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INDEX Town hall meetingSenator Gail Schwartz (D-Snowmass)

will host a town hall meeting in Hotchkiss on Sunday, Feb. 10. She invites Delta County residents to discuss this session’s legislation. As chair of the Senate Agri-culture, Natural Resources, and Energy Committee and a Western Slope resident for 40 years, she is also committed to facilitating discussions on the future of our agricultural economy. There will be a special presentation by the organiza-tion Hemp Cleans about hemp legislation intended to facilitate new production and economic growth in rural areas.

FEBRUARY 6, 2013VOL. 130, NO. 6

Fairlambs honoredThe Delta County Historical Society is

pleased to announce a public reception honoring longtime Delta residents “Sky” Fairlamb, Ethel (Fairlamb) Jackson and Mary (Fairlamb) Dow on Saturday, Feb. 16, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Delta County Museum, 251 Meeker Street, in Delta.

The Fairlambs have left a proud legacy throughout the county. Please join the community in honoring this family. On this occasion, museum admission will be free. Light refreshments will also be served. Call 874-8721 for more informa-tion.

DCED movesDelta County Economic Development

(DCED) has moved to new office quarters at 428 Main Street, Delta.

“We’re really excited to be on Main Street with all the activity among the businesses,” said Sarah Carlquist, DCED director. The move was completed last week. DCED had previously been operat-ing from second floor quarters off Staf-ford Lane.

“It’s easier for people to find us here,” Carlquist said. The DCED phone number is the same, 874-4992. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

BY HANK LOHMEYERStaff Writer

Don Suppes, chairman of the Delta County Republican Party, has told the DCI that he will not seek re-appoint-ment to that post.

The county’s Republicans were scheduled to hold their regular reorganization meet-ing Tuesday, Feb. 5. Suppes said he intended to make his announcement at that meet-ing, which took place too late for coverage in this week’s DCI.

Suppes said he is stepping down from the party chair post because he plans to form an exploratory commit-tee and investigate a possible run for the State Senate Dis-trict 5 seat, currently held by term-limited Gail Schwartz of Snowmass.

“It would not be appropri-ate for me to remain chairman of the party’s central com-mittee,” Suppes said, “while I am involved in exploring a possible campaign of my own.”

Suppes is in his second term as mayor of Orchard City, a position which is term limited in 2014.

Suppes said his reasons for exploring a run for the District 5 seat are simple: “I am fed up with trying to stand up and get Denver and Washington, D.C. to hear me from here in Orchard City. I think they will be able to hear me better from Denver,” he said.

Suppes said he is highly

critical of and opposed to the growing practice of un-elected bureaucrats on both the state and federal levels creating expensive, unfund-ed mandates for individuals and local governments. “This is killing the U.S.,” he said, adding, “Someone needs to start standing up against it.”

An example of bureaucrat-ic abuse cited by Suppes is a requirement that bidders for state work submit their bids on a physical iPad device, and the bidder, successful or not, does not get the iPad returned to him.

The state’s rule says in part that potential contrac-tors “shall submit proposals using the Apple iPad 2 (or newer) ... iPads will not be returned at the end of the evaluation and will become property of the department ... the (potential contractor) will submit three (3) additional copies on a flash drive for record keeping.”

Suppes said, “That is some state bureaucrat creating a ridiculous rule. Elected offi-cials are supposed to protect the public from that kind of bureaucratic abuse, and they’re not.”

Suppes emphasized that he is not announcing a can-didacy for the District 5 seat. “There are seven counties in the district and I have talked to people in some of them. I will need to have conversa-tions with people in all of the counties before making up my mind,” he said.

Suppes steps down as Republican chair

BY PAT SUNDERLANDManaging Editor

An annual report compiled by Heritage Title Company shows the number of real estate transactions in Delta County increased 12 percent in 2012. A total of 626 sales took place during the year, compared to 558 in 2011. In dollar volume, real estate sales totaled $100 million, a 9 percent decrease from $108.5 million in 2011.

The report attributes the decrease in dollar volume to a drop in high dollar trans-actions. In 2011, there were nine sales over the $1 million mark, compared to just five in 2012.

“The 2012 real estate mar-ket was encouraging, but has a way to go before reaching pre-recession levels,” observed Tamra Smith of Heritage Title Company.

The sale of foreclosures accounted for 30 percent of all sales in 2012. The 185 sales outpaced the 154 foreclosed sales recorded in 2011 (28 per-cent of the market).

“There are a lot of foreclo-sures that have not hit the market yet,” said Nancy Wood of RE/MAX Mountain West. “Because of new government

regulations on lenders, fore-closures were stagnant for a period of time. They stood in the bank’s vault, so to speak, because the banks weren’t sure how to proceed. Now that ‘shadow inventory’ is starting to hit the market.”

Foreclosure filings in Delta County increased 21 percent from 202 in 2011 to 244 in 2012. The number of com-pleted foreclosures decreased 18 percent to 158 in 2012, compared to 192 completed in 2011.

Foreclosures are just one factor keeping home prices lower than they have been in years, but prices seem to have bottomed out and are now holding stable.

“Sellers are more realistic than they were a year or two ago when they were resisting the drop in prices,” Bob Lario of RE/MAX Mountain West said. “Sellers are pricing more realistically and buyers have become aware that the mar-ket is probably not going to get any better so waiting may not be a great strategy. In fact, it’s as good as it’s going to get.”

Wood agrees. “It was such an extreme buyers’ market for a while that the buyers

would immediately want to take a large chunk off the price.” Now homes are priced more realistically, so lowball-ing is not the best strategy, she said.

Because property is start-ing to move in other areas of the state and the country, Lario said he’s finally starting to work with people desiring to relocate to Delta County.

“We noticed in the second half of 2012 we were getting more customers coming in to buy who have their homes elsewhere under contract,” he said.

Lario says he’s fielding more inquiries about houses in the upper end ($250,000 and up), as well as farms, ranches, orchards and vine-yards. Some are investors who

are looking for others to oper-ate the farm or ranch, but Lario recently sold a couple of orchards to people from the Front Range who plan to put their own sweat equity into the operations.

Looking back, Lario says the real estate market appears to have hit bottom in 2011. Although values are “trolling

Real estate sales pick up, prices stabilize

Photo by Pat SunderlandThe real estate market in Delta County appears to have bottomed out. “My sense is that we hit the bottom in 2011 and have been recovering since then although values are trolling along the bottom,” said Bob Lario of RE/MAX Mountain West.

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Some vocal public opposi-tion and objections to proce-dural issues weren’t sufficient to dissuade the Board of Coun-ty Commissioners from voting unanimously Monday, Feb. 4, to ban marijuana facilities that produce, process or sell pot for the wholesale or retail trades.

The ordinance is in effect upon Monday’s adoption and applies in the unincorporated areas of the county.

Local residents mounted opposition to the ordinance. Several were present at the BoCC’s meeting on Jan. 22 during both constituent time and during the county attor-ney’s agenda with the board.

Scott C. Wilson of Hotchkiss objected to the county’s public notice for the ordinance and about text in the document itself. Wilson charged that the county’s legal notice and pub-lication constituted “a breach of the Open Meetings Act,” and that the document’s word-ing would “outlaw agriculture in Delta County.” He termed the ordinance and its adoption procedure “an outrage” and “a travesty of justice.”

Wilson also asked for a “bi-partisan committee of stake-holders” to consider local reg-

ulations for marijuana facili-ties under the provisions of Amendment 64. He also asked for a six-month moratorium. Other communities have adopted temporary moratori-ums on marijuana facilities until the General Assembly finalizes its regulatory guid-ance on Amendment 64.

Public notice for the coun-ty’s ordinance appeared in the DCI with text provided by the county. The text and publica-tion were researched by coun-ty attorney Christine Knight who found them to be proper and legal in all respects.

Knight responded to anoth-er criticism from Wilson. She said that language in the ordinance Wilson disputed had come directly out of the voter approved Amendment 64. The amendment legalizes recreational use of marijua-na, and it also allows local governments to outlaw mari-juana facilities that trade in the drug. Federal laws against marijuana remain in effect.

Also during the BoCC’s Jan. 22 meeting, ordinance oppo-nent Jere Lowe of Hotchkiss told the commissioners, “You do have the power to (pass) this.” But, adding that he had spoken with attorneys, he said there had been “serious sun-shine violations on this.”

Wilson and Lowe were objecting to the last paragraph of the ordinance text claiming it violated a rule governing legal publication. It doesn’t, Knight said on Monday; the paragraph is an integral part of the ordinance as adopted by the BoCC and the ordinance could not be legally published without including it.

Lowe also asked that the ordinance be tabled and that a local working group be formed to create a regulatory framework for administer-ing Amendment 64 in Delta County. “This (marijuana) is here to stay,” Lowe told the BoCC.

In adopting their ordi-nance, commissioners cited Amendment 64’s defeat last November by voters county-wide. Lowe challenged District 3 Commissioner Mark Roeber saying North Fork Valley vot-ers actually favored the mea-sure, and that county voters’ rejection of Amendment 64 by 54 percent against “is not a mandate.”

The Amendment 64 tally of 4,897 votes cast in the six North Fork Valley precincts 15 through 20 resulted in a difference of 51 votes in favor, according to the county elec-tion returns.

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LETTERSLETTERS

Gun control: Reason over emotionDear Editor:

I understand the emo-tional need to take some action to prevent fur-ther tragedies like that at Sandy Hook, but we need to exercise reason over emotion in fashion-ing a solution. Outlawing hunting guns that look like military weapons won’t solve the problem; there will still be hunt-ing guns that don’t look like military weapons that are just as lethal. Limit-ing the size of magazines won’t solve the problem; it takes only a few seconds to insert a fresh magazine into a gun.

Universal background checks would make it more difficult for a men-tally disturbed person to get their hands on a gun if a national database were established that prohib-

ited selling guns to the mentally ill but this would require a radical change in our current privacy laws.

Armed guards in our schools might be a deter-rent, but the guard would be the first target of a disturbed individual bent on taking as many lives as possible before tak-ing his own. Don’t forget that Columbine had an armed guard on campus and that did not deter Harris and Klebold and the guard was not at the right place at the right time. And don’t forget that they used shotguns and handguns not “assault” weapons.The school prin-cipal and a psychologist at Sandy Hook, although unarmed, confronted the shooter but were instantly killed. One wonders what the outcome would have

been had they been armed. They were at the right place at the right time to change the outcome. Prop-erly trained and licensed school employees who, on a volunteer basis, are dis-cretely armed would not be a threat to the general population and would be a powerful deterrent to another tragedy like Col-umbine or Sandy Hook.

Richard UddCedaredge

Gun laws are not the answerDear Editor:

The Connecticut school shooting tears at the heartstrings of every par-ent. We must find ways to stop such violence, but more gun laws are not the answer, as statistics prove and common sense verifies.

Law-abiding citizens are the only people affect-ed by laws; others will find ways to get guns. The problem is not that people can get guns, but that people want to kill.

Many of us had guns as kids. We got angry sometimes, but it never occurred to us to turn our guns on strangers, or par-ents, or anyone. What has happened since then?

Some parents are too busy working, out of neces-sity or to buy “things”, to spend time with kids. Some don’t know what their kids are doing, who they’re hanging out with, or how often they’re watch-ing programs with gra-tuitous, graphic violence or playing video games

that teach them to kill, kill, kill! Some are afraid to discipline because they think the kids won’t love them, or that Social Ser-vices will step in.

The ACLU has made it very difficult to insti-tutionalize people with mental problems. Too often, dangerous psycho-tropic drugs are instead prescribed for people who can’t handle problems.

We’ve taken God and morality out of our schools. We’ve raised kids with no concept of heaven or hell, or of an omnipo-tent Presence watching what they do.

Many homes are fatherless. When the government became the financial provider for single mothers, fathers were no longer required — although they are des-perately needed.

Those are a few of my reasons. Please send in yours. Maybe dialogues will find solutions.

Angie ManyEckert

Fracking the North ForkDear Editor:

Here in the North Fork Valley we just had meet-ings with the BLM where citizens were not allowed to comment — we have never had a forum with them where we could — and the leases go up for sale in less than three weeks, on Valentine’s Day; how appropriate is that?! Another one of their “in your face” intim-idation tactics, subtle to some, but not to me. You see, I love this place on the planet and feel we should be improving our little pieces of it, not destroying them.

In my letters of pro-test to the BLM, etc., I included a huge concern I have. In addition to the risks to our aquifer, river and irrigation water, our air and our land, how about the risk to our coal mines? Once they “frack” all these sites, they have no control over where the chemicals go, or what they cause to open up, and it could END coal

mining in the North Fork Valley if the mines are contaminated or made more unstable.

And yet, in the Mon-trose paper the front page had comments from the BLM saying that the danger to coal mining comes from NOT selling and developing the leas-es on 20,000 acres sur-rounding and within our communities.

Really?!This is a lie!I dread to think of

the health consequences to our communities, and the economic impacts to all of our mines and our organic family farms and vineyards. It is too big a risk, and I think the BLM has made clear by their response, they really don’t care. Their lack of stewardship should bring them shame, and will bring them legal action.

Many thanks to all those who are protest-ing in whatever way they can, and especially to those who have gone

to Washington twice to speak with the BLM offi-cials there!

Between this and the massacre of wolves, etc., I am sick to death of Sala-zar, a person I sadly did not know enough about when he came into office.

This mad rush of the fossil fuel industries is not to benefit us; it will benefit a very few already rich individuals and companies, and the gas and oil will be shipped to other nations as they sell it all to the highest bidder! Climate change is ignored yet again in this process, and we are accelerating it with all this fossil fuel develop-ment! We will be left with a hot and unstable plan-et, terrible winters, and nothing but foul water, land and air . . . weather out of control and earth-quakes rampant. Way to go, and go we will, just like the dinosaurs.

Linda Johnson-Rubick,RNHotchkiss

North Fork is already doing its part for the countryDear Editor:

BLM seems hell bent on opening the oil and gas floodgates in the North Fork without knowing or caring whether a storm is coming. Leasing of oil and gas mineral rights grants a legal right to access all the oil and gas that may be under a leased par-cel, and the 20,000-plus acres slated to be thrust on the block in the Febru-ary lease sale make up a critical part of the North Fork Valley. So if drillers find a big oil or gas play here, we kiss our existing way of life goodbye.

Sure, all these horrors might not come about unless there’s consider-able development. But who’s to say that can’t happen? Not me and surely not the regional and state BLM officials who visited our humble towns last week. Listen-ing to state BLM director Helen Hankins you might even take home the idea that BLM’s 1989-vintage Resource Management Plan (RMP) would restrict oil and gas drilling to no more than 10 wells per year in the whole 380,000-acre Uncompahgre Field Office jurisdiction. But you’d be wrong: that’s just the most the anti-quated RMP anticipated might be drilled. What’s already happening is very different: drilling is ongo-ing up in the Muddy and BLM states in the envi-ronmental assessment for the North Fork lease

sale that they anticipate about 20 wells per year just in the greater North Fork area, and SG Inter-ests has proposed drill-ing 150 wells in the Bull Mountain unit alone in the next few years. So, while they went way out of their way to explain how glacially slow actual drilling has occurred just in Delta County — at a rate of one or two wells a year — they seemed to discount what’s hap-pening in the Muddy, and they can’t and don’t deny the real possibility of oil and gas development in the bottom of the valley imposing an economic, social, cultural and envi-ronmental Armageddon on us.

