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Monument resi-dent Jamie Fenley thought she was having a good week after losing seven pounds on her diet.

But her pride over her diet success was blown away by the emotions that swept over her Friday when she learned the Board of Trustees had agreed to a lawsuit settlement that will prevent a methadone clinic/dispensa-ry from opening in downtown, across from Limbach Park.

“I’ve had an awesome day,” Fen-ley said after the late-day announce-ment that the town settled with Colo-nial Management Group of Orlando, Fla. “I’m completely ecstatic. I’m so relieved this is fi nally over with and I don’t have to worry about something negative right across the street.”

All around, people were praising her as the town hero who rallied opposi-tion to Colonial and its methadone fa-cility in the face of Monument staff and elected offi cials who insisted nothing could be done to prevent it.

Fenley, 31, knew from her experi-ence as a heroin addict and methadone user that the dispensary would be a di-saster in a residential neighborhood, across from the park and near schools and churches.

So she went public with her own story, telling it on the front page of The Tribune, even allowing the use of her police mug shot from arrests related to her drug use when she would lie and steal to get drugs.

“I’m a former heroin addict and I struggled for seven years,” Fenley told The Tribune last July. She described how she dropped out of Lewis-Palmer High School due to her drug use and how it led to several arrests and prison sentences.

“I was in and out of rehab and on and off methadone,” she said. “I know

See Fenley on Page 7

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Vows to roll back water rate increases


Four candidates seeking election as a slate for the Monument Board of Trustees vowed to take control of the seven-member panel and immediately roll back recent water rate increases if they are elected April 5.

The promise came during a sparse-ly attended candidate forum March 9 hosted by the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce. Only about 35 people at-tended. But they got to see the distinct choices facing voters when the mail ballot election begins this week.

The slate – incumbent Trustee Jeff Bornstein, No Methadone leader Greg Coopman, Board of Adjustment mem-ber Shea Medlicott and Don Wilson – repeatedly attacked the leadership of the current board and vowed to shake up the Town Hall paid staff, whom they characterized as holding too much power over Monument.

The other four candidates – incum-

bent Trustees John Howe and Becki Tooley, as well as Kevin Sorenson and Tim Allen – did not show the anger of their counterparts and mainly de-scribed their own qualifi cations for four-year terms on the board.

The steep new water rates, adopted

Monday by the Board of Trustees after months of debate, were a primary fo-cus of the slate members. And the topic produced the real spark of the night when Rosie’s Diner owner A.B. Tellez challenged the integrity of Tooley for voting in favor of the increase.

At Monday’s meeting, Tooley pref-aced her vote by saying she was unclear about the numbers and recognized the town’s need for an increase because rates hadn’t been adjusted in 20 years.

Tellez asked the candidates what they would do if they saw a fellow trust-ee “damage their integrity” on a similar vote. He did not identify Tooley but she grabbed the microphone, recognizing she was under attack.

Tooley said she had read all the ma-terial related to the water rates and understood exactly what the staff was asking for in its proposal. When she said she was unclear on the numbers Monday, Tooley said she was referring to Tellez’s presentation to the board in which he used a wipe board to propose his own rate structure and quickly ran through a list of his own numbers.

“You were going through it so fast the numbers just didn’t add up,” she said. “I understood the numbers we were talk-ing about from staff. And I believe the increase is what we needed to do so I voted yes.”

See Trustees on Page 10

About 35 people attended a town forum featuring eight candidates for the Monument Board of Trustees. Hosted by the Tri -Lakes Chamber of Commerce, the forum featured four candidates running as a slate and vowing to roll back recent water rate increases if elected. /Photo by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune

Slate attacks leadership on Board of Trustees

‘Power goes to the People’Ex-heroin addict Fenley the heroine of methadone fi ght

Settlement ends threat of methadone facility downtown By Bill [email protected]

It took a brief three minutes for the Monument Board of Trustees to end a 10-month community battle over a proposed methadone clinic/dispen-sary in downtown Monument.

Four members of the board met Fri-day, March 11, in a hastily called spe-

cial session to announce and approve the settlement of an $800,000 lawsuit fi led by Colonial Management Group of Orlando, Fla., over its plan to open a methadone facility at 192 Front St., in a residential neighborhood across from Limbach Park.

There was applause from the 30 or so people in Town Hall who witnessed

See Methadone on Page 6

There will be no methadone treatment facility moving into this building at 192 Front St. in downtown Monument. The Board of Trustees agreed March 11 to settle a law-suit brought by Colonial Management Group of Orlando, Fla., over use of the building, which was a pediatric clinic and a post offi ce in the past. /Photo by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune

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Five months after new water rates were fi rst proposed, and despite emo-tional opposition from a handful of residents and businesses, the Monu-ment Board of Trustees voted, 3-2, to approve steep rate increases.

The decision at its March 7 meeting came after nearly two hours of some-times angry public comment from op-ponents who called the rates unneces-sary and extreme.

In the end, the rates were approved by Mayor Rafael Dominguez and Trust-ees Jeff Smith and Becki Tooley with Trustees John Howe and Jeff Bornstein voting in opposition. Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Kaiser and Trustee Kelly Elliott were absent.

The new rate structure will cause the

base rate soar from $8.80 currently to $31 a month, which includes 1,000 gal-lons of water. The rates apply to about 1,100 west-side customers - mostly homeowners and about 200 busi-nesses. Most Monument residents are served by other water districts.

Under the new rates, the typical monthly bill during the winter will jump from $33.75 currently to about $55. That is based on an average of 5,000 gallons of water used a month.

And under the new rate structure, rates will climb 9.5 percent each of the next six years. That means by 2021, the average winter bill will be $86.60.

Town Manager Chris Lowe struggled for months to fi nd a rate structure ac-ceptable to the trustees. He fi nally lowered his proposed monthly base to $31 after complaints from senior

See Water on Page 14

Art Exhibit: Visions of Light Wednesday-Saturday, March 16-19What: Visions of Light photo exhibit, ongoing through March 25When: Noon-4 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, March 16-18; 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday March 19Where: Tri-Lake Center for the Arts, 304 High-way 105, Palmer LakeInfo: Call 481-0475 or visit trilakesarts.org/events

Senior Lunch/Blood-pressure screening March 16What: Blood-pressure screening and Senior Lunch - barbecue pork sandwich, beans and cole slaw - sponsored by Tri-Lakes Health Advocacy PartnershipWhen: 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 16Where: Lewis-Palmer School District administra-tion building, 146 Jefferson St, MonumentCost: $3 donationInfo: www.trilakeshap.org/seniormeals.php or call Judy at 487-9067

Historical Talk: Early Automobiles March 17What: Palmer Lake Historical Society presents Dwight Haverkorn discussing the fi rst automo-biles in the Pikes Peak region When: 7 p.m., Thursday, March 17Where: Palmer Lake Town Hall, 28 Valley CrescentCost: FreeInfo: Visit palmerdividehistory.org or call 559-0837

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Kurt Richard Woodka, age 33, former resident of Wood-moor, died March 3rd in Fernley, NV. Born in Redondo Beach, CA, Kurt attended Mark Keppel El-ementary in Glendale, CA before transferring to District 38 schools in Monument. He attended Lewis Palmer Elementary, Middle and High schools. In recent years, Mr. Woodka has lived in Sheridan, WY. Three weeks ago he moved to Fernley, NV where he suffered a massive heart attack. A private memorial service is with family is planned.

