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By Jeff ThomasSpecial to the Tribune

There’s a place, a tiny place, just south of Monu-ment where the distance between aviation’s earliest days and its future is so small you can see both at the same time.

From overhead comes the steady drone of low-fl ying Air Force Academy trainer planes. Tomorrow’s pilots. Some will go on to fl y jets that link to satellites and land themselves.

Underfoot is a forlorn, weedy patch of cracked concrete, a mere 10 feet square. It is what remains of a 40-foot tower that, nearly a century ago, pilots used as a visual marker to guide them across Colorado, be-cause their eyes were the most advanced navigation equipment of the day.

Today, all that remains is the weather-worn con-crete and the bent-over stubs of the four steel tower legs that were cut from the base many years ago. It sits about 150 feet north of the pavement of the Inter-quest Parkway on-ramp to northbound Interstate 25 – unmarked, masked by fi eld grass and largely invis-ible to passing motorists.

When the tower was last visited by government surveyors in 1953, the academy’s Colorado Springs campus existed only on blueprints, and I-25 did not

See Beacon Lite on Page 8

Slab of cracked concrete in weedy fi eld hints at area’s aviation history

To learn more about Colorado’s aviation his-tory, visit: coloradoairporthistory.com/more history.htm

Board meets Feb. 16 due to holiday

By Bill [email protected]

Efforts by Monument staff to dra-matically increase the price of water, the fi rst major rate adjustment in 20 years, will again come before the Board of Trustees when it reconvenes Tues-day, Feb. 16.

Action was postponed Jan. 19 after complaints from two businessmen and members of the public during a public hearing on the rates. Trustees delayed action citing “new information pre-sented” during testimony. And some trustees wanted the staff to give more public notice regarding the new rates.

Town Manager Chris Lowe said last week the rates he’ll be bringing back to the trustees will look familiar.

“We do not propose a change to what we previously proposed,” Lowe said of the new rate structure he un-veiled to the board at its Jan. 4 meeting.

“What we did in the interim was we posted three different documents on the town website,” Lowe said. “We showed a sample bill so residents could calculate their own rate. And we sent out a fl ier with the proposed rates and a sample calculation.”

But there are no changes to his plan to impose new rates that would cause the cost of water for average house-holds to jump 50 percent this year and be followed by 8 percent rate increases each year until 2021.

“We increased our outreach efforts,” Lowe said. “We took steps to make sure folks understood the proposed rates.”

Over the six-year plan, the cost of water would double for the 1,000 cus-tomers - residential and businesses - on the west side of Interstate 25 served by the municipal water utility. East-side Monument residents and businesses are served by other water districts.

Under Lowe’s plan, people using 3,000 gallons of water or less a month

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Steep water rate increase back before Trustees

SnowpocalypseTraffi c was halted at Baptist Road and the I-25 onramp by area police when blowing snow had to be cleared by a team of snow plows at a 3 p.m. Tuesday. See story on page 11/Photo by Rob Carrigan


Monument’s response last fall to a proposed methadone treatment facil-ity downtown infl uenced at least three people to run for the Board of Trustees in the April 5 election.

Joining Greg Coopman, leader of the No Methadone in Monument nonprof-it group, as methadone clinic-inspired candidates are software engineer Tim Allen and Shea Medlicott, who volun-teered for the fi ve-member Board of Adjustment last August before its criti-cal appeal hearing of the methadone facility’s zoning.

The Board of Adjustment voted 5-0 to overturn the zoning approval for the methadone facility, ruling that it didn’t meet the defi nition of “clinic.”

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Voters in the April 5 mail-ballot election will choose candidates to fi ll four seats on Monument’s Board of Trustees.

If you’re not registered to vote, you can pick up a form from Town Hall, visit its website, or register in person at the Coun-ty Clerk and Records offi ce in Colorado Springs.

To register, you must prove you’ve lived in Colorado for at least 22 days prior to the election. You can register right up to elec-tion day.

Registered voters will receive a bal-lot by mail at the address on fi le with the town. Ballots will be mailed no later than March 21, and can be turned into the ballot box inside Town Hall. Don’t use the white box outside. It is for county, state and na-tional elections, only.

Town Hall will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on election day for voters to drop off their ballots.

For more information, contact the Town Clerk’s offi ce at 481-2954.

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SportsPostseason begins with state swim and dive meets

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proaching, El Paso County offi cials want to know where best to locate vot-er registration and polling places and is seeking suggestions from the public.

Maybe it’s a business, school, church, or community center. Let county elections manager Liz Olson know by emailing her the name, ad-dress and contact informatino, if you have it, to [email protected]. Or you can call her at 520-6222.

“Finding suitable (locations) is an important part of our 2016 presiden-tial election preparations,” said Chuck Broerman, El Paso County Clerk and

Recorder. “We would like your help identifying up to 25 ... locations within the county to use for this November’s election.

“Finding the right ... locations is cru-cial.”

Though Colorado conducts mail-ballot elections, state law requires the Clerk and Recorder to open a certain number of remote offi ces where resi-dents can register to vote, update their registration, get a replacement ballot, drop off their completed ballots or ac-tually cast a ballot in person.

The remote locations are called Voter Service and Polling Centers. The county plans to open its centers in two phases on Oct. 24 and Nov. 7.

El Paso County clerk seeks input on voter polling centers

Thursday, Feb. 11What: “Cheyenne Mountain at 50: Military Icon, Engineering Marvel” - lecture and exhibit openingWhen: 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11Where: Western Museum of Mining and Industry, 225 North Gate Blvd., Colorado SpringsCost: Free with RSVPInfo: RSVP to Casey Pearce, 488-0880

Friday, Feb. 12What: Concert by singer/songwriter Cheryl WheelerWhen: 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 12Where: Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, 304 Highway 105, Palmer LakeCost: $20 members/ $22 non-members in advanceInfo: www.TriLakesArts.org or call 719-471-0475.

Saturday, Feb. 13What: 10th annual District 38 Chess Tournament for K-12 school studentsWhen: 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 13Where: Lewis-Palmer Elementary School, 1315 Lake Woodmoor Dr., MonumentCost: Free to all students; food for saleContact: Steve Waldman, 488-9887 or [email protected]

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Last August, amid the super-heated debate over a proposed methadone clinic in downtown across from Lim-bach Park, the Board of Trustees enact-ed a six-month moratorium on all new “clinics” in Monument.

The decision was made Aug. 24, just days after the Board of Adjust-ment dramatically voted unanimously to overturn zoning approval for the methadone clinic, proposed by Colo-nial Management Group of Orlando, Fla.

At issue was the defi nition of “clinic” as it relates to town zoning codes and whether a methadone facility quali-fi ed. Opponents say Colonial’s pro-posed facility would be nothing more than a dispensary of drugs used to treat people addicted to heroin and painkillers and would not be a place of medical care.

The moratorium was designed to give town staff time to revise zoning codes to defi ne “clinics” and create rules where methadone facilities can be located.

In recent weeks, members of the No Methadone in Monument group have questioned whether any progress has been made on the new zoning codes, suggesting all their work securing a moratorium might be for naught if the moratorium is allowed to expire.

That suggestion angers Town Man-ager Chris Lowe.

“The moratorium is in place un-til Feb. 25,” Lowe said last week when asked about progress on zoning codes.

“The town staff, its consultant and

its attorney have worked diligently and there will be a strategy in place. That’s all I’m going to say.”

He gave a similarly terse response in December when allegations fi rst sur-faced from Greg Coopman, one of the leaders of the No Methadone group and now a candidate for the Board of Trustees.

In fact, a glance at town spending documents shows it paid a Denver law fi rm $5,135 in November, alone, for work researching town zoning, studying maps and codes and drafting memos regarding revisions to land-use codes.

The moratorium was the climax to months of angry public debate, packed meetings and open confl ict between trustees and an outraged public group that rose up on opposition to a metha-done clinic, which they dubbed a dan-gerous addition to downtown and its proximity to parks and schools.

Led by Trustee Jeff Bornstein, the moratorium was enacted in an emer-gency meeting of the board to prevent Colonial or any other company from requesting a permit for a “clinic” based on existing zoning.

Opponents wanted town zoning rules rewritten to properly defi ne “clin-ics” and restrict methadone facilities to non-residential neighborhoods. Meth-adone treatment facilities are a consti-tutionally protected land use and can’t simply be banned from a community, experts say.

Towns can only prevent a facil-ity from opening in an area trustees deemed at particular risk from a clinic, such as near schools, churches and parks.

Manager vows Monument will be ready when moratorium expires

Tri-Lakes area realtor Jack Beuse was named the 2015 Realtor of the year by the Pikes Peak Asso-ciation of Real-tors recently.

