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On Feb. 9, the Archuleta School District Board of Education gave the green light for Build Pagosa Inc. to begin fundraising for a career and technical education (CTE) facility on the campus of Pagosa Springs High School (PSHS).

The building comes at an estimated cost, including contingency, of about $4.1 million,

with Build Pagosa pledging to raise the funds.“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be here

at this point,” PSHS Principal Sean O’Donnell told the board.

As part of his presentation, O’Donnell in-formed that “The purpose of this collaboration is to create a modern and current vocational facility along with a CTE program that provides up-to-date training resulting in career certifi-cations for our student body and community.”

That purpose is also stated in a document

Build Pagosa will present to potential donors.The document later adds another intention

is “To develop career paths for students that allows them to remain in community and provide local businesses with an invested well trained workforce.”

O’Donnell added that he believes there will be some opportunity for community use of the facility, also.

Other intentions for the project revolve

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During a public process that took place on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11 and also culminated in a review of public input, the Town of Pagosa Springs outlined possible ideas for the Ya-maguchi South Master Planning project.

The two-day event, set in an open-house style, gave the public a chance to review the existing 26.5-acre site, review various site compo-nents, and provide comments and ideas for developments on the site, among other things, Senior Planner Cindy Schultz explained in an inter-view on Feb. 16.

On Feb. 11, a wrap-up summary presentation was made to the public which featured a review of the results of the pubic comments and data that was received through the event, Schultz noted.

The idea has been for a while to develop the southern portion of Yamaguchi Park into something, a repurposing, Schultz described.

The site formerly housed sewer lagoons.

“It’s been in the town’s plans to sort of repurpose that site,” she said, adding that repurposing that prop-erty into a park was an idea that was discussed.

Using the site for housing needs was also a possibility considering the topography of the site, she added.

“One of the other things was an RV park. It would be sort of a munici-pal RV park or contracted RV park. We looked at all of those different things,” she said. “The engineering came back and there’s a very tiny portion of that site that’s really suit-able for structures; so much of it is in the floodplain.”

By Clayton ChaneyStaff Writer

More than 90 people were in at-tendance, virtually, at the Archuleta County Board of County Commis-sioners’ (BoCC) regular meeting held Tuesday, Feb. 16.

The BoCC voted unanimously to approve the 2021 county fee sched-ule, but removed the previously proposed changes to the short-term rental (STR) fees from Development Director Pamela Flowers.

Instead, those fees are set to be considered at the next regular meet-ing, scheduled for March 2, at 1:30 p.m.

However, the recently proposed building fee changes from Flowers were approved, along with some other changes in the county fee schedule, with Resolution 2021-13.

The BoCC did not allow for any public comment to be made in re-gard to the proposed STR fees, as it does not allow for public comments on items that are on the agenda.

County Attorney Todd Weaver explained in a later interview that it

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The Archuleta School District Board of Education recently gave Build Pagosa Inc., a local nonprofit, the go-ahead to begin raising funds needed to build a proposed career and technical education facility for Pagosa Springs High School.

Broadband office outlines progress and goals By Chris MannaraStaff Writer

During a meeting of the Pagosa Springs Community Development Corporation (CDC) on Feb. 10, a ret-rospective was done on the ongoing broadband efforts for 2021 and the accomplishments during 2020.

2020 projectsArchuleta County Broadband

Services Management Office (BSMO) Communications Manager Jason Cox explained that in 2020 business customers in the down-town area were able to be hooked up to high-speed fiber.

Additionally, the BSMO was able to take advantage of a Department of Regional Affairs (DORA) grant and will finish grant implementation in 2021, he explained.

Relationships were also strength-ened and new ones were formed with Internet service providers (ISP) and other stakeholders, Cox noted.

“We have SCAN fiber that the county and town funded in 2013 in a partnership with the Southwest Colorado Council of Governments,” he said. “We are leasing 13 miles. We have over 20 customers and we

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The newly formed skate ski club has provided a much-needed screen break and breath of fresh air for Pagosa Springs High School students amid the pandemic. Area business owners, volunteers, coaches, school staff and organizations came together with kindness, generosity and a shared vision to provide this new and unique opportunity for the community’s youth. See story on A13.

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Southwest Colorado has been largely unaffected by vaccine delays recent winter weather has caused throughout the country, but vaccine doses continue to be limited.

On Tuesday, the Colorado De-partment of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) announced that winter storms affecting a vac-cine distribution hub in Tennessee delayed vaccine shipments to several states this week, including Colorado.

The department stated that the delay impacted Colorado’s alloca-tion of 133,000 vaccines that were expected to arrive from Tuesday through today.

But Brian Devine, San Juan Basin Public Health (SJBPH) deputy inci-dent commander for the agency’s COVID-19 response and environ-mental health director, indicated Wednesday Southwest Colorado has not been affected so far.

Elsewhere in the state, Devine explained, clinics who expected to receive doses were left scrambling to trade doses with other locations to be able to take care of those with appointments.

“Fortunately, here in Southwest Colorado, we were able to solve for a

very small number of appointments that were impacted,” he said, and as long as the next shipment arrives as expected, no planned clinics around the region this week and next week should be affected.

In the event there are more im-pacts from the weather, Devine asked that people be understanding and work with providers if there are difficulties.

“This really is impacting the whole country,” he said.

Devine also warned that doses are still not readily available in the quan-tities needed.

“Vaccine availability continues to be quite limited,” he said. “The state is getting about 90,000 to 100,000 doses a week.”

Devine noted that amount has been pretty constant and is expected to continue.

Vaccine distribution in Archuleta County continues to be successful, Devine indicated.

“We were able to work with the school districts in both of our coun-ties and independent schools and child care providers to do an accel-erated timeline for vaccinations for educators, school support staff and child care staff,” he said. “Pagosa

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From the Nov. 3, 1983, Pagosa Springs SUN. HIGH LEVEL MEET-ING — Directors of the Dr. Mary Fisher Medical Center spent Sunday morning repairing the roof of the clinic. Left to right are Ralph Yamaguchi, Rice Reavis, Jake Trujillo, Fred Harman and Eric Maedgen. Dr. Mark Weinpahl, at far right also took part in the work. The annual stockholders meeting for the clinic will be December 7th at 7:30 p.m. in the County Courthouse.

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February 18, 1921For the third time within less than

two years Pagosa Springs was the victim of a disastrous fi re early yesterday morn-ing. Yesterday’s fi re loss is estimated to be the heaviest of all, the total amounting in the neighborhood of $200,000, about one-fourth of which is covered by insur-ance. Following is a list of the buildings completely destroyed, together with the names of the owners of the buildings: L.O. Hardman confectionery, Leon Mon-troy estate. Homer McKinley gymnasium and dance hall, Forrest Sparks. C.H. Dickerson cafe, Leon Montroy estate. Former W.M. Reynolds’ tire shop, Mrs. Anna Armstrong. Roy McCullough shoe and harness shop, Mrs. Anna Armstrong. Martinez & Chavez pool hall, J.B. Marti-nez, Jr. A.L. Brooks’ meat market, Hatch-er Merc. Co. Frank Matthews’ barber shop, G.S. Hatcher. Hatcher Hdw. Co., store, G.S. Hatcher. Kyle & Darnall offi ce, Fred Catchpole, Pagosa Journal, Fred Catchpole, People’s Store, W.S. Mote. Savoy Hotel and laundry, W.S. Mote.


February 22, 1946The New Catholic Church Commis-

sion met Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Archuleta, to discuss the purchase of lots for a church site. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Archuleta, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Belarde, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cordova, Mrs. Luis Marquez.

Charles and Richard DeVore, propri-etors of the Boys Market on Lewis street, have installed a lounge and rest-room for the convenience of their patrons. Comfortable chairs, hot and cold wa-ter are among the features of this new service and it will be a boon to Pagosa Springs farmer shoppers, who will fi nd it a good place to stay. Mothers of young children, will particularly appreciate this added service which is new in Pa-gosa Springs.

Offi cial word of the death of Lt. Har-ley Hazelwood, 25, was received here Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.T. Hazelwood. Lt. Hazelwood was a fl ight engineer on a B-29, and left the States Dec. 3, 1944, and crashed Febr. 10th 1945, over Ota, 40 miles north of Tokyo, while on a bombing mission.


February 18, 1971Archuleta County’s offi cial popula-

tion in the 1970 Census was 2,733, up 4.0 percent from the 1960 fi gure of 2,629, the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, reports.

A low cost housing project is possible here, and may be a reality in the very near future. It was announced this week that funds would be available for such a project. The Archuleta Housing author-ity was authorized some months ago by the town board. Father Bernard Rotger of the Catholic Church, was named chairman. Efforts were made after the authorization to organize and to obtain a commitment of funds. The program does not provide free housing. It does provide decent housing at reasonable prices. When a family obtains eligibility in the project, it must pay what is deter-mined as a fi gure that can be afforded. The federal government will then pay the housing authority the difference between that fi gure and the actual rent.


February 22, 1996The Pagosa Springs High School

chapter of Future Business Leaders of America qualifi ed 22 students for partic-ipation at the FBLA state meet at Vail, in April. The chapter was also awarded the District 8 Spotlight Award at the district competition Tuesday. Thirty-fi ve mem-bers of the Pirates FBLA team won top-10 awards. The team was accompanied to the meet by sponsors Dorothy Cristine and Curtis Mayberry, as well as counselor Doug Bowen.

Ninety-two skiers were safely evac-uated from the Dickey Chairlift at Wolf Creek Ski Area Friday afternoon after the motor stopped on the double chairlift. Kingsberry Pitcher, owner of the ski area operation said the problem resulted from one of the main gears splitting in the lift’s drive motor. Pitcher said the operation required about 90 minutes. Wolf Creek’s two triple chairs remained in operation throughout the afternoon and more than adequately handled the 1298 skiers who visited the area Friday.

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Last week, we received our first fraudulent unemployment insurance (UI) claim at The SUN. Archuleta School District has had about 20 fraudulent claims; Archuleta County has received five; Pagosa Springs Medical Center has had approximately eight.

Thankfully, we are unaware of any of those fraudulent claims actually being awarded by Colorado’s Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE).

Unfortunately, these claims have resulted in hours of wasted time docu-menting information required by the CDLE.

The CDLE’s executive director, Joe Barela, recently addressed the increase in UI fraud we’re seeing here at home, throughout Colorado and across the country. The following information was provided by Barela in an email this week.

Colorado, along with the rest of the nation, has been subjected to a wave of fraudulent claims — the criminals filing these claims range from sophisticated identity-theft rings trying to cash in on stolen Social Security numbers to fraud-sters trying to “game” the system.

The bad news for Coloradans, includ-ing not only legitimate UI claimants and employers, but also individuals whose stolen identities have been used to file false claims, is that legitimate benefit payments can be delayed and for others simply receiving this identity theft news and taking necessary measures to pro-tect your individual Personal Identifying Information (PII) takes effort and time.

It’s critical to understand that if you have been subjected to a fraudulent UI claim, that is because your personal identity was compromised through an unrelated previous data breach. You will need to take action to protect your credit, unrelated to the state UI system.

The CDLE’s UI division has been largely successful in preventing payment of these fraudulent claims.

The current widespread fraud is traceable in large part to two unfortu-nate developments: first, the mass data breaches of recent years (think Equifax, Target, Adobe, to name just a few) have caused millions of individual records, in-cluding names, Social Security numbers and other PII to become available on the dark Web and black market; second, with the onset of COVID-19 and the resulting economic dislocation, our national and state UI system has seen a huge increase in both demand from claimants and available financial resources, due to emergency relief.

Since last spring, the CDLE’s UI Divi-sion has processed just over 1 million valid unemployment insurance claims and paid out over $7 billion in legitimate unemployment insurance benefits. In this same timeframe, the CDLE has seen in excess of 1 million potentially fraudulent claims filed using stolen PII that criminals are obtaining and then attempting to use to access benefits.

For legitimate claimants, our chal-lenges include ensuring that their claims are not unnecessarily delayed due to the

protective fraud hold measures of the system, and second, the CDLE is work-ing to improve its previously inadequate call center, which until recently was largely overwhelmed by the addition of fraud inquiries to the already historically unprecedented demand for UI claims.

To improve our communication and responsiveness to our roughly 300,000 Colorado employers who pay premiums into the Colorado Unemployment Insur-ance Trust Fund, and to prevent the pos-sibility of fraud placing upward pressure on UI premiums, the CDLE has already taken measures to avoid charging such claims against employers’ accounts.

If you find yourself victim of a fraudu-lent UI claim, the fraud prevention website can be found at cdle.colorado.gov/fraud-prevention.

In close partnership with the Colo-rado attorney general, federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and U.S. Secret Service as well as with other states’ law enforcement agencies, the CDLE is actively pursuing the criminals attempting to prey upon vulnerable law abiding folks during this public health and economic crisis. While the CDLE is encouraged by its success to date in preventing the vast majority of false claims from paying out, it rec-ognizes there is much more work to do.

Here at The SUN, we don’t put a lot of faith in the CDLE improving its inad-equate call center, but we can always have hope.

Terri Lynn Oldham House

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‘Experts on Marxism’Dear Editor:

Well, I’m impressed, bet you are too by our local experts on Marxism and oodles of witnesses w/tons of evidence of what 60 Federal judges were denied in trials refuting Don-nie’s claims of voter fraud..yowser.

First, let’s look at the claimed takeover of our nation by Marxism. Cutting to the chase, Marxism or socialism or (worst case) com-munism can all be boiled down to a simple dictum:…”from those according to their ability to those according to their needs.” Forget the piles of manuscripts delving into any societies need and/or inability to use these ‘isms’ the claim is…we’re on the path. So let’s look at some simple truths, for the last 200+ years, through all kinds of political parties managing our nation all as in…all…our govern-mental services…and all insur-ance (Home Owners?) has been managed/delivered to all citizens by the above simple dictum. Paid your taxes…been to the library lately, most haven’t yet some use it all the time… called the police or had a fire, guess what, some have and rec’d service or collected...you didn’t but still paid your taxes..viola..Marxism or economists & data scientists just call it ‘the law of large numbers’… ‘durn ‘dose folks on welfare gettin’ sumpin’ fer nut-tin.’ As I said, I’m sure you’re also impressed by our local experts on Marxism.

Presidential election voter fraud..Oooh, bad, bad, they say it was everywhere (bet it was done by dirty Marxists). However, I’m guessing the Q Anon types are hiding all the evidence from the state election officials & Trump appointed judges. Why, gosh knows why, pity the judges because they haven’t received ANY…SUBSTAN-TIAL..MEASUREABLE evidence. But some folk tell us it’s out there...probably hidden in the crawl spaces of Trumpers just back from their DC ‘ANTIFA’ insurrection waiting the right moment to be drug out for all to see..March 4th...yeeeas, fo’ shore. If not, I guess we’ll have to wait for 2022 election cycle for May Day parades & the tons of ‘evidence’ to be seen…maybe after

Trump’s deranged GOP acquittal…maybe not…why not…yes, why not?

David Blake

‘Excessive’ short-term rental fee increasesDear Editor:

I am writing with regards to the proposed Archuleta County fee increases to short term vacation rentals. Doubling the base rate and nearly tripling the overall rate, for properties with 3 bedrooms, is ex-cessive and punitive. The proposed new fee schedule would increase our current annual permit rate of $400 to an excessive $1,100 for a 3 bedroom townhome.

We currently pay an annual permit fee of $400 in addition to approximately 9% of total revenues collected (in Occupancy Taxes) and local property taxes (before our ongoing mortgage, property owner association and maintenance expenses). Our combined tax pay-ments average $4,500 to $5,000 a year, before considering sales taxes paid for goods and services by us and our guests.

We are using our privately owned properties as economic incubators to help stimulate the local economy by hosting visitors who spend hundreds of dollars every day in the restaurants, an-tique shops, grocery stores and tourism activities that many of our local neighbors depend upon for their livelihoods. Those guests and visitors also contribute a significant portion of the sales tax collected in the city and county.

Most of the short term vacation rental owners in this community are not getting rich off of short term vacation rentals. Most of us are simply trying to cover the cost of our investment in the commu-nity that we would like to retire to someday. The taxes paid and the economic impact generated by the tourism dollars spent by our guests significantly benefit the commu-nity as a whole.

As owners of a future long term residence in Archuleta County, we support high standards for short term vacation rental properties as we see benefit for ourselves and local businesses, independent con-tractors, the service industry and year round community residents.

We proudly support local busi-nesses, contractors and our town-home is furnished with great finds in our local antique shops. We know many of the owners and service industry workers in the restaurants and brew pubs by name and always feel like we are coming home each visit.

Our housekeeper/property manager are like family members and we’ve gotten to know a num-ber of local contractors from our property renovations and improve-ments. We realize that many resi-dents financially benefit from the investments made and continue to make in this community.

We understand the need for af-fordable housing for residents and would encourage the local governments to use an appropriate allocation of the significant tax dol-

lars that our industry contributes to the local economy to address that need. Instead of driving the small “mom & pop” owners out of an affordable mechanism to invest in Archuleta County, work with us to support local tourism and ap-ply the taxes generated to perform the appropriate governmental function of investing in affordable housing for the year round resi-dents that need assistance.

We desire to be a part of the solution by growing the economic pie and ask that you not diminish our ability to do so through these excessive fee increases.

Jim Browne & Lisa Cox

Landfill Dear Editor:

My business depends on the Archuleta County Landfill. I send a crew down there at least twice a week and I pay good money, cash. But it is just getting to be so unsafe and stupid. First they build this giant mud covered hill, very steep. Then they come in and cut one side down to make it less steep but turn right around and build the other side up just as steep. There is not a level area to dump your trailer. The other day I went with my crew to help out and we were unloading and this big garbage truck almost tipped over due to the unlevel dump area. Looking at it nothing is level. If you are going to have big heavy trucks and trailers dump-ing you should have a level dump area, common sense. There is no room to turn around, most every-body that goes to the landfill has a trailer and it is almost impossible to turn around safely. More than once my crew has been blocked in by another trailer and they have to wait. Then one day we were there and this was this black stuff on the ground, smelled really bad. The landfill guy told us it was fecal mat-ter from the sewer plant. People were walking thru this stuff, they were driving thru it, is this safe? During a pandemic? Why would you put fecal matter right where you know people are going to be walking. Then last week they have this road flooded with water and trash, I mean like three feet of water with a lot of trash in it. Trucks were driving thru it and dropping trash on the County road. Can somebody

do something? I have never seen this landfill in such a horrible un-safe condition. Is this a good place to put our trash, the river is right there. Maybe get an engineer or a real landfill manager to fix this. I mean I keep complaining and I am told they are working on it. Maybe the County needs to contract this out to someone that knows how to run a landfill before someone gets hurt or more damage is done to our environment.

James DuttonEditor’s note: The SUN reached out to Archuleta County’s Public Works Division Operations Manager Matt Archuleta to address the conditions at the landfill, who wrote the following in an email:

“The Archuleta County Landfill located on County Road 500 sits within the side of a mountain. Dur-ing the winter months, snow and rain fall. This creates muddy condi-tions at the landfill. Snow melts and rain drains. The recent snow/rains storms have created these muddy conditions as they do every year at the landfill. The storms drainage also caused a puddle to form on the road accessing Cell 4A. Water/trash pumps were positioned to drain the puddle so that customers could ac-cess the cell. An additional lane was also formed to provide wider access into the cell while the puddle was being drained. Waste and dirt cover are also being placed towards the bottom of the hill so that is not such a steep incline going into the cell.

“Additional time, manpower, and equipment have been spent and utilized to help mitigate the challenges faced in the poorly de-signed cell that sits within the side of a mountain. Understanding the steep grade of the cell and the condi-tions created during the wet winter months, crews have spent weekends cutting the access road down to lessen the grade. Gravel and river run were also brought in to help make the road more accessible.

“A new Engineering Design Con-sultant for the county landfill facilities has been contracted to help address the faulty design of the current cell and challenges created as a result. Cell drainage, access, and future operations at the county landfill are also be addressed.”

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‘Bumpy ride’Dear Editor:

The situation at the border is dire for Americans; all the illegals, ter-rorist, and God knows who that Biden so unwisely let in - untold thousands and then thousands more are so crowded and mostly sick; coughing, sniffling is reported (and they are not being tested) and guess what? They didn’t bring extra food. Biden, who sold our corn and wheat reserves to communist China and recently (quietly) signed the “ok” to teach communist China propaganda in our schools, is set-ting the stage for a possible famine or shortage of food. Wonder why Biden feels he “owes” the Chinese so much...I hear help with rigging elections does not come cheap these days. And it’s always good to have connections...has anyone else read the article of Biden’s brother-in-law (married to Biden’s sister) being co-owner of the Dominican voting machine empire? I feel Biden has just spit on the graves of all who have died to keep this the last great free nation; the veterans. The one thing all of (lead dems) them did not count on is God, since they seem to be their own “god”...I’ve never seen such raw, arrogant evil as this last year. Biden just cost millions of American jobs too. And if you are one of those poor souls who still has not “smelled the coffee” and voted Biden, then you should be the one to go feed all those sick people. As for the righteous people, ask God to strengthen your “shock absorbers”, it might be a bumpy ride.

Peg EllisEditor’s note: According to Reuters, Associated Press and USA Today, Biden’s sister is not married to the co-owner of “Dominican voting machine” or Dominion Voting Systems.

Short-term rentalsDear Editor:

Dear Commissioners:I am a full time resident of this

great town. I am a college edu-cated, full time employee in Pagosa Springs. I am also a budding real es-tate investor and short term rental property owner/manager. I write to you in regards to the 2/11/21 Pagosa Sun article regarding the short term rental increased permit fees discussion.

I understand the need for man-agement of our town’s short term rental market; however, the rea-soning for the increased fees and discussion of the allocation of funds lacks the credibility and re-sponsibility our residents deserve.

I personally did not balk at the increased fees. But the multitude of “if this, then that” charges and “per bedroom” fees is extremely inefficient and nearly enacts pun-ishment to some honest investors and hard working people. I would propose a full-time resident ver-sus a part-time resident permit fee. Read: The more tax dollars you spend in our community year round, the less your permit will cost. Simple common sense.

I also understand increasing the fees for multiple properties to avoid “short term rental barons” in the community. The tiered system propsed is redundant and overstat-ed. Commissioners should decide X number of properties before the fees are then increased to discour-age the monopolizing of real estate.

But the most irking thing that was presented in the article is how some of these funds would be earmarked, for developers. For the businesses with money already in their pockets, that have more money to gain from building more homes that, let’s be honest, will be more short term rentals. De-velopers will not build affordable housing that the average working person can afford. I think you call this workforce housing. Most persons working full time in this town are working 2-3 jobs at $12/hr to pay for sub-optimal housing. They are not going to buy the $500K townhouses being built downtown for “urban renewal”. We all know the second-home-buyers will be utilizing those.

Let’s instead, put these funds towards infrastructure. Our roads and bridges are in a constant state of embarrassing and dangerous disrepair. I, and I take a leap of faith here saying, many other short term rental property owners would not be so pained paying increased permit fees if these funds were used wisely and judiciously. Improved infrastructure benefits our citizens and tourism dollars alike.

In closing: yes, the short term rental market needs to be governed wisely; but the direction of the commissioners now does not rep-resent the average Pagosa citizen. Nor does it support the million dollar tourist industry this town so very much depends on.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Marie Green

Short-term rentals and taxesDear Editor:

With regards to short term rent-als. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then it probably is a duck. That means if the STR prop-erty requires a permit , pays sales tax and also pays lodgers tax that means it’s a business. So, that STR property should be taxed at the higher commercial property tax rate.

Jeff Greer

FirearmsDear Editor:

In response to Brian Sexton’s article from Writers on the range.

First of all the headline connotes the idea that people who collect firearms are “nuts”. Everyone that I have met that have firearms are all decent, hardworking, honest folk. Every one of these would very much appreciate an antique to the modern rifles of today. Quite the opposite of “nuts”.

Second Mr. Sexton’s ramblings about being in a gun store and ev-eryone is praising firepower does not make sense. Most of these rifles are chambered in .223 and or 5.56. Not much bigger than a .22. He then goes on to call these assault rifles. This is a misnomer. Maybe he doesn’t have a dictionary to look up the word assault. Mr. Sexton then goes on to say he feels out of place in a gun store? Anyone who has been shooting guns all their lives or even newbies wouldn’t feel that way. I sincerely doubt Brian Sexton has ever picked up a gun in his entire life.

Third Did Mr. Sexton interview a single person who was open car-rying to see if they were just making a political statement?

Fourth Mr. Sexton mentions LaVoy Finicum and obviously did not watch the drone footage of La-Voy being shot in the back with his hands raised. Brian also mentions Kyle Rittenhouse and once again did not watch the videos which clearly show Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. He does not mention that these “civil rights” protes-tors Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony M. Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz had previous encounters with the law. Rosenbaum was charged by a grand jury with 11 counts of child molestation and inappropri-ate sexual activity with children, including rape. The victims were five boys ranging in age from nine to eleven years old.

Huber was a felon convicted in a strangulation case and was re-cently accused of domestic abuse.

Grosskreutz was convicted of a crime for use of a firearm while intoxicated and was armed with a pistol when he was shot.

Fifth Mr. Sexton then calls peo-ple who uphold the constitution “so-called patriots”? I would have to suspect that he doesn’t under-stand or has even read any of the constitution. He then goes on to say about people open carrying “even claims of defense are suspect”? Is open carrying a handgun even close to military firepower?

Sixth Mr. Sexton goes on to spout “witnessed some of my countrymen threaten to use their weapons against our government” but I watched the videos and did not see one firearm. The so called “insurrection” was clearly a con-trived event.

Mr. Sexton is clearly full of opin-ions and not facts. I would guess when he says he lives rural Oregon he means Portland. Maybe he should keep his sophomoric drivel to himself and find a career that is not writing op-eds.

I will leave with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “I prefer danger-ous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

Mathijs Hitzeman

Keystone Pipeline: ‘A big win’Dear Editor:

Rip Keystone Pipeline, also

known as KXL. Could have been a temporary winner for jobs, how-ever is now questionable to those who continue to rely on such dirty forms of energy extraction and production. It is a big win against the threats to climate, ecosystems, drinking water sources, and public health, and advancing a national commitment to decreasing our reliance on dirty energy. Let us embrace the many oil rigs and pipe lines we have in production already and let us train those 11,000 indi-viduals from the defunct oil indus-try to be stewards of our environ-ment by offering them positions in the cleaner forms of energy excava-tion and production of renewable energies. By the way, how many of us Americans have had to re-train in order to find jobs in fields that have closed out or changed direction in the past four decades as our world changes? Thus, these oil workers who are experiencing limited job opportunities could do exactly what the millions of us had to do in the past to continue our employment opportunities.. . train in new fields of employment. For those who need an oil related job, the list of our US oil pipelines is quite extensive:with all these rigs in operation, who is left to be greedy? ATEX Pipeline, Big Inch, Calnev Pipeline,Chaparral NGL Pipeline,Colonial Pipeline,Dakota A c c e s s P i p e l i n e , D i x i e Pipeline,Double H Pipeline,Dow Pipel ine Company,Enbridge P i p e l i n e S y s t e m , J a y h a w k Pipeline,Kaw Pipeline,Lakehead P i p e l i n e , L o n g h o r n Pipeline,Magellan Midstream Partners,Keystone Pipeline (XL phase halted in January 2021),Ma-hadeva Pipeline,Mariner East Pipelines,Mid-America Pipeline System,Minnesota Pipeline,North D a k o t a P i p e l i n e , O l y m p i c P i p e l i n e , P l a n t a t i o n P i p e l i n e , P i l g r i m P i p e l i n e ( p r o p o s e d ) , P o n y E x p r e s s Pipeline,Seaway Pipeline,Seminole Pipel ine,Trans-Alaska Pipe-line System,Trans Mountain Pipeline,Unev Pipeline,Yellowstone Pipeline,Sand Hills Pipeline: This pipeline is being developed by DCP Midstream. It will extend for 700 miles from West to East Texas and have an initial capacity of approxi-mately 120,000 barrels per day. The first segment of the pipeline opened in October 2012.,Pecos Riv-er Pipeline: Developed by Bridger Group and Advantage Pipeline, the Pecos River Pipeline will provide a link from the Delaware Basin to the Gulf Coast. The pipeline will run from the Pecos, Texas, to Crane, Texas, where it will connect to the Longhorn Pipeline. The Pecos River Pipeline will have an initial capacity of 150,000 barrels per day,Sterling III Pipeline: Under development from Oneok Partners, the Sterling III Pipeline will extend from parts of Texas and Oklahoma in the Mid-Continent Region to the Gulf Coast, and have a capacity of approximately 193,000 barrels per day..

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STRs: Inaccurate, ineffective solutionsDear Editor:

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The county and some residents have taken issue with STRs because they believe STRs cause residents, especially the younger demo-graphic, to not find affordable long term housing. As mentioned in last week’s edition, the proposed solu-tion is to double the homeowner’s STR fees and incur further ones.

As a young person in Pagosa, and lifetime resident, I disagree that doubling STR fees will help me find affordable housing. There is no explanation for how those fees flow back into the community, which implies that fiscal abuse is intended to deter STR homeown-ers. This is an attempt to force them out of the community and drop tourism because somehow tourists and lodging for tourists are why rent isn’t affordable. This logic is flawed.

I was born and raised in this gorgeous town, and throughout these years, the hardest thing to face is our “dead seasons”. The four months out of the year, no matter what age you are, life halts and if you want to make rent, you need to look at taking on at least another 1-2 jobs. It is undeniable that tour-ism is the life force of this town.

February kicks off the second “dead season” and is when most folks in the service industry start the frantic job hunt to make sure we can have a roof over our head. This February, Pagosa vacation rentals are experiencing nearly triple the visitors than in previous years. Businesses that usually cut staff and go dormant aren’t slowing down. In turn, staff can stick to one job, make good money, and make their rent.

Whether the roads are busier and it drives us crazy, or the lines at City Market are shocking, does not change the fact that tourism is why, for the first time in 24 years, I, like so many others, aren’t stressed about piling on jobs. Where are those visitors, those keeping us employed, going to sleep when we boot out our homeowner’s with STRs by excessively imposing fees? Fees, might I add, that have yet to clearly come back to the commu-nity and provide us with affordable housing. Are they meant to sleep in the hotels that are already at capac-ity and run down?

The county’s proposed solution to unaffordable housing for long term rent not only doesn’t come back into the community but in-tentionally creates an environment that will destroy STRs and diminish how we can accommodate tour-ists. I can’t sit idly and watch this happen when so many community members and I are finally making rent in February without bounc-ing to two-three jobs seven days a week. I do not endorse gouging and punishing the very industry that provides the infrastructure for keeping our town alive.