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Steep new Monument water rates fi nally approved by Trustees

A.B. Tellez, owner of Rosie’s Diner, used a wipe board to show the Monument Board of Trust-ees his own calculations of the town’s needs and how the rate structure could be much lower and still restore solvency to the water enterprise and achieve several of the other goals. /Photo by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune

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Applications are due by March 18.The board meets on the fourth Mon-

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Monument Mayor Rafael Dominguez has been couch-surfi ng for the past few weeks.

It’s not that he doesn’t have a place to live. He’s crashing with friends around town each night to stay legal.

Dominguez and his wife, Elizabeth, bought a new home in December on 9.6 acres just across the southern border of Monument along the railroad tracks.

And that’s the problem. It’s outside Monument and he needs to be a resident to remain mayor.

So Dominguez has requested his new home be annexed into the town. The petition was announced at the March 7 Board of Trustees meeting.

Town planning director Larry Manning said the Dominguez property meets the criteria of being con-tiguous and requested a public hearing.

Town Manager Chris Lowe told the trustees that no town services such as water or sewer were being requested by Dominguez, who recused himself dur-ing consideration by the board.

“The town will only provide police service,” Lowe said, noting that Dominguez’s new home uses well water and a septic system for sewage.

The trustees voted unanimously to set a public hearing on his annexation request and scheduled it April 18. Until then, Dominguez will be relying on the hospitality of friends to remain mayor.

“I’m meeting the legal requirements for residen-cy,” Dominguez said, adding that, in the meantime, his wife and the family pets are living at the house. And there are renovations underway.

As to murmurs from critics that annexations are supposed to benefi t the town, Dominguez had a quick response.

“The town will benefi t from the increase in prop-erty taxes we’ll be paying,” he said.

Mayor couch surfi ng until town acts on annexation request

Big O Tires case brings jury to Monument

By Avalon A. [email protected]

Logan McClelland has served his prison time for fatally shooting Bradley Blehm six years ago in the parking lot of Big O Tires in Monument.

But that didn’t stop him from pursu-ing a retrial in the 2010 case.

Opening arguments began last week before a jury in El Paso County District Court after an appeals court overturned McClelland’s conviction of reckless manslaughter in 2011.

At issue is whether McClelland used reasonable force when he shot Blehm, who had confronted McClelland’s fa-ther, Tom, in the parking lot. Or, did he act recklessly, disregarding the risks, when he grabbed his father’s gun and shot Blehm without warning, seven times, including twice in the back?

“On Aug. 9, 2010, that man shot an unarmed man and killed him,” said

prosecutor Jennifer Darby, pointing at McClelland during opening argu-ments. “That man? Bradley Blehm.”

“He was reckless,” Darby said. “There was no reason to shoot.”

McClelland’s defense attorney reads the incident differently.

“(Blehm was) trying to get Tom, threatening to kill Tom. It’s easy to un-derstand why Logan (was) terrifi ed. His dad (was) 55 and not in good health, (and Blehm was) visibly drunk and vio-lent.”

The defense explained that the gun McClelland took from his father’s work bag was a semi-automatic handgun, which requires the user to do nothing between shots in order to chamber a new round. This means it took fewer than three seconds for McClelland to fi re those seven fatal shots.

“For three seconds, (McClelland) protected his father, his brother, and himself.

“It wasn’t reckless. He didn’t disre-gard any risk. He defended his family. It was a tragedy; no one will ever deny

that, but that doesn’t make it a crime.”McClelland is pursuing an appeal to

clear his record, despite having already

served his sentence.The case is expected to end this

week.

Having served prison time, McClelland goes to retrial

Last week, the jury in McClelland’s retrial took a trip to the Big O Tires in Monument, where McClelland fatally shot Bradley Blehm six years ago after a parking lot altercation. The truck and cones arrayed in the parking lot marked the locations of items pertinent to the defense and prosecution. /Photo by Avalon A. Manly /The Tribune

BriefsCall for grants goes out from Monument Hill Foundation

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The Monument Hill Foundation is looking for non-profi t organizations that need money for proj-ects that support the youth and communities of the Tri-Lakes region.

The foundation is the granting arm Monument Hill Kiwanis Club and it intends to distribute $50,000 in grants to local charities in 2016.

Some of the organizations that received founda-

tion grants in 2015 included: The Resource Exchange, Emily Griffi th Centers for Children, Palmer Divide Blanket Brigade, Big Brothers and Sisters, Children’s Literacy Center, Soap Box Derby, Rocky Mountain Youth Leadership Conference, Tri-Lakes Health Ad-vocacy Partnership, Children’s Advocacy Center, and Aspen Camp for the Hearing impaired.

Other grant recipients were connected to Lewis-Palmer School District 38, such as the D-38 Robot-ics Team, Options 38 Career Starter Scholarships, preschool programs, Library Media Centers, Adap-tive Equestrian Program and Special Needs Hearing Program.

Already, the foundation has announced it will

award a 2016 grant to the Ronald McDonald House mobile clinic and Special Kids, Special Families.

The Kiwanis Club raises money for grants through club activities such as the Empty Bowls Dinner that supports Tri-Lakes Cares and the Holiday Red Kettle Campaign Bell Ringing, which generates donations to the Salvation Army.

Grants are made on an annual “call” basis. Ap-plications for grants are accepted beginning April 1 and are due no later than June 30. Fund dis-tribution begins in early October, as money becomes available.

If you are interested in requesting a grant, visit the foundation website: monumenthillfoundation.org

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This week is known in journalism circles as Sunshine Week. It’s a time when print, radio and TV and online news organizations celebrate the freedom of information and remind readers of the importance of an open government.

During this week, the Society of Professional Journalists, or SPJ, urges us to: “Promote a dialogue with your readers, viewers and listeners about the importance of a transparent gov-ernment and freedom of information as a cornerstone of our democracy.”

Sound familiar? I hope it echoes loudly to you. It’s been our primary mission since we bought The Tribune last June. Every week is Sunshine Week at The Tribune of the Tri-Lakes Region.

SPJ reports that open government and freedom of information is “under attack across the country.”

In some places, elected officials and bureaucrats try to stifle the public’s right to know by imposing unreason-able fees to copy public documents, for example.

They require unnecessary paper-work to get access to documents that should be simply handed over for inspection. Agencies sometimes drag their feet responding to requests that should take a few minutes, not days or weeks, to answer.

We witnessed, up close and per-sonal, a classic example of the need for transparency in government during the fight over a proposal methadone clinic/dispensary in downtown Monu-ment last summer.

And we at The Tribune used our open records laws to gain access to important information about Colonial Management Group of Orlando, Fla., which wants to open the methadone facility.

First, we filed open records requests in Alabama, Minnesota and Texas to uncover dozens of infractions at Colonial-owned clinics in those states, establishing a pattern of questionable management of clinics.

Infractions ranged from excessive counselor caseloads to inadequate treatment plans for clients.

Officials in Minnesota and Texas cited Colonial clinics with dozens of infractions. One clinic lost its license.

We even discovered a clinic in Alabama had been fined when it could not account for more than 3,400 doses of methadone.

This information fed a fierce public debate about the methadone facility, confirming many residents’ suspicions about what it could mean in a residen-tial neighborhood across from a park and near schools and churches.

We then filed requests for informa-tion using the Colorado Open Records Act to see what kind of operation Colo-nial had in Grand Junction at a facility it opened last spring.

We wanted to see Colonial’s con-versations with Denise Vincioni, the state controlled substances adminis-trator. Her name has been mentioned repeatedly by Colonial executives as the one who nominated Monument for a clinic.