Beuse has resided in the Colorado Springs area since 1990. He, his wife Diane, and their family, live in northern El Paso County where he has been active in supporting District 20 schools.

He has served on the Board of Directors for the Gleneagle Civic Association, and was Chair of the Pikes Peak Association of Realtors in 2013/2014.

Previously, he served as Chair of Government Affairs and was also Chair of the Colorado Association of Realtors® Legislative Policy Commit-tee for two years. Jack was honored by the Pikes Peak Association by being awarded the 2015 Realtor of the Year.

During 2011, he won the presti-gious Political Service Award from the Colorado Association of Realtors for

his work helping to protect private property rights. He is also a Vice Chair with the El Paso County Housing Au-thority.

He is currently active with Sertoma International.

Prior to pursuing his current career in real estate, Beuse successfully man-aged Longs Drug store in Colorado Springs where he spent much of his time training and motivating his em-ployees. He was with the company for 32 years, and understood all aspects of the retail trade. He has great respect from his former employees, and a won-derful rapport with his numerous cus-tomers.

Beuse actively supported many community events, including Juvenile Diabetes, Cystic Fibrosis, the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo, and the Colorado Springs Air Show. He is a Certifi ed International Property Specialist, and a member of the International Consor-tium of Real Estate Associations. He is Transnational Referral Certifi ed. He is also a Certifi ed Residential Specialist, a Master of Real Estate, a Graduate of Re-altor’s Institute, a Certifi ed Distressed Property Expert and an e-PRO. He is also a member of the Women’s Council of Realtors®.

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Kneader’s Bakery and Café, a Utah-based restaurant chain known for made-from-scratch breads, paster-ies, slow-roasted turkey, sandwiches, soups, salads and more, is coming to northern El Paso County.

The new store is located at 13482 Bass Pro Drive, off North Gate Boule-vard, and will have its grand opening on Jan. 12, said Trista Aamodt, owner of the franchise.

“After the success we experienced

with our first location in Colorado Springs, we were thrilled to find the lo-cation in the Monument area,” Aamodt said in an email.

“We think the Monument commu-nity will benefit greatly from not only our incredible bakery, but the chari-table contributions we will be making in the area.”

James Worthington, CEO of Knead-ers Bakery and Café and son of the original founders, explained that each Kneader’s is designed to make custom-ers feel like they are coming home, or taking a trip to grandma’s house. And though it is a growing chain with

stores in five Western states, Worthing-ton said franchisees are not absentee business owners leaving their stores to managers.

He said Kneaders requires their op-erators to be at the store, interacting with the customers and preserving the home-like feel of each store.

“That’s something that’s important to us, that our stores and operators be involved in the community,” he said.

That’s the case with Aamodt, whose store is the chain’s eighth in Colorado.

“Kneaders franchise model is unique because they require that owner- operators are working in their location every day to oversee processes and procedures and ensure that the Kneaders brand is well represented,”

Aamodt said. For the grand opening, Aamodt

explained there will be free French toast meals for the first 100 custom-ers on both Friday and Saturday. Col-leen Worthington, a co-founder of Kneaders, will also be attending the event.

The new store will also feature a drive-through window and retail shop where you can buy gift baskets and home décor. Valentine’s gifts will also be available to include heart shaped sugar cookies and chocolate strawber-ries.

The store’s hours will be 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday. It will be closed on Sundays. Prices range anywhere from $2 to $10 with pies around $15.

Trista Aamodt, Owner/Operator of Northgate Kneaders shows off the fireplace located in the center of the restaurant.

Kneaders brings made-from-scratch breads, hospitality to new location

Kneader’s patrons will be welcomed by fresh baked pastries and Easter decor when entering the restaurant on Feb. 12. /Photos by Evan Musick

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I really don’t understand this, but maybe the baseball diamond is more circular than we think — or it is truly a game of a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.

I thought about that awhile back, when I ran into Rick “Goose” Gossage while walking my dogs. He was out jogging, but said “Hello.”

I thought about legacy, coincidence, high-pow-ered names and old-time baseball. I didn’t have my Yankee hat on, and the dogs didn’t recognize him. Or if they did, they didn’t realize he was in the Base-ball Hall of Fame. And nobody really remembers who was in the 1916 World Series, almost a hundred years ago.

A hundred years ago, the 1916 Monument base-ball team had a wonderful season. They won the El Paso County Championship that year, which was quite a feat, as they played mostly teams from larger areas in the Colorado Springs area.

“In those days, the team had to make their own expenses, and there was no charge for the games. The team gave dances, and Hagedorn family or-chestra furnished the music. This money was used to buy the team’s uniforms. Dr. McConnell always bought balls for them,” wrote historian Lucille Lavellett.

Her brother, George Hagedorn first organized the town’s baseball team in 1914. Along with George, the players of that early team were Dan Davidson, Bill Connell, Bud Connell, Tom Connell, Roy Gaunt, Jack Roser, Bryan Hagedorn, Marion Hagedorn, Wilbur Fulker and Iven Fulker was manager.

So much for dropping names, and talking base-ball, and 100-year-old history.

Long before the Yankees were strong, Carrigan was a household name in Boston, Maine and all over New England.

Bill “Rough” Carrigan was “deadball era” catcher and played 10 seasons for the Boston Red Sox. In the

middle of the season in 1913, he replaced defending World Series manager Jake Stahl as a player man-ager. Later, he returned as Boston’s manager in 1927 and stayed until 1929.

Carrigan was fairly small for major league base-ball, only about 5 foot, 9 inches, and weighed about 175 pounds.

“In the spring of 1906, Carrigan was signed to a Red Sox contract by Charles Taylor, the father of Red Sox owner John I. Taylor. Carrigan joined the strug-gling Red Sox directly in the middle of the season, immediately catching the likes of Bill Dinneen and Cy Young,” according to Mark Amour, for the SABR Baseball Biography Project.

The next few seasons established him as a reliable

contributor on the field and in the box. “In July 1913, the Red Sox were grappling with a

series of injuries, fighting among themselves, and limping along in fifth place. Team president Jimmy McAleer fired manager Jake Stahl just months after his World Series triumph, and replaced him with his 29-year-old catcher. Carrigan liked Stahl, as did most of the team, and was reluctant to take charge of a team filled with veterans, many of whom were just as qualified for the job as he. McAleer persuad-ed Carrigan to take it. The Red Sox were a team frac-tured along religious lines, as Protestants like Tris Speaker, Joe Wood, and Harry Hooper often crossed swords with the Catholics on the team, including Carrigan,” says Amour.

“Smoking Joe” Wood began his baseball career on town teams in the Colorado San Juans, playing for Ouray teams in Telluride, Rico and Silverton, before his outstanding major league run.

“The well-mannered Carrigan earned the nick-name ‘Rough’ for the way he played. He was a well-respected handler of pitchers, and had a fair throw-ing arm, but it was his plate blocking that caused Chicago White Sox manager Nixey Callahan to say: ‘You might as well try to move a stone wall.’ On May 17, 1909, he engaged in a famous brawl with the Ti-gers’ George Moriarty after a collision at home plate, while their teammates stood and watched. He had a fight with Sam Crawford a couple of years later, and maintained a reputation as someone who would not back down from a confrontation,” according to Amour.

After he replaced Stahl as manager, he led Boston to a second-place finish in 1914 and then, two world championships in 1915 and 1916, stacking up an 8-2 record as a manager in World Series play. Until Terry Francona duplicated the feat in 2007, he was the only manager to have won two World Series titles with Boston. Babe Ruth called Carrigan the best manager he ever played for.

“The most important event of the 1914 season was the purchase, at Carrigan’s urging, of pitchers Ernie Shore and Babe Ruth from Baltimore of the In-ternational League. Although Ruth gave his skipper a lot of credit for his development as a player, Car-rigan was humble in his own assessment: ‘Nobody could have made Ruth the great pitcher and great hitter he was but himself. He made himself with the aid of his God-given talents.’ Old Rough did allow that his protégé needed quite a bit of discipline, and Carrigan was there to provide it, even rooming with Ruth for a time. Carrigan caught Ruth in his pitching debut, on July 11,” wrote Amour.

“In early September 1916, Carrigan announced that he would be leaving baseball at the end of the season. He had actually wanted to quit after the 1915 Series, and had so told owner Joe Lannin, but his owner talked him into the one additional

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Baseball diamond is more circular than we think

Cy Young, Jake Stahl, Bill Carrigan and Michael T. McGreevey, Boston Red Sox Spring Training, 1912./Courtesy MLB

1916 Monument Championship baseball team: Left to right, Roy Guant, Jack Roser, Wilber Fulker, unknown, unknown, George Hagedorn, the three Connell brothers, and Iven Fulker, Manager./ Courtesy Lucretia Vaile Musuem

Babe Ruth, Jack Barry, Bill Carrigan, and Del Gainer of the Boston Red Sox in 1916./Courtesy MLB


She had always been steady, this darling wife of mine, a woman not easily rattled, a tough one to be sure. A beacon of light piercing the darkness. A pillar.

