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Carbondale’s weekly, non-profit newspaper Volume 3, Number 14 | May 19, 2011

By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

hat does it take to become a VIP atthis year’s Carbondale Wild WestRodeo?

Twenty bucks, a pickup (or flatbed) and thewherewithal to get your wheels to a fence-side slotat the rodeo grounds in time to stake your claim.

“The fence perimeter is a front row seat to all theaction, and pulling your truck up to the fence andfilling it with friends and family makes for a greatnight at the rodeo,” said Carbondale Wild WestRodeo Association Board President Dave Weimer.

Weimer touched on the topic of fence parkingwhen he and association board member MikeKennedy briefed the Carbondale Board of Trusteeson the upcoming rodeo season Tuesday night.

The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo takes placeat the Gus Darien arena just east of town and willrun Thursday nights from June 2 to Aug. 18.

The series is produced by a not-for-profit, vol-unteer association that says it is committed tokeeping the Roaring Fork Valley’s western heritagealive by offering a family-oriented event for resi-dents and visitors alike.

“We are a small-town rodeo with big time funfor everyone,”Weimer said.“We hope to see every-one there. It’s the place to be on Thursday night.”

Approximately 1,200 people attend the rodeoeach week.

The VIP parking (dubbed as such by The SoprisSun) was brought on by the fact that for the pastfew years, early birds have been parking their ve-hicles along the fence as early as 6 a.m. on Thurs-days and even earlier, and Weimer and Kennedyare tired of spending the day keeping them out.

“There are so many people wanting to do it(park on the fence) … they’d keep their trucksthere all year,”Weimer explained.

The new system will operate like a commercialparking lot,withVIP parkers putting $20 into a lockbox and leaving their cars as early as Wednesdays.

As for this season’s events, they include cowhideraces and rescue races on alternating Thursdaysthroughout the season.“We did the cowhide races acouple of times last year and they are a hoot,”Weimer said beforeTuesday night’s trustees meeting.

The 2011 Rodeo Royalty will be featured inthe Grand Entry again this year, which is at 7:30p.m. Caitlyn Kinney is this year’s Queen. HeidiSmall and Emily Clinco are the Queen Attendants.“The royalty serves as a role model for youngwomen in our town and as in past years, the Car-bondale Wild West Rodeo will provide scholarshipfunds to the royalty,”Weimer said.

He also noted the rodeo is made possiblethrough volunteer help. To sign up, call Melanieat 379-0809.

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John Bender inspects and reflects on the refurbished Satank Bridge following its dedication on May 12. “It’s a fantastic ad-dition to the community,” Bender said. “It’s rare to be able to just stand over a river like this … and it connects the Rio GrandeTrail to the (Satank) community.” The 110-year-old wood and steel bridge was near collapse until a grassrootseffort to save it took root about 10 years ago. For more about the Satank Bridge, please turn to page 3. Photo by Lynn Burton

A bridge reborn

e Real Housewives of CarbondaleFirst of all, the real housewives of Carbondale work (just because you don’t earn

a living wage in this valley, doesn’t mean it isn’t work.) The only time we get to wearour velour track suits is on Saturday at the rugby field, dog park, CO-OP, etc.

The kind of woman who comes (and stays) Out West is not the same as her EastCoast counterpart; like that region-specific Barbie e-mail that went around a fewyears ago (all I remember is the Carbondale Barbie had hairy legs and drove a Sub-

aru and the Rifle Barbie could kick Ken’s). The realhousewives of Carbondale are more likely to be foundon a cattle drive than in the drive-through. And the typ-ical Carbondale housewife would trade all the prema-ture gold jewelry and blood diamonds in the world justto have time for a bike ride and a long hot bath o1

n the same day. The West is no place for sissies.*Speaking of sissies, what’s up with these guys we’ve

elected to do a job they’re obviously not qualified to do?!“Dear Congress: in the real world, if you do not haveyour most important project completed in time, youdon’t shut down your office ... you get fired.” –TL.

These guys are the 1 percent that is 100 percent of theproblem. Cutting public funding for things like women’shealth care (Planned Parenthood) women’s multi-taskingnews source (NPR) and women’s precious time to shavetheir legs (Sesame Street) is going to solve our nationalspending habit, really? As usual, these guys don’t con-

sider what the other 99 percent wants; they just sit in their wood-paneled dens withtheir dead heads and watch the propaganda war machine that is the opposite of un-biased media.

I can’t even watch Fox News anymore without feeling like I’ve entered JeremyMadden’s horrible parallel universe. The anchors all look like Barker’s Beauties — andthat’s just the men. It’s like a strange, far away world of war and oil & gas and pan-cake makeup. And I, for one, don’t want to live there. I want to live in a world of in-novation and acceptance. Wherever the real Obama is, where they are usingrenewable energy sources and where the people who have the most share with thosewho have the least. (Yeah, I voted for him; and I’d do it again. I took a chance on theguy claiming he was for change, instead of the My Crazy Runs Wide and It RunsDeep ticket.) At least I hope that’s going on in another time plane, otherwise it’s as Isuspected all along: Obama’s hooked up in a vat somewhere in Virginia, we’ll use gasuntil our wildlife refuges are the size of zoos and the 1 percent will have to live be-hind 6-foot walls with 24-hour security while the rest of us line up each morning forwork — oh shoot! The future is now!