Barb Sharrow, director of the Uncompahgre Field Office, says we should probably worry more about oil and gas drilling on private lands in the North Fork since it’s rela-tively easier and quicker to drill for private miner-als than for federal ones. While we surely do need to beef up the county’s mas-ter plan and oil and gas regulations, we can’t lose our focus. And, consider if some company buys the 20,000 plus acres of fed-eral leases in February, sits on them for now, then drills a few “quick and easy” exploratory wells on private and finds a mar-ketable amount of oil or gas in the Dakota forma-tion under the Mancos. They use their ace-in-the-

hole federal leases (which they can drill any time they want for a period of 10 years or more) to dis-courage other companies from coming in, and start buying up more private mineral rights to build a North Fork empire, while pitting the neighbor who won’t sell against the one who will until the last holdouts just wish it all could have gone a differ-ent way. And don’t forget the added negative effects of whatever development happens on the 124,000 acres of federal miner-als already leased in the greater North Fork area including up the Muddy and the side of Grand Mesa.

Many folks think we’re just being NIMBYs for opposing this lease sale. But these parcels aren’t in our back yard, they’re in our front yard here in the heart of the valley, next to our farms (under in some cases), overhang-ing our lifeblood ditches, surrounding our towns. Heck, the way I feel is that these parcels are part of our very homes. Some, like David Ludlum with the Western Slope wing of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, call us provincial for not want-ing to do our part for the good of the country. It’s amazing what we already contribute: enough BTUs of coal leave the valley by rail in a good year to sup-ply all the energy needs of 60 U.S. citizens for every man, woman and child in the whole North Fork, and add to that the gas already flowing from the Muddy with more to fol-low. Unfortunately, a lot of gas will be exported to China and India when the export terminals now under construction get cranked up. It’s not about energy security for every-body and we will never be able to shovel coal or pump gas into the maw of their corporate money machine fast enough to satisfy them.

The North Fork lease sale is hardly a blip in the big energy picture, but it sure is a heavy chain around our necks. BLM doesn’t have to lease these parcels in the heart of the North Fork. Not now. Not ever.

Brad BurrittHotchkiss

Industry is sabotaging the future of our planetDear Editor:

Wake up, America!Americans waste more

energy than most people on this planet use. We, who are less than 5 per-cent of the world’s popu-lation and use 25 percent of the world’s resources, could, by conservative estimates, cut our fossil fuel consumption by 25 percent by conservation alone. What a concept!

The Danish Parlia-ment recently agreed to an energy plan that will double, to 50 percent, the share of the nation’s elec-tricity coming from wind by 2020, and to be fossil fuel-free by 2050! They plan to decrease energy consumption while still growing economically. Are Danes just innately smarter than Americans?

Agreement — another foreign concept to Ameri-cans! It’s 2013! Every ecosystem on the planet is stressed and we can’t get a clean energy poli-cy out of Congress! We should keep ravaging the planet, devastating the very water, air and land we need for life, so we can waste and squabble? People are sick, our plan-et is sick. Our planet is FINITE — how hard is that to understand?

One example of why we are in this crisis — this became known as the “Great American Street-

car Scandal.” For several years a number of large corporations, including General Motors, Fire-stone Tire, Standard Oil of California, and Phil-lips Petroleum, operating secretly through front organizations, conspired to purchase streetcar sys-tems in 45 major U.S. cities. The consortium proceeded to completely dismantle the trolley sys-tems, ripping up their tracks and tearing down their overhead wires.They were indicted in 1947 on federal antitrust charges. Eventually they were found guilty. Amaz-ingly, the executives who secretly contrived and carried out the demoli-tion of America’s light-rail network were fined a grand total of one dollar each. Having destroyed the mass transit network, their competition, the auto and oil companies quickly acquired domin-ion over the transporta-tion policies of the coun-try, and thus rose the car culture and the abandon-ment of public transit in the U.S. That was a black event in a long, ugly list of continuing collusions to derail alternative energies and prevent us from being an efficient, conservative people on this planet. The fossil fuel industry got $20.5 billion in federal subsi-

dies in just two years, 2009 and 2010, during the 111th Congressional Session. At last count, I believe there are six fos-sil fuel lobbyists for every congressperson.

We are being destroyed by the false notion that we cannot do without fossil fuels. This is so much bigger than our valley; this is a world cri-sis. There is not time to squabble, we need to be pulling in the same direc-tion. It doesn’t matter if you believe there is a human component to cli-mate change or not — our air is polluted, our waters run with oil, pharmaceu-ticals, fossil fuel agri-cultural pesticides and herbicides, radioactiv-ity. ... Isn’t that enough to understand that it is time for unprecedent-ed change? This is not about fossil fuel neces-sity, this is not about jobs — of course clean energy would create jobs! If we don’t save this planet who will? Shell Oil, Exx-onMobil, BP, SGI, Gun-nison Energy?

Let’s get the arrogant industries that have sab-otaged our clean future out of the driver’s seat and place the bar high for what is possible for future generations on this beautiful Earth.

Phyllis SwackhamerPaonia

West Side StoryDear Editor:

No, this isn’t a story about a classic movie or book from the 1960s or ‘70s. But it is a story that originated back in the 1970s concerning the City of Delta. Having lived in the same home since 1978 (it was a three-year-house at the time) to the present day, once you hear this story it is easy to understand why I am so extremely frus-trated by former City of Delta managers and city council administrations, that I am boiling over. This story is about why in the world don’t ALL city streets in the city limits of Delta have the good old basic curb, gutters and sidewalks they were sup-posed to have gotten way back 35 or more years ago? How ironic that the DCI would publish a photograph (1/23/2013) of workers in the lovely Town of Cedaredge lay-ing down fresh concrete sidewalks in 1969 but the huge (by comparison) City of Delta still can’t git ‘er done 40+ years later! Am I supposed to wait another 35 years for these basic amenities?

ALL new construction in the city is mandated to have curb, gutter and sidewalk installed. So is the city saying to devel-opers “Do as I say and not as I do?” I have heard that the city is planning a sidewalk project out in the 1600 Road area that they will charge each res-idence a fee of $2,500 for. Wow, is the city only will-ing to do the areas of the city that have to pay their own way?

One has to wonder HOW did the city receive its “All America City” award with such unsight-ly neighborhoods that lit-ter the west side of Delta? Have you gone more than

two blocks west of Main Street lately? Have you seen the mud bogs in front of our homes, com-plete with non-function-ing culverts for drainage? I know that no city council members have such atro-cious conditions in front of their homes! I also am quite sure that whomever the City of Delta paraded around to show off their gleaming city to back then never took those folks more than 1 block west of Main Street or the city surely would not have gotten such a presti-gious award!

It is my understanding that these infrastructures were bought and paid for in the 1970s. I certain-ly know that I signed a petition in the 1990s that was circulated for presen-tation to city council to get this done once and for all. Instead, we got a new golf course (which I have never been to), a truck bypass route (which I was against in its pro-posed location), sidewalks installed in North Delta on Hwy. 50 for over 1/2 mile (which I will never use), Main Street restifi-cation and beautification projects every few years, and even had most of the street corners that did have sidewalks get their concrete corners chopped down and redone to allow for wheelchair and bicy-cle access (I am not in a wheelchair quite yet).

I also readily acknowl-edge the fact that there are NUMEROUS other streets inside the city lim-its with the same issue and some are even (heav-en forbid!) on Garnet Mesa. Portions of Dodge, Columbia, Palmer, Silver, King, West 4th, Howard, Garnet, Sloan, Elizabeth, Jensen, Brown, Labor just to mention some I have noticed. I am quite sure

there are many more.I have heard all kinds

of excuses from city man-agers and city council members in the past that range from “Well there just isn’t any money in the budget for that” and “Oh you are on State Hwy. 348 and we can’t install them on a highway”. ... but wait a minute; Main Street is also Hwy. 50 and Hwy. 50 in North Delta is also known by 1575 Rd. Just the same as Silver Street is known as Hwy. 348, so that holds no water at all (no pun intended). Also, there wasn’t any money in the budget for most of the other things men-tioned previously either (but is there ever?). This town needs to take care of existing homes that the residents have paid taxes on for many years instead of taking on new proj-ects that only cater to a minority of its citizens!

The last “big project” of sidewalk construction was over five years ago and there hasn’t been one single piece laid since on existing construction inside the city. Why are we being neglected by our elected city officials? Countless new adminis-trations have come and gone for so long that it is useless to threaten electing someone else. I suppose it is high time legal counsel is retained and a class action lawsuit be initiated to get any results. Is it any wonder that real estate valua-tions on the west side of town will never be com-parable to the east side? Maybe with a judgment in the plaintiffs favor, we can all afford to move into a nice neighborhood on the “good” side of town...or at least somewhere that has a sidewalk.

Shirley VollmertDelta

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In a move designed to reduce operating costs at Devil’s Thumb Golf Club, Delta City Council has voted to purchase 50 gas-operated golf carts to replace the 58 leased elec-tric golf carts currently in use at the golf course.

Annual savings of $8,300 are estimated the first 10 years. After the city’s Internal Services Fund is repaid for the expenditure, annual sav-ings are expected to top $26,000.

A four-year warran-ty on the electric carts expired in September 2012 and the golf course is likely looking at bat-tery replacement costs of over $16,000 over the next six months. Since the golf carts were sched-uled to be replaced in September, golf course manager Rob Sanders said it makes sense to purchase the gas-pow-ered carts now.

He acknowledged most golfers prefer electric carts, but gas-powered carts cost less to main-tain and generally last longer.

“We are looking at keeping these carts for 8 to 10 years, and when you do that you’re going to have to eventually replace the electric bat-teries which is a huge cost,” Sanders said.

And with recent per-sonnel cuts at the golf course, Sanders said staff no longer has the extra time needed to maintain the electric carts.

Councilmembers Ray Penick and Mary Cooper both questioned whether it was realistic to expect the golf carts to be ser-viceable for 10 or more years.

Sanders said Adobe Creek is still using 1999 and 2001 models on its 27-hole facility.

“I’m skeptical,” Cooper said, adding she’s been on council long enough to remember when the deci-sion was made to switch from gas to electric.

At this point, city man-ager Justin Clifton said he’s willing to make a small sacrifice in service if there’s an opportunity to reduce operating costs at the golf course on a permanent basis. “We’re trying to come up with a system we can maintain,” he said.

The low bid of $191,500 is more than estimated for golf cart replacement but Clifton said the dif-

ference is justified based on overall savings. The Golf Course Fund will be able to repay the city’s Internal Service Fund for

the initial purchase and for replacement cost of all 50 cars for less than the current cost of leas-ing golf carts.

Golf course will switch from electric to gas carts

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Real estatealong the bottom” he agrees prices have stabi-lized.

In the six-county region which includes Delta, Hinsdale, Mesa, Montrose, Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties, the Colorado Association of REALTORS® (CAR)

reports median prices increased just over 10 percent and days on the market dropped 7 per-cent in the fourth quarter

of 2012.Overall, CAR reports,

Colorado continues to see a recovery from its low point four years ago.

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MarijuanaOthers objecting to the

ordinance at the Jan. 22 meeting were the follow-ing:

• Bart Eller of Paonia said wording in the ordi-nance “leaves me won-dering if I’m breaking the law” selling ag products. “It feels hostile to me as a small business owner,” he said.

The county ordinance applies only to “marijua-na facilities,” not agricul-ture, Knight explained.

• Steve Danuff asked for a six-month morato-rium on the county’s ordi-nance.

• Lucien Pevec of Paonia said the ordinance was too broadly worded and had come too soon, even before the General Assembly had time to create enforcing regula-tions. He asked that con-sideration be tabled.

• Kay Hannah of Paonia asked for “an attitude of cooperation and open mindedness,” and she also asked the commissioners to table consideration of the ordi-nance.

Before voting on the ordinance Monday, com-missioners verified with the county attorney that each of the opponent’s complaints about the ordinance wording and the legal publication had been correctly addressed.

Commissioner Mark Roeber confirmed that the ordinance doesn’t ban potting soil or other innocuous ag supplies as opponents had claimed.

Commissioner Bruce Hovde confirmed that the ordinance defines “mari-juana accessories” but does not prohibit them.

Commission Chair Doug Atchley asked Knight to explain Amend-ment 64’s relation to med-ical marijuana. Knight replied that with Amend-ment 64’s adoption, there will probably be “fewer prescriptions” written for the drug.

She added that the principal difference between the two laws is that a medical marijuana prescription allows per-sons to possess more than one ounce, and allows persons under age 21 to possess the drug.

The BoCC adopted the ordinance without revi-sions from the text it had heard at first reading on Jan. 4.

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Flulevelselevated

Influenza activity remains elevated in Delta County and in the major-ity of areas in Colorado said Jeanine Finnell, RN, certified infection control preventionist with Delta County Memorial Hospi-tal.

Since the season began Oct. 7, among 395 posi-tive specimens tested at the Colorado state labo-ratory, 54 percent have subtyped as type A and 46 percent as type B. “We are starting to see more Influenza A than Influ-enza B in Delta County,” Finnell said.

“It’s not too late to be vaccinated against influ-enza,” she added. The effectiveness of the 2012-2013 vaccine is estimated to be about 62 percent, according to the CDC. Even though the vaccine may not be completely effective against some viruses, it covers three of the most common virus-es. Also, CDC research has shown that the flu vaccine can help prevent other illnesses.

“The single best way to prevent seasonal flu is to get vaccinated each year, but good health habits like covering your cough and washing your hands often can stop the spread of germs and prevent respiratory illnesses like the flu,” stated Finnell. There are also flu anti-viral drugs that can be used to treat and prevent the flu, which may be available through your local physician’s office.

A4 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 ACCENT Delta County Independent

Glen and Shirley Hockett of Crawford are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. They were married Feb. 15, 1953, in Grand Junc-tion.

They moved to Crawford in 1960, where they farmed, ranched and

raised their four daugh-ters.

In lieu of an open house, Glen and Shirley would love to hear from friends and relatives. No gifts, but please send greetings to them at 3624 3750 Road, Crawford, CO 81415.

Hocketts celebrate 60th anniversary

Glen and Shirley Hockett

Chili Dinner Saturday, February 9

4:00–7:00 p.m.

Knights of Columbus

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Richard and Artis Miller of Cedaredge will celebrate their 50th wed-ding anniversary on Feb.

16. They were married in Gunnison.

The Millers have two children, Darron and his wife Julie of Ridgecrest, Calif., and Vicky Dix and her husband Greg of Fort Collins. They have four grandchildren, Benjamin, Lindsey, Courtney and Braden. They celebrated their anniversary by tak-ing a Caribbean cruise with their family.

Cards can be mailed to P.O. Box 602, Cedaredge, CO 81413.

Millers observe 50th with family

Richard and Artis Miller

Richard and Artis Miller

Richard and Kendy Yahn of Delta are the parents of a son, Calvin Lynn Yahn, born Jan. 31, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He weighed 8.58 pounds and was 21 inches in length.

Deseray and Duane Huff of Delta are the parents of a son, Esmile Huff, born Jan. 28, 2013, at Delta County Memo-rial Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 7.2 ounces and was 19.5 inches in length.

Maria Rincon and Isaac Hernandez of Delta are the parents of a daughter, Maylin Rose Hernandez, born Jan. 28, 2013, at Delta Coun-ty Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce and was 20 inches in length.

Joseph and Jessi Bay-les of Eckert are the par-ents of a son, Weston Joseph Bayles, born Jan. 27, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospi-tal. He weighed 7 pounds, 5.4 ounces and was 19.5 inches in length.

Gavin Frantz and Pai-sely Lamb of Cedaredge are the parents of a daughter, Adalynn Reese Frantz, born Jan. 27, 2013, at Delta Coun-ty Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 20 inches in length.

Luke Davis and Lyndi Carr of Delta are the parents of a daughter, Kaybree Allyn Davis, born Jan. 26, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 13.8 ounces and was 19.5 inches in length.

Caleb and Amanda Reed of Delta are the par-ents of a daughter, Aria Lee Reed, born Jan. 23, 2013, at Delta Coun-ty Memorial Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and was 18.5 inches in length.

