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By Tavia TeitlerSopris Sun Intern

tudents, Roaring Fork Energy Club mem-bers, teachers and community membersof all ages gathered to plant 13 trees nearthe entrance of Roaring Fork High School

on Sept. 5. After four hours of digging, shoveling,watering and a fair share of laughs, the trees nowstand tall and proud, ready to provide beauty andshade for generations of Roaring Fork High Schoolstudents to come.

To set the stage for this story, picture this: eat-ing your lunch at a table in a tree-lined courtyardwith a stunning view of Mount Sopris. This is thevision of Roaring Fork High School senior FionaLaird. She started Teens for Trees as a project tocreate an outdoor courtyard at RFHS with the ob-jective of beautifying the school and providing stu-dents with a nice place to spend time outside. Lastweekend the school and the community came to-gether to help this project take a big step forward.

“It seemed to me that there was a need for aplace where students could be outside,” Laird toldThe Sopris Sun. The natural beauty and spectacu-lar views that surround RFHS are some of theschool’s greatest assets, and Laird felt the lack of agood outdoor seating area limited the students’ability to take advantage of this aspect.

Another objective of the project was to beautifythe school and make the entrance of RFHS morewelcoming. “Roaring Fork is a really amazingschool,” Laird explained, “and I think it should beas welcoming on the outside as it is on the inside.”The trees are scattered around the school’s entranceand are visible as you walk into the building. Thetrees will blossom each spring and eventually (oncethey grow a little more) provide great shade.

Last Saturday’s tree planting did not just hap-pen overnight. Teens for Trees began in April 2013when Laird applied for a 5Point Film FestivalDream Project grant. Every year the 5Point DreamProject gives out five grants to students who ex-emplify the five traits of the festival (respect, com-mitment, humility, purpose and balance). Thegrant is intended to help students make one of theirdreams come true. Laird was awarded a grant, andthen got to work on planning the project. Over thepast 18 months, the project has evolved from a

Realizinga dreamS

Liam Laird, a freshman at Roaring ForkHigh School, hauled a little sod at last Sat-urday’s Teens for Trees planting project at theschool. The project is the upshot of a 5PointFilm Festival grant, and the vision of one Roar-ing Fork High School student. For more, see thearticle on this page. Photo by Lynn Burton

Sopristhe SunVolume 7, Number 31 | September 10, 2015Carbondale’s weekly community connector

Because every town needs a park, a library and a newspaper.

TREE PLANTING page 14

Planting for the future

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Growing up in the 1960’s, summertimealways included watermelon seed spittingcontests. Neighborhood honors were be-stowed upon the kid who could spit seedsthe farthest or hit a semi-distant target, usually apaper cup.

Kids of the future willnever know the pleasure ofsucking juicy red melonflesh away from slippery black seeds inpreparation for spitting, because of thegrowing popularity of seedless watermel-ons. According to the National Water-melon Promotion Board, only 16 percentof watermelons sold in American grocerystores have seeds. How did that happen?

Our trip down the rabbit hole begins…Search: Seedless watermelonThe May-June 2000 issue of Lawn and

Garden Update by Texas A&M’s Ag Ex-tension, had an article titled “Seedless Wa-termelon Production,” proclaiming the newhybrid to be “the ultimate in conveniencefoods.” I guess the author never heard ofPizza Rolls.

The online excerpt explains that thismodern miracle is achieved by genetic ma-nipulation, a process that differs from ge-netic modification (GMO) in that itinvolves standard plant-breeding hy-bridization, rather than the introduction ofalien chromosomes at the DNA level.

There are several steps to achieving

seedlessness. First, a normal 22-chromo-some watermelon seed is sprouted in thelab, then treated with a chemical thatcauses the chromosomes to double. When

that 44-chromosome plantmatures, it’s pollinated by anormal 22-chromosomeplant. The result is a hybridwatermelon containingseeds with 33 chromo-

somes. When those seeds are planted, theresulting fruit is sans seeds.

The biological method by which thenumber of chromosomes is doubled is de-scribed as colchicine treatment.

Search: colchicineRXlist.com says colchicine is an alkaloid

prepared from the dried seeds of the au-tumn crocus, used to make anti-inflamma-tory tablets that prevent gout attacks orrelieve gout symptoms.

Wow! That’s a long way from hybridmelons. Which came first, gout medicine orthe seedless watermelon?

Search: colchicine historyWikipedia says the autumn crocus (the

plant source of colchicine) was describedfor treatment of rheumatism and swellingin a 3,500-year-old Egyptian medical pa-pyrus. Use of colchicum plants to treat goutprobably dates to around 1,500 years ago.

Under the article subheading BotanicalUse, I find: “colchicine is also used for in-ducing polyploidy (the multiplying of

chromosomes) in plant cells.” This process“results in larger, hardier, faster-growing,and in general more desirable plants …for this reason, this type of genetic ma-nipulation is frequently used in breedingplants commercially.”

Apparently, when early geneticists beganbreaking down the chemical compounds ofcommon botanical medications likecolchicine, the discovery of certain proper-ties were seen as useful in other areas of sci-ence, such as horticulture. But who was thebrilliant botanist that put two and two to-gether and came up with zero … seeds?

Search: colchicine seedless watermelonsResult: North Carolina State University

Extension article, “Seedless WatermelonBreeding.” Here I learn that “Kihara beganworking on seedless watermelons in 1939.”No mention of who Kihara was, so…

Search: KiharaAfter sifting through the various link ti-

tles, including a computer science lab atPurdue, a porcelain company, and a Japan-ese anime’ character, I come up empty. Ineed to be more specific.

Search: Kihara seedless watermelonHere we go: “Hitoshi Kihara, Japan’s Pi-

oneer Geneticist,” a Genetics.org biographyedited by James F. Crow and William F.Dove. Crow and Dove, ha ha!

Kihara was born in Tokyo in 1893 anddied in 1986. His area of expertise was hy-

Modern watermelons and the lost art of seed spitting

Feel the BernDear Editor:

Hello people of the RoaringFork Valley. Are you tired ofbusiness as usual in Washing-ton, D.C.? Are you ready tostart a political revolution? Ifyou are, go on YouTube andtype in “Bernie Sanders.” Listento what he has to say and if youagree with him do somethingabout it.

In the state of Colorado youhave to register with a politicalparty to vote in the primaries soplease register as a Democrat,otherwise that other candidatewill be on the ballot instead ofBernie Sanders. Feel the Bern!

Joe MuléNew Castle

Vote for the kidsDear Editor:

While serving as the BasaltMiddle School principal from

2009 to 2015, I experiencedfirst hand the difficulty of re-taining key staff in the RoaringFork Valley due to out-of-reachhousing costs.

Over seven years, I replacedover half of the staff. The ma-jority of the resignations oc-curred because teachers simplywere no longer able to affordmonthly rental payments, andowning a property was franklynot an option. Providing teach-ers with an affordable housingalternative would be a greatstep toward attracting and re-taining talented teachers withinour school system.

Please give your supportby voting for RFSD’s bondinitiative; it is clearly a votefor our kids.

Jeremy VossFormer principalBasalt MiddleSchool

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Bring your own sun when you go fishing and you might getlucky like Lisa Johnson. When she wasn’t reading Carbon-dale’s community newspaper, she was catching this 30-pound Dorado (aka mahi mahi) at San Onofre, California.Courtesy photo

Down theRabbit HoleBy Alyce Wonders

WATERMELONS page 15

By John ColsonSopris Sun Staff Writer

As Carbondale officials took their first stepsthis week into deliberations about the 2016municipal budget, one bit of bad news greetedthem from the outset — revenues from thestate’s mineral severance tax fund plummetedthis year, meaning Carbondale will have farless next year than it has received from stateenergy impact funds in the past.