I read about a nurse shortage forc-ing a change of hours at Colonial’s

Grand Junction Treatment Center. And there was an email from Vincioni to Zach Duran, program director, scolding him for skipping a meeting she said was “imperative” for him to attend.

Was this evidence of mismanage-ment similar to the problems we uncovered in other states at Colonial clinics?

Then I read a July 17 email exchange between Vincioni and Duran regard-ing the autopsy of a clinic client who overdosed on a cocktail that included methadone. Duran filed a “critical inci-dent” report on the death of the client.

“His death was due to a mixed drug intoxication,” Mesa County Coroner Dr. Dean Havlik said in an email to me. “His death was related to methadone.”

Turned out Havlik would become my new poster boy for Sunshine Week.

Havlik refused to provide the au-topsy report I requested, even when I cited chapter and verse of Colorado law that specifically declares autopsies to be public records.

Instead of doing as the law requires, we engaged in hours of tedious email exchanges wrestling over a simple re-port that needed only the stroke of an email “send” button to satisfy.

“We try to not provide those reports to just anyone for the sake of the fam-ily involved and helping protect their privacy,” Havlik said, admitting he rou-tinely ignores state law. “I’m sure you wouldn’t like random people getting

one of your family members autopsy report if you could avoid it.”

Of course, Havlik was wrong again, just as he was wrong about the law and its requirement he send the autopsy report.

If my autopsy results would shed light on the mismanagement of a substance abuse clinic or abuse of distribution of controlled substances or another crime, you bet I’d want my report public.

Hopefully, some reporter would find it, hold the responsible people accountable and protect future victims from a needless death.

There are other examples of the importance of transparency in govern-ment. And I promise we at The Tribune will continue to celebrate Sunshine Week all year long.

It’s Sunshine Week every week at The TribunePIKES PEAK BILL Bill [email protected]

“The one true purpose of edu-cational assessment is to correctly

determine student understanding of the standards in focus and then to use

those assessment results to inform, modify, adjust, enrich, and differenti-ate instruction to meet the learning

needs of all students.”— Rigorous Curriculum Design,

Larry Ainsworth

Assessing progress in a classroom shares similarities with navigating traffic. Behind the wheel, a driver constantly assesses conditions. If the traffic ahead slows, the driver slows, too. If a vehicle is gaining quickly from behind, the driver speeds up or changes lanes.

If visibility is poor, the driver moni-tors the road more carefully than when conditions are clear. Teachers do the same thing in the classroom.

Noticing students’ reactions and levels of engagement represent basic assessments a teacher takes of a

classroom. If a student is disengaged, a teacher reaches out to the student.

If a classroom bustles with excite-ment while students work on a proj-ect, the teacher extends the project’s allotted time. If student responses are mixed, the teacher moves around the classroom determining students’ levels of understanding.

Performance tasks, class discus-sions, quick checks for understanding, and teacher observation are just a few examples of informal, ongoing assess-ments. Author Larry Ainsworth states that “educators understand that the primary reason for assessing their stu-

dents, and then diagnosing the results, is to accurately infer what students need next in terms of their learning.”

Any type of assessment that pro-vides information to the teacher dur-ing the instructional cycle is consid-ered a “formative” assessment.

Quizzes and tests are more formal measurements which provide infor-mation about student progress. As-sessments that attempt to summarize learning at the end of an instructional cycle are typically referred to as “sum-mative” assessments.

How the data from an assessment is used (not necessarily the type of assessment) determines whether an assessment is formative or summative. Both types of assessments are impor-tant in terms of capturing growth and determining next steps.

The state tests (PARCC/CMAS) ad-ministered this spring are tools which examine students’ progress toward meeting the standards in English language arts, math, science,

and social studies. These tests are currently the only common measur-ing tool for Colorado students in third through ninth grades and provide comparative data across Colorado and the nation.

Throughout the teaching/learning cycle, a teacher makes multiple deci-sions about how to use assessments. What a teacher sees and experiences, as students respond to lessons, deter-mines what comes next. Does a sum-mative test need to be delayed? Does a lesson need to be expanded?

What comes next, in addition to the next specific learning concept, could be the next grade level, a new school, college or a career. When we involve students in small learning steps and successes, we model that big learn-ing is a process, a road full of detours, fast lanes, and countless destinations. Learning is a journey that requires constant adjustments.

Karen Brofft is superintendent of Lewis-Palmer School District 38

Teachers in driver’s seat in assessing students’ needs

GUESTCOLUMNISTKaren Brofft


In the scheme of things, the Air Force Academy really is a virtual new-comer to this area.

Selected as the architect of the mas-sive undertaking, the firm (actually a joint venture of several companies) of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, was not even awarded the contract for the project until July 23, 1954, according to author Steven A. Simon in “The Build-ing of the Air Force Academy.”

Most of the now well-known buildings on the 18,455-acre military reservation were built in the mid- to late 1950s.

But what came before?As early as 1860, lumber concerns

began appearing in an area later to be known as Husted. In what is now lo-cated just about at the north entrance of the academy, Calvin R. Husted built a sawmill, and by the late 1860s, nearly 200 people lived nearby as the town with many businesses, a church and even a newspaper (Husted Banner) developed around the mill.

“Husted operated the mill for many years. Calvin Husted was one of the

earliest county commissioners in El Paso County. He was known as a generous man; during his prosperous years, he was said to have given may a handout and grubstake. He died in the poorhouse in Colorado Springs,” wrote Perry Eberhart in Ghosts of the Colo-rado Plains.

Eventually the sawmill was aban-doned, but the town survived for years as a shipping point for ranches in the area. The buildings disappeared little by little over the years.

“One of the oldest was the Branding Iron café; It became a saloon, then a store, then a post office, and finally a church. The service station and store closed in 1956. The last signs of Husted

were completely destroyed with the construction of the academy and the U.S. 85-87 freeway,” wrote Eberhart.

Prior to then, the little burg had an interesting run. There was even a West Husted and East Husted separated by Monument Creek and positioned alternately near the Rio Grande tracks and the Santa Fe tracks. And at one time the D & R.G. maintained a round-house or turntable in West Husted.

“The steam trains had power to pull the freight and passenger trains from Colorado Springs to Husted, but not enough power to pull the steep grade to Palmer Lake to the ‘Divide,’ there-fore extra helper engines and crews were kept at Husted,” wrote local historian Lucille Lavelett.

It was an area known for train tragedies as well. Rock Island and Rio Grande trains collided head-on near there in 1888 killing two people. Another wreck in 1909 took the lives of seven and injured nearly 60 people.

Interestingly enough, there was also an early airport there.

“An unwitting precursor to the area’s eventual grand purpose, a small airport and flying school were built in the late 1930s on land currently used for cadet airmanship operations. In fact, Charles Lindbergh rented a plane

and flew from this location while a member of the Academy Site Selection Commission,” Simon says.

Additionally, in the canyons west of Husted, bootleg whiskey stills proliferated during Prohibition and cattle rustlers, horse thieves and other undesirables were reportedly hanged in nearby Deadman’s Canyon, thereby giving it that rather dubious name-sake.

Fox farms operated near there in 1930s, and former Gov. Oliver Shoup owned the Cathedral Rock ranch not far from Husted on what is now acad-emy land.

Other towns at one time existed on or close to what is now the military reservation. Among them, Pring Sid-ing, Edgerton, Monument Station (on the south end of the academy), Henry, Borst, and Stanley Camp to name a few. They each have unique stories of their own.