But it had been snowing hard for three days and nights and she no longer laughed at my best jokes, responding now with this: “Gee, that was funny . . . the first four times you told it.”

Yup, despite having Mr. Perfect at her side non-stop, 24 hours a day, as the snow piled up and trapped us in our home, Susie had surely begun to lose her mind.

First, before she lost her sense of humor, it was the loud snorting sounds bursting from her nose. The window-rattling noises seemed to indicate that ei-ther A) she was getting the flu or B) a screech owl was nesting inside her snout.

I asked her, nicely, to please stop.“Stop what? Breathing?” she shot back, claiming

there was hardly any sound at all emanating from her nose. She had apparently even trained our two cats to ignore the freight train-like nose whistles. Both cats remained sound asleep beside her on the couch.

A moment later, startled by the doorbell, I bolted to my feet and headed for the door. When I got there, the front porch was empty. There was nobody at the door.

My wife, slowly sinking into craziness brought on by the relentless blizzard and cabin fever, laughed a maniacal laugh.

“Probably the same guy you thought rang the doorbell and ran away the other 15 times today,” she said.

That was the clearest sign yet that she was losing it. Because whoever was ringing the bell and running off into the woods – somehow without leaving any foot-prints in the fresh snow – had done it some 30 times that day, not 15.

Only once had I caught a glimpse of the doorbell prankster, crouched low behind a tree. I bellowed: “There he is! There he is!” and my wife loped over to the window, looked out, sighed loudly and said it was a rabbit.

Her observation made me laugh so hard the luna-tic hiding behind the tree got scared – judging by the way his ears went up and the way he hopped into a thorn bush. (He was wearing a brown coat with what I’d describe as a white patch of something sewn onto the rear-end area.)

My wife’s condition worsened as nightfall ap-proached and the blizzard raged. At dinner she insist-ed, over and over, that I was eating minestrone soup with a steak knife.

I ignored her, not wanting a confrontation with a whacko, and quietly finished my bowl of soup – which took three hours and 20 minutes, not count-ing the first-aid required after I somehow sliced my thumb open with the spoon.

As midnight approached on that third snowy night, my wife, bless her heart, tried to convince me that I’d been outside shoveling without wearing any pants. I would have been more alarmed at her nonsense but I was busy soaking my cold, red legs in a warm bath.

Later, after she had suggested several times that I was “going bonkers,” she said I should try to get some sleep.

Right. So the maniac in the brown coat with the white rump patch could hop up the front steps. Again.

Blizzard infects Tosches’ wife with nasty case of cabin fever

ROCKY MOUNTAIN RICH

Rich Tosches

Last week was huge in the lives of many of our re-gion’s high school students and their families.

It was a week many prep student-athletes signed letters declaring their intentions to play football or other sports in college.

In our Sports section, we have a list of some of the Tri-Lakes area students who committed to college. Even if you don’t care for sports, I recommend you give the list a look. I believe you’ll see many of these same names in future newspaper (webpaper?) stories as they go on to become leaders in their communities and in their chosen professions.

Name a sport and there’s a student on the list: foot-ball, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, track, cross country and diving. Often these kids played more than one sport, or they were involved in other extra-curricular activities throughout high school.

In my experience, kids who play high school and college sports are high-achievers whose work-ethic, drive and ambition will take them far when their playing days are long over.

Kids who engage in extra-curriculars — debate and drama, marching band and symphony, sports — usually have higher grade-point averages, lower ab-sentee rates, fewer disciplinary problems and above-average graduation rates than their classroom-only peers, studies show.

Don’t believe me? Research amassed by the Na-tional Federation of State High School Associations shows participation in high school activities often

leads to success in college and adulthood.Kids involved in high school activities are less

likely to use illegal drugs or become teen parents, ac-cording to the research.

These kids are more likely to become adults who vote, volunteer and succeed in business.

I’d say those are good reasons to celebrate their signings. It’s a major achievement by the students, representing years of intense work.

But they didn’t do it alone.Few college signings could be accomplished with-

out countless hours of help and encouragement from the student-athlete’s parents, as well as lots of nurtur-ing by their teachers and coaches along the way.

We’re talking about parents who give up evenings relaxing in front of the boob tube to sit and watch soccer practice, or who awake at 0-dark-30 to schlep a kid and a bag of skates and hockey sticks to the ice rink where they sit in the cold during practice.

Often they pile up miles and miles on their cars

getting to far-flung games with club teams or just to practice in Denver or Colorado Springs.

I know. I’ve been there. And I’m still there. I was lucky enough to watch my daughter, Anna,

play in the marching band, the symphony and the honor guard during her high school and college years. I know how her life was enriched by her experiences, which led her to coveted roles for three summers at the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur and later a career with the Walt Disney Co. after college gradu-ation.

My oldest boy, Peter, played high school soccer, basketball and football and just completed his senior season on scholarship as goalkeeper for the Universi-ty of Colorado at Colorado Springs soccer team. (The Mountain Lions were 8-1 with Peter in goal last sea-son! Pardon my bragging.)

And my youngest, Ben, is a competitive air rifle shooter for USA Shooting’s National Training Center Shooting Club Juniors.

The kids gain priceless experiences from their par-ticipation.

They gain confidence and learn self-control. They learn to overcome adversity, cope with defeat and ac-cept coaching and criticism. And they learn the im-portance of teamwork.

So join me in saluting these students, their parents, teachers and coaches. Together, they are combining to give us future leaders and giving us fun teams to cheer for along the way.

PIKES PEAK BILL

Bill [email protected]

College signing day a big deal in lives of students, families

Continued from Previous Pagecampaign. Carrigan later wrote: ‘I had become fed up on being away from home from February to October. I was in my thirties, was married and had an infant daughter. I wanted to spend more time with my family than baseball would allow.’ He retired to his hometown of Lewiston and embarked on careers in real estate (as co-owner of several movie theaters in New Eng-land) and banking. A few years later he sold his theaters for a substantial profit and became a wealthy man.”

He returned home to his banking career, eventually becoming president of People’s Savings Bank in Maine. In 1946 he was named to the Honor Roll in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1968 was named to Holy Cross College’s Hall of Fame, and in 2004 named to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame. “Rough Bill” Carrigan passed away in a Lewiston, Maine, hospital in 1969 at the age of 85.

Not too many folks probably re-member Carrigan’s Red Sox defeated the Brooklyn Robins in five games to win the World Series in 1916.

Just a few years before, on Aug. 14,

1909, in the area known at the time as the town of Husted, (which was near my house and the North Gate of the Air Force Academy) unfortunately was the site of a terrible rail accident.

“Nine persons are dead, and others are expected to die; between forty and fifty are injured; three engines are in the ditch; two baggage cars, including the contents, are smashed to kindling wood, and several passenger coaches are badly damaged as the result of a head-on collision between east bound passenger train No. 8, and westbound passenger No. 1, on the Denver & Rio Grande, near Husted, thirteen miles north of this city, at 10:25 a. m. today. The wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders, it is said.”

Reports from papers all over the na-tion carried the dispatches.

As No. 8 drew into Husted about forty miles an hour, the crew of the engine saw a light engine standing on the switch north of the station.

“Mistaking the engine for the sec-ond section of No. 1, the crew did not stop, and went through the station as fast as the two engines could draw

the thirteen heavily laden coaches. As soon as the train got out of the station, the engineer of the first engine of No. 8 saw another train coming slowly down the incline. He slammed on the air brakes, and the emergency brakes, and then shouted to the other mem-bers of the two crews to jump. Before they had time to jump, No. 3 had rammed No. 1 so hard that all three engines lay in the ditch,” according to the Nebraska State Journal at the time.

Wilbur F. Fulker and his brother Iven were passengers on the south-bound train out of Monument in-volved in the collision. Wilbur took a series of photographs with a new camera using that famously chroni-cled the accident. Wilbur’s son, also Wilbur, is the tuba-playing inspiration for the Colorado Spring’s landmark “Uncle Wilber’s Fountain” at Acacia Park and longtime teacher and ad-ministrator at the Colorado Deaf and Blind.

“Fireman J. A. Gossage, of train No. 8, was killed as he was firing his engine, and never knew what struck him. The members of the other crew

escaped serious injury by jumping.”The smoker, attached to train No. 8,

was the car in which the people were killed. All those badly injured were in the same car.

Other reports said that J.A. or Jack Gossage, the fireman on the helper engine who lived at Husted and had just waved to his wife as the train passed his home was trapped between the engine and the tender when the collision occurred.