But the Board of Trustees, at its meetingTuesday, also got some good news — salestax proceeds have continued to rise, propertytax revenues are expected to be up by about26 percent, and the town’s general-fund re-serve cash balance should be nearly $5 mil-lion at the end of this year.

The general fund, which accounts for mostof the town’s operating revenues and ex-penses, is expected to have a year-end balanceof just over $4.9 million, according to a pres-entation by Finance Director Renae Gustine.

In addition, the town’s other big funds —water and wastewater, dedicated to thetown’s water and sewer service costs — havea combined total of about $6.5 million, ac-cording to a chart provided by Gustine.

“We’re in good shape, as far as the year-end balance,” Town Manager Jay Harringtontold the trustees.

But, he said, because of the expected short-fall in the severance tax payment, the townshould not plan to do any major capital proj-ects next year.

With all funds combined, the town ex-pects to have approximately $13.8 million onhand at the end of the year.

In 2015, according to Gustine’s chart, thetown started with a balance of about $14.4million in all funds, took in approximately$15.5 million in revenues for a total of just

over $30 million in available funds.By the end of this year, she reported, the

town will have spent roughly $16.2 million,leaving a healthy balance for the start of 2016.

Gustine told the trustees that sales tax rev-enue, which is the town’s main source of in-come, has been increasing at a rate of about6 percent in 2015, over the amount collectedin 2014.

As for the severance tax proceeds, they areenergy impact funds paid to the state by en-ergy companies drilling for oil and gas in Col-orado, and are dispensed by the ColoradoDepartment of Local Affairs.

In addition to severance taxes, which areassessed against oil and gas pumped and sold

by the industry, the state collects MineralLease Fees, which come from lease paymentsto the federal government for oil and gas pro-ducing fields.

Carbondale has since 1998 received sev-erance tax and lease fees that, combined, haveranged from less than $40,000 in 1998 tomore than $800,000 in 2009, the year thatGarfield County’s energy industry was oper-ating at its peak.

The 2015 payments came to a little morethan $480,000, and mainly were used to payfor capital projects related to improvementsto Highway 133 as it passes through Car-bondale, and the reconstruction of parts ofBarber Drive.

Harrington said the town has beenwarned by the state that its severance-taxpayment for 2016 could be reduced by asmuch as 61 percent, which Gustine said couldamount to as much as $130,000.

In general, Harrington said, the town’srevenue projections are favorable for thecoming year’s budget.

Other trustee action from Tuesday nightinclude:

• Signing a contract for construction of awater line along Industry Way;

• Finalizing the $500 purchase of a publicartwork, “Grow To The Sky,” which currentlyadorns the sidewalk outside Marble Distillerson Main Street.

Carbondale town budget looking good despite one bummer

Ram quarterback Tyler Spence (#7)fights for yardage as wide receiver AlexDominguez (#9) gives him a hand inRoaring Fork’s 16-14 season-openingwin over Meeker on Sept. 4. Spencescored twice to bring the score to 14-13.Colin O’Gorman kicked a 39-yardfield goal to give Roaring Fork a two-point lead. Meeker then drove to theone-yard line but the Rams forced afumble and recovered it with 59 sec-onds left in the game. On the soccerfront, the Rams downed the AspenSkiers 2-1 in overtime on Sept. 8. GusOliva scored first then Aaron Palomerasealed the win on an assist from JosephFloes. Goalie Colin O’Gorman hadfour saves, one of them a one-on-one atthe end of regulation play. The girl’svolleyball team started its season in theGlenwood Springs tournament onSept. 4; scores were not available atpress time. Photo by Sue Rollyson


Carbondale’s Board of Trustees narrowlyavoided passing a new ordinance regulatingthe freedom of domestic cats on Tuesdaynight, opting instead to create a subcommit-tee to work on the proposed ordinance, anexercise that Mayor Stacey Bernot jokinglysaid might be like “herding cats.”

That subcommittee is to include twotrustees — Frosty Merriott and Allyn Harvey— Police Chief Gene Schilling and a memberof the town staff.

In addition, the subcommittee will includetwo local women who have come to symbol-ize the “pro” and “con” side of the debate overthe control of cats, Mary Harris of the Roar-ing Fork chapter of the Audubon Society andCindy Sadlowski, founder of the Street CatsCoalition, which has worked for 15 years tokeep down the number of feral cats in the re-gion by spaying or neutering the animals.

The town staff wrote up a proposed ordi-nance after Harris told the trustees in Julythat the predation of birds by free-roamingcats is essentially pushing some bird speciestoward extinction.

In one presentation, she maintained thatas many as 4 billion birds are killed by catseach year across the U.S.

Sadlowski, however, countered that there

is no proof that cats are responsible for analarming decline in some bird populations inthis country, and argued that it is pollution,loss of habitat and other human-caused in-fluences that are the true reasons for the de-cline in bird numbers.

“Loss of habitat, climate change and toxicchemicals are the major causes of the birdpopulation decline,” Sadlowski wrote in a let-ter to the town, dated July 30, in which shepleaded for the trustees to hold off on passingany new, restrictive laws concerning themovement of cats in town.

As written, the proposed ordinance wouldrequire that all domestic cats over the age ofsix months be spayed or neutered; that alladult domestic cats in town be licensed; thatany cat found outside its owner’s residentialproperty be considered as “running at large”and subject to impoundment; and that own-ers of cats that get loose be subject to finesthat could run to $1,000 after multiple of-fenses, among other provisions.

The proposed ordinance is to be the start-ing point for discussions by the subcommitteeabout how the town should deal with theissue. The subcommittee is to report back tothe board of trustees later this year.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the trustees, sev-eral local residents stood up to address thetrustees, in support of either Harris’ or Sad-

lowski’s side of the issue. The testimony tookup more than an hour of meeting time andfeatured everything from placing computerchips in cats for identification purposes(rather than typical metal license tags on col-lars, which could pose a hazard to the cat) tothe beneficial role of cats in keeping mice andother rodents under control.

“Cats have their place in the ecology, too,”said local resident Charles Saiviano, arguingagainst passage of the ordinance, who re-ported that he once put up barriers aroundhis home to keep feral cats from taking uphouse-keeping there, only to have his homequickly overrun by mice.

“The rodents need predators, and whenthey don’t have predators, they can just takeover,” Saiviano said.

Delia Malone, urging the trustees to passthe ordinance as is, maintained that science hasproven cats to be the primary predator ofbirds, and that cats are an “invasive species”not native to the U.S., meaning that the conti-nent’s bird population evolved largely withoutcats as a predatory influence on their numbers.

Faced with an audience mostly made up ofsupporters of the ordinance, the trustees ap-peared at one point to be ready to pass it.

Trustee Merriott, noting that “we have fourvotes” on the board in favor of passage, laudedSadlowski’s work as a regional cat expert, and

pleaded with her to work with the town tomake the ordinance as good as it can be, ratherthan simply demand that it be shelved.

“That’s not going to happen,” Merriottsaid, saying at one point that given theamount of time and public resources thathave gone into getting the proposed ordi-nance this far, it might as well become law.

But after continued discussion, the trusteesopted to set up the subcommittee in an effort torework the proposed ordinance to make it ac-ceptable to both sides of the debate, if possible.

Sadlowski at one point declared that “thisentire ordinance is extremely troubling” andtold the board it should outlaw bird feedersas a way of preventing cats from preying onunwary, hungry birds.

She also suggested that the ordinance,which is silent on the subject of feral cats, isdeficient because of that oversight.

She also said that, in her travels to trap,neuter and release feral cats, she had neverseen a large number of domestic cats roamingthe streets.

