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By Bill [email protected]

People growing pot in private homes in Monument will be limited to 12 plants in one home, with no more than half reaching maturity at one time, under a strict new ordinance adopted by the Board of Trustees at its Jan. 20 meeting.

The 12-plant maximum applies no matter how many adults, patients or caregivers reside in the house.

The new ordinance, adopted on a 7-0 vote, also makes it illegal for rent-ers to grow marijuana inside a rented property without written permission from the property owner.

And it orders that personal marijua-na cultivation cannot be “perceptible” in a neighborhood. If a neighbor can tell from outside that growing is tak-ing place, through signage or lighting or odors coming from a house, the op-eration will be in violation of the ordi-nance.

The change came after Police Chief Jake Shirk told the board he has infor-mation that criminal gangs are grow-ing hundreds of marijuana plants in Monument rental homes, taking ad-vantage of lax Colorado laws.

“Organized groups and gangs are us-ing rental houses in town to grow mari-juana,” Shirk said. “It’s a real big prob-lem. We have people with 500 plants in

a rental house where the owner doesn’t even know it’s going on.”

Shirk said the renters alter power supplies to the homes to generate the electricity needed for their lights and equipment. And they bring dangerous chemicals onto the property to use in the growing and processing of the pot.

“Often they fl ush them down the toilet,” Shirk said, adding that the “noxious” smell of the plants can ruin a house.

Shirk said the ordinance would not contradict Colorado’s constitutional amendment legalizing the use and al-lowing adults 21 and over to grow up to six plants apiece. Vague language about “caregivers” growing plants for others has led the law to be interpreted to mean 500 plants can be grown in one house.

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By Bill [email protected]

Complaints from residents and busi-nesses about the impact of proposed steep new water rates led the Monu-ment Board of Trustees to postpone ac-tion at its Jan. 19 meeting.

The decision came after more than an hour of testimony and discussion on the proposal by Town Manager Chris Lowe that would see the cost of water for average households jump 50

percent this year and be followed by 8 percent rate increases each year until 2021.

Over the life of the six-year plan, the cost of water would nearly double for the 1,000 customers - residential and businesses - on the west side of Inter-state 25 served by the municipal water utility. The remaining east-side Monu-ment residents and businesses are served by other water districts.

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A.B. Tellez, owner of Rosie’s Diner, explains to the Monument Board of Trustees and town staff how proposed new rates will cost him thousands. Photo by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune

Not so fast: Trustees table steep new water rates

VoicesValue of ‘active shooter’ training

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LifeIts Time to add strength training

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SportsMeredith Rees:Out in front of the competition

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By Evan Musick [email protected]

People who live, work and commute along a closed portion of Black Forest Road may be able to resume their normal route months sooner than expected.

The section between Shoup and Swan roads was abruptly closed in October when El Paso County transportation offi cials determined that Kettle Creek was dangerously eroding a culvert under the road, which carries about 5,000 cars a day.

The road was barricaded and a three-mile detour created via Swan, Herring and Shoup roads.

Motorists were warned Black Forest Road would be closed until July because of issues raising the $1.2 million needed to make the necessary repairs.

Now, El Paso County Engineer Andre Brackin said he anticipates the project being completed much sooner.

“We will be able to advertise the project for bid be-fore the end of January, which would allow a contract to be awarded before the end of February and work to

begin possibly as early as March,” said Brackin. “It’s possible we could be looking at the road being

back open in the spring, rather than mid-summer.”That’s good news for neighbors on either side of

the creek, whose lives were most disrupted, as well as parents and staff of Edith Wolford Elementary School just north of the closure.

Tony Steffensmeier, who is building a house on an adjacent fi ve-acre lot, said of the closure: “It’s a pain.”

His drive home only takes an extra fi ve minutes, but the closure caused other problems.

Construction materials being delivered to his house took several days longer because the road was not being plowed.

Steffensmeier said he wasn’t upset about granting an easement, noting El Paso County paid him $500-$700 for up to .2 acres of his land.

The closure has added around 64 miles for the 32 school bus trips that are made daily to the school, said Cindy Hardin, director of transportation for Academy School District 20. The detour has added about fi ve

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Black Forest Road set to reopen ahead of schedule

By Avalon A. [email protected]

“American Idol” is sup-posed to be a reality TV talent show, but it’s turned into a mystery when it comes to Palmer Ridge High School senior Lain Roy.

Perhaps the mystery will be solved Wednesday, Jan. 27, when the Fox singing competition resumes at 7 p.m.

Roy, of Larkspur, audi-tioned in Denver last year for season 15 of “American Idol,” which features

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Palmer Ridge teen on this season’s ‘American Idol’

Lain Roy

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The Bonfils Blood Center will hold a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Monument Li-brary, 1706 Lake Woodmoor Drive, said Liz Lambert, spokeswoman for the center.

Donations will be made inside the Community Meeting Room.

For more information, or to sched-ule an appointment, please contact Bonfils Appointment Center on its toll free line at 800-365-0006 ext. 2 or visit bonfils.org.

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Parents can enroll their children in preschool or kindergarten in Lewis-Palmer School District 38 on Thursday, Feb. 4, at a number of area elementary schools.

To enroll, parents or guardians must provide a copy of the student’s birth certificate, immunization record and proof of residence.

A $50 registration fee is required upon enrollment in preschool or all-day kindergarten. This fee is waived for special education preschoolers and Colorado Preschool Program (CPP) applicants.

To register, visit the appropriate school campus during its registration window on Feb. 4:

Bear Creek Elementary School: 9:30-10:30 a.m. or 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Lewis-Palmer Elementary School: 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Palmer Lake Elementary School: 2:00-3:00 p.m. or 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Prairie Winds Elementary School: 2:00-3:00 p.m. or 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. (no preschool offered at this site)

Ray Kilmer Elementary School: 4:00-6:30 p.m.

Enrollment packets are available online and in hard copy on registration day at each school. School staff will be present to assist in the enroll-ment process and give tours of the schools.

If you are unable to attend any of the registration events in your area, you will be able to enroll your student at the district’s administration build-ing, in Monument, starting Feb. 8. Call 719-488-4700 for more informa-tion.

Wednesday, Jan. 27What: Lewis-Palmer High School Symphonic Band ConcertWhere: Auditorium of Lewis-Palmer High School, 1300 Higby Road, MonumentWhen: 7 p.m., Jan. 27Cost: Free

Saturday, Jan. 30What: Blood DriveWhere: Monument Library, 1706 Lake Woodmoor DriveWhen: 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sat. Jan. 30Info: Call Bonfils Appointment Center, 800-365-0006 ext. 2, or visit bonfils.org.

Tuesday, Feb. 2-27What: Palmer Lake Art Group Winter Art Show and SaleWhen: Opens on noon, Feb. 2Where: Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, 304 Hwy. 105, Palmer LakeInfo: www.palmerlakeartgroup.com

CalendarMayor, five trustees up for election


A big shake-up could be coming to the Palmer Lake Board of Trustees in the April 5 election as voters will get to choose a new mayor and five members of the board.

A new mayor is certain. Mayor Nikki McDonald is term-limited and cannot run for re-election.

The rest of the board could look fa-miliar.

Trustee Rich Kuehster, representing the Palmer Lake Fire Department, is the only member of the board who is safe. His term expires in April 2018.

The terms of Trustees John Russell, Paul Banta, Robert Grado, Mitchell Da-vis and Judith Harrington all expire in April and are up for re-election.

Candidates for board seats or the office of the mayor must complete a nomination petition, which requires the signatures of community mem-bers, in order to run. Nomination peti-tions have been available at Town Hall and were due by 4 p.m., Jan. 25.

Palmer Lake Town Manager Cathy Green says that nomination petitions have been picked up by a number of people, but none were returned as of press time. No one has announced publically they are running for any of the open positions and no campaign-ing has yet taken place.

If the town doesn’t receive enough completed nomination petitions to hold a contested election, the board will appoint trustees for a new term and no election will be held. This is not uncommon in smaller towns like Palmer Lake.

Should there be an election, ballots will be mail-in, sent out in early March to Palmer Lake residents.

In addition to the board and mayor-al election, there is a municipal issue at hand: a request to exempt Palmer Lake from restrictions of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, or TABOR, which limits the town’s ability to keep excess revenue and controls spending. The exemp-tion would be extended another seven years.

If there is no April municipal elec-tion, the issue will hold and be placed on November’s general election ballot.

Big changes coming to Palmer Lake Board of Trustees

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Shirk said his officers already have encountered two of the large-scale grow operations in rental houses. He reminded the Trustees of a bust his of-ficers made months ago. Shirk said of-ficers discovered the occupants were even stealing identities so they could buy more grow equipment.

“Organized criminal groups are coming into our town to do their com-mercial growing,” he said. “These are

not individuals trying to take care of themselves.”

Shirk said he patterned the ordi-nance after a similar law enacted in El Paso County.

The only person to testify on the or-dinance was Tammy Barber, who said her neighborhood complained to its homeowners association about a large grow operation in a rental house.

She said so many people are looking for rental houses to grow pot that the demand had caused rents to triple.

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C o n c e r n s about the pri-vacy of student data and the over-abundance of standardized testing prompt-ed Lewis-Palmer School District 38’s school board to unanimous-ly agree to ap-peal to the state Board of Education to waive a school readiness assess-ment.

The readiness assessment is meant to determine whether students are ready for kindergarten. It is part of the Teaching Strategies LLC Gold (TS Gold) early childhood educa-tion curriculum and exists under the umbrella of the School Readiness Act.

