossage from Was-son, the No. 1 overall draft pick in the 1986 draft Jeff King from Rampart, as well as current major leaguers Brandon McCarthy (Ari-zona Diamondbacks) from Cheyenne Mountain and Chase Headley (San Diego Padres) from Fountain-Fort Carson.

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