Jacob and Jessica Adragna of Montrose are the parents of a daugh-ter, Juliet Elizabeth Adragna, born Jan. 25, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 8.2 ounces and was 20 inches in length.

BIRTHSBIRTHS

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In a large skillet, cook thechicken, onion and carrot in but-ter for 5-7 minutes or until chick-en is no longer pink. Add garlic;cook 1 minute longer.

In a small bowl, combine thecornstarch, broth, lemon juiceand salt if desired until smooth.Gradually add to skillet; bring toa boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutesor until thickened. Stir in rice andpeas. Remove from the heat; cov-er and let stand for 5 minutes.

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As a therapist who’s practiced over 30 years, Bob Lang has often been asked, “What makes a good parent?”

He recently published a book which he believes contains the answer based on the complex par-ent-child system. Under-standing that system is the key to unlocking the mysteries of who we are as people.

“ ‘Becoming A Better Parent’ provides an effec-tive framework to over-come our modern myths about parenting so we can build stronger rela-tionships with our chil-dren,” Lang explains.

His book outlines the 10 things we need to know about parent-ing, but Lang cautions against trying to check off each point one by one. Becoming a better parent is a process, he empha-

sizes. The book was also

somewhat of a process, the result of working with clients throughout his career. Whether it was the parenting they expe-rienced as a child grow-ing up, or having a child they’re worried about, the majority of Lang’s cli-

ents have had some type of issue with parenting. There was never a com-prehensive resource to guide those parents, so Lang came up with his own.

While there’s an abun-dance of advice for par-ents on the market, most is directed specifically to a developmental issue or a particular style of par-enting. Lang has taken an all-inclusive approach which will prove valu-able to adoptive parents and step-parents as well as biological parents, no matter what type of issue they’re addressing.

Bob has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Arizona State Uni-versity and a master’s degree in counseling from Northern Arizona University. He formerly served as director of The Center for Mental Health and now operates Fam-ily Treatment Centers in Delta and Grand Junc-tion. In his private prac-tice he focuses on men-tal health and substance abuse-related issues. He is a professor in the social and behavioral sciences department of Colorado Mesa University. He provides online and on-campus instruction for certified addictions coun-selors.

Lang is currently working on a guidebook to complement “Becom-ing A Better Parent.” An audiobook is also in the works.

His book is available from Amazon, Unhooked Books and for a discount-ed rate on his website, www.familytreatmentcenters.com. There is also a Kindle version.

Delta therapist offers tips for better parenting

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Delta County Independent LOCAL NEWS Wednesday, February 6, 2013 A5

MUFFLERS & BRAKESMUFFLERS & BRAKES

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Pen pals exchange lettersWhenever learning can be used in real life, students learn so much more and the learning stays with them. Garnet Mesa Elementary second grade classes and Lincoln Elementary second grade classes have decided to exchange letters. Students at Garnet Mesa wrote their fi rst letter to a pen pal at Lin-coln two weeks ago. This week they received their return letters and were excited to read what their new friends had to say. Yes, real letters, on regular paper — this means of communication is alive and well. The long-term plan is to exchange letters throughout the remainder of the year and meet this spring for a picnic. The students’ focus in writing is to use the correct friendly letter format.

The Delta High School speech team competed with eight other West-ern Slope schools at the annual Montrose Ren-dezvous Speech & Debate Tournament held Feb. 1 and 2 at Montrose High School. It was a highly successful meet for the DHS team, as they cap-tured the second place overall team sweepstakes trophy.

In Congress, Paige Bowling was voted out-standing speaker in her house, while Cidney Fisk received superior speaker honors in her chamber.

Debate competition saw the public forum team of Paige Bowling and Ridge Green capture second place with a 2-1 record. In Lincoln Doug-las debate, Javier Rome-ro also compiled a 2-1 record, but did not place due to strength of opposi-tion calculations.

Original oratory hon-

ors were won by Cidney Fisk, who placed first in the event, and Linh Nguyen, who took fifth place.

Interpretive events found Delta showing exceptionally strong per-formances at this meet. In poetry, the Richards twins swept the first two places with Alysha tak-ing first and her sister Ayasha finishing closely behind her in second place. The duo team of Adam Malcolm and Christien Mackey placed second in their event, and Adam also placed fifth in humorous interpretation. Also placing in humor was Nathanael Ballard, who took seventh place. Cruz Arias placed sixth in dramatic interpreta-tion.

Next up for the team is the national qualifying meet for Congress, which will be held in Ouray Feb. 8 and 9.

Speech team takes second in Montrose

Sixth GradeStraight A’s

Lynette AriasReagan ClayClaire CorbassonLauren DaveyEli FarmerBenjamin HaynerChinh LeMelissa Webb

3.33 to 3.99Britney AcostaJohn AmesJaspe AriasTaylor ArmendarizShania BallardDairo Barrios-OelkeMegan BransonJoseph BulesAbigail CarlsonAbbie Rae Carmi-chaelRowyn CarmichaelJulian ChaviraZion ConleyBolton CouchHaleigh CowleyHaylee CurryPascalina EarleyDesiree GarciaBeki GoldenIsaiah HagerElias Hamblen

Justin HanningSameha HaqueKrislyn HaskinsDominic HensleyPreston HodginAzalee HoffbauerKalleb HunterEmily JohnsonAna JurcaTrenton KanterMakayla KortzAshley LahoeKatelyn LancasterSamantha LaneZeron LawsonMelissa LundyElena MelgozaCaleb MiramontesKyle MockTrevor MyersBlake NaranjoSierra NelsonElaine NidifferHali PhillipsMorgan ReddenTaylor RyanTatum SaddorisAlyssa SandersDarion StraitJenna SutliffAndrew TooleMegan TraceyAbigail Turk

Chloe UnruhNoah UrbanShianne ValdezAntonio VisuanoDah WahSarrah WeaverTrevor WhitesideKourtney Wood

Seventh GradeStraight A’s

Jaspar CarmichaelLogan FreedKaleb HawkinsAlexia QuinnAnha RichardsHarlee RobertsLucy StreichMadeline Tracey

3.33 to 3.99Stephen ButlerKC CarlsonJoseph CataneseLorena DuranMatthew EasterJordan GerlachAustin GermannTatum GilmoreZen GreenleeElisa HammettBrandon HarperNathan HermesJulian HernandezDrake Horn

Christopher HufmanAubrey JonesKayla KenslerJustin LancasterJaden MillerThomas NeilKaleigh NethingtonZachary NicholsonSarah ParkerSamuel RodriguezPeyton SchusterIsaac TimbrezaVicente TrevinoJacob WearSamantha WollertBethany Wright

Eighth GradeStraight A’s

Nectaria HanningShelbi LedesmaLily LockhartMeysa MulfordEmily NortnikNaythan PhillipsElizabeth Ward

3.33 to 3.99Lizett AndradeNacona BaldwinMatthew BohlingHannah BransonTristan BrownBeau ByersCristina Caballero

Kalen CowleyMadison HammSummer HoodLuka HtooTeresa JamesDamon JensenDerek KendrickSheali KingKali KirkendallTuan Le JrShayla LugardBrooke MartinMakayla MillsMatthew NorrisHannah OwensCassidy ParkerElizabeth RobbKole RobertsGabriel RodriguezVictor RuizNathan SandersMegan SandovalNathanael SantonastasoPhilip SantonastasoLiss SharkeyTrevor SmithLydia StalcupJasmine VelasquezJustin ViolettKatelynn WaegeJoyclie WebbShelby Wilson

Delta Middle School honor rollThe following students were named to honor roll at Delta Middle School for

the first semester of the 2012-2013 school year:

Saturday, Feb. 23, will be an evening of excite-ment for moms and sons. It’s the City of Delta’s annual mother-son dance at Bill Heddles Recre-ation Center. This year’s theme is “Outer Space, To Infinity and Beyond.”

Bring your little guy

for a special evening of dancing and fun from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Regis-tration in advance will be taken up to Feb. 22 for $12/couple. Price at the door is $15/couple.

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A6 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 SCHOOL Delta County Independent

Terrifi c KidsThe following Garnet Mesa students earned a Terrifi c Kid Award from the Kiwanis Club of Delta for their efforts to be a responsible citizen and student. Above are kindergar-ten and fi rst grade students (on fl oor) Illeana Leon, Sage Jones and Amber Morrow; (standing) Jose Adame, Linda Hayner and James Huffman. Below are second and third graders Janine Garcia, Cristi-na Hernandez, Marla Hancock, Cassidy Hunter, Melissa Uribe, Luke Stagner and Emigdio Corral.

Honored students for the month of January are Nathanael Santonas-taso, Zach Nicholson and Zeron Lawson.

Nathanael, an eighth grader, was recognized by Mr. Carlquist. Nathan is always helpful and respectful, encouraging others to do their best. He is a student who demonstrates excellent work ethic, works hard and shows great courage. Nathanael is a leader at Delta Middle School and a joy to have in class;

Zach Nicholson, a sev-enth grader, was honored by Hailey Hancock and Holly Mautz as one of those amazing students who quietly goes above and beyond to exceed expectations. He cares about his grades, his peers, and his school and shows this through being helpful to others, his politeness and his excel-lent work. Zach is defi-nitely an asset to DMS.

Zeron Lawson, a sixth grader, was nominated by Stacie Archuleta. He

is a true joy to teach, always on time and pre-pared with a smile on his face and ready to help out any teacher who has a need. Zeron is an amaz-ing student who is always reading and researching any subject to offer new information or ideas on our daily lessons.

“It truly brings a smile to my face to teach this young man and I am not looking forward to the day when he moves to seventh grade,” Mrs. Archuleta said. “DMS is lucky to have this stu-dent!”

DMS recognizes Students of the Month

DMS Students of the Month

McSeniors:Austin Davis

Shannon Foley

McAthletes:Robin MillaboSoraya Luna

McJuniors:Ryan Whiteside

Julia Stinson

McSophomores:Adrian Valdez

Jazmin Damazo

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Lincoln Elementary was invaded by minutemen from Mrs. Donathan’s fi rst grade class.

RevolutionaryWar lessons

The first graders at Lincoln Elementary have been studying about the Revolutionary War. Here is what they learned:

George Washington led the Revolutionary War. ~Weston

The people got shot. The colonists dressed like Indians and dumped the tea in the water. ~Austin

The colonists dressed up like Indians and snuck up on the ship and threw the tea in the water. ~Kam-eron

The redcoats were called lobsterbacks. ~Wyatt

Let me tell you about the “shot heard around the world.” The “shot heard around the world,” started the Revolutionary War. ~Ana

Paul Revere rode through the towns shout-ing, “The redcoats are com-ing!” ~Andrew

The “shot heard around the world,” started the Revolutionary War. ~Brett

Some kids called the redcoats “lobsterbacks.” ~Stormie

The minutemen wore blue coats and the lob-sterbacks wore red coats. ~Wyatt

They said, “One if by land and two if by sea.” ~Logan

The redcoats shot hun-dreds of minutemen. ~Pey-ton

The “shot heard around the world,” was the start of the Revolutionary War. ~Jackie

The Boston Tea Party is when the colonists dressed up like Indians, packed up the tea leaves and threw them into the sea. ~Brooke

They called the redcoats “lobsterbacks” because they wore red. ~ Andi

The flag had 13 stars and 13 stripes for 13 colo-nies. Paul Revere had two lanterns. One if by land and two if by sea. ~Vin-cent

The “shot heard around the world” meant the Revolutionary War had started. ~Valerie

Parentingclassesoffered

A nurturing parenting class is being offered Sat-urdays at Delta United Methodist Church from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Classes begin March 30. For more information, call Sheila Linck at 244-0501 or e-mail [email protected].

Delta County Independent OBITUARIES Wednesday, February 6, 2013 A7

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Russell MooreRussell Moore died

Feb. 3, 2013, at Wil-low Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 93.

A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Feb. 8, at Garnet Mesa Baptist Church in Delta.

Russell Stuart Moore was born to Ray and Dessie (Huffman) Moore on Nov. 10, 1919, in Hor-ton, Kan. He spent his childhood in the San Luis Valley and graduated from Alamosa High School.

On Dec. 25, 1943, he married Norma Lucille Stone in Fort Morgan. She survives.

Mr. Moore, a retired blacksmith, enjoyed spending time outdoors, fishing, hunting, camp-ing, traveling in his motorhome and wood-working. He was a mem-ber of Garnet Mesa Bap-tist Church and had lived in Delta since 1996, com-ing from Fort Morgan.

Mr. Moore is sur-vived by his wife of 69 years, Norma of Delta; two daughters, Sharon Espeseth and Linda End-sley, both of Delta; seven grandchildren, Sherrilyn Turner, Cristy Espeseth, Bethany Espeseth, Erica Billings, Brenda Miles, Natalie Wertz and Lance Endsley; and seven great-grandchildren, Larissa Turner, Lara Turner, Ser-ena Unrien, Maya Bill-ings, Lily Billings, Justin Wertz and Sophie End-sley.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Earl Moore; and one grandson, John Espeseth.

Memorial contribu-tions may be sent to Gar-net Mesa Baptist Church, 863 A Street, Delta, CO 81416.

Arrangements are being handled by Taylor Funeral Service and Cre-matory.

View the Internet obit-uary and sign the online guest registry at taylorfuneralservice.com.

Doris ScheetzDoris Jearee Scheetz

died Jan. 30, 2013, at her home in Marysville, Wash. She was 75.

She graduated from Hotchkiss High School and lived in Hotchkiss until 1986, when she moved to Marysville.

Mrs. Scheetz is sur-vived by her husband, Jim Scheetz; her children, Susan Case of Nucla, Veronica West of Mojave Valley, Ariz., Carolyn Var-gas of Dublin, Calif., and Paul Scheetz of Marys-

ville, Wash.; five grand-children; and six great-grandchildren.

Pamela PalmerPamela Jean Palmer

died Feb. 2, 2013, at her home in Cedaredge. She was 50.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Mrs. Palmer is sur-vived by her husband, Comadora Palmer of Cedaredge; her mother, Shirley Ganley of Klam-ath Falls, Ore.; one son, Bob Palmer and wife Lydia of Cedaredge; two sisters, Debra White of Jackson, Mich., and Lori Lowell and husband Pete of Klamath Falls, Ore.; and three grandchildren.



William CriswellWilliam “Bill” Obert

Criswell of Cortez died Jan. 23, 2013, at South-west Memorial Hospital in Cortez. He was 80.

Graveside services were held Feb. 1 at Eck-ert Cemetery.

Mr. Criswell was born in Delta Oct. 12, 1932, to Robert and Jewel (Mar-tin) Criswell.

He married Virginia Miller Johnson Oct. 23, 2010. He was a business agent for the Internation-al Brotherhood of Elec-trical Workers Local 969. He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing and hunting.

Mr. Criswell is sur-vived by his daughters, Kathy, Roxanne and Deb-bie Criswell; and one sis-ter.

Arrangements were handled by Ertel Funeral Home in Cortez.

Robert CalderRobert Gary Calder

died Feb. 2, 2013, at his home in Austin. He was 71.

Mr. Calder was raised in Craig.

He is survived by two sisters, Joan Egan of Oceanside, Calif., and Joycebeth Emanuel of Fort Collins; and one brother, Thomas Calder of Woodstock, Ga.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Sat-urday, Feb. 9, at Crippin Funeral Home Chapel in Montrose. Interment will take place at 1 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10, at Craig Cemetery in Craig.

Arrangements are being handled by Crippin Funeral Home in Mon-trose.

Betty CornellBetty Cornell of

Cedaredge died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospi-tal. She was 83.


