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Like everyone else, the school district is not recession proof.

The state will likely take back $2 mil-lion in funding next month, and Gov. Bill Ritter asked for another 4 percent cut in education funding.

If that 4 percent cut holds, state funding could fall by $550 per student next year. Multiply that by 6,200 students, and the Eagle County School District could face

a $3.4 million funding cut next year, the school board learned yesterday.

To be on the safe side, the school dis-trict is looking for $4 million in spend-ing cuts.

“This is the biggest cut anyone can remember,” said Sandra Smyser, school district superintendent.

Then a chill floated across the room.“If we had to cut all that to cut $3 mil-

lion in one year, that would mean 60 em-ployees. It s not our intention to do that,” Smyser said.

It’s not dire, but school district offi-cials are paying attention.

“We are shifting our spending patterns to match our revenue right now,” said Glass.

Almost 80 percent of the budget pays people. Some of it will be handled through attrition. Some teachers may have to move to another school as stu-dent populations shift. Class sizes may be different than most people are accus-tomed to seeing, Glass said.

“Previously, a lot of our employees

were secondary wage earners. Now, with job losses, they are the only wage earner,” Smyser said. “We do not want to do layoffs.”

The school board has taken the long view for the last several years, requiring a 10 percent fund balance. It’s increased every year since 2003 and not stands at $16 million, 32 percent of revenues.

“It’s probably a bigger cushion than anyone else in the region and possibly the state,” said Brian Nolan, school

Schools face $4M in cutsDrop in state funding has local district reducing spending

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Fieldhouse of Dreamsbecoming a reality

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The staff at the much-anticipated Western Eagle County Municipal Recreation District (WECMRD) Field House is fired up for their grand opening this weekend. They’ve invited the public to come tour the facility and partake in free activities Friday through Sunday.

Located within walking distance of Battle Mountain High School in Edwards’ Freedom Park, the 55 thousand square-foot field house of dreams is the only facility in Colorado that can simultaneously operate indoor soccer, court sports – such as basketball and volleyball – and gym-

One of Eagle County’s 32 job cuts was the senior citi-zens lunch cook, and Tuesday they demanded the county commissioners hire him back.

Suzanne Vitale, the county’s Health and Human Services director, said it was part of the county’s streamlining.

But the county had already advertised to replace that po-sition – at the same pay or higher, $38,000 – the Sunday

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By Randy WyrickMountaineer Staff Writer

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cerns about rising debt levels around the world and looked for bargains after a two-day slide in stocks. Stocks turned higher late Wednesday after trading er-ratically. Investors have been cautious about rising government debt levels in Spain, Greece and other countries. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 51.08, or 0.5 percent, to 10,337.05. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 4.01, or 0.4 percent, to 1,095.95. The Nasdaq composite index rose 10.74, or 0.5 per-cent, to 2,183.73.

Terror tiesFive young Americans captured in

Pakistan are under investigation for pos-sible links to organized terror groups af-ter their families found a disturbing fare-well video the missing men left behind showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.

Frantic relatives and worried FBI agents have been searching for the five men for more than a week, since their disappearance in late November. The missing men, ranging in age from 19 to 25, have family roots in the northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., area. One, Ramy Zamzam, is a dental student at Howard University.

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The Dummy Demolition Derby is under the lights at Vail’s Golden Peak today from 5 to 7 p.m. Teams from around the state have been tirelessly constructing their handmade, snow-riding dummies, only send them flying over a huge jump and then... Smash! The winner gets $5,000. See sto-ry inside. Photo by Nevada Lee of VailPM.com

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Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy, along with hun-dreds of other organizations and families throughout the Valley are playing Santa to “adopted” families for the holidays this year.

It’s all part of an annual program organized by the Salvation Army.

Cynthia Blancke, foreign language teacher at VSSA, said the program teaches students about giving back to the community.

“It’s a way for the students to be in touch with another reality,” said Blancke. “When you see another child in this valley who needs shoes for Christmas, especially students at the ski academy because you need six or seven pairs of ski shoes to do your training, it’s a com-modity that you don’t think of as a basic necessity.”