Ayriana R. Rackham

‘Got my shot’Dear Editor:

Got my shotActually, it was really my second

shot because it takes two for full immunization. I got my shot yes-terday. Did it hurt? Sure it hurt, but just a tiny bit, nothing really. My upper arm was a little grouchy in the middle of the night, but by noon the next day, I could barely feel it. My dear sweet wife of 50yrs had a reaction similar to mine.

The whole vaccination experi-ence was incredibly well orga-nized and unbelievably fast. From the time we walked in the front door it was only 8 1/2 minutes until we were sitting in the ob-servation room, vaccinated. 8 1/2 minutes??What? We’ve all seen pictures of the 2 mile lines of cars at Dodger Stadium and their

counterparts all across the nation. Ain’t it great to live in a small town where our vaccines are adminis-tered by people we know and trust, the people who work in our very own hospital? After our shots, my wife and I stayed on a few minutes more to make sure that any bad reaction was caught and treated immediately. There were 3 EMTs there, on hand, ready to assist if needed. To get your place in the COVID vaccination line, visit the hospital’s easy to use website, call them on the phone, or go directly there, pagosaspringsmedicalcen-ter.org/vaccine.

Lucky for me I’m 72, not quite a geezer yet but old enough to get on the list of the first batch of civilians to get their shots. Our process is so efficient that we could vaccinate the whole of Archuleta County in the spring, if we can get the vaccine. The more people that are vaccinat-ed there are fewer people who can catch it and also fewer people who can spread it. There is significant concern about the virus mutating into a form more difficult to treat. With immunization we can starve the virus of people to infect. For COVID to mutate it must replicate.

The only way this virus can mu-tate is by infecting the unvaccinat-ed. Continuing social distancing and wearing a mask until you get your shot is a very small inconve-nience compared to a chance to visit the ICU on a gurney.

I’m finally safe, one less vector who might infect my family as they wait for their shots. What a terrific sense of relief. I am off COVID’s menu list. Vaccinated, I’m not go-ing to be microbe chow like mil-lions of unfortunate people around me, the unprotected ones, the ones who perhaps will be tomorrow’s meal for this unseeable enemy that sees you as a hot juicy viral breed-ing ground just waiting to become infected, the virus using your body to manufacture more viruses just like itself, then spewing the new viruses into the air by the billions, the air that your friends and loved ones are breathing. Every virus is looking for it’s next host, it’s next lunch. It could be you.

Get vaccinated.George Rohrbacher

Start locally to ‘drain the swamp’Dear Editor:

The past few elections should have taught us is that our leaders don’t always have our best interest in mind. They play selfish political games on both sides of the aisle. We need to “drain the swamp” but we need to start locally. We need to change up things on our School Boards, our local government, and our state government.

This election has caused us to question who is telling the truth and who is lying to us. We are unaware of the many bills that limit our rights, and either open or close the election process. I am encouraging people to visit Con-gress.gov and do a search on this session on topics that interest you. Set an alert.

Contact your district office of your political party, your State Representatives, and then our Federal Congress reps. Make three points, make a connection, and ask for a specific action. We have been sleeping at the wheel and now we are watching the biggest reality TV show ever in Congress. It’s time to cancel this show and get new actors.

I am feeling lied to by our cur-rent administration and both the Senate and Congress. We need real action and we are playing games. Real people are suffering because we vote party lines, its time to stop and look around. Vote on who has better ideas not the letter after their names.

Step away from Social Media and the phone. Look up your Reps

and start writing them instead of sharing that next post. It is time our government officials stopped using us as pawns in their games.

Alithea Rose

Impeachment trialDear Editor:

As a retired person, I was able to watch the majority of the im-peachment trial last week. I as-sume that there are people out there who think that the vote to acquit, based on an invalid techni-cality, indicates that Mr. Trump is innocent of charges. I invite these people to listen to what Mitch McConnell stated immediately after the trial and his cowardly vote to acquit. I’m betting that his unedited speech is not widely aired on the right wing media. The verdict of this trial is a result of the fact that the majority of Republi-cans in Congress were complicit in spreading and inflating Mr. Trump’s lies about the results of the election. They used a techni-cality that was already invalid to shield themselves against future charges. They were allowed to do that because it was an impeach-ment trial rather than a criminal trial and the rules for the former are a good deal more lenient due to the fact that it is a political rather than a legal process — a point that was constantly being muddied by the defense attorneys. The most important goal of impeachment is to assure that someone who is unfit for office is never able to run for office again.

The trial was a riveting example of history being written and I am left with a couple of points to ponder. First and most obvious is the very puzzling imbalance in loyalty between Mr. Trump and his enablers. There is Mr. Trump’s habitual lack of loyalty to those from whom he demands unstint-ing fealty and, in this case, his encouragement of a murderous crowd that he sent to attack the Capitol, members of Congress and his own vice president — and then refused to send help despite pleas from his own party. Sec-ond, do Mr. Trump’s less violently inclined supporters understand that the people who stormed the Capitol thought they were doing Mr. Trump’s bidding? And that his attorneys at trial threw all of those people under the bus? Why would anyone continue to support such a man? The officeholders who voted to acquit despite overwhelming evidence are obviously looking out for their own skins since they could be considered accessories to his crime; they are fearful of their own constituents and keeping their cur-rent job is more important to them than the future of our democracy. But why would ordinary citizens still continue to support such a terrible person?

Lee Stopher

My valentineDear Editor:

Married at ages 19 and 20, we took our vows seriously. It was never easy for our generation. There was no health insurance at that time. This is how it was. My dear husband, WWII veteran, was in college, taking advantage of the G.I. Bill. When I was found to be pregnant, we had to sign papers to make monthly payments to the doctor and also to the hospital to be certain the expenses incurred would be paid in full by the “due date”. So, with that added expense, my husband gave up on college and took the first job available — six “all-nighters” a week. I spent my lonely evenings listening to the radio and sewing my baby’s clothes by hand. Responsibility was part of marriage.

We were proud and did not con-sider asking for help from our parents. We would manage just as

they did. They were a good example for us. Early in their marriage, our country suffered the Great Depres-sion. They managed to provide not only for us little ones but also their parents who lost everything due to the Depression. Indeed, build-ing a family was one of the joys of marriage.

By the time the babe was a few months’ old, the company recog-nized his commitment and moved him to a day job — six long days a week beginning at 5:30 AM. He was thrilled as this made it possible for him to serve as Scoutmaster of our local Boy Scout Troop. About nine years later, his leadership skills and commitment caught the attention of the professional staff of the Boy Scout organization and he was invited to become a “professional”. They generally required a college degree; however, they waived that requirement and gave him credit for his military service. They sent him to their Professional Training Camp in New Jersey to launch his career.

Following years of service orga-nizing new units, training volun-teers and working summer camps throughout Texas and Oklahoma, he was named Director of Camping and Special Events for one of the largest Boy Scout Councils in the country. Yes, with responsibility, honest commitment and patience he found his way, a dream come true.

Yes, we were Valentines.Patty Tillerson

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Answers are printed as received and are not edited.

What are your three top goals for 2021?Have an Audit completed:Please allow me to begin by saying that being a County

Commissioner is not about a single individual’s goals, plans and/or accomplishments. Rather, it is about, in my opinion, working collectively with the other Commissioners, Elected Offi cials, and entities within the Town of Pagosa Springs, the people who live in Arboles, Aspen Springs and Chromo, and the local business community, an effort to make our community a better place--to raise our children, to work and to live.

To stick to the scripted question and format, I would like to offer the following:

I believe we need to have an audit completed by an outside entity so that we truly know what funds we have to work with and what we could do to be more effective and effi cient as a whole. I anticipate we will face some diffi cult fi nancial times over the next couple of years. With this specifi c information in hand, the Board, and Elected Offi cials can plan accordingly to address the needs of our community.

Work toward creating a 3-5 year plan for the county:To serve the citizens of the county most effectively and to

meet even the day to day operational needs of the county, Archuleta County should have a plan. It doesn’t matter if we call the plan a master plan, a strategic plan or something else; we need a written plan.

To me, this concept just makes sense! And it makes sense because running any business, one should have specifi c and well defi ned goals with timelines. With a written plan, the county will be better able to prioritize our needs and commit the limited resources we have.

With a written plan in place, we will be better positioned as local government to have an active and meaningful seat the local, regional and state levels. Having a written plan will enable the county to build and develop new partnerships at the various levels of government while maintaining the valuable and historic relationships we have enjoyed in the past. With a written plan and mutually benefi cial relationship, Archuleta

County will remain relevant in the discussions being had so our communities’ needs are known and met in a more timely and consistent fashion.

Improve the current road conditions and secure additional funding for the same:

I would be willing to venture that the number one concern for many citizens and visitors to Archuleta County is roads, more specifi cally, the condition and lack of improvement of our roadways.

As I recall, one of the many deciding factors of weather to running for offi ce or not, came when I found myself axel deep in a pothole for the umpteenth time.

As the saying goes, any excuse will work when you are look-ing for one, but the reality is: we need to repair, maintain and upgrade our roadways (beginning immediately) and continue to do so on a consistent basis.

In my view, the county has proven that they are able to se-cure funding, such was the case for the jail (and most recently securing funding for the courts). I expect we, as the Board of County Commissioners, can do the same for the improvement and maintenance of our roadways.

What is your action plan to meet your goals?Audit:I would like to work with County Manager, Scott Wall and

his staff, along with Commissioners Ronnie Maez and Alvin Schaaf to solicit companies who perform governmental audits to get this process started and completed as soon as possible. I believe the input from Elected Offi cials and staff be critical to this process.

Upon competition of the audit and the results presented to the Board of County Commissioners, I would like to see the implementation of the recommendations by the Elected Offi cials and department heads county wide to the greatest extent practical.

Written Plan:Creating a written plan is the perfect opportunity involve a

number of community groups together such as the County’s Elected Offi cials and staff, the Town of Pagosa Springs, Com-munity Development Corporation, SW Colorado Economic Development-Region 9, local business owners, Pagosa Medical Center, the School District, and the Chamber of Commerce,

I expect my position on the need for a county wide plan is known by Commissioners Maez and Schaaf. However, I would like to present the outline of this plan to them for their consideration and hopefully their support.

Being involved in this type of planning process several times in the past, I know this goal will require a great deal of effort, organization, consistency and cooperation between all involved. I also realize by merely going through the planning process, those involved will likely experience better working re-lationships and it will benefi t our community for years to come.

Roads:Commissioners Ronnie Maez and Alvin Schaaf would

certainly be the key to getting this project implemented. I am hopeful that they, individually and collectively, understand how important this need is. County Manager Scott Wall would be very involved as would the Public Works Director.

For those who remember, according to the Board of County Commissioner’s meeting minutes dated August 31, 2010, “In 2006 a question numbered as “1A” was placed on the Gen-eral Ballot and approved by the Archuleta County electorate allowing the Board the ability to retain and spend revenues pursuant to provisions of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR).” As I understand it, 1-A provided a time specifi c funding source for our roadways.

Essentially, when the Ballot Issue 1-A was passed by the voters, it created a time specifi c funding mechanism for spe-cifi c purposes, one of which was roadways. Perhaps, a greater percentage of the funding can be dedicated towards addressing our roadway needs.

It is my hope that a better and more consistent relationship with the Colorado Department of Transportation will be to the benefi t of the roadways in Archuleta County.

Warren Brown, Commissioner, District 1

What were your three biggest

accomplishments of 2020?I have been one of your county commissioners since April

2011.It has been a great honor to serve our community.My fi rst three budgets saw reduced county income stem-

ming from the 2008 recession. Each of the years the BoCC had to lay-off employees and reduce services . We were slowly able to address long needed vehicle replacements. I’m very proud

of the Steps taken to address Archuleta county’s facility needs. No one Commissioner does anything. It take a majority of the Board! During my tenue we’ve completed the Jail, Admin. Building and Sherriff’s offi ce. We have started construction of a Justice center, Social services building and a 34 unit low income housing complex.

I want to thank my wife Jennifer for her support and all her help in two elections. There are many people to thank. Alvin,

Ronnie and Clifford Lucero it’s been a great pleasure to serve alongside you! I very much appreciate the hard work of our county managers through the years, Scott Wall, Bentley Hen-derson and Greg Schulte. I am grateful to Todd Starr and Todd Weaver for their sound advice. My thanks to all the elected offi cials, as well as department heads, l greatly appreciate all the county employees who come to work every day and do the very best job they can!

Steve Wadley, outgoing Commissioner, District 1

What were your three biggest

accomplishments of 2020?

1. The completion and opening of the Fred C. Harman III Detention Facility, along with moving all Archuleta County inmates from La Plata County and housing them in the new facility before January 2021.

2. Standing up the Emergency Operation Center and utilizing all resources available to assist in managing the COVID-19 Pandemic. Regardless of the all the challenges thrown at us, the Sheriff ’s Office remained operational in order to provide continuous service to the citizens of Archuleta County.

3. We worked with the Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners to plan and construct new offi ce space for the Sheriff’s Offi ce.

What are your three top goals for 2021?1. To operate the fi rst full year of the jail and fi nally bring our

money and resources back to Archuleta County.

2. To continue to provide excellent service to the citizens of Archuleta County and to work closely with other stakeholders within our community, as we navigate the continued challenges brought on by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

What is your action plan to meet your goals?Our Detention Facility is 100% operational and we have

offi cially transferred every Archuleta County Inmate back. We will work hard to manage our entire budget. With the detention budget, we will have the ability to control our housing costs and other expenditures because we will no longer be paying La Plata County a fi xed rate to house our inmates.

When it comes to the Pandemic, we will continue to provide

great service to our community. Our Emergency Operations Manager and his staff worked relentlessly during the pandemic to manage and operate our Emergency Operation Center. Re-gardless of the multiple challenges, they continued to remain operational and still complete their day-to-day responsibilities for Search and Rescue and Wildland Fires. Patrol, Investiga-tions, and Detentions never stopped working, throughout the Pandemic, they were on the front lines. They too maintained their day-to-day responsibilities and provided continuous service to the community. The Administration staff maintained their day-to-day responsibilities as well. At times, we had to stop providing certain services, like VIN inspections and fi nger-printing services, but brought them back as soon as possible. With that being said, we will do everything we can to continue providing quality service to our community, regardless what challenges are thrown at us.

Rich Valdez, Archuleta County Sheriff

Archuleta County Commissioners Alvin Schaaf and Ron Maez declined to provide individual responses.

Public MeetingsThe following meetings are subject to change.

Thursday, Feb. 18Pagosa Springs Town Council meeting. 5

p.m. See town website for participation information.

Tuesday, Feb. 23Archuleta County Board of County Com-

missioners work session. 8:30 a.m. Call 264-8300 one to two days before the meeting to obtain the login information.

Pagosa Peak Open School work session. 5 p.m. Join Zoom meeting: https://us-02web.zoom.us/j/9656099136?pwd=Z3Job2R1eXl0SE8rRzNpL0FucGpKZz09, meeting ID: 965 609 9136, passcode: 00001.

Town Planning Commission, Board of Adjustments and Design Review Board. 5:30 p.m. via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91299357590, or dial (346) 248-7799 or (669) 900-6833, webinar ID: 912 9935 7590.

Upper San Juan Health Service District regular meeting. 5:30 p.m. Zoom meet-ing. To join, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395501309, meeting ID: 853 9550 1309 or call (346) 248-7799.

Wednesday, Feb. 24Town Land Use and Development Code

Update Open House Kickoff. 3-8 p.m. Drop in via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94217539202, or dial (346) 248-7799 or (669) 900-6833, meeting ID 942 1753 9202, or in person at the Ross Aragon Community Center, 451 Hot Springs Blvd.

Archuleta County Planning Commission meeting. 6 p.m., Archuleta County admin-istration building, commissioners’ meet-ing room, 398 Lewis St. and Zoom online.

Thursday, Feb. 25San Juan Basin Public Health Board of

Health meeting. 9 a.m. Zoom meeting.Pagosa Springs Town Council work session.

5 p.m. See town website for participation information.

Tuesday, March 2Pagosa Springs Sanitation General Im-

provement District special board meet-ing. 5 p.m. See town website for participa-tion information.

Monday, March 8Pagosa Peak Open School work session and

regular meeting. 5 p.m. work session, 6 p.m. regular meeting. Join Zoom meet-ing: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9656099136?pwd=Z3Job2R1eXl0SE8rRzNpL0FucGpKZz09, meeting ID: 965 609 9136, passcode: 00001.

Tuesday, March 9Archuleta School District Board of Educa-

tion regular meeting. 6 p.m., Pagosa Springs Middle School library, 309 Lewis St.

Pagosa Fire Protection District Board of

Directors regular meeting. 6:30 p.m., Ad-ministration Building, 165 N. Pagosa Blvd.

Thursday, March 11Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District

regular board meeting. 5 p.m., 100 Lyn Ave.

Thursday, March 18Pagosa Springs Town Council meeting. 5

p.m. See town website for participation information.

Tuesday, March 23Upper San Juan Health Service District

regular meeting. 5:30 p.m. Zoom meet-ing. To join, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85395501309, meeting ID: 853 9550 1309 or call (346) 248-7799.

Public meeting information should be sent to [email protected] with “Public Meet-ing” in the subject line. The deadline is noon Monday each week prior to publica-tion for that week’s issue.

Veda J.A Letter From Heaven:When tomorrow starts without

me, And I’m not here to see, If the sun should rise and find your eyes, filled with tears for me, I wish so much you wouldn’t cry, The way you did today, While thinking of the many things, we didn’t say.

I know how much you love me, As much as I love you, And each time you think of me, I know you’ll miss me too.

When tomorrow starts without me, Don’t think we’re far apart, For every time you think of me, I’m right there in your heart.

The children, grandchildren, and siblings of Veda

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County to establish equal employment opportunity programBy Clayton ChaneyStaff Writer

The Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office was awarded a $60,119 Justice Grant from the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) in 2020, which was used to purchase body cameras and proper equipment to store the footage.

In order to be approved for the funding, the county was required by the DCJ to establish a countywide equal employment opportunity program.

At the regular meeting held by the Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) on Feb. 2, Human Resources

Administrator Robert Smith presented the agenda item in regard to establishing the equal employment opportunity program.

According to Smith, as part of the requirements for receiving the grant, the county must develop and show it is implementing an equal employment opportunity program across every county department.

According to documentation from the DCJ included with the meeting’s agenda, “Each recipient’s equal employment opportunity program shall be in writing.”

Smith added, “This document requires that we for mulate a plan and program for active enforcement.”

Smith explained that some of the things the DCJ will be looking for as far as policies and procedures, the county already has in place, like nondiscriminatory hiring policies.

He added that the county will need to dig into breaking down its employee base — based on age, gender and ethnicity — to see who has been promoted and who has left their positions.

The new equal employment opportunity program will take what is already in place for each county department and combine them into one program for the entire county to use.

County Administrator Scott Wall noted that, “While the grant is

Last call for Small Business Relief Grant due Feb. 26By Mary Jo CoulehanPagosa Springs Area Chamber of Commerce

Archuleta County was allowed an extension of the Small Business Relief Grant applicable to the food service, gyms and fitness centers, and movie theater industries. The food service category includes restaurants, food trucks, bars, distilleries and breweries.

The biggest point of clarification is that a business does not have to show a 20 percent reduction of revenue for the year 2020 compared to 2019, but a quarter. To clarify what documentation needs to occur, a business needs to show a reduction in revenue of 20 percent from 2019 income in any quarter since March 26, 2020. Many businesses had to close their doors in April and May and so can easily demonstrate a loss in revenue. If your establishment opened during this time, you do not need to show proof of quarter-to-quarter comparison.

Because it is a grant, the money extended will not need to be paid back. Businesses with total revenues under $500,000 will be eligible for $3,500, businesses between $500,000 and $1 million will be eligible to receive $5,000 and businesses with yearly revenues between $1

million and $2.5 million can be eligible for $7,000.

T h e f o r m i s v e r y e a s y t o f i l l o u t . Documentation of the loss during the quarter is required along with proper state documents such as a certificate of good standing, payment of unemployment taxes if applicable, and valid state or liquor license. Don’t miss this extended opportunity to obtain some grant funds to assist your business. Questions can be directed to Mary Helminski at 264-8308 or Mary Jo Coulehan at 264-2360.

Shuttered Venue Grant coming soonThe Small Business Administration is also

preparing to issue the Shuttered Venue Grant. This grant will be open to live venue operators and promoters, live performing arts organization operators, motion picture operators and relevant museums. The one caveat of this grant is that you cannot have applied for or received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan on or after Dec. 27, 2020. This means the second round of PPP funding.

We have several organizations that fit into this theater production category and should look for activation of this grant in the very near future. The grant will equal 45 percent of 2019 gross

revenues or $10 million, whichever is less for those organizations in business on Jan. 1, 2019.

If beginning operation after Jan.1, 2019, the grant will be for the average monthly gross revenue for each full month you were in operation during 2019 multiplied by six, or $10 million, whichever is less.

The first round of applicants to be considered will be those venues that had a revenue loss of 90 percent or greater between April 2020 and December 2020. The next round will be those that lost 70 percent or greater, and the third round will constitute those venues that lost 25 percent or greater.

It would be important for our entertainment producers and venues to gather up their documentation now. Determine which category you would fall into and get ready to apply when the grant opens. The use of the funds is very generous and can be applied to items such as rent, mortgage, utilities, administrative costs, licensing, state and local taxes, operating leases in effect as of Feb. 15, 2020, insurance payments, and more.

For more information on this particular grant, visit https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options/shuttered-venue-operators-grant.

really nice to get, there’s a lot of extra work.”

He explained that some of the county departments may not be able to complete hiring processes as quickly as they would like due to the extra workload needed to be completed in order to fulfill requirements.

“Every piece of cheese comes with a trap,” Wall added.

Commissioner Ronnie Maez clarified that this is a 100 percent grant and no matching funds would need to be put forward by the county.

The BoCC voted unanimously to approve the creation of a new equal employment opportunity program.

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HomesFund increases mortgage assistance available in Archuleta CountyBy Lisa Bloomquist PalmerHomesFund

HomesFund, a Durango-based nonprofit organization that serves Southwest Colorado, is expanding the Impact Loan Program (ILP) into Archuleta County.

The ILP provides $15,000 of mortgage assistance to eligible low- and moderate-income homebuyers in Archuleta County. The $15,000 provided through the ILP is in addition to the existing Affordability Loan Program through which HomesFund provides mortgage assistance loans of $19,000. When accessing both programs, low- and moderate-income eligible homebuyers may obtain $34,000 in mortgage assistance loans from HomesFund when purchasing a home in Archuleta County.

H o m e s a r e b e c o m i n g increasingly expensive in Archuleta County and wages are not keeping up with the increasing home prices. Thus, mortgage assistance that bridges the gap between low workforce wages and high home prices is needed for many individuals and families to reach

homeownership. After an analysis of incomes

and home prices in southwest Colorado, it was determined that the affordability gap in Archuleta County is growing more rapidly than the affordability gap in the other southwest Colorado counties. Between 2016 and 2020, the median home price in Archuleta County increased by 22 percent. Wages increased by just 13 percent during the same time period. Also, between 2016 and 2020, the percent of households with incomes of 75 percent of the area median income for a family of three who could afford a home in Archuleta County decreased from 31 percent in 2016 to 17 percent in 2020. Archuleta County is also suffering from a severe lack of supply of affordable homes and a point-in-time look at the Multiple Listing Service in late December 2020 showed that only eight of 137 homes listed for sale in Archuleta County were priced below $239,000 — the amount that is affordable for a household of three with an income of 75 percent of the county’s median

income. To access mortgage assistance

from HomesFund, all prospective homebuyers must first attend a homebuyer education class and receive housing counseling. During the ongoing COVID outbreak, both Homebuyer education and housing counseling may be accessed virtually. Prospective homebuyers interested in the homebuyer education, housing counseling, a n d m o r t g a g e a s s i s t a n c e programs offered by HomesFund are encouraged to sign up for an online homebuyer education class through the HomesFund website, www.homesfund.org. Additional information can be obtained through calling HomesFund at 259-1418.

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is the commission chair’s discretion on whether or not to allow public comment for agenda items that do not require a public hearing.

The approval of the county fee schedule does not require a public hearing.

Chair Alvin Schaaf explained in a later interview he chose not to al-low public comment as it was “best practice” for the issue.

Schaaf explained that since he has been in office, the chair typically has not allowed for public comment on items on the meeting agenda.

According to Schaaf and fellow Commissioner Ronnie Maez, the BoCC has been receiving many emails and phone calls from citizens voicing opinions for and against the proposed STR fees.

At a work session held earlier in the day, Maez voiced his concerns about the STR fees, saying, “I think we need to take a little more time with this.”

He mentioned he is still getting a high number of messages about the

issue and more time is needed to go through each one.

Commissioner Warren Brown commented during the work ses-sion, “Just because we can, doesn’t mean that we should.”

Maez also added, “I think we need to take a step back and look at this before we drop the ball and make a serious decision.”

“Given all the information that we’ve received through phone calls and emails, I didn’t think it was go-ing to accomplish anything more,” Schaaf said his interview.

He noted that many of the people online in attendance were people who had already reached out to the BoCC through phone calls and emails.

“I think we had adequate infor-mation to make the decision that we made,” Schaaf said.

He went on to note that the best way for the public to make com-ment is by contacting the commis-sioners directly or to attend work sessions.

“We do try to give people a voice,”

Schaaf said.He explained Flowers is reviewing

the proposed changes to the STR fees.

Schaaf added, “I think we’ve given them a voice and they got the desired outcome, because we’re tak-ing a second look at it.”

Some of the other changes made in the county’s fee schedule in-cluded combining retail and medical marijuana dispensary fees into one category.

Changes were also made in the county’s Planning Department fees, solid waste facility fees and liquor license application fees.

A detailed layout of the exact changes made in the county’s fee schedule can be found online at the county’s website at https://www.archuletacounty.org/AgendaCenter under the Feb. 16 agenda.

For login information for the next regular BoCC meeting, contact Ad-ministrative Assistant Jamie Jones at 264-8300 or [email protected].

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around the relationships and col-laboration, with Build Pagosa set to raise, distribute and provide over-sight over the funds.

As the donor document explains, years ago, Tor Hessman and Larry Ash approached O’Donnell to de-velop a building trades program at PSHS.

“They told Sean they were expe-riencing a shortfall in the ability to hire a qualified workforce in the Pagosa Springs community. With the generous donations from the con-struction industry in the community, the school district was able to hire Tor and begin offering courses to the high school students,” it explains.

Now, in the fifth year of the pro-gram, Hessman explained to the board, he teaches two levels each of building trades, woodworking and design.

He’s teaching, he noted, out of a single garage bay, telling the board, “Facilities is our No. 1 issue.”

The new facility, Hessman ex-plained, would include an aircraft hangar where students could build structures such as tiny houses year-round, then take them out to be auc-tioned or sold, with that money then going back toward funding materials for the program.

There would also be an area with AutoCAD (computer-aided design and drafting software) for computer-aided design and animation.

The medical center’s administra-tion is helping to design a health room for future expansion of the CTE program, he added.

He also pointed out plans for green technology with wind genera-tion and a solar array.

The facility would also allow stu-dents to learn about electric vehicles, including skateboards, e-bikes and charging stations, he noted.

O’Donnell explained the facility, which is slated to be placed near PSHS along 8th Street on land owned by the school district (the site will also house a building for the new San Juan Mountain School), will have an enclosed yard.

O’Donnell also referenced a re-cent Relevant Information to Strengthen Education (RISE) grant awarded to an education collabora-tive that included $349,000 worth of

equipment that includes, but is not limited to, materials for two tiny homes, various wood shop tools, a computer numeric control (CNC) router, CNC plasma cutter and 3D printer.

The principal pointed out the grant provided for 21st century technology, but the district has no place to put it, and Hessman noted that 3-phase power is available at the site to allow for use of the new technology.

O’Donnell then outlined each organization’s commitments and what the process will look like.

Per the agreement between the district and Build Pagosa, the school district will provide the land, which has been completed, and will do the master planning, which has been completed.

Next, he explained, comes the construction documents at an esti-mated cost of $110,000 to the district. That process will be initiated after 50 percent of the funds for the facility have been raised by Build Pagosa. Those documents are anticipated to take four months to complete.

The district will then hire the general contractor and do the site development plan and appropriate permitting, which is expected to take two months.

Build Pagosa has pledged to raise the necessary funds for the project, assist with the preparation of site plan development and will act as the bank, reimbursing the district for construction costs and providing accountability and oversight for the privately donated funds.

Construction of the facility is expected to take about nine months.

O’Donnell then outlined the esti-mated cost for the facility, with site work anticipated to cost about $300,000.

The one-story, 12,767-square-foot CTE building is expected to cost $3,018,300.

The estimate also adds 25 percent for “soft costs,” which includes a 25 percent contingency, of $829,575, making for a total of $4,147,875.

“It’s a big number,” board mem-ber Bob Lynch, who was serving as chair in Bruce Dryburgh’s absence, pointed out.

Superintendent Dr. Kym LeBlanc-Esparza noted the district is appre-

ciative of the partnership with Build Pagosa, and Lynch added that the nonprofit is “biting off” an “enor-mous” fundraising task, which he appreciates.

Board member Tim Taylor asked about the plan to maintain and replace the equipment and facility, with Hessman noting that, currently, the auctions and sales of things such as dog houses and chicken coops puts $25,000-$30,000 back into the program.

O’Donnell pointed out the district pays Hessman, but hasn’t put any other funding into the program.

“It’s been phenomenal, the sup-port for this program,” he said, not-ing it will be the district’s responsibil-ity to maintain the building.

Taylor asked that the board be kept apprised of the fundraising at board meetings.

Student representative Vini Car-ranza asked if it will make the school more eco-friendly, with O’Donnell suggesting that the school wants to teach those industries, but has not talked about extending things such as the solar and wind to providing power for the school.

Lynch thanked those involved for their hard work and “inspiring vi-sion.”

A motion to allow Build Pagosa to move forward passed unanimously.

Following that, the board ap-proved an updated memorandum of understanding between the district and Build Pagosa that reflects the current division of responsibility for the new facility.

Originally, O’Donnell explained, the idea was Build Pagosa would oversee the construction and do as much locally as possible, but it has been decided it is best for the district to hire a general contractor.

The updated document also re-flects the process for Build Pagosa reimbursing the district for costs and that the district will collaborate with Build Pagosa on overages and contingency spending to help ne-gotiate costs and ensure the work is required, among other things.

A motion to update the document was also approved unanimously by the four board members present.

“Let’s do this,” O’Donnell said.Build Pagosa can be reached at

[email protected].

The town began taking input via a paper survey a few years ago on what should be done with the prop-erty, which eventually led to the two-day event last week, Schultz noted.

When it comes to projects like this, getting the community’s input is “huge,” Schultz described.

“There are some times where the public doesn’t have all of the information at the ready. Things like what the engineering is really saying, what’s the real cost,” she said. “When we do public projects with public taxpayer dollars, we have to consider not only what the public wants, but the uses that are most cost effective.”