We’re already there, at the tippingpoint of revolution. When 1 percentowns 40 percent of the wealth,* it’s likethe real housewives of New Jersey —top-heavy and easily tipped over (evenbefore too many margaritas.)

It’s either revolution, or we allmove down to Mexico and experiencewhat it’s like to have affordable dentalcare. I’m so tired of people in thiscountry getting their undies in a bunchabout illegal immigrants entering ourcountry and taking our jobs, using ourhealth care and watching our SesameStreet. Why don’t we set up a welcomecenter at the border to hand out tax IDnumbers? Real housewives in velourtrack suits, with clipboards, welcom-ing newcomers to sign in and sign upfor all the benefits of being a bona fidewar-mongering, gas guzzling, tax-pay-ing American.

* The upper 1 percent of Americansare now taking in nearly a quarter ofthe nation’s income every year. In termsof wealth rather than income, the top 1percent control 40 percent. Their lot inlife has improved considerably.Twenty-five years ago, the correspon-ding figures were 12 percent and 33percent. “Of the 1 percent, by the 1percent, for the 1 percent,” by JosephE. Stiglitz (www.vanityfair.com).

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The Educators’ RoundtableUnderstanding the complexities ofschool financing: It can be done

With the economy such a pressing factor, the Carbondale Educators’ Round-table decided our first column would be about public and independent schoolfunding.

We asked Shannon Pelland, the finance director for the Roaring Fork SchoolDistrict, to distill complicated state funding laws for public education. She writes,“The majority of funding for public schools in Colorado is based on a complexcalculation governed by the state’s School Finance Act. The formula to determineper pupil funding (PPF) for each district takes into account differences in the sizeof district, cost-of-living and other factors. PPF is multiplied by the number of stu-dents in each district to determine Total Program Funding (TPF). The state de-termines what portion of TPF can be generated by local property taxes andspecific ownership taxes from each district, and the state must make up the dif-ference. For the Roaring Fork School District, most of the funding comes fromlocal taxes. In some districts with low assessed property values, most of the fund-ing comes from the state.”

Pelland said that in the RFSD, the TPF is $36.3 million. Approximately 83percent of the budget comes from property taxes, followed by specific ownershiptaxes (3 percent) and state funding (14 percent of the budget). With propertytaxes expected to decrease by as much as 30 percent next year, the state will haveto pick up a much larger portion of Total Program Funding. This is one of the is-sues causing a projected shortfall in the state’s budget, resulting in big cuts to ed-ucation funding.

Colorado law permits local districts to collect up to 25 percent (about $9 mil-lion for RFSD) more than the amount allowed by the Total Program Funding for-mula if local voters approve a mill levy override resulting in increased propertytaxes. RFSD voters have previously approved $4 million in mill levy overrides leav-ing about $5 million additional that could be approved by voters.

For RFSD schools, individual school budgets will see a 42 percent reduction –12 percent last year and another 30 percent this fall. For all schools, generating ad-ditional funds is essential to having extras, as state funding in Colorado is limitedcompared to other states. We rely on the fundraising efforts of our communities tosupport additional programs we know benefit kids, and all our schools are en-hanced due to parental and community efforts.

A public charter school such as Carbondale Community School is funded likethe rest of the Roaring Fork School District’s schools. However, 5 percent of theschool’s per pupil funding goes back to the school district for its share of districtadministrative costs. The school’s PPF funding does not support the school’s entirebudget, so through grants and fundraising efforts the school needs to raise ap-proximately $1,500 per student in order to continue to operate. Carbondale Com-munity School teachers’ salaries are 90 percent of what RFSD teachers are paid.Grants support the school’s counseling and literacy positions; the school’s artteacher is funded by its annual Roaring Fork Studio Tour (which takes place inearly June).

Independent schools in Carbondale are funded differently than public schools.For example, Colorado Rocky Mountain School does not receive any governmentfunding. Hence, CRMS meets an annual operating budget of over $5 million pri-marily through tuition and fees. Full tuition and fees cover 75 percent of the actualcost of a CRMS education, so the school generates the rest of the necessary revenuethrough its Annual Fund (supported by parents, alumni, grants/foundations andfriends of the school), endowment proceeds and summer programming.

The Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork is an independent rather than a pri-vate school. To achieve that goal, the school raises hundreds of thousands of dol-lars per year that are offered as tuition reductions for families who do not have thefinancial means to pay full tuition. In a typical year, about two-thirds of the school’soperating income is generated by tuition and one-third from gifts, fundraisingevents and grants.

Ross Montessori charter school is part of the Charter School Initiative publicschool district (a state-wide district). The school is funded though per pupil fund-ing and donations/fundraising. It generates approximately $70,000 per yearthrough fundraisers.

We welcome your questions and/or comments.

Submitted by Karen Olson, Crystal River Elementary School; Tom Penzel, Car-bondale Community School; Jeff Leahy, Colorado Rocky Mountain School;Robert Schultz, the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork; and Shannon Pelland,the Roaring Fork School District.

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By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

If you ask John Hoffmann about a dark-est moment in the eight-year effort to save theSatank Bridge, you might be thinking aboutthe crane that was shipped in from Swedento move the bridge,but fell over and broke inhalf in Grand Junction.

Or when the price tag on the projectswelled from a little over $100,000 to morethan $900,000.