The TS Gold assessment costs the district upwards of $42,000 a year, said Sheila Beving, D-38’s director of cur-riculum, at a public hearing earlier this month. And it requires more than 65 hours of teaching time. It also involves collecting a detailed portfolio of each student’s performance, which follows them to the next grade, although re-sults of the assessment cannot be used to deny a student entrance to kinder-garten.

Parents in D-38 expressed alarm at school board meetings about the amount of data collected per child,

and worry about how such data would be shared and used. These concerns have prompted TS Gold to begin working harder to protect stu-dent data, but parents aren’t sure it’s enough.

Teachers were weary of spending large amounts of class time collecting the data, only to have it rarely, if ever, revisited or used to drive instruction, and generally supported the applica-tion for a waiver, a recent faculty sur-vey reported.

The test is so despised 65 schools and three districts statewide have applied for similar waivers. The Clas-sical Academy in Academy School District 20 received a waiver in fall 2015.

“(We will be) keeping with the spirit of the law” as D-38 applies for the waiver, Beving said at last week’s school board meeting. Instead of the TS Gold assessment, the district will use an internal report card and document system called “Profiles for Success” to determine kindergarten readiness.

Now that the board has resolved to apply for the waiver, Beving will sub-mit the application to the state Board of Education, who will determine whether the district can waive the as-sessment.

Beving said the report card is aligned with and reflects state standards, but is streamlined to protect data collected about students, and takes up minimal class time.

The school board meeting also saw comments from parents voicing oppo-sition to the Common Core State Stan-

dards being taught in D-38 classrooms, which many perceive as an affront to local control of curriculum.

Common Core, a set of federal academic standards for English and math, was adopted in Colorado in 2010 with some modifications. In December of that year, the Colorado Depart-ment of Education released the new Colorado Academic Standards, which incorporated the Common Core standards, while maintaining some unique aspects of the previous Colo-rado standards – things like financial literacy, a set of prepared graduate competencies and preschool expecta-tions.

Opposition to Common Core was a common theme in the November school board election. Candidates and voters alike criticized it for infringing on local control. Since then, the board has listened each month as parents, teachers and community members at public meetings reiterate their desire to remove Common Core from area schools.

School board president Mark Pfoff, along with the other members of the board, still feels strongly that Common Core isn’t right for D-38.

“I strongly support a parent’s right to parent,” Pfoff said. “But there’s only so much we can do as a school board. At this point, it’s a state issue.”

Rep. Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, is elevating the district’s anti-Common Core agenda during the 2016 legislative session. Pfoff said the board will wait for legislative action, saying the board’s options are limited.

Writing and implementing a new curriculum is massively expensive, and risks limiting students’ options if it doesn’t utilize a broadly recog-nized standardized assessment like the PARCC.

However, Pfoff said, the board can start to address specific standards. If parents believe a specific academic standard being taught is harmful to their student, Pfoff asked they bring it to the board for consideration.

Brofft contract extendedThe board

u n a n i m o u s l y approved a three-year con-tract extension through 2019 for Superin-tendent Karen Brofft, who was hired in July 2014.

“We believe Karen ... is our superintendent of the future and we want to keep her for a long, long time,” Pfoff said.

Board member Sarah Sampayo urged the board to balance fiscal responsibil-ity with the need to pay Brofft a salary commiserate with other district’s superin-tendents. She was paid $148,000 previ-ously, and her new salary is $180,000. The district doesn’t pay into a 401K, or cover her employee contribution to PERA. She receives the same ben-efits as other D38 employees, includ-ing paying the same rates for health insurance.

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Growing up in the 1960s, I was taught to look for buildings bearing a distinctive sign that showed three yellow, upside-down triangles inside a black circle.

The signs were a 1961 creation of the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense to designate a building as a govern-ment-approved fallout shelter and a safe haven in the event of a nuclear attack.

At school, in addition to our regular fire drills, we practiced scrambling downstairs to the basement tunnels where canned water and crackers were stored. The tunnels were designated fallout shelters where we presumably would ride out a nuclear war.

I was reminded of those drills when I read recent-ly of “active shooter” training being offered by local law enforcement agencies and private companies.

It seems crazy that we feel the need to train our society to respond to maniacs with guns. But based on the frequency of shooting sprees in general, and my own experiences in particular, I think active-shooter training makes far more sense than training schoolchildren to survive nuclear holocaust in the 1960s.

As sad as it sounds, I urge everyone to get trained. I don’t say this as a fearmonger. I say this as someone who has survived two active-shooter incidents.

The first was in 1984 in the desert town of Indian Springs, Nev., about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas. I encountered two armed gunmen on a cross-coun-try crime spree.

They wrecked their stolen car as they swerved to avoid my SUV on the highway through town. Then, as they were desperately looking for another car they could hijack, a state police officer arrived creating a dangerous confrontation.

One of the men pulled a gun and came up behind the officer, pointing it at the back of his head. I saw it unfolding from a short distance away and screamed out a warning.

Miraculously, the officer was able to spin, grab the revolver and prevent it from firing as he pulled down the gunman and subdued him with help of pass-

ersby. Two other men and myself prevented the accomplice from escaping. It was a harrow-ing afternoon that I’ll never forget.

The second incident took place on Aug. 29, 1989, when a gunman stormed into the kitchen of Lindy’s Villa Tap, a neighborhood tavern in Peoria, Ill., where I was having lunch with a couple friends.

The gunman, Francis “Frannie” Dusch, pointed his .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun at his es-tranged wife, Rae Dusch, and pulled the trigger.

But he missed Rae, a waitress, who bolted past the pool tables and out the front door when she saw Frannie coming.

Instead, his bullet struck my waitress, Hazel “Ginny” Mainer, who screamed: “My God, I’ve been hit.” A drop of bright red blood began to trickle from a small hole in the back of her white blouse.

A tray of food Ginny was holding crashed to the floor as she crumpled in pain. Dusch began pacing

the restaurant demanding for Rae to come out, vow-ing to kill her in explicit terms.

In both incidents, I was amazed at the reactions of the various people caught in the middle.

Some fled. Some froze. Some tried to hide while still others vaulted into action.

In Lindy’s, one of my friends ran into the back and hid in a closet. I ducked under the table while my other friend sat paralyzed by what was unfolding. It simply didn’t register with him what grave danger we were facing.

Recently, two of our reporters attended active-shooter training. They came back talking about ways to barricade a door to prevent a shooter from entering along with other techniques to protect themselves.

I recalled training two years ago at The Gazette offered by the El Paso County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Todd Evans, an expert on the subject.

I called Evans and asked about training. In the wake of the Halloween shootings in downtown Colo-rado Springs and the Planned Parenthood shootings on Nov. 27, Evans said the public is no longer skepti-cal of the need.

The sheriff’s office has a community outreach unit that goes out to schools, churches and nonprof-it groups to offer training. It’s a busy bunch.

“We offer a training class focused on how to re-spond during a critical incident,” he said. “It focuses on what an individual should do during the time it takes for law enforcement to respond to a scene. We teach having a personal plan, about situational awareness, the individual mindset in the face of an active shooter.”

Most important, authorities teach people to react, not wait for first responders, because many can die waiting for help.

Common training preaches “run, hide, fight” responses. If faced with a shooter, run to safety as a first option. My buddy tried to run to safety, but became trapped in Lindy’s when he could not find a rear door. So he did the next best thing: he hid in a closet.

I didn’t see an escape route, so I simply hid under our table, pulling my other friend with me when he froze.

I shudder to think if I’d had to resort to the third option of fight. Dusch had a gun and I did not. Luckily, his gun jammed as he tried to kill another customer and he fled, leaving us to call police and an ambulance for Ginny.

“We teach people to go through these types of incidents in their minds, to mentally prepare,” Evans said. “If you do, your reactions will be so much faster when it really happens.”

In the Woodland Park training, participants walked through actual scenarios and took action to protect themselves. Evans said it’s important to train for such an event.

“You have to plan, prepare and practice,” Evans said.

Anyone interested in learning more can contact the sheriff’s Community Relations and Outreach unit at 719-520-7162 or by email at [email protected].

The unit offers site assessments and critical inci-dent training.

I recommend the training. Hopefully, you’ll never need what you learn. But I know it sure would have helped me in the situations I faced in my life.

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Bill [email protected]

Facing gunmen proved to me value of ‘active-shooter’ training

Officer Ryan Koski, security officer with the Woodland Park School District, engages the audience in practicing barricad-ing doors, if they happen to encounter an active- shooter in-cident. /Photo by Pat Hill


All politics is local. Former Speaker of the U.S. House Tip O’Neill is

credited for that phrase, and is most closely associat-ed with it. But perhaps the history-book writers were unfamiliar with William Eugene Higby, of Monu-ment, early in the 20th century.

Architecture, art, politics and history all get rolled up in a package and placed on the corner — the cor-ner of Second Street and Washington, to be exact.

“W.E. Higby was known by everyone as Gene. He was very interested in public affairs and his public career began in 1910 when he was elected treasurer of Monument. In 1912, he was elected mayor, and served continuously for 25 years. In 1912, he was also elected to the Republican precinct committee-man, and served continuously for 55 years. In 1920, he was elected to the board of District 38, a job he held for 15 years,” wrote Lucille Lavelett in her book “Through the Years in Monument.”

By 1932, he had entered state government becom-ing first a state representative from El Paso County, then state senator, and then lieutenant governor, by 1942.

He ran, seeking the governor’s position shortly thereafter, but lost out in a four-way split at the as-sembly. But he still reprised his role as lieutenant governor afterwards.

