The Senior Voice - November 2009

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ovember 2009 The Senior Voice

Stephen Clifton, Director

al Security Office, Greeley

youre planning on retiring some-

me early in the 2010, now is thee to apply for Social Security

efits. The most convenient way

pply is online at www.socialrity.gov/applyonline.

Before you start your application,

ecommend you get an estimate ofretirement benefit. This you can

t www.socialsecurity.gov/estimat

he Retirement Estimator uses youronal employment history to esti-

e your retirement benefit. It alsohelp you to answer some of the

tions on the retirement application.You can use the online applica-

to apply for Social Securityement or spouses benefits if you

at least 61 years and 9 monthswant to start your benefits in thet four months; and live in the

ed States.Before filing online for retire-

nt, we suggest you have thewing information on hand: Your

Social SecurityBy B.J. Nikkel

Colorado State Representative

My summer and fall flew by as Iconcluded a series of twentytown hall meetings around my district.

As your State Representative, I

take my job very seriously. One of mygoals is to be accessible and available

to you the taxpayers. I am working toput people, not government, first.

Irresponsible government does notserve the people. Raising taxes duringa recession or economic downturn has

been catastrophic for many people inour state who were already suffering

economic woes. There were 57 billswith fees (taxes) attached last

session.I hear daily from Coloradans who

are angry about the car tax that forced

higher rates on vehicle registrations,as well as forcing unfair, indisputable

and expensive late fees. I votedagainst this back-door method of

taxation.Some common sense solutions I

will support are to repeal the car taxand also restore the majority partys

repeal of the Senior HProperty Tax Exemption

seriously hurt many senioI find that repeal unconsci

Ill co-sponsor legislatiColoradans to purchase

plans across state lines to

choice. If you need a mipensive plan and we donColorado, you should bepurchase it in another state

We should implemematic hiring freeze

economy shrinks. Our gogovernment by 4,400 em

three years; 1400 were hmidst of a hiring freeze

tions. When you and I mour belts, the government

I believe in growing

government. Excessive

regulation and mandatesand small businesses havhurt Coloradans who a

struggling to make ends mtough economic times.

You can email me at

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date and place of birth and SocialSecurity number; your bank or finan-

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amount of money earned last yearand this year.

If you are filing for benefits in themonths of September through

December, you also will need to esti-mate next years earnings; the name

and address of your employer(s) forthis year and last year; the beginningand ending dates of any active U.S.

military service you had before 1968;the name, Social Security number

and date of birth or age of yourcurrent spouse and any former

spouse.You also should know the dates

and places of marriage and dates of

divorce or death (if appropriate); andhave a copy of your Social Security

Statement.

Even if you dont have all the

information we need, you shouldgo ahead and apply. We will contact

you later if we need information.

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amboat Springs is called Ski

own USA for several reasons. Itroduced more Olympic ski team

bers than any other city in then.

is where competitive skiingn in Colorado when Carl

elsen built the first ski jumpin 1913. And its ski business

developed by local people who

passion for skiing seldom foundhere.

orwegian ski champion Carlelsen was working as a stone

n in Denver when he discoveredhampagne powder of Steamboat

13.e helped the local people in thelittle ranching town realize that

lived in a skiers paradise,hing them that they could do

with those long wooden boardski to school or to the pasture.

owelsens ski jump became soknown that it attracted cham-

s from everywhere. Ragnaredt set a world record jump on it

old the people of Steamboat:

You have the fastest course in thed here...There is no reason why

ng) cannot be made a big thingolorado.

few years later, a young localer, Jim Temple, had become an

skier and decided to build somens on Storm Mountain.wasnt easy starting a ski area in

mall, isolated town. Outsidersit would never make ittoo

ult to get to and too rural in itssphere.

ut outsiders were wrong. Thetion appealed to many skiers,

liked the Western atmospherehe idea of a ski area overlookingutiful ranch valley.

nd the townspeople were deter-d to make it work. During one

winter, hundreds of them shov-snow onto the ski runs from

along the trees to get the skiopen.was reminiscent of the spirit F.M.

& Sons showed during the Greatession. Established in 1905, F.M.

& Sons is Steamboats oldestbusiness. You see their yellow

along the highway, and theiris still downtown.

When the Lights business faced

e during the Depression, theyed their saddles, jeans and

Stetsons in a Model-T Ford and drove

to ranches throughout the area. If thecustomers wouldnt come to them,

they would go to the customers.Steamboat did much the same

when the town sent its best skiers tocompetitions around the worldBuddy Werner, Skeeter Werner,

Moose Barrows and many others.Through them, Steamboats reputation

as a ski town grew.The Werners were an especially

popular family. Hazies restaurant thatsits atop the gondola at Mount

Werner was named for Hazie Werner,the mother of three Olympic skiers:Buddy, Loris and their sister Gladys

(Skeeter).