Or as years went by, bridge splinters con-tinued to fall into the Roaring Fork, and itlooked to some that the whole effort mightbe a lost cause.

If you try to get those answers from Hoff-mannwhen talkingabout theSatankBridge re-habilitation project, good luck. For a darkmoment,he’s most likely to point to the“glori-ous” cottonwood tree that once shaded part ofthe bridge but had to be removed in order forcranes to lift the structure from its abutments.

“I never doubted (the bridge would besaved),” he said a few days after the May 12dedication ceremony. “We knew it wouldtake a long time.”

The “long time” officially ended on May12, when several dozen county officials, con-struction workers, volunteers, local folks

and friends of the bridge gathered to offi-cially dedicated the 110-year-old bridge andwish it well in its new non-motorized life.

“This bridge is going to be here for awhile,” Hoffmann told the gathering as theysipped coffee and munched on pastries at thenorth end of the bridge.“We created a bridgethat’s going to stand, useful and proud, forthe next 100 years.”

The wood and steel “through truss” de-sign was patented by Caleb and ThomasPratt in 1844,according to a placard the Col-orado State Historical Fund has placed atboth ends of the now pedestrian/bicyclebridge. The Satank Bridge is the last timbertruss bridge still in use in Colorado.

The 100-foot bridge crosses the RoaringFork River just downstream from the High-way 133 Bridge. It connects Satank and thewest side of Carbondale to the Rio GrandeTrail and Highway 82.

Hoffmann compiled a chronology of theimportant events that took place leading upto the bridge dedication and read them to thecrowd. Highlights included:

• 1900 – Garfield County builds the Sa-tank Bridge at a cost of $2,325.

•1990– The bridge received its last coat ofpaint to make it presentable for the Dennis

Hopper/Kiefer Sutherland movie‘”Flashback.”•1994 –The bridge was closed to vehicles.• 1998 – The bridge was catalogued as a

historic structure for CDOT and the Col-orado Historical Society.

• 2002 – Hap Ellsworth, a retired bridgeinspector, gave the bridge three years to fail-ure. The Carbondale Trails Commission(CTC) requested an engineering study fromGarfield County. The town of Carbondaleapplied for an assessment grant from the Col-orado State Historical Fund for $9,400 witha $1,200 match.

• 2004 – Carbondale received a $91,000rehabilitation grant with a $31,000 match.

• 2006 – The town obtained a $90,000bid to rehabilitate the structure, a $20,000bid for a crane to set the bridge on new abut-ments and $10,000 bid for new feet and end-pins. “We figured to find additional fundingto offset the rest later,” Hoffmann said.

•2007–GarfieldCountyaskedCarbondaletobuildwingwallson thenorthshore; the townobtained a bid for $60,000 to do the job.GarfieldCountyagreed to takeover theproject.

•2010 –A crane was used to lift the bridgeoff its abutments and disassemble it on thenorth side of the Roaring Fork. Useable com-ponents were transported to a Garfield County

shop; metal components were tested forstrength; new timbers and decking were usedto replace rotten wood.

• 2011 – On Jan. 5 the rehabilitated Sa-tank Bridge was lowered onto its rehabili-tated abutments by Gould Construction andPioneer Steel.

Bicyclists, pedestrians, runners, anglersand others have been using the bridge since itwas set back into place in January.Among itsmost popular uses, is the connection of thewest side of Carbondale to the Rio GrandeTrail. Pedaling from the south, bikers canhead upvalley or downvalley from the northside of the bridge. Pedaling from the north,the bridge gets bikers through Satank andinto Carbondale.

“This (bridge) is a huge amenity for thecounty, the town and Satank,” Hoffmannsaid.“And it’s just a beautiful spot to go to.”

Hoffmann readily admits he wasn’t theprimary volunteer who helped save the bridgeand put it back into service.There were lots ofothers who volunteered ideas, expertise andactual labor.

“There was Bill Spence … Thane Linci-come … Bob Lucas … Charlie Moore …TomJoiner … Tom Bleskan … There were a lot ofpeople in town who put in a lot of free labor.”

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Folks converged from the north and south side of the Roaring Fork River for the Satank Bridge dedication. Speakers includedGarfield County Commissioner John Martin. Photo by Lynn Burton

John Hoffmann made a few remarks atthe Satank Bridge dedication on May 12.Hoffmann was one of the early volunteerswho stepped up to help with a logisticalplan to help save the bridge, then helpedlobby elected officials and the state forsupport that eventually saved the bridgefrom demolition or collapse. Photo byLynn Burton

Satank Bridge officially ready for the next 100 years

Tracksters advance; baseballers don’tRoaring Fork High School will send at least four athletes to this week’s Class 3A state

track meet at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood.On the boy’s side, Zach Browning and Taylor Browning (both seniors) will compete

in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash. The Rams also send a teamfor the 4X100 relay but the names were not available at press time.

On the girl’s side, Taila Howe (a freshman) will compete in the 100-meter dash andthe long jump. Adrienne Ackerman (a senior) will compete in the 300-meter hurdles.

Meanwhile, the Roaring Fork baseballers out slugged Manitou Springs 11-10 in theopening round of the 3A District Four tournament on Friday but fell to Holy Family thenext day 17-1. Roaring Fork ends its season with a 16-5 record.