Mrs. Cornell is survived by three sons, Bill Cor-nell of Lillian, Ala., Roger Cornell and Gary Cor-nell, both of Cedaredge; a sister, Carol McMilian and her husband Jack of Grand Island, Neb.; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.


Edwin MathesonEdwin “Pete” Mathe-

son of Eckert died Sun-day, Feb. 3, at the Univer-sity of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. He was 73.

Mr. Matheson was born June 20, 1939, to Ken-neth “Scotty” and Pearl (Rabedew) Matheson in Minturn. He graduated from school in Minturn in 1958 and worked most of his career at the Climax Mines as an electrician.

He married Marge Evitts in Golden on March 24, 1973. They had lived in Eckert since his retire-ment in 1983.

Mr. Matheson served as president of IBEW

and was a member of the Elks. He enjoyed camp-ing, hunting, fishing and spending time with fam-ily and friends.

He is survived by his spouse of 40 years, Marge Matheson; his children, Michelle (Mark) Ben-nett of Fremont, Wis., Kyle Matheson of Eck-ert, Jason (Precy) Mathe-son of Eagle and Cindy Scheafer of Gold Hill, Ore.; his grandchildren, Stephanie, Cheryl, Jus-tine, Sean, Brad Jr. and Kelcey; a brother, Smokey Matheson of Minturn; and a sister, Margaret Palmer of Silt.

He was preceded in death by three broth-ers, Donald, Morris and George.

No services will be held. Mr. Matheson received a heart trans-plant in 1999, so fam-ily requests you consider becoming an organ donor.

Taylor Funeral Service and Crematory handled the arrangements.

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Larry McNoldyLarry McNoldy of Eck-

ert died Jan. 29, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospital at the age of 73.

A memorial service was held Feb. 2 at the Surface Creek Commu-nity Church in Austin.

Larry Benjamin McNoldy was born to Edward and Hilda (Burnds) McNoldy June 12, 1939, in Tower City, Pa. He spent his child-hood in Tower City, grad-uating from high school in 1957. He attended New Mexico State University.

On March 7, 1960, he married Betty Nowell in Las Cruces, N.M. They lived in New Mexico for several years before mov-ing to Eckert in 1969. They celebrated 52 years of marriage in 2012.

Mr. McNoldy retired from AT&T after 29 years of service. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, study-ing history, spending time with his family and friends, classic automo-biles and collecting guns and knives.

He was a member of the Surface Creek Com-munity Church in Austin, Elks Lodge, Tres Dias, Pioneers of America and Jaycees.

Mr. McNoldy is sur-vived by his wife Betty of Eckert; two daughters, Deborah Heppler and husband Paul of Long-mont, and Zoe Spiering of Webster, S.D.; two broth-ers, Charles McNoldy and wife Joan, and Ray-mond McNoldy and wife Iris, all of Pennsylvania; one sister, Alice Bender of Pennsylvania; seven grandchildren, Daniel Heppler, Christina Hep-pler, Jackie Bohannan, Aaron Fromelt, Jessica Fromelt, Amanda Fromelt and Benjamin Fromelt; and two great-grandchil-dren, Kelsey Hunter and Samantha Hunter.

He was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Marvin Bender.

Memorial contribu-

tions may be made to the Surface Creek Commu-nity Church, c/o Benevo-lence Fund, P.O. Box 44, Austin, CO 81410.



Kenneth WagnerKenneth C. Wagner

died Jan. 31, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 84.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Delta with Bishop Mat-thew Clark presiding.

Kenneth Charles Wag-ner was born Feb. 18, 1928, to Charles and Margeret (Loney) Wag-ner in Denver. He grew up in Craig, Rifle and Denver, graduating from Denver’s South High School in 1946.

Mr. Wagner was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints in Delta, Ducks Unlimited and the NRA.

He worked as a game warden for the Colorado Department of Game and Fish for 39 years. He was responsible for getting Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep into Colorado. He volunteered with the Department of Wild-life helping with animal rescue and tagging and banding different wild-life. He worked with the Canadian government in banding ducks.

He enjoyed hunting, fishing and his dogs.

Mr. Wagner is survived by his son, Jon-Michael Grebenc and wife Nancy of Broomfield; three daughters, Helen Cook and husband Jake of Raytown, Mo., Marjorie Boyce and husband Mark of Paonia, and Michelle Jones and husband

Frank of Virginia.; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.



Gayanne IsonGayanne Ison of

Cedaredge died Jan. 28, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 65.


Gayanne Michele Carr was born to James and Rena (Strimback) Carr June 3, 1947, in Detroit, Mich. She graduated from Wayne Memorial High School in 1965 and earned a bachelor’s degree in busi-ness management from Mesa State. She moved to Colorado in 1981, settling in Cedaredge in 1997.

Mrs. Ison worked as an advocate for the dis-abled. She enjoyed being a grandmother, arrowhead hunting, archery, weaving and spending time out-doors.

She was a member of the Colorado Cross Dis-ability Coalition.

Mrs. Ison is survived by her mother, Rena Carr of Cedaredge; one son, Anthony Carr and wife Sandi of Pennsylva-nia; one daughter, Kelly Parker and husband Cleve of Grand Junction; one brother, Jim Carr of Hastings, Mich.; and two grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her father, James Carr.



Roger ValdezMontrose resident

Roger Valdez died Jan. 31, 2013, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junc-tion. He was 64.

Funeral services were held Feb. 5 at Taylor Funeral Service Chapel in Delta. Interment was at Delta City Cemetery.

Robert B. Valdez was born Sept. 14, 1948, to Bennie and Elvira (Flores) Valdez in Riverside, Calif. He spent his childhood in Delta and San Fernando, Calif.

He married Lupe Mar-tinez Aug. 26, 1967, in Sylmar, Calif.

Mr. Valdez lived in Simi Valley, Calif., prior to moving to Montrose six years ago.

He was a member of St. Didacus Catholic Church in Sylmar, Calif. He enjoyed being a hus-band, father and grand-father, fishing, playing poker, barbecuing, listen-ing to oldies music, and watching wrestling, the Lakers and the Dodgers

Mr. Valdez is survived by his wife, Lupe of Mon-trose; his sons, Roger Val-dez Jr. and wife Victoria of Lindsay, Calif., and Erik Valdez of Montrose; a daughter, Renee Corne-jo and husband Danny of Montrose; two broth-ers, John Valdez and wife Tina of Delta, and Edward Valdez and wife Lisa of Acton, Calif., two sisters, Dee Martinez of Cory, and Gerri Duran and husband Lawrence of Delta; 12 grandchildren; and three stepgreat-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Flora Lewis.

Arrangements were handled by Taylor Funer-al Service and Crematory.


Virginia WeaverDelta County resident

Virginia Weaver died Feb. 4, 2013, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 82.

A visitation for family and friends was held Feb. 5. Visitation will also be available one hour prior to the funeral service at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Taylor Funeral Service Chapel in Delta. Burial will follow at Mesa View Cemetery.

Virginia Beverly Stagg was born to Charles and Ethel (Maddock) Stagg Dec. 11, 1930, in Detroit, Mich. She spent her child-hood and attended schools in Los Angeles, Calif.

On Feb. 5, 1950, she married Marvin Weaver in San Diego, Calif.

Mrs. Weaver worked as a communications opera-tor for the Los Angeles

County Sheriff ’s Depart-ment for 29 years. She retired in 2003.

She enjoyed being a wife, mother and grand-mother, reading and spending time with her family.

Mrs. Weaver is sur-vived by her three daugh-ters, Valerie Adding-ton and husband Jay of Delta, Kelly Parrish and Shannon Parrish, both of Sacramento, Calif.; one sister, Edith Mosher of Covina, Calif.; five grand-children, 11 great-grand-children; and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two children, David Vaughn and Clau-dia Weaver.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the Wounded Warriors Project, www.woundedwarriorproject.org, or to St. Jude’s Children’s Hos-pital in Los Angeles.



Charles NineCharles E. Nine died

Jan. 28, 2013, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 84.

No services will be held.

He was born Nov. 9, 1928, to Charles and Iva Mae (Galford) Nine in Grafton, W.Va. He spent his childhood and attend-ed school in Buckhannon, W.Va.

Mr. Nine served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946-1948 and with the National Guard from 1948-1950. He married Avis Withers Aug. 2, 1952, in Stanton, Va.

The Nines made their residence in Cedaredge for 20 years after having lived in Canton, Mich., and Longmont.

Mr. Nine enjoyed Nas-car, four-wheeling and snowmobiling.

He is survived by his wife, Avis of Cedaredge; a son, Craig Nine and wife Stacy of Seneca, S.C.; his daughters, Karen Nine and Karla Nine, both of Cedaredge, Alana Nine of Fort Collins, and Nata-lie Hester and husband Mark of Seneca S.C.; his sisters, Catherine Hinkle and husband Darrell of South Lyons, Mich., and Mary Ware and husband Lloyd of Buckhannon, W.Va.; eight grandchil-dren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Charles Nine Jr.

Arrangements were handled by Crippin Funeral Home in Mon-trose.

Frances WrightDelta County resident

Frances Wright died Sun-day, Jan. 27, 2013, at Wil-low Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 79.

A memorial service was held Feb. 2 at the Mon-trose Christian Church.

Frances Elizabeth Roweton was born to Orville and Georgia (Aus-tin) Roweton June 26, 1933, in Rogers, N.M. She spent her childhood and attended schools both in Rogers and in Montrose.

On Sept. 3, 1950, she married Arvin Wright in Montrose. In 1967 the family moved from Mon-trose to Delta.

Mrs. Wright enjoyed being a wife, mother and grandmother, garden-ing and spending time with her family. She was a member of the Land-mark Missionary Baptist Church in Delta.

She is survived by two sons, Jim Wright and wife Jacki of Montrose, and Tom Wright of Pueb-lo; two daughters, Susan Smith and husband Klon of Coweta, Okla., and Sherry Wright of Grand Junction; one adopted son, Larry Nichols and wife Arlene of Grand Junc-tion; one brother, Orville Roweton and wife Myrt of Kaysville, Utah; one sis-ter, Leatrice Wyatt and husband David of Grand Junction; 15 grandchil-dren; 37 great-grandchil-dren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Arvin; and one son, Danny Merriman and wife Belinda.

Memorial contribu-tions may be sent to Hos-pice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado, P.O. Box 24, Delta, CO 81416, or to American Diabetes Association, 2480 W. 26th Avenue, Suite 120B, Den-ver, CO 80211.

Arrangements were handled by Taylor Funer-al Service and Crematory.


Delta County resident Shirley Virginia Hodgin passed away peaceful-ly on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Crossroads Assisted Living Center in Delta, Colo. She was 96 years of age.

A graveside funeral service honoring Shir-ley’s life was held at 2 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at the Delta City Cemetery with Garnet Chapter Order of East-ern Star #39 presiding.

Shirley Virginia Schmidt was born to Julius Fredrick and Vir-gie (Woodford) Schmidt on Aug. 4, 1916, in Grand Junction, Colo. She spent her childhood in Grand Junction and Delta. Shirley graduated from Delta High School with the class of 1934. Following high school, Shirley attended Ste-phens College in Colum-bia, Mo., for one year.

On June 23, 1936, Shirley married Gordon

Vernon Hodgin at the Presbyterian Church in Delta, Colo. To this union, three children were born. Shirley and Gordon shared 70 years of marriage together before Gordon’s pass-ing on June 30, 2006, in Delta, Colo.

Shirley was a devoted wife and loving mother and grandmother. She enjoyed painting, needle-point, leatherwork, pot-tery and stained glass.She joyfully gave count-less hours of volunteer work as a pink lady for the Delta County Memo-rial Hospital. She was a member of the Delta Presbyterian Church where she played the organ for over 40 years. She was a 76+-year member of the Garnet Chapter #39 Order of Eastern Star, serving as a past matron. She was also a member of sev-eral local bridge clubs. Above all, Shirley loved and cherished her fam-ily.

Shirley is survived by a son, Ronald Gordon (Lucy) Hodgin of Delta, Colo.; and a daughter, Shari Kay (Gary) Reeder of Grand Junction, Colo. Shirley is further sur-vived by three grand-children, Gregory Hod-gin of New Orleans, La., Mitchell Hodgin and spouse Keri of Gunnison,

and Derek Hodgin and spouse Melody of Delta; and three great-grand-children, Ryder Hodgin of Gunnison and Preston and Peyton Hodgin of Delta, Colo.

Shirley was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Hodgin; and a son, Lance Hodgin.

The family suggests memorial contributions be made in Shirley’s memory to Hospice and Palliative Care of West-ern Colorado, P.O. Box 24, Delta, CO 81416; or to the Delta Presbyte-rian Church, P.O. Box 143, Delta, CO 81416.

Arrangements are under the care and direc-tion of Taylor Funeral Service and Crematory.

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Delta County Independent ACTIVITIES Wednesday, February 6, 2013 A9

• TAE KWON DO - ongoing classes are held Tuesday and Thursday from 6:45-8:00 p.m.

• HEALTHY BODY STRONG BONES - Adult Fitness Class on Tuesday/Thursday 9:00-10:00 a.m.

• HATHA YOGA - On Wednesdays from 5:00-6:15 p.m. Drop-in fee.

• TAI CHI/QIGONG FOR HEALTH AND LONGEVITY - On Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Pay monthly or drop-in rate.

• BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE LINE DANCING - On Tuesdays from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Pay by the month.

• PICKLE BALL DROP IN - Drop-in times Mondays 8:00-10:00 a.m. or Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-3:00 p.m. May be inside or outside depending on weather or activities!

• YOUTH/ADULT GUITAR LESSONS: - Instructed by John McCoy on Saturdays, Mar. 2-30. Time is 10:30-11:30 a.m. Please register by Feb. 28.

• ALIVE AT 25 - Class for 15-24 year olds taught by Colorado State Patrol on Monday, February 18 from 4:30-9:00 p.m. Please register at www.aliveat25.us.

• CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT - Sunday, February 17 from 1:00-5:30 p.m. Please bring your own cribbage

boards. Register in advance or day of event by 12:30 p.m.

• BABYSITTER’S TRAINING COURSE - 2-day class taught by Red Cross instructors. NEW DATE: April 16 and 17 from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

• 7TH AND 8TH GRADE BOYS AND GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT - Tournament held on the weekend of March 2 and 3 at BHRC. Please register before Feb. 24.

• 4-ON-4 VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE - Season begins on Feb. 27-April. Register your team before Feb. 17. Any questions contact Whitnee.

• ADULT FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE - 5-on-5 adult league on Thursday nights starting in late February. Please regis-ter by February 17.

• AFTERNOON SWIM LESSONS - Session starts Feb. 18-March 20 on Mon./Wed. 2:00-2:40 p.m. Limited spots in Parent/Tot - Level 5. Registration going on now.

• LIFEGUARD TRAINING - Certification class scheduled on Feb. 11-15, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Must pass a pre-swim test.

• WAG YOUR FLAG FOOTBALL TOUR-NAMENT - 5-on-5 tournament set for

Saturday, March 9. Please register your team by March 3.

• LITTLE LEAGUE YOUTH BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL - New this year - For boys ages 9-14 and girls ages 9-16. Registration extended to Feb. 26 with tryouts and draft for each division. Any questions call Whitnee. Special registration on Saturday, Feb. 16, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

• APRIL FOOL’S SOFTBALL TOURNA-MENT - Held the weekend of April 6 and 7 in Co-ed, Men’s or Women’s Divisions. Register by March 30.

• MOMS AND SONS DANCE - Bring your little guy for an evening of danc-ing and fun on Saturday, Feb. 23 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

• PERSONAL TRAINING SESSIONS - Register now for Personal Training Sessions at BHRC with one of our six certified trainers.