Currently, the town has no budget associated with developing the site for a park, for example, but that could come in time as a plan is for-

mulated and grant funds are applied for, she added later.

“It’s not just, here look at this information and tell us what you think. We ask pretty specific ques-tions to get at people’s thoughts,” Schultz said of the process. “It’s really important.”

During the two-day event, mul-tiple drawings were presented that displayed different ideas for the site; these included things such as an ice rink, softball fields and basketball courts, Schultz noted.

“I don’t think there’s anything yet that we say, OK, this is the preferred concept so to speak. That will be worked out,” she said.

Community members showed support for the project taking advan-tage of the San Juan River, featuring trails and connectivity to the rest of the trails community.

“The idea of a dog park came up several times,” she said. “Pickleball and tennis have a huge showing. We probably had comments from over a couple hundred people each on those.”

Schultz noted that a meeting will be held sometime in March or April that will outline concepts that have more detail associated with them, adding that the town’s preference would be to have a final plan voted on by early April.

For interested parties, Schultz suggested ideas and concepts be submitted to mypagosa.org, the town’s public platform for projects.

“It makes it easy for people to do it when they’re thinking of it at their convenience,” she said. “Let us know the things that we don’t know. Let us know what you think.”

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are going to add another six to eight soon, and many more beyond that.”

The BSMO also does fiber locates for those who call 811, ensuring that its fiber is not hit during any digging, he added.

Additionally, the Aspen Springs monopole, in conjunction with Visionary Broadband, turned up service for high-speed broadband in June 2020, offering an option that was not available to around 700 homes and businesses in the Aspen Springs area, he explained.

“At the fairgrounds, we installed fiber for many reasons, part of which was to stream the county fair and auction, and many emergency operations are centered there,” he said, adding that this was funded through Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funding.

2020 DORA projects and

additional project

retrospectiveIn regard to DORA projects, Cox

outlined that the BSMO began executing its $466,000 grant that it received in December of 2019 during the summer of 2020, with partner-ships with Archuleta County, Vision-ary Broadband, the Town of Pagosa Springs and Hinsdale County.

“We’ve been able to turn up Chromo and the road and bridge tower is on its way, and we’re going to have the rest of those projects completed,” Cox said.

Equipment upgrades were also made to the eastern portion of Oak-brush Hill, which gets data to the Chromo tower and increases data to existing customers within the Pagosa Lakes Property Owners Association (PLPOA), BSMO Co-Manager Eric Hittle noted.

In looking back on the projects

the BSMO hoped to accomplish in 2019, Cox touched upon the carrier neutral location (CNL) progress.

A CNL is a local location where the BSMO could store its equipment and other services, he described.

The CNL has not been imple-mented yet, but the BSMO will be working with a private provider to share costs of the CNL and locate the space near Pagosa Springs Medical Center (PSMC), Cox added further.

The Cloman Park fiber project was slated to be completed in 2018, but the BSMO has a plan for that project, Cox added.

The SCAN fiber overlay project has not been implemented either, he added later.

“The SCAN network is something that was publicly funded but was shared with a private provider, and we plan to essentially separate from that provider so that we have full control,” Cox said.

2021 projectsFor 2021, Cox highlighted that

there would be a “critical” intercon-nect from PSMC to a La Plata Electric Association substation through a Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) grant.

Also slated for 2021 is a project associated with the Upper Blanco and Lower Blanco, he added.

A new strategic plan will be in the works for 2021 so that the BSMO has a “vision for the future,” Cox explained.

This plan will be worked on in conjunction with DOLA, with Cox noting that there are grant-funding opportunities.

Additionally, the BSMO will con-tinue to develop and refine and also work with funding partners from the public and private sectors, he added later.

“We are looking at policy changes with the town and the county. We would like to do microtrenching, which is essentially trenching in the road to put fiber assets in and it cuts our cost by 50 to 75 percent,” Cox said.

Hittle added that not only would there be significant savings for

microtrenching, it would allow for speed improvements because plan-ning for projects would be easier.

“We’re looking at ways to reduce the investment from the community and from private partners,” he said.

In 2021, DORA projects such as the Radio Hill tower, Middle Piedra, Hinsdale County and Arboles will continue in the spring of 2021 and be complete in fall of 2021, Cox added later in the meeting.

The BSMO also wants to continue to push ISPs to hook up more fiber customers, he noted, adding that the BSMO also wants to request more funds for more capital expenditures.

Beyond 2021In a Feb. 16 email, Cox explained

that the BSMO has goals that extend beyond 2021, specifically through 2025.

“We plan to leverage as many grants and other similar opportuni-ties as possible so we can minimize the need for public money on these projects. At the end of these projects, we expect to have a vast majority of businesses and residents in the county able to get at least to the FCC minimum bandwidth of 25 megabits per second down and three megabits

per second up,” he wrote.One of the first long-term goals

for the BSMO is to create two “middle mile” loops, one south and one north, to create redundancy, capac-ity and reliability for the core net-work, Cox wrote.

Additionally, these loops would allow for ISPs to provide service to residents and businesses within PLPOA and other neighborhoods on the west end, he added.

Another long-term goal is for the BSMO to work with backhaul service providers and the Colorado Depart-ment of Transportation to make sure that high-speed bandwidth comes to and through the county to allow for the middle- and last-mile networks to have the proper speed and reli-ability to connect to the Internet.

“This will help all local and future internet service providers and cellu-lar carriers as we currently only have one fiber route into the county and it’s a proprietary single point of fail-ure with limited capacity,” he wrote.

Cox also highlighted that the BSMO will continue to work on spe-cialized last-mile projects around the county to hook up rural neighbor-hoods where wired connectivity is not feasible.

Springs Medical Center did an enor-mous lift to work with Archuleta School District and some of the inde-pendent schools. We also had some participation from Pagosa Medical Group in this effort.”

Devine explained that the state’s plan was to vaccinate school districts and child care providers over three weeks.

“I think we were able to do 70 to 80 percent of ... that eligible popula-tion in our two counties combined in a single week,” he said, clarifying that is for the first dose and adding that it shows the region is working well together.

He added, “I would bet that Archuleta County especially is prob-ably going to be the fastest county in Colorado to get its school staff and child care staff substantially vaccinated. ... It’s a tremendous, tremendous partnership and we’re really, really thankful for everybody who participated in that.”

Devine also noted there are part-nerships with senior centers and vaccine providers to help ensure those people who are eligible and want to be vaccinated but who may be uncomfortable with technology or have transportation or access is-sues are not passed over as new groups of the population become eligible.

“We’re working with our senior centers and a bunch of our vaccine providers in order to resolve those issues and make sure that everybody who wants to be vaccinated can be vaccinated,” he said. “In Archuleta County, again, our biggest partner is Pagosa Springs Medical Center. They’ve done a ton of help for people who ... don’t have great technology skills.”

He noted SJBPH believes that should be a focus of every vaccine provider.

Devine later noted that all doses for long-term care facilities in its service area are complete.

Vaccinations are continuing for Phases 1A, 1B.1 and 1B.2, which include high- and moderate-risk health care workers, long-term care facility staff and residents, first responders, Coloradans age 65 and older, and educators and child care workers in licensed child care programs.

I’m eligible now. How do I get the vaccine?

Archuleta County has four en-rolled vaccine providers: Pagosa Springs Medical Center, Pagosa Med-

ical Group, City Market and Walmart (Walmart is enrolled directly with the federal government).

PSMC and Pagosa Medical Group are taking information for eligible community members who would like to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

For more information on vac-cines through City Market, visit https://www.citymarket.com/rx/guest/get-vaccinated.

For more information on vac-cines through Walmart, visit https://www.walmart.com/cp/1228302.

PSMC:To make a reservation with PSMC,

persons 65 and older and child care workers who live in Archuleta County should visit https://pago-saspringsmedicalcenter.org/vaccine to complete and submit registration forms.

The following information was provided by PSMC.

Once the forms are received by PSMC, PSMC will add the eligible person to a master reservation list and thereafter PSMC will email that person an appointment time as doses become available.

Those who are unable to access the form online can call PSMC’s vaccine line at 507-3995 and leave a message with six pieces of infor-mation:

• Full name.• Date of birth.• County of residence.• Phone number.• Email address.• Which group applies to you.PSMC will call those on its list to

set up vaccine appointments. People scheduled for vaccination

must arrive for their appointment on time. Everyone arriving will be screened for temperature and CO-VID-19 symptoms, will need to sign a consent, receive a vaccination and be observed for a period of time post-vaccination. The entire process typically takes 30 minutes.

Pagosa Medical Group:Pagosa Medical Group will reach

out to its eligible patients through phone calls, emails and portal mes-sages to see if they would like the vaccine if they haven’t been able to get it yet.

To get an appointment, text 372-0456 (preferred), call the same num-ber or email [email protected].

State hotline: Colorado also launched an ad-

ditional COVID vaccine resource this week: 1-877-CO VAX CO (1-877-268-2926).

That line is available Monday

through Friday 9 a.m.-10 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Answers are available in multiple languages.

I’m in another group. When will it be my turn?

Recently, Polis noted that the state estimates that close to March 5, Phase 1B.3 — frontline workers and Coloradans ages 16-64 with two or more high-risk conditions — will be eligible to receive the vaccine. It’s also projected that Coloradans ages 60 and up will be able to start receiv-ing the vaccine around March 5.

Phase 2, which is expected to begin in the spring, includes people aged 60-64, people 16-59 with cer-tain health risk factors, and other essential workers.

Phase 3 is expected to begin in the summer and will include members of the general public aged 16-59.

SJBPH has launched a form — available at https://bit.ly/35dzCLw (English) or http://bit.ly/2LvUI0v (Spanish) or through SJBPH’s vac-cine page, https://sjbpublichealth.org/covid-19-vaccine/ — for inter-ested individuals to share their con-tact details to receive notifications when a vaccine becomes available for the phase they qualify for.

SJBPH explained that informa-tion provided to SJBPH will only be used to generate notifications of COVID-19 vaccine appointment availability. Email updates will likely come from a range of sources other than SJBPH.

After you’ve been vaccinated

SJBPH also suggests that people who have been vaccinated should follow quarantine guidance if they develop COVID-19 symptoms after getting the vaccine because it can take a few weeks to build immunity after vaccination. That means a per-son could be infected just before or just after vaccination.

The agency added that quaran-tine is not necessary once a person has received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and two weeks have passed after the second dose. People who live or work in high-risk congregate settings may still be required to quarantine, even if fully vaccinated.

If an individual has COVID-19 symptoms after getting the vaccine, or at any time, they should contact their health care provider and get tested, the organization explained in a press release.

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The Region 9 Economic Devel-opment District of Southwest Colo-rado announces new board officers and members for 2021.

William Tookey, San Juan Coun-ty administrator, was elected to his fourth year as chair; Dan Fer-nandez, Dolores at-large member, secretary; and Collen O’Brien, La Plata at-large, was elected trea-surer. Three board members were

also re-elected to the Executive Committee including Dewayne Findley, Montezuma at-large; Clyde Church, La Plata; and Mary Jo Coulehan, Archuleta at-large.

Two new board members were also approved at the January board meeting. Rachel Marchbanks is the economic development coordina-tor for the town of Mancos and will represent the town. Paul Zim-merman is a long-time Silverton business owner and will serve in the at-large position for San Juan County.

The new members join the Re-gion 9 board, which is comprised of 26 members — 17 representa-tives from the local governmental jurisdictions and nine members from the private sector. The Region 9 board meets quarterly. For more information, please call 247-9621 or go to www.scan.org.

Archuleta County’s COVID-19 incidence rate stableBy Randi PierceStaff Writer

Archuleta County’s incidence rate for CO-VID-19 is stable, with six cases added to San Juan Basin Public Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard between Feb. 10 and 17.

As of Wednesday, SJBPH reported 628 total cases of COVID-19 among residents and 135 cases among nonresidents. Archuleta County has no listed active outbreaks and one death among COVID-19 cases.

The county’s one-week cumulative incidence rate, per the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), is 64.3 cases per 100,000 population.

Archuleta County remains in Level Blue: Cau-tion on the state’s COVID dial, which indicates capacity restrictions for different sectors of the economy.

“I think it’s a little bit human nature to hear good news and think that we can let down our guard a little bit,” said Brian Devine, SJBPH’s deputy incident commander for the agency’s COVID-19 response and environmental health director. “Archuleta County’s incidence rate has been very stable, it hasn’t been declining over the last week or two. It’s been quite stable — and that’s good, we’d rather have it stable than have it increase, but there’s quite a lot of virus circulating the community.”

He noted the number of people who have the disease at any one time is very high.

“We have several months before we’re back to the levels of diseases in Colorado that we experienced last summer,” he said, noting that current trends point toward that happening around late April.

He suggested that people need to continue to avoid large crowds (especially indoors), avoid socializing with other households (especially indoors), practice good habits with face cover-ings and social distancing, and to continue to

be tested when appropriate.“There’s a lot of testing available in Archuleta

County and people absolutely need to take ad-vantage of it,” he said, adding that SJBPH and its partners have worked very hard to ensure people can get tested when they need to.

He suggested testing if you have symptoms, have been notified of an exposure or work in a high-contact job, with it suggested that those in high-contact positions be tested regularly.

“Always get tested if you have any symp-toms,” he said, suggesting it is better to identify the disease before it starts spreading to avoid going backward.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Archuleta County’s one-week average positivity was 3.6 percent, according to the CDPHE.

Testing availableThe free COVID-19 testing site at the fair-

grounds, located at 344 U.S. 84, continues to be operated in partnership with COVIDCheck Colorado.

The testing takes place under the all-weather Hughes Pavilion, with the site open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

You can register for your free test by going to www.covidcheckcolorado.org and selecting “Get My Test.”

According to a COVIDCheck Colorado flier, “COVIDCheck Colorado uses a highly sensitive and reliable nasal mid-turbinate swab PCR test that is administered by licensed medical profes-sionals. Please arrive wearing a mask.”

Testing also continues to be available at a number of local health care facilities, including:

• Archuleta Integrated Healthcare: 264-2104.• Pagosa Medical Group (including rapid

testing if deemed appropriate by a provider): 372-0456.

• Pagosa Springs Medical Center: 731-3700. The facility offers testing for symptomatic pa-tients through its clinic and drive-up asymp-

tomatic community testing Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the northwest side of the medical center.

San Juan Basin Public Health (SJBPH) en-courages residents to get tested if they are symptomatic, think they’ve been exposed, or work in a high-contact position.

COVID-19 symptomsThe state suggests that people with symp-

toms should always get tested immediately. Symptoms include:

• Fever or chills.• Cough.• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.• Fatigue.• Muscle or body aches.• Headache.• New loss of taste or smell.• Sore throat.• Congestion or runny nose.• Nausea or vomiting.• Diarrhea.

Steps to slow the spreadTo prevent further spread of disease and to

protect vulnerable people, including older adults and those with underlying health condi-tions (such as those with heart and lung disease, pregnant women, and people with diabetes), SJBPH urges everyone to follow the following public health precautions:

• Wearing face masks.

• Social distancing of at least 6 feet.

• Avoiding nonessential indoor spaces and gatherings with others not in your household.

• Getting tested if you are symptomatic, think you’ve been exposed, or if you work in a high-contact position.

• Avoiding unnecessary travel. • Washing hands well. • Getting the COVID-19 vaccine as it becomes

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County looks to reclaim properties with outstanding tax liensBy Clayton ChaneyStaff Writer

Archuleta County may start looking to reclaim properties that it has held tax liens on for more than three years.

At the regular board meeting held by the Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) on Feb. 2, County Treasurer Elsa White presented an agenda item to the BoCC regarding properties in the county that currently have outstanding tax liens.

Under Colorado Revised Statute 39-11-142(7), White is required to at least annually present to the BoCC a list of tax liens of real property “struck off to the county, for three years or more.”

A tax lien is placed on properties

for which taxes have not been paid for a given fiscal year. When the taxes on the property aren’t paid by the property owner, the taxes go to a tax sale, as White explained.

The county can then take on the role of being responsible for the outstanding taxes on the property.

The county is then required to contact the property owner in at-tempt to collect the taxes.

According to documentation included with White’s report, there are currently 111 proper-ties in Archuleta County with tax liens, with a total amount of $3,304,115.71 of outstanding taxes.

White noted that majority of theses properties fall in residential areas like Chris Mountain and the Trails Boulevard neighborhoods.

She explained that in many of

the cases, people had bought properties in these areas but abandoned them due to no utility hookups being available on the properties.

White noted that to have the county extend utility services to some of these sites could be fairly costly.

She mentioned that the county is hoping to possibly work with an investor that will bid on the proper-ties and pay to have utility hookups extended to those sites.

She explained that, right now, these properties are racking up more taxes and fees that the county will most likely not receive.

Once the county or an investor holds a tax lien on a property for three years, the treasurer’s office is then able to issue a treasurer’s

deed, granting the land to the owner of the lien.

After a treasurer’s deed is issued for a property, the owner is then required to go through a process to get what is called a quiet title in order to make the property more marketable.

White noted that the entire pro-cess in getting a treasurer’s deed and going through the quiet title process can take up to a year.

Last year, the county was able to get new property deeds for two properties.

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The PFPD responded with one engine, one heavy

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There are no civilian or firefighter injuries to report.The PFPD would like to remind everyone to stay

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Lady Pirates pick up pair of wins, fall prey to FalconsBy Randi PierceStaff Writer

The No. 7 Pagosa Springs High School Lady Pirates recorded their first loss of the season Saturday, fall-ing to the No. 3 Centauri Falcons.

However, the Lady Pirates also logged two more wins in the last week, leaving them with a 7-1 overall record and 4-1 league mark.

The first win came against the Montezuma-Cortez Panthers, with the Lady Pirates picking up a 73-20 win.

Pagosa jumped out to a com-manding lead early in the game, scoring 19 in the first while holding the Panthers to six.

Pagosa picked up another 19 points in the second while holding the Panthers to seven, giving the home team a 38-13 lead at the half.

“The game was well in hand,” coach Charles Rand said after the game, noting that at halftime the team talked about playing a full 32 minutes of basketball, as well as rewarding the JV kids who help the varsity prepare.

The team is also focusing on play-ing like champions, the coach said.

The Lady Pirates added another 15 in the third and 20 in the fourth while limiting the Panthers to four and three, respectively.

“We played well,” Rand said, out-lining that the team executed its offensive sets well, played well defen-sively, sprinted the floor and shared the ball. “We did a lot of good things. Cortez is very young ... but they do have some talent in spots.”

Rand noted the team had a good week of practice, which showed.

Nine different Lady Pirates scored in the game, led by Adelyn Dozier’s 22 points — 18 of which came on 3-pointers. Dozier also had a re-bound, 6 assists, a block and two steals.

Rand highlighted the play of Molly Graham, who followed with 19 points (including making five of six attempts from the charity stripe), eight rebounds, two assists, three blocks and two steals.

Chantelle Caldwell also contrib-uted double-digit scoring with 12 points, which she complemented with six rebounds, six assists and two steals.

River Pitcher and Bea Carpenter each added four points. Pitcher also had three rebounds and a pair of steals. Carpenter had four rebounds, two blocks and a steal.

Kelby Enjady-Vigil and Sofia Hay-maker each contributed three points, both on 3-pointers in the fourth quarter. Enjady-Vigil also had a pair of rebounds, and Haymaker logged a pair of assists.

Kori Lucero put up a pair of free throws in the game, pulled down three rebounds, had an assist and stole the ball twice.

Keira Torrez added two assists and a steal, Daveyann Snarr added two rebounds, and Annie O’Donnell logged an assist.

The Lady Pirates hit 11 of 15 shots from the charity stripe and turned the ball over six times.

“We’re almost halfway through this campaign this year. It’s coming to an end real quick here,” Rand said following the win. This is the sixth game and we’ve got 13 games, so we’re coming down towards the home stretch, so to speak. So, it’s time for us to really start to show what we truly are made of.”

Saturday was a different story, however, with the Lady Pirates falling 53-48 to the Centauri Falcons.

Pagosa fell to an 18-13 deficit by the end of the first quarter, with that deficit increasing to 29-17 by halftime.

The Lady Pirates mounted a comeback in the third, outscoring their visitors 21-7 and taking a 38-36 lead.

The teams went on to trade one-point leads as the game progressed, but the Lady Pirates fell behind and were ultimately outscored 17-10

in the final quarter to finish with a five-point loss.

Rand pointed to how the team handled pressure at the start of the game as something that could have changed the game’s trajectory.

“I think in the second half there ... we got loose and you scored 21 points. When you get shots off, it’s a whole lot different versus turnovers,” he said following the game. “We had eight turnovers in the first half there and probably had two or three of them where we could have had a great look, but ... it was a lot of pres-sure on us.”

Rand suggested he should have run some different sets in the first half.

“I just wanted them to compete,” he said, pointing to the third quarter as a time when the Lady Pirates did that.

Rand credited the Falcons for bat-tling back in the fourth, but noted the Lady Pirates executed well down the stretch.

“They’ve been battled-tested,” Rand said of the Falcons. “This is their first close game.”

The Falcons lead the Intermoun-tain League, while the Lady Pirates are second.

Caldwell led the Lady Pirates with 16 points in the game, and she added two rebounds, three assists, a block and two steals.

“She played quite well, she an-swered the bell,” Rand said.

Graham and Dozier followed with 14 points each (Dozier with two 3-pointers). Graham also had nine rebounds, an assist and a block. Dozier had two rebounds, an assist and a steal.

Lucero had a 3-pointer, two re-bounds and four assists in the game.

Torrez contributed two points, four rebounds and an assist.

Pitcher added a rebound, an as-sist and a steal, and Carpenter added a trio of rebounds in the game.

The Lady Pirates made seven of 10 free-throw attempts in the game and turned the ball over 13 times.

“They’re motivated and excited about what’s to come,” Rand said, “because I told them yesterday that ... we are just as good as any team in the state on any given night.”

Tuesday, the team headed to Bayfield, where they picked up their second victory of the season over the winless Wolverines.

The Lady Pirates, however, found themselves down early in the game.

By the end of the first quarter, Pagosa was down 10-6.

Rand credited Bayfield for taking the Lady Pirates out of the game they wanted to play.

The Lady Pirates bounced back to outscore Bayfield 10-2 in the second, giving themselves a 16-12 lead at the half.

“The second half we just domi-nated,” Rand said, adding the team slowed down and settled in. The Lady Pirates broke out for 18 points in the third quarter while holding Bayfield to three, and outscored the Wolverines 11-8 in the fourth to secure the 45-23 win.

“I was really happy how they ex-ecuted in the final two quarters,” the coach said.

Graham led the team with 20

points, 10 rebounds, two assists, a block and three steals.

“She dominated that game,” Rand said, noting the team went to her early and often and she pro-duced across the stat categories. “She just dominated the game, both ends of the floor.”

Caldwell followed with 13 points, which included a fourth-quarter 3-pointer, four rebounds, three as-sists and two steals.

“She’s really, really playing well right now,” Rand said.

Lucero logged seven points, two rebounds, two assists and a block.

Dozier put up five points in the game, as well as tallying two re-bounds, three assists and a steal.

Rand noted that, while the Wol-verines “really extended their de-fense to take Adelyn away,” her leadership and composure “kept us in the game when it could have got-ten away from us.”

Torrez pulled down four rebounds and had an assist.

Pitcher logged three rebounds, two assists and a block.

Carpenter added two rebounds and two blocks, and Enjady-Vigil had a pair of rebounds.

The team had 14 turnovers in the game and made eight of 12 attempts from the free-throw line.

Tonight, the Lady Pirates will take on the 2A Ignacio Bobcats, who sit as the No. 13 team in Colorado 2A girls’ basketball, in Ignacio.

The Bobcats are 3-1 on the sea-son.

“They’re a good team, they’re well-coached,” Rand said, adding, “We will have to play well when we get there.”

Last year, the coach said, the Lady Pirates took Ignacio lightly and it cost them in the rankings.

The game, which begins at 7 p.m., can be streamed on the Ignacio Activities Network YouTube Chan-nel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO6Z2uAIXGebLse-42wHKSMw.

No visiting spectators are allowed.Saturday, the Lady Pirates will

welcome the Alamosa Mean Moose to town for a 5 p.m. affair.

The Mean Moose are 3-4 on the season and 1-2 in league play.

The Lady Pirates previously de-feated Alamosa 36-17 on Feb. 2.

Spectators are limited to those on the gate list; there will be no general admission.

The games can be streamed on the Pagosa Springs High School Facebook page, https://www.face-book.com/PagosaSpringsHigh-School.

Tuesday, the team will welcome the 4A Durango Demons to town for a 4 p.m. matchup.

Again, spectators will be limited to those on the gate list; there will be no general admission.

The games can be streamed on the Pagosa Springs High School Face-book page, https://www.facebook.com/PagosaSpringsHighSchool.

“It’s crucial to do what we do,” Rand said of another busy week on tap for the Lady Pirates.

The team, he explained, will need to emphasize taking care of the ball and limit the things it doesn’t do well to be successful.

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Lady Pirate Chantelle Caldwell puts up a shot against the No. 3 Centauri Falcons Saturday. Caldwell led the Lady Pirates with 16 points in the game, though the team recorded its first loss of the season.

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By Clayton ChaneyStaff Writer

After another successful week-end of going undefeated in three matches in Durango, the Pagosa Springs High School Pirate wres-tling team will be hoping to claim the Intermountain League title this weekend against the Bayfield

Wolverines and Rifle Bears.Last weekend, on Feb. 13, the

Pirates traveled to Durango for a quad meet against Central-Grand Junction, Fruita Monument and Durango.

“Our kids wrestled really well again,” coach Dan Janowsky said.

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The Pagosa Springs High School Pirate basketball team sits fourth in the Intermountain League stand-ings following a trio of league games over the last week in which the Pirates went 1-2.

The Pirates are 4-4 overall on the season and 2-3 in league play.

The Pirates started the week’s action on a high note with a 60-37 win over the Montezuma-Cortez Panthers on Feb. 12.

Coach Wes Lewis indicated it was a good league game for the team.

“We took care of the basketball, everybody was involved, defense was good,” he said.

The Pirates sailed to an early lead in the game and never looked back, outscoring the Panthers 8-6 in the first and 20-10 in the second to hold a 28-16 lead at halftime.

Pagosa put up another 17 points in the third and 15 in the fourth while limiting the Panthers to nine and 12 points, respectively.

Aidan O’Donnell led the Pirates offensively on the night with 21 points, two assists, a block and a steal.

Gunner Dozier followed with 16 points, four rebounds, five assists and two steals.

Mitch Lewis put up six points, tallied five rebounds, and had one assist, one block and one steal.

Wyatt Shuhart added a handful of points and a rebound.

Kayson Shahan tallied four points, seven rebounds and a steal.

Dylan Manzanares contributed three points, a rebound and two assists.

Logan Harper and Wyatt Zeigler each added two points, with Harper also notching a rebound and an assist, and Zeigler tallying eight rebounds and an assist.

Breck Wilson notched one point and a steal.

Blake Laner added a rebound to the team’s stats.

The Pirates turned the ball over six times in the game and made 11 of 18 free-throw attempts.

The following day, the Pirates welcomed the No. 5 Centauri Fal-cons to town, but fell prey to the Falcons 44-32.

“We were coming off real excite-ment from playing so well the night before against Cortez and played just a really bad start to the game,” the coach said. “We had five turn-overs to start the game.”

The Pirates dug themselves a hole early in the game, scoring only two points in the first quarter and four in the second while allowing 12 and nine, giving the Falcons a 21-6 lead halfway through the game.

“Centauri’s defense is really good, a lot of pressure on the ball, and we didn’t handle that very good,” Wes Lewis said.

The Pirates rebounded in the third, outscoring their visitors 19-7 in the third and playing an even 7-7 fourth.

“The kids played a lot better the second half ... we really battled and competed and looked a whole lot better, looked more like a team,” the coach said, adding, “Unfortu-nately we had just dug ourselves too deep a hole to climb out of.”

The coach also noted that Cen-tauri’s pressure disrupted the Pi-rates’ timing and made it difficult to find an open teammate.

“They’re such a good team,” he said, pointing out that the Pirates turned things around when they quit turning the ball over and started shooting better, but that the team needs to execute better on offense.

He added that the Pirates did well to hold Centauri to 44 points.

“Defensively, I thought we were good in that game,” he said.

Dozier led Pagosa with 13 points in the game, which he comple-mented with two rebounds and three steals.

Manzanares followed with six points.

O’Donnell put up four points in the game, and tallied two rebounds, two assists and two steals.

Harper added three points, two rebounds and a steal.

Shuhart, Shahan and Mitch Lewis each contributed two points.

Shuhart also had a rebound, and Mitch Lewis also had four re-bounds, and an assist.

Zeigler had nine rebounds and an assist.

The team turned the ball over 30 times and made six of seven throws from the charity stripe.

Then, Tuesday night, the team headed to Bayfield to take on the Wolverines, returning home with a one-point loss.

“It was a back-and-forth game the whole night,” Wes Lewis said, noting that neither team was ever up or down by more than five points.

At the end of the first quarter, the Wolverines held a 16-13 lead, but the Pirates had cut that lead to one, 28-27, by halftime.

Pagosa tied the game at 43 by the end of the third and held a one-point lead with 20 seconds left in the game.

Unfortunately for the Pirates, the Wolverines landed a shot with

only seconds left and the Pirates were unable to land a buzzer shot to regain the lead, leaving Pagosa with a 55-54 loss.

“But, it was a lot of fun,” the coach said. “I told the kids even though losing sucks, especially losing to Bayfield sucks, but that’s the kind of game you’ll remember your whole life. ... It was a lot of fun to be a part of.”

He added that the Wolverines committed a lot of their defense to shutting down Dozier, and Pagosa had some kids take and miss shots, but added the team also had some costly turnovers.

O’Donnell led the Pirates with 29 points in the game (including two 3-pointers), four rebounds, two assists and a steal.

“Aidan O’Donnell had a phe-nomenal game, both offensively and defensively,” Wes Lewis said.

Pirates move to 4-4 on season“He played really well.”

Mitch Lewis added 18 points, nine rebounds and four assists.

Zeigler added four points, four rebounds and two assists.

Dozier put up a 3-pointer and had eight rebounds, two assists and a steal.

Shahan added two points and three rebounds.

Shuhart had one rebound, two assists and a steal.

The team had 16 turnovers and made six of 11 attempts from the free-throw line.

Friday, the Pirates will travel to Gunnison for a 4:30 p.m. matchup.

The Cowboys, like the Pirates, are 4-4 on the season.

“They’re a pretty good basket-ball team,” the coach said, noting that they have a big point guard, run some press, run both zone and man defenses and has some tall players. “We’ll have to play well.”

No visiting spectators are al-lowed, but the game is anticipated to be available to livestream at either https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/search/?query=gunnison or https://www.facebook.com/GHS-CowboyAthletics.