The VSSA has adopted two valley families this year, a fatherless family of four and a single mother with five children.

“We are lucky enough to have a group of parents who are very generous and very willing to be proactive in the community,” said Blancke. “It’s part of our charter at the school to fulfill a commitment to the community, so it is a great way for us to involve the students.”

Salvation Army volunteer T. Herbest, who organizes the exchange with local teacher Mourghan Ridenour, says the program is random, but organized. “The ap-plicant comes through a referring agency and we look at employment or income changes or medical circum-stances,” says Herbest. “For example, we have families that are low income with children with cancer and a lot of the people that apply are living with lots of people in a two bedroom place.”

By the end of this week students will have wrapped the gifts for delivery before Christmas.

‘Such an isolated thing’The “Adopt-A-Family” program began 24 years ago

when Salvation Army Vail’s Community Case Worker and Director Tsu Wolin-Brown was asked by her neigh-bor to help a family in need for the holidays.

The neighbor, who remains anonymous to this day, worked with the Salvation Army’s former Holiday Project Store to provide furniture, holiday items, toys and clothing for a family in need that was living on a farm in Dotsero.

All the gifts were wrapped and delivered anony-mously with tags bearing the family members names, signed “Love Santa.”

“(The family) said, we’ve never had a Christmas like this,” said Wolin-Brown. “I didn’t really think ahead at the time, it was such an isolated thing we did.”

The next year, said Wolin-Brown, the Salvation Army took 13 applicants for the program, which has grown to include 316 applicants this year.

“We’ve developed quite a system, we get referrals from all different social services agencies - some will be Salvation Army clients, some will come from health human services, Head Start, Early Head Start, Catholic Charities - and we find families, book clubs, businesses and churches that work with anyone who looks to the Salvation Army for help in our valley.”

Anyone is invited to participate in the “Adopt-A-Family” program. Donors who wish to remain anony-mous may have their donations delivered by volunteers at the Salvation Army.

“It enables people to have a Christmas that they might not have had, but for the people that are adopting it’s also a special gift to be able to do that for someone,” said Wolin-Brown.

To help a family in need this holiday, contact T. Herbest by e-mail at [email protected]. For more information, visit salvationarmyvail.org.

Salvation Army, VSSA help families for holidays

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Registration is underway for the Vail Recreation Dis-trict’s winter indoor basketball, soccer and volleyball leagues. The leagues begin in January with registration available at vailrec.com or calling 479-2280.

Indoor basketball leagueThe indoor basketball league will take place Sunday

afternoons beginning Jan. 10 at the Old Battle Moun-tain High School in Eagle-Vail. There are an A and B league available and each league consists of regular games followed by playoffs. Costs are $340 for in-dis-trict teams and $390 for out-of-district teams. Registra-tion ends Dec. 18.

Indoor volleyball leagueThe indoor volleyball league ill take place from 6:15

to 10:15 p.m. on Wednesdays, Jan. 20 through March 17 at Red Sandstone Elementary School gymnasium. The league consist of a four-person A League with one woman on the court at all times and six-person B League with two women on the court at all times. Costs

are $200 for in-district teams and $230 for out-of-dis-trict teams. Registration ends Friday, Jan. 8.

Indoor soccer leagueThe indoor soccer league will include a coed league

that will take place Tuesday evenings beginning Jan. 5 and an open league that will take place and Thurs-day evenings beginning Jan. 7 at the Old Battle Moun-tain High School in Eagle-Vail. Costs are $215 for in-district teams and $245 for out-of-district teams. The leagues are a 5v5 format, including goalies. The coed league must have two women on the floor at all times. Space is limited to nine teams.

Additionally, indoor open gym for basketball is from 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays, open gym indoor soccer is from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and open gym volleyball from 6 to 9 p.m. Fridays at Red Sandstone Elementary School. Cost $3 per person and players must be 18 years or older to participate.

For details, call the VRD Sports Department at 479-2280.