• AMATEUR CHESS TOURNAMENT - Held on Saturday, March 23 from 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

• HANDGUN SAFETY - Saturday, March 16 from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Includes class time and local range time.

• PRIVATE AND SEMI PRIVATE LES-SONS - (5) 30 minute lessons sched-uled with an instructor and variety of times are available. Great for all levels - youth or adults!

• SPRING NIGHT SWIM LESSONS - Session Starts March 4-April 3 on Mon./Wed. evenings 6:00-6:40 p.m. Registration going on until February 25.

• LAY RESPONDER CPR/FIRST AID/AED

- Next class is offered on Saturday, March 16 from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Please register by March 8.

• NIGHT OF THE STARS - TALENT SHOW - Performance will be Saturday, April 20 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Pick up your guidelines/info sheet when you regis-ter at BHRC. A variety of Performance Categories and Age Categories.

• EASTER “EGG STRAVANGANZA” - Annual Easter event at BHRC on Saturday, March 30 held from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon. Great event for ages 2-10.

• SAVE THE DATE! 5K FUN RUN/WALK - The annual Spring into Shape 5K is set for Saturday, April 13 around Confluence Park.

City of Delta Activity Update

Call the Bill Heddles Recreation Center and Cultural Dept. for more information on any of these classes and registration - 874-0923.

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Wednesday, February 6TOASTMASTERS SPEECH CLUB MEETS, first and third Wednes-

days of each month, 12:15 p.m., U.S. Forest Service, 2250 Highway 50, Delta. For more information, call Tom Condos, 874-6667 or www.toastmasters.org.

CHILDREN AND ADULTS DONATE THEIR HAIR TO LOCKS OF LOVE, 2 p.m., Crawford School.

Thursday, February 7DEL-ROSE CHORUS SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL REHEARS-

ES every Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Delta Methodist Church, corner of Meeker and 5th Street. For more information, call Leslie, 970-256-9763.

BINGO, every Thursday, 6:50 p.m., American Legion of Paonia. Come early for hamburgers and hot dogs. This week progres-sive is 53 numbers for $195, blue is 61 numbers and orange is 57 numbers for $250. For more information, call 527-6252.

BINGO, every Thursday, 7 p.m., Delta Elks Lodge, 563 Main Street. Open to the public. For more information, call 874-3624.

Friday, February 8AUTHORS KATHY MCKEE AND CLAUDIA KING SPEAK about their

book, “The North Fork Valley,” 6:30 p.m., Blue Sage Center for the Arts, Paonia. Book signing also.

ART, WINE AND CHOCOLATE LOVERS EXTRAVAGANZA, 6-8 p.m., Creamery Arts Center, Hotchkiss. Opening artist reception with Ron MacKendrick and Clarence Flyecoate.

Saturday, February 9 CHOCOLATE EXTRAVAGANZA presented by Paonia Chapter of

Beta Sigma Phi, 6-9 p.m., Blue Sage Center of the Arts, 228 Grand Avenue, Paonia. Tickets: $15 for adults, $10 for children 10 and under (in advance) and available at The Paonia Flower Shop or any Beta Sigma Phi member. For more information, call Judy Livingston, 527-3970 or Billie Kiger, 527-3120.

CRAWFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL MEM-BERSHIP DRIVE AND OLD TIMERS/NEWCOMERS DINNER, Crawford Town Hall, 5 p.m. social hour, dinner at 5:30 p.m. Bring a dish to share and own table service.

Sunday, February 10NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER 2013 ANNUAL MEETING

celebrating 35 years of conservation, 3 p.m., Memorial Hall, Hotchkiss.

TOWN HALL ON AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY by Senator Gail Schwartz, Representative from Hemp Cleans, 1-3 p.m., Hotchkiss Memorial Hall, 175 N. 1st Street, Hotchkiss, (Adams Room).

DR. SAM KEVAN PRESENTS PROGRAM on his recent mission trip to Cambodia following a potluck meal, 12 noon, Westminster Hall, Delta. Join the United Methodist and Presbyterian con-gregations in learning more about this important mission.

Monday, February 11DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP, 2nd Monday of each month, 2:30

p.m., classroom B, Delta County Memorial Hospital.

Tuesday, February 12DELTA COUNTY PERA MEETING, 4 p.m., Delta County School

District Office.SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER, 5:30 p.m., St. Luke’s

Episcopal Church, 145 West 5th Street, Delta. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage with juice, coffee and tea. Freewill offering.

MENDING HEARTS: A support group in Delta for any adult who has experienced the death of a loved one, a free service of Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado. Meets every Tuesday, 6-7:30 p.m., Hospice office, 195 Stafford Lane, Delta. Call (970)874-6823 for more information.

Wednesday, February 13LEARN HOW NORTH FORK VALLEY HEALTH AND WELLNESS

DIRECTORY will work and network for you, 4-6 p.m., Paonia Library.

Thursday, February 14FRUITLAND MESA CLUB VALENTINE’S POTLUCK LUNCH, 12

noon, Crawford Town Hall. An invitation to all women in the Crawford area to dress in finery and meet, greet, and share fellowship, coffee and goodies with friends and neighbors. Bring potluck to share. Coffee, tea and tableware provided.

SINGING VALENTINES by a quartet from the Black Canyon Cho-rus, from Cedaredge to Ridgway, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Limited num-ber available; your place, café, or office: $40, includes real rose; to a group $50. For reservations call Dennis, 596-3196.

SONGS OF THE ‘40S, presented by Mary Ann Rathburn and friends for the Friends of the Cedaredge Public Library, 2 p.m., Cedaredge library. Regular meeting of the Friends follows.

Sunday, February 17CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT, 1:00-5:30 p.m., Bill Heddles Recre-

ation Center, Delta.

Monday, February 18KIDS’ PASTA PROJECT BENEFIT DINNER for Hotchkiss Lions

Club, 6 p.m., Scenic Mesa Ranch. For reservations email [email protected] or call Lenore, 985-9220.

2013 WRITE ON! ANTHOLOGY COMPETITION DEADLINE, 5 p.m., Blue Sage Center for the Arts. All submissions must be sent to www.bluesage.org. Open to Delta County residents.

Wednesday, February 20TOASTMASTERS SPEECH CLUB MEETS, first and third Wednes-

days of each month, 12:15 p.m., U.S. Forest Service, 2250 Highway 50, Delta. For more information, call Tom Condos, 874-6667 or www.toastmasters.org.

Thursday, February 21PAONIA ROTARY CLUB MEETING, 12 noon, Paonia Town Hall.

Program begins at 12:30 p.m.: Neal Schwieterman reports on the state of the town of Paonia. Public welcome.

BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL BOARD MEETING, 5:45 p.m. policy review, 7 p.m. regular meeting, Hotchkiss K-8 School, 465 Lorah Lane.

Saturday, February 23PEA GREEN SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERT, 7-9:30 p.m., Pea Green

Community Center, crossroads of Highway 348 and Banner Road southwest of Delta. $5 at the door. Old-time, folk and bluegrass musical acts and entertainment. Seating limited. Bring a snack to share if you want. For more information, call Len Willey, 874-8879.

MOMS ‘N SONS DANCE, (“Space...to Infinity & Beyond”) 5:30-8:30 p.m., Bill Heddles Recreation Center, Delta.

PIONEER SOCIAL, featuring “The Gray Families of the Uncom-pahgre Valley,” United Methodist Church, 19 South Park, Mon-trose. Hosted by Montrose County Historical Society. Special tour of the historical United Methodist Church, 1:00 p.m. Social and special program, 2:00 p.m. Donations taken at the door, and everyone is invited. Period attire encouraged. For more information, call Sally, 249-2085.

Sunday, February 24HOTCHKISS-CRAWFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEM-

BERSHIP MEETING, 2 p.m., Hotchkiss Memorial Hall. Program: the people, places and events on Black Mesa presented by Tom McLeod and Larry Knott. Public invited. For more informa-tion, call 872-3922.

Monday, February 25KIDS’ PASTA PROJECT BENEFIT DINNER for Sow Food Book

Club, 6 p.m., Scenic Mesa Ranch. For reservations email [email protected] or call Lenore, 985-9220.

Saturday, March 2TEXAS HOLD ‘EM CHARITY POKER TOURNAMENT, registration 3

p.m., play from 4-8 p.m., Bill Heddles Recreation Center, Delta. Sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Delta. For more information, call Clay Speas, 874-0716.

Community CalendarCommunity Calendar

Items for the Community Calendar may be faxed to 874-4424, mailed to P.O. Box 809, Delta, CO 81416 or

emailed to: [email protected]

Plan to join the fun as the Kiwanis Club of Delta sponsors its second annu-al charity poker tourna-ment Saturday, March 2, at Bill Heddles Rec-reation Center. Registra-tion begins at 3 p.m. with tournament play from 4 until 8 p.m.

Buy-in of chips is $20 for 100 and $30 for 200. Beer, soft beverages and food are available at nom-inal cost.

Prizes worth hundreds of dollars will be raffled to participants through-out the event. Tourna-ment play will continue until the single remaining player is declared the win-ner. Consolation tables are available so play can continue for players after elimination. Play is con-ducted in accordance with Colorado Gaming Com-mission regulations.

The Kiwanis Club is hopeful that individuals or businesses will spon-sor a table. For a $200 donation, the business or individual can invite up to eight players. Each invited player receives the first 100 chips free. The club’s goal is to have eight sponsored tables. A total of 64 seats are available first come, first served.

Proceeds of the charity fundraising project will be used by the Kiwanis Club and Key Club to support youth in Delta County. Kiwanis International raises more than $100 million and donates 18 million volunteer hours annually to strengthen communities and serve children worldwide.

Please call Clay Speas at 874-0716 for addition-al information about the

tournament, table spon-sorship or membership in the Delta Kiwanis Club.

For more information about Kiwanis Interna-tional, visit Kiwanis.org.

Charity poker tourney planned

Experience winter at Black Canyon by snow-shoeing with a ranger among the oaks, open meadows and along the rim of the canyon. Pro-grams are available Sat-urdays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m., and are conducted every weekend through March 3. No special skill needed to participate in these 1.5 mile walks. Allow 2.5 hours for the program. Snowshoes are available to use, free of charge, for these programs. Sizes will fit all ages. Call to register or reserve your spot at 249-1914, ext. 423.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

offers several opportu-nities for outdoor recre-ation. A complete list of activities at the park can be found at www.nps.gov/blca/planyourvisit/rangerprograms.htm.

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Colorado Mesa Univer-sity’s Department of The-atre Arts will continue its 2012-13 season with the full-scale operetta, “The Pirates of Penzance,” as a collaboration with the Department of Music.

The classic Gilbert

and Sullivan musical was last produced at CMU in 1994 under the direction of music faculty mem-ber Dr. Jack Delmore. Following the success of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in 2009, The Moss Performing Arts Cen-ter will once again treat the community to a full showcase of the rich tal-ents of its students and faculty.

The fast-paced, fun and irreverent comic operetta tells the story of tender-hearted pirates, reluctant policemen, earnest lovers and an eccentric major-general, all of whom are ridiculously bound by the dictates of duty. Among

the fathers of the mod-ern musical, Gilbert and Sullivan attained a last-ing brilliance and beauty with this classic produc-tion.

The live orchestra will be made up of instrumen-tal music majors, most of whom are involved with the CMU Symphony and Wind Symphony ensem-bles, and will be conduct-ed by Carlos Elias.

Tickets for the produc-tion are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $6 for students. Tickets are available by calling the box office at 248-1604 or by ordering online at coloradomesa.edu/moss/theatretickets.html.

Pirates seize the stage for CMU collaboration

Surprise your sweet-heart with a singing val-entine. Each year the Black Canyon Chorus sends out two or three quartets on a Valentine’s Day “road show.” The guys put in 200 to 300 miles, manage to find some out-of-the way plac-es and often miss lunch, but they have a great time making Feb. 14 spe-cial for your loved one.

The quartets will travel from Cedaredge to Ridgway with a lim-ited number of perfor-mances between 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. They’ll come to your home, office or a restaurant. The price is $40 which includes a real rose; for a group, the cost is $50.

To make a reservation, call Dennis Olmstead at 596-3196.

Make Valentine’s Day extra special

On Thursday, Feb. 14, the CMU Department of Music will present a free concert, featuring cellist Dennis Parker, accompa-nied by Lina Morita on piano. The program has been brought about by a grant Parker received from the Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS grant program. Parker and Morita will pres-ent a program of works

that are making their Colorado debut and will include compositions by composers that include Claude Debussy, Scott Eggert and Ivan Sokolov. The program presented in the Moss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall will be the same program Parker will present as premieres in New York later this year. The per-formance begins at 7:30 p.m.

Dennis Parker was born in New York City and received his early training at the Juilliard School, later earning degrees from Indiana University and Yale Uni-versity, where he worked with Janos Starker and Aldo Parisot. Parker per-forms as a soloist, recital-ist, collaborator and guest professor at universities and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is actively involved in the expansion of the exist-ing cello repertoire and has transcribed many works for his instrument. Through the generous support of his ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents, he will be producing three inde-pendent recording proj-ects this year.

Cellist presents free concert

‘Aliveat 25’courseoffered

“Alive at 25,” a defen-sive driving course for drivers 15-24 years of age, will be offered at Bill Heddles Recreation Cen-ter Monday, Feb. 18, from 4:30 to 9 p.m. This class is taught by the Colorado State Patrol and focuses on awareness of typical driving hazards. Partici-pants may take the test for a driving permit at age 15 1/2 or older.

Register and pay online at www.aliveat25.us.

It’s time for the City of Delta’s annual Febru-ary cribbage tournament. All players must sign up for singles, but doubles is also an option. Bring your own boards if you have them.

The tournament will

be held Sunday, Feb. 17, from 1 to 5:30 p.m. at Bill Heddles Recreation Cen-ter. All ages are welcome. Come show off your skills and win prizes. The fee is $10/person and $5/person for doubles. Register by calling 874-0923.

Annual cribbage tournament is Feb. 17

Bill Heddles Recre-ation Center, 530 Gun-nison River Drive, Delta, will host the AARP driver safety program from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mon-

day, Feb. 18. Save on insurance and keep up on newer traffic laws. AARP membership is not required, but pre-regis-tration is. Call 856-3673, 856-6924 or 424-1778. The cost is $12 for AARP members and $14 for non-members.

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DaniTupperoffers artclasses

Learn to use webbing spray with watercolor in an all-day workshop Feb. 16 at Dani Tupper’s stu-dio in Delta.

Tupper is also offer-ing drawing classes. The four-week session begins March 9.

Call 874-3088 or e-mail [email protected] to register or for more infor-mation.

Registerfor flagfootball

Register your team for the City of Delta’s spring five-on-five adult flag football league before the deadline of Feb. 17. The season will begin in late February with games played at Confluence Community Fields/Moun-tain View on Thursday nights through the end of April. A 10-game season with a season-end single elimination tournament is included with the $225 team fee. Each player is also required to pay $20 and sign a roster. To reg-ister, call Whitnee Lear at 874-0923.

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CASA of the 7th Judicial District (Court Appointed Special Advo-cates) recently welcomed a new team member. Carlton Mason joined CASA in January as a new volunteer coordi-nator. He’ll be working throughout the 7th Judi-cial District, with a spe-cial emphasis to address the need for CASA Volun-teers in Delta County.

Affiliated with the

National and State CASA organizations, CASA of the 7th Judicial District is the regional affiliate working on the Western Slope to strengthen and stabilize families and pro-vide voices for children experiencing the devas-tating effects of abuse and neglect.

CASA of the 7th Judi-cial District is a respected agency with a 95.8 per-cent judicial satisfaction

rating. CASA volunteers — designated friends of the court — provide addi-tional “eyes and ears” to cases on which they serve. Volunteers par-ticipate as independent child advocates, formal-izing their observations and recommendations in reports for the courts to assist in the complex and difficult decision-making processes directly affect-ing the child.