Saturday, the Pirates will host the Alamosa Mean Moose for a 7 p.m. affair.

The Mean Moose are 5-2 on the season and 2-1 in league play.

The Pirates previously fell to Alamosa 43-31 on Feb. 2.

Spectators are limited to those on the gate list; there will be no general admission.


Tuesday, the team will welcome the 4A Durango Demons to town for a 6 p.m. matchup.

The Demons are 3-3 on the sea-son.

Again, spectators will be limited to those on the gate list; there will be no general admission.


“Moving forward, we’ve just gotta keep getting better at our stuff,” Wes Lewis said, noting the team is working to lessen the number of mental errors in certain situations and clean up its execution.

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SUN staff asked representatives of publicly funded agencies in Archuleta County to individually answer a trio of questions

relating to the goals and accomplishments of themselves and their agencies at the turn of the year.

Answers are printed as received and are not edited.

Goals & AccomplishmentsPagosa Area Water and Sanitation District

What are your three biggest

accomplishments of 2020?PAWSD signed a contract with Schmuser Gordon

Meyer, Inc. to study, design, and manage construc-tion of a Snowball Water Treatment Plant replace-ment. Cost is estimated to be 12 million dollars and be in operation in 2024.

PAWSD replaced an old water storage tank on Put Hill with a 200,000 gallon capacity tank for a cost of $200,000.

PAWSD passed a balanced Budget for 2021. “The Budget maintains current service levels, achieves a ratio of revenues to expenditures deemed appro-priate by the BOARD of Directors and provides for funding of all required debt service payments on bonds and loans that have been issued” ( Aaron Burns, Director of Business Services )

What are your three top

goals for 2021?PAWSD will provide adequate and clean water

during drought conditions to its customers.Federal and State new regulations will have a

large impact on PAWSD’s ability to provide afford-able water and wastewater treatment. PAWSD may have to spend up to 12 million dollars in the next few years to upgrade the Vista Plant for nutrient removal. The BOARD and staff’s goal is to fi nd ways to fi nance the required upgrades.

PAWSD will build a water fi ll station in Aspen Springs so customers in that area do not have to drive to the edge of town to get their water.

What is your action plan

to meet your goals?PAWSD Manager, Justin Ramsey, formed a grass

roots committee of seven to revise PAWSD’s current drought management plan which will have BOARD approval soon. PAWSD partnered with the San Juan Headwater Partnership providing funding for 2021. This will have a positive effect on forest health that impacts water quality and availability.

Signifi cant Capital expenditures are in PAWSD’s 2021 budget that addresses some of the new Fed-eral and State regulations. PAWSD personnel and I have met with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to see if PAWSD can get an extension on its time line to meet agency demands. PAWSD will be partnering with PLPOA to do algae control this year.

PAWSD’s manager is currently working on a site to build a water fi ll station in Aspen Springs and developing a budget to present to the BOARD.

Jim Smith, Board Chairman and President, Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District

What are your three biggest

accomplishments of 2020?Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District’s

(PAWSD) three biggest accomplishments for 2020 were:

1) The pandemic presented unique challenges in 2020. PAWSD provides water and wastewater ser-vices to residents of Archuleta County. In addition, we provide services for the Pagosa Springs Medical Center and Urgent Care facilities in and around Pagosa Springs. Our services are essential for keeping these facilities operating and for protecting public health. Water and wastewater services underpin all aspects of society, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, grocery stores and essential government facilities. Due to the specialized skills and licenses required for our utility operators and the corresponding challenges in fi nding replacements for staff members who may be-come ill or are quarantined it was essential to mitigate staff members COVOD-19 risks. PAWSD management and staff diligently worked to meet CDC recommen-dations for minimizing exposure both during working hours and off time. The cautions that have been imple-mented have thus far successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 within PAWSD allowing PAWSD to provide uninterrupted water and wastewater services.

2) PAWSD has 12 fi nish water storage tanks locat-ed strategically throughout our service area. These storage facilities regulate water pressure and provide a reservoir of water during high use times. In 2017 PAWSD had all the tanks inspected internally by a third party certifi ed inspector using underwater robotic cameras and dive gear. PAWSD used this information to prioritize maintenance on these tanks. The inspec-tion reviled signifi cant structural issues with the Put Hill Storage tank located north of Highway 160 behind Advance Auto. Through consultation with engineers it was determined the damage was so extreme repair was impractical and replacement was necessary. In

2020 the tank was replaced with minimal disruption of water service. The tank volume was also increased to meet future demands.

3) The raw water that PAWSD receives, treats and delivers to our community is completely dependent upon snowpack and San Juan River fl ows. With the fl uctuating snowpack and increased demands on the San Juan River it is more important than ever to assure PAWSD has a drought management strategy that will minimize impacts of a light snowpack and low river fl ows. Previous drought management approaches have relied on a cumulative calculation of available water resources, including river fl ows and reservoir levels. This strategy was determined to be ineffective during a signifi cant drought as it incorrectly assumed water could easily be transferred from one location to another in times of need. PAWSD formed a drought management committee consisting of business leaders, community advocates, the San Juan Water Conservancy District and the Pagosa Springs Commu-nity Development Corporation to develop a drought management strategy that would minimize negative impacts of drought while balancing the economic realities of drought. The outcome of this collabora-tion was a Drought Management Plan that looks at a multitude of drought indicators and compares these indicators to median levels throughout the calendar year. These indicators are weighted based on historical water needs associated with these indicators. This strategy will allow PAWSD to make modifi cations to its delivery plan early in the year to minimize future large drought impacts on the community.

What are your three top

goals for 2021?The three top goals for 2021 are:1) The risks to PAWSD and our community due

to COVID-19 are not over. PAWSD will continue to minimize exposure to employees, follow operational recommendations by the CDC and maintain the re-

quired workforce to continue providing essential water and wastewater services.

2) Historically PAWSD has provided water and wastewater services to the community with a single eight hour Monday through Friday shift accompanied by a System Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) monitoring system. The SCADA system allows system operators to monitor and manipulate the water and wastewater systems remotely. Increases in regulatory requirements and community water and wastewater needs will require more rigorous on-site operations of our facilities. PAWSD will be implementing a 10 hour a day, seven day workweek to meet the growing needs of our facilities.

3) The Snowball Water Treatment Plant was con-structed and placed into service in 1984. Over its 35 years of service it has treated over 6,000,000,000 gallons of water for Pagosa Springs. Due to the age of the facility and increased regulatory requirements the Snowball plant is approaching the end of its service life. This Year PAWSD will begin the process of designing a new Snowball Water Treatment Plant with design capabilities increasing from 2 million gallons a day to 3+ million gallons a day thus meeting the needs of our growing community. In addition to design PAWSD and its consultants will be applying for grants and low interest loans to minimize the cost to the community for the construction of this new facility.

What is your action plan

to meet your goals?To meet any goals including the ones listed above

and our desire to continue to provide high quality wa-ter and wastewater treatment services at a reasonable price requires a dedicated, trained professional staff. Our community is blessed with operators that take ownership and pride in their work and the success of the District.

Justin Ramsey, District Manager, Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District

the weekend.The Pirates were originally

scheduled to face Montrose, but due to a scheduling error, Montrose was replaced by Central-Grand Junction.

The Pirates won their first dual of the day against Central-Grand Junction by a score of 66-12.

Central-Grand Junction gave up 12 points through forfeits in the 106-pound and 220-pound weight classes.

Freshman Luke Tressler was one of the 10 undefeated Pirates on the day. He pinned his opponent in the 113-pound weight class from Central-Grand Junction five min-utes and 42 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Erik Wyman, another unde-feated Pirate on the day, pinned his opponent in the 120-pound weight class just 45 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Trevor Torrez was pinned by his opponent in the 126-pound weight class seven minutes and eight sec-onds into the match.

Tommy Barker defeated his op-ponent in the 132-pound weight class by a decision of 8-4, earning

three points.Chandler Mazur was pinned by

his opponent in the 138-pound weight class three minutes and 20 seconds into the match, giving up six points.

Dylan Tressler also went unde-feated on the day in the 145-pound weight class. He pinned his oppo-nent from Central-Grand Junction four minutes and five seconds into the match.

Brae Bergdolt pinned his op-ponent in the 152-pound weight class six minutes and 35 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Cameron Lucero was able to pin his opponent in the 160-pound weight class just 33 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Grant Aucoin pinned his oppo-nent in the 170-pound weight class one minute and 52 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Wil Aucoin pinned his opponent in the 182-pound weight class 31 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Trevor Moore pinned his oppo-nent in the 195-pound weight class one minute and 27 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Kayden McKee won his match

in the 285-pound weight class by a 5-0 decision, earning three points.

Janowsky praised McKee for his performances last weekend.

He noted McKee is competing against some heavier weight op-ponents in the heavyweight class.

Janowsky mentioned that McK-ee is weighing in around 215 pounds, while his opponents are weighing in around 250 pounds.

“He’s doing a great job,” Janowsky said, adding that McKee has great balance, quickness and doesn’t wrestle recklessly by giving up any points.

Bergdolt, Lucero, Wil Aucoin, Moore and McKee all went unde-feated on the day, as well.

The Pirates then faced off against Fruita Monument, winning by a score of 59-16.

The Pirates gave up six points by a forfeit in the 106-pound weight class.

Barker defeated his opponent by a 10-3 decision, earning three points.

Mazur was pinned by his op-ponent, giving up six points.

Dylan Tressler beat his oppo-nent by a technical fall, earning five points.

Bergdolt pinned his opponent five minutes and 52 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Skyler Hill defeated his oppo-nent in the 220-pound weight class by pinning him four minutes and 34 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Janowsky praised Hill on his match as he defeated fourth-ranked Espin Hernandez.

“That was a real tough matchup for him, and he won,” Janowsky said.

Also pinning their Fruita Monu-ment opponents to earn six points each were Lucero, Grant Aucoin, Wil Aucoin, Moore, McKee and Wyman.

Luke Tressler defeated his op-ponent by a decision of 8-4, earning three points.

Torrez was defeated by his op-ponent by a 10-2 major decision, giving up four points.

Additional information for the matches was not available by press time Wednesday.

The Pirates won their last matchup of the day against Du-rango by a score of 69-9.

Dylan Tressler pinned his op-ponent one minute and 30 seconds

into the match, earning six points.Bergdolt pinned his opponent

one minute and four seconds into the match, earning six points.

Lucero pinned his opponent three minutes and 40 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Grant Aucoin was defeated by his opponent by a 3-1 decision, giving up three points.

Wil Aucoin pinned his opponent three minutes and 22 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Moore defeated his opponent by a decision of 4-1, earning three points.

Hill pinned his opponent one minute and 58 seconds into the match, earning six points.

The Pirates gave up six points by a forfeit in the 106-pound weight class.

Luke Tressler pinned his oppo-nent three minutes and 39 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Durango gave up six points by a forfeit in the 120-pound weight class.

Torrez pinned his opponent three minutes and 47 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Barker pinned his opponent three minutes and 41 seconds into

the match, earning six points.Mazur pinned his opponent just

27 seconds into the match, earning six points.

Janowsky indicated he has been pleased with his squad’s perfor-mances so far this year.

“Clearly we’re wrestling better every week,” he said.

He noted that although they don’t have as long of a season as they typically do, the opponents they have faced have provided some quality competition.

“We want to keep our foot on the gas,” Janowsky added.

He indicated that the Pirates will have had plenty of time to prepare for tomorrow’s matchup for the Intermountain League title.

“Bayfield and Rifle are good op-ponents and we respect them, and we owe them a good hard week of practice to get ready for them,” Janowsky said.

The Pirates are set to host Bay-field tomorrow, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m., followed by their matchup against Rifle starting at 7 p.m.

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High school skate ski club formsBy Josh KurzSkate Ski Club

Buried under a blanket of snow, the Pagosa Springs High School athletic fields are usually desolate and dormant during the winter months. However, this winter there’s been a flurry of new activity. High school students are putting the snow to good use as they zip around the fields on skate skis.

Recently, the Pagosa Springs community provided our high school students with the opportunity to participate in an after-school skate ski club. The tremendous support we’ve received showcases our community’s cooperation, generosity and shared vision of providing new and unique opportunities for our youth.

The idea of the high school skate ski club originated in early December 2019. The first low-elevation snowstorm of the season covered Pagosa Springs with few inches of wet snow and left frigid temperatures in its wake. The next day, anxious to start the skate ski season, I skipped my lunch and strapped on my skate ski gear instead. To my delight, the crusty, ungroomed surface held my weight and I enjoyed about 20 minutes of efficient gliding around the athletic fields.

As a former high school cross-country and track team coach, it was always a challenge to keep our runners in shape over the winter if they didn’t participate in wrestling or basketball. I imagined that if we found some ski gear and groomed the athletic fields, we could provide kids with another wintertime athletic opportunity, which could transition into a lifelong form of exercise.

After a couple more days of skating at lunch, I floated the idea to our athletic director, Marcie Ham, who was immediately supportive. When I pitched the idea to head cross-country coach Rachael Christiansen, she volunteered to be a club sponsor without hesitation. Since then, Christiansen has been invaluable in generating the club framework and recruiting our student body.

Next, we reached out to James Dickoff, founder of the Pagosa Nordic Club, who aspired to expand the club’s reach to our youth. He speculated that he could dedicate equipment as well as find Nordic Club volunteers to groom the high school athletic fields.

The highest hurdle was obtaining skate ski gear. Most kids have never heard of skate skiing and they aren’t going to buy equipment for a sport they’ve never tried. To get the program off the ground, we’d need to be able to offer ski gear for kids to try.

Then, in late August of 2020, Dickhoff contacted us with great news. He said the Pagosa Nordic Club was willing to raise funds to purchase ski gear for the high school club. Within a week, Dickhoff informed us that the community had donated enough funds to purchase 12 sets of ski gear. A week later, the 12 sets of ski gear turned into 20 sets.

After receiving our boot size request, Dan Park volunteered to order and assemble the equipment, which, like bikes in a pandemic, would sell out of stock. Park worked diligently to secure the gear and make sure it was ready for the first snow.

The next step was finding a volunteer who was willing to groom the athletic fields frequently. Up stepped Lance Thorton, special

education teacher at the high school. Thorton is generous with his time and possesses incredible initiative. He has faithfully groomed the fields several times per week since early January.

Over winter break, I ran into Lindsay Kurt-Mason while skiing at Cloman Community Park. I told him that our club was stocked with fresh gear. He mentioned that he’d always dreamed of grooming and skating the high school fields with high schoolers. He promptly joined Christiansen and I and his expertise has been invaluable in teaching our brand new skiers the difficult technique of skating.

As the snow began to accumulate in early January and the school district transitioned to in-person instruction, we held our first official skate ski practice. As our numbers increased, we ran out of mid-range boot sizes. Just in time, the Durango Nordic Club donated about a dozen used boots to increase our inventory.

Since then, we’ve been meeting three days a week for an hour after school with anywhere from 10 to 15 kids. We have also had parents of younger kids express interest in involving the younger grade levels in the future.

Christiansen, Kurt-Mason and I want to express our gratitude to Ham, Dickhoff, Park, Thorton, Pagosa Nordic Club, Durango Nordic Club and especially those within our community that donated funds to purchase our ski gear. In light of the challenges our kids have faced during the pandemic, the skate ski club has provided a much-needed screen break and breath of fresh air for a handful of kids within our student body. We are grateful for our incredibly generous and supportive community.

Charter school’s virtual fit-a-thon deemed a success

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Pagosa Peak Open School students accumulate Winter Fitness Minutes at school, at home or out in Pagosa Country as part of a fundraiser for the school. Activities included skiing, sledding, snowboarding, snow sculpting, horseback riding, winter versions of games like soccer, capture the flag, ice skating, etc. The school made over $15,000 from the event.

By Alison BeachPagosa Peak Open School

COVID-19 has forced every school across the globe to pivot and adjust how things are done. From a mixture of in-person and distance learning to virtual parent-teacher conferences, schools have learned to adapt and keep going through this novel time of change. The realm of school fundraising is no exception, and COVID has forced schools to innovate creative ways to engage families, both in-person and distance.

Pagosa Peak Open School (PPOS) holds a fun run event and fundraiser annually in the fall, lovingly referred to as Ninja Warrior. In the past, the school raised funds online to “sponsor” a student’s run through the course. All students compete together, and friends and family all over the nation can donate toward the school.

This school year, PPOS had to recreate and evolve this event into a COVID-safe fundraiser. The school faced several problems. Cohorts cannot mix and use the same equipment/course. How can the event engage the distance-learning class? What happens if the whole school is forced to return to distance learning by the state and can’t hold the competition in person at all?

These questions led to the creation of the PPOS Winter Games. This virtual fit-a-thon fundraiser combined donations through an online fundraising website and outdoor winter activities that counted toward Winter Fitness Minutes.

From Jan. 25 to Feb. 5, PPOS students accumulated Winter Fitness Minutes at school, at

home or out in Pagosa Country. Activities included skiing, sledding, snowboarding, snow sculpting, horseback riding, winter versions of games like soccer, capture the flag, ice skating, etc. Basically, the students competed outside in Pagosa while enjoying the essentials of being Pagosans.

Families tracked Winter Fitness Minutes, sent in photos and shared the fundraiser online. The student with the most fitness minutes was River S. in Robyn Villarreal’s second- and third-grade class. River tracked

2,677 minutes (that’s over 44 hours). His name will appear on a handmade perpetual plaque that will be on display at PPOS. Villarreal’s class will also be etched into the perpetual plaque for the most class Winter Fitness Minutes at 10,486 minutes logged by the class as a whole.

The school’s goal this year for the family fundraiser was $14,000 and, on Feb. 8, the school’s donation totals from PPOS Winter Games totaled $15,365, This is an outstanding feat for a school with 118 students. The class donation

winner for the PPOS Winter Games was Emily Murphy’s distance learning class with $3,605 raised for the school.

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Daniel L. Fiedler, #47916190 Talisman Dr., Suite D-6Pagosa Springs, CO 81147970-507-8528E-mail: danielfi [email protected] Case Number: 20CV30092

Plaintiff:

PATRICK H. DISNERv.Defendants:

ANNETTE WEBB SAARIKOSKI, ARCHULETA COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE, And All Unknown Persons Who Claim Any Interest In The Subject Matter Of This Action,SUMMONS (BY PUBLICATION)

PLAINTIFF PATRICK H. DISNER TO THE ABOVE

NAMED DEFENDANTS AND ALL UNKNOWN

PERSONS WHO CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE

SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint to Quiet Title Pursuant to Rule 105 fi led with the Archuleta County District Court in this action, by fi ling with the Clerk of this Court an Answer or other response. You are required to fi le your answer or other response within 35 days after service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the last day of publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.If you fail to fi le your Answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be entered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situate in Archuleta County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows:Lot 771 IN PAGOSA HIGHLAND ESTATES, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF FILED FOR RECORD FEBRUARY 7, 1972 AS RECEPTION NO. 75409.Respectfully submitted this 27TH day of January, 2021./s/ Daniel L. FiedlerDaniel L. FiedlerFirst Publication: February 4, 2021Last Publication: March 4, 2021Published February 4, 11, 18, 25 and March 4, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

The Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners is seeking volunteers to serve on the Archuleta County Planning Commission. Applicants must be County Residents with duties to include: recommendations regarding subdivision regulations, zoning, and development projects along with amending the Community Plan and Land Use Regulations. Regular meetings are held the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. in the County Commissioner’s Meeting Room at 398 Lewis St. Please call Jamie at 970-264-8309 or email [email protected] to inquire and request an application.Published February 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Steven Arthur Smith, DeceasedCase No. 2021 PR 30000

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Archuleta County, Colorado on or before May 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel L. Fiedler190 Talisman Drive, Suite D-6Pagosa Springs, CO 81147

Published February 11, 18 and 25, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

INVITATION TO BID

Separate sealed BIDS for the Riverwalk - Town Park to Highway 160 project will be received by the Town of Pagosa Springs at the Offi ce of Davis Engineering Service, Inc., located at 188 South 8th Street, P.O. Box 1208, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147, until 2:00 p.m. local time on March 4, 2021, and then at said offi ce publicly opened and read aloud.The project consists of constructing approximately 2,100 linear feet of 10 foot wide multi-use trail along Hermosa Street and the San Juan River from the east side of Town Park to U.S. Highway 160, tying into the sidewalk just on the west side of the bridge crossing the San Juan River. The project involves signifi cant curb, gutter, sidewalk, retaining wall, driveway approaches, and underground drainage improvements. The project includes, but is not limited to excavation, embankment, asphalt removal, storm drainage structures, concrete structures, gravel placement, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, asphalt patching and paving, traffi c control, and other work related with streetscape construction.Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS and Plans may be obtained on or after February 8, 2021, at the offi ce of Davis Engineering Service, Inc. located at the address listed above, upon payment of $100.00 for each set. No refund will be made for returned copies.A mandatory pre-bid conference and inspection trip for prospective Bidders will be held at the offi ce of Davis Engineering Service, Inc. (phone number (970) 264-5055), located at the address listed above, at 2:00 P.M. February 23, 2021. It is desired to perform the project completely within the 2021 construction season.Date: February 1, 2021

Published February 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

Pagosa Springs Charter School Invites Local

Producers to Submit a Farm to Table Bid

Pagosa Peak Open School in Pagosa Springs Colorado is excited to announce our new Farm to Table program. School Districts in the Southwest are working together to source more locally grown foods into our school breakfast and lunch programs. PPOS, which is a Project and Place-based education school, is naturally invested in Southwest Colorado and would like our students to eat as locally as possible.Pagosa Peak Open School is accepting bids for the 2021-22 Farm to Table program. If you are a fruit, vegetable, or livestock producer, consider placing a bid.Details on this project and information on how to compose a bid can be found at https://pagosapeakopenschool.org/meal-program/. Contact Lexi Bernstein, [email protected] with questions.Pagosa Peak Open School is invested in food security and supporting local growers as both food equity and Place-based education has been a priority of Pagosa Peak Open School since the school’s conception.Published February 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Nicholas Christopher Karas, also known as Nicholas C. Karas, Nicholas Karas and Nick Karas, Deceased

Case No. 2020PR30048All persons having claims against the above-named

estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Archuleta County, Colorado on or before Monday, July 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

The original of this document is on fi le at the law offi ce of

Donald Glenn Peterson/s/ Donald Glenn Peterson

Donald Glenn Peterson - Attorney for Personal Representative

4100 E. Mississippi Ave.,Suite 410Denver, CO 80246

Telephone: (303) 758-0999Published February 18, 25 and March 4, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

Archuleta County Combined Courts46 Eaton Drive, Suite 1PO Box 148 Pagosa Springs, CO 81147Case No. 21C8

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION

FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Public notice is given on 2/12/21, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been fi led with the Archuleta Court.The Petition requests that the name of Megan Elizabeth Macht be changed to Megan Elizabeth Jackson.

/s/ Cheryl MulberyClerk of Court/Deputy Clerk

Published February 18, 25 and March 4, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. 2020-007

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On December 15, 2020, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Archuleta records.Original Grantor(s) Medray H. CarpenterOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) GENERATION MORTGAGE COMPANYCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt CAM XI TRUSTDate of Deed of Trust November 06, 2009County of Recording ArchuletaRecording Date of Deed of Trust November 13, 2009 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 20909101Original Principal Amount $519,750.00Outstanding Principal Balance $216,914.64Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

THE LAND DESCRIBED HEREIN IS SITUATED IN THE

COUNTY OF ARCHULETA, STATE OF COLORADO,

AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

THE EAST HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF

THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST

QUARTER (E1/2NE1/4NE1/4SW1/4) OF SECTION

FIVE (5), TOWNSHIP THIRTY-FOUR (34) NORTH,

RANGE ONE (1) WEST, N.M.P.M., ARCHULETA

COUNTY, COLORADO BEING MORE PARTICULARLY

DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID

E1/2NE1/4NE1/4SW1/4, SECTION 5, WHICH CORNER

IS IDENTICAL WITH THE CENTER QUARTER

CORNER OF SAID SECTION 5; THENCE SOUTH

9 DEG. 45’ WEST A DISTANCE OF 608.68 FEET

ALONG THE EAST LINE OF THE NE1/4NE1/4SW1/4

OF SECTION 5 TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER

THEREOF; THENCE 87 DEG. 24’ WEST A DISTANCE

OF 370.79 FEET ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID

NE1/4NE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 5; THENCE NORTH

8 DEG. 24’30” EAST A DISTANCE OF 613.76 FEET

TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID NE1/4NE1/4SW1/4

SECTION 5; THENCE SOUTH 86 DEG. 24’ EAST A

DISTANCE OF 384.57 FEET ALONG THE NORTH

LINE TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING

5.27 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.

TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT THIRTY FEET

(30’) IN WIDTH FOR ROADWAY PURPOSES FOR

INGRESS AND EGRESS AS SET FORTH IN DEED

RECORDED IN BOOK 168 PAGE 37 IN THE OFFICE

OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARCHULETA

COUNTY, COLORADO, AND CORRECTION DEED

FROM HOUSER W. SIKES AND LOUIS H. ROSS

TO LOUIS H. ROSS AND AUDREY B. ROSS DULY

RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND

RECORDER OF ARCHULETA COUNTY, COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 295 ECHO

CREEK DRIVE, PAGOSA SPRINGS, CO 81147.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF

THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY

THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has fi led Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, 04/15/2021, at the Archuleta County Treasurer’s Offi ce at 449 San Juan St. Pagosa Springs, CO 81147, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certifi cate of Purchase, all as provided by law.First Publication 2/18/2021Last Publication 3/18/2021Name of Publication Pagosa Springs SunIF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER

DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT

TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE

MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 12/15/2020/s/ Elsa P. White, Public Trustee in and for the County of Archuleta, State of Colorado The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L. Berry #34531Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S Meridian Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990Attorney File # 20-025009The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015Published February 18, 25, March 4, 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

DISTRICT COURT, ARCHULETA COUNTY, COLORADOCourt Address: 449 San Juan St., Pagosa Springs, CO 81147Phone Number: (970) 264-8160Plaintiffs:

MARTHA S. MOORE for the estate of Elizabeth J. Kuhnv.Defendants:

PAGOSA-GNH, LLC; PAGOSA LAKES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION; and ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION.Submitting Attorney:Clayton M. Buchner, #50996Clayton M. Buchner, Attorney at Law, LLC444 Lewis St., PO Box 3855Pagosa Springs, CO 81147Phone Number: (970) 507-0227E-mail: [email protected] No. 2020CV30097

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

TO ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO CLAIM ANY

INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS

ACTION.

YOU ARE SUMMONED and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint fi led with the court in this action by fi ling with the clerk of this court an answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.If you fail to fi le your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be entered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint, without any further notice to you.This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situate in Archuleta County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows:Lot 406X, being in consolidation of lots 405 and 406, in Lake Forest Estates, according to the plat thereof fi led for record June 4, 1973 as Reception No. 77869 and pursuant to Resolution No. 99-28, a resolution approving the consolidation of certain lots in Archuleta County, Colorado fi led for record April 20, 1999 as Reception No. 99003509, in the offi ce of the Clerk and Recorder, Archuleta County, Colorado.Respectfully submitted this 11th day of February, 2021.Clayton M. Buchner, Attorney at Law, LLC/s/ Clayton M. BuchnerClayton M. Buchner, #50996444 Lewis St., PO Box 3855Pagosa Springs, CO 81147(970) 507-0227Published February 18, 25, March 4, 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

INVITATION TO BID

Separate sealed BIDS for the North Pagosa Boulevard

Resurfacing & Bridge Repair Project will be received by Archuleta County, Colorado at the offi ce of Davis Engineering Service, Inc. located at 188 South 8th Street, P.O. Box 1208, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147, until 2:00 P.M. local time on March 18, 2021, and then at said offi ce publicly opened and read aloud.The project consists of two subprojects being the North Pagosa Boulevard Resurfacing and the Town Center Dam Bridge Approach Repair. The resurfacing portion involves reconstruction and resurfacing of approximately 0.26 miles of roadway including the addition of curb, gutter, and sidewalk along one side for the segment of the roadway across the Town Center Dam (Village Lake). The bridge repair portion involves removal and replacement of the bridge approach slabs and associated infrastructure. The road project will generally maintain the existing horizontal and vertical alignment, with removal and replacement of material to accommodate the design road structure and new concrete hardscape. The bridge approach repairs are to address failing structures.Project work includes, but is not limited to excavation, embankment, gravel placement, concrete structures, asphalt paving, erosion control, bridge railing, pavement marking, traffi c sign placement, traffi c control, seeding and mulching, topsoil, and other items typically associated with road and bridge construction.Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS and PLANS may be obtained on or after February 22, 2021, at the offi ce of Davis Engineering Service, Inc. located at the address mentioned above, upon payment of $150.00 for each set. No refund will be made for returned copies.A mandatory pre-bid conference and inspection trip for prospective Bidders will be held at the offi ce of Davis Engineering Service, Inc. (phone number (970) 264-5055), located at the address mentioned above, at 2:00 P.M. local time on March 9, 2021.

Date: February 18, 2021

Published February 18 and 25, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

Public Notices

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: That personal property stored in Alpine Storage, 4664 US 160, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 in:UNIT 6 Michelle Gott, UNIT 16, 50, 61 Sharon Wilson, UNIT 44 Whitney Gallegos and UNIT 59 Lonnie Elledge. Will be disposed of if not paid in full including late fees by February 27, 2021 (will only accept CASH or MONEY ORDER)This enforces the rights of Alpine Storage under the rental agreement.Executed by: Cathy Dearmon, ManagerAlpine Storage PO Box 422, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147Published February 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

The Town of Pagosa Springs is accepting a Request for Proposal for an On-Call Arborist or Tree Care Company to serve on an as needed basis on behalf of the Town of Pagosa Springs. Please visit the town website: www.pagosasprings.co.gov for details on the proposal.Published February 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF PROPERTY AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION

FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEEDTo Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having Interest of Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to:

DELDEV, INC1133 N. 18TH STREET

GRAND JUNCTION, CO 81501DELDEV, INC % KIA KOFRON6785 EAST ORCHARD ROAD

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111-1719You and each of you are hereby notifi ed that on the 15th day of November 2008, the then County Treasurer of Archuleta County, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to

KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED the following described property situate in the County of Archuleta, State of Colorado, to-wit:

LOTS 407, 408 AND 409, PAGOSA TRAILS,

ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF FILED FOR

RECORD SEPTEMBER 13, 1971 AS RECEPTION

NO. 74885.

Account Number: R004234Schedule Number: 569524405021

Tax Sale Certifi cate Number: 2007-00458and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent property(and special assessment) taxes assessed against said property for the year 2007That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of DELDEV, INC and DELDEV, INC % KIA KOFRON for said year 2007.That said KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED on the 30th day of December 2020, the present holder of said certifi cate (who) has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said property;That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said property to KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED On the 16th day of June 2021, unless the same has been redeemed.Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed.Witness my hand this 13th day of January 2021/s/ Elsa P White Elsa P White, Treasurer of Archuleta County, ColoradoPublished February 4, 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.



