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LifeStart your engines at Northgate go-kart race track

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SportsL-P baseball players ‘have changed our lives’

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Ex-mayor’s annexation request faces new trusteesBy Bill [email protected]

The Monument Board of Trustees had a packed agenda for its May 2 meeting – its second since tak-ing offi ce – and an interesting debate was expected when it took up an annexation request from ex-Mayor Rafael Dominguez.

The annexation issue was to share center stage with consideration of an emergency ordinance, requested at the April 18 meeting by Trustee Jeff Bornstein, to roll back steep new water rates to 2015 levels.

On March 7, the previous board approved a plan that caused the base rate to soar to $31 a month, up from $8.80. The rates applied to about 1,100 west-side residents, mostly homeowners and about 200 businesses.

Trustee Jeff Bornstein strenuously objected and at the April 18 meeting he directed staff to restore the $8.80 monthly rate with just an additional $5 monthly fee. Then he wants a complete re-exami-

See Annexation on Page 13

By Bill [email protected]

When it comes to ozone pollution, the air along the Front Range stinks.

Counties along the Front Range including El Paso and Douglas, got all Fs from the American Lung As-sociation’s State of the Air 2016 report said.

And Curt Huber, executive director of the Ameri-can Lung Association in Colorado, said the 30 “or-ange” days in El Paso County should give pause to elderly, young people with developing lungs, anyone with lung disease or other health issues.

“You can say 11 months of the year the air is pretty good,” Huber said last week. “But if you go to Flint, Mich., and drink bad water for a month, would you say that’s OK because you drink healthy water 11 months of the year? I don’t think I’d feel too good about it.”

While it’s good the area rated well when it came to particle pollution, the orange days are a red fl ag.

“It’s a concern,” he said. “That’s 30 days of air that puts people at risk.”

The report showed that El Paso County no “red” or “purple” days, which are worse than orange days.

In fact, Douglas County to the north had 64 orange days and fi ve red days. Meanwhile, Denver had just 16 orange days and two red days.

See Pollution on Page 13

Front Range pollution threatens Tri-Lakes area elderly

‘I need to be more like Grandma’

Ex-African refugee fi nds a home at

Lewis-PalmerLewis-Palmer High School’s

Dieudonne Van Chea is one of the top 100 meter sprinters in Colorado.

If you knew what he’d been through in life, you might think maybe he was running from his past.

You’d be wrong. He’s running to the future, with a big smile on his face. Maybe that’s because he knows how bad life can be and he’s enjoying where he is today and what the future holds.

Dieudonne, or “D” as he is common-ly called, is the most gregarious mem-ber of the L-P track and fi eld team. The sophomore has a smile that can light up a stadium and a spirit that is intoxi-cating.

He has settled in nicely after trans-ferring to L-P last fall from The Van-guard School. That was a move of just a 20 miles or so. He’s been through much more diffi cult moves. Like the move

of over 6,000 miles he made as a child from his home in Liberia, Africa.

When he was just 4, Dieudonne came to Colorado Springs with his grandmother, Felicia Barh, and cousin, Jerry Jonathan. They were living in an Ivory Coast refugee camp after fl ee-ing the civil war in Liberia in the early 2000s.

Dieudonne was orphaned when his parents were killed as part of the con-fl ict.

Dieudonne’s story is a remarkable one. But to him it’s just part of life’s journey. He has not let his past dictate his future. Rather, he embraces each day with a vigor and exuberance that we all can learn from.

“I get a lot of inspiration from my grandma,” he said. “She always has a smile on her face, and you know, I need to smile, too. She’s been through a lot. She has a machete scar on her stom-ach, but she doesn’t complain.

“When we were in Africa, she car-ried me for miles and miles on her back when I was sick, and she never

complained and always had a smile on her face. I’ve realized that I need to be more like Grandma. Things can be a lot worse.”

Until last summer, Dieudonne lived with his grandmother and cousin in south Colorado Springs. The burden of caring for two active teenage boys

See Sprinter on Page 13

FROM THE SIDELINES Danny [email protected]

Dieudonne Van Chea is a sophomore sprinter on the Lewis-Palmer track team. He was born in Liberia, Africa, and came to the U.S. when he was four. /Photo by Danny Summers

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FireWise event Saturday, May 7What: Wildfi re-prevention training includes how to create defensible space, protect against embers, family evacuation tips, landscaping and deck-building techniques, insurance advice, lot evaluationWhen: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, May 7Where: Tri-Lakes United Methodist Church, 20256 Hunting Downs Way, Monu-ment, between Kings Deer and Highway 83Info: Co-hosted by Woodmoor Improvement Association forestry department,488-2693 ext. 2, and Tri-Lakes United Methodist Church emergency preparedness group, [email protected]

School EventsThursday, May 5What: All choirs pops concertWhen: 7 p.m., Thursday, May 5Where: Auditorium, Lewis-Palmer High School, 1300 Higby Road, MonumentInfo: Free

What: Improv ShowWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Black Box theater, Palmer Ridge High School, 19255 Monument Hill Road, MonumentInfo: Free

What: 8th grade playWhen: 7 p.m.Where: Cafeteria of Lewis-Palmer Middle School, 1776 Woodmoor Dr., MonumentInfo: Free

Free Tai ChiSaturday, May 7What: Beginning Tai Chi - Learn meditation with movement, gentle exercise, relaxation and destressing techniques, connecting with your mind body and spirit.When: 9 a.m., Saturday, May 7Where: Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce, 166 Second St. MonumentCost: FreeInfo: whitecranetaichi.net or call Maureen Caldwell, 232-1618

Straw Bale Gardening Saturday May 7What: Learn to grow vegetables, herbs and fl owers using minimal soil and water in strawbale planter during two-hour classWhen: 2 p.m., Saturday, May 2Where: Frog On a Limb Primitives, 341 Front St., MonumentCost: Class costs $45 and includes book “Straw Bale Gardens Complete,” plus snacks and drinksInfo: RSVP to Mike or Jessica, 481-8888, or visit frogonalimb.com

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A story in the April 20 Tribune about a Healthy Living contest at the Pikes Peak Library District incorrectly listed Liz Turner as teacher of a class on becoming a wise health care consumer and ways to manage your health for less. That class will be taught

by Melissa House.Also, a Healthy Living yoga class is sched-

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By Avalon A. [email protected]

Stuck at an impasse on distribution of property tax funds, Lewis-Palm-er School District 38 and its charter school, Monument Academy, have ex-tended negotiations for a charter re-newal contract until the school board meeting on May 19.

The open-enrollment, tuition-free charter, which this year celebrated its second decade serving D-38 stu-dents, has to renew its charter agree-ment with the district every four years. A renewal contract was offered by D-38 on April 21, but it has not been signed.

Both the charter and district knew that this year’s negotiations would be more diffi cult than in years past.

The two sides disagree on distri-bution of funds from a 1999 mill levy override tax, which affords D-38 about $4 million a year to support its stu-dents and staff. Monument Academy has never received any portion of those funds.

D-38 offi cials contend that the char-ter was never meant to be included in the mill levy, noting that charters typically put forth their own ballot initiatives, separate from their um-brella districts. And Monument Acad-emy has asked voters for more funding four times and has been rejected each time.

The board of Monument Academy holds that the charter should receive

a portion of the yearly mill levy fund, proportionate to the percentage of district students it serves, just like D-38’s public schools do. That would be around 15 percent, which would bolster the charter’s coffers by about $600,000 annually.

