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Structure expected to be completed in November By Rob Carrigan [email protected]

Construction on the new Health Pavil-ion in Monument reached an important milestone Friday.

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, the YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region and The Boldt Co. “topped off” the Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion by signing the last steel beam to be placed on the 52,000 square foot outpatient and wellness facility Fri-day morning, July 25.

Mary Beth Burichin, Marketing and Community Relations Director for YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region, says it is really exciting to see the continuing progress on the landmark structure and the com-munity has been very interested and sup-portive.

“The topping ceremony, where we placed the last beam is an important

construction benchmark,” she said. “And many in the community have expressed excitement and anticipation for the full circle of care model.”

The pavilion is directly attached to the Tri-Lakes YMCA, which is the YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region’s most northern loca-tion. The organization partners continue to prepare for a December grand opening at 17250 Jackson Creek Parkway, Monu-ment.

“The Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion will deliver a new model of health care that focuses on wellness and prevention, and a goal of helping people reach and main-tain optimal health. The model includes utilization of evidence-based medicine and best practices, increasing access to multiple services at one location, child care while receiving services and a healthy café in an atrium that will unite the Y with the new health pavilion,” Burichin says.

Already contracted to be 95 percent occupied, membership and programs currently offered at the existing Tri-Lakes

Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion Partners from left Jameson Smith, Chief Administrative O� cer Penrose-St. Francis Health Services; Jake Garro, Vice President Development Group, The Boldt Company; and Boyd Williams, President & CEO YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region. Courtesy photo

Partners of the Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion sign the last steel beam to be placed on the 52,000 square foot health and wellness facility. Courtesy photo

Now under construction, the Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion will encompass, a 52,000-square-foot outpatient and wellness facility and the Tri-Lakes YMCA. Partnering on the project are Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, the YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region and The Boldt Company. The addition is 95% leased. Photo by Rob Carrigan

Pat Phillips with Veltri Steel receives last steel beam to be laid for the Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion set to open in December. Courtesy photo

Last beam goes up on Health Pavilion

McDonald ready for Round 2 of recreational marijuana sales debate Palmer Lake mayor only wants what’s best for the town By Danny Summers [email protected]

Quite frankly, Palmer Lake mayor Nikki Mc-Donald would like to have the next three months pass without her town’s name being mentioned in the same breath as marijuana. But she’s also aware that the odds of that happening are about as good as the town’s dry lake suddenly being fi lled to the brim with water.

Earlier in July, a group of Palmer Lake citi-zens gained the necessary number of 99 votes to get recreational on the Nov. 4 ballot. That means that not only will pro and con signs start popping up along Highway 105, McDonald will likely be spending much of her time answering questions on what her position is on the issue and — of the measure is passed — just what sort of an impact (economic and otherwise) it will have on her town and the Tri-Lakes area in general.

“ I honestly have no idea if it will pass this time or not,” the likable mayor said. “I don’t really talk to people about it that much.

“Any money the town gets in is a good thing, but no one knows exactly how much that will be, so it is hard to say at this point. I am very neutral on this issue.”

McDonald is all too aware of the battle that raged last spring when the measure was on the April ballot. The recreational marijuana measure was part of a special election in April (McDonald also has her seat contested and won), but mari-juana ballot lost 538 to 481.

“Basically, if the number of voters were the same, we would only have to change the minds of about 30 people,” said Dino Salvatori, who owns Palmer Lake Wellness Center, the town’s medical marijuana dispensary.

Salvatori, a resident of Golden, was at the cen-ter of many of the marijuana discussions last win-ter and spring. But he said he is taking a back seat to this election.

In January, he stated that the town of Palmer Lake would receive about “$6,000 a day from the state in sales tax” from the sales of recreational marijuana. In addition, he said he projected giv-ing the town an additional “$30,000 to $40,000 monthly” because of increased sales at his busi-ness.

“Those fi gures have changed,” Salvatori re-cently said. “When I made those statements (in

early January) there were only 37 licensed recre-ational dispensaries in the state. Today there are over 300 licensed recreational dispensaries in the Denver metro area alone. Statewide I am not sure how many there are.”

The only Palmer Lake town councilmember (of the six) who has expressed his opposition to the le-galized sales of recreational marijuana in the town is Roads Trustee John Russell. At one point during the June 12 meeting, McDonald apologized to Sal-vatori for comments made by Russell at the town council workshop session June 5.

At that meeting, Russell pointed out during a discussion of Salvatori’s plan for his business that if a business had complaints made against it, its license would not automatically be renewed, but renewal would require a vote of the council.

The Palmer Lake Town Council held a work-shop session on June 5 to work on issues tabled during its monthly meetings. The pot policy took center stage.

Tribune attempted to reach Russell for this ar-ticle, but attempts were unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, McDonald is trying to go about her job as if the marijuana issue is not a distraction.

“It seems even things I don’t think will be heated are heated, so your guess is as good as mine (as to what will happen),” she said.

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Better golf is just down the road.

Black Forest Fire Station No. 2 still closed until further notice While the station is not sta� ed, it does contain plenty of � re-� ghting equipment By Danny Summers [email protected]

Black Forest Station No. 2, 16465 Ridge Run Road, which covers the northern por-tion of Black Forest, will continue to re-main closed until further notice.

The fi re station, located at the corner of Black Forest Road and Hodgen Road, closed its doors — as far as staff I con-cerned - in April due to budget restric-tions. But the station is still in service and full of equipment in the event of an emer-gency.

“This is one the issues we will contin-ue to revisit as the year goes along,” said Rick McMorran, the chair/president of the Black Forest Fire Protection District Board. “It’s something that won’t get fi g-ured out any time soon. We hope to have staff in place by next year.”

The district’s fi scal year runs from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. The district is a publicly owned fi re station.

In April the Black Forest Fire/Rescue District held a public meeting in which only two residents showed up at the meet-ing where then District president Eddie Bracken and treasurer Walter Seelye ex-plained that no one lost their job because the Station No. 2 was staffed by part-time fi refi ghters from other agencies on a rotat-ing basis.

Bracken also assured residents they would not see a tax increase in the near future.

According to the district web site, Sta-tion No. 2 houses one ambulance, one structure fi re engine, one wildland fi re engine and one tender (water hauling truck). There is no mention on the web-site that Station No. 2 was closed because of the cost of the report commissioned by Bracken and some of his staff to look into the early stages of the massive June 2013 Black Forest fi re that destroyed nearly 500 structures.

The report, which boardmember PJ Langmaid said has cost the tax payers in Black Forest more than $130,000, was es-sentially produced to show that fi re chief Bob Harvey was not negligent in his han-dling of the fi re. Harvey has since taken a medical leave of absence.

“Even when the station was staffed it was only during the day,” said Kathy Rus-sell, the district’s public information offi -cer. “Our goal is to get more cadres of part-time staff at all levels.”

The hefty fee for the investigation, which cleared Harvey of any negligence,

was not budgeted. It also meant the post-ponement of new equipment purchases and station enhancements, according to some Board offi cials at the time.

“Our response times are still well below that of other fi re departments in the area,” Russell said.

The district has about 50 volunteer fi re-fi ghters, and about a dozen full-time fi re-fi ghters.

Station No. 1 on Teachout Road offers extra manpower during daylight hours when there are usually only three fi refi ght-ers on shift.

The Black Forest Fire Station No. 2, located near Black Forest Road and Hodgen Road, has not been sta� ed since the spring, but it is still operational and all of its equipment is ready for use in the event of any emergency. Courtesy photo

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PavilionYMCA Family Center will continue and

the health pavilion will contain urgent care, primary care, rehab, occupational medi-cine, and imaging.

Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion Providers In-clude:

• Centura Health Physician Group Mon-ument Primary Care

• Centura Health Urgent Care Tri-Lakes• Colorado Sports and Spine Center• Centura Centers for Occupational

Medicine• PENRAD Imaging• Academy Women’s Healthcare Associ-

ates• Mountain View Medical Group• Tri-Lakes Family YMCAGround was broken for the Tri-Lakes

Health Pavilion in January of 2014 and is ex-pected to be completed in November.

The health pavilion will also feature health information technology and health navigators to guide users through the sys-tem and customize each person’s needs across a full spectrum of available services.

“This approach enhances a health care provider’s ability to follow patients across the health care continuum and treat the whole person, rather than just a medical condition. This neighborhood approach

also encourages people to take care of themselves on a continual basis. The health village will make it easy and convenient to get important checkups and screenings, thereby increasing the chances of early de-tection and mitigation of signifi cant health issues,” Burichin said.

“The strategic partnerships and interac-tive nature of the model is all about the Y’s mission to stregthen community.”

For more Information, visit trilakeshealth.com

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The Colorado Department of Transpor-tation will chip seal and repair guardrail on two state highways next week.

Tuesday, July 29 and Wednesday, July 30Chip sealing operations will be taking

place on northbound and southbound State Highway 83 between Shoup Road and Benet Lane. Work hours are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. A pilot car and fl aggers will alternate traffi c through the work zone with delays up to 10 minutes. A reduced 30 mph speed limit will be in effect.

Chip sealing applies liquid asphalt and rock material (or aggregates) to a roadway, followed by sweeping and a protective coat-ing. It is a preventive maintenance opera-tion, designed to extend a highway’s effec-tive surface life fi ve to 10 years, depending upon traffi c volumes and climate.

All work is weather permitting.Motorists are reminded to please slow

for the cone zone, stay alert and pay atten-tion to and obey all work zone/advisory signs and fl aggers.

Final milling, paving operations continue overnight into early September

As roadway milling and paving work

continues on Interstate 25, those driv-ing through the area should use extreme caution. Two crashes recently occurred in which motorists veered into the con-struction work area. It is the project’s goal for everyone to go home safe every day — construction workers and those driving the highway. Wear seat belts, obey posted speed limits, avoid distractions and don’t drink and drive.

Colorado Department of Transportation and project offi cials say vehicles are ex-ceeding the posted daytime 65 mph speed limit throughout the project, creating haz-ardous conditions for drivers and workers. Although some of the lanes have now been repaved, they are still within the construc-tion zone and the daytime speed limit on those lanes remains 65 mph. Drivers will see increased law enforcement presence for speed enforcement.

Nighttime milling and paving work is expected to continue through August, re-sulting in overnight two-lane closures and nighttime 45 mph speed limits. Driv-ers are urged to obey the posted speed lim-its and watch for construction crews and equipment in the designated work areas.

Daytime work results in periodic shoulder, single-lane closure.

While the widening work is now com-plete, crews continue to install guardrail, lighting, work on drainage and erosion control landscaping throughout the project area. That work requires periodic lane and shoulder closures to provide a safe work zone for crews and equipment.

Milling work, fi nal asphalt paving now underway: Milling and repaving I-25 be-tween Woodmen Road and State Highway 105 in Monument has begun and will take place over three phases.

Phase 1: Nighttime milling and repav-ing is underway just north of Woodmen Road on the northbound lanes. Crews are working northbound to the area of I-25 be-tween Interquest Parkway and North Gate Boulevard where the interstate begins to split. Once crews reach that point on the highway, they will move to the southbound lanes and work south toward Woodmen Road.

Phase 2: Will again see paving north-bound to a point between North Gate Bou-levard and Baptist Road. Again, they will move to the southbound lanes and pave south to the point between North Gate Boulevard and Interquest Parkway.