Trustees select manager committeeThe Carbondale Board of Trustees appointed the following people to their Town Man-

ager Interview Committee at their meeting on May 17: Mark Chain, Ramona Griffith, JoanCheney, Laurel Lamont, Andrea Korber, Colin Laird, Dan Richardson and Erin Rigney.

The town is closing in on selecting a new town manager and has whittled the initiallist down to five finalists.

CMC looks at budget cutsColorado Mountain College is looking at spending cuts of $10 million in a draft

budget presented to the college board at its monthly meeting in Glenwood Springs onMonday. Most of those cuts will occur in planning for future construction projects, ac-cording to a CMC press release.

The proposed cuts are brought on by decreases in state funds and property tax rev-enues, the press release said. CMC employees are also looking at a salary freeze.

The budget cuts will not affect the college’s plan to offer four-year bachelors degreesin some fields of study.

The CMC board of trustees will vote on the $55 million budget in June.

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News Briefs Cop ShopThe following events are drawnfrom incident reports of the Car-bondale Police Department.

TUESDAY May 10 At 4:20 p.m.,police received a report of someonepossibly cutting wood at Bull Pas-ture Park at the south end of townon Highway 133. Officers were un-able to locate any woodcutters.

TUESDAY May 10At 11:40 p.m.,during a rainstorm police observeda woman laying in a gutter near theswimming pool. They took her toan address she said was her home.The residents said she did not livethere but would take care of her.

WEDNESDAY May 11 At 11:12p.m. an officer stopped a car forspeeding on Meadowood. Whenthe suspect’s car stopped, the driverjumped out, ran to the other side ofthe car and hopped in the backseat. Police noticed symptoms of in-toxication. The suspect failed aroadside sobriety check then re-fused a chemical check for possibleDUI. He was then taken to GarfieldCounty jail.

THURSDAYMay 12At 1:10 p.m.,a police officer issued a ticket to avehicle that was parked in thewrong direction on Garfield Avenue.

The Crystal River Civic Commissionofficially opened the historic MarbleState Bank Building on Monday andwill use it as a visitor’s center and com-munity gathering place. Named “TheHub,” the civic center will offer wi-fi, apublic telephone and other services.Starting Memorial Day weekend, theHub will be open seven days a week.Photo by Lynn Burton

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One of the rodeo-related topics brought up at Tuesday night’s trustees meeting had to dowith a deed restriction on the Gus Darien arena. When the old Carbondale Roping Com-mittee transfered the property to the town of Carbondale 20 years ago, a deed restrictionwas attached to limit the types of uses that were permitted on the property. The deed re-striction expires in June and the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Association would like thetrustees to address that issue. Weimer indicated the association would like for the property

to be restricted mostly to equine related uses.Laurie Loeb was the only member of the public to comment on the rodeo at Tuesday

night’s meeting. Loeb said she took some people to the rodeo last summer and was a bit sur-prised at the prayer that was offered up before the performance. For this year, she requestedthat the prayer be “non-denominational.”

“I don’t think that it’s appropriate for (a denominational) prayer for town owned prop-erty … and with the eclectic nature of the audience.”

Weimer replied,“I don’t have an answer at this point.”

Although a far cry from Spain’srunning of the bulls, early this

week the Sun caught Carbondale’sversion (the running of the calves)as Ted Nieslanik (white shirt) and

Matt Nieslanik (plaid shirt) helpedfellow rancher Tony Gross sort hiscattle on Missouri Heights beforemoving them to summer pasture.

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JAS names Band Battle winnersJazz Aspen/Snowmass brought some of

the best young musicians from Colorado toSopris Park for Band Battle 2011 on May 7.This week, JAS judges bestowed the follow-ing Outstanding Student awards: JasonBarnes, Wes Neimer, A.J. Gray, TravisProvost, Jarod Cowen, Walter Gorra, TrentJohnson, T.J. Kaiser, Obidiah Jones andZack Ritchie.

Outstanding High School Band honorswent to the Glenwood Springs High SchoolJazz Band; the Outstanding Middle SchoolBand award to the NoJoes; OutstandingHigh School Garage Band to Vision Quest;and Outstanding Middle School GarageBand to Gunslingers.

The Best Original Composition awardwent to Lisa Atkinsom, while the Outstand-ing Teacher honors went to Tami Suby.

The Aspen Community Foundationawarded its 2011 Carolyn Powers/JASScholarship for continuing music educationat the college level to Erin Daniel (AspenHigh School) and Walter Gorra (GlenwoodSprings High School).

Gas prices below $4For the past three weeks or so gasoline

prices (unleaded regular) in Carbondalehave either flirted with $4 a gallon, almostkissed $4 a gallon, come within a whisker of$4 a gallon or threatened to hit $4 a gallon.For a few hours during the Co-op’s annualsidewalk sale on Saturday, gasoline plum-

meted to $3.89 a gallon. In any case, as ofMonday afternoon gasoline prices at all fouroutlets on Highway 133 were $3.99 for un-leaded regular. If you really want to paymore than $4, Catherine Store on Highway82 can fix you up.

CoolCheck out the lifeguard-style chairs in

front of Crystal River Spas on Main Street.A guy or gal with enough sunscreen, drinksand magazines could spend the whole sum-mer in one of those.