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Local artist Fernando Palomo is swap-ping out his paintbrush for a nylon string guitar. He’s assembled a talented group of musicians that play down-tempo world/Latin soul.

Nev Eluna (Snow and Moon) will be playing their first public show tomorrow at Loaded Joe’s. The band plays entirely original music, composed by Palomo and sung in Italian and Spanish. He says his music is influenced by Brazilian Bossa Nova and Samba.

Palomo said that each member of the band brings some unique qualities that contribute to making some great music together.

Rebecca Rehorst, a talented local pia-nist, helped form the group, which con-sists of Marc Trevino, who plays Congo auxiliary percussion. He keeps it real light and simple, Palomo says.

Vocalist Kayte Kelly will translate some of Palomo’s lyrics. “She’s got an awesome voice,” Palomo said. “She’s very soulful, which fits our jazz style.

She translates the lyrics and puts her own touch on it.”

18-year-old Zach Sirotkin plays the flute in Nev Eluna with the expertise of someone well beyond his years. He con-tributes to the band’s Latin feel and has a great ear for the music, Palomo says.

Cynthia Holappa plays bass in the group. She’s an all-around musician who also plays the piano and is looking to get into the drums. She brings a lot of char-acter to the group, Palomo says.

“Usually you would have to hang out down in Denver or mostly urban areas to get the world sound,” Palomo said. “Now you don’t have to drive so far to get some very soulful world music.”

The show is for “people who want to come out and get a different feel. Re-spectfully, there is a lot of bluegrass, reggae and jam music in this area. This is definitely a different notch on the ra-dio.”

The show starts at 9 p.m. on Friday at Loaded Joe’s in Avon. Nev Eluna will be previewing their music on 97.7 The Zephyr between 5 and 5:30 p.m. also on Friday.

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Returning tomorrow to Vail’s Golden Peak, Dummy Demolition Derby is a sport of sorts, where teams of one to three people construct snow-riding dummies at-tached to a pair of skis or a snowboard.

The homemade masses are hurled over a giant on-snow jump, and you can guess what happens after that.

Dummies are judged on distance, air, creativity, take-off, landing and crowd response. With this year’s event being held “under the lights,” participants have been encouraged to illuminate their dummies for snazzier viewing. A JumboTron will be broadcasting instant re-plays of Dummy crashes.

The first place team will take home a purse of $5,000, with $1,500 and $750 going to the second and third place teams, respectively. Registration is currently full, but you can come cheer on your favorite dummy.

Vail local Karl Krueger took first place in 2007 launching a stove attached to a pair of speed skis. He

and his brother were renovating a house and were look-ing for an easy way to dispose of the appliance.

“This year, we’ve narrowed our dummy down to three or four ideas, but haven’t pulled the trigger on any yet,” Krueger said. “ It’s always a crap shoot; you never know what the crowd will react to. Our plan is to get the best reaction.”

Chris Decker of team Dummy Nation took 2nd last year by launching a Lazy Boy over the jump. He wasn’t willing to divulge any hints about what he was con-structing this year, saying only, “It’s gonna be big. It’s a multifaceted package of craft, music and costumes.”

“The Dummy Demolition Derby is hands-down the wackiest, most outrageous event in the Vail Snow Daze schedule,” said James Deighan of Highline Sports & Entertainment, the producers of the event. “I’ve seen everything from a dummy toilet to a flying stove to an Army tank compete in this event.”

All guests and spectators are invited to enjoy the full sensory experience, which will include fireworks, a massive flamethrower, DJs and free Chili Chowdown from 5-6 p.m. while supplies last.

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tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said the five are believed to be under arrest in Pakistan.

“One person appeared in that video and they made references to the ongoing conflict in the world, and that young Muslims have to do something,” said Nihad Awad, of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. “The video’s about 11 minutes, and it’s like a farewell.”

United recovers enough to buy $6 billion from AirbusFrance-based commercial aircraft builder Airbus

confirmed yesterday that United Airlines has ordered 25 of its future A350-900 XWB wide-bodied airliners, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The deal is worth $6 billion, based on a catalog price of about $240 million a plane, Airbus Chief Operating Officer-Customers John Leahy told Dow Jones News-wires in a telephone interview.