The Burgess Ranch Cabin, con-structed in 1869-1870 by William A. Burgess, remains today in the Douglas Valley housing area on the academy. It is one of the oldest remaining build-ings in the Pikes Peak region and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Three small lodges built in 1929 also remain standing close by.

RESTLESS NATIVE Rob [email protected]

I have talked a bit about conditions that were fairly common a hundred years ago. This is one of those that bothered many a wife, storekeeper and even school teachers.

If you look at pictures of any town, you may notice along the street are hitching posts and maybe even water troughs. One thing you may not think of is the dust.

In bigger towns, they had horse drawn water wagons to make the streets damp. The afternoon rain helped out sometimes. But if you got too much rain, you had a new prob-lem: mud!

After a snowstorm, you had mud,

maybe with ice in it. Along the streets, there might be a

wooden plank sidewalk. In nice n eighborhoods, maybe they had rock slabs. In most areas it was grass or weeds for escape from the muddy street.

When it was dry, clouds of dust fol-lowed every traveler, coating every-thing around, including the one causing it. Some of the yards had fences, mainly to keep animals in, or out.

There were few lawn like we have today, but almost everyone had a garden out back for fresh vegetables, except where the ground was too rocky. Gardens were not watered by a hose, but by dishwater thrown from a pan or bucket.

Transportation around town was usually walking. If you wanted to go far you went by train, even only as far as Colorado Springs. Only those who

really needed one had a horse or even a buggy.

There were few “riding” horses, most were “working” horses. In town, few had a stable. There were livery stables, usually not far from the rail-road station and hotels.

All this activity brings us back to the dust. On a dry day it does not take many people walking, or horses going by to kick up enough dust.

In some old western movies you will see cowboys wearing long “slick-ers” to keep the dust off. After our recent winds, imagine how the dust would have blown if we still had dirt roads!

Before paved roads, there were big problems blowin’ in the wind

CABOOSE COBWEBSMel McFarland

Tri-Lakes TribuneMarch 18, 1976

Loose Dogs: Mike Williams, animal control officer of the Palmer Lake area, said between September and March he has had 60 complaints of loose dogs and has taken 23 of them. He has caught 63 dogs since October. First offense is $15, 2nd offense $25, 3rd offense $50 and 4th and up to $300 plus costs.

Mayoral candidate: Warren Langer, a native of Kenosha, Wis., and a retired Air Force pilot who flew in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, is running for mayor of Monument. Langer has been a member of the Monument Town Council for the past two years. He feels he can devote the time necessary for the job. He wishes to encourage more active participation and interest in town government.

May Festival: Monument Homemakers made plans for a May Day Festival at their regular monthly meeting. It will be a flea market to be held in and around the town hall. Spaces are $3. You must fur-nish your own table. You keep all your profits. The $3 for the space will be used for a fundraiser. Call Mrs. Aldys Fonger.

Beautify Property: The Colorado State Highway Department property is used as a maintenance yard. It is an “eyesore” at the east perimeter of Monument. Ideas should be submitted to the Town of Monu-ment.

New Library Signs: Robert Lehmpuhl contributed money for the library. All lettering is hand cut and represents many hours of careful workmanship. The signs were designed and completed by Dwight Wahlborg and members of his class at Lewis Palmer

Middle School.Middle School Project: Sciences classes at Lewis-

Palmer Middle School worked on projects relating to machines and how they work. The unit was on force, machine and work. Two of the projects were a min-ing tipple model and a windmill. Both are working models and have been on display at the school.

Little Log Church: Rev. Harry Walround will start a series called “Going all the Way with Jesus.”

Lions Club News: A $200 scholarship will be awarded to a member of the senior class at Lewis-Palmer High School. The Lions will also help prepare a new baseball diamond on March 13. A glaucoma free clinic will be held from 1:30-4 p.m. on Sunday, April 25, at the new medical center off Highway 105.

Compiled by Linda Case

40 Years Ago

Air Force Academy is newcomer to the region

The U.S. Air Force Academy today has fulfilled first superintendent Gen. Nathan Twinings prophecy of Americans “expecting great things” of the academy and its graduates in the previous half century. /Photo by Rob Carrigan

Perhaps a harbinger of things to come in the area, the first plane flew into Monument in 1922. The pilot, Fred Lewis (in the white sweater) and one passenger, reportedly thrill all in attendance with their new-fangled contraption. /Courtesy Photo


MethadoneContinued from Page 1 the 4-0 vote approving the settlement.

Terms were not disclosed pending formal sign-ing of the agreement. Colonial was seeking more than $800,000 in lost profi ts, operating costs, trav-el expenses, rent, legal fees, $312,000 in base rent plus $78,000 in additional charges over a 62-month lease.

“The town negotiated this settlement because the bottom line for us was getting them out of here,” Mayor Rafael Dominguez said after the brief board meeting. “We got pretty much what we wanted: we protected the town. It’s over. Now we get back to moving forward with all the positive things going on around here.”

Damages sought by Colonial included more than $380,000 it claimed it spent remodeling the former pediatric building and post offi ce into a secure facil-ity to dispense daily doses of methadone, a synthetic substitute for opioid painkillers and heroin. The company operates 69 methadone clinics in 19 states and was directed to open a facility in Monument by state health offi cials who said the area needs a treat-ment facility.

Dominguez said Colonial got “around that fi gure” to leave, with the promise of not returning. But he said details couldn’t be released yet. The settlement is to be split between the town, using its reserve funds, and its insurance company.

When news broke last June of a methadone clinic opening in downtown, residents of the area erupted and quickly turned against town offi cials, who they blamed for not doing anything to stop it.

Led by ex-heroin addict Jamie Fenley, a grassroots movement formed using social media to rally hun-dreds to the fi ght.

Fenley soon was joined by other ex-heroin ad-dicts, including Bobby Morris and Luke Fallentine, as the leaders of the opposition.

Before public hearings attracting 250-300 people, they described their own experiences in methadone

facilities, painting a picture of people addicted to heroin and prescription painkiller lining up each morning, seven days a week, to get their daily dose of methadone, which helps them manage their crav-ings.

They predicted drug dealers would be drawn to the dispensary to buy and sell heroin and metha-done. Crime would increase, they warned, and ad-dicts would fi ll Limbach Park to let the effects of the methadone wear off.

Other critics noted the lack of public transpor-tation would mean methadone patients would get dropped off and then be stuck in Monument, pan-handling and stealing to ensure they had the $15 or so needed for their next daily dose.

Meetings of the Board of Trustees turned into a series of angry confrontations between the seven-member board and citizens frustrated that offi cials hadn’t tried to block the facility and, in-stead, had quietly approved the zoning for the build-ing.

At the time, Dominguez and city offi cials said their hands were tied by town zoning ordi-nances that seemed to allow the methadone facility to exist.

The furor grew after an investigation by The Tri-bune found Colonial has a spotty safety record at some of its clinics elsewhere in the nation. The in-vestigation found issues in Alabama, Minnesota and Texas where CMG clinics faced dozens of infractions, establishing a pattern of questionable management of clinics.

Infractions ranged from excessive counselor case-loads to inadequate treatment plans for clients. Of-fi cials in Minnesota and Texas cited Colonial clinics with dozens of infractions. One clinic lost its license.

The paper even discovered a clinic in Alabama had been fi ned when it could not account for more than 3,400 doses of methadone.

Fenley quietly fi led an appeal of the town zoning decision, and a non-profi t group was formed, No

Methadone in Monument, led by Tom Allen and Greg Coopman.