The academy board was resolute this spring, when school board meet-ings hummed with parents strongly in support of one option or the other. It’s offi cials say they will not accept a char-ter renewal agreement that does not include the academy receiving a por-tion of the 1999 funds.

D-38 was solid in its position, as well, refusing to offer any.

In the light of the impasse, contract negotiations between the district and the charter have been extended until the D-38 school board meeting on May 19.

Whether the next few weeks will of-fer any revelations is unclear.

D-38 school board president Mark Pfoff maintained at school board meet-ings earlier this year that to revise the distribution of the 1999 mill levy funds now would be a betrayal of the voters who passed the initiative believing the charter was excluded.

Pfoff holds out hope for a solution, though.

“We continue to negotiate and I am hopeful we can reach an agreement by May 19,” he said.

The academy board has not changed its position, either, executive director Don Griffi n confi rmed.

Stuck at an impasse, D-38, charter school extend contract negotiations

Tanner Bobak

Monument, Palmer LakeTim Joseph Marty, of Monument,

was named to the fall 2015 dean’s list at the University of Rochester. Marty is a sophomore majoring in neurosci-ence. He is the son of Mark and Kelli Reinmuth, of Monument, and Mike

Marty, of Colorado Springs. He gradu-ated from Palmer Ridge High School in Monument.

Kara Marie McKee, of Monument, was named to the fall 2015 president’s list at Campbellsville University.

Milestones, School Notes

Palmer Ridge student awarded Boettcher ScholarshipBy Avalon A. [email protected]

Palmer Ridge High School senior Tanner Bobak was recently selected as a recipient of the Boettcher Scholarship, de-signed to keep the best and brightest in Colorado.

It awards what

is essentially a full ride – tuition, hous-ing, books and fees – to outstanding high schoolers in order for them to at-tend a four-year university in Colorado.

Bobak will use it to attend CU Boul-der where he plans to study chemical engineering and computer science.

Bobak is the second in Lewis-Palm-er School District 38 to be awarded this scholarship. The fi rst was 15 years ago to a student at Lewis-Palmer High School. D-38 also had two other stu-dents who were fi nalists for the schol-arship this year.

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By Bill [email protected]

A yard stick isn’t the only way to measure the two feet or more of snow that fell in the April blizzard.

The Monument public works staff measured it in the hours its crews drove snowplows, yards of salt spread and more.

Carolyn Engstrom, administrative assistant in the town public works agency, kept track of all the statistics.

Here’s how she measured the storm:Seven members of the Public Works-

Streets and Parks staff worked in shifts from April 16 until cleanup ended April 18.

The skid steer was used 8 hours. The backhoe logged 5 hours.

The Freightliner was in use 45½ hours.

The old F-450, with sand, logged 34 hours.

The loader was used for 18 hours.The new F-450, with sand, was in

use 21 hours. The motor-grader was used 15½

hours. The F-350 was in use 1½ hours. The Water Department F-250 was

used 7 hours.The snowblower was used 8 hours. Nine cubic yards of a salt/sand com-

bination was spread.Two snowplow blades were changed

out.Perhaps the best statistic was this: No damage such as fallen trees or

downed power lines were noted.

They measure blizzards by pieces of equipment

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By Avalon A. [email protected]

The Tri-Lakes/Monument Fire Pro-tection District held an election Tues-day, May 3, to fi ll the open positions on its board of directors.

The results of the election were not known at press time, but check The Tri-bune’s Facebook page to see who won.

The candidates were these: Terry Hayes has worked as a volun-

teer fi refi ghter and paramedic for the Flagstaff Fire Departments, and be-lieves she can help the district meet the challenges of the future. She is cur-rently the executive cirector of the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce.

“I see serving on the Fire Board as an extension of the work I am already do-ing,” she said.

Roger Lance is currently the vice president of the district. He’s been on the board for eight years and is seeking another term. After retiring from the Air Force, he worked as a coordinator for the Pikes Peak Firefi ghters Associa-tion, and helped organize responses to the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest fi res.

“Our community is growing,” he said, “and development within the dis-trict continues to expand.”

Lance believes a “comprehensive plan” is necessary to respond to the budgetary, resource and personnel is-sues such expansion brings about.

Douglas Paul is the president of SoCo Enterprises, which manages health and wellness franchises in Colo-

rado Springs. He is also a colonel in the National Guard, where he has worked with state emergency operations to re-spond to wildfi res and fl oods.

Prior to his military career, Paul worked at Lockheed Martin, where he helped implement programs involving fi re and emergency services in nations like Djibouti and the Congo.

John Williams is a retired fi refi ghter and paramedic, having served 37 years in Florida fi re departments.

“My experience with these private, county and city departments gives me the awareness of what goes on in the day-to-day operations (of fi re dis-tricts),” he said.

Gordon Reichal is a retired Air Force offi cer who has worked in the past to coordinate volunteers to help mitigate the fi re danger to the homes of seniors with limited mobility.

“I would like to add more volunteer support to those with limited mobility and health problems by matching lists of seniors with volunteers to ensure no mobility-challenged residents are left behind in evacuations,” he said.

He also wishes to address some of the increases in home and fi re protec-tion rates insurance companies have put forth.

Steven Sowles worked as a fi refi ghter for 40 years and retired in 2013, work-ing in various states to combat wild-land fi res and teach fi re science. He served as chief for the Snowmass Vil-lage Fire Protection District.

His experiences have providedSee Fire on Page 6

Tri-Lakes/Monument Fire Protection District elects new board members

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40 Years AgoTri-Lakes TribuneMay 6, 1976

Sports gear slashed: A reward of $150 is offered for information on the vandals who slashed “porta pits” for high-jumping competitions. The pits, which cost $3,000, are made of soft, spongy foam rubber covered by blue vinyl and nylon mesh. Woodmoor, Palmer Lake and Monument police and school officials are investigating.

Pre-school planned: A pre-school for 3-4 year olds may be established by the First Baptist Church in Monument for the fall of 1976. A survey is now be-ing conducted by Mrs. Dorothy Swift. Please call her if you are interested.

Special Interest Week: Students at Lewis-Palmer High School broadened their knowledge of astrono-

my, hang gliding, the Bible, child abuse, yoga, mod-ern dance, self-defense, “those were the days” and so-lar energy. Students toured homes where solar energy plants had been installed. The only complaint was there wasn’t enough time to attend all the classes.

Lion’s roar: The Lion’s Club held a dinner at the Inn at Woodmoor and invited the wives. A program was given on problems of industrial growth in a free enterprise system. The speaker was Bob De Lange of AMOCO. Steak fry dinners will begin the last of May on the shores of Monument Lake.

Youth Center needs help: The youth center faces an unknown future. Financial and volunteer help is needed to keep the center open. Please meet at the center at 7:30 Thursday evening to discuss the prob-lems facing the center.

Phone help fee: On May 30, Mountain Bell will start charging for directory assistance with a few ex-

emptions: blind and handicapped callers who can’t read the directory, those who call from pay phones and hospitals and long distance assistance outside Colorado. If you have a directory, use it to avoid being charged.

New Eagle Scouts: Tom Meehan and Chris Balogh were presented their Eagle Scout badges at Lewis-Palmer Middle School.

Palmer Star pic: An 8x10 photo of the Palmer Lake Star may be obtained by sending $4 + 50¢ shipping and handling to Rick Gaddy, Calhan.

Award-winning band: The Roth Brothers of Black Forest, from left Dan, Gary and Greg, will sing and play during vesper services of The Church of Wood-moor. The boys sing contemporary religious music and recently won first place in the Kiwanis division IV “Stars of Tomorrow” talent competition.