“CASA has given me an opportunity to work for at-risk children in Delta County. I look for-ward to inviting citizens

of this community to become CASA Volunteers — it’s a unique way for individuals to make a tremendous difference in their community and in the life of a child.” Asked how he will begin, Carl-ton responded, “by earn-ing the trust and confi-dence of those people and agencies I hope to serve.”

Becoming a CASA volunteer is a powerful way for concerned citi-zens in the 7th Judicial District to make a differ-ence in their communi-ties. CASA’s mission is to help break the cycle of

child abuse and neglect, and to advocate for safe, permanent, nurturing homes for children in the 7th Judicial District uti-lizing highly trained and dedicated volunteers. The 7th Judicial District on the Western Slope of Colorado is comprised of Montrose, Delta, Gunni-son, San Miguel, Ouray and Hinsdale counties.

To learn more about CASA’s mission and child advocacy efforts and for information about CASA or becom-ing a Delta County CASA Volunteer, contact Carl-ton at (970) 209-4606. To donate or for information on other ways to support CASA, call 249-0337 or email [email protected].

For information about National CASA, visit its website at www.casafor-children.org.

CASA welcomes new volunteer coordinator

Photo submittedAt left, Delta County volunteer coordinator Carlton Mason is welcomed to CASA of the 7th Judicial District by supervised exchange and parenting time (SEPT) program manager Mary Jo Mills (center) and Montrose County volunteer coordinator Alma Buis (right). The CASA offi ce for Delta County is located at 511 E. 10th St. in Delta.

Photo submitted

Employee of the YearIn recognition of her exceptional care, dedica-tion and work ethic, Amanda Baker has been chosen as The Crossroads Employee of the Year for 2012. Amanda handles every challenge with calmness and grace. Her smile lights up the room as she continues to touch many lives at Crossroads. To recognize Amanda, she was honored during happy hour. The residents and staff applauded as she was handed a bouquet of red roses and jewelry box containing a matching necklace and earrings. Thank you Amanda!

If you’ve been contemplating a change in your hair length or color, you know it’s not a decision to be made lightly. You certainly don’t want to be stuck with a color you don’t like or a cut that’s not as fl attering as you’d hoped. That’s just one reason it’s im-portant to fi nd a professional stylist with whom you can develop a good relationship.

At Hair Designers & Nails, you’ll fi nd owner Charity Cotten and her staff are focused on keeping clients happy by providing outstanding service based on friendly, trusting relationships.

Charity purchased the salon from Julie and Stuart Smith at the beginning of the year. She enrolled in the beauty school at Delta-Montrose Technical College shortly after arriving in Delta 24 years ago, and has been employed as a hairstylist for 22 years. She worked alongside Del Pfi fer at Mane Image for over 20 years when the opportunity to own her own salon proved too good to pass up. Hair Designers & Nails has been in business for 17 years, includ-ing nearly eight years at its current lo-cation at 1410 Valley View Drive, Unit 300.

Although the Smiths have sold the business, they will be working at Hair Designers until their house sells. “We’re happy to have them working with us,” Charity said.

Amy Kubin, who was with the

Smiths for nine years, Sabina Carrillo and MacKenzie Sparks will stay with the salon. All three girls do hair as well as manicures and pedicures. MacKen-zie and Sabina offer a choice between acrylic and shellac polish. Sabina also does makeup for weddings, proms and other special events to complete your look.

“These girls are just amazing,” Charity said. “I’m excited to come work with them.”

Hair Designers & Nails provides a

complete range of services for men, women and children. Appointments are available Tuesday-Saturday by calling 874-1818.

Retail products from Biolage, Aquage, Redken, Paul Mitchen, Chi and All Nutrient are available in the clean, friendly salon.

Whether you’re ready for a set of artifi cial nails, a trim or a totally new look, you can count on the profession-al stylists at Hair Designers & Nails to help you look — and feel — your best.

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You’ll feel confi dent putting your hair in the hands of MacKenzie Sparks, Charity Cotten, Sabina Carrillo and Amy Kubin. Whether your hair is thick or thin, straight or curly, these talented stylists can help you achieve the look you’re after.


City attorney Mike Schottelkotte has announced his inten-tion to retire in August. With that date in mind, city manager Justin Clif-ton provided city council members with the fol-lowing timeline which he says will provide adequate time to advertise, inter-view and select a new city attorney well in advance of Schottelkotte’s retire-

ment:At the Feb. 5 council

meeting, a draft request for proposals will be reviewed. Final approval will be given at the Feb. 19 council meeting.

On March 19, candi-date proposals will be reviewed and a short list will be made for inter-views.

In April, interviews will be conducted and the selection will be announced.

In May, the new attor-ney will begin working on a part-time basis, gradually taking on more responsi-bilities as Schottelkotte’s retirement approaches.

The city attorney must be licensed and have prac-ticed in Colorado for at least two years.

“This timeline will allow council and staff to use discretion assign-ing new work to a newly appointed attorney while allowing Mr. Schottel-kotte to complete exist-ing assignments,” Clifton explained. “This will also allow substantial time for Mr. Schottelkotte to bring a new attorney up to speed on current city business and provide his-torical perspective.”

City will be looking for new attorney

Spring is on its way, and with spring comes home improvement proj-ects. The annual Home, Garden & Recreation show sponsored by the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce is the perfect opportunity for consum-ers to see exactly what Delta area businesses have to offer in the way of all things related to the home.

And if your business is not represented at the show, you will miss this

great opportunity to mar-ket your products to cus-tomers who come search-ing for exactly what you have to offer.

If your business includes flooring, cabi-nets, solar, siding, con-struction, RVs, boats, implement, landscaping, gardening, furniture, electrical or plumbing, interior decorating or other similar services and goods, we want to see you at the show!

The show will be held

Friday and Saturday, April 5-6, at Bill Heddles Recreation Center. Booth fees are competitive with other regional shows, and this show is Delta Coun-ty’s only home and gar-den show, drawing large crowds from all over the county.

If you want to learn more or sign up, please call the chamber office at 874-8616 for booth pricing and info. Booth spaces are expected to fill quickly, so call soon.

Vendors sought for home and garden show

Nominationsdue Feb. 18

The Delta Area Cham-ber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the Businesses and the Volunteer of the Year, to be recognized at the chamber’s annual ban-quet March 16.

Nomination forms can be picked up at the cham-ber, 301 Main Street, Delta, or e-mail director @deltacolorado.org. For more information, call 874-8616.

BY KATHY BROWNINGStaff Writer

KVNF has embarked on an ambitious and unique proj-ect. It’s called iSeeChange, an online almanac produced by Julia Kumari Drapkin, with stories broadcast on KVNF. The iSeeChange Almanac is part of Localore, a national media initiative.

The iSeeChange Alma-nac is a gathering place for locals to share stories about their weather observations and how those things impact their lives. Then scientists are asked to explain why what people see happening is actu-ally happening.

At the iSeeChange launch, guests at The Paradise The-atre on Jan. 21 heard from Dr. Benjamin Cook, a NASA-Goddard scientist, and ended the evening viewing an IMAX film, “The Hubble Space Tele-scope Documentary.”

Two key people essen-tial to iSeeChange sat down for interviews recently and showed their different views about the project. Sally Kane, KVNF executive director, shared from the management perspective and Julia Kumari Drapkin shared from the sci-ence journalist point-of-view.

“I heard about iSeeChange and there was a resonance

in me for one of its missions which was to introduce more of risk-taking journalistic practices to address this multi-media technological conver-gence,” said Sally Kane. “And to have, conversely, indepen-

dent producers understand why stations don’t take a lot of risks.”

It’s a disconnect that she has seen for many years. “Here’s a neat way we can bring some experimentation

and do a little of our own research and development with regard to technology while at the same time help-ing producers to understand what it takes to run a sta-tion,” Kane said.

iSeeChange is not only online, but the stories are heard on KVNF. The result is that farmers and ranch-ers who might not have been listeners before are intrigued and involved in The Almanac.

The Almanac is a tool used by the news department. It’s cost effective to have citizens submitting stories. “The Alma-nac is a tool to bring those stories to us,” Kane said. “We can do the work of crafting the stories and fact checking.”

KVNF has been expanding its coverage of agriculture and iSeeChange is enhancing the results.

“We try to look at change as a much broader topic, wheth-er it’s personal or internal change, weather change, the climate. We tried to look at it through the lens of seasons because Colorado is a state that has four distinct seasons. Visually and weather-wise we could really sink our teeth into seasonal change as a meta-phor for looking at change in a e broader picture,” Kane said.

“I don’t want to see a world

where public media is defined as national content, a one-way pipeline to all the coun-try people. I want those of us who live here to have our own voice in the conversa-tions. The potential for local to global is very strong with this project. We’re pushing our experiences out front.”

This project has already brought surprises for Kane. One is the interest of scien-tists in the project which is weather and climate focused. “The science community is sit-ting on all this data, and not the most sophisticated at com-municating with people about it. This whole idea of ‘Flip the Script’ where the citizen observations are fueling ques-tions to the science commu-nity ... creates a different kind of conversation for scientists to have with people. It takes it out of talking down to the lay person, but brings it up to more of an exchange,” she said.

Kane believes both pub-lic radio and the science community are under fire and under funded. “So, we have to challenge ourselves to have strong communica-tion to the American people for the value of what we do.”

iSeeChange Almanac is a first

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Photo by Kathy Browning

Majestic and peacefulHow would you like to have this gorgeous view from your deck? This was taken from the home of Steve and Kim Wasilkowich on Fruitland Mesa.

Photo by Kathy BrowningJulia Kumari Drapkin interviews Doug Fritz, Hotchkiss Fire Chief, for iSeeChange. The accompanying online almanac was launched on Jan. 21 with an event at The Paradise The-atre.

The Crawford area Gunnison Sage Grouse work-ing group has reset its quar-terly meeting to Feb. 12, in Hotchkiss.

The meeting was resched-uled due to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listing deci-sion. The meeting will start at 10 a.m. and run past the noon hour until about 3 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Delta County fairgrounds in the Maloney house (old vet-erinary clinic) just east of the

rodeo arena. Agenda items are: the pro-

posed listing decision, 2012 habitat work review, report on 2012 transplant success and tracking, USGS GPS study, possible conservation ease-ment acquisitions and work plans for 2013.

The public is invited to attend and refreshments will be served. For further infor-mation, please contact Doug Homan, working group coor-dinator, at 872-2175.

Sage grouse group meets in Hotchkiss

Crawford is known for its lively Old Timers/Newcomers Dinner. That’s happening Sat-urday, Feb. 9. Come join the fun. The social hour starts at 5 p.m. The Sloppy Joes din-ner is at 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at Crawford Town Hall. Please bring a dish to share and your own table ser-vice.

The Crawford Area Cham-ber of Commerce hosts the dinner. It’s also the chamber’s annual membership drive.

Winners of Business of the Year, Nonprofit of the Year and Volunteer of the Year will be presented.

For more information call 921-4000 or e-mail [email protected].

Don’t miss Old Timers/Newcomers Dinner this Saturday


The Crawford Town Coun-cil will conduct a hearing Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. about an ordinance to ban rec-reational marijuana commer-cial establishments within town limits.

Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 in the Novem-ber 2012 election, allowing individuals to have a small amount of marijuana for rec-reational use. The state leg-islature is still drafting bills which will regulate how com-mercial businesses will be handled.

While some towns have adopted a “wait and see” mood, Crawford trustees want to move forward with an ordinance about whether com-mercial establishments will be allowed in Crawford. Jim Brown, town attorney, has written an ordinance which the council will consider at tonight’s hearing.

The public will be allowed to voice their opinions wheth-er for or against the proposed ban.

Jay Ziegler, who previously managed a medical marijuana store in Crawford called West-ern Slope Alternatives, LLC,

has requested trustee Hetty Todd recuse herself from the vote. In a letter to Jackie Savage, town clerk, and Jim Brown, Ziegler wrote about Todd, “She has over time exhibited a clear personal bias against me. ... In fact, Hetty’s own family members have contacted me to express their displeasure at her behavior, as a councilmember, toward me as a business owner.” He then enclosed a note with the name blacked out.

There was an incident in 2010 regarding a Todd cattle drive on Highway 92 and I Street in Crawford. The Delta County Sheriff report alleged that Ziegler held a handgun and threatened to shoot any cows damaging his landscaped yard.

On Monday, Feb. 4, Jackie Savage said the town attor-ney’s legal opinion states Todd does not have to recuse herself unless she would financially benefit from the ordinance. Todd has never recused her-self on past votes on medical marijuana issues.

Ziegler concluded his let-ter by writing, “As a business owner, I have a right to be protected from such inappro-priate behavior.”

Marijuana hearing tonight in Crawford

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The Crawford board of trustees met on Jan. 16 for their regularly scheduled work session.

Chris Brown, a former Crawford trustee who lives on the corner of E Street and Highway 92, asked the board why permission was grant-ed for a sign promoting the Needlerock Family Health Clinic, Crawford School and the cemetery to be placed against his fence.

“Why? Why there? Why not at Pioneer Park when you’re coming into town where you can go right up Elm to [the clinic] or D and 92 by the Methodist Church?” Brown asked.

He doesn’t believe the loca-tion by his property “makes any sense” and could lower his property’s value and block his view. Brown noted the sign would be on town prop-erty, but the town has not taken care of it since he has lived there.

Bruce Bair, public works director, explained that the town council had decided to place the sign on E Street because traffic coming on the highway would know to turn there and would see the clinic

as they went up the street.Brown said Jenny Mitchell

has not returned his phone messages.

“I think where the sign will be is still within the width of State Highway 92,” Bair said. Even the sidewalk in front of Brown’s house is part of the highway right of way. CDOT has approved the location by the highway.

Trustee Christie Young stated Jenny Mitchell needs to be at the council meeting to discuss the matter. She was not present on Jan. 16. If the state has to re-approve a new location for the sign, “it’s not within our authority,” Young said.

“When I met with CDOT

and Jenny,” Bair said, “it was decided to put the sign there. But neither Jenny, Tim {Mitch-ell] nor CDOT was opposed to putting it on Elm.”

Bair continued, “CDOT’s objection to the sign being on the other side of the street was, one, visibility and, two, there’s a stop sign there.”

Town clerk Jackie Savage read the minutes from the June 6 council meeting. The trustees approved the pro-posed location by a unani-mous vote and designated the sign’s measurements.

“As far as the visibility issues, there is a standard for the height on the signs. The base of the sign cannot be any lower than 6-1/2 feet. If you are in a vehicle ... your vision isn’t going to be impeded by the sign,” Bair said. “It’s pro-posed to be on the east side of E Street by the fire hydrant.”

Brown said, “You approved it on her behalf but you didn’t take into consideration how we would feel.”

Trustee Larry Kontour said, “We didn’t think about it.”

This item is on the Feb. 6 agenda. The town clerk will notify Chris Brown and Jenny Mitchell to attend the council meeting.

Sign location being contested in Crawford


The Town of Crawford approved the draft Source Water Protection Plan (SWPP) with cor-rections by Bruce Bair, public works director, on Jan. 16.

Bair said the plan took just eight months to for-mulate. The town held a number of meetings with landowners, stakeholders and council members with the facilitation of Kimber-ly Mihelich, the Colorado Rural Water Association’s Source Water Protection specialist.

A final meeting will determine how to imple-ment the $5,000 grant money received for the plan last June. The Town of Crawford “intends on using the majority of

the grant to implement management approaches that are identified in this Plan.”

The council’s approv-al came a month before the proposed BLM auc-tion of parcels for oil and gas development. It was also just six days before the council met with rep-resentatives from the Bureau of Land Manage-ment.