Later, he served on the Colorado Springs Board of Health for more than 10 years. Interestingly enough, Gene Higby was the first person in Colorado to preside over both the House and Senate as he also served as Speaker of the House, of which he was elected unanimously.

In the meantime, he helped run a Hereford cattle operation with a spread of more than 4,000 acres, dreamed up the working ideas of an early jet pro-pulsion engine, and worked, and operated, Higby Mercantile Co.

That is where the corner of Second and Washing-ton comes in.

The J.W. Higby family, Gene’s dad, came to Colo-rado in 1888, homesteading in the Eastonville area first, and then moving to Monument and establish-ing Higby Mercantile Co. in 1900, on said corner.

The business was in continuous operation in Monument for 67 years.

Here is where the art, architecture, a little music and more history are folded in.

Jim Rand Moore, originally a native of Milwaukee, Wis., and educated at Stanford University and Uni-versity of of Wisconsin, after receiving an economics degree, moved his family to Monument in 1971.

He had fallen in love with Colorado, while visit-ing with his family that owned a small chain of fine men’s clothing stores, MacNeil & Moore, one of which was at the Broadmoor Hotel.

“He loved classical as well as jazz music, fine architecture as well as fine art, and talented horses as well as talented equestrians,” according to his biography, distributed at his funeral in August 2007.

“He was a great musician, mastering many musi-cal instruments including the guitar, bass, banjo, trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin and viola. He even produced a couple of albums as a member of the Dixieland Jazz Band, the Riverboat Rascals, back in the 1960s. He was also a talented artist in drawing, painting, and sculpture.”

Lee and Rob Frisbee, of Monument Pharmacy, and current owners of the Chapala Building, which they bought from Moore in 2004, said he was a real force in Monument, over time.

“We appreciate anything that carries Jim’s mem-ory forward and casts him in the wonderful light he deserves,” says Rob Frisbie.

As a general contractor, he designed and built many structures locally including the family’s state-

of-the-art solar heated Mountain Shadow Farm at the base of Mount Herman.

“He also turned his eye to the historic buildings of downtown Monument and renovated the old 1900 Higby Mercantile Building into the Mexican-style Chapala Building. He also built Chapala North and the Monte Verde Building in the same unique style and many other downtown buildings were heavily influenced by his sense of design,” according to his

biography.Although Gene Higby’s and Jim Moore’s physical

presence have been gone for years now, their artistic and public-minded spirits still linger, at the corner of Second and Washington, and throughout the his-toric architecture of Monument.

Politics, art, music and more, rolled up in a pack-age and placed there on the corner.

RESTLESS NATIVE

Rob [email protected]

Spirits of Higby and Moore haunt downtown Monument

Top: Gene Higby inside the Higby Mercantile taken in 1947Middle: Customers inside the Higby Mercantile in 1900. /His-toric Photos Courtesy Lecretia Vaile MuseumBottom: The old safe still stands inside the Higby Mercantile Building. Photo by Rob CarriganLeft: The Higby Mercantile Co. circa 1957 and the building as it looks today (inset)./Inset Photo by Rob Carrigan


Tri-Lakes TribuneJan. 29, 1976 Charles Collins is the new manager of Woodmoor

Inn. The Inn is a center of activity in the area and caters to many of the associations and clubs. Charles plans to get more involved.

Tony Gonzales will be at a revival at Monument Assembly of God Church on 2nd and Jefferson. He was a member of the Galileans gospel singing group, but is now doing full-time evangelism.

Laurie Chapman, a junior at Air Academy High School, and Mike Shafer, a senior at Lewis-Palmer High School, announced a goal of 50 “fasters” for the 30-hour “Fast for the Hungry of the World” to be held March 13-14 at Camp Elephant Rock in Palmer Lake.

It is sponsored by the Church at Woodmoor. Each faster is responsible for raising a minimum of $100 to be donated to CROP, the community hunger ap-

peal of the Church World Service. Shafer is president of the L-P Youth Center board, and played varsity football.

State Patrol says “traffic laws are on your side.

They are there for your protection. Don’t disregard them. They can’t help if you ignore them.”

Palmer Lake Community Library has received 48 new books and 10 new records. New records include Leonard Bernstein’s “Concert for Peace” and the newest Rolling Stones album “Jamming with Ed-ward.”

Statehouse Drama - Verbal sparks flew in the Colorado House over a resolution recognizing Ukrainian independence day. Rep. Wayne Knox, D-Denver, objected to language which said dismem-bering Communist Russia “is in the best interest of the world.” Knox said it was interference with the internal affairs of another country.

Destined to be one of the most important issues to be considered this session is a severance tax bill. It would impose a 4 percent tax on the gross produc-tion of oil and gas, coal, metallic minerals and oil

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40 Years Ago

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This story caught my attention because of when it happened.

Years ago, I did a couple stories on the early problem of stolen automobiles. Back when cars were first seen in this area, they had no locks on them and soon they were being “borrowed” if one sat around “available.”

This is not one of those stories, sort of!A young lad of 14 up in Cripple Creek wanted to

go to Colorado Springs, and he came up with a novel way of getting there.

His transportation was easy to find, and the area is still known for this means of travel. In fact, in this tale, the means of transportation was found to be missing before they knew who had taken it!

Just what was the transport? Red Bess, a 16-year-old burro.

A Colorado Spring policeman learned from the Teller County Sheriff up in Cripple Creek that Red

Bess was missing, and could he look into the theft.Now this was no ordinary policeman. I.B. Bruce

had developed an interesting reputation by 1934, when this case came up. He worked his way through the detective ranks, and eventually was one of the best known of Colorado Springs’ police chiefs. But this is not a story about him. It’s about Red Bess.

It took just a little bit of patrol work for Bruce to spot the burro grazing in a park near downtown. The

youngster was not far away, both the boy and burro were resting from their trip.

The excursion started in Cripple Creek about seven in the morning and took about a day to get to Colorado Springs. The owner of Red Bess was happy to hear of the discovery and that she was no worse for the trip.

The young man was surprised that, with so many burros roaming the hills, that someone would miss one of them so quickly. The animal and the boy were soon returned to their respective homes.

The owner of Red Bess said that there was not enough money in Colorado Springs to buy Red Bess! No charges seem to have been filed, but I am sure the young man was met with a lot of explaining to do.

Red Bess probably spent the rest of her days roaming the hills around Cripple Creek. But I won-der who the youngster was and what ever happened to him!

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I’m sitting at my computer. I was hoping to write a column. I’m 60 years old, though, and the idea I had for a column just five minutes ago, well, I’ve now forgotten it. The thought vanished, to use the old expression, “like that marmot pelt on Donald Trump’s head in a 50 mph wind.”

Sometimes the lost ideas wander back into my head, navigating their way around the metal plate, and all is well. Sometimes, though, the memory loss goes on and you drive home, leaving your wife sitting in a booth at the Waffle House for three hours.

(On a more positive note, she doesn’t make me go out and warm up the car anymore.)

Anyway, while we wait to see if the column idea comes back, I will kill some time here with a joke:

Three old men are sitting on a park bench in Florida, complaining about their health.

“Every morning at 5 o’clock I wake up and think I have to pee,” one of the old men says. “I stand over the toilet, nothing happens. Nothing works any-more.”

“Every morning at 6 o’clock I think I have to poop,” the second old guy says. “I sit on the toilet, read the sports section, smoke a cigar. Nothing hap-pens.”

“Not me,” the third guy says. “I’m 97-years-old and every morning at 5 o’clock I take a big pee. At 6 every morning I take a big poop. Like clockwork.”

One of his old pals says: “That’s good, Walter. We’re glad one of us is healthy.”

“Well,” says Walter, “it’s not so good. I don’t wake up until 8.”

Oh, now I remember what that column idea was: Living in Florida.

Florida is a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by sharks and on the fourth by Georgia – as if that was any better. It’s the kind of place where you can get run over by a golf cart being driven by an 88-year-old woman -- with her mother in the pas-senger seat.

But, as I mentioned, I am 60. Unlike our gover-

nor, John Hickenlooper, who is 63 and last week married a 37-year-old woman (“I now pronounce you geezer and wife”) my spouse is also 60. (But let me quickly add that she looks 40 at the most and I sincerely hope I do not have to sleep in the garage with the cats again.)

Oh, and we stopped skiing a few years ago. Now the winters just seem long and cold. So last win-ter we explored Florida. We went back again a few weeks ago and let me tell you what happened.

We were playing golf. (I only hit two good balls all day, and that was when I was in the sand trap and accidentally stepped on a rake.) On a par-3, my wife cranked a 7-iron from the tee into the middle of the green. Then she made the 20-foot putt for a birdie-2 and threw her arms in the air and did a little dance.

And the next day – I am not kidding – we bought a small house, right there on that golf course. Starting in 2017, we will spend most of each winter there. We will return for each magnificent Colorado summer and fall.

To my old friends, a sincere note: If you’re in the Fort Myers area next winter, track me down. But don’t call too early.

I don’t wake up until 8.

Welcome back for the spring 2016 semester! While I hope the beginning of a new semester is

energizing, it’s also the spring semester that seems to be the busiest for our students, staff, and families. I want to take a moment as classes and activities get under way to give you an update about Academy District 20.

When the Colorado Measures of Academic Suc-cess or PARCC scores were released in December, we were pleased, but not surprised, to learn that our students performed very well.

We scored among the very highest achieving school districts in the state and were the highest achieving large school district. This outstanding achievement is a testament to our families who value education and who support our schools. It also demonstrates the commitment of our teachers who go above and beyond to make sure students are prepared.