Suck it upA Carbondale guy whose back seat was

covered in hay after his horse-owning girl-friend made him tote a few bales down tothe pasture when her truck was broke re-ports the following. The nozzle on the vac-uum at the car wash can be removed andhay removed from that, when it getsclogged up while cleaning out the car.

But wait.There’s more.And when the vacuum doesn’t suck up

all the hay? You can blast it out with ablower. That was the girlfriend’s trick.

It’s almost mind blowing that anyonewould load hay into the backseat of theirfour-door Toyota, and even more mind-blowing that it’s news vacuum nozzles areremovable.

Such is life for some in Carbondale.

New farmer’s marketThere’s a new farmer’s market next to

Crystal River Meats on Fourth Street everySaturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (There’s noword on whether the produce and such ac-tually comes from new farmers or oldfarmers). For details, call 963-9996.

They say it’s your birthdayBirthday greetings go out to: Patti

Hall and Tom Mercer (May 24) andCharlie Cook (May 25). Belated greet-ings go out to Greg Masse, who turned39 on May 15.

Here’s a sneak preview of one of the sculptures that will be installed as part of theCarbondale Public Art Commission’s Art aRound Town exhibition starting June 4.Submitted photo

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Sopris Sun Staff Report

Last summer, Creative Spark Studiofounder Sheri Gaynor attended the Sum-mer Activities Expo and ended up askingherself, “Why are we competing for kidsand families? Why aren’t we collaborat-ing to create an amazing summer pro-gram offering unique and variedprogramming for children?”

From that observation a new idea andprogram was born. It’s Camp Bonedale,an offshoot of Creative Spark Studio thatwill work with the Carbondale Recre-ation Department and several other enti-ties to provide summer activities for kids10-14 years old.

Those activities include:• Wheel throwing, tile making and a

“Clay Scramble” at the Carbondale ClayCenter;

• “Amazing Fun Stuff,”“Forces of Na-ture,” and “School of Hip-Hop” at AccessRoaring Fork;

• Sewing recycled clothes at CreativeSpark Studio;

• Drama camp and puppet theatre at

the Carbondale Council on Arts and Hu-manities;

• Dirt bike jumping at D&B Bike Ad-ventures;

• Fitness camp at Paris Athletic Gym.• Climbing and an open gym at the

Carbondale Recreation Center.“The concept was implemented with

great support from the Carbondale Recre-ation Center and our Camp Bonedalepartners,” Gaynor said.

Besides providing kids with safe andhealthy programs, Camp Bonedale has an-other purpose.“It’s been shown repeatedlythat in times of distress, working togethercreates a deep sense of community. CampBonedale has been created as a celebrationof community collaboration and partner-ship,” Gaynor said.

The Carbondale Recreation Center,through director Eric Brendlinger, was in-strumental in getting Camp Bonedale outof the idea phase and into the activities-pro-duction mode. “He (Brendlinger) attendedour first open community partnershipmeeting,” Gaynor said. “We made a deci-

Several groups teamup for first everCamp Bonedale Sopris Sun Staff Report

For years, dating back to the 1980s, Construction Junction served as thego-to place for used building materials, tools, appliances and furniture. WhenMarti Bauer and Susie Villiere retired a few years ago, the operation didn’twork out with the new owners.

The old Construction Junction building sat vacant for two years but guesswhat?

It’s back with a new name (Reynovations Warehouse) and a new owner(Bobby Reynolds), but the concept is the same: offer used building materials,tools, appliances and furniture at good prices. They also take items on con-signment.

“Construction Junction was sorely missed in the community,” Reynolds said.Reynolds looked around for a different building for Reynovations Ware-

house, but settled on the old Construction Junction site. “It’s been two yearssince the old Construction Junction closed, but people were still stopping by.”

Reynovations Warehouse is located in Roaring Fork Village on Buggy Cir-cle, just south of the carwash. The store, with the overhead doors that are al-most always open in the summer, covers half the original space at about 3,000square feet. “We hope to take over that space too.”

Reynolds, who owns a construction company, will operate the store withhis son, Tyler. His wife, Melissa, is a math teacher at Roaring Fork High School.

Both Bobby and Melissa moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in the 1970s, hefrom Vermont and she from Arizona. Bobby had been reading about skiing outwest as a teenager and wanted to get away from Vermont’s icy snow conditions.

“It was Aspen, baby,” he said. “I was a ski bum.”Bauer and Villiere have been a big help in getting the reincarnation of their

original concept back into play and have given Reynolds a lot of good advice.“They’ve been awesome … they are so behind me on this deal.”

Reynovations Warehouse is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

Carbondale consignmenticon returns under new name

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THURS.-FRI. May 19-20BIKEWEEK • The fourth annual BonedaleBike Week takes place through May 20.Events include a bike-in movie on FourthStreet at 8:30 p.m. on May 19, and a pa-rade and raffle at Sopris Park at 6:30 p.m.on May 20. The closing party takes placeat Carbondale Beer Works May 20 at 8p.m. Info: bonedalebikeweek.com.

FRI.-SAT. May 20-21WHIMSICAL WOMEN RETURN • TheWhimsical Women of the West SpringShow takes place from 4 to 8 p.m. on May20 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 21 atFour Mile Bed & Breakfast outside Glen-wood Springs (five miles up the Sunlightroad). Twenty artisans will show theirwork. There’ll also be a raw food demon-stration by Mary Whalen at 11 a.m., 1 p.m.and 2:30 p.m. on May 21. Info: 945-4004.