“You just don’t see many cats,” she em-phasized, “and I think we’re just addressing aproblem we don’t really have.”

But in the end, she told the proponents ofthe ordinance, “I think we can work together.Let’s get something that will work for the fer-als, that’ll work for the birds.”

Cat fight continues, so trustees name committee

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Town Briefs North Face weed battle continuesSopris Sun Staff Report

Staffers at Town Hall are soliciting bids from landscape com-panies for a project to hydro-seed the berms and hillsides sur-rounding the North Face Bike Park, as at least a partial solutionto an infestation of weeds at the Bike Park that has become agrowing problem, according to town manager Jay Harington’sweekly report (dated Aug. 31-Sept. 4).

In other news from Harrington’s report:The fourth annual Ranch Roping competition is to be held this

coming weekend, Sept. 12-13, at the Gus Darien Riding/RodeoArena, just east of town on Catherine Store Road (GarfieldCounty Road 100). In other rodeo-related news, now that the Car-bondale Wild West Rodeo itself has gone into hibernation for thewinter, the town’s engineering consultant, SGM, expects to sendout bids in early October to contractors interested in building ableacher roof for the arena.

Keeping to the recreational side of things, the officials behindthe Ross Montessori School project, currently underway adjacentto Highway 133 and the Thompson Park subdivision, are hopingto get state funding to pay for a “community play yard and outdoorlearning environment,” according to Harrington. Harrington wrotein his memo that the school’s managers were scheduled to go be-fore the town parks and recreation commission on Sept. 9 as partof a request for “consideration from the town to allow them tosubmit a 2016 GOCO “School Yard Play Initiative grant for pro-fessional design services.” Harrington wrote that GOCO (GreatOutdoors Colorado, which distributes state lottery proceeds) ex-pects to award up to $7,000 apiece to five schools around the statefor such projects.

On yet another recreation front, Harrington reported that theparks and recreation commission was scheduled to discuss its2016 budget goals and objectives at the same meeting (which is

too late to meet the Sopris Sun’s deadlines for this week’s edition).One of those goals, Harrington wrote, is to determine citizenvoter support for a recreation sales tax increase in 2016. The idea,according to Harrington, would be to hold a tax-increase elec-tion next April, if voter support is determined.

Recreation programming for this week is to include the startof a youth flag football program, and the start of a fall ClimbingClub. Other fall programming includes bike lessons at the NorthFace Bike Park, skateboard lessons, climbing wall lessons, EarlyRelease Wednesdays (for school-aged youngsters) open gym andyouth only facilitated climbing, among other offerings. More in-formation is available in the town’s recreation departmentfall/winter brochure, which can be viewed on the website car-bondalerec.com or picked up at Town Hall and several other lo-cations around town, including the Carbondale Recreation andCommunity Center, the Third Street Center, City Market andlocal schools.

The John M. Fleet Municipal Pool has closed for the season,Harrington reported, adding that 4,793 users were recorded forthe season, which ran from May 24-Sept. 4.

Over the previous week, Harrington wrote, the town’s arboristweeded beds, cut thistle and willows in beds at the CarbondaleNature Park solar array, removed elm saplings at various loca-tions, worked on storm-related clean-up, coordinated planting of13 trees at Roaring Fork High School, and surveyed banners inthe downtown area for replacement.

Over the same period, the streets crew emptied dog-poop sta-tions, mowed 133 grassy areas, did some weed-whacking andpickup work at Cara Court and began preparing for fall leaf re-moval and for the winterization of the town’s irrigation systems.

In general, Harrington reported, “town wide water demand istapering down with the rain and cooler weather.”

Cop ShopFrom Aug. 27 through Sept. 3, Carbondalepolice officers handled 265 calls for service.During that period, town police officers andGarfield County sheriff’s deputies investi-gated the following cases of note, accordingto summaries provided to The Sopris Sun:

FRIDAY, Aug. 28: At 8:43 a.m. police tooka report of a burglary at a school, wherethree i-Pad devices were taken.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1-2: Po-lice were called twice, once each day, to astore to arrest two individuals on chargesof shoplifting, including a juvenile femalewho was ticketed and released to an adult.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2: At 7:45 p.m.Garfield County deputies were called to alocation in the Cedar Cove section nearElk Springs, outside of Carbondale, wherethey arrested a 63-year-old man on chargesof harassment and domestic violence, andtook him to the Garfield County Jail.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2: At 5:29 p.m. po-lice were contacted by a man who thoughthe had been shot at by an unknown partywith a pellet gun. The man said he had notheard the shot, but that he had heard aprojectile pass close to him. Police wereunable to locate a suspect.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2: At 10:05 p.m.police were dispatched to check out a“suspicious male looking into vehiclesin a parking lot at 920 Cowen Drive.” A22-year old man was arrested and takento the Garfield County Jail on chargesof trespassing.

By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

Thousands of lives (counting dogs andcats) have literally been changed for the bet-ter since Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE)opened its shelter doors 15 years ago.

“People come up here and fall in love witha dog or cat,” said CARE co-founder Jim Cal-away. “I see it all the time.”

The CARE shelter is located on 11-acresat Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Val-ley campus between Carbondale and Glen-wood Springs. Chances are that you, orsomeone you know, has adopted a CAREdog, cat or other pet. In fact, CARE hasplaced more than 12,500 homeless dogs andcats in homes in the past 15 years.

“It’s been great for the community,” Cal-away told The Sopris Sun.

CARE’s major fund-raiser, the Dressed tothe K9s fashion show, returns to the Orchardin Carbondale on Sept. 26. With that in mind,did you know:

• Parents can throw birthday parties fortheir kids at the CARE shelter;

• Volunteers are welcome to come up andwalk dogs or help out in other ways;

• CARE micro-chips dogs and cats for $30;• The CARE Pet Food Bank was started in

2011 to assist pet owners in Garfield Countyand nearby communities who are having adifficult time feeding their pets due to theireconomic condition or other challenges;

• CARE also offers dog training classes.Although CARE mostly takes in dogs

and cats, it is also equipped to take in birds

and “exotics.”CARE responds to local disasters such as

wildfires and takes in affected pets. It also tookin pets from hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.

HistoryLocal veterinarians incorporated Col-

orado Animal Rescue (CARE) in 1992, ac-cording to CARE’s website. For nine years therescue and placement of abandoned, strayand surrendered animals was done out of thehomes of C.A.R.E. board members. But 16years ago, Calaway, a well-known philantro-pist and retired oilman, met some CARE peo-ple who told him of their operation. Aself-described “animal lover” his entire life,Calaway took his cat with him when he en-tered the University of Texas.

In short order, Calaway approached Col-orado Mountain College, which donated 11-acres to CARE, and now works closely withthe college’s vet tech program. Then he do-nated half the $3 million to build the shelter,and helped to raise the remaining $1.5 million.

With the shelter up and running in 2000,Garfield County was able to close its poundand annually contribute $300,000 to CARE’sbudget. Other funds come from the 160 “An-nual Angels” who contribute $1,000 or more,plus the annual Dressed to the K9s event.

Through the years, CARE’s staff has grown,and now numbers 10 full-time employees.“They do a wonderful job,” Calaway said.