There are changes occurring throughout our district as we see more homes being built, new de-velopments beginning to offer lots, new businesses opening, and construction activity on roads and infrastructure.

Our district is growing fast. More than 7,000 ad-

ditional students have enrolled since the last bond issue was approved by voters in 2001.

Student enrollment projections and developer input indicate we can expect 5,000 more students to enroll in the next 10 years. It’s time to improve our existing buildings and consider new facilities to accommodate growth that will push our district enrollment to more than 30,000 students.

As I have attended meetings during the past year with parent groups and community organizations, I am often asked what the district is doing to prepare for all the growth.

To begin planning for continued student enroll-ment growth, I have formed the Growth and Capital Needs Committee of parents, students, staff mem-

bers, community members, and business leaders. This committee of more than 45 members will

make recommendations this May regarding five categories: new construction, per pupil school im-provement dollars, capital renewal/improvement, remodels and additions, and district infrastructure technology needs.

These recommendations will help determine whether our district asks voters to approve a bond measure in November. The committee’s member-ship and minutes of each meeting are posted on the district website.

I want to thank our staff members for their daily examples of diligence, caring, and creativity.

We could not offer the vast curriculum and extra-curricular activities that inspire our students with-out our staff and our families who collaborate in so many ways.

Enjoy the spring semester and thank you for let-ting Academy District 20 serve your students.

Mark Hatchell is the superintendent of schools in Academy District 20. He writes a monthly column for The Tribune. Follow him on Twitter @markhatchell. Like Academy District 20 on Facebook.

GUEST COLUMNISTDr Mark Hatchell

Celebrating new semester, latest test scores and planning for growth

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Artist Ruth Staeben likely never heard the mod-ern philanthropic phrase “paying it forward,” but she certainly was an expert in the concept.

She practiced it back in the late 1960s when she invited several of her artistic friends to join her in creating the Palmer Lake Little Art Group.

Ruth, who lived on a few acres north of Monument Lake with her husband, clearly valued the company of other artists and the energy that results when cre-ative people get together.

But the Palmer Lake Art Group had a higher call-ing. From the beginning, its mission was to contrib-ute monies for art scholarships to deserving students in the Lewis-Palmer School District 38.

Still, Ruth could never have known her collection of artists would grow into a regional institution and fundraising force that would raise thousands of dol-lars and still be sending deserving young artists to

college decades later.How did it happen? Some important people joined

her cause.For example, Ruth wanted an outlet for the cre-

ations of the group, so she organized impromptu ex-hibits of the members’ work by hanging the artwork on a rail fence by the road.

Her novel approach to art display attracted the attention of Miss Lucretia Vaile, a Palmer Lake resident who cham-pioned the cultural activities in the community.

Miss Vaile was so impressed with the Art Group that she gave her summer home, named Cloud-view, to the town of Palmer Lake for exclusive use by the Palmer Lake Little Art Group.

The Art Group was incorpo-rated in 1969. In the early 1970’s, the growing membership went to a town meeting to acquire owner-ship of what was now called the Vaile Hill Gallery. The town deeded the property to the Art Group at that time.

Then there were the schol-arships. In the beginning, the amounts available were small. As the group went along, it created fundraising events and exhibits, such as the annual craft fair held every October for over 40 years. Soon, the scholarship fund grew in size and so did the membership.

Since 1977, the Palmer Lake Art Group has granted scholarship funds in excess of $56,000 to more than 50 D-38 students who show promise and excellence in the arts.

These recipients include Carrie Ann Baade (Jones), now an associate professor of painting and drawing at Florida State University, and Neil Grotzinger, a graduate of the Pratt Institute and an emerging tal-ent in the fashion world.

What a legacy for Ruth and her founding mem-bers!

You can still join the Palmer Lake Art Group, which meets the second Saturday of every month at the Mountain Community Mennonite Church, 643 Highway 105, in Palmer Lake. For more information, visit the group’s website at www.palmerlakeartgroup.com.

The group’s first event of 2016 will be it’s Winter Art Show and Sale at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Palmer Lake from Feb. 2-27, with an opening recep-tion on Feb. 5.

If you are an artist who would like to be a part of this group, who knows the importance of encourag-ing new artistic talent, or simply wants to thank them for their contribution to the artistic community of the region, stop by and meet them on Feb. 5.

Be part of the arts community! To list yourself or your organization in www.trilakesartists.com send your information to [email protected].

GUEST COLUMNISTNancy Bonig

Palmer Lake Art Group has a history of paying it forward

This is a recent project of the Palmer Lake Art Group which involved nine artists painting one pane each of a larger work that was then reassembled. /Courtesy photo

Editor’s note: This is the last of a four-part series.

Well, by now, you should be nearly a month into your new 2016 exercise routine.

If you haven’t already added strength training to your flexibility and aerobic regime, now is the time and here’s why.

Experts tell us that a regular weightlifting program can increase the rate at which you burn calories, restore your bone density and reduce your risk of injury.

Strength training can also increase your lean muscle mass and strength, improve your balance, mobility and stability and aid in recovery from soft tissue and skeletal injuries.

Are you ready to get started? First, a word of cau-tion.

The American College of Sports Medicine recom-mends a medical examination prior to beginning moderate exercise for anyone with signs or symp-toms of cardiovascular disease or with a known disease. They also recommend an exam prior to vigorous exercise for males over 40 years old and females over 50.

Just follow these tips for a strength endurance program:

Before lifting weight, warm up with an aerobic activity such as walking, cycling, rowing or running. The rule of thumb is to break a sweat. It should take 5 minutes or so.

Stretch prior to your workout to minimize your risk of injury. If you’re clueless about stretching, get Bob Anderson’s DVD “Stretching” or the “A.M. and

P.M YOGA” DVD on Amazon.Progress slowly, starting with light weights and

single sets of 12 repetitions. Gradually, work your way up to two or three sets of 12 to 15 repetitions with each set being progressively heavier. Do not increase your weights by more than 5 percent.

Speed of movement is of paramount importance. Raise weight on a 2-second count with a 1-second pause at the top, then lower it on a 3-second count.

Each repetition should take 6 seconds. Fast repeti-tions are ineffective and have a high injury curve.

Don’t hold your breath. If you want a pattern, breathe out when you are lifting weight and breathe in when lowering. Just be sure to breathe.

Cool-down at the end of your workout with a low-intensity aerobic activity like walking on the tread-mill for 5 minutes. Then stretch to minimize your muscle soreness.

Duration of your workout should be a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of 60. Frequency needs to be a minimum of two times a week and a maximum of three times a week if you are doing a full body workout.

Allow 48 hours between sessions for your muscles to recover, but not more than 96 hours.

Some muscle soreness is to be expected, particu-larly if you’ve been sedentary. If your soreness is severe or chronic, you are doing too much, too soon.

Invest in your health by purchasing quality exer-cise equipment and setting up a home gym or join a health club that is conveniently located.

Consider hiring a fitness expert to teach you the principles of strength conditioning as well as proper form and technique. It’s an education that will last you a lifetime.

So, seize the day and change the quality of your life!

Cord Prettyman is a certified master personal train-er and owner of Absolute Workout Fitness and Post-Re-hab Studio in Woodland Park. He can be reached at 687-7437, by email at [email protected] or at www.cordprettyman.com.

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After flexibility and aerobic work, it’s time to add strength training

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A memorial fund has been set up in the name of former Gov. Dan Thorn-ton, who passed away Jan. 18 at age 64. The fund is through the Colorado 4-H Foundation. Gov. Thornton was instru-mental in setting up the Colorado 4-H Foundation. His lifelong interest in cattle came by his 4-H work starting at age 12. The funds from the memorial will be used in 4-H livestock. Leader-ship and citizenship programs.

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Parents and staff at the school have adapted well, said Bob Wedel, principal of Wolford Elementary.

“Once we were beyond the original change, and parents adjusted their own timing for picking up students and dropping students off, it has been fi ne.” Wedel said in a written statement.

The closure hasn’t been an issue for fi re protection either, said Bryan Jack, Chief of Black Forest Fire Rescue Pro-tection District.

“It really has not affected any re-sponse time,” he said.

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Also, the Colorado Department of Transportation expedited environ-mental clearances. And the county was able to secure a federal transportation grant to cover 80 percent of the cost.

Once construction begins, the work will involve replacing old steel culverts with larger concrete culverts with dam-like structure at each end.

The new style will be a “huge differ-ence” from the old ones, Rose said.

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On Jan. 4, Monument’s Wisdom Tea House sur-prised many in the Tri-Lakes area with an abrupt an-nouncement: the much-loved café would be closing two weeks later.

Shortly after the cafe’s last day on Jan. 16, own-ers Tom and Diane Wisdom sat down and talked about their eight years serving tea and sandwiches in historic downtown Monument and their plans for the future.

Actually, they wanted to keep the café open until April to make the business’ run an even eight years, but the loss of a key employee made that an unsus-tainable plan.

So they made the call to close in January. But, their regulars wondered, why close at all? “We have about a dozen reasons,” Diane said,

laughing, ranging from family members across the country who are struggling with health issues to the loss of a couple integral employees to the Wisdoms’ desire to chase new and different dreams.

“We were working six days a week,” she said, which made it difficult to manage anything in their lives apart from the tea house.

This will be the third time the couple has retired from an enterprise, they said, though, “We had never done anything like this before,” Diane said,

gesturing to the parlor of the tea house. Tom is an engineer by education, Diane an ac-

countant. The success of the engineering firm they started 25 years ago enabled them to start Wisdom Tea House.

It was never a money-making enterprise, they said.