Fenley’s appeal led to a climactic Aug. 10 hearing before the Board of Adjustment.

The No Methadone group raised $60,000 from the community to hire attorneys to appeal the zoning and join the town in defense of a subsequent lawsuit fi led by Colonial.

The tense Board of Adjustment hearing attracted 300 or so who listened to Fenley’s testimony and arguments by her attorney, Bill Louis, who attacked the town staff’s zoning approval. Louis said the methadone facility did not qualify as a clinic under the law.

The fi ve-member board agreed and unanimously overturned the zoning, prompting a roaring standing ovation from the crowd. A few days later the Board of Trustees enacted a six-month moratorium on new clinics to give it time to rewrite zoning codes to pre-vent any future methadone facility downtown.

Louis was celebrating the settlement as a victory for Monument residents.

“Ultimately, power goes to the people,” Louis said. “I was just a mouthpiece for the outrage.”

Allen, who is Fenley’s stepfather, said Friday he was “cautiously optimistic” the settlement would end the controversy.

Attorney and Tri-Lakes resident Scott Miku-lecky, who was hired by Allen’s group to fi ght the Colonial lawsuit, said the settlement was worth every penny.

“What price do you put on letting your children go outside and play in the park, knowing they are safe?” Mikulecky said. “What’s it worth to preserve the fam-ily-friendly, tranquility of our community? It’s money well-spent, making them go away and ending this nightmare.

“This is huge. This shows the power of the citizens’ voices. They were heard. They proved the benefi t of working together. It reaffi rms everything that makes small towns like Monument great.”


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Continued from Page 1from fi rst-hand experience just what kind of people it will attract.”

She told the story again at pub-lic meetings as townspeople rallied around her and others with similar stories of heroin addiction, including Luke Fallentine and Bobby Morris.

“It was completely out of character for me,” Fenley said Friday of the lead-ership role she took in fi ghting Colo-nial. And she said it was hard.

“It’s not something I like to talk about or think about, really,” she said. “But I thought if I put my story out there, people would have some trust in me. Most people have no knowledge of that world.

“It had to be done. It takes someone who knows that world to bring it to light for the average person. That’s why I shared my story.”

Bill Louis, the attorney who success-fully argued her zoning appeal before the Board of Adjustment, marvels at her courage in coming forward.

“The real big hero is Jamie,” Louis said. “She put it on the line. She revealed very personal details about a tragedy in

her life when she was younger. It takes a lot of guts to make that public.”

Mayor Rafael Dominguez, who came under harsh criticism from the anti-methadone forces, also praised Fenley.

“She did a darn good thing appeal-ing the zoning to the Board of Adjust-ment,” Dominguez said. “She did good for the community. And she was always very respectful.”

Similar praise was heaped on Fenley all weekend on social media sites in-cluding the Facebook page she helped launch last summer to fi ght the metha-done facility.

Fenley said the triumph over Colo-nial ranks somewhere below overcom-ing her addictions, her marriage and the birth of her two children.

“It’s defi nitely up there,” she said. “But I’m proud of our entire commu-nity. I’m very thankful for the help of my dad, Tom Allen, and all the people standing behind me.

“There’s no way I could have stopped it on my own. And it restores my belief in ‘We the People.’ It makes you feel you actually have a voice.”

Fenley

For The Tribune

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Science backs up belief in the healing powers of prayerBy Cord Prettyman

Being 90 years old, the news didn’t shock her. The doctors told her she had liver cancer and estimated she had less than a year to live.

Having seen many of her friends suffer from radiation treatments and chemotherapy, she opted to forgo such treatments. She chose, instead, to pray for the courage to face whatever was to come.

Her family and friends, however, choose to pray for her return to health.

Three months later, her doctors were astonished to fi nd that her cancer was stabilizing.

Several months after that, doctors could no longer fi nd any trace of cancer in her body. Doctors told her they had no explanation for what had happened. She responded that she knew why her cancer was gone: “Because prayer works.”

People of all faiths (and many of little faith) have turned to prayer to bring about a cure or to help along the healing process. For the devout, there has never been any question that prayer has the power to heal. But can science prove that it works?

Now, more and more medical research has shown conclusively that a belief in God really is good for you, making your healthier and happier. In fact,

research in demonstrating that it will help you live longer.

“Studies have shown prayer can prevent people from getting sick,” said Duke University’s Harold G. Koenig, M.D. in a recent Newsmax Health article. “And, when they do get sick, prayer can help them get better faster.”

But the science behind the power of prayer dug even deeper.

“An exhaustive study of more than 1,500 repu-table medical studies indicates people who are more religious and pray more have better mental and physical health,” Koenig said. “And, out of 125 studies that looked at the link between health and regular worship, 85 showed that regular church go-ers live longer.”

Dr. Koenig, director of Duke’s Center for Spiritual-ity, Theology and Health and the author of several authoritative books on faith and healing, says a study published in the Southern Medical Journal demonstrated that prayer has a remarkable effect on patients with hearing and visual defi ciencies.

“They showed signifi cant improvements based on audio and visual tests,” Koenig said of the patients’

response to prayer sessions.The proof of the power of prayer is overwhelming,

says researcher and writer Tom Knox, a one-time atheist, who became a regular worshiper after doing an in-depth study of the medical benefi ts of faith.

“What I discovered astonished me,” admits Knox. “Over the past 30 years, a growing and largely un-noticed body of scientifi c work shows religious belief and prayer is medically, socially and psychologically benefi cial.”

And fi nally, a research study at San Francisco General Hospital looked at the effect of prayer on 393 cardiac patients. Half were prayed for by strang-ers, who had only the patients’ names. Those prayed for had fewer complications, fewer cases of pneu-monia and needed less drug treatment.

“Atheists can sneer at faith all they like but they can’t assume science is on their side,” concluded Knox.

Cord Prettyman is a certifi ed master personal trainer and owner of Absolute Workout Fitness and Post-Re-hab Studio in Woodland Park. He can be reached at 687-7437, by email at [email protected] or via his website at cordprettyman.com.

By Dave Betzler [email protected]

Seniors in the Tri-Lakes region will be able to get a hot, nutritious lunch fi ve days a week beginning April 5, under an expansion announced last week.

Silver Key Senior Services plans to expand its Golden Circle Nutri-tion Program and consolidate in the Mountain Community Mennonite Church at 643 Hwy 105 in Palmer Lake, the non-profi t meal organization announced.

Daily meals at a single site is a big change from the current schedule of three days a week at alternating loca-tions: the Tri-Lakes Chamber building and the Lewis-Palmer School District 38 administration building known as Big Red.

The expanded lunch program guarantees nutritious, chef-prepared meals each weekday for the growing population of seniors in the Tri-Lakes area, said Pat Ellis, Silver Key president and CEO as well as long-time Tri-Lakes resident.

Lunches will be prepared in Silver Key’s new commercial kitchen at its recently opened corporate facility at 1655 S. Murray Blvd. in Colorado Springs. Silver Key will deliver the meals to the Mennonite Church, where a daily Silver Key staff person will supervise the 3-4 volunteer serv-ers.

“Our new partnership with Moun-tain Community Mennonite Church

provides the space to serve meals fi ve days per week,” Ellis said. “We are grateful to them for opening their doors to us so that we can serve se-niors each day.”

Mennonite Pastor Paul Johnson said the church welcomed the seniors.

“Our congregation is fully behind this program and delighted with the new partnership,” Johnson said. “And we’re very appreciative of the continuing community and volunteer support for our Mountain Commu-nity Senior Services, which already provides senior transportation and handyman services, and soon nutri-tion.”