DELDEV INC1133 N 18TH ST

GRAND JUNCTION, CO 81501DELDEV INC % KIA KOFRON6785 EAST ORCHARD ROAD


KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITEDthe following described property situate in the County of Archuleta, State of Colorado, to-wit:Lot:s 357,358, 359, 360, 361,365,366, 367 and 368,

PAGOSA TRAILS,ACCORDING TO THE PLAT

THEREOF FILED FOR RECORD SEPTEMBER 13,

1971 AS RECEPTION NO.74885.


Tax Sale Certifi cate Number: 2007-00459and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITEDThat said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent property(and special assessment) taxes assessed against said property for the year 2007That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of DELDEV INC and DELDEV INC % KIA KOFRON for said year 2007.That said KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED on the 30th day of December 2020, the present holder of said certifi cate (who) has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said property;That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said property to KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITEDOn the 16th day of June 2021, unless the same has been redeemed.Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed.Witness my hand this 14th day of January 2021/s/ Elsa P White Elsa P White, Treasurer of Archuleta County, ColoradoPublished February 4, 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.



DELDEV, INC1133 N 18TH STREET

GRAND JUNCTION, CO 81501DELDEV, INC % KIA KOFRON6785 EAST ORCHARD ROAD


KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED the following described property situate in the County of Archuleta, State of Colorado, to-wit:Lots 311,312,313,314,325,326,327 and 328, PAGOSA

TRAILS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF

FILED FOR RECORD SEPTEMBER 13, 1971 AS

RECEPTION NO. 74885.


Tax Sale Certifi cate Number: 2007-00460and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent property(and special assessment) taxes assessed against said property for the year 2008That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of DELDEV, INC and DELDEV, INC % KIA KOFRON for said year 2008.That said KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED on the 30th day of December 2020, the present holder of said certifi cate (who) has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said property;That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said property to KUHN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED On the 16th day of June 2021, unless the same has been redeemed.Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed.Witness my hand this 14th day of January 2021/s/ Elsa P White Elsa P White, Treasurer of Archuleta County, ColoradoPublished February 4, 11 and 18, 2021 in The Pagosa Springs SUN.

DISTRICT COURT,ARCHULETA COUNTY, COLORADOCourt Address: 46 Eaton Dr., Suite #1, PO Box 148, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147Phone Number: 970-264-8160Attorney for Plaintiff:

Your rightto

know.

EducationSchool district hears financial report, deals with other businessBy Randi PierceStaff Writer

Archuleta School District (ASD) was down almost $90,000 on its investments through the second quarter of its fiscal year, Finance Director Mike Hodgson told the ASD Board of Education on Feb. 9.

The news came as part of Hodg-son’s quarterly finance and in-vestments quarterly reports, for October through December 2020, to the board.

Hodgson told the board the district’s new CD at First Southwest Bank is earning 1.25 percent — a rate he noted he’s pleased with.

“They really stepped up,” he said, pointing out for comparison that the 91-day Treasury bill rate is less than a 10th of a percent.

A year ago, according to his re-port, the Treasury bill rate was 1.52 percent.

Hodgson also informed the board that one of the district’s cer-tificates of deposits was called early and was originally supposed to be called in 2022.

Pe r t h e re p o r t , A S D h a d $9,305,448.97 in total investment balances for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2020.

In terms of the district’s financ-es, Hodgson pointed out that the “big takeaway” is the district’s total year-to-date expenses through Dec. 31, 2020 — which totaled $9,580,188 — are less than 50 per-cent of the year’s budget, sitting at 42.6 percent of the budget.

He then explained that, while the district’s revenues sit at only 30.1 percent of budget (at

$6,384,628), the district receives its property tax revenues from March through June.

Hodgson also provided a cash-flow projection for the district’s General Fund, pointing out that, as the fiscal year progresses, the district’s deficit keeps going lower.

The document projects a deficit by the end of the fiscal year of $288,143.

Prior to approving its current budget, the district anticipated the deficit could top $800,000.

In other business at the meeting, the board:

• Heard a legislative update from Superintendent Dr. Kym LeBlanc-Esparza.

LeBlanc-Esparza noted the Colorado Legislature’s session was postponed until Feb. 16 and told the board budget numbers will likely be available late May or early June.

• Heard an update on COVID in the community and district.

Following the update, student representative Vini Carranza noted he was hearing questions about why basketball players have to wear masks during contests while wrestlers do not.

LeBlanc-Esparza noted she had had the same questions and it was explained that one-on-one contests are at the lowest risk for transmission, and masks would be hard to keep on.

• Heard a mid-year review from the superintendent, with Bob Lynch, who chaired the meeting in Bruce Dryburgh’s absence, tell-ing LeBlanc-Esparza she and her team have done a “fabulous” job

with COVID.• Approved a request for the

Town of Pagosa Springs to use one strand of excess fiber to connect Pagosa Springs Sanitation General Improvement District components in the area as part of an upgrade.

Eric Hittle explained to the board that the district had built out more fiber in the area than it would need, even in the event of a sizable expansion and allowing the town to use the fiber would save them from running about a half mile of additional fiber.

Hittle also reminded the board that the 2015 fiber intergovern-mental agreement with the town has saved the district about $58,000 to date.

“In 2015, the district was looking at an increase of 3.3 times what they were paying for the fiber link that had been connecting the dif-ferent campuses of the district since 2008,” a document provided by Hittle states.

The 2015 agreement allows the district a perpetual lease of four strands from fiber owned by the town and county that allowed the district to bring fiber the remaining way to the high school and maintain its connection between campuses.

The board voted unanimously to approve the request and work on an addendum to the 2015 agree-ment.

• Approved the 2021-2022 school year calendar, which anticipates a return to learning five days per week.

• Approved numerous policies upon first and second reading.

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Photos courtesy Sarah Platt Decker Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

The Sarah Platt Decker Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, kicks off its Community Classrooms program last week. Members delivered “Sunshine Boxes” stuffed with supplies and copies of the Pledge of Allegiance to area schools.

Group provides ‘Sunshine Boxes’ to area schoolsBy Tanice RamspergerNational Society Daughters of the

American Revolution

The Sarah Platt Decker Chap-ter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, kicked off its new program last week: Community Classrooms.

The program is designed to work with the teachers to provide additional support to the children in classrooms and schools in the community. It is also designed to provide lesson plans rich in his-torical facts, enabling teachers to relay the story of the development of the United States.

Taking most of the day last Thursday, members delivered what they called “Sunshine Box-es.” These were pencil boxes stuffed with pencils, erasers, pencil sharpeners, glue sticks and individual packets of Kleenex. Brand-new boxes of crayons (24 colors) were also prepared and delivered, along with copies of the Pledge of Allegiance. The initial effort was made to the first-graders of Park Elementary in Durango, followed by Ignacio Primary School, Bayfield Elemen-tary, Pagosa Peak Open School and Pagosa Springs Elementary School.

The Sarah Platt Decker Chap-ter, Daughters of the American Revolution is a nonpolitical ser-vice organization meeting August through May. Membership is open to all women over the age of 18 who can prove lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American in-dependence.

For more information, please contact: [email protected]. If you have any questions, please direct them to Community Classroom Chairman Jeannine Dobbins at 749-0956, Tanice Ramsperger at 731-4824 or Linda Hobbs at (713) 304-2028.

Charter school explores new funding optionsBy Simone MounsamyStaff Writer

At this month’s Pagosa Peak Open School (PPOS) Board of Directors’ regular meeting, Grant and Communication Manager Al-lison Beach and School Director Angela Reali-Crossland discussed the grant opportunities the school is pursuing and what it has been awarded.

In reference to an awarded Re-covery Innovation and Student Eq-uity (RISE) grant, Reali-Crossland elaborated that the collaboration with the 12 other schools and the League of Charter Schools will result in the creation of an as-sessment tool to look at student engagement.

The assessment tool will identify the root cause of student disen-gagement and help the schools identify areas to develop strategies

for improving engagement, Reali-Crossland explained. In addition, the assessment tool will be used to monitor progress.

The Colorado League of Charter Schools recently announced that Colorado charter schools, includ-ing PPOS, were selected to receive the $1.48 million RISE grant.

Next, Beach explained that the school has been approved for a 54 percent match through the Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) grant if the grant is indeed awarded.

Following the meeting, Reali-Crossland described this grant as a state educational facility grant for safety, security and technology.

“If we get the grant we would build out a kitchen facility, update fire alarm, upgrade ventilation sys-tem, install cameras outside and in the hallways inside, and put a ves-tibule at the front entry,” she wrote

in an email. “The grant was for $1.3 million so the school will need to match $702,000. We would need to pay for 54% of the renovations and this grant would pay for 46%. We are hoping our current capital campaign will pay for our portion.”

PPOS will know more about what funds will be awarded and for which projects throughout the first half of the year, according to Reali-Crossland.

The last grant that Beach de-scribed was a new funding oppor-tunity the school has for a play-ground through Colorado Health Foundation (CHF).

The CHF grant would be for an outdoor space that is accessible to the community when the school is closed.

Beach explained that she is in-vestigating ways to acquire the BWD-owned land near the school.

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Several board members chimed in about the timeline, noting that the board and PPOS employees should not wait until summer to begin the application process.

Board member Elly Osmera commented that she has experi-ence specific to playground fund-ing and would be willing to assist in taking the next steps in the process.

Board member Bill Hudson dis-cussed getting the town recreation committee involved, and board member Gary Hedgecock articu-lated the order of operations, re-laying that it be necessary to have successfully acquired a piece of land prior to approaching the town for its involvement.

Regardless of the logistics, the

board agreed that it should begin preparing the application for the grant in the next couple months.

Beach said that the CHF grant review board “really wanted the students and the community to be involved in the grantwriting process, especially the students.”

Beach also relayed information regarding PPOS’s capital campaign and marketing strategies.

Beach explained to the board the success of this year’s PPOS Winter Games as part of its capi-tal campaign. In years past, the Ninja Warrior has served as the campaign’s structure, but this year the school took a COVID-safe ap-proach. The Winter Games used the same platform to raise donations to sponsor the students, but instead of one course, students could par-ticipate from home, at school or out in Pagosa Country by skiing, snowshoeing, snow sculpting, etc. Beach reported that the winter

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Closing the gap on learning during the pandemicBy Simone MounsamyStaff Writer

Over the last year, schools have experienced challenges keeping up students’ learning during the pandemic.

In a study conducted by McKin-sey and Company, if sixth-grade students were in remote learning from March of 2020 until January of 2021, even with adequate remote instruction, an average of three to four months of learning were lost.

Pagosa Peak Open School (PPOS) has created weeklong in-tervention camps and after-school camps to remediate this learning loss.

PPOS Director Angela Reali-Crossland explained that this wasn’t the original intention for the camps, however.

“Originally, we had envisioned the AmeriCorps person before the pandemic hit, and so we had looked at wanting to do academic remediation with the position. After COVID hit and we knew that all of our students were going to be losing time in front of a teacher, we decided that each one of our stu-dents before the end of the school

year will have the opportunity to participate in a camp program that’s a week long and an after-school program to help remediate that lost learning last spring,” she said.

Intervention campsThe after-school programs have

been smaller versions of the week-long camps. Both versions of these intervention camps are to take place in person at the school, unless those students opting for distance learning remain home into the next school year. At that point, Reali-Crossland explained that the school will develop an op-tion for them.

“We still have about 17 students whose families have chosen the all online option for various reasons, to protecting grandparents, to having an immunocompromised individual at home, so those are working with our distance-learning advisor. Some of the camps will happen as late as July, so we’re hop-ing that at some point those fami-lies will feel comfortable bringing the students in person and if not we will be providing some online options as well,” she recounted.

The after-school camps have been going really well, according to Reali-Crossland, and the first weeklong camps are scheduled to take place during the school’s February break, March break and May break.

ProgressReali-Crossland described the

after-school camp program and its results.

“We have done an after-school math class for our fourth- and fifth-graders. And we have done math for our second- and third-graders, and then we’re doing an after-school creative writing for our seventh-graders,” she said. “We’ve seen some differences in the test-ing with our winter testing that is coming through right now in those students. We saw some amazing growth with them.”

The idea for the current inter-vention camps came up in March, Reali-Crossland explained, “when we first went into distance learn-ing and started talking about how some of the students that are at the highest risk are the ones that were having the difficulty engaging in the distance learning.”

When the school began working with AmeriCorps member Jamie McCarthy in September, it then moved forward with the effort.

COVID cohorting“Our AmeriCorp individual that

does academics has been able to work with groups of three to six to give them some really intensive after-school help,” Reali-Crossland explained.

This small group size is due to the fact that schools must cohort the students as per Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations. This cohorting, according to Reali-Crossland, has been the biggest struggle.

She explained, “As we invite some of these students to after-school camps, if they have siblings, parents then have to pick up twice ... because we can’t combine those cohorts together.”

One possible solution Reali-Crossland is exploring would be to have other staff offer a different cohort a program during the same week so that siblings might both be able to be on-site, but with their cohorts.

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marketing campaign.“Our main focus for our market-

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formation sheet, enrollment fly-ers, open house information and social media enrollment images were translated into Spanish and distributed along with their English versions to the town’s preschools, the public library and the Catholic church.

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County treasurer gives semiannual tax reportBy Clayton ChaneyStaff Writer

At the regular board meeting held by the Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) on Feb. 2, County Treasurer Elsa White presented the county’s semiannual tax report.

Under Colorado Revised Statute 30-10-709, White is required to give a report to the BoCC twice a year.

This report was for the second half of 2020 — July 1,2020 through Dec. 31, 2020.

The report contains the begin-ning balance, tax collections, de-linquent taxes, specific ownership taxes, miscellaneous collections, treasurer’s fees, disbursements and ending balances for each county ac-count, along with total county funds.

“We were fortunate to collect quite a bit, considering the year we had,” White said.

She noted the county was able to collect approximately 97 percent of taxes.

White also noted that on a month-ly basis, sales tax revenues were con-siderably higher than in 2019.

The beginning total county funds was listed at $30,632,715.19, while

the ending balance was listed at $26,330,058.75.

The following five funds high-lighted were county funds with the highest beginning balances.

The county’s beginning General Fund balance was l isted at $7,426,449.07 and the ending bal-ance was $12,040,430.60.

The Road and Bridge Fund had a b e g i n n i n g b a l a n c e o f $7,426,449.07 and an ending bal-ance of $8,303,709.45.

The Social Service fund had a beginning balance of $1,639,101.29 a n d a n e n d i n g b a l a n c e o f $1,731,206.29.

The Justice System Capital Fund had a beginning balance of $1,438,406.04 and an ending bal-ance of $149,140.19.

The Solid Waste Fund had a beginning balance of $1,890,875.70 a n d a n e n d i n g b a l a n c e o f $1,999,895.59.

White’s entire report was pub-lished in the Feb. 11 issue of The SUN. The entire report with all 45 of the county’s account funds can also be found online at www.archuletacounty.org, in the Feb. 2 BoCC meeting agenda.

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Water conservancy district and consultant extend agreement for one month, new contract won’t be pursued By Chris MannaraStaff Writer

The contract between the San Juan Water Conservancy District (SJWCD) and its current board consultant, Renee Lewis, will not be renewed, and the existing con-tract between the two parties will continue for an additional month.

During the Feb. 15 meeting of the SJWCD board, SJWCD Chair Al Pfister explained that Lewis had sent an email to himself, SJWCD board member John Porco and SJWCD’s legal counsel, Jeff Kane, informing them that she did not want to take on a new agreement with a continuation of services.

However, Lewis was interested in extending her existing contract for another month, Pfister noted.

During a regular meeting on Dec. 10, the SJWCD board voted unanimously to extend the current contract with Lewis for an addi-tional two months while contract

negotiations took place for 2021.Lewis was initially brought on to

assist the SJWCD as a volunteer consultant in September of 2018 and the two parties eventually came to an agreement on a pro-fessional consulting agreement in March of 2019.

That agreement outlined Lewis would assist the SJWCD in its primary focus of developing its strategic plan.

Additionally, the 2019 agree-ment outlines that Lewis would help the board develop long-term relationships and effective part-nerships with various government officials and water organizations while developing the strategic plan.

Lewis also assisted the board’s treasurer during the budgeting process.

The March 2019 professional consulting agreement was set to end on Dec. 31, 2019, according to the agreement.

On April 20, 2020, the SJWCD

agreed to a revised professional consulting agreement with Lewis that was set to expire on Dec. 31, 2020.

The most recent professional consulting agreement describes that in addition to assisting the district with its strategic plan, Lewis would perform the duties of “Recording Secretary to the Board.”

The duties of the recording sec-retary include drafting meeting minutes, preparing documents for board meetings and work sessions, and creating board books.

During the meeting, the SJWCD board voted unanimously to ex-tend the current agreement with Lewis for another month.

“I just have another opportu-nity that’s come up that I would like to pursue. I’m happy to try and help with writing a job description for a new person if that’s at all helpful for the board,” Lewis said during the meeting. “I don’t want to leave you in a bad place. I’m

more than happy to help as much as I can. I’ve really just enjoyed working with you all.”

In a follow-up email on Feb. 15, Pfister explained that he hopes the district can find someone to re-place Lewis, but the SJWCD board has not discussed the matter in full, so it is not fully sure what the position’s duties would be.

Pfister also added that he would like the process to begin as soon as possible.

“Renee’s contributions to the District have been incredible. Her experience and work ethic were sig-nificant contributors to enhancing numerous administrative policies and procedures that have most definitely improved our function-ality,” he wrote. “The drafting and finalization of our Strategic Plan would not have been accomplished had it not been for Renee’s efforts - for which we will forever thank her for.”

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In advance of Thursday’s bi-ennial State of the Judiciary speech, the Colorado Supreme Court announced Tuesday it has invited the state’s other govern-ment branches to select external investigators who will indepen-dently examine allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination within the Judi-cial Branch, and of claims that a training services contract was awarded improperly to a former senior administrator.

Representatives from the gov-ernor’s office, the attorney gen-eral’s office and the General Assembly will constitute a panel to select the independent inves-tigators.

The independent investiga-tions will result in public reports of all findings and recommenda-tions, including steps for proce-dural improvement to ensure accountability, fairness and transparency throughout Colo-rado’s Judicial Branch.

C h i e f Ju s t i c e B r i a n D. Boatright will comment further on the independent investiga-tion process during the State of the Judiciary speech on Thurs-day. The court expects to an-nounce the members of the selection panel by the end of the week.

“We’re disappointed and ab-solutely heartbroken by this situ-ation, and nobody wants these investigations to go forward more than I do,” said Boatright, who joined the court in 2011 and became chief justice on Jan. 1.

More immediately, Boatright

has directed that he be notified and receive weekly updates on all future misconduct complaints across the department to ensure each incident is fully investigated and acted on as appropriate without delay.

“The Colorado Judicial Branch has made positive changes over the last few years, but we still have much work to do,” he said. “The people of Colorado deserve a judiciary that they know is be-ing held accountable to the high-est standards of professionalism and ethical behavior, regardless of title or position. As chief jus-tice, I am personally committed to restoring this public trust.”

Earlier this month, allegations emerged that former chief of staff Mindy Masias was awarded a training services contract in order to prevent her from filing a lawsuit revealing incidents of sexual harassment and dis-crimination inside the depart-ment. The contract was later terminated. The situation is part of a broader investigation being conducted by the Colorado Of-fice of the State Auditor.

“This branch has so many ter-rific, dedicated people at every level doing incredible work de-spite the operational crisis that COVID-19 has put on our state’s court system,” said Boatright. “They are shocked and disheart-ened by these allegations.”

He added, “My promise to them, and to all of Colorado, is that the Court is going to work equally hard not just to repair our internal culture but to greatly enhance the entire department. We’re going to get this right.”

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Fire board approves bid on new training facilityBy Simone MounsamyStaff Writer

The Pagosa Fire Protection Dis-trict (PFPD) Board of Directors took a step forward in relation to a new training facility at its meeting Feb. 9.

Three vendors came back with bids for the fire training facility to be placed at Station 3, about 6 miles south on U.S. 84, close to the burn tower.

“We’re going to call it a prop, because it is not a permanent structure. It is considered to be a mobile structure,” PFPD Fire Chief Randy Larson said.

PFPD Deputy Chief Karn Macht described the needs that the fire district looked to fulfill in this new fire training prop. He also pre-sented the board with the bid that was chosen for approval.

“What we’re looking for is to expand our training capabilities for our district firefighters to keep pace with our training needs,” Macht said. “One of the important things that we wanted was a forc-ible entry door … to make them feel comfortable about using our breeching tools.”

Other inclusions are a wall-

breeching simulator, a confined space, a repel tower, a vertical pitched roof prop, a Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) con-fined maze system, a Fire Depart-ment Connection (FDC) standpipe connection, a Denver window simulator, a clear room to set up with furniture for practicing with search techniques, a vent enter isolate search window, and a roll-up garage door simulator.

Macht briefly explained each of these simulators for the district board.

“Making sure that our people are trained and know how to perform and function… is important,” he said.

Training Structures LLC was the vendor that was unanimously ap-proved for the training prop. Based out of Phoenix, Ariz., this vendor was able to both provide the low-est bid and meet all of the district training simulator needs.

Training Structures also has a Colorado-certified engineer on staff that can help with the setup, Larson later explained.

The total price approved unani-mously for this project was not to exceed $200,000, at $163,811 for the structure and the remaining

$36,000 for “any necessary grounds … such as concrete rebar and site preparation for the building,” Macht said.

The board clarified that the training facility, or prop, will be of-fered up to other fire districts.

Larson explained that Upper Pine River Fire Protection District may want to come borrow the fa-cility, which will give the PFPD the opportunity to do its mutual aid training with Upper Pine that is required by the Insurance Services Office.

“It also opens the doors for us in the future to look at bidding for the Colorado firefighter academy that used to be here and has left plus a couple of the other regional events that are put on as far as firefighter training,” Larson said. “We could potentially be a big boost to the local economy, as well.”

Delivery, setup and training on how to use the facility is included in the bid and is quoted to take 120 days.

“We should have it before the end of summer,” Larson confirmed.

Firefighters granted pensions

Prior to the Board of Directors’

meeting, the board members sat as the PFPD Pension Fund Board of Trustees and approved unanimous-ly the firefighter training hours, granting those who completed the required hours their pensions.

Larson also presented the Pen-sion Fund’s performance report.

“Financially, we’re in pretty good shape and doing well with the market,” Larson reported. “With the way the market fluctuates, we are staying pretty steady with the growth in it.”

This year, the PFPD will perform its actuarial valuation that is re-quired by law to take place every two years, according to Larson. The Board of Trustees approved unanimously the consulting com-pany that they will use to provide the actuarial valuation.

So long as local COVID levels continue decreasing and restric-tions lift, Larson discussed having a retirees’ banquet later this year or early next year. The last retiree banquet was held two years ago.

“It was a real good event last time,” Larson relayed. “It was re-ally good to hear some of the old stories, keep that history going with our young folks.”

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County looks for more justice facility fundingBy Clayton ChaneyStaff Writer

The Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) is seeking more funding from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) to complete the interior of the third courtroom and commons room in the new Har-man Park justice facility.

At the regular board meeting on Feb. 16, the BoCC voted unani-mously to approve a grant applica-tion to DOLA for funding needed

to complete the interior of the two additional rooms.

In April 2020, the county was awarded a separate grant from DOLA for design costs of the justice facility. The BoCC did not accept the grant at that time as it was awarded other funding from the Underfunded Courthouse Facility Commission.

Last month, DOLA amended its grant offer in order to allow the BoCC to use the funds for construc-tion of the justice facility.

With those funds, the BoCC was

able to approve the construction of the frame and exterior of the third courtroom and commons room, as there were not enough funds from the grant to complete the interior of the additional rooms.

At the meeting, Finance Advisor Larry Walton presented the agenda item in regard to the approval of a new grant application from DOLA to complete the interior of the third courtroom and commons room at the new justice facility.

According to Walton, the county does not have an exact cost of fin-

ishing the interior of the additional rooms as Nunn Construction and Reynolds Ash and Associates are currently working on a cost esti-mate.

Walton noted that the BoCC has until the end of this month to sub-mit its application to DOLA.

He also mentioned that the grant would cover 50 percent of the project costs.

As for the remaining costs, “We anticipate that we will have suf-ficient contingency to cover what those costs would be. Knowing the magnitude of what it cost to shell in those rooms, we know it will be considerably less than that,” Walton said.

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partnership with Rise Above ViolenceBy Kate BerryCreede Repertory Theatre

Creede Repertory Theatre (CRT) is thrilled to offer a virtual presentation of Beth Kander’s gripping new work, “To the Moon.” Kander’’s work was last seen at CRT in the 2019 Henry Award-winning play “Hazard-ous Materials,” universally praised by audiences.

Now in development as part of our Headwaters New Play Program, she returns to CRT to workshop this stunning docudrama based on more than 200 surveys and 20 in-person interviews with survivors of domestic violence. “To the Moon” lifts up the rivet-ing stories of these survivors, complete with humor, revelation and tragedy. Because “statistics are not the most powerful way to change someone’s mind. Stories are.”

Content advisory: “To the Moon” contains descrip-tions of domestic abuse and some strong language.

Denver-based director Betty Hart helms this stunning ensemble piece featuring CRT alumni Di-ana Dresser (“Bad Dates,” “August: Osage County”), Rachel Fowler (“The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild”), and Kathryn Grody (“A Mom’s Life”); along with faces new to CRT: Laura Chavez, Lynnette Freeman, Delia Kropp, Kat Peña and Kariana Sanchez.

The creative team includes Mikki Stith (scenic ren-dering artist), Elly Hunt (costume design, CRT alum), Katharine Horowitz (sound design and composition), Lynde Rosario (dramaturgy), Karen Schleifer (stage management), and Brittni Shambaugh Addison (eq-uity, diversity and inclusion facilitation).

For domestic violence support, visit www.thehot-line.org or call (800) 799-SAFE (7233).

Live performances are set for 6 p.m. on March 5 and 2 p.m. on March 6. It will be available for streaming March 15 to April 11.

A facilitated talk back will follow both live perfor-mances.

All tickets are free thanks to the generous support and advocacy of David Katz. Though tickets are free, they must be reserved via our website, www.creederep.org, or by phone, (719) 658-2540.

More on KanderKander is an author and playwright with roots in

the Midwest and Deep South. She has an MFA in cre-ative writing from Mississippi University for Women, where her double concentration was in fiction and playwriting, and also holds a master of social work degree from the University of Michigan and a BA from Brandeis University. Intertwining storytelling and ad-vocacy is a theme of Kander’s writing, as well as her life.

Playwriting honors include the Henry Award for Best New Play or Musical for her play “Hazardous Ma-

terials,” directed by Kyle Haden in its world premiere at Creede Repertory Theatre; ATC CORE Residency; Headwaters New Play Award; Equity Library Theatre Access Award; Ashland New Plays Festival Awards; Eudora Welty New Play Awards; and Charles M. Getchell New Play Award. She is a founding member of Fondren Theatre Workshop in Jackson, Miss., and served as a 2010-2011 Mississippi Arts Commission Playwriting Fellow.

As an author, Kander’s stories often put a new twist on old tropes. Her dystopian trilogy “Original Syn” was honored with a Foreword INDIES Award; her ghost story “13 Jericho Lane” was a Pitch Wars selection and she has at least two new books coming out in the next two years. The granddaughter of immigrants, she is interested in the intersection of new ideas and identi-ties with old stories, secrets and legends.

“To the Moon” was originally developed as a com-mission for American Theatre Company in Chicago. The greatest gratitude and solidarity is owed to all the survivors who shared their stories directly and through an anonymous survey; without those willing to tell their stories, the world would never change.

She lives in Chicago with her favorite characters (her quirky little family). To learn more, visit www.bethkander.com.

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“To the Moon,” her directorial debut at CRT. Through April 2021, Hart is directing the theatrical film devised by the cast of the University of Colorado called “2020 Speaks.” In 2020, Hart directed the Vintage Theatre production of the musical “The Scottsboro Boys,” which was nominated for three Henry Awards. She also directed the staged reading of “Vroom Vroom” by Josh Koenigsberg for Local Theater’s Local Lab. Unfortunately, due to COVID shutdowns, audiences never saw this piece.

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Above ViolenceFor “To the Moon,” CRT is part-

nering with Rise Above Violence, a private nonprofit organization located in Pagosa Springs whose primary mission is to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Rise Above Violence is offering facilitation and support services to our artists, staff and patrons (through post-show talk-backs) as we explore this subject matter. Its 24-hour hotline is 264-9075. Call 264-1129 to learn about volunteer opportunities.

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Rise Above Violence’s Teen Board of Directors outlines healthy relationship behaviorsBy John FinefrockRise Above Violence

February is Teen Dating Vio-lence Awareness Month, and Rise Above Violence’s Teen Board of Di-rectors are working hard to spread the word about this issue.

In the past few weeks, the teen board has been talking about red flags to look out for in potentially unhealthy relationships. This week,

the teen board is offering what they feel are “green flags,” or indicators of a healthy relationship — as dis-cussed at their meeting last Friday.

Some “green flag” behaviors are that your partner:

• Has a positive influence on your life.

• Respects your physical and emotional boundaries.

• Allows you time to spend with friends and family.

• Gives you space to be yourself.• Calls and texts appropriately

and respectfully.• Resolves conflict in a construc-

tive and nonviolent way.“Some qualities to look for in a

partner is that they’re really caring for you, that you do things for each other, that you just genuinely care about one another,” said Charlie, an eighth-grader at Pagosa Springs

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Middle School and a member of the YouthRise Teen Board of Di-rectors.

As part of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, we’re offering specific action steps to try to pro-mote healthy relationships around Pagosa Springs.

This week’s action step is: Model healthy relationships to those around you.

The YouthRise Teen Board of Directors meets outside of school — both virtually and in-person — on Fridays and is working toward the goal of ending relationship violence in Pagosa Springs. This month, the teen board is record-ing weekly YouTube videos about Teen Dating Violence, which can be viewed on the Rise Above Vio-lence social media channels. The teen board is open to all seventh- through 12th-grade students in Pagosa Springs.

Additionally, once this last bout of snow melts down, the teen board will also be posting red garden flags around town parks in the upcom-ing weeks, with a relationship “red flag” written on each one of them.

For more information about YouthRise programs, offered at no cost, contact Cheryl Bowdridge at cheryl@riseaboveviolence or 946-2576, or John Finefrock at [email protected] or 403-5461.