Jack Gossage’s wife continued to work for the railroad for many years afterward as a cook for crews in Hus-ted, and the Gossage name eventu-ally became quite famous for other reasons in Colorado Springs. Jack Gossage is grandfather to Colorado Springs standout and major league baseball hall of famer Rick “Goose” Gossage.

Today, it occurs to me, that legends and names are relative. So much for dropping names.

Our name is written in the dirt alongside the plate.

But the umpire can sweep it away — the next time there is a close call at home.

Baseball


Reader offers kudos to Carrigan for history column

To the Editor,This morning I read your fine piece on Jim Moore.

Jim was my friend, business partner, collaborator and patient. I considered it an honor that he asked me to take over the management of the Monteverde Build-ing upon receiving the news that his illness was ter-minal.

As a side note, it is hard to believe that it was al-most exactly 25 years ago that The Tribune did a fea-ture on me. At the time, my office was in the Chapala Building where I had just received a phone call that I was being recalled into the Air Force as part of opera-tion Desert Storm.

I just about went bankrupt because of it, but in the end it was kind of a blessing. Funny how things work out.

Regards, Bud Gerathy

Reader appreciates Tribune connecting with the community

To the Editor,Great job! As soon as I came to Monument five

years ago, I fell in love with the friendly small town with the colorful history nestled against Mount Her-man.

Your paper helps me connect more with my be-loved community. In the Jan. 27 edition, I read a help-ful article on the almost water rate hike, as well as the regulations on residential pot growing.

I was intrigued and inspired by the active-shooter article. And I thoroughly enjoyed Rob Carrigan’s story on the history of the Chapala building, with its ori-gins as the Higby Mercantile Co.

Loved the before-and-after pictures and the rich stories of the remarkable people behind it -- Gene Higby and Jim Rand Moore. (Give us more of history articles like these!)

I love history, especially the history of our com-munity. And that includes our ongoing history, which

never stops.Thank you for helping us all stay connected to our

heritage and to each other.

Warm regards,John Fornof

Tosches’ column is a pleasure to read; Tri-bune is improved

To the Editor,I remember Rich Tosches’ columns in the Gazette

(Gazelle?) and how disappointed I was when they no longer appeared.

I love Rich’s humor and am really pleased to see his columns again. It’s one of the few things in the paper these days that gives me a good chuckle. Keep it up, Rich!

I also like what you’ve done with the Tribune. It’s much improved.

Best regards,Chuck Loeffler

Letters to the Editor

The city of Woodland Park recently moved an old yellow building from the park down to the U.S. High-way 24 rest area. This building was once Woodland’s railroad station.

It originally sat over where Vectra Bank sits. Not only that, this building was once much larger.

There was a fire in October 1935 which, for the most, part destroyed it. The fire was believed to have been started by a spark from a passing train shortly before midnight on Oct. 30th.

The one-story frame building was originally over 40 feet long with a covered platform waiting area. The Colorado Springs Fire Department even sent up an engine or two with additional water and chemicals.

The Woodland volunteers fought the fire for about 45 minutes. The train believed to have started the fire was on its way to Cripple Creek with empty ore cars for the mines.

The Midland at the time was trying some slow burning lignite coal from a company owned mine near Colorado Springs. The hard-working train left a path of other fires from lignite was still burning as it shot out the smoke stack.

The depot was destroyed, for the most part. The roof and the station end of the building was a to-

tal loss, but a small portion of the baggage end was saved.

From these remains, the railroad’s building de-partment built a new station. The new building had a metal roof, as well as on all the Midland’s buildings along the line. The station at Divide still has its metal roof installed in 1935. I have looked at the wood in the building and you do not really see any scars from the fire.

Only the track maintenance crews used this sta-tion, as there were usually no passengers to or from Woodland in those days. It lasted until the last train in 1949.

It was moved to the park, where it has seen a vari-ety of uses, from a restroom to a thrift shop!

I have been asked if the rest-area building was a railroad station. No, it was built to look like one. But now it has a close neighbor that was the station.

CABOOSE COBWEBSMel McFarland

WP’s railroad depot now resides at highway rest station

Continued from Page 1Medlicott, 44, said

he was running now for one of four seats on the Board of Trust-ees because he was disgusted by the ini-tial response to the community outrage over the methadone facility.

He singled out Mayor Rafael Domin-guez, who repeatedly told residents there was nothing the board could do to block the methadone facility.

“I have been extremely disappointed by the passivity and mindset of the cur-rent board, as embodied by the mayor,” Medlicott said. “It was the authorita-tive, top-down, ‘do-as-we-say’ model that Mayor Dominguez personifies.

“It’s a ‘sit down and shut up’ men-tality and it’s offensive. I find it to be a personal affront to my Libertarian ide-als. That is a horrible place to govern from.”

Dominguez declined to respond to Medlicott’s specific criticisms.

“If he had a backbone, he’d call me and talk to me personally about his criticism,” Dominguez said.

Medlicott, a six-year resident who works as a construction consultant for banks and serves in the Army National Guard, said he felt he needed to run to change the culture.

“As board members, we are repre-sentatives of the people and we need to communicate to people, not at the people,” he said. “This board has done a horrible job at that.”

The lack of communication isn’t limited to the methadone issue. He said a recent proposal to dramatically increase water rates is another exam-ple of lousy communication with the public.

“The government is there to serve the public, protect and grow the qual-ity of life of the community, not dictate it to the public,” said Medlicott. “This board operates from a place of fear in-stead of bringing our community to-gether.”

Medlicott said he is not running on a slate with Coopman or Allen, although they share some of the same criticism of the board.

Allen, 43, has lived in Monument 13 years with his wife and five children.

Serving on the seven-member board would fulfill his desire for community ser-vice.

“I wanted to see if I could be involved in the community,” Allen said. “I’d like to help make deci-sions about things happening here. I feel like it’s a civic duty to try to do what you can to help make the place better.”

Like Medlicott and Coopman, Al-len considers the methadone facil-ity a motivating issue in his candidacy even though he has not attended many meetings or been a community activ-ist.

“I haven’t been very involved up to this point, even attending town hall meetings,” he said. “I’ve been to a few, but not many.

“But I am strongly opposed to hav-ing a methadone clinic in Monument and that I support the core values of (No Methadone in Monument).”

Other important issues to him in-clude “the way businesses are being laid out in our town and the budget.”

Allen said a friend at his church en-couraged him to run for the board.

“I do need to come up to speed on a lot of the issues,” he said. “I will have

my opinion on issues once I’m up to speed.”

Two other newcomers seeking one of the four open seats don’t voice any criticism of the current board or link their candidacies to the methadone is-sue. They are Kevin Sorenson and Don Wilson.

Sorenson, 35, is a computer engineer who moved to Monu-ment with his wife, a former Army nurse, and three kids more than three years ago.

Like Allen, he was encouraged to run by friends including Po-lice Chief Jake Shirk, Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Kaiser and Trustee Jeff Smith, who is leaving the board.

“I never really thought about it,” So-renson said. “It’s not something I ever aspired to. But it’s a good thing to do some sort of public service. You just have to want to do what’s right for the community.”

Sorenson said he has no political or governmental experience. But he said his friends assured him that he’ll quick-ly learn what he needs to serve.

As for “the infamous methadone clinic,” Sorenson said he’s aware of the controversy and that “clinics are need-ed.” But he wasn’t a fan of its proposed location.

“That’s the problem,” he said. “It shouldn’t be near a school or parks.”

Sorenson said the board might ben-efit from new faces.

“Maybe a different perspective might do some good,” he said.

As a resident east of Interstate 25, Sorenson said he won’t be impacted by the proposed water rate increase. But he said the failure to keep rates current points to a problem.

“It shouldn’t have been allowed to happen,” he said, adding that it’s un-fair to continue subsidizing the water utility because it only serves westside residents. “We’re taking funding from other parts of the city to pay for the wa-ter deficit.”

Sorenson said he needs to do more research to develop firm opinions on town issues.

“I’ve never thought of myself being in a public position,” he said. “I’d just like to be a position to do something good.”

Wilson, 40, is a Florida native who moved to Monument with his wife two years ago from Castle Rock. The former Ma-rine is an employee of Douglas County in its building department.

“I think it would be an asset to have a fresh face on the board,” Wilson said. “I’ve never done something like this before. We need somebody on the board who isn’t say-ing ‘It’s always been like this.’ We need a fresh face.”

Wilson said he’d like to see the town delay the water rate increase proposal for further study.

“The water rate increase seems ex-treme,” he said. “I think a little extra work needs to be done.”

And he thinks there was a rush to judgment on the methadone facility.

“I think there were a lot of assump-tions about how it would go without doing research,” he said. “I think there was a lot of prejudgment on the metha-done clinic.”