Compiled by Linda Case

On Saturday morning, April 23, it was so windy and chilly I didn’t want to leave my family room. I was content to drink coffee, read the papers and watch professional wrestling on TV.

(I think it was a cage match. A fight to the death. Or maybe it was a presi-dential debate?)

Anyway, I was feeling lazy and I indulged my slothness.

Thank goodness everyone isn’t as pathetic as me.

That same morning, about six dozen hearty people got off their keisters, bundled up and assembled at the Santa Fe Trailhead to begin their volunteer work for the day.

What brought them out on a blus-tery spring morn? The noble desire to help others and make the world a better place.

It shames me to admit I wussed out. But I digress in my self-flagellation. This is supposed to be a celebration of the good people in our midst.

The 71 volunteers that morning were part of an army, nationwide, of like-minded people who gather each year to participate in the Great Ameri-can Cleanup, an annual event timed around Earth Day on April 22.

There were similar cleanup efforts attacking trash in parks, trails, open spaces, creeks, and town centers at 20 locations throughout the Pikes Peak

region that day.Last year, millions of volunteers na-

tionwide picked up 62 million pounds of litter and debris nationwide during the Great American Cleanup.

In Monument, there were individu-als, civic organizations, church groups, scout groups – volunteers of all ages who fanned out starting at 9 a.m., said

Madeline VanDenHoek, the town’s community relations specialist.

“We had 71 volunteers who picked up 73 bags of trash from all around Monument,” VanDenHoek said. “We had groups at Monument Lake, the skate park, the town parks, the cem-etery and the Santa Fe Trail.

“We even had groups at some of the schools, cleaning them up as well.”

There were families, teens, seniors and everything in between, she said.

I asked VanDenHoek if it’s hard to get people to pitch in and why they do it. She said people in the Tri-Lakes region are especially committed to

public service.“In our community, the youth

groups and service organizations are always happy to be involved in something that betters our commu-nity,” said, adding that the town was “thrilled with the turnout.”

“They like to keep the town looking nice,” she said. “People here clearly care about the town and want to be involved in it.”

To emphasize the area’s predisposi-

tion to help others, she noted how the cleanup ended Saturday at noon.

“The Monument Community Pres-byterian Church was having a commu-nity lunch that day and they invited all the volunteers to join them for a spaghetti lunch,” she said. “A warm lunch after a cold morning was really nice and a lot of volunteers took them up on it.”

Free spaghetti? Now I really wish I hadn’t been so lazy.

Dozens turn out on chilly, windy morn just to help outPIKES PEAK BILL Bill [email protected]

Five dozen volunteers participated in the Great American Cleanup on April 23 in Monument, picking up trash along the Santa Fe Trail, Monument Lake, area schools and parks. The trash included old tires, cans, bottles and papers. The annual event occurs nationwide and coincides with Earth Day. /Courtesy photos.


“The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have the time to fall.”

–– Orville Wright

At one time, from 1928 and on into 1929, the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world operated right here in Colorado.

Even today, as you wander through Denver International Airport, you can still see a reminder of the once successful Colorado plane company hanging at the west end of Concourse B.

An Alexander Aircraft Company 1930 Model A-14 Eaglerock, that the Antique Airplane Association of Colo-rado took 25 years to restore, resides there in the upper reaches of the air-port to greet air travelers from all over the world.

“The Eaglerock biplane, made famous by barnstormers during the 1920s, was manufactured in what is now downtown Englewood, Colo., and later in Colorado Springs, by the Alexander Aircraft Company,” wrote Ronald E. Newberg, exhibits manager at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in SWAviator in 2000.

“Barnstormers landed the Eaglerock in farm fields across rural America in the 1920s and ‘30s, giving rides in these ‘new flying machines’ to the brave souls willing to take the risk of flight. Ten-minute rides sold for 50 cents to a dollar.”

An older Model 24 Alexander Ea-glerock aircraft also can be found at the Wings Over The Rockies Air and Space Museum, (also rebuilt by the Antique Airplane Association).

The first business venture of the Alexander brothers, J. Don Alexander and S. Don Alexander, was in selling street advertising. After a brief detour in the chicken business, they estab-lished the Alexander Film Co., which focused on big-screen advertising. As the business grew, they relocated to Englewood from their home state of Washington in order to be more cen-

trally located.“It was J. Don Alexander who came

up with the idea of equipping his growing sales force with airplanes. This would serve two purposes: first, it would attract attention; and, sec-ond, it would expedite distribution of the advertising films. The first plane, purchased by older brother S. Don Alexander, was a 1920 Laird “Swal-low,” powered by an OX5. When the Swallow arrived in Denver it landed at Lowry Field, located at 38th and Daliah Streets in Denver. The next ad-ditions to the Alexander aircraft fleet were Longren biplanes,” according to Newberg.

“J. Don Alexander wanted to purchase some 40 to 50 planes for

his salesmen. However, no one, not even the government, was buying that many aircraft in the 1920s, so the existing aircraft manufacturers would not take Mr. Alexander’s proposal seriously. This prompted him start his own aircraft manufacturing company,” Newberg said.

The company built more than 900 planes in 1920s and 1930s and by 1928, it needed to expand again.

“Forced out of the Denver area by a landowner’s refusal to sell the land needed for expansion, Alexander Air-craft relocated to Colorado Springs.”

“The Alexander Aircraft Co. went on to build the unsuccessful ‘Alexan-der Transport,’ a high wing, seven-passenger monoplane. However, other more successful models followed. In the 1928 - 1929 time frame the Alexan-der Aircraft Company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, with the capacity of manufacturing eight airplanes a day,” according to Newberg.

In 1927, J. Don Alexander wrote: “Some 15 months ago, we of Alexan-der Industries began construction of a new light commercial airplane. The new ship’s performance was excep-tional and price quoted in Denver was less than manufacturer’s costs on the first 50 produced. Therefore, as Emerson once said, ‘the world should have made a beaten path to’ the manufacturer’s door. But careful and expectant watching showed no signs of such a movement. We soon saw that we would have to carefully survey the path, pave it, and put signposts up along its course before the pub-lic would even look in this very right direction.”

That same year, J.Don noted that only a year earlier, the company could only produce one ship per month but now were producing one per day and were still behind.

“At this writing, we are 41 ships behind sales.”

But not all reports were positive.“One area manufacturer of planes

about that time was the Alexander Company in Colorado Springs, which produced the Eaglerock plane. These aircraft...had more than their share of crashes. It got so bad that people made crude jokes about them such as: They call the planes Eaglerocks because they fly like an eagle and fall like a rock. Their track record finally be-came so bad that, as I understand, the authorities in charge of flying regula-tions banned further manufacturing of the Eaglerock,” wrote Robert Esterday in his 1993 book “A Kid’s-Eye View of Early Greeley.”

Unfortunately, because of the Great Depression, the company was forced to liquidate in the early 1930s, though remnants of the company lived on as Air Mechanics Inc., and even designed a five-seat low-wing monoplane in 1934.

A 1928 view of the interior of the Alexander Aircraft Company plant./Courtesy photos

Colorado planes once topped the worldRESTLESS NATIVE Rob [email protected]

Academy parent wants voters to re-consider D-38 mill levy question

To the Editor,

I am member of the community, a taxpayer and a parent a 7th grader at Monument Academy. The 1999 mill levy override funding issue is dividing the com-munity and affecting the entire district. I have heard every member of the board say they care about all the students foremost above all the rest. However, ac-tions speak louder than words.