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profit organization which promotes the belief that all people have the right to live free from violence. Rise provides 24-hour support and advocacy services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault

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Have you ever had an issue with fresh eggs not peeling well? I have and I hate to peel eggs when they just won’t peel. Eggs I get from the grocery store usually peel just fine, but super-fresh farm eggs don’t.

I was told by a friend that pres-sure cooking eggs works great at our high altitude, so I gathered the eggs from the chicken house (that’s as fresh as it gets) and pressure cooked a couple batches.

I put 1 cup of water in the pres-sure cooker with a steamer basket, placed three eggs in the steamer basket and set the timer for 6 minutes. It took about 10 minutes for the timer to go off; this time in-cludes pressuring up. I did a quick pressure release and immediately put eggs into an ice bath. The eggs were very soft still. I don’t want soft hard-cooked eggs. The other issue was the water was all gone. I have a 16-quart electric pressure cooker, so there is a lot of space the steam has to fill.

The next batch I put 1 1/2 cups of water and the steamer basket in the pot with three eggs. This time I set the timer for 12 minutes. It took about 19 minutes including

pressuring up and again did a quick pressure release. The eggs went into an ice bath, 2 cups of water and 2 cups of ice, for about 10 minutes. They peeled amaz-ingly. The shell came off in almost a complete piece. The inside was perfect. I am so excited to find a way to hard-cook fresh eggs.

I have done this method with just a few eggs and with a dozen. They always turn out great.

If you don’t have a pressure cooker, steaming them works too. Put about 1 inch of water into a medium saucepan that has a tight-fitting lid. Place an empty steamer basket over the water and bring to a boil on high heat. When the water boils, add the eggs to the steamer basket and return the lid. When the water starts to boil, reduce the heat to medium low. Keep the lid on and steam the eggs for 17 minutes. When done, place the eggs into an ice bath for about 10 minutes.

I hope these tips help you as much as they helped me. If you have any questions, please give us a call at the Colorado State University (CSU) Extension Office, 264-5931.

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Snowman for all seasonsArtist’s LaneBetty Slade

My Sweet Al and I have spent our winter evenings watching movies and documentaries. One in particular is a documentary about Harry de Leyer and his horse, Snowman. It was not only enter-taining, but thought provoking on many levels.

As a young man, Harry, along-side his family, worked with an underground resistance move-ment during the Nazis’ invasion of Holland in 1940. Their mission? To help hide Jewish people and keep them out of the clutches of Hitler’s regime.

During that time, Harry decided to help the Allied Forces. This in-cluded burying U.S. soldiers who died in war, right there on his fam-ily’s farm. After the burial, Harry and his family would send the personal effects of each soldier back to their families.

Out of gratitude, the family of one of the soldiers who died and was buried in their field sponsored Harry de Leyer, a Dutch immigrant from St. Oedenrode, Holland, to come to America. Along with him, he brought his family of eight children.

Prior to the war, Harry was best known as the lead rider for Hol-land’s Junior Equestrian Team. After relocating to Long Island, N.Y., nothing could have been more perfect than for him to land a job as a riding instructor at a private insti-tute called the Knox School.

In 1956, on his way to purchase a horse at auction, de Leyer had a flat tire. Because of his tardiness, Harry missed out on the bidding for the best horses of the day. Meanwhile, men scrambled as they herded unsold horses onto a trailer soon to leave for the slaughterhouse.

As Harry turned to leave, he caught the glimmer in the eye of a nearby white horse. It was a mixed breed, possibly a cross of a grade horse with a U.S. Army remount. There was something about that horse that held great appeal. For the price of $80, Harry took the horse home and his children had a new pet. They named him Snowman.

As time went by, it was decided

that Snowman would be sold to a neighbor for $160. Unfortunately, he kept jumping the fence, trotting 6 miles back to the de Leyer home. Time and time again, no obstacle was a match for Snowman, who continued to make his way back to the farm and family he loved.

Out of frustration, the neighbor gave the horse back to the de Leyer family. You would think that was the end of the story. Not so for the horse whose fate had been changed. For Snowman was a natural when it came to jumping. And that was the beginning of this equestrian tale. Soon Snowman, a decorated cham-pion, set a jumping record at 7 feet, 2 inches. In 1992, he was inducted in the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame.

As I contemplated the docu-mentary I had watched, I found myself asking the question did de Leyer save the horse or did the horse same him?

After the war, the family found themselves in a new country, building a new home and life from scratch. As for Snowman, we don’t know where his beginnings laid. Only that there were talents discov-ered that may have laid waste to a glue factory had not something, or someone, intervened.

How many times have we seen this happen in our own lives? When only the hand of God could have navigated.

I am reminded when the Zecha-riah came on the scene and proph-esied to the children of Israel. He shook things up and said how things were to be, contradicting how things were at the time. He spoke of the day when the kingdom of God would come to earth and all things would change.

When Jesus came to this earth,

he brought God’s presence to a fallen world. As a common man, Jesus told the woman at the well, you will no longer worship where you used to worship, but now you will worship in your heart in spirit and truth. You will become the temple of God and his holy words will be written on your heart.

Final brushstroke: Could a flat tire or a plow horse be considered a holy moment that encouraged change? Was there a divine hand that touched the de Leyer’s story, where the goodwill of the com-mon became a turning point that brought new life? Sometimes God’s hand moves in a way that defies understanding. And only after we live can we truly know the bless-ings had.

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Technology has become such a part of the fabric of daily life that it’s easy for anyone to take their favor-ite gadgets and gizmos for granted. It’s only when power outages strike or batteries run out of power that people stop and realize just how vital a role technology plays in their daily lives.

Technology is always evolving. Whether it’s system updates on a smartphone or the latest incarna-tion of a popular tablet, technology does not sit still. That ever-evolving nature means there’s likely a simple tech solution out there to help any-one make daily life a little easier.

• Wi-Fi extender: The pandemic forced many people to spend more time at home than ever before. While keeping their social distance, homeowners may have noticed a few spots in their home where it’s hard to get a strong and/or consis-tent Wi-Fi signal. A Wi-Fi extender is a simple, easily installed and inexpensive way to remedy spotty Wi-Fi signals around the home.

• Auto shut-off wall outlet: Par-ents who spent much of 2020 work-ing from home as their kids were engaged in remote learning recog-nize that distractions ruled the day during the pandemic. Auto shut-off wall outlets can act as something of a safety net, turning off devices like curling irons and panini grills that distracted parents mistakenly left plugged in.

• Portable phone charger: Por-table phone chargers can ensure that smartphones don’t run out of juice while users are out and about. Modern smartphones do more than ever, and users rely on them to message friends and family, re-spond to work emails, stream their favorite songs and movies, and perform a host of other functions, all in a given day. Portable chargers are compact and lightweight, and solar-powered varieties can be especially useful when spending a full day in the great outdoors.

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Due to COVID-19, the IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program will not be coming to Pagosa Springs to prepare fed-eral and state income tax returns this year.

VITA will be preparing 2020 tax returns at no charge as part of the VITA program in Durango. Please register at: DurangoVITA.org. The gross income limit this tax season is $54,000.

Take-out meals continue at Senior Center

In order to continue providing meals, the Pagosa Springs Senior Center is offering take-out hot meals and a salad with a drive-up option under the portico at the Ross Aragon Community Center.

These meals will be available Monday through Friday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. There is a $4 suggested donation for lunch for those age 60 and better. If you need to have your meal delivered, please call 264-2167 to see if this option is available in your area.

The cost per meal for the pub-lic age 59 and under is $8.50. The meals include a salad, hot meal, drink and dessert or bread.

Please call 264-2167 to make a reservation for pickup. We are also continuing our Meals on Wheels program.

There will be no games, classes or presentations during this time. The staff will be available by phone. If you need to speak to a staff mem-ber, please call 264-2167.

The Community Café menu

Thursday, Feb. 18 — Braised beef short ribs with cauliflower mashed, glazed carrots, dinner roll with butter, milk and salad.

Friday, Feb. 19 — Clam chowder, baked apples, cheddar biscuits with butter, milk and salad.

Monday, Feb. 22 — Cream of mushroom soup, steamed aspara-gus with lemon, focaccia bread with butter, milk and salad.

Tuesday, Feb. 23 — Beef meatloaf with cauliflower mashed and gravy, honey garlic green beans, dinner roll with butter, milk and salad.

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Thursday, Feb. 25 — Zuppa Tos-cana, sauteed zucchini, milk, salad and tiramisu.

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For your convenience, you can make your reservations in advance or have a standing reservation on days you know you will always pick up. Please cancel if you cannot at-tend on your standing reservation days. We want to thank everyone for their support by observing our reservation policy. This helps ensure that everyone with reser-vations receives a meal and en-ables us to provide additional and healthier meals.

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Stats show library flourishing even in COVID timesBy Carole Howard PREVIEW Columnist, and the library staff

Annually, at this time of year, Meg Wempe, library director, pre-pares an annual report for the library’s board of trustees sum-marizing the highlights of the past year. The information also is used when your library applies for grants and it is required to be shared with state, county and town governments to keep them informed.

Of course, 2020 was not a nor-mal year. COVID-19 demonstrated the need for organizations to be nimble, flexible and adaptive as closure mandates and restrictions on operations were required to keep everyone safe.

Your library staff demonstrated an impressive talent for reimagin-ing and rethinking services to our patrons. When the library had to close, and later operate at reduced capacity, staff took advantage of technology to arrange virtual pro-grams like Zoom for book clubs for adults, Facebook Live for family storytimes, and Google Meet for Dungeons and Dragon for teens. They established curbside pickup to keep books, CDs and DVDs in circulation. And they arranged small, by-appointment-only ses-sions for programs Tech Time, GED and ESL because face-to-face was required.

Here are more details about the 2020 operations. You can pick up a shorter infographic version at your library.

• The COVID effect: Not surpris-ingly under COVID conditions, in 2020 our patrons downloaded 7,440 e-books and e-audio books, more than 60 percent over last year, and logged 2,071 sessions on our electronic databases, a whopping 96 percent increase.

• Major objectives achieved: Last year’s income exceeded ex-penses, the HVAC system was

replaced, we began to update our strategic plan, we started to update our operations and procedures manual, and we moved reserve funds to COLOTrust for investing.

• Resource sharing: AspenCat al-lows our patrons access not only to the 28,072 items in our collection, but also to more than 1.5 million items in the other 122 AspenCat libraries. The Colorado Library Consortium courier service pro-vides daily delivery to subscribing libraries throughout the state.

In 2020, we borrowed 6,745 items and loaned 1,981 items. By taking advantage of the purchasing power of the State Library and Colorado Library Consortium, we subscribed to multiple educational databases, including EBSCOHost, Learning Express and the Encyclopedia Bri-tannica, at substantial savings and subscribed to ShoutBomb for text messaging to our patrons about holds and overdue items.

• Collection development: Pro-viding our patrons with materials that are current and relevant to the diverse interests of the community is one of our principal goals. We have 28,072 total items in our col-lection. In 2020 we added 2,926, including 162 from donations, and deleted 8,156 worn or outdated items. Our materials budget for 2021 is $64,500 or 11.5 percent of our total expenses.

• Usage stats: 35,186 patrons walked through our doors last year, down about half from last year because of COVID restrictions. We checked out 63,942 items, a decrease of 36 percent from 2019, again lower because of COVID. We

welcomed 25,732 website visits. • Programming: Providing pro-

grams for all ages is a very high priority. With COVID, our program-ming dramatically changed. We increased the number of virtual programs, began take-and-make programs and limited in-person programs by appointment. Our programming budget for 2020 is 1.2 percent of our total expenses.

• Donations, grants and vol-unteers: We are very fortunate to have the ongoing support of the community. In 2020, we received $24,237 in donations and $34,749 in grants, 9 percent of our total rev-enue. Our volunteers contributed 1,000 hours, valued at $27,200.

• Continuing education: To continue to provide our commu-nity with the best possible service, several of our staff attended a vari-ety of educational and networking opportunities last year, many via webinars to avoid travel. We also hosted two staff education days.

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They are created to be sturdy, attractive learning tools — and often they are both a toy and a book. Learn more by watching a video or joining the all-ages Board Book Reading Challenge today, Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m. on the library’s Facebook page.

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Reading Program. The theme will be “Tails and Tales.” This is an all-ages contest. All designs must be original. The winning T-shirt will be worn by staff during the summer, given to the winning designer, and a limited number will be available for purchase. For details and a blank T-shirt template, pick up a flyer at the library or go online to our web-site. The deadline for submissions is March 8.

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You need to sign up for this spe-cial program, called LENA, in order to be enrolled in the workshops that will provide you with personal-ized information and ideas to help your child. Please contact Michelle Salmeron-Ramierez at 585-4293 or [email protected].

The program, available in Eng-lish and Spanish, was created for babies from newborn to age 3.

Online Spanish

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lengeOn Feb. 22, we will post a new

writing challenge on the library’s Facebook page. We hope you will challenge your creativity by par-ticipating. This is a free, all-ages activity.

Storywalk for kidsWeather permitting, every other

Thursday, Josie posts signs outside the library that follow the sidewalk up toward the elementary school detailing a new free Storywalk for kids. The current theme is celebrat-ing Valentine’s Day and love of all kinds. After you finish the walk, pick up materials for a craft or activity at the library.

Knitting takeawaysPick up free knitting takeaways

at the library entrance during open hours to take for your in-home enjoyment. We’ll have patterns, craft ideas, instructions and some limited supplies available.

Calling all teens If you enjoy reading books,

learning new skills and helping

your community, we hope sixth- through 12th-graders will sign up to volunteer at your library. You’ll write book reviews, make artwork for the teen area, help plan new programs, judge our pumpkin-decorating contest, prepare crafts for kids’ programs and help keep the library organized. Please stop by the library or apply online.

After-school programIn response to COVID, we have

revamped our free after-school program into STEAM enrichment kits, STEAM standing for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, for ages 5 and up. Registration is required at 264-2209. Pick up your kit and then bring your completed projects back to the library to be displayed in the last week of the month.

DIY craft takeaway

for kidsDrop by your library for free

DIY crafts takeaways for young-sters age 10 and older during open hours. Pick up a packet outside the library.

Tech TimeMake a 15- to 30-minute ap-

pointment for one of three free in-person slots available noon to 1 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs-days. Brad will help one person (or one couple) at a time resolve issues with your computer, smartphone, tablet and other electronic devices.

ESLFree in-person classes take place

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 7 p.m. by appointment. Please register so we can keep it to a small group in our limited open spaces. No walk-ins, please.

Dungeons and Dragons Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m.,

Dungeons and Dragons is free for teens and young adults on Google Meet. Contact [email protected] to learn how to join. If you don’t have Internet access, contact us anyway — we may be able to ac-commodate you in the library.

Children’s programs on

Facebook Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and Sat-

urdays at 2:30 p.m., join us on the library’s Facebook page for free chil-dren’s programs. Wednesday story-times are on Facebook Live, so you can interact with Josie. Saturday’s Discovery Times — with games, art ideas, science experiments, history and more — are prerecorded.

Adult education Our free PALS (Pagosa Adult

Learning Services) sessions take place in person, where Mark helps with high school equivalency, GED, college prep, financial aid, tutoring and more. Contact the library and Mark will work with you to schedule

a date and time to meet.

Library operations update Here is the current status under

COVID Level Blue: • 30 patrons may be in the build-

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Nonfiction“First Platoon” by Annie Jacob-

sen exposes government secrets in the age of biometrics databases. “The Princess Spy” by Larry Loftis is the true story of an American World War II spy who becomes a countess. “Crossing the Line” by Kareem Rosser documents the author’s path to becoming part of the first all-Black national in-terscholastic polo championship team. “Do Better” by spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts is a guide to dismantling white supremacy. “Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life” by Eric Metaxas is a poetic memoir of a man who always felt he did not fit in.

Mysteries and thrillers“Three Hours in Paris” by Cara

Black features a rural Oregon wom-an who takes on Hitler. “Shiver” by Allie Reynolds focuses on a reunion weekend in the snowy French Alps. “The Residence” by Andrew Pyper follows President Franklin Pierce and his wife’s unusual griev-ing in the White House after their son’s death. “The Distant Dead” by Heather Young begins with the death of a quiet, small-town math teacher.

Other novels“Pale” by Edward A. Farmer fol-

lows the lives of white plantation owners and Black cotton pickers in the summer of 1966. “Nick” by Michael Farris Smith features nar-rator Nick Carraway’s life before Gatsby and West Egg going back to the trenches of World War I.

Books on CD“Robert Ludlum’s The Tread-

stone Exile” by Joshua Hood is the second novel in the Treadstone ops series. “Faithless in Death” by J.D. Robb is a new Eve Dallas police thriller. “The Unwilling” by John Hart features a man trying to escape the violent fallout from three tours in Vietnam.

Downloadable e-books

and audiobooks We have a wide variety of down-

loadable e-books and audio books for all ages — children, tweens, teens and adults — in cloudLibrary. These items are purchased sepa-rately from physical items, so the books available are different — and it continues to use the consortium’s contributions as well as those that we bought. That is why you need to select AspenCat Union Catalog when setting up cloudLibrary for use. Please email or phone us at 264-2209 if you need our help.

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Billionaire mine owner leaves a tiny town in the lurch

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By David MarstonPREVIEW Columnist

Only about 100 people live in Somerset in western Colorado, a for-mer coal company town squeezed into a narrow valley. A state highway and railroad tracks crowd on one side, the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the other.

Some say there’s charm in the town’s narrow streets and funky houses with affordable rent. What’s more, there’s no government except for a water district, though that’s what a recent controversy is all about.

For over a century, Somerset has been dominated by a parade of big money interests, from Kaiser Steel to US Steel and now by billionaire Bill Koch, younger brother to the Koch brothers, known for financing far-right politics.

De facto government has long been from the coal companies,

which provided water and even a store. In the early 1960s, mine owner at the time, US Steel, sold the houses to residents. But Somerset never created a town government, and minimal oversight comes from Gunnison County, two hours away by way of a twisting highway or dirt road over a pass.

The town’s water always re-mained a coal company’s respon-sibility until this year. On Jan. 27, Koch’s mine president, Mike Ludlow, sent a letter to the Somerset Water Board: “Oxbow Mining is hereby providing you with a six months’ n See Range on next page

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notice of its intention to terminate the Agreement (contract of 1962) effective on July 31, 2021.”

The property under the plant and water rights from the North Fork River, however, will revert to Koch’s gas fracking company, Gunnison Energy.

How can tiny Somerset — its finances shaky and residents on the poorer side — possibly shoulder the burden? Maintenance of the aging water treatment plant costs $7,000 monthly, and water from the plant consistently fails state-monitored water quality tests.

Saddled with finding a solution is lifetime Somerset resident John Mlakar, Somerset’s water manager. He says the town has $71,000 on hand, which isn’t nearly enough to build a new $200,000 plant that would meet state standards and sift harmful compounds from the water.

One of those compounds is bromide. When mixed with chlo-rine used to kill bacteria in a water treatment plant, it causes total trihalomethanes, a cancer-causing mixture.

Bromide occurs naturally, but concentrates after being stirred up by mining or natural gas drilling. Wa-ter tests by a Koch employee in 2018 found that bromide originated well

above the West Elk mine, but below where Koch’s Gunnison Energy and others have natural gas wells.

Meanwhile, new people have been moving into the town’s 50 or so houses as retired coal miners move out. One champion of the reviving town is Terry Commander, who heads the town’s fire district.

“The dynamics of the town are changing for the better,” she said.

You might think that Koch’s cor-poration, the state of Colorado or the county would be willing to help Somerset deal with its crisis. So far, no one has stepped up.

Gunnison County Commissioner Roland Mason said that dealing with “rights of way” in distant Somerset has always been a chore. Perhaps that’s why a visitor to the town no-tices abandoned cars parked willy-nilly and piles of junk that look as old as the town itself.

Yet Mason acknowledged that Somerset has been a valuable asset: “Ten years ago, 18 percent of our budget was from the severance tax when the mines were going.”

That amounted to $11.7 million of the county’s $65 million budget.

“The county had to rearrange their budget significantly when the mines closed,” Mason added.

Impacts, however, were mostly felt in nearby Delta County, which

for 60 years provided everything from schools, hospital and housing for hundreds of coal miners and their families. Delta County received some payment for its services, but they were never on the scale of Gun-nison County, which could claim Somerset as its cash cow.

Koch’s mine closed after a fire in 2013, but Somerset still has one ac-tive coal mine, West Elk Mine, which sent $1.2 million direct severance taxes to the town and county of Gunnison in 2019 alone. Another $497,000 indirect severance grant paid for six solar arrays on Gunnison county buildings.

Mlakar said he’s happy to make the town’s pitch to Gunnison com-missioners: “We need their help. I’ve been in the new Gunnison jail, though not for illegal reasons. That place is a palace.”

He compares prosperous Gunni-son County to his own tight budget. “I make $905 per month. My house is paid off and money pays for food, heat and my water. You push the price of water any higher, and I’m broke, I gotta leave.”

Dave Marston is the publisher of Writers on the Range, writerson-therange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He went to school years K-12 with kids from Somerset.

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This photo shows a Pagosa Springs 1901 Fourth of July celebration. During earlier times, as shown here, a bridge carried San Juan Street across the river to the block where the town started. In those days, the nearby hill was called Roubidoux Hill, recognizing the trapper prominent during the beaver trapping era.

Fort Lewis, Fort Massachusetts, Fort Garland and Fort Lowell

In the early days when white and Hispanic settlers first started exploring San Juan Country in search of gold, the Southern Utes they found living there tolerated the invasion. They figured the white man would look around for a bit trying to find gold, trap a few beaver hides, then go back to from whence they came.

They soon learned to their sor-row that “white man speak with forked tongue.”

The white man started build-ing more and more houses. Soon the housing communities grew into towns, which grew into cit-ies surrounded by farms. He soon replaced the almost limitless herds of buffalo with cattle and plowed and planted the land, defying the original inhabitants to trespass on his newly acquired fiefdom.

Conflict was inevitable and the whites soon called on the Army to “help us protect our land.”

One of the promises the U.S. agreed to while signing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo ending the Mexican/American War was to protect the Hispanic population in what was soon to become the southwestern part of the United States from the various tribes of Native Americans living across the area.

Troops needed forts and forts attracted settlers. For example, Pagosa Springs started out as Fort Lewis, created to protect settlers around the hot springs from the Southern Utes.

Fort Massachusetts was the first

regular Army post in Colorado. Erected in 1852, under the direc-tion of Kit Carson, it was located a few miles southwest of where the Fort Garland Museum stands today on the west bank of Utah Creek.

Troops from Fort Massachusetts fought in the 1854-55 wars against combined Southern Ute and Jica-rilla Apache warriors. The Army soon learned that the first Fort Massachusetts was nearly impos-sible to defend because the enemy could climb nearby hills, getting above the walls and shooting the soldiers they were looking down on. The newly moved post was called Fort Garland and manned until 1883. The first troops sta-tioned in Pagosa Springs marched over from Fort Garland.

Settlement in the San Luis Valley was, at best, tenuous until these forts were built. Another post on the border of Pagosa Country was es-tablished Nov. 6, 1866, near today’s Tierra Amarilla in New Mexico. At first, this outpost was called Camp Plummer. On July 13, 1868, its name was changed to Fort Lowell. Fort Lowell was closed July 29, 1869.

Relations between the invad-ing whites and the Utes followed a precedent repeated frequently across the North American conti-

nent: encroachment by the whites, battles, incidents, the Army called in, treaties, land set aside for the Indians, more encroachments, more incidents, more Army inter-ventions and more treaties.

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Does someone you help wander dangerously?By Kay KaylorPREVIEW Columnist

I advocate for residents in skilled nursing and assisted living residences as the regional long-term care ombudsman. I also am a Senior Medicare Patrol and State Health Insurance Assistance Pro-gram counselor, all as an employee of San Juan Basin Area Agency on Aging (SJBAAA). The many aging and care concerns will be ad-dressed here.

Sometimes an individual who needs a caregiver will find a way to leave a residence without su-pervision. Here are some tips, with additional comments, from the Family Caregiver Alliance and the Alzheimer’s Association (AA) Safe Return Program. Be sure to look for other causes if someone tends to unsafely go outside, such as an infection, side effects from medication, boredom, and unmet physical needs the person cannot express, such as hunger or longing for fresh air.

Another option, as described in a Next Avenue online article: A family caregiver treated a difficult situation with patience and com-passion when her mother, who was living with memory loss, wanted to leave the house. She allowed her mother to go outside with a coat and followed closely behind, even-tually joining her on the walk with permission. This practice might help prevent anxiety and frustra-tion, even if the person needs as-sistance walking.

Making time for exercise when caregiving helps keep all involved from becoming restless and im-patient with staying indoors. A second tip suggests installing locks that require a key or code to open. Because a person living with dementia might not look beyond eye level, a lock could be installed higher or lower than typical place-ment. The lock must still be easy to open for others in the household for fire and safety reasons.

Several items could be used to mask an exit door. Barriers like a curtain or colored streamers have prevented unwanted wandering. Or, a “Stop” sign or “Do not enter” sign in large letters and posted on a door might be effective. Another suggestion is to put child-safe plas-tic covers on doorknobs, thus dis-guising them. Due to depth vision problems characteristic of some illnesses, a confused person might perceive a black mat or a painted black space outside the door as an impassable hole.

If a caregiver knows the individ-ual will not leave without certain items, they can be hidden, such as a specific coat, purse, or glasses, but allow the person to have these items at other times to relieve

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frustration, and consider hav-ing something warm, like a wool blanket, near the exit doors in the winter. In addition, home security or monitoring systems, even chair and bed alarms, help caregivers keep track of individuals.

The Alliance lists several ways to find a person who might suc-ceed in leaving the residence. First, caregivers should keep a current photo of the individual

handy. Technological items that track locations, such as a GPS de-vice, could be worn. Identification bracelets and name labels with a phone number sewn into clothes quickly aid someone who encoun-ters the lost or confused person. Tell trusted neighbors who to con-tact if they see the person outside without supervision. Finally, it is possible to register an individual who tends to leave home with the local police and the AA Safe Return Program.

SJBAAA offers resources for people age 60 and older or on Medicare; see sjbaaa.org. For fur-ther information, please call or text 403-2165 or send an email to [email protected].

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Distance-learning students from Pagosa Peak Open School learned about COVID-19 and completed a project over the last few months that included, in part, posters that can be seen around town.

A shared learning of the virus: A distance learning class and an in-person class interact over bacteria and COVIDBy Alison BeachPagosa Peak Open School

This year, Pagosa Peak Open School has taught a distance learn-ing class in addition to in-person classes. Emily Murphy’s distance learning class has students in all levels and grades, and they have

been working on a COVID-related project over the past few months.

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about bacteria.Paisley, a kindergartener, loved

the music and sparkles at the beginning of the video. Other kin-dergarteners from Choat’s class gave their reactions. Elias said he found it very inspiring because he did not know what bacteria looked like. Noa said she liked how Amalie reminded us to sing the ABCs while we washed out hands so we wash our hands long enough. She said Mrs. Karla told us at the beginning of the year but that she forgot and she was glad Amalie reminded her.

Wyatt made the connection that when Amalie and Zeke showed pic-tures of the virus and the bacteria, he realized that both of them can make you sick. Payton said she did not know that some bacteria are good and she thought it was yucky that we had bacteria in our tummies. She said she was going to make sure that she only ate eggs that are cooked. Hazel loved the big bacteria that could not get into Amalie’s mask.

In reaction to Zeke’s video pre-sentation about the virus, Kendall, an in-person kinder from Choat’s class, thought the virus was very beautiful and surprised that it makes you sick because it is so pretty. Noa said she is going to eat more fruit so she can stay healthy.

Kateri loved how Zeke was showing the globe because coro-navirus is all over the world. Emily thought it was scary how corona-virus squeezes your lungs, making

it hard to breathe. Sedona was glad to see what coronavirus looked like because she always wondered what the virus looked like. Wyatt liked how both Amalie and Zeke told us how we can stay safe like wearing masks, washing hands and eating healthy foods.

In such a time where we are all learning about this new virus and what it takes to stay healthy, it is fascinating to watch such young minds engage through various forms of technological and person-al communication to learn about bacteria and COVID together.

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What true love really isBy Daris HowardSpecial to The PREVIEW

Eight-year-old Jason, one of our foster children, slammed his pencil down. “If you truly loved me, you wouldn’t make me do things I hate, like this math!”

Jason had come to our home with his sister and brother. The three children were taken from their home because their mother needed medical help to stabilize her mentally, and their father played video games all day and didn’t take care of them. The chil-dren had been left on their own to get food, get on the bus and fend for themselves.

Often the boys missed school, and when they did go, they showed the lack of care they were receiving. Though almost 4, Talia had been left in a crib all day, often going hungry and having no interaction with anyone when her brothers weren’t home.

Shortly after the children came to our home, we started receiving calls and letters from the boys’ teachers. They were struggling with

homework and other related items. Jason was especially having a hard time. He was held back in the same grade he was in the previous year, but was still failing every subject.

Sitting in his chair at our kitchen table where I had been working with him, Jason glared at me. He was defiantly daring me to teach him any more.

“Jason,” I calmly said, “love is not letting a person throw their life away when you know they have great potential. True love is helping them become the best they can be.”

Jason’s expression turned from one of anger to one of confusion. “What?”

“Jason, you can do this math. I know you can. You’re a smart little boy. You have the ability to be the top student in your class. And I’m not willing to let you do or be less than you can be. However, that only comes through hard work.”

Jason stared at me for a long time. Finally, he said, “When you make me work on the homework that I hate, it’s because you love me?”

I nodded. “I want to see you be-

come the best that you can be, and I know you can do great things.”

He just stared at me for a minute or so. It was evident that he had never thought of it that way before. Finally, he quietly opened his book, and we went back to work. It took a while to get the whole assign-ment right because I wouldn’t just give him the answers. I made him work them and then showed him what he was not understanding. But a couple of days later, when he brought home a paper with a perfect score, it was the first time he didn’t get a zero, and he was thrilled.

I wish I could say it was perfect after that, but it wasn’t. Still, one success led to another. As he felt the joy of accomplishment, he sought more. My wife and I spent hours working with him on read-ing, writing, math and all of his subjects. Soon he was bringing home high scores on every assign-ment.

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Sunday devotionals offered by the Baha’i FaithBy Paulette HeberBaha’i Community of Archuleta County

The Baha’i Community of Ar-chuleta County hosts weekly de-votionals every Sunday morning from 10 to 10:30 a.m. via Zoom. All are welcome.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/884668836?pwd=bkdEeVlaSWN0bFRMdFhidXpzWjV5Zz09, call-in number: (669) 900-6833, meeting ID: 884 668 836.

A weekly theme is reflected in the prayers, music, poetry and se-lections from world religions and various sources. All are encouraged to contribute inspirational pieces. This Sunday, Feb. 21, our theme is wisdom.