“We just wanted to break even,” Diane said, “and provide employment (and) a special place (for the community).”

When Wisdom Tea House opened, Monument lacked leisurely lunch spots, Tom said.

“(The area) had lots of places to go in the eve-ning,” he said. “We started (with a) light (lunch menu), but people just kept piling in,” so they expanded to sandwiches and soups and, a for a few years, hand-made gelato.

“It was fun trying things, seeing what worked, what didn’t,” he said.

For a while, they tried evening hours and wanted to serve wine and beer. But getting a liquor license meant making lots of renovations to the property, so they abandoned that tack.

The Wisdoms think that’s one of the best things that could have happened.

“It allowed us to focus on what we’re good at,” Tom said, “(and) narrow in on coffee and tea.”

As they prepare to move on from the tea house, Diane noted that their time there was “so rewarding (and) such a great experience. We’re so glad we did it.”

In their tenure at Wisdom, Tom and Diane worked to support the arts and merchant communities in Monument. They hosted the monthly Art Hop, and showcased local artists on the walls of the tea house. They even added track lighting and a neutral paint color to ensure the displays would pop, like in a gal-lery.

Being able to patronize the local arts is something they’re really going to miss, they said.

“Being part of the HMMA (Historic Monument Merchants Association), (and) really having a great partnership with downtown merchants,” is another aspect of their work they’re going to miss.

The care and camaraderie among the local mer-chants was an integral and fun part of their time running the tea house.

Diane noted that she’s also going to miss the pur-poseful antiquing she did in her ever-present quest to supply the cafe with charming vintage tea cups.

She’s also going to miss the chance to bake goods that she could then share and serve. She’s loved baking since she was a kid, and her afternoon tea goods, like scones and cakes, were a hit at the tea house.

“It was pretty spectacular when she would bring out (afternoon tea),” Tom said.

And, of course, they said, they’re going to miss their customers.

“Some people were in here four or five days a week,” Tom said, “and you get to know them.”

The outpouring of love for the pair and their tea house online speaks to the business’ gravity in the community. Dozens of comments flooded each of the Facebook posts regarding the closure, with lo-cals lamenting the loss of their favorite hangout.

Their final day of business saw more than three times their normal number of customers.

But now that the tea house is closed, what’s next? “Re-balancing our lives,” Tom said, “that’s the

first thing. There are things we’ve dropped that we’re eager to pick up.”

In addition to working on their home, which suf-fered some neglect while they spent so much time running the tea house, they’re going to travel to visit family, and “go explore,” Tom said.

“Maybe visit the birthplace of gelato,” he said, laughing as they discussed which of them might like to visit Italy more. They’ve always wanted to visit the tea plantations in China, India and Japan, Diane said, and reconnect with the friends they didn’t see much during the tea house years.

And what about the tea house, customers and area merchants wonder?

“We’re hoping somebody will take this over,” Diane said, “purchase and run (the cafe) as Wisdom Tea House or something similar, as a cafe and com-munity gathering place.”

If the building and business don’t sell intact, they may hold an auction or sale for the cafe furniture, equipment and Diane’s collection of antique tea cups. But a package deal is their preference.

“Every community needs something,” Tom said, “a place to hang out, connect.”

“And feel at home,” Diane added. That was their goal in opening Wisdom Tea

House, she said: “We dreamt of creating a place where people want to come.

“People would come in stressed out...and after some time here, they would leave restored, re-freshed, relaxed. That was the point of the tea house.

“We did accomplish everything we wanted.”

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Tom and Diane Wisdom in front of Monument’s Wisdom Tea House. The much-loved community cafe was open for nearly eight years, and closed earlier this month. /Photo by Avalon A Manly /The Tribune

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Continued from Page 1celebrities Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. judging amateur singers.

When the show premiered Jan. 6, Roy’s audition wasn’t aired, but he was visible on the sidelines. That sighting led the Twittersphere to erupt in speculation he was still alive in the competition.

But he still hasn’t been featured on the audition episodes of the show, which is filmed in stages: first auditions, then four rounds of “Hollywood Week” performances, followed by the semifinalist round, and then the two-part finale.

Viewers are convinced he performed during Hol-lywood Week because he scored a Golden Ticket at the Denver auditions that allowed him to move for-ward in the competition. But it’s unknown if he has advanced to the later rounds.

Will the mystery be resolved today when the first of

four Hollywood Week episodes airs?His social media presence has offered few clues of

his status. A photo of him outside the studio in Hol-lywood is the only tidbit hinting of his continued par-ticipation.

Otherwise, his Facebook and Twitter pages have been scrubbed clean and Roy is currently unable to clarify due to the show’s policy agreements.

“I am waiting to hear back from ‘American Idol’ about interviews,” he said when The Tribune contact-ed him. “I’m so sorry, but I have to get approval first.”

Butch Eversole, the director of bands at Palmer Ridge, thinks Roy has what it takes to win.

Eversole has worked with Roy for four years, first as a “top notch” saxophonist and more recently as a vocalist.

“When he was a sophomore,” Eversole said, “he won the Palmer Ridge talent show by singing.”

That was the first time Eversole was aware Roy could belt it out with his voice as well as he could with his sax.

Last year, Eversole said, he “heard someone sing-ing, and went to look. It was Lain, and it blew me away – this huge voice coming out of this not very big package.”

Since then, he and Roy have begun to pick out some tunes for Roy to sing with the jazz band.

Beyond Roy’s mucial talent, Eversole describes him as a “nice, genuine person.”

In December, Roy was accepted to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he will continue his musi-cal studies this fall.

If Roy advances on American Idol, he would be following a similar path taken by 2010 Lewis-Palmer High School graduate Miguel Dakota who was a final-ist on the NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” in 2014.


Jessica Shand and her flute have won a lot of awards in Colorado. Now, they’re gaining her na-tional attention.

The junior from Discovery Canyon Campus High School has been awarded one of three seats in the prestigious Honor Orchestra of America for its cov-eted four-day workshop in Indianapolis in March.

The Honor Orchestra features high school band members who play strings, orchestral winds and percussion. As part of the orchestra, Shand will get to learn, practice and perform with renowned con-ductors and elite musicians. Also, she will perform in two shared concerts with the Music for All National Festival and on stage at Hilbert Circle Theatre with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Shand, 16, has played the flute for eight years, and the piccolo for six. Her musical and academic talents have been apparent for years, says Justin Carpenter, Director of High School Instrumental Music at DCC.

“I have known Jessica since she was a 7th grader,” he said, “and even then I knew she had a special musical talent.

“She is amazing,” he continued, “(and her selec-tion in the Honor Orchestra of America) is a tremen-dous accomplishment as there were only three seats available nationally. She is also a stellar academic student, winning prizes in State Science fair, and taking college classes outside of DCC.”

Shand’s musical resume is impressive, especially considering her youth.

In 2015, she won the Colorado Flute Association’s Student Honors Competition in her grade range, and was the principal flute of the Colorado All-State Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado University High School Honor Band.

She took first in the Colorado Springs Symphonic

Guild 2015 Young Artist Solo Competition, and per-formed the Chaminade Concerto with the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony as the featured soloist.

The list of awards, nominations and featured per-formances is long, including a full-tuition Emerson Scholarship and her current positions as rotating principal with the Denver Young Artists Orches-tra – and now her spot in the Honors Orchestra of America.

Outside the musical arena, Shand is passionate about science and math, and serves at DCC as the vice president of the Science National Honor Society. She’s also a black belt in Taekwondo.

Despite her growing number of achievements, Shand is down-to-earth, smart and really loves the

music. “At a young age, I was awed by the idea that a

group of people could come together and each contribute an individual voice to a larger unified work,” she said, “I knew that I wanted to be a part of that – and, of course, the flute was shiny and pretty, and it had so many keys, so I figured it’d be a good challenge.”

Carpenter informed Shand about the Honor Or-chestra of America, which accepts three flutists per year, so she began to put together her audition. She submitted two solo recordings and a bio early in the fall semester of 2015.

“It was completely a shot in the dark and I had no idea what to expect,” she said, “so I wasn’t re-ally worried about whether I would be accepted. I just took it as another opportunity to practice solo performance.”

Shand says she is indebted to her current teacher, Brook Ferguson, for her inspiration and improve-ment, and for sparking the desire in her to eventu-ally teach students of her own.

“Also, my parents have not received enough credit for all they have done for me,” she said. “Although neither of them has a background in music, they have been so supportive through all my auditions, and I am grateful for what they have done to further my musical education.”

Shand’s other teachers have been thrilled to hear of her upward spiral.

“She stands alone as the most amazing young person I have ever had the pleasure to teach and work with,” Carpenter said.

Shand is pursuing a dual degree in music and either biology or chemistry; she’s not sure yet. Ide-ally, she’d like to attend the Harvard/New England Conservatory dual degree program.

But, she said, “I’m keeping any and all doors open.”

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Jessica Shand, a junior at Discovery Canyon Campus High School, has been accepted into the Honor Orchestra of America. /Photo courtesy of Facebook

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Teacher Spotlight: Tom Chapman

Tom Chapman is a trumpet player who had his “aha” moment while performing at the Greeley Jazz Festival. His intent up to that point was to study physics. During the performance his future changed, he knew he wanted to teach band. Chapman has traveled between six different Lewis-Palmer schools for over six years of working with LPSD sixth through twelfth grade students. He has approximately 40 elementary band members each year and assists the head directors at the middle school and both high schools.

Tom typically takes about 106 kids to various band festivals (not competitions) around the state, some as far away as Grand Junction and Greeley.