Also running are three incumbents: John Howe, Jeff Bornstein and Becki Tooley.

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40 Years AgoTri-Lakes TribuneFeb. 12, 1976

Mill levy rates: Property owners in Palmer Lake again in 1976 have the highest combined tax mill levy in El Paso County, narrowly edging out Ci-marron Hills for the costly distinction. Reports show a levy of 104.96 mills in Palmer Lake is 4 mills higher than last year.

The lowest of the county’s large residential areas is Black Forest, where the mill levy is 68.30 for schools, fi re district, parks and recreation, regional library and county taxes. The average mill levy in Monument is 91.96 while Woodmoor’s rate is 81.96.

Scholarship applications: Moun-tain View Electric is accepting applica-tions for a $500 scholarship open to students whose parents are receiving Mountain View Electric service. They must rank in the upper 25 percent of their class and have ACT score of at least 22 or combined SAT score of at least 100.

New job: Bev Miller has joined Van Schaak and Co. as a sales associ-ate. She has yearly sales volume of over $1 million for the last three years.

Art show: Mountain View Electric Association will hold an art show in the Medallion Room of the offi ce in Limon on April 5. Pictures of all kinds, small sculptures, china, paint-ings and pottery will be accepted. Exhibits will be available to view from 8 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. Tues-day-Friday and 7:30-11:00 p.m. on Saturday.

Guest speaker: Father Myers shared

with the Kiwanis Club his knowledge of Abraham Lincoln and the origin of the Gettysburg Address and histori-cal facts of that era. Ray Kolman gave a report on a family who has endured hardships.

Donation: A book written by the children of James E. Abbe and Polly Plott titled “Around the World in Eleven Years,” written in 1936, was donated to Douglas County Library. The family lived in Perry Park during part of that time. Many of the names of people in the area are also mentioned in the book.

New offi cers: John Pitts was elected as president of T.L.B.A. Other offi cers elected were: 1st Vice President Chuck Brooke, 2nd Vice President Mike Rice, Secretary Bob Rush and Treasurer John Ezell.

Test pilot: Capt. Francis C. Gideon Jr., son of retired Air Force Lt. Gen. and Mrs. Francis Gideon, graduated from Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Funeral held: Graveside services were held at Monument Cemetery for Mr. Bradford Harlin at 10 a.m., Jan. 31. Mr. Harlin was a native of Monument born in 1903.

Square dance: A square dance will be held Feb. 28 at Echo Hills in Perry Park. It is sponsored by Perry Park Home Owners Association. Fred Staben of Palmer Lake will call the squares. There will be door prizes. Refreshments will be available through a cash bar. All proceeds will go toward stable improvements. The fee is $1.50 for adults and 50¢ for children.

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Continued from Page 1yet exist at that location. Taking stock of PUEBLO CHEYENNE AIRWAY BCN 5, the surveyors noted:

The station is located about 10 miles north of Colorado Springs and about 7 1/2 miles south of Monument on the crest of a hill. It is a 4-legged steel struc-ture, painted aluminum with a red top. It has a white light with alternate green flasher to the north and south. The ap-proximate overall height is 40 feet.

The point observed upon was the rotating white light.

The records don’t indicate when the tower was taken down.

Twenty years after the Wright broth-ers flew at Kitty Hawk, pilots were find-ing their way from Point A to Point B by keeping their eyes on the ground, using landmarks. In 1919, the Army began lighting bonfires to give pilots land-marks they could see at night. And in the early 1920s, the Postal Service be-gan building a string of electrified tow-ers from coast to coast. Air mail service began in Colorado in 1926 and by 1933, there were 1,500 electric beacons light-ing up 18,000 miles of designated air lanes nationwide, primarily for hauling the mail.

During the day, goggled pilots leaned over the side of their open cockpits to read the numbers painted on the tow-ers as they flew by at speeds up to 100 mph. An arrow painted atop the tower’s adjacent maintenance shed pointed the way. At night, the towers shone a rotating white light just above the ho-rizon. To the pilot’s eye about 1,000 feet above the ground, it registered not as a sweeping arc, but as a steady flash-ing light. One fixed light on the tower pointed to the next beacon along the airway; another pointed the way back to the previous beacon. Some towers – none of them in Colorado – were ac-companied by 40-foot-long concrete arrows poured into the ground – an un-mistakable “go this way” indicator.

The national network of beacons in-cluded at least three in El Paso County, which were among a minimum of 17 spread across Colorado, according to records kept by the National Geodetic Survey. The agency has documented the locations of 1,356 towers that once guided pilots from one airfield to the next across the country. None were placed in Teller County.

On the ground, government me-chanics were assigned a pickup truck and about five beacons apiece. They cleaned the spotlight lenses, changed bulbs and kept the electricity genera-tors filled with diesel fuel.

Two of the towers erected in El Paso

County were part of the Pueblo-Chey-enne Airway. One of those sat where the Interquest interchange on I-25 eventually was built; the other sat 9.5 miles to the north-northwest, on the Palmer Divide.

The tower was long gone by the time Charles and Lucy Farrar bought a 9.7-acre parcel near the divide about 20 years ago, to raise alpacas. Soon enough, however, Charles discovered some chunks of concrete that he fig-ured must have been the foundation of some previous structure.

“I didn’t know what they were for,” he said. “No one told us about it when we bought it.”

A big clue ran the length of one side of his property, a stone’s throw from where the concrete chunks lay: Beacon Lite Road.

“I knew it was Beacon Lite Road. I assumed there was a beacon light somewhere,” he said. “I didn’t realize it was on my property.”

Not until a few years ago, anyway, when a few members of the Colorado Aviation Historical Society showed up at the Farrar’s door.

“We had traveled to that site a cou-ple times,” narrowing down the pos-sibilities, said Brian Richardson, who at the time was the historical society’s director of aviation archeology. His day job is the FAA Safety Program manager for Colorado and Wyoming.

“We told them what we were looking for. They said they’d move the alpaca poop, and we found the four base posts of the tower,” Richardson said.

“They were very impressed,” Farrar said. “They got all excited. It was a re-ally big deal.”

Before Richardson’s group had pin-pointed its foundation on the Farrar spread, the Beacon Lite Road tower had been hoisted away by helicopter.

The Pueblo Historical Aircraft Soci-ety said it now stands outside the Air Museum.

But a June 12, 1980, story in The Tri-bune reported the tower was removed by helicopter and taken to Fort Car-son. It was later reconstructed and de-stroyed by plastic explosives, according to the story. The event was filmed by a movie production crew and used in a British film about J. Robert Oppen-heimer, the father of the atomic bomb.

The museum director said there is no paperwork documenting the tower’s origins and he conceded it could be an-other tower from along the route.

Its dramatic end, blown up for a scene in a movie, would set it apart from from most of the other beacons, which were lost to simple demolition or crippling vandalism.

El Paso County’s third beacon tower, part of the Albuquerque-Denver air-way, stood on land that in 1985 was covered by a house built on Blossom Field Road in Fountain. The street runs along a modest ridge that overlooks lower-lying land to the west.

A 1930 map of the Pueblo-Cheyenne Airway describes an “intermediate field” – a place to make an emergency

landing between municipal airports – at a location that today is a patch of open ground just south of Home Depot on Jackson Creek Parkway in Monu-ment.

By the 1940s, Richardson said, radio navigation had taken over and beacons across the country were rapidly de-commissioned.

Following World War II and the re-turn of thousands of military-trained pilots, small airfields sprouted na-tionwide and, needing lights of their own, cannibalized much of the beacon equipment that remained, he said.

Richardson and other aviation his-torians have rescued pieces here and there, restoring them and donating them to museums. Today, he said, the only remaining operational beacons are in Montana, serving not as naviga-tional guides but to warn pilots away from flying into canyons at night.

Aside from the old beacon sites and the occasional scraps of their equip-ment that remain, there are 270 aban-doned airfields in Colorado, Rich-ardson said. He and fellow aviation historians track them down and log them for posterity.

“It’s a hobby. A passion,” he said. “It’s such a piece of history that people don’t know about.”

Not even the Air Force Academy ca-dets flying their training planes.

Beacon Lite

An historic beacon light stands atop a tower outside the Pueblo Air Museum. Shawn Kirscht, curator of the Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society, believes the tower stood on the Palmer Divide on the north edge of Monument. But residents say that tower was flown to Fort Carson and destroyed as a prop in a movie around 1980. /Photo courtesy Shawn Kirscht.

This weedy patch of cracked concrete once was the base of a steel tower that held a bea-con light that was part of a series of navigational towers along the Front Range. The tower was about 150 north of the onramp for northbound Interstate 25 at Interquest Parkway. /Photo by Jeff Thomas / special to The Tribune.