Leslie Rockey was CARE’s first directorat the shelter and stayed with the non-profit

CARE shelter turns 15; thousands of lives changed

Clover, 14, is looking for a home. Colorado Animal Rescue, located on the CMC SpringValley campus, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photo byJane Bachrach

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CMS seeks mentorsCarbondale Middle School is looking for

volunteer mentors – especially those withskills in computer programming, engineering,solar, circuits and carpentry – to help in cre-ating a maker’s space or learning lab for stu-dents. “These spaces typically allow studentsto build basic machines or robots, programcomputers, build with wood or other materi-als, or create new products,” said CMS GiftedCoordinator Megan Currier. This will be anin-school program for all CMS students, whoare generally between the ages of 10-14 (fifththrough eight grade). The maker’s space pro-gram will start during lunch/recess and afterlunch. There is no minimum or maximumtime commitment. “I am imagining that somekids might start working with circuits andthen get to a place where they need guidanceto get to the next level or to solve a particularproblem,” Currier continued. “Ideally, we willbuild up a database of contacts in the com-munity that students can reference when theyneed ‘professional’ help. This could be a one-hour tutorial, a phone call or an on-goingmentorship depending on the student, thecommunity member and the project. Theschool is also gathering Lego, Erector sets,Lincoln Logs, blocks and other building toys.For more information, call Carbondale Mid-dle School at 384-5700.

L.I.T. Crawl returnsThe Carbondale Branch Library is seek-

ing performers, poets, writers and musiciansfor its second annual L.I.T. Crawl. The L.I.T.(Literature in Town) Crawl will feature per-

formers at several of the new Art aRoundTown sculptures and other locations startingat 4 p.m. at the next First Friday (Oct. 2). Fordetails, call 963-2889.

Bonedalers do GlenXCarbondale residents Wade Newsome

and Jim Calaway are among the presentersat the inaugural GlenX Success Summit atGlenwood Springs High School on Sept. 12.The program also includes: Gretchen Bleiler

(Olympic snowboarder), Mark Brown (awardwinning speaker), Mike Kaplan (Aspen SkiingCo. president/CEO), Willy Tea Taylor (musi-cian), and Carrie Besnette Hauser (CMCpresident/CEO). The Roaring Fork YoungProfessionals group is organizing the event.For details, go to glenx.org.

Free parking in Aspen?This is not a cruel hoax. According to a

press release, the Aspen Parking Depart-

ment is giving free coupons for one day offree parking at its Rio Grande garage forevery win the Denver Broncos notch in Sep-tember. People must come to the AspenParking Department (540 E. Main St.) theday after the wins to pick up their coupons.The coupons expire on Oct. 31. For details,call 970-429-1766.

Barbin’ up the right creekWilderness Workshop is finishing its

multi-year project of removing barbed wirefrom fences up Castle Creek near Ashcrofton Sept. 12. The posts themselves will remainas reminders of the area’s ranching history.For details, go to wildernessworkshop.org.

Candidate emerges for school boardWith four of five Roaring Fork School

District seats up for grabs, only one currentmember faces an election race in November.He’s Karl Hanlon, who will be challenged byJennifer Rupert in District A (which coversparts of Carbondale and Basalt). Three otherboard members – Mary Elizabeth Geiger,Daniel Biggs and Matthew Hamilton – willeach run unopposed.

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

include: John Colson, and Brian and BrentPerkins (Sept. 10); Debbie Crawford (Sept.11); and Anita Witt, Dominique Jackson,Chrissie Leonard, Allyn Harvey, Adam Car-balleira and Andy Bohmfalk (Sept. 13).

An anonymous Carbondale Library chalkboard artist treated passersby to some prettyinteresting art in late August. This picture is a detail from a larger piece, which lasted onlya couple of days before the rain washed it away. Photo by Lynn Burton

group until she accepted a position in the ColoradoMountain College vet tech program earlier this year.“We lost a wonderful executive director and friendbut she went to a wonderful organization,” Calawaysaid. A nation-wide search is underway to findRockey’s replacement.

CARE is well known and respected among thoseworking in the animal shelter field. It’s also known, in amanner of speaking, to music fans. That’s because popicon Neil Diamond employed 10 CARE puppies to ap-pear in a video for his current CD “Melody Road.” Di-amond adopted two of the puppies and the other eightwere later adopted out. The video will be shown at theupcoming Dressed to the K9s fashion show and all 10

puppies are scheduled to appear in person (so to speak).Reflecting on the lives that CARE has touched over

the past 15 years, Calaway points to one woman whoadopted a dog when the shelter first opened. Her dogrecently passed away but she told Calaway, “If that dogcame back as a man, I’d marry him.”

CARE is open for public tours, which take about anhour. To schedule an appointment or for more informa-tion, go to coloradoanimalrescue.org.

Next stepsWhat: CARE’s Dressed to the K9s fashion show.When: Sept. 26 at 5:30 p.m.Where: The Orchard on Snowmass Drive.How much: $85 per ticket at coloradoanimalrescue.org.


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Far left: Morrisontakes advantageof CARE’s SoggyDoggy area,which includes aswimming pondand waterfall.Center: Dr. JulieMartin tattoos adog. Left: Theshelter also takesin ducks, chick-ens and roosters,plus the occa-sional parrot, gerbil, snake, ferret and lizard.Photos by JaneBachrach

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The Carbondale & Rural Fire ProtectionDistrict is gearing up for its second tax-hikeballot question in two years, and will be ask-ing voters on Nov. 3 to approve a mill levyoverride that would bring in nearly$600,000 in additional revenue to be usedfor a combination of daily operations andcapital improvements.

Justification for the tax hike question isbased largely on information contained in amaster plan compiled by a team of consult-ants starting last March, and which is avail-able for public review on the department’swebsite (carbondalefire.org).

There are a number of differences be-tween the current tax-hike request and thelast one, which was before voters in 2013.

For one thing, during the 2013 electionseason, the district conducted a relativelylow-key campaign to fight for a request thatwould have essentially doubled the property-tax rate for district property owners, seem-ingly out of confidence that the taxpayershad always given the fire department what itwanted in years past and would do so again.

The question apparently asked for morethan the constituents were willing to providein 2013, however, and the tax hike was de-nied by the voters.

This time, the district is armed with its re-cently released Master Plan, and by the helpof a citizens committee (Citizens4aSafeCom-munity) that will advocate in favor of a“yes” vote on Nov. 3.

The district is asking for far less moneythis time around, seeking to increase theproperty tax rate by about 1.75 mills, on topof its current rate of 5.903 mills.

A “mill” equals $1 in taxation for every$1,000 in the assessed valuation of realproperty. A tax increase of 1.75 mills wouldadd roughly $70 to the annual property taxbill of a residential property valued by theGarfield County Assessor at $500,000, ac-cording to a calculation offered by consult-ant Mark Chain, one of those who workedon the Master Plan.

In addition to seeking a smaller rate in-crease, this year’s question corrects whatmost observers have concluded was a fatalmistake in 2013 — the lack of a “sunsetclause” requiring that the tax hike expire ata certain time.

This time the district has included a “sun-

set clause” of two years, meaning the taxrate will return to its current level after 2017unless the voters agree to renew it or in-crease it where the 2013 ballot question con-tained no such clause, causing voters toworry that it would have enacted the taxrate permanently.

The CRFPD is a sprawling district thatcovers about 320 square miles in terrainstretching from Marble in the south to SpringValley in the north, in which five stations pro-vide service to some 12,000 people, some ofthen living in remote corners of the district.

Founded in 1953, the department has 18paid personnel and 65 volunteers, accordingto information on its website, www.carbon-dalefire.org. The department’s equipmentcomplement includes one ladder truck, fivefire engines, six wildland fire vehicles, twogeneral rescue vehicles and four ambulances.

The tax-hike request is an effort to over-come a more than 40-percent drop in thedistrict’s income as a result of the Great Re-cession of 2008-2009, when property val-ues plummeted.

The district gets nearly all of its incomefrom property taxes, supplemented some-what by fees for ambulance services.

Master PlanAccording to information in the Master

Plan document, property values dropped byabout 28 percent between 2011 and 2012,and another 20 percent or so by 2014, cut-ting general fund revenues from a high ofnearly $2.9 million in 2009 and 2010 to alow of approximately $1.7 million in 2014.