The Monument Academy teaches 15 percent of Lewis-Palmer School District 38’s students. MA is at full capacity for the next school year and has a wait-ing list for almost every grade. D-38 statistics show MA has the highest number of students transferring

in from other D-38 schools and students opting into D-38. These statistics show MA is having a positive ef-fect on the community. Families want to be there!

But the D-38 board is treating MA students as less than other D-38 students. The mill levy override of 1999 clearly stated that it was for the benefit all stu-dents districtwide. Nowhere does it state that any schools are included or excluded.

Previous board members and the previous super-intendent say they never planned to include MA in the funds. If that is true then why was it not in the ver-biage in 1999 so voters knew they would be excluding students and families property taxes would not be distributed to all D-38 schools?

To say “I will not override the voters of 1999” is a copout! Voters in 1999 have been shocked to learn about this inequity. New families moving into the

area are appalled to learn this is occurring. So I ask the D-38 school board:Will you disperse the funds from the MLO to all the

schools of the district based on the breakdown of the per pupil and where they go to school? Even the state is looking at legislation to support this and eliminate the inequity that plagues charter schools.

If you will not do this on your own, then I ask that you send this to the community to vote on so that they may state if they want their funds to be distrib-uted by board discretion or by an equal per-pupil ba-sis so we can build all the schools in the district up equally.

Sincerely,Lance GoraczkowskiMonument

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Three biplanes in front of the Alexander Aircraft plant in 1931, with Pike’s Peak in the background.

One of the founders J. Don Alexander.


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Continued from Page 3Sowles with “extensive knowledge and competency in both general and special district fi nance and law,” he said, and he believes his background will help him balance the district budget and provide improved service to the community.

Thomas Tharnish was appointed to the district board last year, and is seeking to be elected to a full term.

“In the short time that I have been on the board,” he said, “I have gained an incredible amount of re-spect for the job that all the fi refi ghters do for this community.”

Tharnish is currently the Director of Public Works for Monument, and he believes his experience in that role will help him make good decisions regarding funding and equipment procurement for the district.

Jason Buckingham is a fi refi ghter with 22 years un-der his belt, and hopes to generate more volunteer support for the district.

“My goal is to maximize the services we get with the resources and funds available,” he said. “I am not afraid to ask the tough questions when necessary.”

Buckingham hopes to be able to “balance our community size and tax base with expectations of service,” he said.

There were four positions available among the eight candidates.

Board president Jake Shirk, treasurer John Hil-debrant and secretary Michael Smaldino are serving terms until 2018, when their seats will open for elec-tion. Board vice president Robert Lance and board members Bill Ingram, Larry Smith and Thomas Thar-nish occupy the positions that were on the ballot yes-terday.

Buckingham, Hayes, Lance and Tharnish ran to-gether as a slate.

The Tribune will post the results of the election on-line via social media as they become available.

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Over the years I’ve heard this ques-tion: “What famous people have been up on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway train?”

Well, I did a story a while back on Cornelius Vanderbilt’s trip on the train. Today I have another: Samuel Vau-clain, president of the Baldwin Loco-motive Works.

Known as the “Apostle of Prosperi-ty” because of his writings in that vein, Vauclain was an international fi gure in the engineering world. And he found ample justifi cation for his predictions on prosperity during his visit to the Pikes Peak region in 1920.

From a laborer at 16 years of age in the railroad shops at Altoona, Pa., Vau-clain rose to be an outstanding fi gure among industrial leaders in America.

He went to the summit of Pikes Peak on the morning of July 1 riding a coach pushed by one of the loco-motives he designed some 20 years previously to meet the requirements of railroading on a steep grade.

Accompanying him on the trip was Grafton Goodenough, vice president of the Baldwin works and A.S. Goble, western representative of the company at St. Louis.

Vauclain came to Colorado to speak before the engineering students of the University of Colorado. He and his party were staying at the Broadmoor Hotel.

On the return trip, he rode down in the cab of the locomotive.

This was not his fi rst trip to Colo-rado or even his fi rst up Pikes Peak. In the early years of the railroad, he came through and visited. In fact, he had a long history with the train.

In 1890, three steam engines from his Baldwin Locomotive Works in Phil-adelphia were delivered and limited service began to the Halfway House Hotel. Eventually, the railway had six Baldwin engines.

He was quite upset then, fi nding that his locomotives were having sev-eral problems, and were not getting up

the mountain. He redesigned the loco-motives, adding several new touches to how the little “tea kettles” worked.

The locomotives were shipped back to Philadelphia for his major revisions. His trip in 1920 also brought some changes after this visit, but they were much less radical.

I’m recalling this story as the little

cog line in Manitou Springs’ Ruxton Canyon prepares to celebrate its 125th anniversary on June 30.

In fact, the cog still has one of the original six steam locomotives. Old No. 4 engine is still operational, with a restored coach. In June they plan to run short trips up the track a ways from Manitou.

Memories of a famous Cog Railway passengerCABOOSE COBWEBSMel McFarland

By Tribune staff

Pikes Peak Brewing Co. is honoring hobby beer-makers by sponsoring a competition on Saturday to encourage homebrewers to get creative with one of its signature beers.

The microbrewery on Lake Woodmoor Drive will produce unfermented Belgian blond ale for mem-bers of the Brew Brothers of Pikes Peak, a regional club for homebrewers.

Club members can take the wort, as unfermented beer is called, and transform it anyway they wish.

Participating club members will bring 5-gallon fermenting vessels and their choice of yeast and oth-er ingredients, such as hops, spices or fruit, to con-vert the wort into customized beers.

The fi nal product will be presented at a June meet-ing of the club and a people’s choice best-in-show winner will be announced.

Pikes Peak Brewing chose Saturday for the contest

because May 7 is celebrated as National Homebrew Day.

The day was fi rst recognized by Congress in 1988. To commemorate the day, the American Homebrew-ers Association created Big Brew as an annual, world-wide celebration of the hobby.

Big Brew is held each year on the fi rst Saturday in May. This will be the third year that the Brew Broth-ers club and Pikes Peak Brewing have collaborated for Big Brew.

Brew Brothers of Pikes Peak has supported the Colorado homebrewing community more than 25 years. The club brings together homebrewers of all skill levels to exchange ideas, expand their knowl-edge of beer and brewing, and enjoy some home-brew.

The club meets monthly around the Pikes Peak re-gion and hosts educational events, competitions and even an annual camping trip. To learn more, see its website brewbrosco.com.

Brewery hosts contest for locals on National Homebrew Day

A Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway steam locomotive named Old No. 3, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Penn., and delivered to the cog railway in 1890, sits in Englemann Canyon above Butterworth Flat in this undated photo./Stewarts Commercial Photographers Collection of the Pikes Peak Library District.

Pikes Peak Brewing Company on Lake Woodmore Drive inMonument./File Photo


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For The TribuneThe Gleneagle Sertoma Club is mix-

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Each year, the event has raised thou-sands of dollars for such causes as the Home Front Cares, Partners in Hous-ing and Mission Medical Center with all the money raised staying in the lo-cal community.

This year the event is scheduled for 6 p.m., May 21, at the Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs. It will feature a live and silent auction along with food provided by local chefs and restau-rants.

Featured will be food from Car-rabba’s Italian Grill, Ted’s Montana Grill, Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano, Texas Roadhouse, California Pizza Kitchen, La Bella Vita, Mateo’s Catering, and Freddy’s Frozen Custard (as an adult

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derground well? Do you have concerns about the quality of water your well is providing?