United Airlines also announced its bid for 25 Dream-liners from Boeing Commercial Airplane Corp. (BA), securing future purchase rights for 50 of each aircraft.

Clinton pollster receives $6 million stimulus money

Nearly $6 million in stimulus funds was awarded to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008, The Hill reports.

Federal records show that a contract worth $5.97 mil-lion, helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

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At least somebody’s getting a raise

Congressional appropriators gave civilian federal employees a 2 percent pay increase, agreeing to a pay increase President Obama didn’t want, reports The Washington Post.

“Government workers will get a 1.5 percent nation-wide increase in base pay and a 0.5 percent average in-crease in locality pay,” reports WSJ. “The final agree-ment goes against the wishes of Obama, who called for a flat 2 percent jump and no locality increase.”

Locality pay takes into account the gaps between federal pay and private sector wages in high-cost areas of the country.

Johnson & Johnson & Tequila

Tila Tequila, star of “A Shot at Love,” and author of “Hooking Up with Tila Tequilla,” has announced her engagement to girlfriend Casey Johnson in an online video, reports the SF Gate.

Tila appeared with the Johnson & Johnson heiress on Wednesday morning in a video posting on Ustream.com.

“We have an announcement,” Tila said in the video. “This is exclusive and going to be all over the news tomorrow, but because I love you guys so much, we are giving you the exclusive first - Tila army fans - tonight, my girlfriend has asked me to marry her!”

The 27-year-old held out a “17-carat diamond ring from my baby,” adding “my baby is a [expletive] baller. She’s a billionaire! She’s the heiress of Johnson and Johnson.”

Australia on the rocksA mammoth chunk of ice, measuring 12 miles long

and five miles wide, was spotted floating off mainland Australia by scientists at the Australian Antarctic Divi-sion, reports the UK Telegraph.

Dubbed B17B, the berg is 1,000 miles from Austra-lia’s west coast, headed gradually north with the ocean current and prevailing wind.

Dr. Neal Young, a glaciologist working for the ADD told the Telegraph if the iceberg eventually reached Australia waters, it would crash into the continental shelf causing a magnitude three to four earthquake.

“As the waters warm, the iceberg will thin out, so it is not going to get to Australia, the further north it goes, the more it break up,” he said.

Tax cheats taxThe House voted Wednesday to extend $31 billion

in popular tax breaks, including an income tax deduc-tion for sales and property taxes, to be financed with a tax increase on investment fund managers and a crack-down on international tax cheats.

The 45 tax deductions and credits for businesses and individuals are scheduled to expire at year’s end.

The tax breaks include a sales tax deduction that mainly helps people in the nine states without local in-come taxes, a property tax deduction for people who don’t itemize and lucrative credits that help businesses finance research and development.

The House bill would raise $24.6 billion over the next decade from the tax increase on investment fund managers. It would affect hedge fund and private eq-uity managers, as well as the more than 1.2 million real estate investment partnerships, according to the Real Estate Roundtable.

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Gore steps upAl Gore’s paperback follow up to his film “An Incon-

venient Truth,” will discuss solutions to global warm-ing, reports Slate.

Gore met with the President Monday at the White House to discuss climate change at the climax of the Copenhagen environmental summit.

Asked what his opinion on the emails leaked from East Anglia charging global warming data was manipu-lated, Gore replied:

“Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn’t trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it?”

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Hurricanes step downThe 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, which ended re-

cently without a single U.S. landfall recorded, had the fewest named storms in 12 years, reports USA Today.

Nine tropical storms were named since the season began, with three becoming hurricanes, Dennis Felt-gen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center, told USA Today.

Colorado State University researchers are predicting a more active Atlantic hurricane season next year, with six to eight hurricanes, at least three of them major.

Philip Klotzbach and William Gray predict 11 to 16 named storms in the forecast released Wednesday. They say three to five of the storms will be major hurricanes with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater.