Phase 3: Will again begin on the north-bound lanes south of Baptist Road and will work north to State Highway 105. The last segment to be milled and paved will be the

southbound lanes between State Highway 105 to just south of Baptist Road.

Crews expect to work six nights a week, Sunday through Friday.

All milling/paving work will be done at night, beginning 8:30 p.m., ending by 5:30 a.m. the next day.

Friday night lane and ramp closures will begin at 9:30 p.m. and will be open by 7:30 a.m. the next morning. This nighttime work requires a two-lane closure and some ramp closures and speed limits in the work zone will be reduced to 45 mph.

Drivers can expect heavy truck traffi c in the area as asphalt is delivered for the pav-ing work.

Construction crews are taking additional efforts to sweep debris from the roadway especially along the cone lines where small-er dust and stones tend to gather. Driving slower during repaving work is advised.

Final paving is scheduled end in late summer. All work is subject to weather and road conditions.

Traffi c information about this or other CDOT projects is on the cotrip.org website, by calling 511 or via subscription e-mail. To subscribe, visit coloradodot.info and click on the cellphone icon in the upper right-hand corner. The link takes you to a list of items you can subscribe to, including southwest Colorado.

FORTY YEARS AGOPalmer Lake, Monument, Woodmoor NewsAug. 1, 1974

Topic for lakeside vespers at The Church of Woodmoor will be “How to Give Yourself Away.” The vesper will be Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. It will be held on the east shore of Lake Woodmoor at the end of Lower Lake Road.

Music will be by Donald R. Walden, vo-cal music instructor at Air Force Academy High School, assisted by Barb Caine and Gregg Perry. This will be the beginning of the ”Youth Emphasis Week” which is called “Eight Nights for God.”

In case of inclement weather the ser-vice will be held at the Barn Community Center on Woodmoor Drive.

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There will be a quilt show at the Apple Tree Gallery, Highway 105 in Palmer Lake, Friday, Aug. 16 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show is sponsored by the Palmer Lake Art Group and Palmer Lake Histori-cal Society. There is no admission for the exhibit.

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The campfi re ban had been lifted for the National Forests in Colorado.

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Calhan Volunteer Fire Department will

host a benefi t dance on Saturday, Aug. 10 at St. Mary’s Community Hall. Music will be by the Country Gentlemen. Dona-tion is $2, and there will be a door prize offered. The dance will benefi t the new ambulance fund.

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Enroll now in Temple Christian School. The school offers spiritual enrichment, academic excellence, and patriotic em-phasis. Grades are kindergarten through 12th grade. It is an affi liate of Pine Crest Baptist Temple in Palmer Lake.

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Solutions to the energy crisis from a fourth-grade class in St. Louis: Don’t drive more than one car at a time; change jobs so that everybody is working at a place closest to home; don’t accept any new invention using things we are short on like oil and electricity; don’t have so many days people have to drive to work or school, especially school; put insula-tion around your engine; keep the volume of the car radio down so it doesn’t take so much energy; fi x it so cars can travel pig-gyback like they do on trains; drive faster so you won’t have to be on the road as long using so much gasoline. Best one of all “fi nd oil on the moon.”

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To advertise your place of worship in this section, call 303-566-4091 or email [email protected].

Sunday Worship: 8:30, 9:45& 11:00 am

Sunday School: 9:45 am

The Churchat

Woodmoor

488-3200

A church for all of God's people

Traditional Worship ServiceSunday 10a.m.-Nursery available

18125 Furrow RoadMonument 80132

www.thechurchatwoodmoor.org

Crossroads Chapel, SBC

840 North Gate Blvd.

Bible Study 9am

10:15am Celebrating HIM in Worship

6pm evening Adult Bible Study

Wednesday AWANA 6:15pm

495-3200

Pastor: Dr. D. L. Mitchell

Child care provided

True Direction from God’s WordWorship Service at 9:30 a.m.

Lewis Palmer High SchoolHigby Road & Jackson Creek Parkway

www.northword.org 481-0141

www.trilakeschurch.org

20450 Beacon Lite Road • 488-9613Morning Worship … 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Bible Classes … 11:00 a.m.Wednesday Night Classes … 7:00 p.m.

Maranatha Bible FellowshipA Home Church Spirtual Growth

Meaningful Relationships Solid Biblical Teaching

A New Testament early churchformat that is changing lives

495-7527

Monument Hill Church, SBC

18725 Monument Hill Rd.481-2156

www.monumenthillchurch.orgSunday: Bible Classes 9:15amWorship Service 10:30am

Pastor Tom Clemmons USAFA ‘86, SWBTS ‘94

Preaching for the Glory of GodGod-centered, Christ-exalting

worshipWed: AWANA 6:30pm

The “New” MHC - Where Grace and Truth Abound

SERVICE TIMESWoodmoor Campus

8:15, 9:30 and 11:00 a.m1750 Deer Creek Rd., Monument, CO

Northgate Campus9:30 a.m.

975 Stout Dr., Colo Spgs, COChurch Office

1750 Deer Creek Rd.Monument, CO 80132

(719) 481-3600www.TheAscentChurch.com

July 7-11: Vacation Bible School

238 Third Street Monument, CO 80132

719.481.3902 www.mcpcusa.org

Monument Community Presbyterian Church

We Welcome You! 8:45 a.m. Adult Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Fellowship Coffee 10:00 a.m. SUMMER WORSHIP

Children’s Sunday School 11:15 a.m. Youth Sunday School 6:30 p.m. Youth Group

17250 Jackson Creek Pkwy.www.foxmeadowchurch.com

719-445-9444

Sundays 10:00 a.m.

Tri-Lakes Y

Lutheran Church 675 W. Baptist Road

Colorado Springs, CO 719.481.2255

Family of Christ

Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod

Pastor David Dyer

8:00 AM – Classic Worship9:30 & 11:00 AM – Modern Worship9:30 & 11:00 AM – Children and Student

Programs5:00 – 7:00 PM – Programs for all ages

EDITOR’S NOTE: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send listings to [email protected]. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

Aug. 2ACOUSTIC GUITARIST First Christian Church presents another program in its Hot Summer Nights: Mu-sic on the Labyrinth series, featuring Joe Uveges, singer and acoustic guitarist. The show is at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, 16 E. Platte Ave., Colorado Springs. The program will be outdoors on the south side of the church, but will move indoors for inclement weather so bring a blanket or chair. A free will offering will be taken.

Aug. 4HOMESCHOOL INFORMATION Clas-sical Conversations, a Christ-Centered group of local, homeschooling parents meeting once/week beginning

in September, plans its next informational meeting from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 4, in Monument. If you are thinking about homeschooling or would like more support in your homeschooling journey, an information meeting is perfect for you. Kids are welcome. Contact [email protected] or 303-842-8803 or MonumentCC.WordPress.com.

Aug. 8FAMILY FUN Deployed military families in the Tri-Lakes and North Colorado Springs areas are invited to Family Fun Night from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 8 at Monument Community Presbyterian Church, 238 3rd St., Monument. Complimentary dinner, games and activities for all ages. RSVP by Aug. 4. Contact Rosemary Bell, 719-488-2984 or [email protected].

Through Aug. 10ART EXHIBIT Glass artists of the Pikes Peak region present the 2014 Art Glass Show, featuring works creating

with glass reclaimed from the 2013 Black Forest fire. The show runs through Aug. 10.

Aug. 16FOLK SINGER/GUITARIST First Christian Church presents another program in its Hot Summer Nights: Music on the Labyrinth series, featuring Dean Phelps, folk singer and guitarist. The show is at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at 16 E. Platte Ave., Colorado Springs. The program will be outdoors on the south side of the church, but will move indoors for inclement weather so bring a blanket or chair. A free will offering will be taken.

Aug. 23TITAN TRAIL 5K The Classical Academy plans its second annual Titan Trail 5K run Aug. 23 at the school’s North campus. Proceeds from the run benefit the TCA Character Development Program. The 5K begins at 8:30 a.m., followed by a 1-mile family fun run/walk. Local meteorologist Matt Meister will emcee, and there will

be vendor booths, carnival games, a bounce house , emergency vehicles. Register at www.active.com. Email [email protected] for questions.

Sept. 27FIGHT FRAUD Collect your outdated financial documents and bring them to the free Fight Fraud—Shred Instead event and food drive Saturday, Sept. 27, at Black Forest Lutheran Church, 12455 Black Forest Road, in Black Forest. This identity theft prevention event is provided from 9 a.m. to noon as a community service. All documents will be professionally shredded on site. All paper will be recycled. Limit what you bring to the equivalent of three copy paper size boxes per person. No plastic bags or 3-ring binders will be accepted as they cannot be shredded. Each donation of cash or non-perish-able food will go to Black Forest Cares in support of their ongoing effort to combat hunger in the local community. For information, call Ray Rozak at 719-495-6767.

THINGS TO DO

Academy turning trash to treasure Converting Academy waste into renewable energy By Danny Summers [email protected]

New research done by the Air Force Academy reveals that its trash might be a treasure.

In August 2013, the Department of Defense Environmental Security Tech-nology Certification Program funded CDM Smith a national engineering and construction firm — was performed to test how the Academy can reduce energy use and cost at its wastewater treatment plant, and convert food waste from its dining hall into energy.

Academy professors and engineers toured the Mitchell Hall kitchen and the wastewater treatment plant earlier in July of this year to learn more about the processes and results of the year-long project.

“About two to three percent of the na-tion’s energy goes to treating wastewater and water,” said Pat Evans, CDM Smith

vice president. “Most of the energy that’’ used is for pumping the water and aerat-ing it.

“We’re trying to get wastewater treat-ment plants to become energy neutral or energy producers instead of energy con-sumers. One step toward that goal is cap-turing energy from food waste through anaerobic digestion.”

According to Glen Loyche, Mitchell Hall facility manager, two to three semi-trucks haul food to the Academy every day to feed 4,000 cadets.

“Each trailer carries 20-40 pallets of food,” he said.

He added that leftover food at the din-ing hall is run through large grinders, turned into pulp and transferred into dump trucks.

“Waste management here picks up four-an-a-half tons of pulp product here every week,” Loyche said.

CDM Smith collects food waste from Mitchell Hall three days a week and con-verts it into methane and carbon dioxide.

“We’re testing on a very small, pilot scale,” Evans said. “We transfer the food waste into anaerobic digesters, about 350 gallons in size that hold about 250

gallons of sludge and food waste. We convert the waste into methane for ben-eficial uses such as heating boilers, gen-erating electricity and vehicle fuel once it’s purified.”

Greenhouse gases emitted from food waste takes a toll on the environment.

“Some landfills capture the meth-ane released but a lot don’t,” Evans said. “Methane is a really potent greenhouse gas, much more potent than carbon di-oxide.

“The environmental impact is that it takes up space, emits greenhouse gases and water can go through the waste and generate leaching, which can contami-nate ground water.”

CDM Smith removes hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and water when convert-ing the waste into methane.

“We purify it,” Evans said. “Hydrogen sulfide, or rotten-egg gas, is very toxic and can result in corrosion of a lot of equipment. At the end of the process we have pure methane, or natural gas, that can be compressed into vehicle fuel.”

Overall, the project has been success-ful, according to CDM Smith staff.

“We found you get a lot more gas and

energy out of fat and protein than you do out of carbohydrates,” he said. “We can’t control the amount of carbs, fat and pro-tein cadets eat or waste, but now we have a better understanding of how much gas we can get for a given food waste.”