The El Paso County Public Health and Colorado State University Exten-sion are offering a free well and septic maintenance workshop at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, May 14, at the Black Forest Community Center, 12530 Black Forest Road.

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The 90-minute workshop will fea-ture presentations by Blake Osborn, water specialist with CSU Extension, and Aaron Doussett, of the Environ-ment Health Division of El Paso County Public Health.

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Two-story facility is fi rst of its kind in U.S.

By Danny [email protected]

A former Walt Disney World chef is cooking up some fast fun in northern El Paso County with his Overdrive Raceway, a new electric go-kart complex.

When the $6.5 million facility opens in a few weeks in Polaris Pointe, a 200-acre shopping district near Interstate 25 and North Gate Boulevard, founder Jim Mundle will be serving up a high-tech version of the classic amusement park attraction.

These will not be noisy, exhaust-spewing go-karts that make you feel like you are driving a glorifi ed lawnmower around an outdoor track.

Overdrive Raceway will feature new, state-of-the-art electric go-karts that will give drivers a NASCAR experience as they zip around his two indoor tracks at speeds approaching 55 mph.

It will all happen in his 68,000-square-foot, two-story building – reportedly the fi rst two-story, indoor, electric go-kart track in the U.S. – located near Bass Pro Shops.

Mundle is applying the principles he learned at the happiest place on Earth as well as making his business universally accessible from his own experi-ences as a double-amputee.

“Working for Disney taught me that little things mean a lot,” Mundle said. “We want to be customer-focused. We want to have world-class customer service. The people who work for Overdrive have to be committed to the customer to work here. That’s one of the things that has been lost in our country.

“When our employees are here, they are on stage for eight hours. I want to have it where it’s an experi-ence from the time you walk in the door to the time you leave. When you leave, you know we’ve taken good care of you. It’s the little things that bring you back. If that were not the case you wouldn’t spend the money you spend on Disney.”

Mundle and his wife, Jennifer, live in Castle Rock and are the co-owners of Overdrive. They secured a $5 million loan through the Small Business Admin-istration, plus an additional $1.5 million in investor

backing. The facility – 34,000 square feet per fl oor – will

also include a full service bar on the top fl oor with a dynamic view of the Air Force Academy and Pikes Peak.

Overdrive will also feature seating, video games, a concession area and a corporate conference area for birthday parties and other events.

“You can drive and drink, but you can’t drink and drive,” Jim Mundle said.

The bar will allow Overdrive to host corporate and private events. The fi rst fl oor will be mostly dedicated to kids. Pepsi and Rockstar energy drink are the sponsors for each track.

“The facility will always be open to the public,” Mundle stressed.

Overdrive will have 14 kid karts, which go up to 25 mph, and 40 “big kid” karts topping out at 55 mph. The karts, which arrived at the facility last month, are Italian pro electric go-karts.

Overdrive will also feature specially made, hand-controlled karts for those who can’t use their legs to drive. Mundle, you see, is a double amputee below the knees, a result of complications from his diabe-tes.

He wanted to make the go-kart racing experience something everyone can enjoy. That’s especially important in a community with a large wounded warrior population.

Mundle, 45, said part of the complete experi-ence for racers is the feel of being at a NASCAR-type track.

“We want to make sure this is a complete experi-ence,” Mundle said. “We’re not wearing polo shirts with Overdrive on them. We’re wearing pit shirts with the same company that NASCAR produces.”

Mundle is targeting a May 28 opening with at least one of the tracks.

“From 7 to 70, people like to go fast and race and be competitive,” Mundle said. “So I hope this is something that everyone can enjoy.” Workers fi nish concrete for the second fl oor of Overdrive’s two-fl oor facility on April 26.

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Jim Mundle is the owner of the new Overdrive Raceway at Polaris Pointe shopping center near Interstate 25 and North Gate Boulevard. The electric go-kart facility is being built and should be open in late May./Photos by Danny Summers


Children’s ProgramsBook Break

A short read-aloud session for preschoolers.Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10:30 a.m.

Toddler TimeStories and activities for 1- and 2-year-olds.Thursdays at 9:30 and 10:15 a.m.

Paws to ReadMondays and Wednesdays 4-5 p.m.Each Monday and Wednesday afternoon during

the school year special service dogs come to the library to listen to you read. Read with a lovable dog to practice your reading skills. No need to sign up!Storytime

Children ages 3 and up, with a favorite adult, experience stories through books, flannel boards, puppets, songs and activities. This program encour-ages emerging reading skills by engaging children with shapes, sounds, rhythm and rhyme in a playful environment. (30 minutes) Tuesdays at 10:30 and 11:15 a.m.

Family ProgramsFamily Fun

Sat., May 14 from 2:30 - 4 p.m.Don’t miss this chance to meet a 4-foot Argentine

Black and White Tegu lizard, a 7-foot Boa Constrictor (and possibly one of his brand new babies), a Giant Vinegaroon, a Western Hognose Snake, a Red-Footed Tortoise, and possibly more wild animals brought to us by the PPCC Zoo Keeping Technology program. Monument Library will truly be “Where the Wild Things Are” on May 14. LEGOs CLUB

Sat., May 21 from 10 - 11:30 a.m.

TeensAfterMath: Free Math Tutoring

Mon., May 2, 9, and 16 from 3:30 - 7 p.m.Coloring for Adults!

Fri., May 6 from 2 - 3:30 p.m.First Saturday Teen Movie!

Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13, 141 min.)Sat., May 7 from 1 - 3:30 p.m.

TAB Meeting

Fri., May 13 from 4 - 5 p.m. Second Thursday Craft: English Paper Piecing Part II!

Registration required. Thu., May 12 from 2 - 4 p.m. Computer Help Lab

Registration required. Fri., May 13 from 9 - 10 a.m.

AdultsYoga at the Monument Library!

Thu., May 5, 12, and 19 from noon - 1 p.m.

Coloring for Adults!Fri., May 6 from 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Second Thursday Craft: English Paper Piecing Part II!

Registration required. Thu., May 12 from 2 - 4 p.m. Computer Help Lab Registration required. Fri., May 13 from 9 - 10 a.m.The Muse: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Creative Fiction

Wed., May 18 from 6 - 8 p.m. Healthy Living: Stress in the 21st Century!

Fri., May 20 from 4 - 5:30 p.m.

Discussion GroupsSocrates Café

Tuesdays from 1- 3 p.m.

Senior ChatsWednesdays from 10 a.m. - noon

History BuffsWed., May 25 from 2 - 4 p.m.

Life Circles Writing GroupMon., May 2 and 16 from 9:30 - 11 a.m.

Book ClubsMonumental Readers:

Fri., May 20 from 10 a.m. - noon

Palmer Lake Programs in MayAll library programs are free unless otherwise

noted. For more information, visit ppld.org.

Children’s Storytimes

Story Time and CraftsStories and Crafts for ages 3 and olderWednesday at 10:30 a.m.

Toddler TimeStories and activities for 1- and 2-year-olds.Friday at 10:30 a.m. (except May 27)

Family ProgramsFamily Fun

Sat., May 21 at 10:30 a.m.

Adult ActivitiesPalmer Lake Book Group

Fri., May 6 at 9 a.m.

Artwork Ceramics and watercolors by Palmer Lake El-

ementary School students.

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Free Comic Book Day at Pikes Peak Library District

Free Comic Book Day, the worldwide celebra-tion of comic books, comes to the Monument Li-brary all day Saturday, May 7.