In between, voter approval of a mill-levyoverride in 2011 boosted the district’s taxrate and kept revenues at about $2.8 millionannually, despite the drop in property val-ues, until 2013, when the override wasscheduled to expire.

Voters that year rejected a request to in-crease taxes by about 6 mills, essentiallydoubling the tax rate, and district revenuesdropped precipitously.

In response, the district let go of threepeople, began deferring capital improve-ments and started dipping into what oncewas well more than $2.8 million in cash re-serves to supplement the anemic budget.

According to Chain, the reserves (repre-senting pools of cash for both general andcapital spending) stood at about $2.39 mil-lion in 2012, the year the district first beganreaping additional revenues due to the 2011

mill levy override.That grew to $2.88 million in 2013,

which was the last year the district couldcount on the higher mill levy, and droppedto $2.3 million in 2014, the first year thatthe district began seriously dipping into re-serves in order to maintain service levels.

The reserves at the end of this year, ac-cording to the Master Plan documents, willstand at roughly $1.69 million, and by 2020will have fallen to about $480,000 if the dis-trict continues its policy of deficit spendingto maintain service levels.

At that point, district officials havewarned, the reserves would be insufficient toprop up the department’s operations, neces-sitating much more serious cuts in person-nel and services.

It is that concern that led the district toask for the tax-rate increase in 2013 and,having lost that bid, to go back to the votersthis year with a more detailed plan for seek-ing a much smaller tax-rate increase.

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of ar-ticles about the upcoming CRVFP tax-hikeelection. Additional stories will appear in thenext several editions of The Sopris Sun).

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Fire district pros/cons due Sept. 18The deadline to submit pro or con state-

ments for the Carbondale Fire District TaborNotice is Friday, Sept. 18 at 4:30 p.m., ac-cording to fire chief Ron Leach. Countyclerks from Garfield, Pitkin and Gunnisonwill send out Tabor Notices before the Nov.3 election, at which time fire district voterswill be asked whether to hike property taxesby 1.75 mills. Leach said fire district resi-dents who want to submit statements sup-porting or opposing the tax hike mustsubmit them in writing and send them to theCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection Dis-trict, 301 Meadowood Dr., Carbondale, CO81623. There is no word limit, althoughstate statute allows the district to summarizethe statements as needed. The statementsmust include the author’s name, address andsignature. For details, call 963-2491.

RFSD pros/cons due Sept. 18The deadline to submit pro or con state-

ments for the Roaring Fork School DistrictTabor Notice is Sept. 18, according to schooldistrict spokeswoman Linda Fiske. The no-tices will be sent out before the Nov. 3 elec-tion, at which time the school district willask voters whether to approve a $122 mil-lion bond issue. Statements must include theauthor’s name, address and signature. Theymust be sent to the Roaring Fork SchoolDistrict, attention Linda Fiske, 1405 GrandAve., Glenwood Springs, CO 81601. For de-tails, call 384-6000.

Lobsters delayed to 2016Butch’s Lobster Shack is still coming to

Carbondale, but not until the spring of 2016.Butch Darden, owner of the transient

lobster shack that has done business inother parts of the Roaring Fork Valley,confirmed this week that he will not be set-ting up his business this year because oftrouble with state health department offi-cials and concern that it may be too late inthe year to do enough business to recouphis set-up investment.

He said the health department decreedthat his lobster-cooking arrangement is notup to the state’s standards, so he will needto spend the winter figuring out how to sat-isfy the regulations. But Darden said he hadspoken with the owner’s representative ofthe site where he plans to be dishing out seafood — the lot at 2nd and Main owned byBren Simon — and that it is still a go.

Carbondale offering grantsThe town of Carbondale is taking appli-

cations for grants to non-profits for 2016.The deadline is Sept. 18 at 5 p.m. The appli-cations are available at carbondalegov.org.For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 510-1206.

Basalt offering grantsThe town of Basalt is once again offering

money from its Discretionary Grant Fundfor non-profits. Applications are available attown hall, or a basalt.net. The applicationdeadline is Sept. 30 at 5 p.m. For details, call927-9851.

CMC nursing degree updateColorado Mountain College is holding in-

formation meetings about its bachelor’s andassociate degrees in nursing, according to apress release. The BS meetings will be held at:

• Sept. 15, 4 p.m., Colorado MountainCollege in Dillon, Room 202;

• Sept. 21, 4 p.m., Colorado MountainCollege in Glenwood Springs, GlenwoodCenter, 1402 Blake Ave., Room 307;

• Sept. 23, 4 p.m., Colorado MountainCollege in Breckenridge, 107 DenisonPlacer Road, Eileen and Paul FinkelAuditorium;

• Sept. 29, 4 p.m., Colorado MountainCollege in Glenwood Springs – SpringValley, 3000 County Road 114, room tobe determined.

Associate of Applied Science in nursing meet-ings will be held at:

• Sept. 23, 3:30 p.m., Colorado MountainCollege in Glenwood Springs, GlenwoodCenter, 1402 Blake Ave., Room 307;

• Oct. 1, noon to 1:30 p.m., ColoradoMountain College in Glenwood Springs –Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114,Calaway Building, Room 127;

• Oct. 15, noon to 1:30 p.m., ColoradoMountain College in Dillon, 333 FiedlerAve., Room 202;

• Nov. 4, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Colorado MountainCollege in Breckenridge, 107 Denison PlacerRoad, Eileen and Paul Finkel Auditorium.

For details, call 800-621-8559.

Chamber accepting nominationsThe Carbondale Chamber of Commerce

is taking nominations for its next board ofdirector’s election, slated for an e-mail bal-lot on Oct. 9; the nomination deadline isOct. 6. Nomination letters can be sent [email protected] or mailed to theCarbondale Chamber of Commerce, atten-tion Andrea Stewart, Box 1645, Carbon-dale, CO 81623.

RSVP offers senior classesThe High County Retired and Senior Vol-

unteer Program (RSVP) is partnering withAlpine Legal Services to offer a series of freeclasses relating to the issues that may concernolder adults, according to a press release.Classes are offered at the CMC GlenwoodCenter (1402 Blake Ave.) on Thursdayevenings from 6 to 9 p.m. The series runsSept. 10 through Oct. 8. The Sept. 10 sessionpertains to wills; the Sept. 17 session pertainsadvance medical directives. Other classes willfocus on grandparent rights, conservator-ship/guardianship and probate. For details,call 947-8462 or [email protected].

Fire district 911 callsHere are the Carbondale Fire District 911

calls for the week of Aug. 3 through Sept. 5:• Medical emergencies (6);• Trauma emergencies (6);• Motor vehicle accidents (5);• Fire alarm responses (5);• Medical alarm responses (2);• Smoke checks (2);• Standby requests (2);• River rescue-false (1).


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THURS.-FRI. Sept. 10-11DANCE • Rehearsals for the Molissa Fenleydance company workshops members areopen to the public from 1 to 4 p.m. at theLaunchpad. Info: danceinitiative.org.

THURSDAY Sept. 10C’DALE LIBRARY • Kids and teens are in-vited to snack and play iPad and Wii gamesfrom 4 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays. The programis offered in partnership with Food Bank ofthe Rockies as part of the After School SnackProgram. Info: 963-2889 and gcpld.org.FILM • The medical marijuana sci-fithriller “Star Leaf” plays for one night onlyat 7:30 p.m. the Crystal Theatre. Ticketsare $10 at the door. Actor/producerRobert Leeshock (“Earth: Final Con-flict”) is flying out for the screening. Info:“Star Leaf” on Facebook.RSVP • High Country RSVP and AlpineLegal Services offer free classes in legal mat-ters to senior citizens from 6 to 9 p.m. onThursdays through Oct. 8. The classses takeplace at the CMC Center in GlenwoodSprings (1402 Blake Ave.). Advanced medicaldirectives will be discussed on Sept. 17, fol-lowed by grandparent rights, conservatorship/guardianship, and probate. Info: 947-8462and [email protected] • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets atMi Casita at noon every Thursday.