One to two percent of the solid waste generated in the United States is food waste, Evans said.

“The Academy’s food waste is an ener-gy-rich resource that in going to landfills ends up having an environmental im-pact,” he said. “By converting food waste to methane through anaerobic digestion, we can decrease the impact to the en-vironment, recover energy and help the Defense Department’s reach its net zero goals.”

Russell Hume, a mechanical engineer with the Academy’s Directorate of Instal-lations, said converting waste to make energy is a phenomenal step in the right direction for the Academy and world.

“I think it has been a great demonstra-tion of the art of the possible,” he said. “I would like to see this technology further developed and perfected to the point that it becomes widely available to all.

The project ends Aug. 1.

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Sept. 27FIGHT FRAUD Collect your outdated financial documents and bring them to the free Fight Fraud—Shred Instead event and food drive Saturday, Sept. 27, at Black Forest Lutheran Church, 12455 Black Forest Road, in Black Forest. This identity theft prevention event is provided from 9 a.m. to noon as a community service. All documents will be professionally shredded on site. All paper will be recycled. Limit what you bring to the equivalent of three copy paper size boxes per person. No plastic bags or 3-ring binders will be accepted as they cannot be shredded. Each donation of cash or non-perish-able food will go to Black Forest Cares in support of their ongoing effort to combat hunger in the local community. For information, call Ray Rozak at 719-495-6767.

Academy turning trash to treasure energy out of fat and protein than you do out of carbohydrates,” he said. “We can’t control the amount of carbs, fat and pro-tein cadets eat or waste, but now we have a better understanding of how much gas we can get for a given food waste.”

One to two percent of the solid waste generated in the United States is food waste, Evans said.

“The Academy’s food waste is an ener-gy-rich resource that in going to landfills ends up having an environmental im-pact,” he said. “By converting food waste to methane through anaerobic digestion, we can decrease the impact to the en-vironment, recover energy and help the Defense Department’s reach its net zero goals.”

Russell Hume, a mechanical engineer with the Academy’s Directorate of Instal-lations, said converting waste to make energy is a phenomenal step in the right direction for the Academy and world.

“I think it has been a great demonstra-tion of the art of the possible,” he said. “I would like to see this technology further developed and perfected to the point that it becomes widely available to all.

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Fracking supporters salute court ruling Judge said health concerns don’t override state’s interest By Vic Vela [email protected]

A recent court decision on hydraulic frac-turing is leaving supporters of the big-money drilling practice hopeful that the momentum of the contentious debate is now in their favor.

A Boulder County District Court judge on July 24 struck down Longmont’s ban on frack-ing, which voters there put in place during the 2012 election.

“While the Court appreciates the Long-mont citizens’ sincerely-held beliefs about risks to their health and safety, the Court does not fi nd this is suffi cient to completely devalue the State’s interest,” District Judge D.D. Mallard wrote in her ruling.

Mallard determined that Longmont’s frack-ing ban confl icts with state rules and limits Colorado’s interest in developing oil and gas opportunities.

The judge stayed her decision, pending ap-peal. The City of Longmont plans to appeal

the ruling on its ban on fracking, a process by which water and chemicals are blasted deep underground to free up trapped oil and gas.

Supporters of the multibillion-dollar frack-ing industry point to the ruling — and a recent narrow rejection by Loveland voters to imple-ment a moratorium on fracking — as evidence of momentum.

“I think that it’s a good start,” said state Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch.

McNulty is a fracking supporter who is behind a ballot initiative that would prohibit communities that ban fracking from receiv-ing revenues that are collected from those that welcome the practice.

“There’s going to be a lot of legal maneuver-ing ... If they appeal, then we’ll head down that road. If they don’t, we have a very good prec-edent in place,” McNulty said.

Fracking has developed into one of the more polarizing and complicated issues in the state. Supporters of the practice point to job creation and the $30 billion that is pumped into the state through drilling.

Opponents have serious concerns that fracking could impact public health and the environment.

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper re-cently called off efforts to reach a legislative compromise on fracking issues. The effort was undertaken in hopes that lawmakers could craft legislation that would prevent fracking ballot initiatives from moving forward.

In addition to pro-fracking measures like the one McNulty is supporting, anti-fracking initiatives could end up being on the ballot this November. They include efforts to allow communities greater control over drilling — a measure dubbed the “Environmental Bill of Rights” — and a measure that would require wells to be placed at least 2,000 feet from oc-cupied dwellings. That effort that would es-sentially ban fracking in Colorado, oil and gas industry supporters claim.

Hickenlooper and the oil and gas industry oppose the ballot initiatives, which are being fi nancially driven by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Boulder Democrat who has big support from those who are against fracking.

A Polis spokesman declined to comment on the court’s ruling.

Bruce Baizel of the Earthworks Energy Pro-gram, a group that supported the Longmont ban, expressed optimism, in spite of the court’s

ruling.“This decision means two things,” said

Baizel. “The judge has invited us to seek the change we need either through the higher courts or the legislature. We fully intend to pur-sue the former on appeal while the latter un-derscores the need for the citizens of Colorado to get out and support the Environmental Bill of Rights ballot measure this fall.”

But Karen Crummy, a spokeswoman for Protect Colorado, a pro-fracking group, said the judge’s decision should prove to anti-frack-ing advocates like Polis that the fracking facts are not on their side.

“Perhaps now Congressman Polis will lis-ten to elected offi cials in both political parties and the business and community groups who have asked him to withdraw his arbitrary and irresponsible ballot initiatives,” Crummy said. “His efforts to lock infl exible regulations into the state constitution will be a disaster for the economy, private property owners and the lo-cal communities who now have the ability to help shape energy regulations to their needs.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: To add or update a club listing, e-mail [email protected].

ProfessionalPIKES PEAK Workforce Center o� ers monthly classes on topics such as resume writing, interview skills and more. Workshops are free and take place at the main o� ce, 1675 Garden of the Gods Road, Suite 1107, Colorado Springs. Call 719-667-3730 or go to www.ppwfc.org.

TRI-LAKES BUSINESS Networking Inter-national meets from 8-9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at the Mozaic Inn in Palmer Lake. Call Elizabeth Bryson at 719-481-0600 or e-mail [email protected].

TRI-LAKES CHAMBER Business After Hours meets from 5-7 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at various locations. Free to members; $10 for non-members. Call 719 481-3282 or go to www.trilakeschamber.com.

TRI-LAKES CHAMBER Business Network-ing Group meets at 7:30 a.m. the � rst and third Thursday at Willow Tree Cafe, 140 2nd St., Monument. New members welcome. If District 38 is delayed or cancelled, their will be no

meeting. Yearly membership dues are $20. Call 719 481-3282 or go to www.trilakeschamber.com.

WOODMOOR BUSINESS Group Meeting is the second Monday of every month from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Woodmoor Barn, 1691 Woodmoor Dr. We are Woodmoor residents o� ering products and services to the community. New members welcome. For more information, call Bobbi Doyle at 719-331-3003 or go to www.woodmoorbusinessgroup.com.

RecreationAMATEUR RADIO Operators, W0TLM (Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Radio Association), meets the third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Tri-Lakes Monutemnt Fire Protection District Station 1, 18650 Hwy 105. All Amateur Radio Operators are welcome. Call Joyce Witte at 488-0859 for more information.

ADULT RECREATIONAL and intermediate pick up volleyball is at Lewis-Palmer Middle School every Monday from 7-9 p.m. Call Claudia at 719-313-6662 for details.

BINGO BY the Tri-Lakes American Legion Post 9-11 is

conducted from 7 to 9 p.m. every Saturday at the Post home, Depot Restaurant in Palmer lake. Proceeds are dedicated to Scholarship and community support activities of the Post. At least 70 percent of the game sales are awarded in prizes, and free food drawings are conducted. Doors open at 6 p.m. and all are invited for the fun, food, and prizes. See www.americanle-giontrilakespost911.com/bingo.htm for more information.

BIG RED Saturday Market. Fresh vegetables and fruit, bakery items, local honey, crafts, jewelry, pet stu� and more are for sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday at the Big Red Saturday market at Second and Je� erson streets in Monu-ment. The money bene� ts Lewis-Palmer community schools.

FRIENDS OF Monument Preserve is a nonpro� t organization that works to keep trails rideable and hikeable in the Monument Preserve Area. Meetings are at 7 p.m. every third Wednesday at the Monument Fire Center. Trail work is done at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday in the summer months. Contact [email protected] or Chris at 719-488-9850.

GENTLE YOGA with Nancy Stannard is o� ered at 5:30

p.m. Wednesdays, and at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays. Safe, fun and accessible for all. Flexibility, breathing, balance and gentle strengthening. Yoga 101 for beginners also available. Contact Nancy Stannard [email protected] for details and to attend � rst class.

THE PIKES Peak chapter of Pheasants For-ever meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month (except June, August and September) at the Colorado Division of Wildlife Training Classroom in the back of the building at 4255 Sinton Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.

THE VAILE Museum, 66 Lower Glenway, is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays year-round and from 1-4 p.m. Wednesdays from June through August. Groups by appoint-ment are accepted. Call 719-559-0837.

VINI E Crostini, 6 � ight wine tasting paired with moZaic tasty bites is at 5 p.m the � rst Saturday of the month at 443 S. Highway 105, Palmer Lake. Cost is $40 per person.

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New Air Force Academy visitor center takes shape

� e new facility could be built by 2020 By Danny Summers [email protected]

The Air Force Academy will finally take its first steps toward getting its new visitors center.

In August, crews will begin taking the next steps toward the construction of the new visitor center just west of Interstate 25.

“It gives us an opportunity to simplify our security situation,” said Carlos Cruz-Gonzalez of the Air Force’s Financial Management Center of Expertise in Den-ver. “If, heaven forbid, we have another incident like Sept. 11, 2001, and we have to close access to the installation, people can still access the visitor center.”

The firm that Cruz-Gonzalez works with conducted business case analyses on several alternatives, including sites at Falcon Stadium, on the east side of I-25, using leased space in an unfinished of-fice complex near Interquest Parkway or using the existing visitor center site. They finally settled on a site just north of the Santa Fe Trail parking lot on the west side of I-25, just outside the North Gate.

The new visitor center is part of the City For Champions project that includes several new additions to downtown Col-orado Springs.

Cruz-Gonzalez aid the Academy will use a public-private partnership to build the new facility. The Academy uses a pub-lic-private partnership for base housing, as do several other Air Force bases.

“It’s an attractive location,” he said. “If private parties want to collaborate with us and can build a facility for what the land is worth, we see it as an opportunity to leverage a public-private partnership.”

For many years, the Air Force Acad-emy ranked among the major tourist attractions for Colorado Springs. The Academy’s office of public affairs claims that more than 700,000 people visited the Academy every year, going to foot-ball games, hiking on the 18,000-acre grounds in the mountains and visiting the famed Cadet Chapel.

But that all changed with the terror-ist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Like ev-ery other military post in the country, the Academy added new guard towers and required identification checks and, sometimes, automobile searches.

The number of tourists dropped pre-cipitously, reaching lows of 200,000 a year, according to Academy spokesman John Van Winkle.

Currently, the Academy has no real tourist plan and no paid bus tours like at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and no paid walking tours like at the

U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.Instead, visitors are often greeted with

intimidating guard stations complete with armed security.