The Werner family settled on anearby ranch in 1941 and first lived ina log cabin with a sod roof. The chil-

dren trained at Howelsen Hill wheretheir mother sometimes sold hot dogs.

Later the Werner family becamevery successful. Buddy was a three-time Olympian, national giant slalom

champion and North Americancombined champion. Loris was also

an Olympian.Skeeter won the North American

Ski Championship in 1955, was theyoungest member of the U.S. National

Ski Team, an Olympian, and founderof the Steamboat Ski School.

Carl Howelsen, who built the first professional ski jump in Colorado

at Steamboat Springs. Colorado Historical Society.

Buddy Werner was killed in an

avalanche in Switzerland in 1964. Afterthat, Steamboats ski mountain was

renamed Mount Werner in his honor.Writer John Rolfe Burroughs

remembered when Buddy Wernerbecame the first American to achieverecognition from the great skiers of

Europe:No European had really ever

taken an American skier seriouslyuntil the day in 1958 when Werner

stood at the top of the Hahnenkammdown-hill course peering into a fog

that blotted out the run...A teammatecalled good luck.

Buddy jabbed in his ski poles,

pulled himself in mid-air into his char-

acteristic streamlined crouch and almostinstantly vanished into the murk.Far below, the Austrian spectators

waited, staring into the fog...Suddenlyout of the mists rocketed Werner. He

carved a magnificent steep last schussthat held the crowd breathless andthen swept across the finish line...He

had broken the record.Steamboat remembers people like

that.________________COVER PICTURE: Billy Kidd, one of

Steamboats best known skiers years

ago. Photo courtesy SteamboatChamber Resort Association.

teamboat: Ski Town USA


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panies paying well knownersity professors to put theires on articles that wereuced by ghost writers hired bydrug companies. That, saysley and others, deliberatelyeads doctors and consumersneed information in medicalals to be unbiased and truthful.rassley has asked the Nationaltutes of Health (NIH), theal agency that funds much of

medical research in the U.S., todown on such practices. But

NIH says it is the universitiesonsibility to supervise theirssors.he universities say it is theessors responsibility; so iny cases nothing gets donept finger pointing.

the meantime, said Grassley,

there is a growing mistrust ofmedical research. That view wasconfirmed by another recent studyreported in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association.

It said nearly 11 percent of thearticles appearing in the NewEngland Journal of Medicine in

2008 were produced by ghostwriters who were paid by drugcompanies. Nearly 8 percent of thearticles appearing in the Journal ofthe American Medical Associationwere by ghost writers; and so werenearly 8 percent in the Britishjournal Lancet.

In a survey of more than 600article writers, about 8 percent ofthem admitted that ghost writers hadcontributed to their articles.

Ginny Barbour, editor of thejournal of the Public Library of

Science (PLoS Medicine), told theNew York Times, I feel that wevebasically been lied to by authors.

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ors Note: Greeley historian

el E. Johnson wrote the

wing story years ago.)

azel Johnson

e famous bucking horseMidnight was acquired bye Elliott of Greeley in 1928.lliott toured the U.S. and

moted the first rodeo inison Square Garden. He alsohis rodeo to London.

Midnight was a real crowdser and, as a tricky buckinge, threw some of the cowboyts. People at Cheyennetier Days and the Denverk Show always lookedard to seeing him.ome rated him the bestking horse the world hadwn. One rodeo cowboy

He was an ornery cuss,0 pounds of coiled steel

ng with all of the feints andes, plus the explosiveness

of dynamite.While Midnight was said never

to have been ridden, the statementwasnt quite accurate. According toGuy Elliott of Greeley, he wasridden twicebut under suspiciouscircumstances which no one everexplained.

After Midnights last rodeo,Vern Elliott put him to pasture onthe St. Vrain Ranch near Greeleywhere he roamed free for severalyears until his death. Elliott buriedhim on the ranch, encircled thegrave with a rail fence and had amarker erected.

In 1966 the Cowboy Hall ofFame at Oklahoma City exhumedMidnights bones and took themthere for burial. Dean Krakel, awestern historian formerly of Aultand director of the Cowboy Hallof Fame, was in charge of theexhumation.

Some people do not know that

this famous horse was from WeldCounty.

Cowboy on a bronc (not Midnight). Hazel Johnson Collection.