Patrons of Pikes Peak Library District can pick up a free comic book at the library all day, while supplies last. While you are there, the library is hosting a “make your own comic” event.

For more information about Free Comic Book Day, visit freecomicbookday.com.

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The current and past presidents of the Tri-Lakes Women’s Club posed for posterity at last week’s 40th annual Pine Forest Spring Show and Sale. /Photos courtesy of Tri-Lakes Women’s Club for The Tribune

Tri-Lakes Women’s Club co-presidents Sandra Sciadini and Nancy Baumgardner.

TLWC Co-President Sandra Sciadini, ready to cut the ribbon.

From left to right, current Tri-Lakes Women’s Club co-Presidents, Nancy Baumgardner and Sandra Sciadini, with Pine Forest Spring Show and Sale co-chairs for 2016 Michele Hanley and Susan Weese.

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Rangers surprise 7-year-old boy with gifts


During a community service visit to a Denver hos-pital in March, the Lewis-Palmer High School base-ball team made a friend, 7-year-old Seth Austin of Berthoud.

On April 23, they gave that friend a day he’ll long remember.

It all stems from the Rangers’ commitment to giv-ing back. In recent seasons, L-P has worked with Children’s Hospital in Denver and other organiza-tions like Make-A-Wish to enrich the lives of sick children. Most of the events have been organized by L-P assistant coach Dimas Nunez.

During the March visit to Children’s, the team met Seth, who suffers from a blood clot and infection in his leg. At the time the team met him, Seth was work-ing at the craft table.

His mother, Diana Austin, said the Rangers players really cheered him up. And they invited him to come see them play.

“We expected to come to the game and enjoy our-selves,” Diana said. “We thought it would simply al-low Seth time to remember one of the good times he had at Children’s Hospital and say thanks to the play-ers who cheered him up so much. But the day was far greater than that.”

The L-P boys presented Seth with an autographed baseball, bat, glove and helmet prior to their home game with Vista Ridge. Then the Rangers joined Seth in a game of whiffle ball after their 11-1 victory.

“The crown jewel of everything was the chance to run and play whiffle ball with the team after the game,” Diana said. “His smile was as big as I’ve ever seen it.

“To have the entire team hanging on each step of his as he ran the bases, to see them wildly throw the ball to allow him time to keep running, to see him score and be celebrated as if he’d just won the pen-nant – priceless.”

Seth almost didn’t make the game. He was at the emergency room with his parents until 3 a.m. the night before getting treatment for his condition.

“We considered not coming, but Seth would have nothing of it,” Diana Austin said. “He was so excited and couldn’t stop talking about his expectations on the hour-and-a-half drive down.

“Then, to get there and see the presents laying on the bleachers, the offer to have anything from the

snack shop. Well, it was like Christmas morning.”She said Seth treasures his autographed helmet,

ball and glove “like they were gold.”“We’ve already bought a case for the ball which

he has prominently displayed on a shelf next to his bed,” she said.

Austin said the compassion the L-P boys showed her son tells her much about the team.

“The dictionary defines a hero as ‘a person who is admired or idealized for their courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities,’” Seth’s mom said. “The noble qualities (Lewis-Palmer players), parents and coaches showed will forever color my own un-derstanding of what a hero should be.

“I pray that all those boys live up to the potential they have displayed to us. Forever we will be grateful for their noble qualities. They have made an indel-ible imprint on our family. They have changed our lives.”

DCC sprinter Lauren Gale enjoying

record-breaking season By Danny [email protected]

Lauren Gale has burst on the

Colorado high school track scene in eye-popping fashion.

The Discovery Canyon sopho-more is ranked in the top three in the state among all classifications in the 100, 200 and 400 meter rac-es.

She is a serious threat to take home gold in all three events at this month’s prestigious state meet at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood.

“I have to work really hard if I want to win state,” Gale said. “I’m

really pleased with my results and how I’m ranked so high.

“I have to continue to concen-trate, work hard, use my long legs and my strides. I think all that all helps. I try to work on form and keep pushing forward.”

Gale, much like the Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy Gale, blew into town from a foreign land: Ottawa, On-tario, Canada, to be exact. She arrived in the Tri-Lakes area last summer when her father accepted a position at NORAD.

Gale came to DCC with an im-pressive resume. She set many of her age group records in Canada and quickly became a popular name in elite track circles in Colo-rado last summer while running for Speed Track and Field, based in Colorado Springs.

After posting blazing times in

meets at the Air Force Academy and other places around the state, she was being contacted by such high-profile colleges as Kansas and Connecticut.

“Colleges saw the times she was putting up in club and they took an interest in her very quickly,” said first-year DCC coach Adam Felkey.

“We are very fortunate that she enrolled here. She runs on raw tal-ent and ability. She trains with the boys and makes them better. They don’t want to lose to her.”

Gale has blown by most of her female counterparts this season.

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L-P baseball players ‘have changed our lives’

Member of the Lewis-Palmer baseball team pose for a photo with Seth Austin after lavishing him with gifts and a game whiffle ball on April 23./Photo courtesy of Dimas Nunez

Burning up the track and record books

Discovery Canyon sophomore Lauren Gale is ranked among the top runners in the state in he 100, 200 and 400 me-ters. /Photo by Danny Summers



The Palmer Ridge girls’ lacrosse team took commanding control of the Class 4A South-ern Conference with victories last week over Air Academy, Cheyenne Mountain and Green Mountain,

The Bears (8-3, 5-0) have won seven consec-utive games since starting the season 1-3.

Palmer Ridge defeated Air Academy 15-7 on April 25 as junior Abby O’Hara and senior Ali Walker scored three goals apiece. Adding two goals each were Mary Koch, Elizabeth Reich, Liz Phillips and Sam Rippley.

The Bears downed Cheyenne Mountain 13-5 on April 27 as Koch paced the attack with four goals, while Rippley and Phillips added three each.

Palmer Ridge defeated Green Mountain 17-6 on April 28. Rippley, Mason Wolfe and Meg Res had three goals apeice.

Rippley leads the offense with 38 goals, while Phillips is second with 31, followed by Koch’s 27.

Palmer Ridge fi nishes the regular season this week with games against Rampart, Liberty and Colorado Academy.

The playoffs begin next week.

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Jason Brown burst onto the inter-national fi gure skating scene in 2014 at the Sochi, Russia, Winter Olympics after honing his skills at the Colorado Sports Center in Monument.

Injuries have derailed the 7K In-ternational Skating Academy star for the last six months. But he appeared healthy as ever April 22-24 when he led Team North America to a victory over Team Europe and Team Asia in the in-augural Team Challenge Cup in Spo-kane, Wash.

Team North America won $210,000 for its efforts. Brown’s split will go to help with his training at the Colorado Sports Center, which is located along Old Denver Highway.

Forty-two of the top fi gure skaters in the world took part in a continental team competition over the course of three days. After suffering from a back injury that kept him from competing at the U. S. Nationals earlier this year, Brown took to the ice, ending a six

month hiatus from competition.Skating to a short program “Appas-

sionata” by Secret Garden, Brown was welcomed to the ice by thousands of fans who missed his presence this sea-son.

“Going out there and being healthy and being able to be a part of this event is a victory in itself,” Brown said after

the fi rst day of competition. “Skating the short, I was defi nitely more ner-vous than I ever remember being be-fore. I wanted it to go well and help the team out, so I am thrilled I was able to get back out there and trust my train-ing.”