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Erin Stefanski tasked her English Honors II class at Palmer Ridge High School with thinking of a real problem and then finding a solution for it. She asked that students have passion about or a personal connection to the problem. This assignment stems from the 20Time concept or 20% Project philosophy practiced by 3M, Google, and other corporations and discussed on TED Talks. Post-it Notes are one of the most recognizable results of this concept. Students or employees are encouraged to spend a fifth of their time on projects they are personally passionate about. Seeking solutions, students work independently or collaboratively. As they create their own systems, making mistakes, discovering solutions, all while documenting the process, learning occurs. Stefanski finds that “it is often the third, fourth, or fifth idea that provides the solution.” Grades are not the focus of this assignment; completing the process is the goal. Genuine purpose provides significant motivation for these students. “Kids are doing amazing things,” shares Stefanski. Examples include creating a computer game which provides rehab exercises for common sports injuries, an electro-magnetic clip for snowboard bindings, and a special bike/stroller for a student with a degenerative muscular disease. Stefanski sees students taking big risks, “putting themselves out there,” as they share personal motivations while practicing elevator pitches and participating in a bad idea factory exercise. This innovative approach to learning is another example of Lewis-Palmer School District’s continued role in preparing students with 21st century skills.

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While he enjoys the festivals, he spends most of his class time preparing students for their concerts, there are many throughout the year with the largest taking place in December and the last week in April. Numerous Chapman students receive All-State recognitions every year.

As well as being a seasoned trumpet player, Tom also plays the trombone, the clarinet, the flute, and the French horn-although at a sixth grade level to which his middle school students can attest. He has also played with the Rocky Mountain Wind Symphony, the Village 7 Bass Choir and Quintet, and the Pikes Peak Brass Band, but currently, he only plays with the Colorado Spring Contemporary Jazz Big Band. When he is not playing music or assisting with the Lewis-Palmer Education Association events (he moderated the recent school board candidate forum), he reads lots of non-fiction (books about Stephen Hawking are among his top reads). Tom and his wife (a fourth grade teacher in District 20) also enjoy camping, hiking, and backpacking.

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Customers using 3,001-6,000 gallons a month would pay an extra $6 per 1,000 gallons. Those using 6,001-12,000 would pay an additional $9 per 1,000 gallons over 6,000.

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

Those rates would climb 8 percent in 2017 and each subsequent year until 2021.

The average monthly bill during the winter would jump from $33.75 currently to about $52 or a 54 per-cent increase. That is based on an average consump-tion of 5,000 gallons a month.

During the summer months, when water use is much heavier, the average bill would jump from $88.66 currently to $134 in 2016, or a 51 percent in-crease. That is based on an average of 14,000 gallons used per month.

A.B. Tellez, owner of Rosie’s Diner, said the new rates will cost him thousands.

“I’m looking at $2,700 off my bottom line in the fi rst year,” Tellez said. “Then it is going to go up every year after that. This is a tremendous impact on me and my bottom line.

“You want all small businesses to take a hit like this? I’m a private business trying to stay open.”

He said the town should back off landscaping re-quirements and allow xeriscaping with rock and drought-resistant plants instead of grass and trees if water rates are going to soar.

Steve Marks, who owns the Monument Plaza, also predicted a dire future for his center from the new rates, singling out his laundromat.

“My smallest washing machines cost $1.75 per load,” Marks said. “It takes 31.5 gallons of water to do

a load of laundry. Under these new rates, I’d have to pay the town $1.68 just for water for every load. That doesn’t take into account the cost of heating the wa-ter or electricity or anything else.

“That little business is going to go away. I’d have to raise washing machines to $3 tomorrow.”

Lowe argued that all Monument residents are sub-sidizing the town’s 1,000 water customers at about $100,000 a year because rates had not been substan-tially changed since 1996.

“This utility is in dire need of adjustment of its rates,” Lowe said, adding that the failure of previous boards to make hard decisions to increase rates to re-fl ect the true cost of water was “not sustainable, not responsible and not fair.”

He said the town water utility was not raising rates to make a profi t. It needs to ratchet up the price of water to pay the estimated $2 million annual operat-ing costs, build a $700,000 reserve and have money to expand its supply.

Those options range from building a $12 million recycling plant, drilling more wells at $1.5 million apiece, building a reservoir or buying water rights.

“Nobody likes the large increases the staff is pro-posing,” Lowe said. “Sometimes you have to do things people don’t like.”

Lowe appealed to the Trustees’ oft-cited desire to rein in government spending and subsidies.

“We have not operated this utility as a business. If it was not a government entity, it would be out of business.”

Lowe defended the increase as fair and designed to protect people on fi xed incomes while encourag-ing conservation of water.

“I’d love to be able to keep the current rate struc-ture but we can’t,” he said. “The days of cheap water are over.”

But Trustee Jeff Bornstein said he was concerned the public didn’t have enough notice of the proposed

change in rates and suggested Lowe should hold town hall meetings or fi nd a way to elevate the issue so people aren’t shocked when they get their new wa-ter bills.

Trustee Jeff Smith warned of a public backlash.“I think we’ve done the responsible thing and giv-

en people ample time but the water department is going to get a lot of phone calls from angry people,” Smith said.

Trustee John Howe, the only board member who lives in the affected west-side region, also expressed concern about the shock the rates would cause.

“It appears harsh to impose such a large increase on residents and businesses,” Howe said, predicting the desired revenue would not be generated because many will simply cut back usage.

Things got tense when builder Charlie Williams, speaking for the Housing and Building Association, complained that there was insuffi cient information available on the town website to understand the rates.

He specifi cally singled out Lowe’s statement that the base rate would cover 32 percent of the annual operating costs of the utility.

“Where’s the other 68 percent going to come from,” Williams asked. “Where’s the $700,000 reserve fund going to come from?”

Williams argued the base rate should be higher, suggesting Lowe planned to unfairly charge builders exorbitant tap fees to compensate for the lower base rate.

Lowe tried repeatedly to explain that only a minor-ity of water users will fall under the base rate. Most, he said, will use far more than 3,000 gallons a month and will be charged at higher rates that climb under his fi ve-tiered schedule. But Williams was unper-suaded and asked for action to be delayed.

No new date was announced for reconsideration of water rates.

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If it was up to me, when you entered a high school gymnasium, stadium, or swimming pool in Monument, you’d see the logo and colors of the District 38 Wildcats.

Not familiar with the D-38 Wildcats? Actually, you are. You just don’t know them by that name.

According to long-time Lewis-Palmer swimming and diving coach Alan Arata, back before Palmer Ridge opened in the fall of 2008, there was serious discussion about what to call the District’s combined athletic teams.

Somebody came up with the District 38 Wildcats. More on that later.

First, let’s go back to the beginning, about 2005, when Palmer Ridge was in the early planning stages. Lewis-Palmer had swelled to nearly 2,000 students. To alleviate overcrowding, a second high school was built.

Palmer Ridge opened in the fall of 2008 with freshmen and sophomores, with a long-term pro-jected student population of about 1,000 students. That meant that Lewis-Palmer’s enrollment would eventually even out at around 1,000 students.

Studies were done on sports that Palmer Ridge could reasonably add for its students. The powers-that-be decided that it didn’t make sense – whether due to cost or interest by students – to field two of everything for each school. So combined “District 38” teams were created.

There are seven D-38 teams: boys and girls swim-ming, boys and girls lacrosse, gymnastics, field hockey and ice hockey.

“Somebody proposed we call those teams the District 38 Wildcats,” Arata recalls. “That wasn’t real popular.”

Eventually, the idea of calling D-38’s combined sports teams the Wildcats went by the wayside. The solution was a rather simple one, but it does cause some confusion.

The new combined teams would be named as follows: sports that already existed at Lewis-Palmer (ice hockey, boys lacrosse, boys and girls swimming) would remain the L-P Rangers.

New sports teams (gymnastics, field hockey and girls lacrosse) would compete as the Palmer Ridge Bears.

Some of the D-38 sports also include kids from other districts if their schools do not offer a par-ticular sport. Arata has had at least two swimmers or divers from The Classical Academy on his teams each year. A couple of years ago, the Palmer Ridge field hockey team included a couple of Air Academy students.

Each D-38 high school athletic director is respon-

sible for overseeing the sport that falls under that school’s name. For Lewis-Palmer that job is Nick Baker’s. Palmer Ridge sports are handled by Jimmy Porter.

The district’s stadium also underwent a transfor-mation when Palmer Ridge was built. The venue was renamed Don Breese District Stadium in the 1990s in honor of long-time coach, teacher and adminis-trator Don Breese.

That was apropos since the stadium would eventually be used for games by both football teams, boys and girls soccer teams, track teams, as well as the district’s boys and girls lacrosse teams, and field hockey team.

Depending on which school, or team, is hosting an event, that’s school’s staff is in charge of all game management responsibilities.

I have never heard one student from either school complain that he or she objects to playing with their cross town rivals.

“When we come together, we’re all one,” said Ara-ta, whose sons attended and swam for Lewis-Palmer. “The kids all get along and seem to have a good time together. That’s the important thing.”

He’s absolutely right. But I remember when I was in high school. I was proud of my team and I wouldn’t have wanted to fly the colors of my cross-town rivals.

I think it makes sense to abandon the school names for combined teams and adopt a district identity.