FRIDAY May 20MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“The Conspirator” (PG-13) at 8 p.m. May20-26 and “Win Win” (R) at 5:45 p.m.May 21-22.

LIVEMUSIC • Konnyaku restaurant in LaFontana Center presents Dwight Ferren(acoustic folk rock) starting at 6:30 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars presentsCarrie Elkin at 7:30 p.m., followed bythe Beth Quist Band at 9:30 p.m. Info:963-3304.

LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s in the Dinkel

Building presents Rick Rock & the Roost-ers at 10 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glen-wood Springs presents the Currys (blue-grass and Celtic rock) from 9 p.m. tomidnight. There’s no cover.

LIVEMUSIC • John Livingston and Kevinand Melissa Glenn of the Frying Pan Blue-grass Band plays the Limelight Lodge inAspen from 6 to 9 p.m.

SAT.-SUN. May 20-21BIKE-A-PALOOZA • Aloha MountainCyclery holds its second annual Bike-A-Palooza all day both days. The store is lo-cated at 580 Highway 133. Info: 963-2500.

SATURDAYMay 21LIVEMUSIC • Carnahan’s presents HoodRatz at 10 p.m.

LIVEMUSIC • Steve’s Guitars presents Allthe Pretty Horses with Trick Pony as open-ing act. Info: 963:3340.

PALEONTOLOGIST SPEAKS • TheRoaring Fork Cultural Council presents Dr.Kirk Johnson (chief curator at the DenverMuseum of Nature and Science and the pa-leontologist in charge of the excavation inSnowmass) at Thunder River Theatre at7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and are availableat roaringforkculturalcouncil.com. Info:987-4492.

BIKE RIDE • The 17th annual Ride forthe Pass is open to the first 600 riderswho sign up at independencepass.org.

The 10-mile ride goes from the Highway82 winter gate east of Aspen to the ghosttown of Independence near the summit ofIndependence Pass. The elevation gain is2,500 feet.

SUNDAYMay 22HORSE CAMP • The Natural Horseman-ship Ranch Camp with Susan Gibbs takesplace from 2 to 4 p.m. at 1698 CountyRoad 103 outside Carbondale. Info: 704-1234 or susan@sopris.net.

MON.-TUES. May 23-24STUDENT ART EXHIBIT • The Roar-ing Fork High School student art exhibittakes place in the school’s auxiliary gymfrom 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Info: 384-5767.

MONDAYMay 23CHARITY CLASSIC • The RoaringFork Charity Classic golf tournamenttakes place at the Roaring Fork Clubin Basalt. The entry fee is $150. Info:927-4031.

TUESDAYMay 24LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s presentsGreg Masse at 10 p.m.

WEDNESDAYMAY 25LIVEMUSIC • Carnahan’s presents YvetteMacEachen from 7 to 10 p.m.

LIVEMUSIC • Carbondale BeerWorks pres-ents Dave Taylor (blues/country) at 7 p.m.Proceeds benefit Feed Them With Music.

Community Calendar To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. Events takeplace in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the CommunityCalendar online at soprissun.com.

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The Roaring Fork Cultural Councilis proud to present

Dr. Kirk Johnson“Dinosaurs in Snowmass”Dr. Kirk Johnson, vice president of research and collections and chief curator of the Denver Museum of Natureand Science, is leading the Snowmass Ice Age fossil excavation.He will take a break from digging to detail what has beenfound, and its significance. The search has yielded eight to ten

American mastodons, four Columbian mammoths, a Jefferson ground sloth, four gigantic bison,two Ice Age deer, snails, iridescent insects, and plant matter that is still green after more than

45,000 years.

THUNDER RIVER THEATRE IN CARBONDALE

Saturday, May 21 • 7:30 pmTickets: $15

Purchase tickets online at www.rfculturalcouncil.org

Or call 970-987-4492

Further Out

Ongoing

May 26SUSTAINABLE DISCUSSION • A discus-sion on sustainable economies takes place atthe Third Street Center at 7 p.m. The sessionis a follow up to the May 12 film “The Eco-nomics of Happiness.” The discussion is pre-sented by HighLife Unlimited, a socialbusiness nurturing the capacity of groups andcommunities to generate collective wisdomand action, with support from the Davi

Nikent Center for Human Flourishing.

June 4LINCOLN DAY DINNER • The PitkinCounty Republican Party host its annual Lin-coln Day Dinner at the Inn at Aspen at the baseof the Buttermilk Ski Area. Congressman ScottTipton, who represents the 3rd District, will bethe keynote speaker.Tickets are $75 or $700 fora table of eight.At 970-274-3303 or 927-2401.

KID’S SHOW • The Carbondale Council onArts and Humanities presents its “Kid’s ArtShow” at its R2 Gallery in the Third StreetCenter through May 31. The hours are Tues-day through Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

LIVEMUSIC • T Ray Becker (original Amer-icana and acoustic slide guitar) plays Carna-han’s every Thursday at 8:30 p.m. Carnahan’sis located at Fourth and Main. Info: 963-4498.

CMC SHOW CONCLUDES • “ViewpointX3,” featuring the work of Wewer Keohane,Lynette O’Kane and Laurren Whistler, con-tinues at the Colorado Mountain CollegeGallery through May 25. The gallery is lo-cated 831 Grand Ave. in Glenwood Springs.