By Tribune staff

Terri Hayes, executive direc-tor of the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce, has a new title.

Hayes was re-cently selected as chairwoman of the Southern Colorado Busi-ness Partnership.

Her selection was announced at the Jan. 26, 2016, meeting held at the Col-orado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Also named as officers were: Chair-Elect Dirk Draper, president and chief executive officer of the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance. Secretary/Treasurer Pam Ridler, president and CEO of the Cas-tle Rock Chamber of Commerce.

Ridler is also the immediate past chair.

Member-at-large Jim Cassidy, chief financial officer of the Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Hayes became executive director of the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce in July 2011.

She became involved in chamber after she bought a temporary staffing franchise in Colorado Springs in 2008.

As a business owner, she became a board member with the Southern Colorado Women’s Chamber of Com-merce, an ambassador with the cham-ber in Colorado Springs and an am-bassador with the Tri-Lakes Chamber, where she won ambassador of the year in April 2011.

Before coming to Monument and worked 12 years with the Scottsdale, Ariz., Jaycees where she ran a month-long event.

She is a native of the Pacific North-west who also lived in Arizona, Cali-fornia and Great Britain.

The Southern Colorado Business Partnership was founded in 2009 to pursue regional economic improve-

ment. It represents approximately 5,000 businesses with 150,000 em-ployees in the region.

The partnership works on leg-islative issues and public policy, promotes support of military pro- jects in the region and advocates on behalf of businesses in the region. It strives to be the voice for the egion on business issues within the community and with elected offi-cials.

It also works to increase business membership in area chambers of commerce in Southern Colorado.

The group assists in the promoting businesses in the region and works to retain business.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of columns about Jay Heinlein’s work and adventures in Nepal.

Hello Tri-Lakes neighbors and friends . . . from Nepal!

Yes, I do miss the Palmer Lake area, where I’ve made my home for almost three years . . . hiking to the reservoirs, cooking burgers and watching games at O’Malley’s. And, rockin’ live music on the week-ends at the Speedtrap.

And I miss my friends in Monument and the Colorado Springs area, where I’ve lived for over 10 years now. It’s truly one of the most beautiful places in the world to live, work and play.

But, right now, I’m also thrilled to be living and lending a hand in Nepal, based in Kathmandu!

In April 2015, a catastrophic 7.8-magnitude earth-quake struck in Nepal. Over 8,000 people perished, and more than 700,000 people were displaced, when their homes and villages were destroyed. Centuries-old historical buildings and structures went down. There were high-magnitude aftershocks, avalanches and landslides in the weeks that followed, creating more casualties and devastation.

I have college friends (from the time when dino-saurs roamed the Earth), who have been in Nepal for almost 30 years. I had hinted at visiting many times. After the quakes, there was no longer a question about timing. Nepal suddenly had a great need for help and I felt moved to respond.

So, here I am. It’s been a heart-expanding adven-ture.

About the service trip … “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do some-thing about that? Then I realized I was somebody.” -Lily Tomlin

I am currently involved with the ongoing efforts of Five14Nepal [http://five14nepal.com], working directly with the Nepalese people, in the areas of

development, education, income generation, and construction-rebuilding-ongoing relief efforts. We are helping families in the most vulnerable rural areas and mountain villages to see improved lives and futures.

I arrived in Nepal on Oct. 2, 2015, and my goal is to work here until the spring, perhaps as late as May. I have been supported by a crowdfunding project, in collaboration with Five14Nepal and by business clients who have graciously allowed me to continue to serve them remotely, while I’m here working here in Nepal on this helping mission.

I believe it’s very important to see the world and different cultures, and not just in times of disaster. Travel enables us to open our minds to new things and we get to experience life in exciting different ways broadening our perspectives about other cul-tures and ways of life. And, it reveals just how much we as humans, are all also the same as we share liv-ing on this planet.

While I’m here in Nepal, I would like to share my experiences with you including milestones and triumphs, cultural observations both fun and some-what goofy, food adventures, exotic places I have visited including a trek in the magnificent Himala-yas, riding an elephant and seeing a rhino up close and personal.

I hope in the coming weeks you will come along on this journey with me, just a regular guy from the

Tri-Lakes region having the adventure of a life-time.

Jay Heinlein is a lifelong writer, a publishing profes-sional for over 25 years and principal of Heinlein Publishing Services. Reach him at [email protected]

GUEST COLUMNISTJay Heinleinl

Tri-Lakes resident relocates to Nepal to help nation rebuild

A family poses in front of a recently completed “tea house” - one of 14 be-ing constructed - which the family will finish on their own by adding their own personalized touches. It represents shelter and warmth as well as self-esteem, income independence, sustainability and a hope-filled future.

An inspirational quote written on the back of a wall in the Kathmandu Zoo, Nepal. Photos by Jay Heinlein / Special to The Tribune

Trucks being loaded last week with nine prefabricated home-kits - staging for transport to partner village for construction assembly.

Hayes named top officer for Southern Colorado Business Partnership

Terri Hayes


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An exhausting, 10-hour flight home from Ger-many afforded me plenty of time for thinking, from a very cramped airline seat.

Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changing” popped into mind as I contemplated life on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Small-town Germany contrasts markedly with Monument. Sidewalks are tightly laid paving blocks, and all-brick driveways in a multitude of geometric patterns reflect the German penchant for precision and orderliness. Brick homes predominate, with lace curtains and windows and rolling metal shutters (rol-laden) for nighttime security. Despite close proximity to cities with major stores and shops, small-town Germans “shop local” and village life revolves around their small bakeries, florists and butcher shops.

Homes are small by U.S. standards but exceeding-ly well built and maintained. Efficient, but cramped, kitchens and small refrigerators and storage spaces necessitate frequent, even daily, trips to the local store or market. Larger grocery stores are uniquely German: neatly uniformed checkout clerks sit at the end of each line, efficiently scanning purchases and machine scanning for counterfeit bills. Stores don’t have baggers, so shoppers use their own bags, or purchase collapsible plastic trays or cardboard

containers. Hey Safeway and King Soopers: tired of lost, stolen

or dispersed grocery carts? The Germans have solved the problem! Carts are centrally located in a covered area adjacent to the entrance. Similar to lockable air-port baggage carts, the store operates a simple, but effective, coin-operated locking system and “incen-tivizes” each user. One 25-cent coin unlocks the cart. After use, returning and relocking the cart enables retrieval of a 25-cent coin. German efficiency at its best: zero cost to consumers, no more cart dispersal across vast parking lots, and significant cost savings for the store.

In the U.S., consumer recycling of plastic and glass bottles is limited, usually inconvenient or messy, and oftentimes we pay for the privilege.

Recycling in Germany is a way of life, almost a duty. Families avidly sort all plastic and paper trash for weekly pickup. Large, automated recycling kiosks populate grocery store entryways. Incentives work in Germany for recycling, as the colorful kiosks readily accept liter and larger-size plastic and glass bottles, then dispense 25-cent coins for each bottle.

This reflection wouldn’t be complete without touching on Germans and their celebrated auto-bahns. Driving, like much of daily life, is well regu-lated: roadside speed signs and fixed speed cameras proliferate, even in rural areas.

Pervasive governmental regulation and cultural regimentation abound. Drivers face heavy fines for texting/use of handheld devices, fines and month-long license probation for speeding and yearlong revocation for DUI. Courteous drivers dutifully obey posted speeds, even when traffic is nonexistent.

Autobahns are another story! While heavy trucks hug the right lane and the center conveys most cars and small trucks, that left lane is only for brave-hearted drivers with advanced driving skills show-casing their vehicle’s high-speed performance. Less-capable drivers beware! It’s a bit ironic that highly regimented Germans, eagerly embrace the driving freedom of their autobahn.

RETIREMENT YEARS

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Small-town German life compared to Monument

To offer information and assistance to our fami-lies and community, Academy District 20 has desig-nated February as Mental Health Awareness Month.

Thank you to the members of our mental health team for their hard work and commitment since the beginning of the school year to provide this informa-tion for our families. All staff members are receiving training from the Yale Center for Emotional Intel-ligence about how to model and teach emotional intelligence strategies.

The statistics are staggering. Throughout the month, we will be providing information from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI. But more importantly, we are gathering information from our school counselors and local mental health experts on one website: www.asd20.org/behere

The website features videos from parents in our district urging others to not feel alone, to seek out experts and to not let anyone, especially children, suffer in silence. We will be adding information and resources to the website throughout the month, so please check it often.

We will send a weekly 20Alert this month high-

lighting different aspects of awareness and preven-tion efforts.

As one parent says in the video she recorded for our district: “it is so present, people are hurting . . . and protecting our children is the most important job we have.”

Throughout the month, we urge parents, staff members, students, and everyone in our community to remember the acronym - ACT - Acknowledge, Care, Tell.