Only in BerkeleyThe city of Berkeley mailed coat hangers to 20 mem-

bers of Congress today, in protest of the anti-abortion amendment in version of the federal health care bill, reports the SF Gate.

The City Council approved the action Tuesday 7 to 1 to mail the coat hangers, which were send with protest letter to the House of Representatives.

The amendment, which may be passed along with the health care reform bill, would ban coverage of abortion for those who would receive government-run health in-surance.

We can’t impeach for arrogance

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford dodged impeach-ment Wednesday but was scolded by legislators for his travels to see a mistress in Argentina and his misuse of state planes.

A legislative panel voted down a measure to impeach the two-term Republican, opting instead to recommend a formal rebuke for bringing the state “ridicule, dishon-or, disgrace and shame.”

“We can’t impeach for hypocrisy. We can’t impeach for arrogance. We can’t impeach an officeholder for his lack of leadership skills,” said Rep. James Harrison, a fellow Republican who headed the panel.

Most of the seven legislative committee members said the Republican should resign, though his affair, use of state planes and a 2008 taxpayer-funded trip to Argentina were not serious misconduct that merited a recommendation to remove him from office.

Sanford has been under scrutiny since June when he tearfully revealed a yearlong affair. Ensuing probes of his travel and campaign spending led to more than three dozen state ethics charges.

FBI skips out on tipA Minnesota man whose tip helped the FBI catch

Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has finally re-

ceived a $100,000 reward, while another man credited as a tipster still has received nothing.

Tim Nelson said Wednesday he collected the reward at the Minneapolis FBI office last week. He said he was satisfied to finally get the recognition, but he believes the $5 million reward that went to a colleague last year was “exorbitant” and that the government’s procedures for handing them out are too secretive.

Nelson, of St. Paul, was an instructor at the Pan Am International Flight Academy who called the FBI about a month before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to report his suspicions about Moussaoui, who had showed up at the Eagan flight school with thousands of dollars in cash and asked for training on Boeing 747 simulators.

Another former instructor who independently made a separate call to the FBI that day said Wednesday that he still has received nothing.

ACLU loses donor, one-fourth yearly donations

The American Civil Liberties Union has lost a quar-ter of its yearly donations after a major donor cut off $19 million in annual donations because of economic difficulties.

David Gelbaum, a wealthy California conservation-ist, said he was indefinitely stopping the donations that had made him the New York-based group’s largest anonymous donor.

“For a number of years, your organization has re-ceived very substantial charitable contributions from me,” Gelbaum said in a statement. “My investments in alternative, clean energy companies have placed me in a highly illiquid position as a result of the general credit crisis in the American and world financial systems.”

Gelbaum also announced he was halting some $12 million in yearly gifts to the Sierra Club Foundation and about $50 million a year that he’s been giving to an organization serving veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gelbaum has given a total of $389 mil-lion to the groups from 2005 to 2009.

No lunch for the kingThe White House has cancelled many of the events

peace prize laureates traditionally submit to during his visit to accept the award in Oslo, Norway today, reports The Guradian.

President Obama turned down a lunch invitation from the King of Norway, a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television in-terview and appearances at a children’s event promot-ing peace and a music concert.

He also snubbed a visit to an exhibition in his honor at the Nobel peace centre.

In a poll by Norwegian tabloid VG, 44 percent of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34 per-cent saying they believe it was acceptable.

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Brady back to work with new addition to bunch

National Football League star quarter-back Tom Brady and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen have welcomed a baby boy.

Brady, who plays for the New England Patriots, announced the birth Wednesday. He said the boy was born Tuesday and that he and Bundchen had not chosen a name. He called it “a wonderful experience in my life.”

“Everyone’s great,” Brady said. “I didn’t get much sleep.”

Brady also has a 2-year-old son, Jack, with actress Bridget Moynahan. Bundchen is a mother for the first time.

On Wednesday, Brady showed up 16 minutes late for his weekly media avail-ability. Asked what was new, he said, “a normal week,” and smiled.

The Patriots have lost three of their last four games to drop to 7-5. They lead the AFC East by one game and play at home Sunday against the Carolina Panthers. Bra-dy said it was important for him to come to work Wednesday.