FRIDAY Sept. 11MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“Meru” (R) at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11-17;“Trainwreck ” (R) at 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 and

“The End of the Tour” (R) (captioned) at5:15 p.m. on Sept. 13.

FILM • The 5Point Film Festival presents afilm and related activities at Bonnie FisherPark (south of the Third Street Center) from7 to 10 p.m. Info: 5pointfilm.org.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old partof the Dinkel Building presents live musicevery Friday night. Info: 963-3304.

LIVE MUSIC• Rivers restaurant in GlenwoodSprings presents Valle Musico from 9 p.m. tomidnight. No cover. Here is the rest of Sep-tember’s line up: Leonard Curry Trio (Sept. 17)and the Steve Skinner Band (Sept. 24). Info:928-8813.

SAT.-SUN. Sept. 12-13LIVE MUSIC • The Los Angeles-based WildReeds is heading for an appearance on theAMA awards in Nashville and in October theyopen for the Punch Brothers in the Greek The-atre’s Bluegrass Situation. Before those big-timegigs, however, they roll into Carbondale forshows on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday,they settle into the cozy confines of Steve’s Gui-tars at 8:30 p.m. On Sunday, the Wild Reedsclose out the town’s Second Sunday free con-cert series from noon to 3 p.m. at Sopris Park.The Wild Reeds is being described as a “fullindie-folk-rock force” that has been sweepingthe West Coast and beyond. Lately, they’veshared the stage with the likes of JacksonBrowne, Lucinda Williams and others.

ROPING • Roaring Fork Ranch Ropingtakes over the Gus Darien riding arena onCounty Road 100. Info: Tom Harrington at970-275-1165 or [email protected].

PICKLEBALL • The inagural CarbondalePickleball Tournament takes place at NorthFace Park from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdayand Sunday. For details, call 510-1290 or goto carbondalerec.com.

SATURDAY Sept. 12SACRED FEST • True Nature Healing Artspresents its second annual Sacred Fest: AConscious Celebration of Life from noon to10 p.m. Highlights include a drum circle,African dance performance, Mud Puppetshow, a wellness village, labyrinth reflexologywalks, kids activities, kirtan bands playingcall-and-response chant music and more. Themusical headliners are C.C. White (aka theQueen of soul kirtan music and the Push-pams. Advance tickets are $40 (for the SacredFest and C.C. White), $25 for Sacred Festonly and $30 for C.C. White only at truena-tureheals.com or 963-9900. Tickets cost $5more at the door; kids under 12 are free.

DANCE PERFORMANCE • Dance Initiati-ave presents Molissa Fenley & Company at6:30 p.m. at the Launchpad. The perform-ance is the culmination of Fenley and Com-pany’s week-long residency in Carbondale;tickets are $15 and space is limited. Info: dan-ceinitiative.org.

PICKELBALL • The Western Slope pickle-ball tournament takes place at the North Faceand River Valley Ranch courts at 9 a.m. Info:510-1277.

SUNDAY Sept. 13RED TABLE HIKE • Wilderness Workshopleads a free hike on Red Table Mountain.

Meet in Basalt at 7:30 a.m. Registration isrequired at www.wildernessworkshop.org.Info: 510-0697.

MONDAY Sept. 14WRITERS’ GROUP • The CarbondaleWriters Group meets at the library from 6:30to 8 p.m. on the second Monday of themonth. All are welcome, from beginners toexperts. Info: 947-9593.

TUESDAY Sept. 15OPEN HOUSE • The Carbondale Clay Cen-ter and CCAH hold an open house from 4 to6:30 p.m. at Cedar Ridge Ranch on MissouriHeights (3059 CR 103). There’ll be wine,beer and harvest appetizers, plus a short sur-vey for artists to determine their needs. Info:963-1680.

WEDNESDAY Sept. 16FARMER’S MARKET • The CarbondaleFarmer’s Market at Fourth and Main Streettakes place on Wednesdays through Septem-ber. It starts at 10 a.m.

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondalepresents John Kinney (Aspen-Pitkin CountyAirport director) at the Carbondale fire sta-tion at 6:45 a.m. Coming up: Sept. 23, clubmeeting; Sept. 30, Jeanna Nicholson (statesenator, will talk about the Colorado HealthCare initiative); Robert Baker (Heritage ParkCare Center). Info: rotarycarbondale.org.

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

Community Calendar To list your event, email information to [email protected]. Deadline is noon on Monday. Events takeplace in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the CommunityCalendar online at soprissun.com. View events online at soprissun.com/calendar.

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OngoingHEALTHY HEART • Healthy Heart Mealsmeet-ups are held at the Third Street Centerevery Monday at 7 p.m. Dr. Greg Feinsingerspeaks on the first Monday of the month; thelast Monday of the month features a pot-luckgathering at 6:30 p.m.

WRAPPING UP • The Wyly Art Center indowntown Basalt wraps up the CampbellHutchinson show “This Land is Our land” onSept. 12.

MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS • GregFeinsinger, M.D., a retired, board-certified fam-ily physician now working on a volunteer basis,

will discuss health fair results, heart health orother medical concerns on Mondays for free atthe Third Street Center. For an appointment, call379-5718.

PICKLEBALL • The Carbondale pickleballgroup meets for some back and forth at theDarien Tennis and Pickleball Courts (at NorthFace Park) at 8 a.m. on Monday, Friday andSaturday, and 6 p.m. on Wednesdays. All agesand skill levels are welcome.

MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat with Car-bondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy.

THURSDAY Sept. 17CCAH • The Carbondale Council on Arts andHumanities holds its third and final receptionfor “Square Footage” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at theLaunchpad. CoMotion will kick off the event,which will be followed by an artists’ walk-through to explain each stage’s process. Info:carbondalearts.com.

LIVE MUSIC• The Basalt Regional Library pres-ents the Leonard Curry Trio from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

FRI.-SAT. Sept. 18-19WRITING WORKSHOP • Aspen Words pres-ents a reading by writer Gary Ferguson (“TheyCarry Home”) at the Third Street Center at6:30 p.m. on Friday, and a writing workshopfrom 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The work-shop/reading is $150; reading only is $10. Info:925-3211 or aspenwords.org.

FRIDAY Sept. 18BUSINESS CONFERENCE • The CarbondaleChamber of Commerce and Colorado MountainCollege hold their annual business conferencefrom 1 to 8 p.m. at the Orchard. Dave Buck,founder and CEO of Coachville, will be thekeynote speaker. Tickets range from $40 to to$85 (before Sept. 4) and $50 to $125 (after Sept.4). Info: 963-1890 or [email protected].

C’DALE LIBRARY • At 10 a.m., Chase Engel(founder and head brewer for the Roaring ForkBeer Company) gives a free talk about the basicsof brewing beer at home. The class will also har-vest hops grown outside at the library. Info:963-2889 and gcpld.org.

SENIOR MATTERS • Hour long tech classesfor seniors are offered at the CarbondaleBranch Library every month at 10:30 a.m. Afollow up class is then offered the next Saturday

at 10:30 a.m. One-on-one help is also offered.Info: 963-2889 or gcpld.org.

SATURDAY Sept. 19CHURCH SALE • Faith Lutheran church onHighway 133 holds it’s “truck unloading sale”from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Items include: old churchpews, kitchen ware, office furniture and more.Info: 510-5046.