Presidential Scholars Program: Several Academy District 20 students have been selected as candi-dates for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.

They are Jackson Kulik, Air Academy High School; Kevin Yang, Air Academy High School; Iryna Glush-chenko, Rampart High School; and, Graham Jen-nings, The Classical Academy.

Liberty ICAP efforts: Liberty High School was recognized recently by the Colorado State Board of Education and Board Chair Steve Durham for demonstrating exemplary plans for the meaningful and relevant ICAP (Individual Career and Academic Plan) implementation. Liberty High School received an honorable mention for its work with students to help them plan for their futures. Rampart supports society: The annual Bald for Bucks event is scheduled this month, Feb. 26, at Rampart High School. Organizers hope to raise $50,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In 2015, more than 230 community members raised pledges and had their heads shaved. The school raised more than 33,000.Mark Hatchell is the superintendent of schools in Academy District 20. He writes a monthly column for The Tribune. Follow him on Twitter @markhatchell. Like Academy District 20 on Facebook.

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Academy School District focuses on mental health in February


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The three-day storm last week dumped 17.8 inches of snow in Monument and required long hours by the Public Works staff to get streets open – those not those covered by the Triview Metro District or El Paso Coun-ty.

Though wind gusts were extreme at times and the snow heavy, no downed trees or powerlines were reported.

Here’s a breakdown of hours and equipment used, as compiled by Caro-lyn Engstrom of the town staff . It does not tally hours staff spent shoveling snow by hand:

Nine members of the Public Works streets and parks staff worked around

the clock, in shifts, from Jan. 31 through Feb. 3, amassing a total of 244 man hours.

The Freightliner was used 51.5 hours.

The F-450, with sander, was used 37.5 hours.

The F-350 was used 27 hours.The old F-450, with sander, was used

26.5 hours.The loader was used 25 hours.The motorgrader was used 19 hours.The F-250 was used 9 hours.The snow blower was used 8 hours.The skid steer was used 4 hours.The Backhoe was used 1 hour.52 Cubic Yards of a Salt/Sand combi-

nation was spread.2 Snow Plow Blades were replaced.

Monument snowstorm response by the numbers

Background image: Snow blown into the courtyard between the Chapala Building and Chapala North, created drifts throughout in the center, and white-washed the east wall. /Photos by Rob Carrigan

Monument crews worked into the night to clear snow on Sunday and were back at it, early on Monday./Photo Courtesy Town of Monument

Snow clearing resulted in large piles like this one on Washington Street near Second,. The piles seemed to multiply and grow, as the crews continued eff orts through to the weekend in Monument.


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By Danny [email protected]

Our Tri-Lakes area prep athletes and teams have

already supplied us with many thrills this winter, but things are only going to get better.

This weekend, the girls’ Class 5A and 4A state swimming meets will begin along with exciting regional wrestling tournaments, setting the tone for what should be a wild four weeks of postseason action.

The Lewis-Palmer swimming and diving team is rated 11th in the state in 5A in the latest Colorado High School Activities Association rankings. The Rangers will be represented by nearly two dozen athletes in a variety of events at the Edora Pool and Ice Center in Fort Collins.

Several Rangers are ranked, individually, among the state’s top 20. The list includes four divers: senior Becca Hetrick, junior Emily Munn, and freshmen Ashlyn Foster and Anna Kemper.

L-P swimmers with top 20 times include fresh-man Meredith Rees (50 yard free, 100 free, 100 back, 100 butterfly) junior Julie Day (50 free), sophomore Kailee Sunada (500 free), sophomore Faith McAllis-ter (100 butterfly), and sophomore Kayla McClelland (100 breast, 200 individual medley).

All three of Lewis-Palmer’s relay teams are also ranked in the top 20; 200 medley, 200 free, 400 free.

Discovery Canyon will compete in the 4A meet at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton. The Thunder’s top chance to medal is senior Madison Bleike, who is ranked 11th in the state in 1-meter diving.

The Thunder will have several other swimmers at state. They include junior Erin McGill (100 breast, 200 IM), freshman Ava Giesbrecht (500 free), senior divers Hannah Olson and Megan Smiley, and sopho-more diver Tatum Libby.

On the mat, Discovery Canyon is expected to have the best showing of any Tri-Lakes area school at the

state meet, set for Feb. 18-20 at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

Colorado Preps has four Thunder wrestlers ranked in the top four in 4A; Jaden Porreco (113 pounds, 3rd), two-time defending state champion Sam Turner (138 pounds, 1st), Jasper Biddy (145, 4th), and Schyler James (182, 3rd).

The Classical Academy (3A) has one wrestler ranked in the top four: Ben Hinds (195).

L-P’s boys basketball team recently took over the No. 1 ranking in the state in 4A. The Rangers were No. 2 behind Pueblo South (the lone team to beat L-P), but South lost to Air Academy on Jan. 30 and dropped to fourth in the rankings behind Valor Christian and Longmont.

The 4A state basketball playoffs get underway Feb. 20. The state finals are set for March 10-12 at the University of Colorado’s Coors Events Center in Boulder.

Lewis-Palmer’s hockey team is ranked 10th in the state. The hockey playoffs begin Feb. 26.

In the “In Case You Missed It” department, the CHSAA executive council recently approved the realignment for the 2016-17 football seasons.

As expected, Palmer Ridge is dropping down to 3A and will compete in the Metro 2 (the league will be renamed) Conference with Denver North, Kennedy, Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Vista Peak. The Bears were forced to compete with northern teams based primarily on their geographic location. They were a few miles closer to Denver than Lewis-Palmer and

Discovery Canyon.Speaking of L-P and DCC, they will play in the 3A

Southern 2 (it will also be renamed) Conference with Canon City, Falcon, Mitchell and Woodland Park.

TCA is dropping down to 2A and will play in Conference C (yes, the league will be renamed) with Eaton, Pinnacle, Prospect Ridge, Resurrection Chris-tian and University.

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Postseason begins with state swim and dive meets

Lewis-Palmer sophomore Faith McAllister will be competing at this weekend’s Class 5A state swimming meet in Fort Collins. /Courtesy photo

Discovery Canyon wrestler Schyler James (182 pounds, on top) is ranked third in the state in his weight class by Colo-rado Preps. /Courtesy photo

Faces to FollowAlexa ChaconPentathlonAir Force Academy

Chacon is an alumnus of The Classical Academy. The junior finished sixth in the pentath-lon, as five mem-bers of the Air Force

track and field team kicked off the 26th-annual Air Force Invitational Jan. 21 at the Academy’s Cadet Field House. She tallied 3,191 points to finish within the top half of the pen-tathlon field. Chacon opened the day with her best individual event finish, clocking 9.31 seconds to place sec-ond in the 60-meter hurdles. She had

sixth-place finishes in the high jump (5’1”) and long jump (16’6½”), and bookended a 10th-place spot in the shot put (27’11”). She capped the day with a fourth-place time of 2:32.23 in the 800-meters.

Abdel Salemfencing coachAir Force Academy

Salem, a resi-dent of Gleneagle, has been the head coach of the Acad-emy’s men’s and women’s fenc-

ing program since 1998. A former Olympian, of the Egyptian National Team, he was U.S. Olympic Com-

mittee’s Fencing Coach of the Year in 1996. Salem came to the Academy in 1998. Salem has been a coach at five U.S. Olympic Sports Festivals and has been involved with many U.S. National Teams.

James Salemfencing,Air Force Academy

Salem is a Gleneagle resident and Pine Creek High School gradu-ate. He is a senior who specializes in

epee. Salem is a team captain and be-gan this season with a career record of 131-57. As a junior he qualified for

the NCAA championships, where he finished fifth overall and was named all-American. He is planning on be-ing a pilot after graduation.

Morgan DayDivingCollege of Wooster

Day, a Lewis-Palmer alumnus, is diving for the Col-lege of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. The freshman is enjoy-

ing a banner season. She has had five first-place finishes, seven second-place finishes, and two third-place finishes. She is competing in 1-meter and 3-meter.



Now that all that hub bub of national letter-of-in-tent signing day is over, Caleb Ojennes can get back to business as usual.

The Palmer Ridge High School track star was among 12 Bears who accepted college scholarship offers last week. More than two dozen Tri-Lakes area athletes signed, in all.

Ojennes will attend the University of Indiana next fall, where he is expected to compete in the 200 meters and 400 meters races.

“I made the decision about three weeks ago,” Ojennes said. “I really loved the campus after visit-ing multiple campuses around the country. I felt like IU was the best fit for me. Track-wise. School-wise. Offer-wise. I felt like I could contribute right away as a Big 10 athlete.

“I’m really excited for the next four or five years, and hopefully I can help them bring home a nation-al championship.”