“I owe it to the guys in the locker room to really focus on what I need to do for this team,” he said, “and put all these emotions aside and kind of come in here with a great sense of determination on what we have to do as a team. So, as a captain and a leader of this team, the last thing they need from me is to be really not focused on the job at hand. There’s plenty of things for me to re-ally be doing here this week.”

More excuses from KobeKobe Bryant missed practice yesterday while police

investigated a violent robbery in his neighborhood, TMZ reports.

Sources told TMZ Kobe was issued an “excused ab-sence” from a team shoot at the Lakers practice facility after a robbery hit his Newport Beach neighborhood.

“Several gun-toting henchmen broke into a home

near Kobe’s place, roughed up a few residents and then ran from police,” TMZ reports.

Newport Beach police told TMZ the five men, armed with handguns, struck three residents over the head and then tried to rob them in their home.

An automated call sent out to residents instructed people to lock their doors and windows and call 911 immediately if they suspected anything fishy.

RIGHT: This is a May 4, 2009, file pho-to showing New England Patriots’ Tom Brady and his wife, model Gisele Bund-chen arriving at the Metropolitan Mu-seum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York. AP Photo.

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A one-day surfing contest that takes place only in ex-treme conditions was held for the first time in five years Tuesday, thanks to the massive waves pounding Oahu’s famed North Shore.

Thousands gathered at Waimea beach to watch the world’s top surfers rocket down waves 30 feet high. Some arrived at 4 a.m. for a good spot, while others camped out all night.

Popularly known as “The Eddie,” the competition is held only when waves top 20 feet in Waimea Bay. This is only the eighth time the conditions have been right since the event was founded in 1984.

Many of the 28 competitors were professional surf-ers, including Kelly Slater, Bruce Irons and Sunny Garcia. All were experienced big-wave riders. Entrants were selected by a poll of surfers.

The contest is held in honor of Eddie Aikau, a leg-endary Hawaiian surfer, Waimea Bay lifeguard and waterman. Aikau died in 1978 at the age of 31 when the traditional Hawaiian voyaging canoe he was on cap-sized en route from Hawaii to Tahiti. Aikau paddled on his surfboard toward Hawaii’s Lanai island, 19 miles away, to get help, but never returned. The rest of the crew was rescued soon after.

The winner, Greg Long of San Clemente, Calif., took home $55,000, while the total purse was $98,000.

Long, 24, edged ahead of his childhood idol Slater with a score of 323. Slater, 37, placed second with 313. Kauai-born Sunny Garcia placed third.

Big Waves conquered in Hawaii

Pro surfer Rusty Keaulana, fresh off his recent trip to Vail, was one of only 28 of the world’s best surf-ers to compete in the recent Eddie Aikau memorial big wave surfing event this week in Hawaii. He’s pictured here in front of Game Creek bowl in No-vember. John LaConte photo.

The National Weather Service forecast 30- to 40-foot waves, with some sets approaching 50 feet on the outer reefs as Hawaii remained under a high surf warning. The high surf was caused by two large storms north-west of Hawaii.

Surfer Kelly Slater pumps his fist after surviving the white water of this wave in the second heat at the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big wave surf contest on the North Shore at Waimea Bay, Hawaii Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. He scored a 98 out of a possible 100 points on this wave. AP Photo.

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Eagle Diner celebrates 10 years of well fed customers

For a decade at the Eagle Diner, Vickie Wise has been cooking and Michael Edmondson has been serving it up.

The Eagle Diner is 10 years old.Go by and get some free coffee this morn-

ing.You walk in, the staff shows you to a seat

and you eat the American comfort food you’ve loved since you were a kid.

Edmondson owns the place. Wise was his breakfast cook when they opened the door.

The good stuff never changes.“Has it really been 10 years?” Wise asked.They open at 6 a.m., and close at night when

the last satisfied customer drops his napkin af-ter dinner.

The Eagle Diner is exactly what the name says it is – an All American diner.