Academy Supt. Lt. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson asked the Installations Director-ate, staff to consider intangible factors such as campus security, accessibility to the visitor center and the capability to expand. Only the I-25 site met these re-quirements, as Falcon Stadium lies with-in the Academy’s security cordon.

Another benefit to the site is that the Cadet Area and Cadet Chapel; and soon the Center for Character and Leadership Development. They will all be visible from I-25.

In addition, locating the visitor center near I-25 will save people from making the three-mile drive to the center’s cur-rent location.

The construction process will be-gin with an environmental impact as-sessment scheduled to take about six months. If that goes favorably, A7 will work with the Air Force Civil Engineer Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lack-land to draft a request for proposal, ac-cording to Cruz-Gonzalez.

“We’re taking under-used assets, in this case acreage, and making it available at fair-market value for a private agency to develop and provide the Air Force Academy a service in kind,” he said. “In this case, the service in kind would be a visitor center. The Civil Engineer Cen-ter will issue a request for proposal, and

we’ll see what comes up and who is inter-ested and what proposals they’ll put on the table.”

Based on the RFP’s complexity, that part of the process could take anywhere from six months to two years. Academy spokesman John Van Winkle said the hope is to finish construction on the project by 2020.

The proposed visitor center would ac-tually change the security boundaries for the AFA, moving guard gates behind the major tourist attractions at the Academy and granting wider, more welcoming ac-cess.

Visitors will not have to go through a tedious security check before visiting the chapel, Falcon Stadium, the Cadet Field House, the Honor Court, Arnold Hall, Eisenhower Golf Course or the Associa-tion of Graduates building.

Keeping in line with the Academy’s unique architectural heritage is of the utmost importance, according to Cruz-Gonzalez.

“We want people, when they visit the Air Force Academy visitor center, to see the connection to the Air Force and to the Academy.”

The Academy’s Public Affairs Direc-torate would run the facility — as it does now — with space set aside for a gift shop and a food operation. A new visitor cen-ter would also include a 250-seat theater and large conference room.

Construction will begin on the new Air Force Academy visitor center in August. Courtesy image

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Fall gardening/landscaping classes, presented by Colorado Master Garden-ers, provide participants with gardening insights for fall/winter lawn and gar-den care and success. All area residents are encouraged to attend this slate of classes. Course topics include: vegetable gardening, soil enrichment, perennials & bulbs, fire wise landscaping, saving/

starting seeds, fall and winter lawn care and planting/pruning trees.

Class titles and dates are listed be-low. Classes will be conducted from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays at the NEW CSU Extension Office, 17 N. Spruce, just west of Interstate 25 and Bijou, in Colorado Springs, 80905. All classes will be repeat-ed on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Garden Ranch YMCA, 2380 Monte-bello Drive W.

The cost for each class is only $10. Visit elpasoco.colostate.edu to register. For additional information, call (719) 520-7688.

Gardening/landscaping classes – Fall 2014

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L-208 was a ‘dirty word’ to miners Attorney Ken Geddes grew up in Victor

during the ‘30s and ‘40s. His parents owned and published the Time Record from 1941 to 1951.

Talking with Geddes a few years ago, the conversation meandered, twisted, and turned through how things have changed over the years. He brought up one of the biggest agents of change for the district. He called it by name, “L-208.”

War Production Board Limitation Order L-208, issued on Oct. 8, 1942, forced the closing mines here and all over the nation. Geddes said it was basically a ‘dirty word’ in the district.

During the Depression, participants in the local economy were relatively pros-perous here and in other mining locales around the country, when compared to other areas that were not relying on min-eral extraction.

Gold production started to rise during the ‘30s because of lower operating costs. In 1929, at the pinnacle of the post World War boom, gold production nationally had reached the lowest point since 1849. But by 1935, the price of gold had increased to $35 an ounce.

With higher prices and lowered costs, gold mining looked pretty good when you considered the economic slowdown in oth-er sectors. Mining in the Colorado, Alaska, California, Arizona, South Dakota and

other areas, showed great promise until the U.S. became involved in World War II.

Geddes said his parents’ newspaper was a daily until that time but went to a weekly as the local economy soured on the heels of L-208. The order restricted the mining of all non-essential metals and virtually shut-tered gold mining locally.

Longtime area mining historian Ed Hunter appreciated Geddes’ comments on the economic impact of L-208, and added a few of his own, during a discussion with me a few years ago.

“In the minutes from the Congressional hearings on L-208, Al Bebee or another Golden Cycle offi cial testifi ed that he knew of only about fi ve miners from the Dis-trict that ever went to work in the copper mines and that was touted as one of the great things about L-208. We’d get more of a metal that could be made into shells and bullets rather than that gold stuff! A great

many hands went to the service which probably didn’t leave many to go to other mines” wrote Hunter to me in an email.

“Years later, I was told when I went to work in New Mexico at what had been a lead/zinc mine and produced the metal needed for the war, that the year before L-208, the government restricted materials like timber. The mine, for some reason, was not on the approved list. When the mine needed timber for underground support, they had to go over at night to the adjacent mill and “borrow” the timber they needed. The mill was on the list ‘cause they actu-ally produced the metals. Kind of like the thinking that electricity comes from the light switch so you don’t need the coal to produce it,” Hunter said.

He hinted that there may have been even bigger and more complex political agendas to consider.

“Seemed kind of funny that Roosevelt and Churchill decided to cut out gold mining in the U.S. but Great Britain, South Africa, Australia, etc. could keep on gold mining throughout the war. About that time there was reference in the trade jour-nals to leaders in both countries wanting to go off the gold standard culminating in the Breton Woods accord. I’m afraid that is all way beyond me.”

From Fountain Fort-Carson High School to Yankee Stadium

It seems that every column I write lately has some sort of a New York Yankees angle. Get ready for more of the same this week.

Chase Headley, a 2002 Fountain-Fort Carson High School graduate, was recently acquired by the Yankees in a trade from the San Diego Padres. Headley is the Yanks’ starting third baseman. He paid dividends his fi rst game with the club on July 22 when he drove in the winning run in the 14th inning of a Yankees victory over Texas.

I bring up Headley this week for a few different reasons. Very few athletes from the Colorado Springs region - about 625,000 people at last count - make a liv-ing playing professional sports. Headley joins Brandon McCarthy, a 2002 Cheyenne Mountain grad, as the only two recent grads currently playing at the major league level.

McCarthy, a nine-year major league vet-eran, is 2-0 in three starts since the Yankees acquired him in a trade in July.

So what are the odds of McCarthy and Headley both playing with the most suc-cessful franchise in the history of profes-sional sports in America? I would say

through the roof.Footnote: Former Wasson grad Rich

“Goose” Gossage also played for the Yan-kees and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Maybe the Yankees just like play-ers from our area?

I interviewed Headley several times when he was in high school. He was a remarkable young man with a great head on his shoulders. He was the valedictorian of his class and a starter on the school’s basketball and baseball teams.

He attended the University of Pacifi c on a baseball scholarship out of his high school, but transferred to the University of Tennessee. He was drafted by the Padres

in the second round of the 2005 amateur draft.

Headley made his major league debut with the Padres in 2007. He had his best season in 2012 when he smacked 31 home runs and drove in 115 runs while batting a healthy .286. He fi nished fi fth in the Na-tional League MVP voting that season.

I interview hundreds of high school athletes every year. Most of them play sports for love of the game. Most know that they will never play another competitive game beyond high school. Most are okay with that.

Headley was a guy who, while in high school, worked as hard at developing his skills in basketball and baseball as anybody I’ve come in contact with in my 25 years as a professional writer. But Headley was also grounded and didn’t talk - at least not to me - about his main goal in life of playing professional sports.

If he happened to make the major leagues that would be great. If his career ended on a college baseball diamond he

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was willing to live with that as well.Too many kids - and their parents - I

talk to today actually believe that playing professional sports is in the cards. They talk about as if it’s given as long as they put in the hard work and pay enough money to club coaches.

I can’t tell you how many disappointed kids and parents I talk to a few years after high school who are stunned that they didn’t make the big time. It is very sad to think that these people didn’t just play the sports for the love of the game like Headley seemed to do.

The offi cial start of the fall sports season is less than two weeks away. I am look-ing forward to watching football, soccer, volleyball, softball and fi eld hockey games. Other fall sports in Colorado include cross country, gymnastics, golf and tennis. Even

cheerleaders compete for a top prize in the late fall.

There is nothing like the excitement of a high school event from a pure love of the game. The raw emotion is priceless.

But somewhere along the line some player or parent will talk about how their team was robbed by offi cials, or that the reason their son or daughter is not getting a college scholarship is because the coach doesn’t like them.

There should be more Chase Headleys in the world. A great student fi rst dedicated to being a solid role model and contribut-ing member of society. He was fortunate enough to make the pro level, but about 95percent of the high school kids who play high school sports this year in the Pikes Peak region will have their careers end at the age of 17 or 18. My hope is that they are okay with that and ready to move on to be solid citizens with the goal of improving their lives and the lives of those around them.


Summers

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:I recently attended the Citizens’ Police

Academy offered by the Monument Police Department. The course last for eight weeks and is held for three hours each Tuesday evening with one Saturday reserved for the fi rearms range. The classes were taught by the Chief of Police and /or some of the offi cers. Throughout the course I found the presentations to be superb —speaking as a former teacher — complete with pertinent videos and slides, some of which were graphic but apropos. The information presented was amazing and entertaining. Each class focused on a different aspect of work involved in local police work, as well as the exceptional training every one of the offi cers must have. Viewing the tactics and weapons gave me a more complete perspective about this department which has a SWAT team and experts in varied positions of law enforcement.

When asked about the class Lt. Steve Burk said that this was the ninth class. The fi rst one offered began on Oct. 15, 2008. I asked him if he felt the class was a success and he said, “Anytime the Police Department has a positive interaction with the citizens of the Tri-Lakes area it is a success.” I asked him if the Academy has changed since the fi rst class and he replied that it had not changed much because the

basics of law remain the same. However, he did state that the department must change. An example he offered of a change that has occurred within the department was that of arrest control. In order to better equip their offi cers during arrest procedures and physical confrontations, several years ago the department switched to a combina-tion of Koga and KravMaga. He added, “As laws change, practices and procedures of the police department must evolve. If they didn’t we would no longer be the progres-sive department we strive to be.” When asked what he considered the most valu-able part of the Citizen’s Police Academy, Lt. Burk said, “The relationships developed between offi cers and the community. Until someone goes through the Academy they cannot fully appreciate what our offi cers do.”

Personally, I learned so much along with the 16 others in the class. Our local police department deserves high marks for all that is required of them, even in this smaller town of Monument. The staff of the department is to be commended for the rigorous training as well as the back-ground they bring to our town. I highly recommend everyone take this class which is typically held two times per year. The next class is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2014.

John Howe

Furniture is functional art Dan Rieple’s Dali-esque furniture is

functional art. I asked him about his cre-ative process and this was his response.

More than a few times I have been asked, “What were you smoking or sniffi ng when you came up with that?” “Nothing” I say. In fact, had I been smoking, or sniffi ng, there is little chance I would have come up with any of my better ideas. Here is how it happens for this artist…

I liken it much to the birth of a child. First an idea is conceived. Conception is where the analogy sort of falls apart but suffi ce it to say it begins as an amalgama-tion of shapes, textures, colors, experiences and function. Maybe we could call these the gene pool. Once conceived the idea then gestates for weeks, months or even years. During this time the idea makes nu-merous changes. Starting off as one design and changing to something quite different as a result of some experience or event. An

example of this is in a piece I made a few years ago which I entitled “Took A Hit.”