SUNDAY Sept. 20HARVEST FEST • Sustainable Settings annualHarvest Festival returns with farm tours, publictalks, workshops, dinner and dancing. Chefs fromup and down the Roaring Fork Valley will pre-pare a menu that features local grown and raisedmeat and produce. “Your meal Sunday eveningwill come from within 1,200 feet from yourplate,” said Brook LeVan of Sustainable Settings.Speakers include author/farmer Eliot Coleman,

who will be honored with Sustainable Settings’2015 Organic Farmer of the Year award. Dinnerstarts at 4 p.m. Ticket info: sustainablesettings.org.

FRI.-SUN. Sept. 25-27FILMFEST • Aspen Filmfest returns to theCrystal Theatre in Carbondale, and alsoPaepcke Auditorium and the Isis Theatre inAspen. Info: aspenfilm.org.

THURSDAY Oct. 1GRIEF RECOVERY • Pathfinders starts aneight-week Grief Recovery Program for movingbeyond death, divorce and other losses. Theprogram takes place at the Third Street Center(Suite 31) on Thursdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.The cost is $165 for all eight sessions; a slidingscale and scholarships are available. Info: Jen-nifer Bouchet at 970-456-7026 or [email protected].

Save the DateSATURDAY Sept. 26K9 FASHION SHOW • Colorado Animal Rescue’s 15th annual Dressed to the K9s fashion showreturns to the Orchard, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. The night includes the 10-piece Neil Dia-mond tribute band Forever in Blue Jeans, plus a showing of Diamond’s music video “SomethingBlue, which features 10 puppies from CARE. There’ll also be a silent auction, wine/beer/cham-pagne bar, a special cocktail from Marble Distillery, dinner from Fusion Catering and lots of de-lectable desserts. Tickets are $85 a coloradoanimalrescue.org.

POTATO DAY • The theme of this year’s Potato Day is “Spuds are a Few of My Favorite Things”in honor of the 50th anniversary of the film “The Sound of Music.” To enter your float, e-mail LisaQuint at [email protected], call her at 618-6887 or write Carbondale Potato Day, Box 1803, Car-bondale, CO 81623. The day starts with a parade on Main Street at 10 a.m. and wraps up at So-pris Park at about 2 p.m. The Carbondale Wild West Bareback Bonanza follows at the Gus Darienriding arena at 3 p.m. For details on that one, call Mike Kennedy at 379-3907.

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DISCRETIONARYGRANT FUNDGrant applications for the year 2016 from the TownDiscretionary Fund are available at Basalt TownHall, 101 Midland Avenue, Basalt, CO 81621.

Applications may be requested by non-profit organizations. The Grant form canbe found on our website at: www.basalt.net.

Grant deadline is 5:00 p.m., September 30, 2015. For additional information call 927-9851

On Wednesday mornings, after a Tuesday night Council meeting, visit in an informal setting with Basalt MayorJacque Whitsitt for coffee and a chat at Saxy’s Coffee Shop, 104 Midland Avenue.

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Ever wonder how and why the Basalt police do what they do? Well, your chance to findout starts on Sept. 23 and wraps up on Oct. 31, with the Basalt Police Department’s weeklyCommunity Police Academy.

“Our department is expanding,” said Sgt. Joe Gasper in an e-mail to The Sopris Sun.“Our chief, Greg Knott, town manager Mike Scanlon and Town Council are excited aboutour first citizen’s academy.”

The classes are free and open to the public.The Sopris Sun put several questions to Gasper via e-mail. Here are his edited responses.

Question: Why is the police department offering this academy?Answer: It’s a great opportunity for people to learn, through participation, the various

day-to-day duties that our officers perform, as well as offering a fun way of meeting ourofficers to further develop our approach to community oriented policing.

Q:Who do you think the academy might appeal to or who is your target market?A: It’s an open invitation (for those) who may have interest or questions about how po-

lice officers are trained, how they respond to adverse situations, and/or the opportunity toprovide a platform for both the community and our officers to address topics they may nothave had the opportunity to discuss.

Q: Is it based upon similar programs in other departments?A: Yes, you’ll find most programs following a similar approach. However, we believe

that each community has its own particular “personality” reflective of its community val-

ues and perspectives about police officers and their duties. So, we’ve personalized our pro-gram to our community.

Q: What all with participants learn?A: Participants will learn, through active participation, about various methods ranging

from crime scenes and evidence protocols, patrol functions on the street including trafficstops and communications, defensive tactics, crimes associated with children and how so-cial services help families, the role of our community service officer, and the chance to shootat the gun range.

Q: Will each session take on a different topic?A: Most certainly. Each session will cover a particular topic.

Q: Why does the last session start at 9 a.m.?A:Our last class is our time at the gun range when we bring … program groups together.

Wrapping up, Gasper told The Sopris Sun “This program was one of Chief Knott’s pri-orities for 2015 and he was adamant about the importance of creating this chance to bringour communities and officers closer together.”

The sessions start at Basalt Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23. They con-tinue on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. from Sept. 30 through Oct. 14; and at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 21.The last class will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.

For details, call or e-mail Sgt. Joe Gasper at 927-4316 or e-mail [email protected].

Information about the academy is also printed in Spanish in an advertisement on page 13.


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Lunes a las 6 p.m. Septiembre 21 hasta Octubre 19La ultima clase sera el dia sabado, 31 de octubre a las 9 a.m.

Donde: Ayuntamiento de Basalt

100 Midland AveBasalt, CO 81621

Quien: Miembros de la comunidad que esten interesados en aprender que hace un o�cial de policia en su trabajo.

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With the drivinghelp of Ian Malcolm (left),Basalt Fire District boardmember VondaWilliams (right)brought downher 1955 Chevyand 1969 Mus-tang convertiblefrom Blue Lakefor Carbondale’sFirst Friday onSept. 4. Williamsreports shebought the Chevyfrom a friend inCreede, and it’spowered by a350-horse-powerCorvette engine.Other vintageand notable vehi-cles also lined thestreet. She plansto bring both carsto the BurningMountain Festi-val in New Castleon Sept. 12.Photo by LynnBurton

more traditional courtyard to a tree-lined area with seating.Next steps include getting outdoor furniture to allow stu-dents to sit outside in the courtyard area.

Laird’s project has been a long time coming but all thepieces finally came together last Saturday for this phasewith the help and support of many members of the Roar-ing Fork Valley. The RFHS Energy Club volunteered to helpwith the project and several members from the groupshowed up Saturday to help, as did RFHS Principal DrewAdams. The project was approved by the Roaring ForkSchool District with the help of Jeff Gatlin, Ken Melby andMike Dumond. Nell Davis designed the project’s logo.David Burden supported Teens for Trees and helped theproject get on its feet. Trees for the project came fromMountain View Tree Farm in Rifle through Lynn Dwyer atDwyer Green and Gardens, and from Eagle Crest Nursery.Holes for the trees were dug by the town of Carbondale(David Coon, Bruce Wade and Casey O’Flannery). JimRoman from Planted Earth donated compost for the treesand volunteered his tree-planting expertise. City Marketand Peppino’s Pizza donated food for the volunteers. Theproject would also not have been possible without the helpof all of the volunteers who came on Saturday.

“Ultimately [the project] succeeded because people do-nated their time and money, and joined together to make ithappen,” Laird said. A combination of ideas, persistence andsupport made the project a success and Laird said she is verygrateful to all of those that helped make the dream a reality.

So, as of this week the holes have been filled, the treeshave been watered and the project is complete. Now, all thatis left to do is to enjoy Laird’s dream.

Tavia Teitler is 15 and a junior at Roaring Fork HighSchool student.