Vickie was a chef out of the Denver, work-ing for Embassy suites and Holiday Inn. She migrated up to Beaver Creek Lodge, but was looking for something closer to home in Ea-gle.

“I knew Mike was opening a restaurant, and I knew he’d need a breakfast cook. I’m a

good one,” she said. “I said ‘Here I am!’ and I stayed.”

They average more than 100 breakfasts on weekdays, many more on the weekends. Vickie cooks real food.

Someone asked for oatmeal baked in the oven a few weeks ago. She didn’t do it, bless her All American heart.

Edmondson says he was in the right place at the right time when they opened in 1999. He spent 11 years managing the Minturn Coun-try Club, and it’s wonderful place, but he was ready to be out of the bar business.

“They gave me a good education on what it’s like to run your own place,” Edmondson said

He and his partners, John Segal and Bob Olencik, built the from scratch, the first struc-ture out there. The shopping center was a va-cant lot. The traffic light on the corner wasn’t necessary. There wasn’t much traffic.

“It’s been a good ride,” Edmondson said.The $4.95 burger is the industry standard.The day they opened, Vickie was flipping

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On their 10th anniversary, she’ll still be at it.The good stuff never changes.


Eagle Diner’s Michael Edmondson and the rest of the crew are celebrating 10 years of business this week. Go by and get some free coffee today. Avery Cunliffe photo.

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A book has been mailed back to an Ohio library after six decades, accompanied by an anonymous letter of remorse.

The biography “Napoleon” by Emil Ludwig recently arrived at Toledo’s main library, with a brief note that read: “I removed this book from your stacks in 1949 and did not check it out. I apologize. It’s an excellent book and in good condition.”

The person who signed it “An ex-Toledoan” also wrote, “Carrying guilt for 60 years is a terrible thing,” according to The Blade newspaper.

Library spokeswoman Rhonda Sewell says the pack-age, with its Beverly Hills, California, postmark, came as a shock. She says the holiday season may have moved the sender to right a longtime wrong.

Circulation clerk Harry Johnston speculates the book was taken by a high school student in a hurry.

Book returned to Ohio library after 60 years

DIANE MC MULLEN AND CHEF NATHAN MC MUL-LEN OF PARADIGMS IN DOWNTOWN EAGLE are ready for the holiday dinner and parties. Paradigms offers a cozy dinning experience in front of a natural wood fireplace with great wines to choose from. Book your fireside reservations today at 328-7990.

GREG TARPY WITH PRIMARY COLORS is excited for the World Premiere Rugby movie, “Invictus”. Greg is a former Vail Rugby player and looks forward to viewing the movie with some of his buddies.

DENISE JUST UNLOADED a full truckload of model home furniture and man is she tired. Misc-en-scene in Edwards has loads of new cabinets, tables, shelves. chairs, beds and dressers. You name it they have it. And if they don’t they can get it. They are located above the Post Office in Edwards.

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THE DEVIL DANCERS would like to thank the following for making their trip to State happen. Colorado Mountain Express (CME), Nickie Fowles, Scott and Subway in Eagle, Wiemer’s Heating & Sheetmetal, Alpine Laser Clinic, Gypsum Recreation Center and WECMRD, Sonja Beasley, Whitney Beasley, Cheer Team members Taylar Amundson, Kelsey Douget, Tiffani Lyon, Gabriella Avila, Kimberly Parra, Amanda Nagel, Brianna Wiggs, along with Deb Sheehy, Debby Beard, Deb Monica, Tammi Wiemer, Hille Elwood, Ashley Newman and Marlis McChesney. Thank you!

FLETCHER AND CHOPCO OF EDWARDS kick back with a cold brew after their first powder day of the season. Chopco says, “Lots of powder on the Beav...this week should get even better!”

COME VISIT BARB AND VERONICA at Sonlite Barbershop, soon to be Hwy 6 Barbershop in Gypsum below the roundabout. Veronica is the new owner and looking forward to making you look great. Give them a call at 524-8085.

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JA MAKIN ME CRASAY! Skier Cross Vancouver 2010. Enough said period. Oh and this is Brian, Manager of Charter Sports and a proud supporter of Jamacia and their Olympic Skier Cross team.