Now, the operation just needs some dedicated volunteers.

“Our two small buses are ready,” said Jody Richardson, senior services transportation director. “All we need are more dedicated volunteer drivers.”

For decades, Dorothy Meyers, Mag-gie Nealon and Judy Hufford have led dedicated teams of senior volunteers in serving a daily average of 25-30 senior meals, three days a week.

Area seniors to getexpanded lunch program

To learn more: Contact Linda Arguello at 719-884-2319 or [email protected].

For The Tribune

Years of genealogical research paid off for William “Will” Hollenbach, a freshman at Lewis-Palmer High School, with his recent induction into the Society of the Sons of the Ameri-can Revolution.

Hollenbach traced his ancestry back 10 generations and documented that he is a direct descendant of three Revolutionary War patriots including Johannes “Nicholas” Höllenbach, who arrived in Philadelphia in September 1753 when he was about 14. He and his uncle, Johan Michael Höllenbach, sailed from what is now Germany/Bavaria on the ship “Nep-tune.”

Nicholas served with two other Revolutionary War patriots, Hans Le-onhard Knecht and Lorentz Holben, whose great granddaughters later married into the Hollenbach family. All three survived the war.

The Sons of the American Revolu-tion is a fraternal and civic society of descendants of the men who wintered at Valley Forge, signed the Declaration of Independence, fought in the battles of the American Revolution, served in the Continental Congress, or otherwise supported the cause of American Independence.

Will’s older brother, Ethan, also was inducted into the society. He is a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are sons of David and Dana Hollenbach of Monument.

Hollenbach inducted into Sons of American Revolution

William “Will” Hollenbach, a freshman at Lewis-Palmer High School, recently earned in-duction into the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. /Courtesy photo


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Continued from Page 1But Bornstein, Coopman and Medli-

cott were particularly critical of the in-crease. Bornstein said the board should have slowed the process. Medlicott said the staff proposal didn’t add up. And Coopman attacked the entire process.

“It was absolutely irresponsible when they were presented with facts and the town staff was asked for infor-mation and willfully refused to provide it,” Coopman said. “They voted yes knowing they were being lied to.”

The slate made it clear its fi rst prior-ity, if elected, was to reconsider the new rates.

“We will immediately throw out the water rates implemented Monday,” Coopman said. “We will tear down the walls and have open and honest com-munication with the community.

“We need leadership that responds to the people. We are being deprived of information and our voice. The Board of Trustees is being driven by the paid town staff. That ends with this election. We will direct and guide the paid staff.”

Bornstein also pounded on the theme of a staff out of control.

“We have a cancer in the building at Town Hall,” he said. “There is no ac-countability. There are meetings be-hind closed doors. You can’t get infor-mation. I can’t get information. I’m so concerned where we are right now. It’s a critical time. If we take a wrong turn, Monument might not be the desirable place to live in the future.”

Wilson said the rates unfairly pun-ished businesses.

“I’m really disappointed we kicked a lot of small businesses in the face Mon-day,” Wilson said.

Meanwhile, the unaffi liated candi-dates touted their experience and goals for the community.

Tooley pointed to her work going door-to-door with Howe, over the last four years, to draw in residents to be more involved in the community.

“What I bring to the board is a little different perspective,” she said. “I reach out and try to be inclusive as possible. I try to get input from others. I want peo-ple to view Monument as their back-yard and to explore it and get engaged in community events.”

Howe said he’d tried to do his best in his fi rst four-year term and vowed to remain open and available to constitu-ents and make diffi cult decisions in the town’s best interests.

He noted his work at community events, with Tooley, and his efforts to upgrade the Monument Cemetery and his goal of updating the town’s compre-hensive plan, which was written in 2003 and is long overdue for a revision.

Sorenson and Allen promised to use their computer engineering and analytical skills in tackling town issues. Wilson sounded the same themes as his colleagues on the slate, noting his back-ground working for the town of Castle Rock gives him a unique and valuable perspective.

All listed water as a top priority and most mentioned zoning, as related to the fi ght last summer to stop a metha-done clinic/dispensary from opening in downtown across from Limbach Park.

But slate members pounded the methadone issue as another example of the poor leadership on the current board.

“We have to have a spine and stand fi rm and say no to things that threaten the community,” said Medlicott, who has been openly critical of Mayor Rafa-el Dominguez for his “top-down” man-agement style.

“I’m willing to listen and learn,” Medlicott said. “When faced with a hard decision, my guiding principle is what’s best for our community, not what the municipal code says I must do. The current board is reactive. It is passive. It does not have vision.”

Sorenson and Allen spoke of the need to provide incentives for busi-nesses to locate in Monument.

But Bornstein argued there will be little commercial and retail growth due to the new water rates. And he ham-mered on the failure to update the comprehensive plan as another reason for change, saying the town has no di-rection without a current plan.

The comments at the forum brought

a strong rebuke afterward from Domin-guez who called it “alarming” they might ignore the law and do what they think is right instead.

“That is not responsible govern-ment,” Dominguez said. “First and fore-most we must follow the law. Their will-ingness to break the law is alarming.”

He singled out Bornstein for espe-cially harsh criticism, calling him and Medlicott “lapdogs for Coopman.”

“Bornstein is the least-respected member of the Board of Trustees,” Dominguez said. “He didn’t take the time to study the water rates and un-derstand the issue. He’s only there for himself. That’s why he burned every single bridge on the board.”

Four candidates running together on a reform slate are, from left, Shea Medlicott, who serves on the Board of Adjustment, Don Wilson, incumbent Trustee Jeff Bornstein and Greg Coopman, a leader of the No Methadone in Monument group.

Four candidates for the Monument Board of Trustees, running as individuals, are, from left, Kevin Sorenson, incumbent Trustee John Howe, Tim Allen, incumbent Becki Tooley. /Photos by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune

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Senior right-hander talking with major league teams By Danny [email protected]

Lewis-Palmer was ranked No. 2 in

Class 4A in the first CHSAA.com base-ball poll, released last week.

It’s no surprise. The Rangers finished 2015 as the state runner-up. They have the best player in southern Colorado – and perhaps the state – in senior right-hander Paul Tillotson. And L-P has not lost a Pikes Peak Athletic Conference game since 2013, sporting a 28-game winning streak.

But the Rangers graduated 15 play-ers, and return just two lettermen. Joining Tillotson is junior Billy Cook.

“I don’t know what the rankings are

based on, but I do know our guys work hard and everybody comes ready to play,” said Cook, who batted .421 last season with a team-leading 13 dou-bles. “We’re ready for the next game or the next practice, ready to throw and get better, and we’re all coachable. We want to get better.

“I think we can have another great season. We have a lot of pitching depth and we have the bats and we have the fielding. We have a lot of natural ath-letes and our confidence is starting to build.”

Tillotson has been a model of con-sistency over his four years with the team. Last season, he led the team in batting average (.446), RBIs (32) and extra-base-hits (17). He was even bet-ter as a pitcher, posting an 8-1 record with a 1.62 ERA. He struck out 145 batters in 78 innings to shatter the school record for strikeouts in a sea-son.

In November, Tillotson signed a scholarship offer with the University of Nebraska. His college plans could be altered, depending on where he is se-lected in June’s amateur baseball draft. He is being contacted by scouts from numerous major league clubs on an al-most daily basis.