“Above all else, the greatest gift and the most wondrous blessing hath ever been and will continue to be Wisdom. It is man’s unfail-

ing Protector. It aideth him and strengtheneth him.” — Baha’u’llah.

The Baha’i Faith is an all-em-bracing world religion founded on the principle of unity. It recognizes humanity’s spiritual nature and the innate nobility of every hu-man soul. Among the teachings of the Baha’i Faith are the investiga-tion of truth, the oneness of God, the oneness of mankind, justice, universal peace, the conformity between science and divine revela-tion, the equality of women and men, and the abandonment of racial, religious, worldly and politi-cal prejudices. It is in this spirit of community that we cordially invite you to our devotionals.

To learn more about the Baha’i Faith, please visit the official inter-national website of the Baha’i Faith at www.bahai.org. Our local contact is [email protected].

New Thought topic: ‘Our Incredible Capacity to Love’By Lisa BurnsonNew Thought Center for

Inspirational Living

“The heart man is like the sea. It has storms, it has tides, and in its depths, it has pearls.” — Vincent van Gogh.

All are welcome to join the New Thought Center for Inspirational Living this Sunday, Feb. 21, at 10:30 a.m., for our presentation: “Our Incredible Capacity To Love: A Heart’s Journey.” Our speaker will be Shayla White Eagle McClure.

Our sanctuary is sanitized and set up for social distancing.

We will have spirited live music.

Upcoming eventsFriday, Feb. 19, 6 p.m.: “Main-

taining a Happy, Healthy Heart: Recipes for the Body, Mind, and Spirit,” a free lecture with Jenelle Syverson and McClure.

Meditation Circle is held each Wednesday at 6 p.m. (weather per-mitting). All are welcome.

Band practice is every Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. We welcome

musicians and singers to join our band. Please text Bruce at (970) 507-0739 to join or for band infor-mation.

About usThe New Thought Center pro-

motes living a spiritually centered life, and promotes the philosophies of Centers for Spiritual Living and Agape Centers. New Thought honors all lifestyles, cultures and religious paths to the divine.

We welcome local talents to share gifts, aptitudes and knowl-edge. Participate, learn or contrib-ute your insights, beliefs, knowl-edge and skills.

New Thought events are held at 3505 W. U.S. 160, on the second floor of Best Western Lodge (eleva-tor available).

Request prayer treatment or obtain information by joining us; emailing [email protected]; mail-ing P.O. Box 1052, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147; or calling 309-6067. Find us on Facebook (Pagosa Commu-nity of New Thought) or YouTube (Pagosa New Thought Channel).

ject. He also brought a letter from his teacher. She said he was the top student in her class in almost every area. He was now working hard and wasn’t belligerent. She said Jason had top scores in nearly every at-titude category, which pleased her even more than his grades. She ended with, “I don’t know what you’re doing, but keep it up.”

When I read his grades, I praised him, and he just beamed. He smiled and said, “Love is helping someone do their best, and doing my best feels good.”

As he ran off to join the other children, I thought that with all he had learned, his new under-standing of what love truly is was probably the most important thing of all.

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Renowned environmentalist to join Community in Conversation Feb. 23By Sarah RiehmSt. Patrick’s Episcopal Church

For the past several weeks, Herb Grover has been leading our Com-munity in Conversation series on environmental stewardship. On Tuesday, Feb. 23, the Rev. Edward R. Brown will join us for the free Zoom discussion.

Brown is the author of our dis-cussion book, “Our Father’s World.”

Even if you have not partici-pated in previous sessions, you are welcome to join us for Tuesday’s session from 6 to 7:30 p.m. On March 2, Grover will wrap up the series with insights on environ-mental progress and challenges in our community of Pagosa Springs. Discussions are always lively and reflect many points of view on en-vironmental issues. If you’d like to receive the Zoom invitation, please email [email protected]. All are welcome.

Brown is the director and CEO of Care of Creation, and serves as catalyst for Creation Care for the Lausanne Movement. He directs the work of Care of Creation in the U.S. As Creation Care catalyst, he has led the development of a global creation care network under the Lausanne Movement in partner-ship with the World Evangelical Al-liance. Brown has been involved in Creation Care for almost 20 years. He is a fellow at the Nelson Institute

of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and serves on the advisory council for the Season of Creation, an an-nual global prayer effort on behalf of God’s creation. He was part of the Global Advisory Committee for Earth Day Network’s 50th an-niversary celebration. For more information, visit www.careofcre-ation.net.

He is the author of two books: “Our Father’s World: Mobilizing the Church to Care for Creation,” and “When Heaven and Nature Sing: Exploring God’s Goals for His People and His World.” In addition, “Creation Care and the Gospel,” for which Ed contributed the in-troduction and first chapter, was released as part of the Lausanne Library in 2016.

Brown received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gordon College (1975), Master of Divinity from Gordon Conwell Seminary (1979)and the honorary Doctor of Divin-ity degree from ACTS Academy of Higher Education, Bangalore India (2018). He served as chief operat-ing officer for Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies and worked with InterVarsity Christian Fellow-ship and as a pastor. Brown and wife Susanna live in Madison, Wis. They grew up as children of mis-sionaries in the country of Pakistan and carry a love for that country and overseas ministry with them.

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UUs to discuss the Guest At Your Table programBy Joan WardPagosa Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

The Pagosa Unitarian Univer-salist Fellowship continues virtual services on the first and third Sun-days of the month.

Please join us on this Sunday, Feb. 21, at 10 a.m. as we gather to learn about the Unitarian Univer-salist Service Committee’s (UUSC) Guest At Your Table (GAYT) pro-gram.

The UUSC is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization. Its mission: “UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who con-front unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. Our work is grounded in the belief that all people have in-herent power and dignity.”

The annual GAYT intergen-erational program highlights four individuals involved in human

rights issues, this year in the United States and internationally — the “guests” in GAYT. These four are addressing their right to home in a variety of ways. Thus, the theme of GAYT this year is “The Meaning of Home.”

Join the fellowship as Michael Demchak, service leader, presents an overview of the work this orga-nization is doing, who it supports and what you can do to help. The topic for discussion will be “Mak-ing a Wish for the World.” What positive change would you like to see happen in the world this year?

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Our fellowship offers each in-dividual support in their unique spiritual path and an opportunity

to participate in social and envi-ronmental action. We welcome di-versity and invite everyone to share in our faith community.

Religious Exploration classes have been temporarily canceled due to COVID-19. For more infor-mation about the fellowship, call and leave a message at 731-7900, or email [email protected].

Just being honestBy Emrys TylerPREVIEW Columnist

We are entering late winter, when many Christian traditions celebrate a season called “Lent.” These 40 days before Easter evolved into a preparation time for new Christians before their baptism on Easter Sunday. Part of that prepara-tion was a meditation on the power of sin in one’s life and the need for grace and mercy from God.

In the after-effects of the last presidential administration, I noticed many references to “soul-searching.” The vitriol of political discourse, the shocking events at the national Capitol building on Jan. 6 and the frequent accusa-tions of intentional deception have caused many to ask, “What’s going on?” or “How can this happen?”

When we recognize that all of us, on every side, in every party, share a common humanity, we are faced with the possibility that the disturbing thoughts and behavior of others could just as easily be true of us. I could have ended up on the Capitol steps chanting for the death of elected officials. I could turn into an embittered troll spit-ting acid accusations at all opposi-tion. There is a heart of darkness in each of us which, when fed, grows into ugly things.

Those ugly things are usually not big enough to make national news. My darkness may be misuse of food. It may be language that damages others. It may be de-structive ambition. There is a long list of possibilities. Whatever the particulars, we know that we have both positive impulses in our souls and a persistent power of darkness.

Every generation attempts to

gloss over, ignore or deny that dark-ness. It can be hard to dwell on. But history reveals that the darkness does not obey human will. It rel-ishes being ignored, since willful ignorance contributes to the dark-ness. Denying the darkness is like saying that because the sun is bright there will never be night again.

We Christians call this daily and global darkness “sin.” When we sin, we fall short of our intended purpose, of what our Divine Cre-ator longs for from us. The ancient teacher Paul of Tarsus described it to an ancient church: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” The contemporary phi-losopher puts it more blandly: “Nobody’s perfect.” Over time, this failure brings guilt, shame and resignation.

The season of Lent is a time for getting real. It is a time to be honest and declare both that we’re not per-fect and that we want to be better. We know that there is a darkness inside and that we want it flooded with light. We know that our hearts can be hard, but we want to be lov-ing and good.

Many would prefer not to dwell on their own sin and the power of darkness. We say it’s pessimistic or depressing. But, for the sake of healing, we need to name the disease. We know that we can’t just ignore a fever and go on living

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without threat to ourselves and others. If our foot suddenly hurt too much to stand on, we wouldn’t say, “That’s depressing to talk about; I’m just going to pretend it’s fine.” We would get the problem diagnosed and seek healing.

Lent is the diagnosis that leads to the healing of Resurrection Sunday: In the face of human evil, we speak a word of hope. Jesus Christ passed through death and

rose again to life. The evil that put Christ to death — sin — did not get the last word. Nor does evil in the present. The Spirit of God that raised Jesus works in us to heal the ravages of sin through faith, conversation, community, protest and reconciliation.

If the cold and snow of winter gives you any extra time inside, I invite you to join me in looking within and naming those places where the darkness needs light.

And when you discover them, I invite you to join me in looking to the Light of the World, Jesus Christ, who guarantees that in him, we will always have “the light of life” (recounted for us in the Gospel according to John 8:12).

Join me in the work of Lent and join the church in the great celebration of Easter. For when we acknowledge our sin and ask for Christ’s healing, God does amaz-ing things.

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Calendar are free of charge unless

otherwise noted.

Thursday, Feb. 18Loaves and Fishes Free Community

Lunch. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Parish

Hall, Lewis Street. Serving fresh

vegetable stir-fry over rice to go

at the front doors of the Parish

Hall. In addition, frozen prepared

meals, meat and other staples are

available for those in need. Masks

and social distancing are required.

Tech Time by Appointment. Noon-

1 p.m., Sisson Library. Make an

appointment for one of three slots

available. Brad will help one person

or one couple at a time. Call 264-

2209 to make an appointment or

for more information.

Collection Spotlight: Board Books.

4 p.m. Facebook. For all ages.

Board books are fun and unique.

They are built to be sturdy, attrac-

tive learning tools; often, they are

both toy and book. Learn more

about board books and what makes

them special by watching the video

or joining the Board Book Reading

Challenge. Call 264-2209 for more

information.

English as a Second Language by

Appointment. 5-7 p.m., Sisson Li-

brary. Your library offers English as

a second language classes. These

classes are free. Call 264-2209 or

email for more information and to

make an appointment.

Principles Before Personalities

Group of Alcoholics Anony-

mous. 7 p.m., Tennyson Building

Event Center, 197 Navajo Trail

Drive. Contact Charlotte or Ken

at 903-9690, or Nate at 507-1004.

Friday, Feb. 19Take and Make DIY: Paper Plants.

Facebook. These paper plants will

brighten any living space. They are

fun to make, but they will also last

a long time as a quality addition to

your home’s decor. You will be able

to choose from a variety of cacti

and other succulents to make. Sup-

plies and instructions will be made

available to pick up at the library on

Friday, Feb. 19. Video tutorials will

be on Facebook and the library’s

website at https://pagosalibrary.org/

adult-diy. Call 264-2209 for more

information.

HER Story. A women’s group provid-

ing a safe, supportive space to

grow and heal as you share your

story. An opportunity to meet other

women in your community in a

peer-supported group focused on

healing from trauma, abuse or

violence. In-person meetings have

been postponed due to COVID-19.

If you are interested in a virtual

option, email us at contactus@

riseaboveviolence.org.

PALS, GED and College Prep Assis-

tance. Noon-3 p.m. In person, ap-

pointment required. Pagosa Adult

Learning Services can help you

earn your GED, prepare for college

entrance exams, prepare for vo-

cational tests and other education

requirements. Mark will work with

you to develop an achievable plan

to complete your goals. Earning

your GED is possible at any stage

in life, and we can help. Call 264-

2209 or email ruby@pagosalibrary.

org to schedule an appointment.

The Good News Club. 2-4 p.m.,

Pagosa Bible Church, 209 Harman

Park Drive. A program for children

in K-6th grade. COVID mandates

will be followed, including social

distancing and masks. For more

information or to register, go to

coloradocef.org/GNC.

Saturday, Feb. 20Discovery Time. 2:30 p.m. Facebook.

For all ages. New videos are posted

to Facebook each Saturday. View

to explore new games, art ideas,

science experiments, history, ac-

tivities and more. Call 264-2209 for

more information.

Monday, Feb. 22Writing Challenge. Facebook. For all

ages. Calling all writers: challenge

your creativity. Challenge details

will be posted on the Library’s

Facebook page. Call 264-2209 for

more information.








Spanish Conversation. 4-5 p.m.

Google Meet. Join us virtually to

practice your Spanish conversation

skills in a group setting. Access the

meeting using the Google Meet app

or by visiting google.meet.com/xrv-

csre-kay. Call Brad at 264-2209 for

more information.

Tuesday, Feb. 23Veterans for Veterans of Archul-

eta County. 10 a.m., Tennyson

Building Event Center, 197 Na-

vajo Trail Drive. Veterans and

associated members are invited.

Social distancing is required at

this time. Contact 799-8387 for

more details.















Community in Conversation. 6-7:30

p.m., Zoom. Join us for a Zoom

discussion group on topics of im-

portance to our town. Herb Grover

will lead a discussion on environ-

mental stewardship. If you’d like to

attend, send your email address to

[email protected] to receive

the Zoom invitation. Everyone is

welcome to attend.






at 903-9690, or Nate at 507-1004.

Wednesday, Feb. 24Who We Play For: Heart Screening

Event. Pagosa Springs Middle

School. Heart-screening event for

school athletes. The screening will

consist of a heart health question-

naire and electrocardiogram, in-

terpreted by pediatric cardiologists

specifically trained on athletes. To register, go to www.whoweplayfor.

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or call 317-0371.

Kids Kare. 9:30-11:30 a.m., Pagosa

Bible Church, 209 Harman Park

Drive. A program for children ages

3-5. Includes Bible time, songs,

crafts, games and more. COVID

mandates will be followed, includ-

ing social distancing and masks.

For more information or to register,

go to coloradocef.org/GNC.

Family Storytime. 10 a.m. For all

ages. Join us for great stories and

fun songs. Wednesday storytimes

are on Facebook Live, so if you go

to Facebook at 10 a.m., you can

interact with Josie. If you have a

Facebook account, you can log in

and search for the Ruby Sisson Me-

morial Library. If you don’t have a

Facebook account, you can access

the page by visiting our website and

clicking the Facebook icon, or you

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information.

Dungeons and Dragons. 4-6 p.m.

Teens and young adults. Join us on

Google Meet for our ongoing game.

Contact [email protected]

for details on how to join.

Public Open House for Pagosa

Springs Plans Forward. 4-7

p.m. The Town of Pagosa Springs

has kicked off the Land Use and

Development Code update, and

would like to invite the community

to participate in the first public open house. The open house will be held

in person as well as hosted online

through www.MyPagosa.org. The

town would like to hear public

thoughts on a host of development

related topics.

Thursday, Feb. 25Loaves and Fishes Free Community

Lunch. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Parish

Hall, Lewis Street. Serving savory

noodle casserole to go at the front

doors of the Parish Hall. In addi-

tion, frozen prepared meals, meat

and other staples are available for

those in need. Masks and social

distancing are required.




















at 903-9690, or Nate at 507-1004.

Friday, Feb. 26HER Story. A women’s group provid-

ing a safe, supportive space to

grow and heal as you share your

story. An opportunity to meet other

women in your community in a

peer-supported group focused on

healing from trauma, abuse or






Literary Ladies Book Club. 10:15

a.m.-noon. Zoom. The club will be

discussing “How Fascism Works”

by Jason Stanley. Contact Marilyn

by email [email protected] with

questions about the book club. Call

264-2209 with questions about ac-

cessing the meeting on Zoom. The

Zoom Meeting ID is 859 2949 6860

and the passcode is 81147.

PALS, GED and College Prep Assis-

tance. Noon-3 p.m. In person, ap-

pointment required. Pagosa Adult

Learning Services can help you

earn your GED, prepare for college

entrance exams, prepare for vo-

cational tests and other education

requirements. Mark will work with

you to develop an achievable plan

to complete your goals. Earning

your GED is possible at any stage

in life, and we can help. Call 264-

2209 or email ruby@pagosalibrary.

org to schedule an appointment.









Saturday, Feb. 27LEGO Challenge. 10 a.m. Facebook.

Join us for an all ages LEGO

challenge via an image posted on

Facebook and the library website.

Use your own pieces to create

something that will fit the challenge. If you don’t have LEGOs, we will

have a few grab bags available.

Call 264-2209 for more information.

Discovery Time. 2:30 p.m. Facebook.

For all ages. New videos are posted

to Facebook each Saturday. View

to explore new games, art ideas,

science experiments, history, ac-

tivities and more. Call 264-2209 for

more information.

Monday, March 1Tech Time by Appointment. Noon-







Tuesday, March 2Veterans for Veterans of Archuleta

County. 9 a.m., Tennyson Build-

ing Event Center, 197 Navajo

Trail Drive. Veterans and associ-

ated members are invited. Social

distancing is required at this time.

Contact 799-8387 for more details.




















at 903-9690, or Nate at 507-1004.

Wednesday, March 3Kids Kare. 9:30-11:30 a.m., Pagosa

Bible Church, 209 Harman Park

Drive. A program for children ages




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I woke early with anticipation for the first day of first grade at Manassa Elementary School. On that Monday morning, my small beginnings took a turn and life began to write my story.

Picture the year, 1947. Each day is as predictable as the days and weeks before. The only change is a new Paul Cobb Mountain Boys calendar hung on top of the previ-ous year’s. The one-page calendar dangled on the nail above the white porcelain sink, alongside the long-handle metal dipper, which we all drank from.

In my town is 1 square mile of homes in perfect grid on wide dirt streets. There are four businesses — my dad’s gas station, Uncle Joe’s grocery story, Uncle Donald’s the-ater and Dora’s café. They line the main street. A tall, steepled build-ing, known as the church, sits in the middle. A red brick schoolhouse looms big on the street north and I live three blocks away.

The week begins. Monday is designated “wash day,” as my mother washes clothes in her

wringer washer on the back porch. With homemade lye soap, she scrubs stains on a washboard un-til spotless. She hangs crisp white sheets on the line with wooden clothespins placed on each corner not to leave marks.

She knows for certain the neigh-bor lady looks over the fence and inspects her wash. Guilty of the same busybody act, she inspects her neighbor’s work to make sure garments are hung with diligence and as pristine as hers.

On Tuesday, she irons, cooks a pot of beans and bakes three loaves of bread for her family of five. Wednesday, she cleans her home from top to bottom. She beats the rugs and scrubs the floor.

Thursday is church meeting day with the Women’s Relief Society, who call on the members and help any in need. Friday, she works in the garden. The week continues

in proper order and she starts her routine over again come Monday morning.

I slipped on my new cotton dress with the gathered skirt. My blonde curls, which framed my freckled face, were wrapped in rags the night before. They now bounced in rows of curvy locks.

My mother announced, “Today is wash day and I don’t have clean socks for you. You need to wear your brother’s socks to school.”

“No, I won’t. I’ll wear dirty ones before I wear boys’ socks.”

“Yes, you must do as you are told.”

“Boys’ socks have red and yellow rings around the top with cowboys on them. I won’t wear them. Every-one knows the difference between boys’ socks and girls’.” I sulked and refused.

She sent me to school anyway. After all, Monday was her wash day.

I dilly-dallied and scuffed along the broken sidewalk until I came up with a plan. Hide in the bushes and wait out the day, and then go home.

I hid in the neighbor’s garden and ate my sack lunch as soon as

3-5. Includes Bible time, songs,

crafts, games and more. COVID

mandates will be followed, includ-

ing social distancing and masks.

For more information or to register,

go to coloradocef.org/GNC.

Family Storytime. 10 a.m. For all

ages. Join us for great stories and

fun songs. Wednesday storytimes

are on Facebook Live, so if you go

to Facebook at 10 a.m., you can

interact with Josie. If you have a

Facebook account, you can log

in and search for the Ruby Sis-

son Memorial Library. If you don’t

have a Facebook account, you can

access the page by visiting our

website and clicking the Facebook

icon, or you can contact us and we

can send you a link. Call 264-2209


Dungeons and Dragons. 4-6 p.m.

Teens and young adults. Join us

on Google Meet for our ongoing

game. Contact claire@pagosali-

brary.org for details on how to join.

Thursday, March 4Loaves and Fishes Free Commu-

nity Lunch. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.,

Parish Hall, Lewis Street. Due to

the COVID-19 threat, Loaves and

Fishes will continue to offer meals

to the community as takeout only.

There will be no sit-down service.

Guests should come to the front

doors of the Parish Hall, where

they can pick up meals to go. This

practice will continue until further

notice.




available. Brad will help one per-

son or one couple at a time. Call

264-2209 to make an appointment

or for more information.










mous. 7 p.m., Tennyson Build-

ing Event Center, 197 Navajo

Trail Drive. Contact Charlotte

or Ken at 903-9690, or Nate at

507-1004.

Friday, March 5HER Story. A women’s group pro-

viding a safe, supportive space

to grow and heal as you share

your story. An opportunity to meet

other women in your community in

a peer-supported group focused

on healing from trauma, abuse or



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I sat down. Hidden between the rows of tomato plants and squash, I stared at the cowboy-printed socks tucked in my Mary Jane shoes.

The morning crawled by and I couldn’t sit still any longer. I de-vised another scheme. I wanted to go somewhere, but I knew better to go home. I’d get a whipping for sure, so I walked the short distance to school. I found my teacher, Mrs. Johnson, in a flutter.

“Betty Jarvies, where have you been?”

“Nowhere.”“I called your mother. She said

you left the house on time. I told her you didn’t arrive.”

Your mother called back to tell me she looked everywhere for you and is worried sick. She went home to wait by the phone in case you showed up.”

“Oh no.” In bigger trouble, I had to think fast. My imagination over-came my “sock embarrassment,” so I lied. “Two boys stopped me and wouldn’t let me go.”

“Two boys? What did they look like? Do you know them?”

“No, I never saw them before.”“They must be from one of the

neighboring towns.”“Yes, they are.” “What did they do to you?”“They pushed me down in the

dirt, got my new dress dirty, and hid me in Old Man Beneger’s garden. They said if I told anyone, they’d come back and give me what for.”

“Your mother begged me to call if you showed up. I have to call her now.” She rushed inside to make the phone call.

“No, I’m OK. I’m not hurt,” but my plea fell on deaf ears.

My mother, a rag tied on her head, sweat on her brow and a wet apron draped around her, came in a huff. She asked more questions. “Who are they? Did they hurt you?”

My lips were zipped about the truth of the socks.

“We have to call the sheriff and ask him to keep an eye out for those boys. He needs to catch them.”

The sheriff came to school. Again, the same questions and answers, “I don’t know. I can’t re-member.”

The sheriff called the neighbor-ing schools — Romeo, La Jara, San-ford and Antonito. “Do you have two trouble-makers who might have missed school today? They roughed up a little 6-year-old girl in Manassa.”

The authorities promised to check around and keep an eye out for the two rascals.

With a few white lies, I whipped up some dirty laundry that Monday morning. Knotted in frustration, my mother promised to hang me out to dry. She wrung her hands as she gave me the evil eye, the truth written within the deep frown on her face. I looked down at my shoes.

After school, she threatened to wash my mouth out with lye soap for telling a lie. My dad would find out when he came home. I spent the whole day in those socks and wore them till nightfall as I waited for my just dues, which never came.

No one knew for certain, but there was enough speculation to go around, what happened that day in

small-town USA. I didn’t dare come clean and I kept a sock in it. But, the next Monday, my mother made sure I had clean socks to wear.

At a writers’ meeting, a guest speaker who writes memoirs gave us ideas how to jump-start our life’s story. Go back as far as you can re-member and write down your first memory about your childhood.

That incident, hidden deep in the reservoir of my mind, came to surface. Seventy-three years later, blurred by life and years, did I ever confess? I don’t think so. Did I get a whipping? Not sure. Did they find the boys? Not head nor hair. Did I ever do that again? Not that I remember.

All the people in this story have long gone and only I remain to tell the events as they played out on the first day of first grade. My life’s memoir starts with a lie.

The moral to my story: A preco-cious child, destined to be a fiction storyteller early in life, I didn’t know where childhood tales would lead me. With an active imagination, lies can go the distance for a fiction writer. Now I understand I am the troublemaker and not the fictitious neighborhood boys.




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goals. Earning your GED is pos-

sible at any stage in life, and we

can help. Call 264-2209 or email

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history, activities and more. Call

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DREAM MAKER MORTGAGES would love to help you refinance or purchase your home. 30 years experience making dreams come true. Rather you need to lower your rate, take cash out or purchase a new home. Please give me a call: Trudy (303)514-7858.QUALITY CLEANING SERVICES. Honest and reliable. Residential, commercial, rentals and home security checks. Call (801)201-0496 or (970)317-8445.PAGOSA SPARKLES, LLC, GROUP of detail oriented, trustworthy, reliable cleaners. Window cleaning also available. Starting at $25/ per hour. Text/ call KIM. (970)946-6446.SNOW PLOWING. ALL PHASES of snow re-moval. Specializing in roofs. Insured, reasonable, reliable. Free estimates. Credit cards accepted. Call (970)946-3923.CARPENTER. LOCAL. 38 YEARS experience. Smaller jobs. (970)946-6280.ON SITE TREE MILLING SERVICE with porta-ble saw mill. Custom milling, slabs/ logs/ boards. (970)946-3232.FIRE MITIGATION, WOOD CUTTING, wood splitting, land clearing. $45/ hour. (970)661-3888.CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. Reasonable prices. Linda Lerno, 731-5173.

FURNACE HEAT REPAIR: Specializing in forced air systems. Residential/ commercial. Licensed/ insured. Call Mike (303)349-2876.EXCAVATION AND LANDSCAPING- We do driveways, septic systems, retaining walls, grading, drainage repair, erosion control, rock work and more. Licensed and Insured. Your call is always answered or returned. Call (970)946-3966.BAZ THE HANDYMAN PAGOSA Springs is your one stop shop for wide range of home maintenance and repair solutions. Just call Baz (480)433-1776.SNOW REMOVAL. SNOWBLOWER, roof rak-ing and shoveling. (970)264-4324 or (970)903-2297.LOCAL MOVING SERVICES. Reasonable and reliable. 946-2061.HANDYMAN SERVICES, GENERAL CON-

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HOT SPRINGS HEALERS Wellness Center. Chiropractic, acupuncture, craniosacral, mas-sage, water therapy in the hot springs. Auto and sports injuries. 1/2 hour $60 and 1 hour $120 treatment. (971)221-4797, hotspring-shealers.com. Home visits. Durango hours on Wednesday.

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GROUP of Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Tuesday and Thursday at 7p.m. at the Tennyson Building Event Center, 197 Navajo Trail Drive (between Boss Hogg’s Restaurant and 1st Southwest Bank). Contact Charlotte or Ken at (970)903-9690 or Nate at (970)507-1004.

THE PAGOSA SPRINGS GROUP of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA is now meeting every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30p.m. and Sunday at 10a.m. at 315 N. 2nd Street, County Road 200 (.2 miles off 160). In accordance with the State, County and San Juan Basin Health, masks must be worn and social distancing ob-served. Online meetings are Sunday at 10a.m.: Zoom ID 858-319-763, password 754234; and Friday at 7p.m: Zoom ID 899 6048 4578, password 532-306. For meeting schedule and information email [email protected] or call Marcia (970)946-8475, Kathi (970)946-1482 Ranza (970)731-9774, Val (970)946-6086 or (719)792-7974 or central office (970)245-9649 or (888)333-9649 (24 hours).MEDITATION CIRCLE. 6p.m. every Wednes-day at New Thought Center at Best Western, 3505 W. Hwy. 160. Enhance your Intuition Classes. 4T Prosperity Classes starting in March. Call (970)309-6067 to enroll.HAVE YOU BEEN AFFECTED by someone’s drinking? Pagosa Springs Al-Anon Family Group offers support while practicing anonymity. Meets on Tuesdays from 6-7p.m. at new location: Pagosa Bible Church, 209 Harman Park Drive (behind Wells Fargo and next to the new law enforcement complex). Have questions? Call or text (303)815-8569. More information and resources, including a list of phone and online meetings, may be found at www.al-anon.org or www.al-anon-co.org.

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ARCHULETA COUNTY DEPARTMENT of Human Services is seeking an enthusiastic, energetic and competent individual to join our award winning team providing case manage-ment services for children and families! The suc-cessful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology or a related field AND possess strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills. $19.41-$27.18/ hour D.O.E., plus benefits. Please visit our website for a complete job description and to apply online.

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MOVING SALE SATURDAY 2/20 9a.m.-2p.m. Dining table with 8 chairs, queen bed, antique dresser, leather chair and ottoman, bench/ coat rack, baker’s rack, rototiller, Dr. Mower power cart, Husqvarna chain saw, inversion machine, grill, shelving, stone patio table with 6 chairs, too much miscellaneous furniture and tools to list. 218 Springs Ct. off Hersch Ave. Masks required, indoors and out. (970)731-1051.ESTATE SALE! WAHOO! SNOW can’t stop us! Furniture, instruments, decorative items, kitchen items, lots of guy garage stuff, TV’s and more. Fun, fun, fun! Friday and Saturday, February 19th and 20th, 8a.m. sharp. Highway 160 East, South on highway 84, about 7 miles turn right on Whispering Wood, then left on Tiffany, house #169. Please park on the right side. Snow or shine. AEHPOS.BE SURE TO CHECK for more yard sales in the Too Late To Classify section.