The Town of Crawford provides 485 residents with their domestic water supply. Those residents live within town limits or just outside of the town boundaries in Delta County.

The Town of Crawford has only one source for its drinking water. That is a spring located at the base of Land’s End Peak.

The plan states, “Crawford recognizes the possibility of potential threats to its water sup-plies. They realized that in order to utilize their wells as a safe and reli-able source of their drink-ing water, they needed to develop a protection plan to prevent possible contamination of their source waters. Proactive planning and prevention are essential to both the long-term integrity of their water systems and limiting costs and liabili-ties.”

The SWPP desig-nates which entity will be responsible for imple-mentation of the plan. That includes the Town of Crawford, Delta Coun-ty, BLM, Crawford Mesa Water Association, U.S. Forest Service, West Elk Livestock Association, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Envi-ronment and the Colorado Rural Water Association.

Crawford approves draft Source Water Protection Plan

iSeeChangeFROM PAGE B1

Julia Kumari Drapkin comes to KVNF after an interesting career as an Associated Press photo journalist in Sri Lanka during its civil war. When she returned home to Louisiana, Katrina hit. As an environmental journalist she wanted to not just cover the disaster but to discover where the story began. From there she went to Pubic Radio International for its show, “The World.” That was her first radio reporting job at giant WGBH in Boston. She has covered science for seven years. All that led to coming to KVNF.

“As we have been designing this I have been reflecting on my role as a

journalist. So much of our world is careening from story to story, disaster to disaster, and we have no institutional memory to really absorb that real people’s lives are always changing all the time,” Drapkin said.

iSeeChange has been developed with the com-munity’s perspective in mind.

“As a journalist it’s a great way to keep in touch with people,” Drap-kin said. It’s a person-able way to find out how people are handling the drought, how their har-vest is doing, how their smudge pots are working in the orchards.

“iSeeChange is con-vening the public media with public science and

the public in one place,” Drapkin said. “It’s like the three legs of a stool.”

“We’re not having hon-est conversations about climate change and how climate extremes are affecting daily American lives,” Drapkin said.

When Drapkin first came to KVNF, there were those who were afraid that the project would cause discord between those who believe in cli-mate change and those who don’t or between lib-erals and conservatives.

“But I’ve been sur-prised. The conversations that we’ve had with the people who don’t believe in climate change are so nuanced and so smart. I’m so looking forward to bringing the taste of that

intelligence to the people in D.C. who make decisions. A lot of the assumptions are that people in rural communities stay away from science. No! Every farm and every ranch is a living science experi-ment. Ranchers work with genetics and DNA . . . and are much more involved in how the weather affects their lives.

“People in the North Fork Valley are seeing the same things that scien-tists and climatologists are seeing. The difference is, a scientist will write a paper about that, where a citizen will make a deci-sion about that in their life. It may be an economic decision in their life. That is just as important to doc-ument and understand. We envision The Almanac as the place where that conversation can happen,” Drapkin said.

Share your photo-graphs, stories and obser-vations online at www.thealmanac.org.BY KATHY BROWNING

Staff WriterThe curing time for

the permanent seals installed at Elk Creek Mine should be complete today, Wednesday, Feb. 6.

“The mine’s inert. We are waiting on the seals

to age, just like concrete, for about five days. So they ought to be tested on Wednesday of this week. And if that’s the case, we’ll get a good deal of our people back here and start organizing the mine and start two continuous miner sections,” Jim Coo-per, president of Oxbow Mining, said in an inter-view on Monday, Feb. 4.

Elk Creek Mine has been closed due to the MSHA discovery of high carbon monoxide levels behind the longwall on Jan. 8.

Mike Ludlow, vice president of Oxbow Min-ing, confirmed on Feb. 5 that initial tests on the samples will be conducted on Wednesday. Mine offi-cials will then know if the seals have reached their full design strength.

“At that point, once they’ve reached their design strength, we’ll

request permission to bring back all of our work force to start on continuous miner development and construction work,” Lud-low said. Oxbow will need approval from MSHA.

Approximately 220 hourly employees have not been scheduled to work over the course of the clo-sure. Some were brought back to work on sealing the mine. The miners who have not been on the work schedule will not be paid for the period the mine was closed.

According to Ludlow, Oxbow Mining has not received any MSHA cita-tions and no penalties will be incurred.

“The longwall is sealed in the mine right now in the inert area. That is not accessible to us, and we won’t have longwall pro-duction until about mid-year,” Ludlow said.

Losses for the Elk Creek Mine closure have not been calculated, and will probably not be released to the public.

Continuous miner operations to resume at Elk Creek Mine

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Exceptional EaglesOn Jan. 25 six students at Paonia Elementary School were recognized for demonstrating SOAR behavior. The Exceptional Eagles are Baylee Cowger for Order; Adrienne Nolan and Noah Valdez for Achievement; River Horner for Respect; and Landon Thliveris and Ikechi Elendu for Safety, Order, Achievement and Respect. Principal Sam Cox said, “Way to SOAR, students!”

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FULL MOON PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPOvernight backcountry hut trip

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Share your heart and soul over a slice of pie

The North Fork Heart & Soul project invites res-idents to join in a commu-nity discussion to share how you contribute to life here in the North Fork Valley. Join Heart & Soul on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Paonia United Methodist Church, on the corner of Onarga and 3rd St.

Heart & Soul Coor-dinator Alexis Halbert will facilitate a discus-sion about what matters most to the people who have gathered, how their values are played out in the community and what issues are currently important to them.

Slice of the Pie events are an opportunity for citizens to get better acquainted with their neighbors and commu-nity, and to have a voice in determining its future. Local fresh-baked pie and beverages will be served. If you would like to sched-ule a Slice of the Pie event for your service group, social group or neigh-borhood, please contact North Fork Heart & Soul at [email protected] or call (970) 355-0514.

For more infor-mation visit www.northforkheartsoul.com or its facebook page at www.facebook.com/NorthForkHeartSoul.

At its annual meet-ing on Jan.16, Mountain Harvest Festival govern-ing board elected Mary Bachran and Glenn and Pat Dahlgren as new members.

Continuing members are Bill and Sarah Bish-op, Lynn Mattingly, Deb McEachern, Rick Stock-ton and Monica Wii-tanen. The board elected Sarah Bishop, president; Deb McEachern, sec-retary; and Lynn Mat-tingly, treasurer. Margot Richardson will remain as festival director.

The president rec-

ognized the enormous amount of work Helen Highwater had done for the organization since its origin in 2001 and par-ticularly as its immedi-

ate past president. “As we begin our 13th year and our 13th festival, let us make it the best ever and have fun doing it,” Bishop said.

Sarah Bishop elected president of Mountain Harvest Festival


Many a restaurant cus-tomer has visited the two-story restaurant at 312 Grand Avenue in Paonia. Since December, the res-taurant has new life as Paula’s. When diners walk up to the front porch and through the bright red door, they enter into a delightfully decorated restaurant with a cow-girl motif. Paula Olsen is the owner and chef offering a delicious menu of items for brunch and dinner. There’s a martini bar upstairs along with comfortable family dining upstairs and downstairs.

Paula’s specialties include sea bass, rib-eyed steak, prosciutto and sage-wrapped pork ten-derloin, alfredo chicken or shrimp, crab cakes, as well as fried green tomato stacks with herbed goat cheese. On some occa-

sions, she prepares Thai food for the entire eve-ning.

For a finishing touch she makes her own cheesecake and a four-layer Mandarin Choco-late Cake that is rich and yummy. She also offers brownie sundaes and apple tarts. Almost everything on the menu is made by her in the res-taurant or locally-made.

She has a full bar serving cocktails, beer and wine. Her neighbor, Revolution Beer, is on tap. Wines from the local vineyards are served. She offers a champagne brunch.

Paula’s is also a place for special events. “It’s a great place for bach-elorette parties and live music.” There’s a loft above the second floor dining and bar area.

In the future she wants to have a comedy

night and murder mys-tery dinners. The patio will be an awesome place next spring and summer for dining and live music. The facility would be a lovely setting for small weddings and events.

Paula’s serves brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday through Mon-day, and dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday. Paula’s is closed Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday nights.

Paula Olsen grew up in Crawford and graduated from Paonia High School. She studied to be a chef at Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Art in 1995. That training has given her the taste and flair for preparing fine dining entrees. She’s never been in an Iron Chef compe-tition. She doesn’t enjoy being in the public eye, but enjoys being the per-

son working behind the scenes creating the dish-es that will bring smiles to her customers’ faces.

When Paula was fresh out of culinary school she worked at Lowes Van-derbilt Plaza Hotel in Nashville. She operated her original Paula’s res-taurant in Tennessee for five years.

She moved back to Paonia in 2009. Prior to opening this restaurant, she drove a large rig across country making deliveries. She found that to be scary and empower-ing. “You learn to have a lot of respect for the road. That’s for sure,” she said. “It’s very stressful [due to] time constraints.”

The restaurant busi-ness can also be stressful. She is doing all the cook-ing. “Things are slower in the winter, which is a good time to start a restaurant because you can work out the kinks,” Paula said. “By the time it gets busy you have your recipes and menu down. When the busy season starts, it will be second nature.”

You probably have met Paula when she worked at Back Country Cof-fee and Fresh and Wyld Farmhouse Inn. She got back into the restaurant business because that’s where her talent lies and because she wants to work for herself rather than for someone else.

Make plans soon to enjoy an evening at Pau-la’s in Paonia.

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The Paradise Theatre in Paonia continues its Cabin Fever Film Series on Friday, Feb. 15, with the documentary film, “Chasing Ice,” produced and directed by Jeff Orlowski.

A special question and answer event will follow the 3 p.m. Sunday matinee on Feb. 17 with the film’s editor, Davis Coombe. Coombe is a partner in the Denver-based produc-tion com-pany, Milkhaus, which has won multiple Emmy’s and the Academy Award for Best Documen-tary Short 2012, “Saving Face.”

Acclaimed environmen-tal photographer, James Balog, was once a skep-tic about climate change, but through his Extreme Ice Survey for National Geographic, he discovers

undeniable evidence of our changing planet.

“Chasing Ice” reveals Balog’s hauntingly beau-tiful, multi-year time-lapse videos of vanish-ing glaciers across the Arctic, all while deliver-ing fragile hope to our carbon-powered planet. Traveling with a team of young adventurers across the brutal Arctic, Balog

risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story facing humanity.

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and winner for Excellence in Cinema-tography at Sundance, this is a big-screen must.

“Before My Time,” by J. Ralph and featuring Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell from the soundtrack, is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

“Chasing Ice” will be shown Friday, Feb. 15, and Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 and 7 p.m., and Tuesday, Feb. 19, and Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m.

More information at www.paradiseofpaonia.com.

Chasing Ice documentary to be screened in Paonia

Photo by Kathy BrowningPaula Olsen has proudly opened the second incarnation of her Paula’s restau-rant in Paonia at 312 Grand Avenue. The original Paula’s restaurant was in Tennessee. Stop by and enjoy the comfortable ambiance and delicious home-made brunches and dinners.

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“There’s been a lot of things happen in the dis-trict since I started. A lot of improvements and a lot of wonderful people I’ve worked with. I’m going to miss it,” Rhonda Duclo said at her retire-ment party Feb. 1 at the Hotchkiss Library.

She has worked 30 lustrous years at the Hotchkiss Library. She was feted by her peers in

the Delta County Library District, the Delta Coun-ty Commissioners and appreciative library patrons and friends.

“I’m excited about moving on and being able to do some other kinds of things,” Duclo said before her party began. “I’m still going to be doing some outreach to the schools. I’ve already set up book talks during February at [Hotchkiss K-8]. I’ll still be going over to Horizons

[Healthcare and Retire-ment Community] twice a month and doing day care. So, it’s not like I’m absolutely done with library.”

She’s also helping get everything ready for the library book sale on Fri-day, Feb. 15, from 9 to 6 and Saturday, Feb. 16, from 9 to 3. “Then I’m going to go home and clean house,” she laughed.

Among the changes Duclo has witnessed over the years in the district: all towns have new librar-ies and Hotchkiss has a new addition. “We’re really proud of ours and the way it looks. People like our library,” she said. “We’re doing more pro-grams. We’re doing more things with the kids, and that’s fun.”

Annette Choszczyk, district director, told those at Duclo’s retire-ment party, “We have a couple of presentations for her because she has been here for over 30 years and we want to acknowledge that has meant a tremendous amount to our communi-ties and to our library district and to all the people she has come to know in that time.”

Choszczyk then pre-sented a plaque to Duclo

on behalf of the library district.

County Commissioner Mark Roeber gave her a plaque for her 30 years of service. “That’s quite a milestone and that’s quite a commitment to service to the commu-nity of Hotchkiss.” The commissioners congratu-lated her and “acknowl-edge your special talents, innovative ideas and dedication to the library district.”

Ann Murphy, library board president, read a letter from Commission-er Bruce Hovde who was not able to attend. He extended his “heartfelt thanks for all the years of service you have con-tributed to the citizens of Delta County and to the patrons of the library.”

Hotchkiss trustee and former teacher Georgia Hopper said, “Rhonda has done so much through the schools. I’ve been retired for a good many years, but Rhonda used to come to my classroom every week and read a story to the kids. She had such a gentle manner about her, and the kids really looked forward to her time.”

And with that more pictures were taken and the beautiful cake was cut.

Duclo honored as consummate librarian B4 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 NORTH FORK TIMES Delta County Independent

PaoniaHigh School

ActivitiesThur., Feb. 7 All State Choir at Denver-Hyatt Convention

Center; Seniors Only-Safe Teen Presentation, 10:00 a.m.; Movie Night, 7:00 p.m.

Fri., Feb. 8 Blackout Day; Basketball vs. Plateau Valley, JVG & JVB, 2:00 p.m., VG at 3:30 p.m., VB at 5:00 p.m.; Wrestling vs. Meeker, 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 9 C Girls Basketball & V Boys Basketball at DeBeque, 1:00 p.m.; Winter Fest Dance, 8:30 p.m.; Knowledge Bowl; Speech in Ouray.

Feb. 11-15 Winter Break.Mon., Feb. 11 Play Practice, 6:00-8:00 p.m.Tues., Feb. 12 Play Practice, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

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Photo by Kathy BrowningOutgoing Hotchkiss Library manager Rhonda Duclo shows the plaque she received from the Delta County Commissioners.

Photo by Kathy BrowningDelta County Library District Director Annette Cho-szczyk presents a lovely plaque to Hotchkiss Library manager Rhonda Duclo at her retirement after 30 years of service.

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Geo Bee winnerIsaac Van Horn, a seventh grader at Hotchkiss K-8, won the school’s National Geographic Bee. He is now eligible to test his geography knowledge at the state level of this national competition.

