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AREA SPORTSHIGH SCHOOL

WED: Primero hosts Kim 5:30 p.m.FRI: Primero hosts Cotopaxi 5 p.m.Aguilar @ Moffat 1 p.m.SAT: Primero @ South Baca 2 p.m.Trinidad Miners Pigtail games 6

p.m. 2 James Irwin School in Colorado Springs

Hoehne District Tourney TBD

TRINIDAD STATEFRI: Baseball @ Luna CC Las Ve-

gas, NM12 p.m. DHSoftball hosts Garden City @ Central

Park 1 p.m. DHSAT: Mens Basketball hosts Otero

JC (RIVALRY GAME) 7 p.m.Womens Basketball hosts Otero JC

(RIVALRY GAME) 5 p.m.Softball hosts McCook 12 p.m. DHSUN: Baseball hosts Luna 12 p.m. DHSoftball hosts McCook 11 a.m. DH

Today’s Quote“Being happy never

goes out of style.”~Lilly Pulitzer

FEBRUARY 20-22SCRT PerformanceFRIDAY & SATURDAY (7 p.m.)

& SUNDAY (2 p.m.) DON’T MISS THIS SMASH HIT! The Dixie Swim Club runs at the Southern Colorado Repertoire Theatre, 131 West Main St. Info: 719-846-4765 or www.scrtheatre.com.

Trinidad Community CoopFRIDAY (10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.)

Vegan Cooking Class on Friday morn-ings and Kirtan chanting (Sanskrit chanting call) on Friday evenings at the Coop, Corner of Elm and Maple Streets. Info: [email protected].

Republican WomenSATURDAY (5:30 p.m.) The com-

munity is invited to the Las Animas County Republican Women’s Lincoln Day Dinner “Stand Your Ground” that will be held at the Holiday Inn on Santa Fe Trail Drive. Guest speaker will be NRA Senior Field Rep Peter Ide. Info: Shelly King, 19-845-0300. Proceeds benefit the LACRW.

FEBRUARY 23Holy Trinity AcademyMONDAY (5:30 p.m.) School

board meeting at the school, 613 Pros-pect St. Information: Andrea Jimenez, 719-846-4522.

PUBLIC SERVICECalling all ARTCAR Volunteers!Volunteers are needed for the

Prison Art Car Project for the 2015 ArtoCade Festival. Must be willing to take training class workshop for prison admission. Info: Rodney Wood, 719-334-0087.

THS KEY CLUBTHRU FEBRUARY 24: Members

are joining in a food drive in partner-ship with Pueblo Central High School to feed homeless teens in the Pueblo area. Please bring donations of non-perishable food items or gently used clothing items to 207 E. Main St. THS students can bring items directly to the school. Info: [email protected].

DEALING: GRIEF & LOSSFEBRUARY 25 (5:30 p.m.) The

HOPE Pregnancy Center is offering a special workshop for anyone interest-ed in dealing with loss. Confidentiality is a priority. Info: JoAnn, 719-846-4889 or [email protected].

OPERA TRINIDADFEBRUARY 28 (Noon) AIDA by

Giuseppe Verdi — the composer’s grandest opera about the forbidden love of an Egyptian general and an Ethiopian slave, and the jealousy of the daughter of the King of Egypt.

FUN & FUNDRAISER DINNERFEBRUARY 28 (6 p.m.) The Trini-

dad State Educational Foundation will host their annual fundraiser dinner and silent auction “Aim for the Fence” with featured guest speaker Colorado Rockies great Todd Helton at the THS Donnelly Gym. Info: Linda Perry (719-846-5649) or Toni DeAngelis (719-846-5520).

FP Horse AssociationMARCH 7 (10 a.m.) The 2015

Season kicks off with OPEN RIDE (10 a.m.), EXHIBITIONS (11 a.m.), OPEN 4-D BARREL RACE (Noon) followed by YOUTH BARREL RACE and POLE

the Fine Print

Weather WatChFriday: Mostly sunny, with a high near

61. Light south southwest wind becoming west southwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Night: A chance of rain and snow before. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. West wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent with less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Saturday: An 80 percent chance of snow, accumulation of 1-3 inches. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 31. North wind around 10 mph New snow Night: An 90 percent chance of snow, with accumulation

of 4-8 inches possible. Low around 17. East wind 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday: An 80 percent chance of snow. High near 26. East wind around 5 mph. Night: A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 8. East wind around 5 mph.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 31. East northeast wind around 5 mph. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 15.