My wife and I had just been to a furni-ture show in Philadelphia and also visited the home of Wharton Esherick, an icon in the fi eld of furniture design. Between the furniture show, Mr. Esherick’s home and the art district we strolled through, I was awash with creative juice and fi lled with ideas. Before we had even left Phily I had sketches of what I thought was a very cool contemporary looking dresser. Hence the

idea was conceived. Next comes the gestation period …

development if you prefer. Proportions, textures, materials, processes play major roles as do events in the development. The details begin to take shape in my mind until eventually I can more or less see the fi nished product in my head. In the case of “Took a Hit,” it’s fi nal design was infl uenced most by some very hard events in the lives of a couple of my friends. They experienced a major “hit” in their lives that affected them greatly. Some take a hit and never recover. Others recover somewhat but never fully. Others, like my friends, are affected greatly but by some heavenly mys-tery are better, wiser, more beautiful and they continue to function as well as before. Many of you can relate.

Back to the birthing analogy … the ac-tual birth of the art … the piece of furniture in my case, is when the work begins. Not

even close to what I’ve seen of child birth but still involves a good deal of sweat, and blood (sharp tools can get ya) and the occasional tear. When things go wrong I never cry but I do get angry … I sometimes tear up a bit when it goes right. I just can’t help but be in awe that something turned out so well. I don’t mean to sound arrogant or conceited here, God knows I’ve made plenty of stove fodder (fi re wood). But oc-casionally, my ideas are born into some-thing fi ne. And the process is complete when someone mutually feels my passion and adds my creation to their home.

UPCOMING ART EVENTS:Bella Art and Frame, The artwork of

Pam Aloisa, Aug. 5-28, Meet the artist: Aug, 21, 5 to 8 p.m.

Wisdom Tea House, Carol Naylor and the Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, Aug. 5-30, meet the artists: Aug. 21, 5 to 8 p.m.

� e Green Mountain Falls Water Wheel Some of you who read my column may

remember that I collect old pictures. I found an old picture a couple of years ago of water wheel at Green Mountain Falls taken about 1900. It was not a big wheel, nor was it where it would get its picture taken at any time.

I did some research on the location, thanks to some landmarks in the back-ground. I searched out the spot, but there is not a clue of it now. It was just west, and on the stream near the post offi ce.

I learned at the Ute Pass Historical Society in Woodland Park that Elmer Brown, Son of E.E. Brown who came to Green Mountain Falls in the 1880’s built the wheel. The stream is Catamount, the

house is across Ute Pass Avenue from The Church in the Wildwood. E. E. Brown built the house in 1888.

According to family history, there was much more water in the brook then be-cause those reservoirs weren’t at North and

South Catamount on Pikes Peak back then. So it was a pretty good stream through town. Elmer at one time put fl umes outside of his house and put in a waterwheel with deep paddles that fi t the fl umes. He put a crank on the end that operated a saw, a wood saw. The family would bring in the big logs down there and save a lot of work sawing wood. Elmer lived there until early in the 1920s, at which time Margaret and Frank Hart bought the property. Their daughter, Dorothy Hart Conn, lived there until sometime in the 1980s. She died in 1986.

The picture I have may not be this wheel, because it looks to be only four or 5 feet in diameter, and the paddles are not

in a fl ume, just the stream. The stream sometimes runs high after a rain. It joins Fountain Creek near the row of businesses west of the lake. It takes a real search to see how the stream runs through town.

Green Mountain Falls in those days was quite different than it is now. Only a hand full of people stayed all year. Most just came for part of the summer. Many were from eastern Kansas, and came to escape the heat. Years ago, I did a column about how they started living in tents, and little by little built up cabins. Some of these cab-ins grew into homes that are still used.

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Jacks Valley portion of basic cadet training nearly completedSeveral Tri-Lakes area alumni are among this year’s group

By Danny [email protected]

The basic cadets of the Air Force Academy’s Class of

2018 took their teamwork to the field a few weeks ago when nearly 1,200 new recruits marched out to Jacks Valley.

The basic cadets and their training cadre marched in the cadet area several miles to the Academy’s Jacks Valley training area. It resulted in some temporary road closures along the north side of the Academy.

After arriving in Jacks Valley, the 1,160 basic cadets began setting up their tents and establishing a tent city, where they will live until Aug. 1, when they march back to the cadet area. The basic cadet training ends Aug. 2 with the playing of “Taps.”

In addition to living in a tent city, this field portion of basic cadet training includes participating in assault course and obstacle course, learning first aid and com-pleting the leadership reaction course.

Basic cadet trainees also participate in weapons drills, physical fitness activities, inspections and other military training to further develop their physical abili-ties, teamwork and leadership potential.

According to Academy Spokesman John Van Winkle, there are several Tri-Lakes area alumni among this year’s group. They include Jackson Spalding of Discovery Can-

yon and Conner Wilburn of The Classical Academy.“Jacks Valley is more of a hard core field environ-

ment,” Van Winkle said. “The cadre exposes basics to a field environment: the basics set up their own tents (10 to a tent) shortly after arriving in Jacks Valley.

“Second Beast also provides a greater focus on team-work and physical fitness as well as exposure to combat first aid.”

Much of the first summer at the Academy is rigorous. The six-week orientation program introduces the young men and women to military life. Basic cadet training is a very serious undertaking. The performance and atti-tude in this program strongly influences the future suc-cess of the cadets at the Academy.

Basic cadet training is designed to expand limits and have the young cadets emerge with a deep sense of pride and confidence in their accomplishments and abilities. They begin to understand what sets the Acad-emy apart from other colleges and universities.

Van Winkle estimated that about 100 new cadets leave the program each year before the summer basic training is completed.

Nearly 1,200 United States Air Force basic cadets marched out to Jacks Valley earlier in July to begin the �eld training portion of their basic training. This is the �nal part of their basic training. They return Aug. 1 and graduate Aug. 2. Two of the basic cadets are recent Tri-Lakes area graduates Jackson Spalding (Discovery Canyon) and Conner Wilburn The Classical Academy). Courtesy photo

‘Invisible Threat’ screened on Tuesday nightSta� report

Colorado Springs Health Partners, PC announced a screening of the nationally acclaimed documentary Invisible Threat on Tuesday, July 29, at 4:30 p.m. at their Health Management office, 1625 Medi-cal Center Point, Suite 210, 80907. The film explores the science of vaccination and how fears and misconceptions have led some parents to not vaccinate their children according to the recommended schedule. “Invisible Threat” chronicles the dangers of not vaccinating through interviews with families, physicians and

SocialTHE BLACK Forest AARP Chapter meets from 1-4 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month at Black Forest Lutheran Church, 12455 Black Forest Road. No membership, no dues, no obligations; just an opportunity to get togeth-er and socialize. Some individuals play dominoes, others work on their needlework or other projects that they bring, and some just watch and talk. Light snacks and co�ee and lemonade are furnished. The Black Forest AARP Chapter 1100 sponsors the Senior Social but you do not have to be a chapter member to attend. All ages are invited. Bring a friend Call the church o�ce at 719-495-2221.

THE CENTURIAN Daylight Lodge No 195 A.F and A.M meets at 7 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month. Eastern Star meets 7:30 p.m. the �rst and third Tuesdays. Both groups meet at 18275 Furrow Road. Call 719-488-9329.

COALITION OF Tri-Lakes Communities. Call John Heiser at 719-488-9031 or go to www.CoalitionTLC.org.

COLORADO MOUNTED Rangers Troop “I” is looking for volun-teers. The troop meets at 7 p.m. the �rst Friday of the month at the Colorado Springs Police Department, Gold Hill Division, 955 W. Moreno Ave, Colorado Springs. Visit

https://coloradoranger.org/index.php/troops/troop-i or email [email protected]

GIRL SCOUTING o�ers opportunities for girls ages 5-17 to make friends, learn new skills and challenge themselves in a safe and nurturing environment. Call 719-597-8603.

GLENEAGLE SERTOMA Club luncheon meeting is every Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., at Liberty Heights, 12105 Ambassador Drive, Colorado Springs, 80921. Call Garrett Barton at 719-433-5396 or Bob Duckworth at 719-481-4608, or visit www.sertoma.org.

HISTORY BUFFS meets at Monument Library from 1-3 p.m. the �rst Wednes-day of every month.

ITALIAN CLUB If you love family, socializing and culture, then membership in Sons of Italy is right for you. Membership is open to men and women. More informa-tion at www.sonso�talypp.com.

KIWANIS CLUB of Monument Hill, a service club dedicated to providing assistance to those less fortunate in the Tri-Lakes community, meets 8 a.m. Saturdays at The Inn at Palmer Divide, 443 Colo. 105. Join us for breakfast, great fellowship and informative programs, and come be a part of the opportunity to give back to your community. Visit http://monumenthillkiwanis.org; call 719-4871098; e-mail [email protected]


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Jacks Valley portion of basic cadet training nearly completed yon and Conner Wilburn of The Classical Academy.

“Jacks Valley is more of a hard core field environ-ment,” Van Winkle said. “The cadre exposes basics to a field environment: the basics set up their own tents (10 to a tent) shortly after arriving in Jacks Valley.

“Second Beast also provides a greater focus on team-work and physical fitness as well as exposure to combat first aid.”

Much of the first summer at the Academy is rigorous. The six-week orientation program introduces the young men and women to military life. Basic cadet training is a very serious undertaking. The performance and atti-tude in this program strongly influences the future suc-cess of the cadets at the Academy.

Basic cadet training is designed to expand limits and have the young cadets emerge with a deep sense of pride and confidence in their accomplishments and abilities. They begin to understand what sets the Acad-emy apart from other colleges and universities.

Van Winkle estimated that about 100 new cadets leave the program each year before the summer basic training is completed.

‘Invisible Threat’ screened on Tuesday night Sta� report

Colorado Springs Health Partners, PC announced a screening of the nationally acclaimed documentary Invisible Threat on Tuesday, July 29, at 4:30 p.m. at their Health Management office, 1625 Medi-cal Center Point, Suite 210, 80907. The film explores the science of vaccination and how fears and misconceptions have led some parents to not vaccinate their children according to the recommended schedule. “Invisible Threat” chronicles the dangers of not vaccinating through interviews with families, physicians and

experts.CSHP will offer a question and answer

panel with a team of their pediatricians after the film and light refreshments will be served.

The documentary has already re-ceived praise from more than 50 orga-nizations, including the Children’s Hos-pital of Philadelphia, Texas Children’s Hospital, Autism Science Foundation, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Every Child By Two, calling the docu-mentary “powerful,” “fast-paced,” “well-balanced” and “impeccably produced.”

“Invisible Threat” was funded through unrestricted grants from various Cali-fornia Rotary Clubs. Screenings are be-ing held across the country to spark a movement to educate students and par-ents about the science of immunization and dangers of under-vaccinated com-munities. It was produced by a group of award-winning high school students from Carlsbad High School in California. They set out to produce a documentary on the human immune system and un-covered a social controversy they didn’t know existed, but which affects commu-nities across the United States.

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ClubsLEGACY SERTOMA dinner meetings are at 6:30 p.m. the second and fourth Thursdays monthly at Monument Country Club. New members and visitors welcome. Call Ed Kinney, 481-2750.