“I talked with the (Chicago) Cubs last night, the (New York) Yankees a few days ago, and the (St. Louis) Car-dinals,” said Tillotson, who maintains a 3.4 grade point average. “They want to know what my interests are. If I want to go to college or the draft. They’re look-ing at me personally. Trying to find out the character I have. The kind of guy I am off the field. Like who I am as a per-son.”

A scout from the Seattle Mariners was out to watch him March 10 at Rampart.

“It’s a humbling experience,” Tillot-son said of the attention he is receiv-ing from major league scouts. “It’s way too early to really know for sure what will happen down the road in June. De-pending on how things go this spring, I will know more.”

The only other Rangers player back with any varsity experience is senior Cody Morrow. The 6-foot-4 right-hander pitched 2 1/3 inning last spring in Arizona before suffering a rotator cuff/biceps injury. He was able to come back and play in some junior varsity games later in the season.

“We have a bunch of guys who can do anything on the field,” said Morrow, who is expected to be the No. 2 pitcher on the staff behind Tillotson. “We are really versatile. We’re going to win as a team this year, instead of just a few main contributors.”

Tillotson led the Rangers to a sea-

son-opening 3-2 victory over Ram-part on March 10. He had a pair of RBI’s, while striking out six in five in-nings. Both runs he allowed were un-earned.

Another player back from missing last season with an injury is junior Kev-in Tims, an infielder/pitcher. Tims was the starting quarterback for the foot-ball team, a position Tillotson had until he gave up the sport to focus on base-ball following his sophomore season.

Brett Lester was hired as the Rang-ers’ coach in June after Tom McCabe was fired. Lester brings a wealth of experience to the diamond. A former Pine Creek player, he played collegiate-ly in Texas and coached down there as well.

“I think we’re coming together pret-ty well as a team,” Lester said. “This is going to be a fun season.”

Fun, and interesting.

Arizona tournaments now an annual tradition By Danny [email protected]

Fun, sun and baseball. Seems like a

perfect mix to me.This weekend, Palmer Ridge,

Lewis-Palmer and Discovery Canyon high schools will take their baseball bats, gloves and cleats and head to sunny Phoenix to participate in tour-naments.

College kids may spend their spring breaks hitting the beaches of Florida and Texas, but for Tri-Lakes area base-ball players, spring means hitting the diamonds in Arizona.

Palmer Ridge and Lewis-Palmer will play in the 120-team Coach Bob Invi-tational. Discovery Canyon is playing in the 22nd Annual Greenway Festival.

Our Tri-Lakes area teams have been making the trek to Arizona for years. They are guaranteed four games and get to play against top competi-tion from California, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma and Arkansas, among other states.

“It’s a team-bonding experience,” said L-P senior Paul Tillotson, who is making his fourth trip to Arizona. “Staying at the hotel keeps all the guys together and we get that team chem-istry going on. We have fun. Play at the pool. Play some whiffle ball against other teams down there. And then every day you go out play the games.

“It’s like you’re on a vacation with

your buddies. You’re with 15 to 16 other guys. We’re able to get away from school and all the pressure of stuff go-ing on every day in the classroom. It’s just a great experience down there.”

Lewis-Palmer recently enjoyed a similar team-bonding experience when several players and coaches trav-eled to Children’s Hospital in Denver on March 6. They spent time with the patients doing arts and crafts, among other things. Trips to Children’s Hospi-tal have become annual events for the Rangers.

L-P junior Billy Cook said the expe-rience of playing in Arizona is vastly different from spring in the Pikes Peak region.

“You get to experience some great competition in Arizona and the fields are really nice,” Cook said. “It’s nice to play in some warm weather and expe-rience a little adversity with the heat.

“You also get to improve your talents every day by playing the game you love.”

Other Colorado Springs area teams at the Coach Bob Invitational include Air Academy, Vista Ridge, Pine Creek and Palmer.

Lewis-Palmer opens play March 21 against Lincoln, Ore. Palmer Ridge plays Marist (Eugene, Ore.) that same day.

“We play all Oregon teams this year,” said Palmer Ridge coach Steve Whiting. “It will be the first year we haven’t played an Arizona school.”

Each team will play four games in four days.

“The fields down there are like put-ting greens,” said L-P first-year coach Brett Lester.

Discovery Canyon hosts Rampart on March 19 in its season opener. The Thunder will then make the 12-hour trek to Phoenix, where its plays Thun-derbird (Phoenix) on March 21 in the

Greenway Festival. The tournament includes teams from Idaho, Utah, Oklahoma and Arizona.

Discovery Canyon also will play four games in four days.

After a week of fun in the sun, teams head back to Colorado. Discovery Canyon hosts Cheyenne Mountain on March 29 in its Pikes Peak Athletic Conference opener.

Cheyenne Mountain will be in Las Vegas, Nevada, over spring break to play in the Blazer Spring Bash.

Teams raise money for the out-of-state tournaments by doing vari-ous fundraisers throughout the year. Families are responsible for their own transportation to and from Arizona.

FROM THE SIDELINES Danny [email protected]

Tri-Lakes baseball teams heading to Arizona

Members of the Lewis-Palmer baseball team visited the Children’s Hospital in Denver on March 6. They did arts and crafts with the patients, among other things. /Photo courtesy of Dimas Nunez

Tillotson leads the charge for new-look Rangers

The state championship runner-up trophy from last season. /Photo by Danny Summers

Lewis-Palmer returns three players with varsity experience. From left to right, Cody Mor-row, Paul Tillotson and Billy Cook. The Rangers have won 28 consecutive Class 4A Pikes Peak Athletic Conference games. They were state runner-ups a year ago. /Photo by Danny Summers


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With 3,733 students divided among

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But for all of its amenities, the school has no home baseball or softball field.

If everything goes according to plan, TCA will finally have fields of its own by late summer.

“That’s what we’re shooting for,” said TCA athletic director Gary Geiger. “We’re looking to break ground in May and have the field ready for softball in August.”

In February, TCA’s board of directors voted to release $1 million to start con-struction of a multi-purpose field that would include baseball and softball, as well as an area for discus and shot put training.

An artist’s rendering shows just how things will be laid out.

“I’ve always heard about a new field, and it’s kind of a big deal for me that I will have it for my senior year,” said TCA junior Sawyer Weeks. “I’m just re-ally excited for things to come.”

TCA currently practices baseball on an all-weather turf football and soccer field at its east campus, located near New Life Church. The team has played its home games at Colorado Springs’ southside El Pomar Sports Complex – a 30-minute drive from TCA’s main campus off Voyager Parkway – since the program was founded in 2008.

“Practicing on football fields is fine, it will do the job, but it’s not as authen-

tic or best for us as practicing on a real baseball field,” Weeks said with a smile.

TCA junior Chris Leland is hop-ing the new facilities will build up the school’s fan base.

“I think it will get kids out to our ac-tual games instead of having to drive 30 minutes down the road,” Leland said. “I think it will bring the school together behind this baseball program and launch something even bigger and better than we have already.”

TCA sophomore John Bell will get to play his final two seasons at the new facility.

“We have a good program and this (new field) will develop it even more,” Bell said.

Despite not having a home field, TCA teams have had success. Since the start of the 2011 season, Titans teams are a combined 67-33.

“It’s long overdue,” said former TCA baseball coach Steve Whiting, who is now the head coach at Palmer Ridge. “We used to practice on that dirt lot at the school. It was really bad.”

The dirt and rock lot at the school is east of the football field and used by the junior varsity and C squad teams for practice. TCA’s softball team of-ten practices on the dirt lot, as well as throwers for the school’s track and field team.