Twenty-four hours later, Brown took to the ice again for his free skate, “The

Scent of Love” by Michael Nyman. Showing the world exactly what he

does best, Brown received a standing ovation for his performance that night.

Brown’s coach Kori Ade – the found-er of 7K – was thrilled that her star pu-pil was skating at a top level.

“He’s ba-a-a-ck!” Ade said with de-light. “Jason is a competitor. Whatever element he is doing or whatever the situation is in his life at the moment, he is competing.”

Placing second overall in the men’s division, Brown helped contribute to the 1st place fi nish of Team North America.

“I’m so proud to add two personal best performances to my repertoire and help contribute to the team points; I couldn’t be more thrilled,” he said.

The event concluded the 2015-2016 season. Brown is already looking ahead to preseason training and continuously developing his established programs.

“I’ve learned so much from my ex-periences and I’ll be even hungrier for success,” he said “Everyone will be able to see that I will be stronger than ever.”

Monument’s Brown leads Team North America to fi gure skating title

Palmer Ridge girls’ lacrosse team takes control as playo� s approach

Monument’s Jason Brown, fi fth from left, helped Team North America to a fi rst-place fi nish in the inaugural Team Challenge in April./Courtesy photo

Continued from Page 11She is fi rst in 4A in the 400 (54.22

seconds) and second in the 100 (12 fl at) and 200 (24.64).

Gale’s marks stand as DCC school records. She also runs anchor (the 400) on the school’s 800 sprint medley relay team.

“It’s pretty cool having Lauren on the team,” said DCC sophomore Ayan-nah Lang, who typically runs the lead 100 in the medley relay. “When we go to meets, we hear people saying ‘Oh, that’s Discovery Canyon!’”

DCC sophomore Kaitlin Badger is competing for the 200 spot on the med-ley relay team. That means she would passing the baton to Gale for the home stretch run.

“I’ve been doing relays so long with

Lauren and it seems like her stride is a mile long,” Badger said. “One second she’s in front of you and the next she’s four feet ahead.

All of DCC’s female sprinters are un-derclassmen.

“It’s really cool because I feel like we’re a really good team now and we’re all so young,” said sophomore Jadie DeLange. “Two years down the road it should be like ‘Wow!’ If we stick togeth-er we’re limitless in what we can do.

“When I found out I was in the med-ley with Lauren I was like ‘Oh my good-ness. Let’s get started. Let’s go!’ She just has this confi dence and that’s some-thing I like to do with her. She keeps us cool and it’s fun to run those medleys with her.”

Gale is hoping to own numerous

DCC records by the end of her career. She aspires to long jump, high jump and heave the shot put.

“I told her she can do the shot put next season, but not this close to the state meet,” Felkey said.

Gale plans to go back to Canada this summer to train with her club coaches

there. She will also compete in the Ca-nadian Outdoor Nationals in the open (all ages) and her own age division.

“There’s one in Edmonton (Alberta) for Olympic qualifying and I know I won’t actually qualify, but it will be cool to race against the top athletes from Canada,” Gale said.

Track

Palmer Ridge’s Sam Rippley, No. 15, andElizabeth Reich, No. 22, go high into the air to battle a Cheyenne Mountain player for a ball during an April 27 match.


Faces to FollowRebekah AnthonysoftballChadron State

Anthony, a 2013 Lewis-Palmer graduate, is a junior second baseman for the Chadron (Nebraska) State softball team. She played in 41 games (38 starts) this season, batting .250 with a pair of home runs and 12 RBIs. She is majoring in business admin-istration and has a 3.49 GPA and is

a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference all-Academy team. While at L-P, she had a lifetime .413 batting average and was a three-time letter winner.

Carson SaabyeshootingLewis-Palmer Middle School

Saabye, an eighth-grader at Lewis-Palmer Middle School, claimed the gold in the Women’s Sport Air Pistol event during the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships (NJOSC) last month at the United States Olympic Training Center. She also won a silver in women’s air

pistol.

Taylor ChristensenlacrosseCSU-Pueblo

Christensen, a 2015 Discovery Canyon graduate, continued her dominating defensive season last week against Adams State and Fort Lewis with 11 draw controls, seven ground balls, and two caused turn-overs. She also scored two goals in each game with a 100 percent save

percentage. Christensen began her week with a school-record nine draw controls against the Grizzlies. She also grabbed five ground balls and scored twice. The fresh-man ranks third in the nation with 4.20 ground balls per game.

Continued from Page 1became overwhelming for Felicia, who was nearing 70. Dieudonne’s grades began to falter and the lack of a consistent positive male influence in his life was sorely needed. In stepped Lance and Tammie Wieland.

The Wielands had known Dieudonne since he was eight. They met at First United Methodist Church in Colorado Springs and often did activities together outside of church.

“The relationship progressed over the years,” Tam-mie said. “We took him on boating trips and did other things with him and he became like a son to us.

“Life has never been easy for him, but he’s really resilient. He doesn’t take anything for granted.”

Last summer the Wielands – who have three grown children – offered their help in raising Dieudonne. They became his legal guardians and he moved into their Monument home. He sees his grandma at least once a week.

“They saw the situation I was in and, by an act of God, they took me in,” Dieudonne said with a smile.

Dieudonne’s cousin, a senior at Harrison, still lives with Felicia. He will attend Northern Arizona Univer-sity in the fall.

Dieudonne wasted little time transitioning into L-P. He joined the football team, where he played special teams and saw some action at running back. In the regular season finale at Harrison, he was the featured back, gaining 104 yards and a touchdown on 32 carries.

Dieudonne decided to skip the basketball season to focus on academics, as well as the upcoming track season.

His best time of 11.16 seconds in the 100 ranks him 13th among all Class 4A runners. The top 18 advance to the state meet. He has a 200 time of 23.37 (38th).

Dieudonne also runs anchor on the 4x100 and 4x200 sprint teams, which are close to qualifying for state.

“Dieudonne is 100 percent goofball,” L-P track coach Nancy Pellow said with a smile. “He is such a joy to have on the team.

“He brings us depth. He make us more competitive and he’s a great athlete.”

Dieudonne’s story amazes me. Despite his back-ground, he remains upbeat and is hopeful about his future.

Dieudonne turned 16 on April 11 and is excited about getting his driver’s license and car. The Wie-lands have offered to help him out in that area as well.

Dieudonne is living in the U.S. on a visa. He is not eligible, under U.S. law, to take the citizenship test until he turns 18.

“I consider myself an American,” he proudly told me. “I can’t wait until I am a U.S. citizen.”

And I can’t wait to see what he does next, either running on the track or the football field. Where ever it is, I have no doubt, he’ll be running with a big smile on his face.

Sprinter

Continued from Page 1nation of the rate issue. The emergency ordinance was expected to pass easily.

The board also was scheduled to name a new trustee to fill the spot vacated when Jeff Kaiser was promoted to mayor, following the resignation of Dominguez on March 29.

The annexation issue is fascinating because of the personalities involved and the larger question of whether the new board, now controlled by the so-called “accountability” slate, will allow growth in Monument.

Shortly before his resignation, Dominguez re-quested the town annex a 9.6-acre parcel he and his wife, Elizabeth, bought in December adjacent to the town’s southern boundary.

The town planning commission voted 6-0 in favor of the annexation. Town staff said the annexation would not cost the town anything other than police protection because the property has its own well water. Monument would benefit from the property taxes the couple would pay and the money they’d eventually pay once water service is extended south.

Trustee Greg Coopman balked at the annexation, saying more time was needed and that any annexa-tion now would be irresponsible until the town’s comprehensive plan, which guides growth and de-velopment, is updated.