MOMS IN Touch prayer groups meet, by school, throughout the school district for one hour each week to sup-port the children, their teachers, the schools and administration through prayer. Call Judy Ehrlich at 719-481-1668.

THE MONUMENT Homemakers Club meets the � rst Thursday of every month at the Tri-Lakes Fire Depart-ment Administrative Building, 166 Second Street, Monument. Arrive at 11:30 a.m. to prepare for a noon potluck, program, and business meeting, which ends around 1:30 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. Call Irene Walters, Co-President, at 719-481-1188 for Jean Sanger, Co-President, at 719-592-9311 for reservations.

MOUNT HERMAN 4-H Club meets at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at Grace Best Elementary. There are no meetings in June, July and August. Anyone interested in pursuing animal projects, archery, cooking, sewing, model rocketry, woodworking or just about any hobby is welcome. A new member meeting is the third Thursday in October.

THE PALMER Lake Art Group meets on the second Saturday of the month at the group’s Vaile Hill Gallery, 118 Hillside Road. Call 719-488-8101 for information.

PALMER DIVIDE Quiltmakers meets at 7 p.m. the � rst Thursday of each month at The Church at Woodmoor. Contact Carolyn at 719-488-9791 or [email protected].

THE PIKES Peak Branch of the National League of American Pen Women o� ers information by calling 719-532-0021.

PIKES PEAK Women’s Connection meets the second Thursday of the month for a luncheon at the Clarion Hotel Downtown, 314 W. Bijou St., Colorado Springs. Social time begins at 11:30 a.m., with luncheon and program from noon to 1:30 p.m. Free preschool childcare is available with a reservation; $16 inclusive. Call 719-495-8304 for reservations or information. All women are welcome.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN Chapter, 1st Cavalry Division Meeting is at 9 a.m. the second Saturday of ev-ery month at the Retired Enlisted Association, 834 Emory Circle, Colorado Springs. We are a non-political, nonpro� t soldier’s and veteran’s fraternity. Anyone who has been assigned or attached to the 1st Cavalry Division anytime, anywhere, is eligible for membership. Friends of the Cav who have not served with the Division are eligible for Associate membership. We are family orientated so please bring signi� cant other. We participate in local parades, do food shelf, picnics, Christmas party. Come join us for great camaraderie, make new friends, possibly meet old friends from the First Team. Contact Paul at 719-687-1169 or Al at 719-689-5778.

ROTARY CLUB of InterQuest meets at 4:46 p.m. Thursdays at Liberty Heights at Northgate, 12105 Ambassador Drive (Voyager Parkway and Celestial Drive) in Colorado Springs. Guest always welcome. Serve with intergrity, love our com-munity and have fun. Call Scott Allen at 719-338-7939.

SILENT SPRINGS Social Group is a social group for hard of hearing and deaf adults. Sign language users are welcome. Dining out at local restaurants, potlucks and community activities are available on an ongoing basis. Call 719-487-9009 or e-mail [email protected].

TAI CHI in the Park meets from 9-10 a.m. Saturdays in Fox Run Park. Limited instruction will be o� ered to those who do not know tai chi. Club is a way to get people together to introduce them to tai chi, and for those who already know it to have a time and place to meet one another. Club is free to join. Instructors from White Crane Tai Chi will help through warm-up, session and warm down. Open to all ages.

TOASTMASTERS FACC Masters Club meets at noon Thursdays at Lockheed Martin, 9975 Federal Drive. Visit http://faccmasters.freetoasthost.us or call Kirby at 719-481-3738.

TRANSMISSION MEDITATION The simplest, most potent way to serve humanity and help transform our world. Dynamic aid to personal growth. Group meditations at 7 p.m. every Monday and Thursday in Palmer Lake. Call 303-494-4462 for local group information and directions. Go to www.TransmissionMeditation.org.

TRI-LAKES AMERICAN Legion Post 9-11 meets at 6:30 p.m. the � rst Tuesday of each month at the Depot Restaurant on Colo. 105 in Palmer Lake. Contact Ed at 719-481-2750.

TRI-LAKES BARBERSHOP Chapter meets Mondays. Call Phil Zara at 719-481-3197.

TRI-LAKES CROP Club meets on the third Saturday of the month. Call Angela at 719-481-9735.

TRI-LAKES CRUISERS car club meets at 7 p.m. the � rst Wednesday of the month in the Monument Fire Station on Hwy 105. Open to all makes and models of automobiles. It is a family oriented club that does several cruises and social events throughout the year. The club does a car show every June to bene� t Tri-Lakes Cares. For more information visit: www.tl-cruisers.org.

TRI-LAKES FRIENDS of the Libraries meets from 10 a.m. to noon the second Monday of each month from September through June at Monument Library.

THE TRI-LAKES Lions Club meets the � rst Thurs-day of every month at Monument Hill Country Club. The social is at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting is at 7 p.m. The International Association of Lions Clubs is the largest service club in the world with over 1.35 million members. The Lions are known as the “Knights of the Blind.” By conducting vision screenings, equip-ping hospitals and clinics, distributing medicine and raising awareness of eye disease, Lions work toward their mission of providing vision for all. Lions clubs are groups of community minded men and women who are interested in helping serve their communities. For information about the new Tri-Lakes Lions Club, contact the club’s president, Dave Prejean, at 719-492-8274. More information is available at lionsclubs.org.

TRI-LAKES NONDENOMINATIONAL Men’s Gathering meets at 6:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Pinecrest Lodge in Palmer Lake. Continental breakfast is included. Call Basil Marotta at 719-487-9500.

TRI-LAKES PARENTS of Multiples Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the third Monday of each month at the Little Log Church in Palmer Lake. Child care is provided for a minimal

fee. New members and visitors are welcome. E-mail [email protected] or call 719-488-6785.

TRI-LAKES VFW Post No. 7829 meets at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at The Sundance Lodge/Oakleys. New members are welcome. Call Darby Kelly at 719-481-4377.

U.S. AIR Force Academy Toastmasters meets from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays at DeVry University, 1175 Kelly Johnson Blvd., Colorado Springs. Visit www.d26toastmasters.org/airforceacademy or call Angela at 719-494-2777. Guests are welcome.

MSGT WILLIAM Crawford Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7829 meets from 6:30-7:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month at the Sundance Mountain Lodge in Monument. For information, contact Kathy Carlson at 719-488-1902 or [email protected].

WISDOM AND Wealth Master Mind Group meets from noon to 1 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month at the Monument Library. “Change yourself, change your success.” Let’s talk money: how to save it (tips and ideas on how to cut costs), how to invest it (where, when and how), how to make it (build your business or start a new business). For infor-mation, or to register, contact Meredith@MeredithBrom� eld.com or 630-618-9400.

SupportALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets at 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays at Tri-Lakes Chapel, Woodmoor Drive and Deer Creek. Call Greg at 719-648-9495.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Sunlight of the Spirit Women’s Closed Step Study. Mondays, 6pm. Fam-ily of Christ Lutheran Church, 675 E. Baptist Rd. 487-7781.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Beacon Lite Group meets at 8 p.m. Monday and Thursday at Tri Lakes Chapel, 1750 Deer Creek Road, at Woodmoor Drive and Deer Creek Road. Call Kathleen at 649-1046.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Recovery in Action Group Open Big Book Study. Thursdays, 7pm. Family of Christ Lutheran Church, 675 Baptist Road. 487-7781.

AL-ANON FAMILY Group meets at 7 p.m. Thurs-days at Family of Christ Church, 675 Baptist Road. Call Jean at 719-487-8781 or Kay at 719-481-9258.

AL-ATEEN GROUP meets at 7 p.m. Thursdays at Family of Christ Church, 675 Baptist Road. Call Jean at 719-487-8781.

ALS, LOU Gehrig’s disease support group meets at 6 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Weber St. Center on Weber Street between Kiowa and Bijou streets. in Colorado Springs. Patients, family and caregivers are welcome. Contact Julie Bloom at 719-481-1906.

BLACK FOREST Al-Anon meets at 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the Black Forest Community Church in the East Educational Building to help families and friends of alcoholics. Call 719-632-0063.

BLACK FOREST Homemakers meets the second Thursday of the month at the Black Forest Lutheran Church. Social time begins at 9 a.m. and is followed with a meeting/program. Newcomers are welcome. Call Cindy at 719-495-3402.

COLORADO SPRINGS Shrine Club accepts new members who apply and register for children’s admittance to a

Shriner’s Hospital from 10 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of each month. Call 719-632-3881.

FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT Group meets the second Monday of each month at 3505 Austin Blu� s Parkway at College Pharmacy. A DVD is shown at 5 p.m. and the meet-ing starts at 7 p.m. Visitors and new participants always are welcome. There is no charge; no products sold. Contact Lorna Searle at 719-481-2230.

MOMS CLUB, Moms O� ering Moms Support, o� ers weekly activities each week for stay-at-home moms and chil-dren from birth to 5 years old. Contact [email protected] or go to www.momsclub.org.

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Peer Group meets at 9 a.m. the second Wednesday of the month at Monument Village Inn. Contact [email protected] or 719-488-2683.

MYASTHENIA GRAVIS support group meets the second Saturday of every month. Call Carolyn at 303-360-7080 or 719-488-3620.

NARCONON REMINDS families that abuse of addictive pharmaceutical drugs is on the rise. Learn to recognize the signs of drug abuse and get your loved ones help if they are at risk. Call Narconon for a free brochure on the signs addiction for all types of drugs. Narconon also o� ers free assessments and referrals. Call 800-431-1754 or go to DrugAbuseSolution.com. Narconon also can help with addiction counseling. Call for free assessments or referrals, 800-431-1754.

A PALMER Lake session of AA meets at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in the basement of The Little Log Church in Palmer Lake at the corner of High Street and Upper Glenway. Call Bon-nie Bowen-Pyle at 719-488-0908 or 719-661-6702.

SUDDEN UNEXPECTED Infant Death Local Support Group. The group o� ers bereavement services for parents, families, friends and caregivers who have been a� ected by the sudden unexpected loss of an infant or toddler. There is no cost. Meeting are the third Monday of the month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Colorado Springs Penrose Library, 20 N. Cascade Avenue. Adult meeting only; no child care will be provided. For additional help and information please call Angel Eyes at 888-285-7437 or visit angeleyes.org

SUPPORT GROUP for juvenile diabetes meets at 9 a.m. every third Saturday of the month at It’s a Grind co� ee shop in Monument. Contact Dawn at 719-466-7551 or [email protected].

TRI-LAKES AL-ANON, meeting of Al-Anon Family Groups, meets at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Family of Christ Lutheran Church, 675 Baptist Road, Colorado Springs, just east of Walgreens. This is an open meeting and the format is Al-Anon 12-Step/Al-Anon literature study. Call Janet M. at 719-481-5648.

TRI-LAKES MOPS, Mothers of Preschoolers, meets from 9:15-11:30 a.m. the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at Tri-Lakes Chapel. The meetings begin in September and continue through May. Child care is provided. All mothers with children from birth to kindergarten are welcome. Call Melissa at 719-488-2680 or Bengetta at 719-487-1078.

PARENTS OF Tourette Children meets every other week. Call Liza at 719-488-2945.