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LOOKING FORWARD TO WARM WEATHER?

Photo courtesy of Patrick Arguello, Trinidad, Colorado

Don’t let the first signs of Spring fool you . . .As pretty as these pansies are popping out in a local garden, don’t let them trick you into thinking that Winter is over here in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The weather report for this weekend has plenty of snow in store for all residents along the Front Range, including Trinidad. With as much as a 90 percent call for the white stuff by Sunday evening and temperatures for the weekend lingering in the freezing zone, a good bit of snow is sure to fall and residents will be shoveling walkways and sidewalks by Monday morning.

AREA RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

By Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News

When City Planner Louis Fine-

berg applies for state or federal grant funding, he needs specific project plans to back up the City’s grant application. That’s why he was excited to announce the City’s 2015 Parks and Recreation Master Plan, which he described in some detail in a Tuesday interview.

The reconstituted City Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, chaired by Glen Davis, aided the process of developing the new plan. Public input was sought dur-ing the plan’s development pro-cess. The plan was approved by City Council at a recent meeting.

“The plan brought us up to date with a lot of the projects that the City is wanting and needing,” Fineberg said. “A lot of the recre-ational needs are determined by formula. DOLA (the state Depart-ment of Local Affairs) puts out a chart per one thousand residents. If you have 10,000 people you should have so many soccer fields, and so many tennis courts, or so many baseball fields or miles of walking trail you should have. A lot of it is stock, like that. But there are many things that are unique to Trinidad. There was kind of a

push for tennis courts, because we don’t have any playable courts. A dog park seemed to be something a lot of people wanted, and we are going to have one.”

The City’s proposed dog park will be located on city property just east of the junction of East Elm Street and North Linden Av-enue, near one of the access paths leading to the Riverwalk Trail. The problem is that there are a lot of goatheads in that area, whose thorns can cause dogs plenty of pain if they step on them. To com-pletely landscape and replant the grass in the park might cost more than the $30,000 the City has bud-geted for the park. The local Elks Club has donated fencing around the park. Fineberg said he’d like to leverage the money the City has devoted to the project and get enough grant funding to have a truly outstanding dog park for lo-cal pooches.

“It wasn’t a big issue in the past, but now people really seem to want a dog park,” Fineberg said. “If we can leverage that $30,000 up to $150,000, we can have a really nice dog park.”

The City could tap into a near-by water line to bring water into Steve Block / The Chronicle-News

City Planner Louis Fineberg discussed the City’s new Parks and Recreation Master Plan in a Tuesday interview with The Chronicle-News.

City’s Master Parks, Recreation Plan good to go


TAX HELP COLORADO

State Rep. Timothy Dore to visit TSJC on Saturday By Greg BoyceTrinidad State

Colorado State Representa-tive Timothy Dore will visit Tax Help Colorado’s free tax prepa-ration site on the Trinidad State Junior College campus to help raise awareness about free filing options available to low- to mod-erate-income taxpayers. Trinidad students will be preparing taxes for individuals with incomes un-der $52,000.

Rep. Dore will greet the hard-working families who are filing taxes and thank the students who

are serving as the site’s tax prepar-ers.

As part of the Tax Help Colo-rado program, Trinidad State Ju-

nior College partners with The Piton Foundation and the Colora-do Community College System to provide free tax preparation assis-tance to low-income families. Last year alone, the free tax site helped more than 200 Trinidad residents claim more than $300,000 in re-

funds. Continuing its success, the IRS-certified students and volun-teers at Trinidad State Junior Col-lege are preparing and e-filing tax returns free of charge for individu-als with household incomes of less

than $52,000 in 2014. Tax Help Colorado has a pres-

ence on 18 college campuses and operates 26 free tax sites statewide. More than 30% of Colorado fami-lies are eligible to participate in the program, which was created to help alleviate the financial burden

of commercial tax prepara-tion costs on lower-income households.

Many of these fami-lies are also eligible for tax benefits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, and

Tax Help Colorado preparers spe-cialize in ensuring that taxpayers receive the refunds they deserve.

The free tax site at Trinidad

Purgatoire River Call as of: 02/19/15. Chilili ditch: Prior-ity # 7 --- Appropriation date: 04/30/1862.

Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:Release 0.77 AFInflow 48.73 AF -- 24.57 CFSEvaporation 3.96 AFContent 16,989 AFElevation 6,179.22Precipitation 0

Downstream River Call: John Martin Reservoir: (Conservation Storage) 05/31/1949.

Photo courtesy of Tim DoreState Rep. Timothy Dore


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the park for watering the grass and for a watering station for the dogs, he said.

“If we were able to get grants to bring it up to $150,000, then we could bring water into the park, reseed it and put in an agility course for the dogs, and I’m tending to believe we should do that and have a really great dog park. Or we could use the $30,000 we now have and have a mediocre dog park. Those are the choices we have.”

The city could use some new or resurfaced tennis courts, he said, and one more soccer field along with some basket-ball courts. Repairs to the gazebo at Kit Carson Park will happen this year. The two tennis courts at the Trinidad Municipal Golf Course need to be repaired. New and safer playground equipment at the city’s parks might be needed in coming years, when funding is available.

“The only thing I hear a clamor about is a dog park, and we’re working on that. We should have tennis courts. We’ve been discussing improvements to the baseball facil-ity at Central Park with the college and the high school. The question with that is where the funding would come from. We’ve also had discussions about another soccer field. Those are the projects that seem to be active. The ones that people are actively pursuing. We have some space issues

and issues concerning where the football team practices. Other than those, we’re working pretty hard on our trails system and getting that where it needs to be.”

Fineberg said the City Parks and Boulevards Depart-ment workers, led by Dave Esquibel, were taxed to the limit in maintaining the City’s current recreation facilities, and didn’t have the time necessary to maintain any new parks. That’s one of the reasons he’s such a strong of proponent of trails, because they tend to need very little maintenance once they’re completed. A great trails system has also been shown to be a spur to economic development for many cit-ies across the country. The City’s updated master plan for trails will be released in the near future.

“Statistics will show that the best bang for your buck is with a trails system,” he said.

State Junior College is open on Thursdays from 5-7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. through March 5.

■ Who: Rep. Timothy Dore■ When: Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 1 p.m.■ Where: Trinidad State Junior College Campus■ Address: 600 Prospect Street in the Main Floor Freud-

enthal Library, Trinidad, Colorado As the number of working poor in Colorado continues to

grow, an estimated 400,000 struggling families are eligible for valuable federal tax benefits like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit. This tax season, the EITC will put an expected $700 million back into the pock-ets of hard-working families with children that earned less than about $52,000 in 2014. One of the nation’s most success-ful anti-poverty tools, the EITC promotes employment while providing valuable refunds to lower-wage earners who are striving to achieve financial security. Last year, the 345,000 Colorado tax payers who claimed the EITC received an av-erage of $2,000 per household, totaling $737 million.

Information on EITC eligibility and a full list of free in-come tax assistance sites in Colorado can be found by dial-ing 2-1-1 (it’s a free call), visiting www.piton.org/eitc, or find-ing Tax Help Colorado on Facebook at www.facebook.com/taxhelpcolorado or Twitter @TaxHelpCO.

—About The Piton FoundationThe Piton Foundation, which is part of Gary Community

Investments, is a private, operating foundation established in 1976 by Denver oilman Sam Gary. It is committed to im-proving the lives of Colorado’s low-income children and their families by increasing access to quality early childhood and youth development opportunities and fostering healthy fam-ily and community environments.

COMMUNITY

Aerial photo courtesy of City Planner’s office / Corner of N. Linden and E. Elm Streets photo, Steve Block / The Chronicle-NewsThe above aerial photo shows the plan for the new City Dog Park. The facility will be located across Linden Street near the corner of where North Linden and East Elm Streets intersect.

Photo courtesy of the Aguilar School DistrictAguilar Elementary School hosted a Parent Night on the evening of February 10, 2015. The newly formed choir, under the direction of Mr. Bryan Porter, began the evening. After Honor Roll and Perfect Attendance awards were given, the parents and guests were able to visit the elementary school classrooms to see some of the childrens’ work and projects. Back row (L-R) Reina Fountain and Grace Miceka. Middle row (L-R) Marissa Duran, Savanna Castellano, Nicholle Broach and DeNajah Garcia. Front row (L-R) Alexus Booth and Denali Douglas.

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