Info: 947-8367.

MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat withCarbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tues-days from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy,located at 26 S. Third St.

ZINGERS SING • The Zingers singing groupgets together at the Third Street Center everyThursday from 2 to 3 p.m. Info: 945-7094.

GROUP RUN • Independence Run and Hikeat 995 Cowen Drive leads group runs Satur-days at 8:15 a.m. rain or shine. Info: 704-0909.

AL-ANONMEETS • Al-Anon for friends andfamilies of alcoholics meets at the OrchardTuesdays at 7 p.m. Info: 963-3514.

Save the dateJune 3-4STUDIO TOUR • The Carbondale Community School’s eighth annual Studio Tour is June 3-4. A percentage of the funds raised will go to the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities,which will match those funds to provide free art classes at the Third Street Center. The weekendkicks off with an artist’s reception at the Third Street Center at 6 p.m. on June 3, followed byself-guided tours of artists’ studios from Glenwood Springs to Old Snowmass on June 4. Artistsand the artwork can be previewed at roaringforkstudiotour.org.

Free mountain bike demo rides from Yeti, Rocky Mountain, Orbea and Niner

Sat. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sun. 9 a.m. - 4 p.mSaturday & Sunday, May 21 & 22580 Highway 133

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of bike centric fun!

A momma fox and one of her young ‘uns warily observe what’s going on near theirden on Missouri Heights over the weekend. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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Community Briefs

Christopher Cameron“Cam” Moore 1965-2011

Christopher Cameron “Cam” Moore, 46, of Carbondale,Colo., died in his home on May 10, 2011 after a valiant strugglewith esophageal cancer.

A loving, generous man, Cam lived life with passion. Born Jan.10, 1965 in Invercargill, New Zealand, Cam moved to Denverwith his brother Sean and parents Christopher G. (Kit) and ClaraCombs Moore while he was still in a pram. When he was 6, hissister Ellie was born. Soon after, the family moved to Montrose.

Naturally athletic, he played football and tennis in high school.After his dreams of beinga professional tennis player were quashed by a car accident, he attended Ft. Lewis Collegein Durango. From there he went to the University of California at San Diego where he couldsurf between classes.

Returning to Colorado in 1989, Cam moved to Denver and attended the University ofDenver. In the summer of 1992, he and Lilas Rajaee married. Later that year Cam receiveda BSBA in finance and real estate. For the next several years he remodeled condominiumsin the Capitol Hill area of Denver. His marriage ended in 2004.

He pursued what he found meaningful in life. He loved adventure and was always readyto try a new career, a new environment, a new challenge. A scratch golfer, in 1998 Cam fo-cused his attention on golf, playing in several pro-qualifying tournaments.

After leaving the pro circuit he worked with his dad on various construction projects. Headored his father and was like him in many ways: compassionate, gentle, funny and able toput people at ease.

From a musical family, Cam wrote several songs and cared deeply about guitar andsinging, which he took up in early 2000 and found comfort in until shortly before his death.

Cam was a non-conformist and though he put in his time in mortgage finance, interna-tional shipping, market trading and product sales, he was happiest at physical pursuits. Cammoved to Carbondale in 2006 and really found his life there. In addition to building hisown house, he skied, and rode his mountain bike and motorcycle. He loved the communityand the opportunity to raft, play hockey and golf, ride his dirt bike and be with friends. Anaccomplished cook, Cam liked to host barbecues and movie nights. In Carbondale he metand fell in love with Michelle Girard.Together they traveled to Belize,Arizona and Hawaii;they married April 22, 2011.

Good-humored, sensitive and devoted to family, he liked to tease and protect his youngersister and was a terrific uncle to his seven nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his father, Kit Moore. He is survived by his wife Michelle,his mother Clara, brother Sean (Melissa) Moore, sister Eleanor (David) Wrench, nephewsTucker and Cortland Moore and Christopher and Ryan Wrench, and nieces Devin and Tan-ner Moore and Katie Wrench. He leaves 13 loving first cousins, six aunts, six uncles and nu-merous devoted friends.

A June memorial is planned in Carbondale.In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of the Valley in Basalt, P. O.

Box 3768, Basalt, CO 81621.

Rodeo accepting sponsorsThe 2011 Carbondale Wild West Rodeo series is accepting sponsors for the upcoming

season, which runs through the summer at the Gus Darien arena on County Road 100.Sponsorship levels range from $400 to $4,000, according to a press release.

“With a sponsorship, you receive consistent exposure during the rodeo season to aweekly average attendance of 1,250 spectators who are residents and visitors to our val-ley,” said a rodeo spokesman.

The deadline to sign up for a sponsorship is May 30. For details, call Dave Weimer(963-4513) or Mike Kennedy (379-3907).

For details, go to carbondalerodeo.com.

CCAH seeks board membersThe Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities will elect three new board members

at its annual meeting/barbecue on June 17. CCAH Director Ro Mead said “Now is oneof the most exciting times in our history. We are settled in our new space and have newand stimulating directions to explore.”

The three new board members will be mentored by the outgoing board members forsix months. “If you are interested in interacting with a dynamic group of people and bepart of our great organization, we have a place for you,” Mead said.

For details, go to carbondalearts.com or call 963-1680.