The new multi-purpose field will be built on the dirt lot in three phases. The first phase will also involve retaining walls, electrical and drainage.

Phase 2 would involve backstops, fencing, bleachers, dugouts and net-ting around the streets. Phase 3 is lights, press box and concession stands.

Academy Little League donated a scoreboard to TCA, so that will save on that cost.

Geiger said an addition-al $300,000 will be needed to allow the softball and baseball teams to host home games.

The field will also be used by the school’s physi-cal education classes.

“The field will be used six days a week,” Gei-ger said. “If we can push lighting and make it part of Phase 2, it will give us so much more flexibility.”

TCA getting a place to call homeTo break ground on new athletic facility in May

An artist’s rendering of the new multi-purpose field at TCA. The field will include softball, baseball and a throwing area for track and field. Courtesy photo. /Courtesy photo

This dirt and rock field at The Classical Academy will be transformed into a multipurpose athletic facility by the end of summer. Construction will begin in May./Photo by Danny Summers


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Many Tri-Lakes area prep sports teams played their fi rst regular season contests last week.

Here is a closer look at some of the top athletes who are competing in boys swimming, girls golf and girls tennis.

Girls GolfDiscovery CanyonAmong the top players for the

Thunder is senior Emily Hart; juniors Shannon Bocquet, Kathryn Leslie and

Leslie Spencer; and freshman Brooke Pasvogel, whose brother Owen is a three-time state qualifi er.

Lewis-PalmerKey returners for the Rangers are

senior Nicole Clark, junior Mallory Lager, and sophomore Carly Hudson.

Palmer RidgeJunior Kellsey Sample fi nished 13th

at last year’s 4A state tournament. Other top Bears players this season are senior Cassidy Swecker and freshman Ashlee Sample.

The Classical AcademyTop players for the Titans are senior

Hannah Carter; sophomores Anna

Connell and Caitlin Solano; and fresh-man Mackenzie Fontana.

Girls tennisDiscovery CanyonThe Thunder returns all three

singles players who qualifi ed for last year’s 4A state tournament: seniors Gabriella Hesse, Sarah Casey and Sydney Smith. Other top players to watch include seniors Lizzie McCurdy and Emma Zamora.

Lewis-PalmerCoach Paul Kardel returns for his

16th season. His top players include seniors Hannah Chipman and Dominique Chouloute; junior Mikayla Yoesel; and sophomores Emma Gaydos, Victoria Vann, Stephanie Nolt, Averi Strikenberger and Sarah Fleischmann.

Palmer RidgeThe Bears have 36 players out this

season. Top returning players include seniors Brooke Beyer, Sandra Luksic and Lara McWhorter.

Boys swimmingLewis-PalmerThe Rangers, who compete in 5A,

return two divers who competed in the state fi nals: junior Noah Bettner (9th) and sophomore Jack Nagle (15th).

There is just one senior on the team.Jackie Cromer will coach the swim-

mers, while Alan Arata will concen-trate on coaching the divers.

Discovery CanyonThe Thunder is coached by Dave

Burgess, who guided the team to a sixth-place fi nish at last year’s 4A meet.

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Anyone using 12,001-24,000 gallons a month would pay $11 per 1,000 gallons over 12,000. Those using 24,000 gallons and more would pay a $12.25 surcharge per 1,000 gallons above the thresh-old.

The $31 monthly base will only providing about 21 percent of the money the town’s water enter-prise needs to provide water to its customers, operate and maintain nine wells, four treatment plants and a water storage tank as well as build a new $12 million water recycling facility as well as a new $3.4 million storage tank to hold 1.5 million gallons of water.

In addition, the rates will generate money for an emergency reserve and be used to repay the town general fund bank account for $433,000 trustees transferred in subsidies to the water en-terprise over the last de-cade.

Lowe’s rate structure is a gamble that people will use far more than 1,000 gallons of water a month and pay the higher rates to make up the rest of the 79 percent of revenue needed to hit town goals.

Thomas Tharnish, public works director, de-fended the revised rates to the board, taking par-ticular care to refute alle-

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Coopman wrote each of the trustees an email attacking the rates after they were released a week ago. Coopman said he was “disgusted” by the revised rates and accused Lowe and town staff, including Tharnish, of running the town instead of taking marching orders from the trustees.

Tharnish took particular excep-tion to Coopman’s allegation that “town staff is being deceptive in the proposal.”

Tharnish said the staff spent hours analyzing various propos-als offered by Coopman, business-men including A.B. Tellez, owner of Rosie’s Diner, and landlord John Dominowski.

“Their proposals just don’t get us where we need to be,” Tharnish said.

Coopman, Dominowski and Tellez were unconvinced and up-set the staff didn’t offer more than one alternative to its rate structure

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Tellez took to a wipe board to show the board his own calcu-lations of the town’s needs and how the rate structure could be much lower and still restore sol-vency to the water enterprise and achieve several of the other goals.

“We are at a crossroads,” Tellez said. “I would like to see other op-tions.”

Haley Chapin, executive direc-tor of Tri-Lakes Cares, urged the board to brace for residents seek-ing help paying their water bills.

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Tender of payment by certified or cashier’s check or application for cancellation of the foreclosure sale shall be submitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commissioner provided below. Dated: February 19, 2016

_s/ Deanne R. Stodden_____________ Foreclosure Commissioner Deanne R. Stodden #33214 999 18th Street, Suite S1500 Denver, CO 80202 (303) 8618888 [email protected]

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE

WHEREAS, on March 29, 2004 a certain Deed of Trust was executed by James H. O’Dell and Theresa O’Dell as Grantors in favor of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. as Grantee and the Public Trustee of El Paso, Colorado as Trustee, and was recorded at Reception Number 204053888 on April 5, 2004 in the office of the clerk and recorder of the County of El Paso, Colorado; and

WHEREAS, the Deed of Trust was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing a single family housing; and

WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an assignment recorded on December 5, 2011 at Reception Number 211119794 in the office of the Clerk and recorder of the County of El Paso, Colorado.

WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Deed of Trust in that Paragraph 9 (a) (i) has been violated; and

WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of February 12, 2016 is $190,137.32; and

WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust to be immediately due and payable;

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on February 16, 2016 at Reception No. 216015261, notice is hereby given that on March 30, 2016 at 1:00 P.M. local time, all real and person property at or used in connection with the following described premises (“Property”) will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder: LOT 16 IN BLOCK 2 IN PALMER PARK SUBDIVISION NO. 3, FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Commonly known as: 3640 Agate Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80909 The sale will be held at 3640 Agate Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80909 The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid the lesser amount of the loan balance or the appraised value obtained by the Secretary prior to sale.

There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorate share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.

When making their bids, all bidders except the Secretary must submit a deposit totaling 10% of the Secretary’s bid in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. A deposit need not be accompany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of 10% of the Secretary’s bid must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the highest bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveying fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.

The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extension will be for 15day increments for a fee of $500.00, paid in advance. The extension fee shall be in the form of certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of HUD. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.

If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit, or at the election of the foreclosure commissioner after consultation with the HUD representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.

There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein, HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant.

The scheduled foreclosure sale shall be cancelled or adjourned if it is established, by documented written application of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner no less than three (3) days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclosure is based did not exist at the time of service of this notice of default and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form of a certified cashier’s check payable to the Secretary of HUD, before the public auction of the property is completed.

The amount that must be paid if the mortgage is to be reinstated prior to the scheduled sale is $190,137.32 as of February 12, 2016,plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the deed of trust had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road

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