Dominguez and his attorney were expected to at-tend Monday’s meeting to argue that an indefinite delay would be an illegal denial of his property rights.

The annexation request has big implications for

development of the adjacent Willow Springs Ranch, a 210-plus acre site where new homes have been planned for years.

The original 260-acre parcel was sold in 2007 to a company that intended to develop it and sought annexation by Monument. Before that happened, it fell into foreclosure and, in 2010, ended up with new owners who are in talks with the town about resur-recting the annexation and development plan.

The previous owner had divided the parcel to re-flect 117 acres of habitat for the endangered Preble’s meadow jumping mouse and about 116 acres for homes, both high-density, multi-family units and single-family homes on larger lots.

In 2011, the new owners obtained zoning concept plan approval from El Paso County to develop 450 units. But the parcel will have difficulty qualifying for town annexation under rules that require one-sixth of the property to be contiguous to the town. If the Dominguez annexation is approved, Willow Springs would more easily meet that criteria, Planning Direc-tor Larry Manning told the board on April 18.

Town Manager Chris Lowe said he’d welcome the Willow Springs subdivision both for the property taxes the homes would pay and also for the new cus-tomers the area would create for the town water util-ity.

“I would view it as a positive,” Lowe said, noting the current plan contains a variety of homes.

“Willow Springs has large lots and some high-den-sity housing planned that will be affordable, accord-ing to plans they’ve submitted.

“It would improve the town mill levy, the school district mill levy, the town water utility. I don’t see it as a bad thing.”

But Coopman is suspicious of Dominguez and his motives and efforts to add high-density housing in Monument. He predicted the prospect of any annex-ation will be “highly controversial.”

Also Monday, the board was expected to vote on a new trustee, choosing from three people who ap-plied: Dennis Murphy, who spent his career in the Air Force before retiring in 1993 as a colonel; Michelle Glover, an attorney and military veteran who cur-rently serves on the Town Planning Commission; and Kevin Sorenson, a software engineer who finished fifth in the April 5 race for four seats.

And it was expected to take up a revised proposal from Thomas Tharnish, public works director, who wants the power to declare every street in Monument an emergency snow route when two inches of snow falls.

Any residents who refuse to move their cars off the street during a storm would be at risk of being towed, if they ignored police warnings.

He said warnings would be issued by police before cars would be towed. But there was no specific lan-guage in the proposed ordinance stating how many warnings, or $25 fines, would be required before a car was towed.

Trustees Jeff Bornstein and Coopman both ques-tioned the idea of towing cars for being parked on the street and the revised proposal faced tough ques-tioning.

Annexation

Continued from Page 1Huber said the Tri-Lakes area and Monument, in

particular, is a victim of its location straddling Inter-state 25, breathing the exhaust of 60,000 vehicles a day charging up and down the Palmer Divide.

“Certainly people in Monument can try to carpool more, take buses, use electric lawnmowers,” he said. “Those are all helpful ways to reduce ozone pollu-tion. But there’s a limit to the impact you can have in Monument with all that traffic going by.”

Huber said residents of the region, especially those in high-risk categories, should monitor air quality and not categories, not exercise outdoors on days designated unhealthy.

And he urged residents to lobby their lawmakers to back clean-energy initiatives.

Will Allison, director of the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division, told the Associated Press that new, lower EPA standards expected to begin taking effect in 2020 will be tougher for Colorado and other West-ern states to meet because they have higher back-ground levels of ozone they can’t control.

The Denver metro area was the eighth-worst city in the nation for ozone in the association’s rankings. Los Angeles was the worst, the report said.

Eight counties in the Denver area exceed the EPA’s current ozone standard but are projected to meet it by next year, Allison said.

The American Lung Association rated only 17 of Colorado’s 64 counties on ozone. It said data was in-complete or unavailable for the others.

A dozen counties rated an F: Adams, Arapahoe,

Boulder, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Garfield, Jefferson, Larimer, Mesa, Rio Blanco and Weld.

Jackson, Moffat and Montezuma rated a B, Gun-nison a C and La Plata a D.

Colorado fared better on particulate pollution. The American Lung Association gave 13 counties an A, B or C but gave Denver a D. The other counties weren’t graded.

Arapahoe, El Paso, Pueblo, Garfield, La Plata and Montezuma counties got an A. Adams, Douglas, Lar-imer and Rio Blanco got a B while Boulder, Mesa and Weld got a C. Denver got a D.

To read the American Lung Association report card visit http://tinyurl.com/jtjofwj

To learn more about air quality include real-time reports visit: http://www.colorado.gov/airquality/

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May 6 to May 20Library programs Monument Library plans a

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Through May 8Musical adaptation The Colorado Springs Fine

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May 7Teen movie Teens are invited to the Monument

Library’s first Saturday movie showing from 1-3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7. The movie is “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” which is rated PG-13.

May 7Author discussion Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts

in Palmer Lake will host Monument-based WordFire Press and other Colorado authors in a roundtable discussion on the “industrial revolution” in publish-ing and dramatic changes for authors and booksell-ers. Founded by New York Times bestselling authors Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, WordFire Press is a mid-size publisher revolutionizing how authors get their books in front of readers. The panel discussion features Anderson and Moesta, as well as local authors Mario Acevedo, Quincy J. Allen, Jason Henderson, Kevin Ikenberry, Tim Jones, Sam Knight, and Chris Mandeville. A Q&A session and an author signing event will take place immediately following the discussion. Event takes place from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, 304 Highway 105, Palmer Lake, and is free and open to the public. Contact [email protected].

May 13Mental health The National Alliance on Mental

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May 19 to June 12Musical The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

presents “9 to 5: The Musical” from Thursday, May 19, to Monday, June 12, at 30 W. Dale St. Pushed to the boiling point, three female co‐workers concoct a plan to get even with their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical boss. They conspire to take control of their company and learn there’s nothing they can’t do. Tickets available at csfineartscenter.org or 719-634-5583.

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May 21Health care Colorado health care will be on the

November 2016 ballot. Learn the pros and cons of Amendment 69 and how it could affect your life at this free public event. Sen. Jeanne Nicholson will speak for the measure; Matt Coleman, of Business Alliance, will speak against the measure. Learn more from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 21 at the East Library, community room, 5550 N. Union Blvd., Colorado Springs. Amendment 69 would create Col-oradoCare, a health care payment system to finance health care for Colorado residents. State taxes would be increased to pay for the new system. Sponsored by League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region and co-sponsored by American Association of Uni-versity Women.

May 27Mental health Mental Health First Aid is an eight-

hour course that teaches you how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or expe-riencing a mental health crisis. A training session is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 27, at the Citizens Service Center, 1675 Garden of the Gods Road, Colo-rado Springs. The training helps you identify, under-stand, and respond to signs of addictions and mental illnesses. Class size is limited and registration is required. To register, go to www.mhfaco.org/find-a-class. Contact NAMI-CS at 719-473-8477 or [email protected]. Class is offered at no cost thanks to a sponsorship of Peak View Behavioral Health. Reg-istration is required; go to http://www.mhfaco.org/find-a-class. Call NAMI at 719-473-8477 or email [email protected].

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Palmer Lake Kid’s Fishing Derby for elementary and middle school-aged anglers from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 4. Entry to the Fishing Derby is a donation of a non-perishable food item for Tri-Lakes Cares. A limited number of rods and reels will be loaned out on a first-come, first-served basis. Kids may bring fishing bait (salmon eggs and worms) or corn is provided.

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