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14-Life

Fire Center has long and colorful historyRemains a top-notch training site for �re�ghtersBy Rob [email protected]

Today, if you wander through the area that surrounds Monument Rock and the nearby Monument Fire Center, it is still possible to dance a little, back though time, and into the mission of caring for the land, and serving the people.

“The area has a long and colorful his-tory, beginning with the establishment of the nursery in 1907, to its current-day headquarters for two national wildland fire fighting crews,” says William R. Nel-son, who served as District Ranger there from August of 1999 to January of 2005.

Nelson now lives in Falcon, but in addition to his stint as District Ranger, served at various times in his career as a Helitack crew member, Type 3 Incident commander, and Type 1 information of-ficer.

“Its original purpose as nursery was to provide tree seedlings for National For-ests in the surrounding five state area making up the Rocky Mountain Region, areas that had been heavily logged or destroyed by wildfires. It served in that capacity for 58 years. Many residents of Monument may have either worked at the nursery or know others that did,” Nel-son wrote in a booklet about the Monu-ment Fire Center that was published in October of 1997.

Longtime Monument resident Bill Simpson remembers well, as he de-scribed several years ago.

Among his fondest memories is his time spent out at the Monument Nursery and the sign shop there.

“I worked over there pulling weeds and picked up pine cones by the bushel,” he said. The nursery would let the cones dry out and then put them in a big tumbler that looked like the drum that produces Colorado Lottery winning numbers. The loose seeds were planted, grown locally, and then shipped around the country.

“White Fir cones were the most lucra-tive,” he said because they only produced cones in the very tip-top of the trees.

“We were paid $4 or $5 per bushel for White Fur. That was a lot of money back then.” One technique involved finding and raiding a squirrel’s cache. You could take half and leave half of the cache with no negative effects on the squirrel, he said.

“Sometimes a cache would have five or six bushel in there.”

Established in on Mayday (May 1), 1907 as the Mount Herman Planting Sta-tion, the center was one of the first such nurseries in fledgling National Forest sys-tem and important in the reforestation of public lands. The name was changed to the Monument Nursery two years later.

In its 58 years of operation as a nurs-ery, millions of seedlings of Douglas-Fir, Engelman Spruce, Western Yellow Pine, Limber Pine and Bristlecone Pine.

One of the earliest reforestation suc-

cesses was on nearby Mount Herman. “Rising just west of her, Mt. Herman

was nearly barren of trees after intense fires from the 1880s. within 20 years of operation, thriving seedlings from the nursery transformed the mountainous slopes from an ugly black and red scar to the healthy green of a young forest,” according to the 1997 booklet about the history of the center.

“As growing techniques improved, and transportation became less costly, the nursery became one of the most im-portant in the Rocky Mountain region.

Through the years, seedlings grown here were used in national forests from New Mexico to South Dakota, and for wind-breaks on prairies from Texas to Iowa.”

In 1920, the site was also selected to the be the home of ‘Memorial Grove,’ established in memory of deceased For-est service employees for the region and during the ‘30s became home to one of the largest Civilian Conservation Corps camps.

“The residents of monument saw

Cold storage, in the form of very large root cellars, used during the facility’s life as a nursery, and other structures have been converted to di�erent uses, though many of the buildings have Colorado Historic designation. Photos by Rob Carrigan

Much of the Fire Center building complex is in a restricted area because sta� is out �ghting �res in the summer.

Rows of trees were planted as shelter belts to protect seedlings early in the nursery’s history are now nearly 100 years old.

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Fire Center has long and colorful history

Through the years, seedlings grown here were used in national forests from New Mexico to South Dakota, and for wind-breaks on prairies from Texas to Iowa.”

In 1920, the site was also selected to the be the home of ‘Memorial Grove,’ established in memory of deceased For-est service employees for the region and during the ‘30s became home to one of the largest Civilian Conservation Corps camps.

“The residents of monument saw

Access, except by authorized personnel, is restricted, and monitored closely.

Monument Fire Center is located in the shadow of Mount Herman near Monu-ment Rock and not far from town.

This historic three-story building is a legacy of seed extraction from the Fire Centers previous life as a tree nursery.

hundreds of young men come and go from the train sta-tion as they fulfilled their six-month hitch. Today, we still enjoy and appreciate the results of their work. The Mount Herman and Rampart Range road are examples,” says Nelson.

He is proud of the preservation efforts in partner-ship with Colorado Historical Society and the develop-ment of the center into its current role as home base for a 20-person Pike Hotshot team and a six-person Helitack crew. The elite Hotshot crew has been at the center since 1979 and the Helitack crew was added in 1996. The center remains a top-notch training site for firefighters.


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Larkspur moves into new town hall � e old town hall was a one-story, four-room house donated to the town in 1984

By Mike DiFerdinando [email protected]

Moving can be hard — especially when you’re trying to move an entire town hall with only a handful of people.

“All of our files, all the computers, the entire government office operations. This filing cabinet weighs about 90 pounds,” said Larkspur Town Manager Matt Krim-mer. “Keeping the town in business while we’re doing the move with the staff we have, and it’s only a staff of four. Four of us and our maintenance man are doing the move.”

Officials from the Town of Larkspur spent the week of July 21 moving from the old town hall to their new office, a 1,700-square-foot log building at 8720 S. Spruce Mountain Road. Krimmer said it will take a couple weeks to fully complete the move.

“The old town hall is just an older house that’s been adapted,” Larkspur Mayor Gerry Been said. “It worked great for years but there was no parking… We should have done something like this a long time ago. We just finally got to fi-nancially where we could do it.”

The old town hall, 9524 Spruce Moun-tain Road, was a one-story, four-room house donated to the town in 1984.

The town purchased the new proper-ty, which used to be the Edge Real Estate office, in January.

The previous owner, Joey Edge, co-owner of Edge Real Estate, had listed the building and one acre of land for $395,000 but came down to $300,000. The town also purchased five acres of land connected to the lot of land on the town park’s northern boundary, which the Been said he hopes to use to extend the town park.

The town’s 10-acre park, adjacent to the new town hall, was built primar-ily with state lottery funds, and won an award in 2013 for being one of Colorado’s best lottery fund projects.

“What I envision is more fields,” Been said. “I’d like to see tennis courts and something more for the youth that’s not necessarily for organized sports, but I’m hoping for like a skate park, some-where the kids can just come and do it and they don’t have to be organized with the teams, something that they can come use that wouldn’t just be reserved for one

thing like the ball fields.”The mayor also said he hopes the ad-

ditional land around the new town hall will eventually be used to expand the park complex with something like a com-munity center.

“We want to make this the heart of town,” Been said.

Peoples National Bank in Monument bought the old town hall for $200,000. The town then used that money to buy the additional five acres of land.

The bank bought the new town hall for $300,000 and is leasing it back to the town for $3,300 per month for 20 years. The town will have the option to eventu-ally buy the building.

As far as when the expanded park complex may become a reality, Been said it all depends on money.

“(There’s) not really a timetable, it’s more like apply for grants and get more money,” Been said. “The town itself is de-mographically poor. It’s 190 people, ap-proximately, in size. So, it’s never as fast as the mayor wants. Sometimes govern-ment moves kind of slow, but we’re ex-cited about what we’ve started.”

The view from the porch of the new Larkspur Town Hall, 8720 Spruce Mountian Road. Photos by Mike DiFerdinando

The new Larkspur Town Hall, 8720 Spruce Mountian Road.

Mayor Gery Been supervises the setup of the new Larkspur Town Hall, 8720 Spruce Mountian Road.

Plenty happening in August at TLCA Dakota, Farmer among many performers By Danny Summers [email protected]

In August 2013, famed musician and fiddle player ex-traordinaire Charlie Daniels was the main attraction for organizers of the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts. Daniels and his rockin’ band put on quite a show near Monu-ment Lake.

This August, Monument resident Miguel Dakota — star of the NBC-TV’s “America’s Got Talent,” along with “Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers” will help make the TLCA the place to be in northern El Paso County.

“We are very excited to have both of these acts com-ing to the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts,” said TLCA pres-ident Michael Maddox. “We have a lot of exciting things happening up here and we want people come and show their support and have a god time.”

On Aug. 2, Dakota, a 2010 Lewis-Palmer High School graduate who honed his skills at such places as the Speedtrap Café in Palmer Lake, will bring his unique blend of music to the TLCA. Dakota and Spiral Lion combine the early years of blues, rock and funk with an alternative contemporary feel to the sound.

The show starts at 7 p.m. with tickets ranging from $10 to $14.

Dakota’s love for making music started more than a decade ago when his parents gave him a guitar for his 11th birthday.

AGT show producers reached out to Dakota through ReverbNation.com - a social media site for musicians — and asked him to come out to the local audition in Denver. He did and then he made it to the stage in New Jersey standing in front of the judges and thousand of AGT fans.

He said he was especially nervous about what How-ard Stern had to say, since the judge is known for his “blunt” comments. The crowd roared after Dakota per-formed on July 15 and Stern stood on his feet, clapping.

“Byrd and Street” will be at the TLCA on Aug. 9. Tom-my Byrd and Kathy Street have been making songs to-gether since 2001.

Nominated as “Best Vocal Duo” at the Texas Music Awards in 2014, 2012 and 2009, they were also Kerrville New Folk Finalists in 2013, 2011 and 2009. Kathy was nominated for Texas Music Awards Female Vocalist for 2012.

Their TLCA show is set for 7 p.m. with tickets being $10 to $14.

“Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers” come to the TLCA for an Aug. 16 concert.

Farmer is an American character actor with more than 100 film and television appearances attached to his resume. Farmer has shown he can adapt easily to any genre when necessary.

Farmer is best known for his co-starring role with Johnny Depp in the film “Dead Man.” He has also starred with Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Kris Kristofferson.

His TLCA show starts at 7 p.m. with tickets running from $20 to $30.

Colorado Floyd, a Pink Floyd tribute band, will be at the TLCA on Aug, 22. The show starts at 7 p.m. with tick-

ets being $10 to $14.Heather Maloney closes out the month of music with

a show on Aug. 29 beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $30.

The Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts is located at 304 Highway 105 in Palmer Lake. Call 719-481-0475 or go to trilakesarts.org


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Actor and musician Gary Farmer will be performing with his band “The Troublemakers” at the Tri-lakes Center for the Arts in August. Courtesy photo

Miguel Dakota of Monument is becoming a household name as he rises through the hit television show “America’s Got Talent.” He will be performing at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in August. Courtesy photo


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Peak wild�ower seekers stretch back through agesState �ower �rst recorded between Monument and Palmer LakeBy Rob [email protected]

Though it may be a surprise to no one, wildflower watchers and preservationists have a long history in the Pikes Peak Re-gion.

The earliest recorded non-native ac-tivity in the area was the Army’s Maj. Stephen Long Expedition of 1820, which

discovered the Colorado State Flower, the white and lavender Columbine, some-where between Monument and Palmer Lake.

“The white and lavender Columbine, Aquilegia caerulea, was adopted as the official state flower on April 4, 1899, by an act of the General Assembly. In 1925, the General Assembly made it the duty of all citizens to protect this rare species from needless destruction or waste. To further protect this fragile flower, the law prohibits digging or uprooting the flower on public lands and limits the gathering of buds, blossoms and stems to 25 in one day. It is unlawful to pick the Columbine on private land without consent of the

land owner,” according to the the Colo-rado Department of Personnel and Ad-ministration.