MOUNTAIN PIZZA & TAPROOM is a fast growing, successful Pizza Brand. Are you look-ing for a career opportunity and not just a job? We are looking for full- and part-time people. Amazing opportunity for career progression. Wonderful teams- ain’t no Family like a Pizza Family. Apply in person at 175 Pagosa Street. Pagosa Springs, CO.PAGOSA SPRINGS MEDICAL CENTER is looking for a Radiology Scheduler. The Radiology Scheduler is responsible for sched-uling all radiology, echocardiograms, and holter monitor procedures for Pagosa Springs Medical Center. This position works closely with the Pre-Certification Specialist and Insurance Verification Clerk to ensure fiscal responsibility for the medical center. This is a full-time position with a compensation range of $14.25-$16; this full-time position includes paid time off and the opportunity to participate in PSMC’s health plan and retirement plan. Applications may be picked up at PSMC’s front registration desk, the human resources office, or downloaded at www.pagosaspringsmedicalcenter.org. Please email applications and resumes to [email protected] or fax to (970)731-0907. Pagosa Springs Medical Center is an EEO employer.PAGOSA SPRINGS MEDICAL CENTER is looking for a Phlebotomist. The Phlebotomist performs blood collection from patients, some waived standard biological, microbiological and chemical tests in all areas of the medical labo-ratory. Works under direct technical supervision and performs waived complexity tests in accor-dance with standards established in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and/or appropriate agency protocol (COLA). Records and participates in evaluation of Quality Control for tests conducted. Performs all work in accord to the mission, vision and values of Pagosa Springs Medical Center. PSMC’s full-time positions include the following benefits: paid time off; health insurance plans with medical, dental and vision; options for Health Savings account (HSA) or Flexible Health Saving account (FSA); and a 401A retirement plan and optional 457 plan. Compensation range for this position is: $14 to $17. Applications may be downloaded at www.pagosaspringsmedicalcenter.org or may be picked up at PSMC’s front registration desk. Please email applications, resumes or questions to PSMC’s HR Director at: [email protected] or fax to (970)731-0907. Pagosa Springs Medical Center is an EEO employer. FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST NEEDED. Riverwalk Inn is looking for friendly, customer centered people. Great atmosphere, good pay based on experience. Stop by the hotel at 260 E. Pagosa St. (noon-3p.m.) or call (970)-507-7118.CULTIVATION HELP: Pagosa Therapeutics is looking for entry-level help in our award winning cultivation. Grow helper: This is a full-time posi-tion. Responsibilities include cleaning, checking reservoirs, pruning plants, transplanting, etc. This is a physical job. You must be able to work on your feet all day, work on a ladder, and carry equipment up and downstairs. The ideal candidate will be willing to learn, pay attention to details, and have good problem-solving abilities. No experience needed. M-F 8:30a.m.-6p.m. with overtime available. Please email a copy of your resume to [email protected]. A M.E.D. Badge is required.DESIGN A SIGN HIRING. Sign shop experi-ence preferred but not a must. Apply in person Monday-Friday, 57 Majestic Dr. (970)731-3327.

JONES MECHANICAL. EXPERIENCE PRE-FERRED but will train right person. Excellent opportunity to learn the HVAC trade. (970)731-3046.CABE’S COLLISION & CUSTOMS LLC is hiring automotive refinisher/ painter. Must have experience, attention to detail, strong work ethic. Pay depending on experience. Call to set up interview (970)731-4600.KIP’S GRILL AND CANTINA is looking for hard working, responsible and fun people to join our kitchen staff. Experience preferred. Apply in person.ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/ FRONT DESK- Full Time. Must be MS Office proficient, detail oriented, able to multi task, dependable, friendly, and possess strong communication and written skills for a multi business office. Real Estate and accounting knowledge a plus but not required. Please send resume to Pagosa Land Company, PO Box 4490, Pagosa Springs, CO 81157 or [email protected] SPIRITS WINE AND LIQUOR hiring part-time clerk. Nights and weekends required. Apply at store. (970)731-5039.PART- TIME DIRECTOR POSITION for local nonprofit Build Pagosa. 15- 20 hours per month. Duties include but are not limited to, creating agendas and take minutes during board meetings. Maintain and update all social media and website. Respond to emails and requests from board members, and organize fundraising events. Send questions and resume to [email protected] PORTABLE TOILETS is looking for a full-time service tech. Must have a valid driver’s license. Apply at 208 N. 14th St. or call 946-3692.MARKETING ASSISTANT. We are looking for a dependable, innovative person to help us grow our expanding brand as we look for new opportunities and creative ways to edge out the competition. Do you work well with others? Are you a creative thinker? Come work for a great company that continues to grow and thrive in our ever-changing economy. Duties and re-sponsibilities include: Update multiple websites weekly/ monthly; daily/ weekly posts to social media; organize, present and design print and digital advertising for multiple locations; design and order merchandise for multiple locations; update online menu systems daily/ weekly; assist Marketing Director and Owner with various tasks. Must have experience in marketing involving both print and digital mediums. Adobe and MS Office skills required. I.T. experience is a plus but not required. Previous experience in the cannabis industry is preferred but not required. A Colorado M.E.D. Badge is required before you can start work. Please submit your resume to [email protected] SPRINGS MEDICAL CENTER is looking for Housekeepers. Must be willing to work nights and some weekends. This full-time position includes the following benefits: paid time off; health insurance plans with medical, dental and vision; options for Health Savings account (HSA) or Flexible Health Saving account (FSA); and a 401A retirement plan and optional 457 plan. Pay for this position starts at $12.32 an hour. Applications may be downloaded at www.pagosaspringsmedicalcenter.org or may be picked up at PSMC’s front registration desk. Please email applications, resumes or questions to PSMC’s HR Director at: [email protected] or fax to (970)731-0907. Pagosa Springs Medical Center is an EEO employer.

LOOKING FOR PART-TIME HOUSE/ vacation rental cleaning help. Must be reliable, hard work-ing, flexible hours, work weekends and able to drive in the snow. 10-20 hours per week at $15/ hour. Call Jessica at (330)880-6256.PMAB + MOVEMENT is looking for CO licensed massage therapists to join our growing team! Pay is generous with opportunity for increase. Access any movement classes, anytime, for free! Full- and part-time hours. Email resume to: [email protected] SCHOOL DISTRICT has the fol-lowing job openings with complete descriptions located on the website www.mypagosaschools.com under the “Job Postings” icon. Current openings are Evening Custodian, Elementary School Crossing Guard, High School Assistant Baseball Coach, Food Service Substitute, Bus Drivers, Substitutes and Custodial Subs. For more information, contact Laura Mijares at [email protected], UP TO $15/ hour. Must be detail oriented, trustworthy, reliable and committed. Text Pagosa Sparkles, LLC, (970)946-6446.CABE’S COLLISION AND CUSTOMS is taking applications for a painter’s helper/ shop appren-tice. Experience preferred but willing to train a motivated, hard-working individual. Please call to set up an interview (970)731-4600.CONSTRUCTION AND EXCAVATION LA-BORERS, full time, benefits. Please drop off resume or application at 172 Goldmine Drive. TFI. (970)585-1021.PHIL’S CONCRETE PUMPING, LLC. Concrete pump truck operator. Competitive wages. Will train the right person. Aflac policy incentive after 30 days. Please contact Phil for job details at (970)799-1305.PAGOSA THERAPEUTICS AND GREEN-HOUSE PAGOSA are looking for happy, enthusiastic people to join our budding business. We are willing to train the right candidate if you’re committed to being a part of this continually growing industry. Please send a copy of your resume to [email protected] along with a copy of your Colorado M.E.D. Badge.

GENERAL LABORERS NEEDED, Pagosa Rooter is hiring full time for excavation help and jetting laborers. Call 946-3692.SMOKE RINGS IS NOW taking applications for motivated, self starting, badged budtenders. Bring your resume by 266 E. Pagosa St. or call (970)946-4199.SEEDS OF LEARNING is accepting appli-cations for a Fund Development Manager. This position will be responsible for educating our community and donor base regarding the center’s mission, value and needs. The FDM will manage relationships with new and existing donors and create opportunities to give through creative media outlets and distin-guished fundraising events such as “Dancing with the Pagosa Stars.” The position will be 32 hours per week; (4) 8-hour days; $42,000 per year with $2,400 insurance stipend. You must reside locally and can work mostly from home. If you are a self-starter with strong com-munication/ organizational skills, a passion for education and aspirations to make a real contribution in a community, we encourage you to contact us and learn more. Seeds of Learning is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Contact Lynne Bridges at Seeds of Learning: (970)264-5513 or email [email protected]. Must provide resume with experience and/or education.

HOUSEKEEPING POSITIONS AVAILABLE full time. Flexible schedules and competitive wages. Apply at Pine Ridge Extended Care, 119 Bastille Dr.NOW HIRING FOR GENERAL laborers. No experience necessary. Se habla espanol. (918)633-7216.SAN JUAN LIFESTSYLE is seeking FT/PT Sales person. Apply at 452 Pagosa St or send resume to [email protected] COLORADO LOOKING FOR 2 cooks, full time and part time. Call 731-2024 or come by 565 Village Dr.HELP WANTED PART-TIME OR full-time, at Pagosa Bar and Silver Dollar Liquor Store. Must be able to work weekends and nights. Apply at Silver Dollar Liquor Store.

MAINTENANCE POSITIONS OPEN- one full-time lead maintenance position and one part-time position open at Healing Waters Resort & Spa. We are looking for a “jack-of-all-trades” with ability to provide regular maintenance to our rooms, cabins, hot pools, and around the resort. Knowledge of plumbing and electrical a huge plus. Duties also include snow removal/ice removal in the winter and landscaping in the summer along with continual upkeep of courtyard areas year-round. Positive, friendly attitude required! Employment includes FREE hot springs admission for you and your imme-diate family! Download an application at www.pshotsprings.com/contact-spa-motel/employ-ment-opportunities/ or pick one up at Healing Waters Resort & Spa, 317 Hot Springs Blvd.SONOCO IS NOW HIRING full or part- time cashier plus store services and maintenance. Requires good customer service and interaction with co-workers. Apply within.EXPERIENCED CONSTRUCTION HELP NEEDED. Reliable transportation required. Excellent pay based on experience . Please call (970)403 5119.CLEANERS NEEDED PART TIME, pay is DOE, must have dependable transportation, be reliable, and detailed oriented. Please call (970)560-1892 or email [email protected] HELP, MORNING AND afternoon shifts. No experience necessary. Flexible sched-ule and competitive wages. Apply in person, Pine Ridge Extended Care, 119 Bastille Dr., Pagosa Springs. EOE.GROWING SPACES GREENHOUSES is hiring! We are looking for motivated individuals with a passion for healthy living and helping cus-tomers succeed in growing their dream gardens. Must follow all COVID safety procedures, ability to work in a productive and efficient manner, and get jobs completed on time with 100% quality. Hiring experienced Production Team, Installation Crews, Gardening and Videographer. Go to www.growingspaces.com/employment to view all job postings. Send resume and application to [email protected], or mail to PO Box 5518, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147. We are not currently accepting applications in person. Growing Spaces is an Equal Opportunity Employer.OUR TEAM IS HIRING again! Are you looking to work for a company with a purpose for the greater good? Do you love cutting edge technol-ogy and want to work with a highly driven and fun team? 1st Southwest Bank is growing and looking to fill several positions. Offering a strong benefit package and career growth opportunities. EOE. Visit https://www.fswb.bank/who-we-are/.

CDL DRIVERS. Drop resume off at 172 Gold-mine Dr. (970)585-1021.FRONT DESK- HEALING WATERS Resort & Spa is looking to add multiple members to its front desk team. Strong customer service skills a must- comfort with computers a plus. Positions may include mornings, days, nights and week-ends. Employees receive FREE hot springs admission for you and your immediate family! Download application at www.pshotsprings.com/contact-spa-motel/employment-opportunities/ or stop by our office at 317 Hot Springs Blvd. to pick one up.FULL-TIME LPN OR RN POSITION at Pine Ridge Extended Care. Apply in person, 119 Bastille Dr. Under new management.EQUIPMENT OPERATOR NEEDED. Pagosa Rooter is looking for a lead equipment operator to lead the excavation department. Must be able to operate backhoe, excavator and skidsteer. Contact 946-3692, David.N. PAGOSA MARATHON (SHELL) gas station hiring for full-time cashier. Please apply at 30 N. Pagosa Blvd.PART-TIME SERVER NEEDED. Must be flex-ible. Please apply in person with Kevin at The Buck Stops Here Market & Eatery.

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218 Springs Ct. off Hersch Ave. Masks required, indoors and out. (970)731-1051.

can’t stop us!

Fun, fun, fun! Friday and Saturday, February 19th and 20th, 8a.m. sharp. Highway 160 East, South on highway 84, about 7 miles turn right on Whispering Wood, then left on Tiffany, house #169. Please park on the right side. Snow or shine. AEHPOS.

growing, successful Pizza Brand. Are you looking for a career opportunity and not just a job? We are looking for full- and part-time people. Amazing opportunity for career progression. Wonderful teams- ain’t no Family like a Pizza Family. Apply in person at 175 Pagosa Street. Pagosa Springs, CO.

Radiology Scheduler is responsible for sched

monitor procedures for Pagosa Springs Medical Center. This position works closely with the Pre-Certification Specialist and Insurance Verification Clerk to ensure fiscal responsibility for the medical center. This is a full-time position with a compensation range of $14.25-$16; this full-time position includes paid time off and the opportunity to participate in PSMC’s health plan and retirement plan. Applications may be picked up at PSMC’s front registration desk, the human resources office, or downloaded at www.pagosaspringsmedicalcenter.org. Please email applications and resumes to [email protected] or fax to (970)731-0907. Pagosa Springs Medical Center is an EEO employer.

The Phlebotomist performs blood collection from patients, some

ratory. Works under direct technical supervision and performs waived complexity tests in accor

Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and/or appropriate agency protocol (COLA). Records and participates in evaluation of Quality Control for tests conducted. Performs all work

Pagosa Springs Medical Center. PSMC’s full-time positions include the following benefits: paid time off; health insurance plans with medical, dental and vision; options for Health Savings account (HSA) or Flexible Health Saving account (FSA); and a 401A retirement plan and optional 457 plan. Compensation range for this position is: $14 to $17. Applications may be downloaded at www.pagosaspringsmedicalcenter.org or may be picked up at PSMC’s front registration desk. Please email applications, resumes or questions to PSMC’s HR Director at: [email protected] or fax to (970)731-0907. Pagosa Springs Medical Center is an EEO employer.

Riverwalk Inn is looking for friendly, customer centered people. Great atmosphere, good pay based on experience. Stop by the hotel at 260 E. Pagosa St. (noon-3p.m.) or call (970)-507-7118.

Pagosa Therapeutics is looking for entry-level help in our award winning cultivation. Grow helper: This is a full-time position. Responsibilities include cleaning, checking reservoirs, pruning plants, transplanting, etc. This is a physical job. You must be able to

carry equipment up and downstairs. The ideal candidate will be willing to learn, pay attention to details, and have good problem-solving abilities. No experience needed. M-F 8:30a.m.-6p.m. with overtime available. Please email a copy of your resume to [email protected]. A M.E.D. Badge is required.

Sign shop experience preferred but not a must. Apply in person Monday-Friday, 57 Majestic Dr. (970)731-3327.

but will train right person. Excellent opportunity to learn the HVAC trade. (970)731-3046.

hiring automotive refinisher/ painter. Must have experience, attention to detail, strong work ethic. Pay depending on experience. Call to set up interview (970)731-4600.

hard working, responsible and fun people to join our kitchen staff. Experience preferred. Apply in person.

Full Time. Must be MS Office proficient, detail oriented, able to multi task, dependable, friendly, and possess strong communication and written skills for a multi business office. Real Estate and accounting knowledge a plus but not required. Please send resume to Pagosa Land Company, PO Box 4490, Pagosa Springs, CO 81157 or [email protected].

hiring part-time clerk. Nights and weekends required. Apply at store. (970)731-5039.

nonprofit Build Pagosa. 15- 20 hours per

meetings. Maintain and update all social media and website. Respond to emails and requests from board members, and organize fundraising

[email protected].

license. Apply at 208 N. 14th St. or call 946-3692.

for a dependable, innovative person to help us grow our expanding brand as we look for new opportunities and creative ways to edge out the competition. Do you work well with others? Are you a creative thinker? Come work for a great company that continues to grow and thrive in

sponsibilities include: Update multiple websites weekly/ monthly; daily/ weekly posts to social media; organize, present and design print and digital advertising for multiple locations; design and order merchandise for multiple locations; update online menu systems daily/ weekly; assist Marketing Director and Owner with various tasks. Must have experience in marketing involving both print and digital mediums. Adobe and MS Office skills required. I.T. experience is a plus but not required. Previous experience in the cannabis industry is preferred but not required. A Colorado M.E.D. Badge is required before you can start work. Please submit your resume to [email protected].

position includes the following benefits: paid time off; health insurance plans with medical, dental and vision; options for Health Savings account (HSA) or Flexible Health Saving account (FSA); and a 401A retirement plan and optional 457 plan. Pay for this position starts at $12.32 an hour. Applications may be downloaded at www.pagosaspringsmedicalcenter.org or may be picked up at PSMC’s front registration desk. Please email applications, resumes or questions to PSMC’s HR Director at: [email protected] or fax to (970)731-0907. Pagosa Springs Medical Center is an EEO employer.

rental cleaning help. Must be reliable, hard working, flexible hours, work weekends and able to drive in the snow. 10-20 hours per week at $15/ hour. Call Jessica at (330)880-6256.

is looking for CO licensed massage therapists to join our growing team! Pay is generous with opportunity for increase. Access any movement classes, anytime, for free! Full- and part-time hours. Email resume to: [email protected].

lowing job openings with complete descriptions located on the website www.mypagosaschools.com under the “Job Postings” icon. Current openings are Evening Custodian, Elementary School Crossing Guard, High School Assistant Baseball Coach, Food Service Substitute, Bus

more information, contact Laura Mijares at [email protected].

Text Pagosa Sparkles, LLC, (970)946-6446.

applications for a painter’s helper/ shop apprentice. Experience preferred but willing to train a motivated, hard-working individual. Please call to set up an interview (970)731-4600.

full time, benefits. Please drop off resume or application at 172 Goldmine Drive. TFI. (970)585-1021.

pump truck operator. Competitive wages. Will train the right person. Aflac policy incentive after 30 days. Please contact Phil for job details at (970)799-1305.

are looking for happy, enthusiastic people to join our budding business.

committed to being a part of this continually growing industry. Please send a copy of your resume to [email protected] along with a copy of your

Pagosa Rooter is hiring full time for excavation help and jetting laborers. Call 946-3692.

taking applications

Bring your resume by 266 E. Pagosa St. or call (970)946-4199.

is accepting applications for a Fund Development Manager. This position will be responsible for educating

FDM will manage relationships with new and existing donors and create opportunities to

with the Pagosa Stars.” The position will be 32 hours per week; (4) 8-hour days; $42,000 per year with $2,400 insurance stipend. You

home. If you are a self-starter with strong communication/ organizational skills, a passion for education and aspirations to make a real

Learning is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Contact Lynne Bridges at Seeds of Learning: (970)264-5513 or email [email protected]. Must provide resume with experience and/or education.

full time. Flexible schedules and competitive wages. Apply at Pine Ridge Extended Care, 119 Bastille Dr.

experience necessary. Se habla espanol. (918)633-7216.

is seeking FT/PT Sales person. Apply at 452 Pagosa St or send resume to [email protected]

full time and part time. Call 731-2024 or come by 565 Village Dr.

Pagosa Bar and Silver Dollar Liquor Store.be able to work weekends and nights. Apply at

full-time lead maintenance position and one part-time position open at Healing Waters Resort & Spa. We are looking for a “jack-of-all-trades” with ability to provide regular maintenance to our rooms, cabins, hot pools, and around the resort. Knowledge of plumbing and electrical a huge plus. Duties also include snow removal/ice removal in the winter and landscaping in the summer along with continual upkeep of courtyard areas year-round. Positive, friendly attitude required! Employment includes FREE hot springs admission for you and your immediate family! Download an application at www.pshotsprings.com/contact-spa-motel/employment-opportunities/ or pick one up at Healing Waters Resort & Spa, 317 Hot Springs Blvd.

full or part- time cashier plus store services and maintenance.

with co-workers. Apply within.

Reliable transportation required. Excellent pay based on experience . Please call (970)403 5119.

pay is DOE, must have dependable transportation, be reliable, and detailed oriented. Please call (970)560-1892 or email [email protected].

shifts. No experience necessary. Flexible schedule and competitive wages. Apply in person, Pine Ridge Extended Care, 119 Bastille Dr., Pagosa Springs. EOE.

hiring! We are looking for motivated individuals with a passion for healthy living and helping cus

Must follow all COVID safety procedures, ability to work in a productive and efficient manner, and get jobs completed on time with 100% quality. Hiring experienced Production Team, Installation Crews, Gardening and Videographer. Go to www.growingspaces.com/employment to view all job postings. Send resume and application to [email protected], or mail to PO Box 5518, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147. We are not currently accepting applications in person. Growing Spaces is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

again! Are you looking to work for a company with a purpose for the greater good? Do you love cutting edge technol

fun team? 1st Southwest Bank is growing and looking to fill several positions. Offering a strong benefit package and career growth opportunities. EOE. Visit https://www.fswb.bank/who-we-are/.

Drop resume off at 172 Goldmine Dr. (970)585-1021.

Spa is looking to add multiple members to its

a must- comfort with computers a plus. Positions

ends. Employees receive FREE hot springs admission for you and your immediate family! Download application at www.pshotsprings.com/contact-spa-motel/employment-opportunities/ or stop by our office at 317 Hot Springs Blvd. to pick one up.

at Pine Ridge Extended Care. Apply in person, 119 Bastille Dr. Under new management.

Pagosa Rooter is looking for a lead equipment operator to lead the excavation department. Must be able to operate backhoe, excavator and skidsteer. Contact 946-3692, David.

hiring for full-time cashier. Please apply at 30 N. Pagosa Blvd.

Must be flexible. Please apply in person with Kevin at The Buck Stops Here Market & Eatery.

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TREE COVERED OFF THE GRID lot with a flat spot for your camp spot, 4.89 acres, $52,000. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

TOP OF THE HILL. Lake and mountain views, utilities available. $39,500, possible owner carry. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

LAKE FRONTAGE LOT in Pagosa Lakes. Awesome views, close to national forest, $135,000. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

TREE COVERED BUILDABLE ACRE and a half with utilities available, five minutes from Navajo Lake. $29,500, possible owner carry. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

WILDLIFE COVERED! 79.69 AGRICULTURAL acres with 80 shares of water, 2 ponds and a year-round creek, $350,000. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

READY TO BUILD. APPROXIMATELY 1/4 acre flat mountain view lot on Morro Circle. Just 5 minutes from Hatcher Lake, with all utilities easily available. $25,000. Call Wayne (970)946-3720.

MOUNTAIN VIEWS, MEADOWS. Unique high elevation and complete privacy. 5.6 acres bordering national forest, (970)769-3588 [email protected].

HOMEOWNERS! IF YOU ARE thinking of selling your house, this is a great time! There are so few houses on the market, every Realtor in the area would visit and highlight your property to their pre-qualified buyers! Please call today and see how I can help get your house sold! Thank you! Robin Pehle, Independent Broker (970)946-0975.

SELLING OR BUYING? I am INDEPENDENT, I work for YOU! 18 years in Pagosa. Peggy Andrews, Independent Real Estate Broker (970)946-0473 www.peggyandrews.com.

THREE BEDROOM, BATH AND a half. 1.74 acres, no HOA, zoned multi use. Great fixer-upper or investment property. $399,000. Possible owner carry in the heart of town. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

LITTLE FARM HOUSE. Four bedroom, one bath, 28 acres, 32 shares irrigation, fruit trees, berry bushes, 1,200 bales of hay a year. Quiet country living, $525,000. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

GREAT LAKE HOUSE. Four bedrooms, four baths, seven car garage, 1.6 acres, views of Navajo Lake, RV hook up. Plenty of room for year around home or for a couple of families to va-cation at the lake. $555,000. Call Deb Archuleta at Archuleta Properties (970)903-2817, [email protected].

FOR SALE: COZY HOME in the trees, Aspen Springs 2, 1995 mobile home, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, on 1 acre. Central heat. Purged. Large deck. Utility/ shed/ pump house, cistern. 200 sq. ft. log cabin with electric. $185,000. Give me a call. Denise (970)946-3034.

THRIVING SEASONAL RECREATIONAL RENTAL business for sale. Nets $100,000 plus in 4 months, June through September. Location available for lease. Possible owner carry option available. 5% buyers agent commission. Email [email protected] for details. Asking $599,000.

2,400 SQ. FT. COMMERCIAL BUILDING. Large parking area. (970)946-4694.

HIGH COUNTRY MINI STORAGE. Most sizes available. Paved, lighted, security. Behind The Outfitter. Call 264-9142.ON SITE RENTALS and portable storage con-tainers available for delivery. Rodent proof, the best storage around at Let’s Store It. 731-0007.

PRIME COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR LEASE. Locate your business in Pagosa’s busiest shop-ping center. Country Center/ City Market Plaza. High traffic area with abundant parking. Common area maintenance included. For more informa-tion, please call Charlotte at (970)903-7690.

PRIME RETAIL AND OFFICE SPACE avail-able next to City Market. 1,150 SF retail and 150 SF 2nd floor office studio space. Contact (970)731-4951.

2,000 SQ. FT. SHOP/ INDUSTRIAL space. $1,800/ month. (970)946-0874.

250 SQ. FT. OFFICE SPACE available. Includes utilities and Internet. $350/ month. (970)946-0874.

TPRENTALS.COM FOR LONG TERM rental needs. (970)731-8599.

BEST VALUE IN PAGOSA. Newly remodeled 1/1, 2/2 apartment homes. Convenient location, walk to uptown grocery store. (970)946-4773.

ROOM FOR RENT, $800 includes utilities. Call (970)317-3902.

LONG TERM RENTALS available. Call Sunetha, (970)459-4411 or sunethaproperties.com.

1 BEDROOM APARTMENT. $495 plus electric and security deposit. Call (970)264-5000. Piedra Square Apartments. NO PETS.

WANTED: 3 MONTHS SUMMER RENTAL. Pet friendly. (501)209-1234.

OWNERS, WE ARE BOOKED UP AND NEED MORE VACATION RENTAL PROPERTIES! Call us today for lowest commission and highest customer service. All you have to do is wait for your rent check to come in. We do the rest! www.NexthomeRMR.com (970)507-8655.

GUARANTEED CREDIT APPROVAL! 4X4 Auto Sales, 21698 Hwy. 160 West, Durango. (970)385-7940.

1996 FORD RANGER. Dependable 4X4. $4.900 OBO. 731-9808.

1998 TOYOTA AVALON. 170K miles, leather interior. $1,700. Call (970)946-5330.

SEARS 28 INCH SNOWBLOWER. 2 stage, electric start, $450. 946-1744.

FOR SALE: KENMORE BLACK refrigerator, $50. Gas stove/ oven, $25. Microwave oven, $15. Dishwasher, $25. White washer/ dryer, $50. 3 32x80” bi-fold doors, $30. 96x120’’ rug, $15. Richard (940)825-6422.

SEASONED FIREWOOD FOR SALE. $220/ cord. Delivered. Pine, spruce, aspen mix. Also have bundles for $10. (970)661-3888.

TERESA FOSTER DBA BRIGHT Earth Jewelry. Offering customized gold and silver jewelry. Ring sizing, jewelry repair and restoration. Pagosa Springs. Call (620)339-5726.

ATTENTION CONTRACTORS AND HOME-OWNERS. Are you remodeling or tearing down? Call Durango Salvage, we buy and sell building materials. Tom, (970)749-2271, Mark, 749-8235.QUEEN CANOPY QUEEN BED and side tables. Rosewood queen bed, chest, dressing table and mirror. Oak dining table and chairs. Call for photos. (719)480-1616.

SELL OR TRADE YOUR GUNS. We buy for cash or trade it. No hassle. Licensed, bonded, insured. San Juan Trading Post, 635 San Juan St. 731-PAWN (7296).

ASPEN, PINE, SPRUCE, FIR mix firewood. Split and delivered. $200 per cord. (970)317-3837.

2 PAIRS OF ROSSIGNOL XC skis, 186 cm and 175 cm. Each set only used 3 times. $150 per pair. Salomon downhill skis, 151 cm. $150 (615)584-8953.

NEED FIREWOOD? CALL FIRE&ICE! Get 1 cord split and delivered for $225 or a HUGE dump truck load for $400. Pine mix. Contact Dan at (970)582-0006.

I AM LOOKING FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY that would allow me to pay a trespass fee for myself and my grandson to hunt elk with either a muzzleloader or archery equipment for the September 2021 elk season. I’m planning to hunt September 11th-15th. I would also consider paying a hunting guide who would take us on day hunts from our Pagosa Springs apartment rental. (479)459-6255.

ADOPT FROM THE Humane Society. Stop by or call 731-4771. You’ll be amazed at what we have to offer. www.humanesociety.biz.

AFRICAN BLOODLINE RHODESIAN RIDGE-BACK puppies. Ready to go home 4/ 12. $2,000. (970)264-0634.

DOGGY DAY CARE 81147.COM. Open 365 days of the year! Full day and half day doggy day care and overnight boarding. Conveniently located just 1 mile from downtown Pagosa. Call (970)264-9111.

OWNERS, THERE IS A LONG TERM RENTAL SHORTAGE IN PAGOSA SPRINGS. We have a waiting list for approved tenants. Need all types of rentals. Call us today for lowest commission and highest customer service. All you have to do is wait for your rent check to come in. We do the rest! www.NexthomeRMR.com (970)507-8655.

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Bird of the Week

Photo courtesy Charles Martinez

This week’s Bird of the Week, compliments of the Weminuche Audu-bon Society and Audubon Rockies, is the northern shrike.

These unusual songbirds are seen in our area, at the southern edge of their range, only in winter or early spring and not very often. They are territorial and aggressive even outside the breeding season, and are known to attack birds as large as ducks that pose no threat to them. They defend large territories, about seven acres around the nest and more than 360 acres as a hunting territory.

This robin-sized bird is a fierce predator and strictly carnivorous. It preys on birds, small mammals and insects, often killing more than it can eat when hunting is good. The excess is stock-piled, wedged in forks of tree branches or impaled on thorns or barbed wire for later consumption.

In brushy, semi-open habitats, northern shrikes are often seen perched conspicuously on wires, bushes or trees, scanning the area for prey. They also hunt from concealed perches where they wait for small birds to come close, or hop through bushes to startle prey into the open.

Adults are big-headed, gray birds with black wings that show white patches. Like the similar loggerhead shrike, it wears a black mask, but the northern’s mask narrows and does not go over the eye or across its thick, hooked bill.

Around 90 percent of the northern shrike population breeds in the boreal forests of Canada, where insects are abundant in summer. Bil-lions of birds breed in this globally important area, which stretches 3,500 miles from Alaska across Canada to the Atlantic.

Although the northern reaches are still intact, each year millions of acres are clearcut to feed our demand for toilet paper and other products of logging.

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Great Decisions Durango to hold discussion on Zoom Feb. 23By Lyle HancockGreat Decisions International Affairs

On Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 11:45 a.m., Great Decisions’ second dis-cussion using Zoom will be “Roles of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic.”

Moderator Dr. Benjamin Wad-dell will present background mate-rial and a film by the Foreign Policy Association, and lead participants in a discussion of the issues.

The public is invited to attend this Zoom discussion. Details and registration information may be found at LWVLaPlata.org. Click on the Great Decisions menu item to find the Zoom link.

More information about Great Decisions and the Foreign Policy Association can be found at http://www.fpa.org or at the League of Women Voters of La Plata County website, http://www.lwvlaplata.org.

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