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“You are using twitter,” she asked? “I can’t believe mydad is now an official twit.” She was having way too muchfun with this.

I was trying to explain over the phone to my oldestdaughter DeAnza why I was using social media as a com-

munication tool. “It helps meat my job,” I said.“Besides, it’sall your fault because you firstgot me started using Facebookto better keep in touch withyou and your sisters.”

“Just send me a copy of thecertificate you get from theclasses you’re taking to be-come a twit,” she said.“I wantto show it to everyone.”

The upcoming classes arebeing held by ColoradoMountain College. Lastingone day, Social Media Plan-ning and Tracking Social In-teraction are being taught in

Glenwood Springs in the coming weeks. They are de-signed to teach students how to better use social mediasuch as blogs, Facebook and Twitter. I’m interested inTweetDeck and HootSuite, software that schedules andtracks social interactions.

Social media are changing the way land managementagencies interact with the public, especially when there is alarge incident such as a wildfire.

People hungry for instantaneous information start tweet-ing one another about a fire that is close to their homes.Theywant to try and be in control of their own destiny and youcan’t blame them.

Public Information Officers (PIOs) on fires are hamstrungwith how they get information out to the public and media.Typical media releases can take hours to get approved andfor that reason are becoming more and more obsolete.

One solution over the last few years has been the Inter-

net site Inciweb.org. Information can be posted fairly quicklyon the government Web site with each fire’s name and loca-tion, which can be pulled up by anyone with a computer orsmart phone.

Pictures sent in electronically by the public or firefighterson the line can be posted. That’s where Twitter comes in.There is a menu button within Inciweb that allows tweets tobe sent to the rest of the world. The tweets contain informa-tion with a link to Inciweb for accurate news about the fire.

At issue is the information that is going out to the worldby the public who are often in a panic, especially duringtimes of evacuation.

To be able to monitor that flow of text is important foran Incident Management Team. In the past we were themain source of information. Now we are more like refereeshoping to keep accurate facts flowing both ways.

With a dashboard program like TweetDeck we can mon-itor in real time what is being tweeted about the fire. Thatgives us a chance to tweet back answers to concerns like: hasan evacuation been ordered; which way is the fire moving;where do I take my horses?

Agencies that serve the public must adopt better ways ofcommunicating if they want to stay relevant. This is a hugeparadigm shift that is still taking place.

For instance, Forest Service computers have only beenable to use YouTube within the last year. Facebook is still offlimits. Yet private businesses have Facebook pages.

The White River National Forest is trying to catch up tosocial media. This summer a student intern from Washing-ton, D. C. who specializes in social media will be coming tohelp our forest.

Maritza Huertas is a student at Georgetown Universitywho has worked for the Forest Service for the past three years.

Lord knows twits like me could use her help.

Bill Kight has spent over 30 years helping manage Amer-ica’s public lands. He is currently community liaison forthe Aspen-Sopris Ranger District and member of RockyMountain Incident Management Team A.

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High school graduations: May 27-28Graduation ceremonies for Bridges High School are

May 27 at 4 p.m. and for Roaring Fork High School onMay 28 at 4 p.m.

Town manager candidates hit townThere’ll be a reception for town manager candidates at

town hall from 5 to 7 p.m. on June 3. The candidates are:Elizabeth Black, Jay Harrington, Chris LaMay, John

Lyons,April McGrath and Deborah Quinn. On June 4 thecandidates will be interviewed by three panels: town coun-cil, town staff and community members.

EIA looking for volunteersEnglish in Action is looking for volunteers to work

one-on-one with adult immigrants to help them learn Eng-lish. The next training is May 24 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.at the Basalt Library. For details, call 963-9200.

Jim Harris (right) shakes hands with Wally DeBeque at the old DeBeque house on May 14. Harris and others gathered at thehouse (located 235 S. 3rd St.) for a Mt. Sopris Historical Society fund-raiser where DeBeque, 89, grew up. De Beque now livesat the Ranch at Roaring Fork but told well wishers about the times he spent maintaining the tennis court his dad built at thehouse and planting the towering pine tree that stands at the west side of the property. He also talked about the railroad sidingthat ran alongside what is now Weant Boulevard and touched on other bits of Carbondale history. Photo by Lynn Burton

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sion as a collective to take out a two pagespread in the Summer Recreation Centercatalog to reach a broader target audience,in an effort to make it easier for families tofind summer opportunities.”

Creative Spark Studio, located in thenon-profit Third Street Center, opened lastJune as a non-profit arts and social servicesorganization serving the needs of individu-als and families through counseling, ex-pressive arts therapy practices, equinetherapy, personal growth workshops,classes and retreats.

“We partner with other non-profit or-ganizations and local businesses to fosterour commitment to community collabora-tion,” Gaynor said.

Gaynor herself is a licensed psycho-therapist and registered expressive artstherapist.

Beyond Camp Bonedale, another bigevent is brewing at Creative Spark Studio.To celebrate the Studio’s first year and ob-taining its non-profit status, a body-of-work show from George Stranahan’s TheChild’s Eye program will be shown at theCarbondale Council on Arts and Humani-ties R2 Gallery in July.

“George (Stranahan) and I have beenworking with at-risk youth for many yearsand we’ve been working with several or-ganizations since Fall 2010, and the kidshave gathered some amazing images, shar-ing their view of the world,” Gaynor said.

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