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The Palmer Ridge girls lacrosse team is a combined District 38 squad that includes players from Lewis-Palmer. Pictured is Palmer Ridge junior Sam Rippley. /Courtesy photo

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The Lewis-Palmer ice hockey team is a combined District 38 program that is made up primarily of kids from Palmer Ridge. Pictured here is Justin Zeich mixing it up with an opponent from Rampart. /Courtesy photo

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Faces to FollowZach MullinsdivingCalifornia Baptist

Mullins, a 2014 Lewis-Palmer graduate, was recently named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Diver of the Week.

Mullins collected five NCAA Division II qualifying standards, claimed six top-three marks and three first-place finishes. Mullins won the 3-me-ter dive at the Inland Empire Dive Invitational with 308.25 points on a six-dive list, and 508.85 on an 11-dive list. Mullins is majoring in visual arts. His hobbies include surfing, music, skiing and art.

Tyler ObergwrestlingColumbia, New York

Oberg, a 2014 Discovery Canyon graduate, is wrestling for Co-lumbia University.

Oberg was 7-7 as a freshman at 157 pounds. He earned two victories in the New York State Championships as a freshman. Oberg was Discovery Canyon’s Male Athlete of the Year as a senior. He also played football in high school. He is majoring in eco-nomics at Columbia.

Kate Louthanbasketball,Colorado Christian University

Louthan, a Monument resident and Air Academy alum, was recently named to the Rocky

Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball All-Academic Team. Louthan has a 3.39 GPA and is majoring in business administra-tion. A senior forward, Louthan also earned the award last season. Lout-han played basketball, lacrosse and soccer at Air Academy. She helped the Kadets to the 2012 Class 4A state basketball title. She is also a national level handball player.

Adrian MackwrestlingWestern Wyoming Community College

Mack, a 2014 Discovery Canyon graduate, is wrestling for West-ern Wyoming Com-

munity College as a 184-pounder. Mack is ranked fourth in the nation in latest InterMat National Junior College rankings. He is majoring in psychology. His favorite quote comes from 4-time NCAA wrestling champion Kyle Drake: “I hate to lose, so why do it.”

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To suggest that Lewis-Palmer freshman Meredith Rees has exploded on the swimming scene is putting it mildly.

“She’s got unlimited potential, especially with the exponential decreases in time that she’s been see-ing,” L-P senior Andie Turner said about Rees. “She only started swimming year-round last year and she’s dropped like 30 seconds in her 500 and she’s dropped 20 seconds in her 200. That’s pretty insane.”

Turner should know a thing or two about the pres-sure that comes with being among the state elite as a freshman. She won the 100 backstroke as ninth-grader, but an eating disorder robbed Turner of fur-ther acclaim. Today she is more of a mentor to other swimmers on the team.

“Meredith is incredible, not only for her swimming prowess, which is definitely a huge asset to the team, but her attitude and her optimism that she brings to the team,” Turner said. “She’s always one of the hap-piest people I see. When I come to practice every day I always want to talk with her. It’s just really uplifting.”

Rees, 14, is ranked among the state’s top swimmers in the 50 yard and 100 yard freestyle events. Her blis-tering time of 24.69 second in the 50, and 52.98 in the 100, have her ranked seventh and fifth, respectively, among all Class 5A swimmers.

She does not yet have a 200 time in the top 20, but she has posted a state-qualifying time in the event. In December, she peeled off a 1:55.72 during a club meet, which would place her fifth in state, but only high school meet times are counted.

“At the beginning of December, I was basically dropping six seconds in all my 200s, and I did not see that coming,” Rees said with a smile. “I’m just excited to see where it goes.”

It didn’t take long for Lewis-Palmer co-coaches

Alan Arata and Jackie Cromer to recognize they had something special in Rees.

“The water seems to move around her differently than other swimmers,” Arata said. “It’s really kind of difficult to explain. She just seems to move differently in the water, especially underneath the water, than everyone else.”

Cromer, an L-P alum and two-time state champi-on in the 200, also sees unique abilities in Rees.

“Great swimmers, when they’re in the water, can naturally feel what’s causing drag,” Cromer said. “When Meredith is under water, even though she doesn’t realize it, her body can feel what’s causing drag.

“It’s probably not something that’s been trained. It’s something that she has naturally. It’s not really something that you can teach.”

And consider this . . . Rees won’t turn 15 until May. She is four years younger than many of the girls she is

competing against.“She could qualify for every event if she wanted,

but it’s not our priority to get her to state in every event,” Arata said.

Rees is one of two L-P swimmers who attend The Classical Academy. The other is diver Anna Kemper. The girls compete for L-P because TCA does not have a swim team, and because they reside in Lewis-Palm-er School District 38.

Rees, who maintains a 4.0 GPA, has also qualified for state in the 100 backstroke, as well as several relay teams.

Rees’ older sister, Natalie (a 2015 TCA alum), also swam for L-P. She qualified for the state meet as an individual and in relays.

The state swim meet takes place Feb. 12-13. Whether Rees places or brings home a state champi-onship remains to be seen. But her accomplishments to this point are truly impressive.

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Lewis-Palmer freshman Meredith Rees, closest in orange, is ranked among the top swimmers in the state in all of Class 5A in the 50 yard freestyle and 100 yard freestyle. She attends The Classical Academy and lives in Black Forest. /Photo courtesy of Alan Arata


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Living up to high preseason expectation, the Lewis-Palmer High School basketball team is 14-1 and ranked second in the state in all of Class 4A.

The Rangers’ only loss was at No. 1 Pueblo South, 63-59, on Dec. 3.

Lewis-Palmer has gotten outstanding play this season from its fi ve seniors – Jonathan Scott, Sam Strasburger, Charlie Hovasse, Joe DeCoud and Kyle Owens – who are averaging 55.5 points per game among them.

Freshman Joel Scott, the youngest of the fi ve Scott brothers, is chipping in 4.4 points per game off the bench. Juniors Angelo Battistelli (3.5 ppg) and Billy Cook (3.3 ppg) also are making signifi cant contributions.

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Lewis-Palmer freshman Joel Scott is averaging 4.4 points per game this season. He is the youngest of fi ve Scott brothers. /Photo courtesy of Lisa Reich

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At age 31, Bobby Burling is defying the odds and the average age of soccer players in the MLS soccer, which is just 25.8 years.

Burling, a 6-foot-5 defender, re-signed with the Colorado Rapids on Jan. 20, meaning the Lewis-Palmer alum will play his 10th Major League Soccer season when games get under-way next month.

“It will be nice to go up the road to see him play again,” Jim Burling, Bob-by’s father, told the Tribune. “We’re happy that it worked out.”

The Rapids’ reasons for signing Burl-ing are obvious. They are getting back their reigning Defensive Player of the Year.

“This is an important step as we build our roster for 2016,” said Paul Bravo, vice president of Soccer Opera-tions and Technical Director for the Rapids.

“Bobby is a tremendously popular player in the group, adding leadership and experience. He was a key member of the squad last season and we are de-lighted to have him back.”

Per MLS and club policy, the terms of the deals were not disclosed.

Burling returned to his home state via the waiver draft on Dec. 10, 2014. Last season, he helped the Rapids post the sixth best goals-against record in MLS in 2015.

He started 22 matches and fi nished fi fth on the team in minutes played (1,958) and goals (2), which earned him

2015 Rapids Defender of the Year acco-lades.

In October, Lewis-Palmer honored Burling by retiring his Rangers’ jersey, Loyola Marymount jersey and Rapids jersey during a ceremony at the school. His jerseys will eventually be placed in a glass frame and hung in the Lewis-Palmer gymnasium.

Burling has enjoyed a long and sto-ried career.

He was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Galaxy in the 2007 MLS Super-Draft out of Loyola Marymount Univer-sity, but eventually signed with Chivas USA three months later.

During his two stints with Chivas USA (2007-09 and 2012-14), Burling

started 60 of the 71 matches he ap-peared.

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Burling had his contract option de-clined by the Rapids at the end of the 2015 season and became a free agent before ultimately re-signing with the club.

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There are five rides, each beginning in Castle Rock. Two of them, the Century and Metric-Century rides, take cyclists through the Tri-Lakes area.

The Century ride (100 miles long) takes riders from Castle Rock, working their way toward Elizabeth where their head south on Elbert Road toward Black For-est. They then head west on Sweet Road, over to Hodgen Road, and north on Roller

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Duo accounted for 56 touchdowns last season


Isaiah Sanders and George Silvanic played four years of football together for Palmer Ridge High School. Now they plan to play another four years to-gether on the gridiron for the Air Force Academy.

Last week, the duo formally commit-ted to the academy.

“My dad is a graduate of the acade-my, and my mother used to work there, and that defi nitely is a cool factor in me deciding to go there,” Silvanic said. “Air Force has a great coaching staff, and it has one of the best academic programs in the nation, and it’s an honor to serve your country.”

Silvanic’s father, Mark, is a retired major. His mother, Dorothy, is a retired colonel.

Silvanic, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound tight end/defensive end, was approached by Air Force during his junior year and offered a scholarship. Air Force coach Troy Calhoun originally recruited Sil-vanic as a defensive end, but after his breakout senior season, in which he caught 35 passes for 571 yards and nine touchdowns, the Falcons are looking to have him play that position for them.

“It will be really nice to be able to play close to home,” said Silvanic, who plans to major in pre medicine and as-trophysics. “I’m very excited.”

Sanders, whose father, Joseph, is a retired Air Force colonel, was offered a scholarship by Calhoun in November.

He weighed his options, considering Colorado School of Mines, among oth-er opportunities.

“I did a lot of praying about it, and I looked at all the opportunities the Air Force Academy offered; the level of education, the football, the closeness to home,” said Sanders, who plans to major in mechanical engineering. “I checked off all those boxes and I felt this was the best place for me.”