Famous Broncfrom Greeley


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cott Burnsncial Writer

have been trying to determine myolios expenses without success. I

a variable annuity with foural funds. I also have six stock

a couple of bond funds, corpo-bonds, a CD and a few corporates. All are managed by a broker

makes recommendations,es transactions and provides an

me check each month.here are fees, management

nses, etc., associated with eachy within the portfolio and agement fee from the broker. How

I discover all the various fees

levied on my portfolio

: Sadly, there is no Truth inting Expenses law. Personally,ke to see a law that requiredmonthly statement to contain a

of all expenses as a percent ofin the account.

suggest that you make a formalst to your broker for a tally ofverage annual expense for your

Find Outnvestment Costs

variable annuity and the expenseratios on your stock and bond mutualfunds. This will still be incompletesince it wont include the commis-sions or house spreads on your bond

and CD purchases. Nor will it includehis management fee if there is one.

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unshine and Sorrowill Lambdin

ne of the haunting pioneertories in northern Coloradoved a beautiful 16-year-old girldied mysteriously while living

he mountains west of Fortns.

a Louise McNally came from acted family of early settlers.parents, Nicolas and Jemimaally, had come to Fort Collins78 with their eleven children.icolas was a lumberman previ-

y from Canada and Michigan.moved his family to a farm near

ue, north of Fort Collins, butof the mining boom at Teller

and decided to move there, inmountains southeast of Walden.ust a week before the move,young son, Freddie, died. As if

werent enough, the family hadicult time getting to Teller City.

ok them seven days in a two-d buggy, traveling in a storm,

ping on the ground on Deads Hill and elsewhere.ne night they found a deserted

n with a dirt floor. The cabin

wasnt locked, so they built a fire toget warm and cooked a meal ofbeaver tail stew.

Then one of their horses died.They had to walk miles to get astage that could take them the rest ofthe way.

Idas father homesteaded 160

acres and built a log cabin near TellerCity. The family was hard-workingand religious, and gained the respectof other settlers in the area.

Life began to look better. In 1883,when Idas older sister Anna marriedand had a child, Ida went to live withher to help care for the baby.

Ida was almost 16, a healthy,pretty girl enjoying the summersunshine in a beautiful mountainsetting. Life was just unfolding forher.

She walked along sparkling

mountain streams, stood surroundedby wildflowers and listened to thebreeze softly moving through thesweet scented pine trees. Life was pulling her toward womanhood,making her strong and beautiful.

Then everything changed. Idadiscovered she was pregnant. She

was unmarried and didnt knowwhat to do. She had a strong reli-gious background and becameconfused.

Sadly, she made a decision totake her own life.

No one knows who her lover was

or exactly how she ended her life.Some said she may have drunk lyeand endured several agonizing daysbefore her death on August 11, 1883.

A local newspaper did not givedetails, but said: The sudden deathof Miss Ida McNally, a charmingand very intelligent lady who was

well known in this vicinipainful surprise to many

Years later, Fort CoRose Brinks found a picOn the back of it, Ida hadhave engaged the sun tme.

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Most Americans need vitamin

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o get enough, say researchers.would need to get 15 to 30

tes of daily sunlight exposure

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ome researchers recommend at200 international units a day

eople below age 50; 400 unitshose 50 to 70; and at least 600

s for those over 70. Other

archers recommend higher

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Vitamin D might also help peopleavoid cancer, according to a report in

the Annals of Epidemiology.Researchers said a lack of vitamin D

might disrupt activity between cells

that is necessary to healthy cell life.That could allow cancer cells to take

over healthy cells.The first event in cancer is loss

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November 2009 The Senior Voice

From Water Hole to Den of Seggy Hunt

s Vegas got its name from thepanish explorers who first

e to the area in 1829. Theyd it the meadows for the

n meadows fed by a naturalr reserve in the middle of thert.

1843 Capt. John C. Fremont,ng heard of a great river inegion, entered the desert basinonduct the first official

ping of what would becomeada.

the mid-1800s, a migrationormons had replaced the orig-Spanish residents, but by 1887Mormons were also gone. In

a man named William Clarkned to build a railroad line

ween Los Angeles and Salte City using the artesiangs at Las Vegas.lark decided not to build thead and auctioned off his landwn sites, netting $265,000.

People who bought those townsites later made huge profits when,in 1930, the federal governmentdecided to build Hoover Damnearby.

That project put Las Vegas onthe map, and local businesses prof-ited greatly from the 5,000 menworking on the dam for five years.Then in 1931 the state legislatureestablished legalized gambling in

Nevada, and the town sites sold byClark in 1905 were worth hugesums as casinos and hotels beganspringing up on them.