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JENNIFER BATTS AT VAIL-SUMMIT ORTHOPAEDICS helps out all the patients before they get to see their doc. Jennifer does a bang up job, no pun intended!

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nastics.The soccer pitch is made of state-

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The huge facility is also decked out with 28-foot-high climbing wall and smaller bouldering wall, laser tag, an interactive exercise facility with Wii and stationary bikes that produce electricity to help power the field house, an arcade, complete with air hockey and Deer Hunter, and mini-golf soon to come.

WECMRD is offering a ton of great programs to encourage people to utilize the facility.

Kid Xtreme is an action-packed afterschool program held from 3-5:30 p.m. K through 5th graders can be dropped off to burn some energy on the field, the court, the climbing wall and gymnastics tram-poline.

Over holiday break, also for K – 5th graders, they’ll be offering a School’s Out Camp from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday, the youngsters can come kick it around with the semi-pro Freedom FC soc-cer team. There will be a meet and greet, followed by a fun on field scrimmage. Kids will have a chance to shoot on the Freedom goalies and get some pointers from the pros.

For Adults, the field house has got some other great activities planned this winter including competitive

in-door soccer and less-competitive co-ed leagues.

Although you can pay a drop-in fee to enjoy many of the amenities, your best value will be WECMRD Field House annual pass, which cost $49 for youths (ages 3-17), $149 for adults and $299 per fam-

ily (two adults and three dependents under 18.

For more information, give them a call at 766-5555. For information on youth and adult soccer, call Matt Zaremba at 343-9014.

board member.The average is 5 percent for school districts around

Colorado. That would be $2.5 million in Eagle Coun-ty’s case.

The state law requires a 3 percent reserve. That would be $1.5 million in Eagle County case.

Also, Eagle County voters have approved additional

funding, if it turns out the school district really needs it.

“This is a cyclical budget and recessions do not last forever,” said Jason Glass, the school district’s director of human resources. “This is a collaborative problem. No one in this room caused this recession and we’ll get through it together.”

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before the cook was cut.Rick Kangas moved from the Grouse

Mountain Grill to cook for the coun-ty’s senior lunch program. He prepared lunches for seniors in Eagle and Mint-urn, and meals delivered to seniors who couldn’t make it.

“Our experience with Rick has been fantastic. We see no obvious reason to replace him,” said John Bade, with the Golden Eagle Center’s board.

Former manager of adult and aging services for Eagle County Sheri Mintz hired Kangas. “We were so fortunate to hire a chef with the culinary talent of Rick Kangas. Four days a week, with love and creativity, Rick’s ‘golden years gourmet’ provided nutritious meals for the seniors” she said.

A survey, taken weeks ago, of the seniors for whom he cooked indicated overwhelming support for Kangas.

“The position was advertised at a higher salary than Rick was being paid,” Bade said. “We cannot get a straight an-swer, which leads us to believe that it was more personal and professional. We feel we are being singled out for the per-sonal agendas.”

During a meeting the week before, Kangas had been told there would be no

further layoffs, Bade said. Kangas grew many of his own herbs on the window sill in the senior center kitchen, Bade said.

“We have been asked to trust that the county knows what’s best and the county has the seniors’ best interests at heart. If that’s true, it will be difficult to trust the county.”

“We’re trying to concentrate on what we’re supposed to be doing, and doing it well. It’s about streamlining, and this we part of our streamlining effort,” said Suzanne Vitale, the county’s health and human services director.

In fact, Suzanne Vitale said that dur-ing a board meeting the day after ousting Kangas.

“All we hear is that it was to stream-line,” Bade said. “Rick provided nutri-tious meals. Many of his procedures named Best Practices by the state.”

The seniors are seeing fewer reduc-tions than some other departments, said County Commissioner Sara Fisher.

“The decision is a personnel discus-sion, and it will not play out in any public venue,” Fisher said. “As far as receiving your letter, duly noted. I do not foresee rescinding that decision.”

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