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Approximately 30 students, faculty, kids and community members turned out on Saturday for the Teens for Treesplanting project at Roaring Fork High School. Front row center (in the black T-shirt) is organizer Fiona Laird. Otherplanters, in no particular order other than from left to right starting in the front, include: Tavia Teitler, Solana Teitler,Beth Fawley, Emily Mata, Joselinne Medrano, Kimberly Guzman, Mykerson and Leander Hentschel, Callum Jenk-ins, Quinn Wells, Foster and Tess Fox, Liam Laird, Alice Laird, Jimmy Serano, Nick Penzel, Hadley Henschel, ColinLaird, Cathrine Rushton, Adam Carbaleira, Drew Adams, Matt Wells, Heather Fox, Wendy Boland, Cathy Derby,Kenny Teitler and Karla Stukey. If The Sopris Sun missed any names, please e-mail them to soprissun.com and we’llget them in next week. Photo by Lynn Burton

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DATE OF APPLICATION: JULY 15, 2015BY ORDER OF: STACEY BERNOT, MAYOR

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Information may be obtained from, and Petitions orRemonstrance’s may be filed with the Town Clerk,Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue,Carbondale, CO 81623

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NOTICE OF BUDGET(Pursuant to 29-1-106, C.R.S.)NOTICE is hereby given that a proposed budget hasbeen submitted to the Garfield County Public LibraryDistrict Board of Trustees for the ensuing year of2016; a copy of such proposed budget will be filed onSeptember 2, 2015 in the office of Garfield CountyPublic Library District, 207 East Avenue, Rifle, CO81650 and on the website at www.gcpld.org, wherethe same is open for public inspection; such proposedbudget will be considered at the October 5, 2015

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Pitkin County is accepting proposals to provide Con-struction for Elk Park Phase I. Elements will includethe construction of a “Depot” open air structure, in-terpretive panels and site work. More detailed infor-mation may be obtained by contacting:

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DATE AND TIME: AUGUST 12, 2014 AT 6:00 P.M.DATE OF APPLICATION: JULY 2, 2014

BY ORDER OF: STACEY BERNOT, MAYOR

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Information may be obtained from, and Petitions orRemonstrance’s may be filed with the Town ClerkCarbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Car-bondale, CO 81623


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should re�ect all of our unique qualities asshould each branch library cater to the re-quirements of its own community. Carbon-dale’s needs and interests are different thanthose of Ri�e or Silt. All well reviewed liter-ary �ction and topical non-�ction must be aparamount part of Carbondale’s collection.

I want to thank Molly and staff for the jobsthey are doing. I love walking into our libraryand seeing many young people there and I lovethe programs that are offered for both youngand old. The library should and can be a com-munity hub and still ful�ll its purpose.

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Thanks to Heritage ParkDear Editor:

I recently lost a close friend who spent thelast 18 months of her life at Heritage ParkCare Center, �rst in assisted living and then,as her health further failed following severalstrokes, in the Skilled Nursing section. For thelast month of my friend’s life, I was there sev-eral times a day and able to observe the ex-

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It is so dif�cult to observe our loved onesin discomfort and we strive to do all we canto ease their pain. I felt that every request thatI made to Heritage on her behalf was hon-ored and every attempt was made to ful�llher needs. She was treated with the utmostdignity and respect and loving care. I am verygrateful to the wonderful folks at HeritagePark. How fortunate we are to have this fa-cility in our community.

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Thanks to the crewDear Editor:

No doubt most of you have noticed theaddition of new �ower boxes along the en-trance to Carbondale’s Main Street publicparking lot. How nice to see beautiful �ow-ers blooming in these newly covered sectionof previously ancient black railroad ties.

A special thanks to Smiley Wise, one of the

chiefs in the Public Works Departmentwho gave permission to the project, and toCarlos Loya, the one who transformed thatold look to the “new look.”

Also, thanks to our newest planting vol-unteers: D’uan Hajdu, O. D., Jeanie Hays withthe law of�ces of Whitsitt & Gross, and ZaneKessler with the Thompson Divide Coalition.

Thanks to the town’s new arborist, DaveCoon, who in addition to his many dutiesmanages to water every �ower pot in ourtown three times a week!

Other volunteers involved with plantingtheir own plants in those large pots are: MaryBeth Bos (new owner of Main Street Spirits),Aimee and Anthony Gullwick (Koru con-struction company), Amy Kimberly (CCAH),Peter Gilbert of the Dance Initiative (soon-to-be occupants of the old town library on FourthStreet), Stacy Evans & Friends, Susan’s Flow-ers plus 21 others who are repeat participantssince 2010. Thank you folks!

What attractive and pleas-ant gifts your efforts are tothis community. We appreci-

ate all of you. Thank you.Chris ChacosProject “Gunga Din!”Carbondale

Boogie’s thanksDear Editor:

This past Friday, over 1,000 people kickedoff their Fourth of July celebration with oneof Aspen’s most popular traditions: the an-nual Boogie’s Buddy Race to bene�t theBuddy Program! This 5K race and 1-milefamily and canine walk provides funding tosupport nearly 1,000 local youth and theirfamilies through many critical services andprograms including individual mentoring,group mentoring, leadership education,Lemonade Day, activities, scholarships, andtherapeutic counseling.

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Why the controversy?Dear Editor:

The town provides for an electric station forelectric cars. Why is there any controversy forgas-fueled cars to be able to have a fueling sta-tion with the new City Market proposal? Doesthe town of Carbondale just want a new CityMarket with conditions?

There are three gas stations in Carbondale.They have to stay in competition with each other.This is just going to add a fourth dimension isall. You can go to Basalt and you can go to Glen-wood Springs and you can go to the Shell Sta-tion and pay less, or you can go to Bradley’s inGlenwood and pay less. This country is built oncompetition, so if you want a fuel station to getthe use of your fuel points from City Marketright here at home, then, as the letter in The So-pris Sun says, let’s have some more competition.

We should be all for that. Just some foodfor thought.

Jane SpauldingCarbondale

brid wheat development, but his 1939 watermelon work began with the realization that people like the seedless aspect ofsome fruit, such as bananas, pineapple and grapes. Yes, grapes once had seeds too. He decided to try his luck at “construct-ing” a seedless watermelon.

Using the by now well-known method of colchicine treatment, Kihara created the necessary double-chromosome hybrid,then pollinated it with regular watermelon to get fruit which produced the seeds of the seedless watermelon plant. But therewas a problem. These plants didn’t have enough pollen to produce fruit. So Kihara had to plant regular watermelons in thesame field to pollinate the hybrid melon. That led to problem number two; both seeded and seedless watermelons were pro-duced. The only way to tell the difference was to cut them open, which was not a commercially viable option.

Being a brilliant problem-solver, Kihara manipulated the color-producing genes of the breeder plant, so that its seed-filledmelons had solid grayish skin, while the seed-free variety had the usual green striped appearance. Voila! The seedless water-melon was “born.”

It took 50 years for Kihara’s genetic invention to go from his University of Kyoto lab to dominating the summer melon sec-tion in American markets. Meanwhile Japan’s premier geneticist explored a number of other interests, including athletics.

The Genetics.org article notes Kihara was “a skilled skier and led the Japanese ski team at the Winter Olympics in 1960and 1964.” That would’ve been the same time period that I was sitting on the curb with my friends on many a summer day,eating watermelon and spitting the seeds into the street.

Now, as I munch a slice of seedless melon and mourn the lost art of seed-spitting, it feels like some of the fun has gone outof summer. I thrust my fist in the air and shout, “Oh Kihara, what have you done?”

Alyce Wonders wants to start a “bring back the watermelon seed” movement. To join, contact [email protected].

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