One of the most sensationalevents in the development of LasVegas was the 1946 building of thePink Flamingo by Bugsy Siegeland Meyer Lansky, who skimmedhuge profits from bootlegging andgambling operations. The PinkFlamingo was the forerunner of allthe later large casinos, but Siegelmet a violent death before he livedlong enough to enjoy much of hismoney.

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The Fort Collins Sugar Factorywas built in 1903 and wouldhave been 106 years old now had itnot been demolished in the 1990s.

In 1904 the stockholders soldthe factory to the Great Western

Sugar Company, which ownedbeet factories in Loveland, Greeleyand other places.

The original building was twostories with walls made of threelayers of red brick. The tall smoke-stack could be seen for miles. The

plant could process 1,200 tons ofbeets a day.

The population of Fort Collinsmore than doubled when work

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began in beet fields factory. In the spring anschools had beet vacchildren would work on

For years, the sugawas prosperous, but in

farming economy was The factory needed rwas simply shut down.

In 1994 the city of Fpurchased a 32-acre paformer factory and renovthe buildings for the strment, which still standsStreet and Vine Drive

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Loveland Museum evoke what lifewas like around the turn of thecentury. The Victorian roomdisplays include several Osborn

belongings such as a bralier and paintings.

Later members of tfamily, Otto and Cora, doriginal Osborn family hthe City of Lovelanmuseum, which was buil

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Gallery was built on the home-d site of the W.B. Osborny, and the museum stands as

bute to those pioneers of theThompson Valley.he Osborns were among theest settlers in the valley,ing in l86l. William Osbornhis wife, Margaret, built thehouse in the town. He was alsorst judge in Larimer County.

their home, the first churchice in Larimer County was

in l863. Judge Osbornrmed the first marriage cere-

y in the county when Andrews and the woman he wantedarry came to his home in a

oveland Pioneers:W.B. Osborn Family

covered wagon drawn by oxen.In l862 Osborn bought a half

bushel of wheat, a half bushel of

oats and a half bushel of rye. He planted these on his farm,becoming the first in the county toplant wheat. He cut and haulednative grass hay to Blackhawk andCentral City where he sold it tomining companies for their live-stock.

Osborns love for farming wasshared by his great grandson Miloand his wife Madalyn. Their homewas built just a stones throw fromthe site of the original Osborn log

cabin erected in l862.The Osborn farm was cited as

the piece of land in Coloradoowned the longest by one family.

The historical exhibits at the

W.B. Osborn was born in 1824 and came to Loveland in

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aughter Is the Best Medicinewoman saw a beautiful parrot in

pet shop, and it was for sale for$25. She asked the manager,

y is the parrot so cheap?t was owned by a woman who

brothel, said the manager.etimes it says surprising things.

Bad things?No, just unusual things.he bought it and took it home.

evening her husband came homework, walked in and the parrot

Hi, George.

o you know this guy?wanted to get a gift for my

s birthday; so I bought her a little

et-size tazer stun gun.She was at work when I sat at

and decided to test it. I put twobatteries in it. The instructions

a one-second burst would shocksailant. A two-second burst

d cause muscle spasms. A three-d burst would leave an assailanting on the ground like a fish out

ter.wanted to try it on a flesh-and-

object, and I looked at our cat

Gracie. How much could the littlefive-inch gun do with only two AAA

batteries in it?Gracie much have read my mind.

She gave me a look that said, Dontdo it, stupid! and left the room.

I decided, what the heck, Id try a

short one-second burst on myselfwhile standing at the kitchen counter.

I pointed it at my leg and pulled thetrigger.

BAM!! HOLY MOSES!! It was aweapon of mass destruction!

I hit the floor like a ton of bricks,my body convulsing uncontrollably,writhing and jumping in spasms. I

saw a blue flash bounce around theroom. It hit the microwave and came

back at me. I couldnt get out of theway.

BAM!!

When I woke up, my body wassoaking wet. My nipples were on fire.I couldnt move, and I felt myeyeballs rolling around. I heard Gracie

making high, screeching sounds Idnever heard before.

When I was finally able to get upinto a chair, my bottom lip felt like it

weighed 50 pounds. I had no controlover the drooling.

I dont know how long I sat there.My wife finally came home and

helped me into bed, laughing her headoff.

She never uses the thingexcept

to threaten me.

Two sisters owned a ranch butwere in financial trouble. They needed

to buy a bull to breed their stock.

One sister saw an ad fosaid, Ill go see if its wh

If it is, Ill send a telegrabring the truck to get him.

She paid for the bull benough money left to send

telegram. She told the op

say comfortable.The operator asked, Hknow what that means?

Shes blonde. She

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