In June of 1820, Major Steven Long and 22 men left what is now Nebraska to explore the source of the Platte River. Af-ter more than three weeks of crossing the tall grass prairies of eastern Colorado, the expedition finally reached the base of Pikes Peak.

Long was anxious to continue, but was persuaded by Dr. Edwin James, a natural-ist with the expedition, to wait a couple days. James wanted the delay so he could climb Pikes Grand Peak.

Long reluctantly agreed and provided James three days to climb the peak, make

his observations and return to camp. James and two men reached the sum-

mit on the afternoon of the second day, and spent only an hour on the summit before starting the trip back down.

James returned to Long’s encampment in time to make the prescribed deadline, having managed to scale the mountain. In addition, he made extensive notes in his journal and documented examples of previously unknown plants and flow-ers, including Colorado’s state flower, the blue Columbine.

Long was so impressed, he named the mountain for him, declaring it James Peak, but, of course, it didn’t stick.

Monarda, or Bee Balm, looks almost like a purple Dale Chihuly sculpture. Photo by Rob Carrigan

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County gives heavy-equipment crew wild�re trainingEmployees learned how to draw �re lines to stop the spread of blazes

By Mike [email protected]

When it comes to stopping the spread of wildfires, dirt can be as important as water.

Douglas County spent a day cross-training its employees to help respond in the event of a wildfire by using bulldoz-ers.

On July 9, about a dozen certified members of the county’s heavy-equip-ment crew from the public works opera-

tions staff trained to hone their fire-line cutting skills.

A firebreak, or fire line, is a gap in veg-etation or other combustible material that acts as a barrier to slow or stop the progress of a bushfire or wildfire. Heavy machinery can be used to move dirt and sand to create a needed gap in vegetation to stop or slow the progress of a fire.

The training took place at the South-ern Public Works Operation facility, 11815 Spring Valley Road in Larkspur.

The classroom portion of the training was led by Lt. Patrick Richardson of Cas-tle Rock Fire and Rescue’s Wildland Team Coordinator.

“The premise of the class was to teach these guys who already know how to use this heavy machinery the finesse and the subtleties of being able to use it to cre-

ate a fire line and stop and contain the spread of a fire without scaring the earth in the process,” Richardson said. “If we’re not careful with how we put out these fires, we can leave a big scar on the earth that will last for decades. These guys are great at what they do, but we have to teach them the difference between put-ting out a fire and repaving I-25.”

The daylong training was included fire-line safety, basic fire-line construc-tion, simulated evolution, loading equip-ment transports, simulated dispatches and what chain of command is expected.

“Douglas County and the rest of Colo-rado is continuing to improve the air re-sources to fight fires, but any pilot will tell you, air support helps but fires are put out on the ground,” Richardson said.

While many think the use of heavy

machinery is only needed in the case of large, quick-spreading wildfires, Rich-ardson said that is not the case.

“It doesn’t take a big fire to cause a lot of damage. If you have a 4-acre fire that’s backing up to a subdivision, that small fire could easily take out 20 homes,” he said.

Heavy machinery can also be used to protect other valuable assets like water resources.

Richardson said that the training was a one-off exercise for now, but he would like to see it and other readiness exercis-es like it become more regular.

“Most counties don’t do this kind of training, so we’re ahead of the game. It’s a wonderful use of taxpayer dollars and something that the whole Front Range benefits from,” Richardson said.


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County gives heavy-equipment crew wild� re training machinery is only needed in the case of large, quick-spreading wildfires, Rich-ardson said that is not the case.

“It doesn’t take a big fire to cause a lot of damage. If you have a 4-acre fire that’s backing up to a subdivision, that small fire could easily take out 20 homes,” he said.

Heavy machinery can also be used to protect other valuable assets like water resources.

Richardson said that the training was a one-off exercise for now, but he would like to see it and other readiness exercis-es like it become more regular.

“Most counties don’t do this kind of training, so we’re ahead of the game. It’s a wonderful use of taxpayer dollars and something that the whole Front Range benefits from,” Richardson said.

Lewis-Palmer players have been in the weight room and on the court all summer By Danny Summers [email protected]

It’s no secret that Susan Odenbaugh has built a volleyball powerhouse at Lewis-Palmer High School. And when the first official day of practice begins on Aug. 11, the Rangers will have a big target on their backs.

The defending Class 4A state champi-ons return a vast amount of talent from last year’s squad that went 27-2 and de-feated Pikes Peak Athletic Conference ri-val Air Academy in the title game at the Denver Coliseum.

“We know we’ll have that target on our backs, but we’re going to treat it like any other season,” Odenbaugh said. “When you have a competitive program there is more pressure on you.

“But our focus is not the state champi-onship. We’ll talk about it and then we’ll move on. Our focus right now is to do ev-erything we have to do to get ready for Pueblo West.”

The Rangers open their season Aug. 28 at home against Pueblo West. Game time is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

“We will have a lot of expectations from a lot of people this year,” Oden-baugh said. “My job as a coach is to keep the girls focused.”

Odenbaugh is entering her 13th season as head coach of the storied program, and her 26th overall at the school. She was an assistant for 13 years under cur-rent Coronado coach Don Lash, who is a Colorado coaching legend.

Odenbaugh has directed the Rangers to 11 postseason appearances. The Rang-ers lost to Cheyenne Mountain in the state finals in 2012.

While it’s way too early for Odenbaugh to set her rotations, she does have a nice core of returning players that would make any coach smile. The group in-cludes all-American outside hitter Alexa Smith (committed to Purdue), right-side hitter Nicole Montgomery (numerous state gold medals in track), setter Mariah Evans, libero Emily McCurley, middle blocker Lydia Bartalo, middle blocker Elizabeth Reich and libero/defensive specialist Tylar Fugate.

“I have a lot of depth this year I haven’t had before,” Odenbaugh said. “We have a

lot of talent at different positions, which makes for a nice problem.”

The Rangers spent the summer getting stronger physically. They lifted weights three days a week under the direction of new Lewis-Palmer head football coach Dustin Tupper. They also had open gym two nights a week.

“The girls did a lot of the same stuff I had my football players doing,” Tupper said. “They got after it. They didn’t take it easy.

“Odie is committed and her kids are as well.”

The Rangers play in the eight-team PPAC. They play every school once, so that means Odenabugh’s crew will get 12 non-league matches to fill the regular-season schedule of 19 games.

The Rangers host the 12-team Lewis-Palmer Invitational Sept. 6.

Even though the first official day of practice isn’t until Sept. 11, Odenbaugh and her squad will be allowed to take part in a camp Aug. 4-7 with five other schools.

“A lot of questions will get answered during the camp,” Odenbaugh said.

The Lewis-Palmer High School volleyball team has been working hard all summer in the weight room on conditioning and honing their skills on the court. The Rangers are the defending Class 4A state volleyball champions. Photo by Danny Summers

Rangers begin defense of state volleyball championship

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Teams announced for the upcoming USA Pro Cycling Challenge Colorado Springs and Woodland Park take center stage

By Danny Summers [email protected]

The 2014 version of the USA pro Cycling Challenge is beginning to really take shape.

Te event, which runs August 18-24 with stages in Col-orado Springs and Woodland Park, will feature 16 of the world’s top professional cycling teams.

Led by UCI ProTeams BMC Racing Team, Cannon-dale Pro Cycling, Team Garmin-Sharp, Tinkoff-Saxo and Trek Factory Racing, the race will include some of the top talent in the sport.

It will take riders on a heart-pounding journey through the Colorado Rockies. The seven-day stage race will travel 550 miles from Aspen to Denver, making stops in cities known for their cycling culture and his-tory such as Vail and Boulder.

Colorado Springs is the site of Stage 4 on Aug. 21. Woodland Park is the starting point of Stage 5 on Aug. 22.

“We consistently get such an overwhelmingly posi-tive response from the teams that participate in the Pro Challenge each year,” said Rick Schaden, owner of the USA Pro Challenge. “The race continues to build mo-mentum year after year and we’ll look to build on that in 2014 by welcoming back some veteran teams and in-troducing some new ones to the challenging terrain and beautiful scenery of Colorado.”

Featuring teams hailing from six countries, the USA Pro Challenge will test riders by taking them to unprec-edented elevations. Many of the riders are competing in the Tour de France.

“We’ve had huge success in the Pro Challenge the past three years and we’re looking forward to returning for a fourth,” said Jonathan Vaughters, CEO, Slipstream Sports and Team Garmin-Sharp. “As a Colorado-based team, this is a race we look forward to all year and the riders always bring their a-game.

“Last year Lachlan Morton won the Best Young Rider competition and Tom Danielson got third overall, so we have high goals for the race and we will give fans plenty of reasons to cheer.”

Here is the complete list of teams that will be com-peting in the 2014 USA Pro Challenge:

UCI ProTeamsBMC Racing Team (USA) @BMCProTeamCannondale Pro Cycling (ITA) @cannondaleProTeam Garmin-Sharp (USA) @Ride_ArgyleTinkoff-Saxo (RUS) @tinkoff_saxo

Trek Factory Racing (USA) @TrekFactoryUCI Professional Continental TeamsDrapac Professional Cycling (AUS) @DrapacCyclingTeam NetApp - Endura (GER) @NetAppEnduraTeam Novo Nordisk (USA) @TeamNovoNordiskUnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team (USA) @UH-

CprocyclingUCI Continental TeamsBissell Development Team (USA) @BissellDTHincapie Sportswear Development Team (USA) @

HincapieDevoJamis-Hagens Berman p/b Sutter Home (USA) @

TeamJamisHBJelly Belly p/b Maxxis (USA) @JellyBellyTeamOptum Presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies (USA) @

OPTUMpbKBS

Rapha Condor JLT (GBR) @raphacondorjltTeam SmartStop (USA) @TeamSmartStopFull team rosters will be announced closer to the

race.“The USA Pro Challenge has featured some of the

best teams in the world over the last three years and 2014 will be no different,” said Shawn Hunter, CEO of the Pro Challenge. “We’re giving cycling fans in the United States the chance to see the teams they love up close and in person. Interest in the race continues to grow and this year’s diverse roster of teams is going to create seven intensely competitive days of racing in Au-gust.”

The Pro Challenge is welcoming seven new teams for their first appearance in the race, including Trek Fac-tory Racing, Drapac Professional Cycling, Team NetApp - Endura, Bissell Development Team, Hincapie Sports-wear Development Team, Rapha Condor JLT and Team SmartStop. Additionally five veteran teams will be re-turning for a fourth time in 2014, having participated in every edition of the Pro Challenge - BMC Racing Team, Team Garmin-Sharp, Cannondale Pro Cycling (formerly Liquigas-Cannondale), Team Novo Nordisk (formerly Team Type 1) and UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team.

Woodland Park organizers expect the size of the city to double on race day to about 15,000 people.

Referred to as “America’s Race,” the USA Pro Chal-lenge is one of the largest cycling events in U.S. histo-ry and the largest spectator event in the history of the state. The USA Pro Challenge continues to set records in professional cycling by taking the riders to unprec-edented elevations. Featuring a challenging course, the fourth annual race will spotlight the best of the best in professional cycling and some of America’s most beau-tiful scenery.

More information can be found online at www.USAP-roChallenge.com and on Twitter at @USAProChallenge.

Teams have been announced for the 2014 version of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. Stage 4 of the race will be Aug. 21 in Colorado Springs. Stage 5 will begin in Woodland Park. Courtesy photo

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