Sanders had a remarkable senior season, leading Palmer Ridge to an 8-4 record and the second round of the Class 4A playoffs. He threw for 3,176 yards, which ranks 12th on the single-season list all-time in Colorado. He also threw 32 touchdowns.

He was a double threat, rushing for 814 yards and 15 TDs. His 47 combined touchdowns are tied for eighth most all-time for a season in Colorado high school history.

Sanders and Silvanic are also team-mates on Palmer Ridge’s basketball team. Sanders is averaging 10.7 points per game (second on the team), 8.0 re-bounds (fi rst) and 2.3 steals (fi rst).

Silvanic is third on the team in points (9.0) and second in rebounds (6.1).

Sanders and Silvanic will sign their national letters of intent during a cer-emony at Palmer Ridge on Feb. 3.

Sanders and Silvanic choose Air Force

Palmer Ridge senior Isaiah Sanders gave his verbal commitment to play football for the Air Force Academy on Jan. 20. National signing day is Feb. 3. Sanders had 3,990 combined pass-ing and rushing yards and 47 touchdowns last season to lead the Bears to an 8-4 record./Photos courtesy of Jay Huey

Palmer Ridge senior George Silvanic chose the Air Force Academy over several other schools. Silvanic caught 35 passes for 571 yards and nine touchdowns last season to help the Bears to the Class 4A quarterfi nals. He is expected to sign his national letter of intent during a ceremony at Palmer Ridge on Feb. 3.

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Forest services considers road closuresDENVER (AP) _ The U.S. Forest Service has agreed to consider closing 500 miles of roads for motorized vehicles in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest under a

settlement with environmental groups.The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/1Og9QGp ) the settlement accepted Monday requires forest offi cials to also consult with state wildlife experts to deter-

mine whether changes must be made to protect deer and elk.The settlement is the result of a lawsuit fi led by environmental groups, which challenged roads that land managers had improperly allowed in mountains near

Front Range cities.Some of the roads up for debate, near Leadville and Pikes Peak, cut across streams where banks are eroding habitat for lynx, spotted owls and other wildlife.Forest offi cials say they'll produce a plan detailing where motorized vehicles can travel without harming the environment.

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Last Friday, Discovery Canyon Cam-puses hosted Space Day, an annual event to showcase and get students inspired about all things beyond this world.

“This helps kids see how space is everywhere,” said Christa Lundberg, 8th grade science teacher and math/science coordinator.

“So many things we use on Earth were designed first with space in mind,” she said.

And between the Air Force Acade-my, Hewlett Packard and the New Ho-rizons space program work that took place at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Lundberg said, space really is everywhere, especially for students in Colorado.

At a series of rotating stations and events throughout the day, students of all ages had the chance to engage

in chemistry, physics, art and other space-related activities.

A portable, inflatable planetarium showed younger grades how the night sky works, and how to find constella-tions.

A speaker from the New Horizons project, which last year resulted in mankind’s first high- resolution photos and topographi-cal understandings of Pluto, spoke to older grades about what it means to build and operate a spacecraft.

Professionals from the school and local institutions demonstrated chem-ical reactions and the laws of phys-ics to collections of intrigued middle schoolers; and high schoolers had the chance to engage in discussion a bout viable employment in STEM fields.

“This day has been fantastic,” Lun-dberg said of the event. “There’s really something for everyone on at a day like this.”

Space Day at DCC shows kids how ‘space is everywhere’

A first grade class is shone into a portable planetarium. Inside the kids learn about the earth’s orbit, constellations and how to navigate the night sky. /Photos by Avalon A Manly /The Tribune

Above: John Spencer, of the New Horizons project, was a keynote speaker at DCC’s Space Day, walking students through how the first high-resolution photos of Pluto were procured.

Left: Ron Furstenau demonstrates chemical reactions to students at DCC’s Space Day.

Above and Below: Students in the middle school library at DCC participate in Space Day’s Physics is Phun event, engaging in ac-tivities on static electricity, chemical lights and vectors.

John Spencer, of the New Horizons project, was a keynote speaker at DCC’s Space Day, walking students through how the first high-resolution photos of Pluto were procured.


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More than 200 participants showed up for the 6th annual War-rior Ice Fishing Tournament last weekend on Monument Lake. Pro-ceeds went rehabilitation efforts for wounded veterans, and the event was sponsored in part by Pre-mier Roofing Company.

Participants were allowed to fish anywhere on the lake after 9 a.m. in the holes drilled across the ice, and any species of fish was eligible in the contest. All caught fish were released back into the lake after be-ing measured and weighed.

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woodmoor water and sanitation district no.1

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District No. 1 of El Paso County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Wynter B. Wells, the Designated Election Official of the District, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., c/o Norton & Smith, P.C., 1331 Seventeenth Street, Suite 500, Denver, Colorado 80202, (303) 292-6400 and also from Marsha Howland, c/o Woodmoor Water and Sanitation District No. 1, 1845 Woodmoor Drive, P.O. Box 1407, Monument, Colorado 80132, (719) 488-2525. Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with Wynter B. Wells, Designated Election Official, c/o Norton & Smith, P.C., 1331 Seventeenth Street, Suite 500, Denver, Colorado 80202 not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 26, 2016). If the Designated Election Official determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form once, at any time, prior to 3:00 p.m. on the day of the deadline.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 29, 2016 (the sixty-fourth day before the election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with Wynter B. Wells, Designated Election Official, c/o Norton & Smith, P.C., 1331 Seventeenth Street, Suite 500, Denver, Colorado 80202 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., until the close of business on the Friday immediately preceding the election (Friday, April 29, 2016).

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Donala Water & Sanitation District of El Paso County, Colorado.

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

time, 2 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms. Eligible electors of

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directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District

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The national trend that saw Christ-mas season sales climb 3 percent over last year held true in the Tri-Lakes re-gion and shop owners report ending the year on a high note.

Now, many are fi guring out how to accommodate the annually increase in the minimum wage on Jan. 1, which went from $8.23 to $8.31.

Here’s a breakdown of what some area businesses had said about 2015 and the coming year.

Santa Fe Trail JewelryBeginning the season, owner Marry

Lee Reisig was worried. But during the last two weeks of the shopping sea-son, people began to enter her store to peruse the warmly lit, Santa Fe-style building.

Overall, the season was “neck-in-neck with last year,” but Reisig says she

“loves to stay really optimistic.” The business is in its 17th year of op-

eration and specializes in jewelry and some local art.

“I have my dream job,” she said. As for the increase in minimum

wage, Reisig says it won’t affect her as she has no offi cial employees.

Covered Treasures Book StoreJust around the corner sits Covered

Treasures Bookstore.Tommie Plank said her store special-

izes in “fi lling the reading need of the community.”

From ceiling to fl oor are hundreds of books and cards while a children’s sec-tion sits nestled in one of the far cor-ners.

The business began in 1993, so the shop knows its readers.

Plank happily reports that her store sales have nearly recovered to levels she enjoyed in 2006, prior to the market crashing. It was a good holiday season

with business ahead of last year overall.

The minimum wage hasn’t affected her much either as she has three, part time employees, one of which has been working 20 years.

The Village MerchantsIt was an especially

good season, and year, in the 15 different bou-tique shops spread through an old church in downtown Monu-ment known as The Vil-lage Merchants.

“We had our best year ever,” said ShawNa Schotanus owner of the business.

The Village Mer-chants have been offer-ing everything from jew-elry to clothing to antiques and home décor for fi ve years.

Schotanus said the growth may be due to word of mouth getting to the communities of Colorado Springs and Castle Rock.

She also believes there are enough shops in Monument now to make it worth the trip.

Minimum wage does not affect her or the boutiques as the boutique own-ers take shifts, volunteering their time at The Village Merchants.

Purple Mountain Jewelry“We have had a very successful holi-

day,” said Valorie Havercamp, owner of Purple Mountain Jewelry where she has been selling custom jewelry and repair-ing customer’s wares for the past nine years.

The business has grown over the years, and the season was equivalent to last year.

Havercamp works the shop with her husband, who did custom work out of their basement starting 25 years ago.

She says that payment laws do make it diffi cult, but haven’t felt the effect too much.

“Up to this point, we’ve been fi ne,” she said. She and two employees make up the team of workers.

Yarn Bird FibersKathy Sorensen said the holiday sea-

son was great at her Yarn Bird Fiber, a place fi lled with fi brous yarn and vari-ous shop décor.

“It was fabulous,” Sorensens aid.

And a new location near downtown Monument helped Yarn Bird, which also offers classes on knitting and cro-cheting.

Originally located on route 105 near the Palmer Lake Veterinary Clinic, the store moved about 18 months ago.

“This location is so much better,” she said.

She said the minimum wage in-crease has not affected the business as she believes her employees are worth more than that.

“We pay our employees over mini-mum wage anyway,” she said.

Catriona Cellars: Winery, Café and Tasting Room

Old jailhouse turned winery, Catri-ona Cellars provides wine, fi ne dining, and some wholesaling to its customers.

“It’s a piece of Sonoma or Napa plunked down in the middle of down-town monument,” said owner Woody Woodworth.

The shop experienced a good sea-son.

“It was rockin,” said Woodworth, “it was a very strong growth period.”

The winery opened in 2014. Before that it was a garden and feed center, which was also owned by Woody and his wife Catherine.

For Woodworth’s business, Woody said the minimum wage has not af-fected their business either as they pay above minimum wage.

“Just have to scrutinize a little more on who you hire,” he said. “We have a great staff right now.”

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Catriona Winery

January 27, 2016 Tribune

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