Ojennes, 6-foot-3, 195 pounds, has enjoyed an outstanding high school track career.

As a junior, he won state titles in the 200 and 400, and finished third in the 100. He also ran anchor on the state-winning 4x400 relay team as he helped Palmer Ridge to a second consecutive state team championship.

Ojennes was pretty impressive as a sophomore, taking second and third in the 400 and 200, respec-tively, while running anchor on the state-winning 4x400 and 4x200 relay teams.

As a freshman he helped Palmer Ridge relay teams to top-four finishes in two relay events.

Ojennes was recruited by numerous Division I schools. With the track season quickly approaching, he didn’t want to drag out the formality of signing day any longer than needed.

“I wanted to take the pressure off,” Ojennes said. “I wanted to be able to focus on track season and not be worried about going out on visits.”

Palmer Ridge track coach Kelly Christensen be-lieves Ojennes could win three individual medals at May’s state track meet.

“I think he has a great chance to repeat in the 200 and 400,” Christensen said. “The 100 is such an un-predictable race. It’s over in 10 seconds. You slip at the blocks, or someone gets out of the blocks faster than you, it could be won in the first 30 meters.”

The Air Force Academy signed a trio of Palmer Ridge athletes: diver Becca Hetrick and football players Isaiah Sanders and George Silvanic.

“We are very excited to have Isaiah be part of a strong tradition at Air Force Football,” said Air Force offensive line coach Clay Hendrix. “He will be a direct report to the academy and is part of a very talented recruiting class.”

Sanders led Class 4A in most offensive statistical categories in 2015, including a combined 47 passing and rushing touchdowns, and was a huge part of an offense that averaged 39 points per game. He earned all-state quarterback honors, first-team Pikes Peak Athletic Conference, and was the league’s most valu-able player on offense.

A two-year captain, Sanders’ leadership on and off the field has established the culture of Palmer Ridge football, said Bears coach Tom Pulford.

“Isaiah’s work ethic and commitment to the cause is unmatched,” Pulford said. “He leads by example and is an outstanding football player. And as good as he is on the field, he is an even better person. He is the kind of young man we are trying hard to develop, year in and year out. I hope I can raise my son to be the man Isaiah is becoming.”

Silvanic was a three-year starter, first as a right tackle (his sophomore year), then at left tackle and defensive end (his junior year), and as a senior

started at tight end and defensive end.Silvanic created match-up problems when he

lined up as a detached wide receiver (he caught 35 passes for 571 yards and nine touchdowns), and teams had to game plan around him as a defensive linemen. The academy recruited him as a tight end.

“George is a great addition to Air Force football,” said Air Force tight ends coach Steed Lobotzke. “With his frame and athleticism, we have very high expectations of him and the recruiting class he is a part of.”

Silvanic was also a part of Palmer Ridge’s 2014 and 2015 boys’ state championship track and field teams.

A third Palmer Ridge football player, Bailey Rosenstrauch, signed with Division II Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota.

Rosenstrauch earned all-state honors as a defen-sive back (six interceptions), was first-team all-conference as a defensive back, led the Palmer Ridge Bears in catches (51) receiving yards (919), and served as a punt returner and as a kickoff returner. He scored 11 combined touchdowns.

“Bailey was our No. 1 recruit and we are really excited to have him on our roster next fall,” said Black Hills State special teams coach Jared Petrino. “He is a tremendous competitor and can contribute in all three phases of the game. We can’t wait to start working with Bailey.”

Added Pulford: “Bailey was our lock-down corner, and our deep threat receiver. Bailey has a very high football IQ and will be a tremendous asset to Black Hills State.”

Rosenstrauch was also a member of the last two Palmer Ridge state track championship teams.

Just sign your name on the dotted lineDozens of area student-athletes commit to play college sports

Here is the list of Tri-Lakes area athletes who signed their national letters of intent last week.

PALMER RIDGECarley Campbell, soccer, University of Sioux Falls

(South Dakota)Riley Delahoyde, track, University of Colorado at

Colorado SpringsBecca Hetrick, diving, Air Force AcademyMary Koch, lacrosse, Colorado Mesa UniversityCaleb Ojennes, track, IndianaMadison Paschall, softball, Colby Community

College (Kansas)Rylee Ries, track, University of Colorado at Colo-

rado SpringsBailey Rosenstrauch, football, Black Hills State

University (South Dakota)Kristina Sabelstrom, soccer, Virginia WesleyanIsaiah Sanders, football, Air Force AcademyJulia Schroeder, softball College of Dupage (Il-

linois)George Silvanic, football, Air Force Academy

LEWIS-PALMER

Jenny Alenspach, soccer, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Sarah Lyons, soccer, Colorado CollegeBrenna Oakey, soccer, Adams State

DISCOVERY CANYONKailee Clark, softball, Western StateLauren Seeley, soccer, Western State

THE CLASSICAL ACADEMYTeresa Ambuul, track, St. Gregory’s University

(Oklahoma)Spencer Hamilton, baseball, St. Cloud State

(Minnesota)Catalina Hernandez, soccer, Fort Hayes State

(Kansas)Bethany Johns, track/cross country, University of

Colorado at Colorado SpringsJackson Alex Miller, track, University of Colorado

at Colorado SpringsEmily Mueller, soccer, Union University (Tennes-

see)Aleesa Muir, soccer, Colorado CollegeAndrea Willis, soccer, University of Kansas

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The Classical Academy’s Emily Mueller has signed her national letter of intent with Union University in Tennes-see. /Courtesy photo

List of Tri-Lakes student athletes who signed their national letters of intent last week


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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the Forest View Acres Water District (“District”) of El Paso County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 3rd day of May, 2016, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, TWO directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms. Eligible electors of the Forest View Acres Water District who are interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO), Sue Blair, c/o Community Resource Services of Colorado, 7995 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, and Telephone: (303) 381-4960, [email protected]. The office of the DEO is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business on Friday, February 26, 2016 (not less than 67 days before the election). Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing an insufficient form. If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form once, at any time, prior to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 26, 2016. Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the DEO by the close of business on Monday, February 29, 2016 (the sixty-fourth day before the election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the close of business on Friday, April 29, 2016.

FOREST VIEW ACRES WATER DISTRICT

By: Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Publish in: The Tri-Lakes Tribune Publish on: January 27, 2016TRB 0203*1

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF)

32-1-804.1; 32-1-804.3, 1-1-104(34), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the Tri-

Lakes Monument Fire Protection District of

El Paso County(ies), Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the

3rd day of May, 2016, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that

time, 4 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms and 0 directors

will be elected to serve 2-year* terms. Eligible electors of the Tri-Lakes

Monument Fire Protection District

interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination

and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):

Christopher Truty (Designated

Election Official)

15455 Gleneagle Dr, Suite 230 (DEO

Address)

Colorado Springs, CO 80921 (DEO Address)

719-484-0911 (DEO

Telephone)

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday - Friday

from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is not

sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form

once, at any time, prior to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 26, 2016. The

deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business

on Friday, February 26, 2016 (not less than 67 days before the election).

Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing an

insufficient form. Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must

be submitted to the office of the designated election official by the close of

business on Monday, February 29, 2016 (the sixty-fourth day before the

election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for a mail-in ballot

shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the close of

business on Friday, April 1, 2016,

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Designated Election Official Signature

TRB 0203*4

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS PALMER LAKE SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the

Palmer Lake Sanitation District of El Paso County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the

3rd day of May, 2016. At that time, zero (0) directors will be elected to serve

4-year terms and four (4) directors will be elected to serve 2-year terms.

Eligible electors of the Palmer Lake Sanitation District interested in serving

on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form

from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):

Becky Orcutt

120 Middle Glenway

Palmer Lake, CO 80133

(719) 481-2732

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday through Friday

from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of

business on Friday, February 26, 2016. If the DEO determines that a Self-

Nomination and Acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who

submitted the form may amend the form once, at any time, prior to 3:00 p.m.

on the day of the deadline.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the

office of the designated election official by the close of business on Monday,

February 29, 2016.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee

ballot shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the

close of business on Friday, April 29, 2016. The application shall be

personally signed by the applicant, or a family member pursuant to 1-13.5-

1002(1)(a)(II), C.R.S.

PALMER LAKE SANITATION DISTRICT

By: /s/ Becky Orcutt,

Designated Election Official

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Teams will compete in the following divisions: Squirt A, B and C; Peewee AA, A and B; Bantam AA, A and B; Midget Minor AA and A; Midget Major AA and A; and Youth Sled Hockey.

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The Colorado Sports Center in Monument will be one of the homes for the upcoming Presi-dents Day Hockey Tournament. The Sports Center will host 50 games on its two sheets of ice./Photo courtesy of Lisa Reich

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