Third Grade3.0-4.0

3rd Grade 3.0-4.0Audren BorgmanPablo CamachoJoel CarpenterEmily DavidovichKarlie Egging*Emma ElliottPaul FisherSawyer Handy*Alaina Hardin*Lottie HollembeakIsabelle HouseweartMatthew Kasper*Jason KuntzMatilda McDanielVianney MendozaBailey MillerEmma MillerIndigo Miller-Barnes*Landon MoralezSara Morris*Leona Myers*Addison NealMatthew PachlParker Pene*Shane ReedCaleb Roberts*Isaac RungDakota SheldenDrayden TaylorAraina VenJohnAnnie WilsonAlexis Yanish

Fourth Grade 3.0-4.0

Tristan Andregg

Jaden BorgmanIsabella Brezonick*Steffen BrodieConnor BronkanKaleb CarrTrey Caywood-HuntYahir ChavezMicah CooperSponseller

Mia CowanCasey DagnanClay DaileyHector ElizaldeGenevieve FisherEmily GrahamTessa GriffithJoslyn KendallLauryn KieferJordan ManzanaresNathaniel MattlerChristian MatusTaneal Mautz*Gracie PhamCassidy ReedMakaylie ReedTawny Roberts*Alex RossAnthony ScanlonAdam Smith*Erin SmithIsabella SpanoAva TaylorGrace TrefrenIan Van HornJacob Ware*Joseph WareEmma White

Fifth Grade

3.0-4.0Tristen Allen Shayne Bayles Madison Bennett Kristal Camacho Jaycie Duncan Shay Glaser Nadia Hill* Adam Kasper Brian Kimbell Skyler Meagher Jade Miller Jesse Miller* Grey Neal Kiley Olson Jerome Reed Emily Rhodes* Grady Simpson Elsie Vazquez Sydnie West Evan White Colby Wilson Zachary Ziemer

Sixth Grade 3.0-4.0

Sierra Baker William Bronkan* Cesar Camacho Trenton Carr Carson Collins* Taylor DeLuzio Kenda Falkner Mariah Griffith Quinn Husted Jadeyn Jensen Nick Jung Jacob Lange Kaleigh Little

Caitlyn Littlefield* Jesus Macias Amber Mattler Taralee Mautz* Landen Mayberry Joshua Pachl Presley Pene* Natasha Pham Katie Powers Ashley Sanchez Bryce Shelden Logan Smith Ruby Speicher Jacob Trefren* Bruce Turnbull* Cory West Taylor West Ethen White* Janaya White Lexi Wrich* Jamison Yanish

Seventh Grade 3.0-4.0

Trevor Ballard Kevin Chavez Keaton Coe Jordan Denison Sophia Fisher* Yasmine Gaub Kambry Hall* Chase Hiatt Josie Hiatt Shelby Hiatt Elijah Kirk Jackson Little Courtney Mattler Jennifer McDonald* Morgan Miller*

Jaren Oates Margaret Parsons Colton Peebles Dalton Raley Madison Reed Fatima Rodriguez Jordan Tamayo* Braxton Trujillo Isaac Van Horn* Ashley Ziemer

Eighth Grade 3.0-4.0

Zackary Allen Blake Bayles Conner Collins Colton DeLuzio Roggen Frick Jorge Govea Colton Hall* Jamal Helm Skylar Hoage Parker Katzdorn Wade Katzdorn Morgan Keeler Caralyn Littlefield Kale Litzelman Christopher Lovato Triston Mautz Logan Mayberry Mia McCurdy Joseph Nault Lacey Rodriguez Diana Rojas Eve Simmons Alexis Triantos Raphael Wick

*Denotes Straight A’s

Hotchkiss K-8 honor rollThe following students were named to the honor roll at Hotchkiss K-8 School

for the second quarter of the 2012-2013 school year:

Photo by Kathy BrowningDelta County Commissioner Mark Roeber presents a plaque to Duclo at her retirement party on Feb. 1. He noted her commitment to the community and dedication to the library district.

A night of chocolate

The Paonia Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi presents its first annual Chocolate Extravaganza this Satur-day, Feb. 9, from 6-9 p.m., at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia.

Admission includes unlimited scrumptious chocolate treats, two glasses of local wine (adults only), gourmet coffees and hot chocolate.

Tickets are available at The Paonia Flower Shop or from any Beta Sigma Phi member. Advance tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children 10 and younger. The day of the event, tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for chil-dren under 10.

Proceeds will bene-fit the Beta Sigma Phi Chapter’s local charities fund.

For more information, call Judy Livingston at 527-3970.

Delta County Independent TELEVISION LISTINGS Wednesday, February 6, 2013 B5

TV CHANNEL REFERENCEListings shown are west feeds

BD

BP

= Bresnan Cable Delta

= Bresnan Cable Paonia

DN

DT

= Dish Network

= Direct TV

CC

(N)

= Movies

= Closed Captioned

= New Episode

KWGN-CW Denver

KCNC-CBS Denver

KRMA- PBS Denver

KMGH-ABC Denver

KDVR-Fox Denver

KREY-CBS Montrose

KJCT-ABC Grand Jct.

KKCO-NBC Grand Jct.

KFQX-Fox Grand Jct.

A&E

BRAVO

CINE-Cinemax

DISCV-Discovery

DISN-Disney

ENC-Encore

ESPN

ESPN2

F/X

FOOD

FSRM-Fox Sports RM

HALL-Hallmark

HBO-Home Box Offi ce

HGTV-Home & Garden

HIST-History

LIFE-Lifetime

NICK-Nickelodeon

SPIKE

STARZ

TBS

TMC-Movie Channel

TNT

USA-USA Network

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Both commercial and private pesticide appli-cators will benefit from the annual Tri River Area Pest Management Work-shop held Feb. 19-20.

Sponsored by Colorado State University Exten-sion, the program will offer all of the continuing education credits (CECs) required to fulfill and maintain commercial and private pesticide applica-tor licenses. Also, employ-ees who need technician training hours can get up to 12 hours of veri-fied training. The credits are good for applicators in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.

Twenty-two speakers will cover a variety of topics including:

• Disposal of unwant-ed pesticides;

• Workplace safety;• Mixing low-rate pes-

ticides;• Laws and regula-

tions;• Weather forecasting

and the water outlook for 2013;

• Planting rates and other research on Round-up-Ready alfalfa;

• Seed treatment research on bee popula-

tions;• Trait failures in some

Bt corn varieties;• Tomato virus man-

agement;• Urban tree inven-

tories;• Tree and shrub

insect issues;• Turf weeds and turf

grass growth and devel-opment;

• Controlling verte-brate pests;

• Industrial and right-of-way weed control;

• Biological control agents for rangeland;

• Biting and stinging insects; and

• Flying insect con-trol devices and mosquito behavior.

Registration is $50 for private applicator CECs, technician training cred-its, or not for credit, and $100 for commer-cial applicators. Tues-day lunch and break are included and sponsored by CropWorx. Registra-tion due by Feb. 11, or higher rates will apply. Sessions on Feb. 19 start at 7:30 a.m., ending at 5:30 p.m., Feb. 20 from 7:30 a.m. to noon.

To register and see the entire program and

speaker list, go to: http://wci.colostate.edu or call 970-244-1834. If you have questions: call 970-244-1834, Monday-Fri-day, 8-5 or e-mail [email protected].

Register now for pest management workshop

The Bureau of Land Management recently announced that it is seek-ing public nominations for five open positions on its Southwest District Resource Advisory Coun-cils (RAC), which advise the BLM on public land issues.

The deadline to submit a nomination is March 14.

Each RAC consists of 10-15 members with an interest or expertise in public land management, including such individu-als as conservationists, ranchers, outdoor rec-reationists, state and local government offi-cials, Tribal officials, and academics. The diverse membership of each RAC helps ensure that BLM land managers get the varying perspectives they need to achieve their mis-sion, which is to manage the public lands for mul-tiple uses.

“The members of our RACs help our field offic-es by acting as sound-ing boards in all types of resource management issues,” said acting BLM Director Mike Pool.

Individuals may nomi-nate themselves or others to serve on an advisory council. Nominees, who must be residents of the state or states where the RAC has jurisdiction, will be judged on the basis of their training, education and knowledge of the council’s geographical area. Nominees should also demonstrate a com-mitment to consensus building and collabora-tive decision making. All nominations must be accompanied by letters of reference from any represented interests or organizations; a complet-

ed RAC application; and any other information that speaks to the nom-inee’s qualifications. To complete the nomina-tion form, go to http://on.doi.gov/yIOMcT.

The Southwest RAC is looking to fill five open-ings, in the following cat-egories:

• Two openings for Category One – Public land ranchers and rep-resentatives of organi-zations associated with energy and mineral development, the timber industry, transportation or rights-of-way, off-highway vehicle use, and commercial recreation;

• One opening for Category Two – Repre-sentatives of nationally or regionally recognized environmental organiza-tions, archaeological and historical organizations, dispersed recreation activities, and wild horse

and burro organizations; and

• Two openings for Cat-egory Three – Represen-tatives of state, county, or local elected office; repre-sentatives and employees of a state agency respon-sible for the management of natural resources; rep-resentatives of Indian Tribes within or adjacent to the area for which the RAC is organized; repre-sentatives and employees of academic institutions who are involved in natu-ral sciences; and the pub-lic-at-large.

Nominations for the Southwest District (Gunnison, Tres Rios and Uncompahgre Field Offices) RAC must be submitted by Thursday, March 14, to the Bureau of Land Management, Attn: Shannon Bor-ders, 2465 S. Townsend Avenue, Montrose, CO 81401.

Additional require-ments can be found online

at www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BLM_Resources/racs/

swrac.html or by calling Borders at 240-5399.

BLM seeks citizens for advisory groupDelta County Independent AGRICULTURE Wednesday, February 6, 2013 B7

Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Gunnison, Jackson, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose, Ouray, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt and Summit Counties are among the 62 pri-mary Colorado counties designated as disaster areas due to drought and related disasters that have occurred in 2012. Delta County is included as a contiguous county.

Producers could be eligible for Farm Service Agency emergency loans. The low interest loans are available to operators of family size farms/ranches that are unable to obtain

credit elsewhere. Loans are based on

production losses caused by the disaster.

Producers must file an application for an emer-gency loan through the Farm Service Agency by March 4. Each applica-tion will be considered on its own merit, taking into account the extent of losses, security available, repayment ability, and other eligibility require-ments.

For more information about emergency loans contact Laurie Neilson, at (970) 242-9133 ext. 2.

Emergency loans available through FSA

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FFA student honoredBob Kapus, Hotchkiss Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler, congratulates Cheyenne Gallob (left) of the Hotchkiss FFA Chapter on being selected the FFA Member of the Month for January. Gallob was honored at a meeting on Jan. 28.

B8 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 LOCAL NEWS Delta County Independent

The West District Elks Hoop Shoot was held Sunday, Jan. 20, at the Hotchkiss High School. Kids from the eight lodg-es in the West District of Colorado participated.

In the 8-9 girls, Erika Kuta from Delta placed first; Princessa Mora, Hotchkiss, was second; Sydney Flores, Durango, placed third; and Chayna Abts, Montrose, came in fourth.

In the 8-9 boys, Antho-ny Flint, Durango, came in

first; Steele Arnold, Mon-trose, was second; John Thomas Carver, Cortez, finished third; and Caleb Roberts, Hotchkiss, came in fourth.

In the 10-11 girls’ divi-sion, Makayla Long, Cor-tez, came in first; Reagan Clay, Delta, was second; Shay Glaser, Hotchkiss, was third; and Faith Cutts, Grand Junction, came in fourth.

In the 10-11 boys, the first place winner was Teagan Whiteskunk of

Cortez; Marcus Flint, Durango, finished second; Connor Imus, Montrose, came in third; and Carlos Lozano, Hotchkiss, was fourth.

In the 12-13 girls’ division, first place win-ner was Kayla Hutton, Hotchkiss; Kourtney Car-michael, Delta, was sec-ond; Kaila Craig, Duran-go, finished third; and Tyra Pinnecoose, Cortez, came in fourth.

In the 12-13 boys’ division, there was a three-way tie for second place with all three boys shooting 20 of 25. After a

long shoot-off, first place went to Enoch Kropp of Hotchkiss; Kyle Mock, Delta, placed second; Tyler Ruetschle, Duran-go, came in third; and Austin Martinez of Mon-trose finished fourth.

The two winners of the Dusty Wadley Memo-rial High Point Trophies were Kayla Hutton of Hotchkiss shooting 15 of 25 and Enoch Kropp of Hotchkiss shooting 21 of 25. All the first place win-ners will now advance to the Colorado State Elks Hoop Shoot in Salida on Feb. 23.

District Hoop Shoot draws kids from eight Elks lodges

10-11 winners Makayla Long of Durangoand Teagan Whiteskunk of Cortez

8-9 winners Anthony Flint of Durangoand Erika Kuta of Delta

12-13 winners Kayla Huttonand Enoch Kropp, both of Hotchkiss

Delta County Librar-ies and the Blue Sage Center for the Arts are proud to announce that registration for the 2013 Write On! Anthology Competition is now open. The Write On! Anthology is an annual publication of poems, stories, and essays written by Delta County residents, and this year all the entries will be professionally judged.

The submission dead-line for entries is 5 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 18, and all submissions must be made electronically through the Blue Sage website at www.bluesage.org. Registration instruc-tions are available at all Delta County Libraries.

Prose entries must be 3,000 words or fewer and poetry must be 50 lines or fewer.

All entrants must be residents of Delta Coun-ty. Complete details can be found at www.bluesage.org.

Entries sought for writing competition

Army Sgt. Nathaniel Crawford has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to serve in support of Oper-ation Enduring Freedom.

Operation Enduring Freedom is the official name given to anti-terror-ism military operations involving U.S. troops and allied coalition partners. Active duty and reserve component members from all branches of the U.S. armed forces have been

deployed to support the war against global terror-ism outside the borders of the United States. U.S. troops serve in South, Southwest and Central Asia, the Arabian penin-sula, the Horn of Africa, islands in the Pacific, and Europe.

Crawford has served in the military for seven years.

He is the son of Scott Meader of Paonia and a 2005 graduate of Paonia High School.

PEOPLEPEOPLE IN THENEWS

The Delta County Libraries offer many edu-cational and entertaining activities and events for you and your family to enjoy. Check out these programs:

CedaredgeComputer Class. “Get

the most from your iPad.” Friday, Feb. 8, at 10:30 a.m.

Young Adults. “Sew

What!” A recycled cloth-ing craft class for young adults. Friday, Feb. 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Adult Craft Class. Come and play with poly-mer clay. Friday, Feb. 15, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon.

Tech Soup Satur-days. Bring your devices and tech questions every Saturday in February

from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.Teen Scene. Quesadil-

la para mia! Friday, Feb. 15, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Computer Class. “Clutter Control for Com-puters.” Friday, Feb. 22, at 10:30 a.m. Contact the library at 856-3518 to sign up.

Storytimes. Baby, tot and preschooler story-times are Thursdays starting at 10 a.m.

CrawfordTweens’ Book Club.

Come join us for book dis-cussions, creative writ-ing, journaling, and play production. Refreshments will be served! Every Wednesday in February from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.

Wii and Waffles. Kids of all ages come, have fun playing Wii games, and enjoy a waffle and juice treat! Thursday, Feb. 7, from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.

Valentine Card Mak-ing. It is time for our annual valentine card making. This is a great family activity. All sup-plies provided to make your special valentine a beautiful card. Thursday, Feb. 8, from 3 to 6 p.m.

Computer Help.Bring specific computer questions or just spend time honing your skills Thursday, Feb. 14 and 28, from 3 to 5 p.m. Contact the library at 921-3500 for details.

Scrapbooking. Work on your latest project with other “scrappers.” Satur-day, Feb. 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Storytimes. Baby, tot, and preschooler story-times are Thursdays starting at 10 a.m.

DeltaTeens. “The $100,000

Pyramid Game.” Check out the live game show experience! Thursday, Feb. 7, at 4:30 p.m.

Kids. “Chinese New Year Craft Day.” Year of the Snake! Friday, Feb. 8, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Adult Craft Class. “Jailene Preisner Jewelry Class.” Tuesday, Feb. 12, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Club 4-5. “Valentine’s Day Cookie Decorating.” Decorate a cookie for your favorite valentine. Thurs-day, Feb. 14, at 4:30 p.m.

Teens. “Mardi Gras Party.” Join us as we cele-brate with games, snacks, and plenty of fun! Thurs-day, Feb. 21, at 4:30 p.m.

Storytimes. Story-times for babies, tots and preschoolers are Wednes-days starting at 10:30 a.m.

HotchkissOne-on-One Tech

Help. Tuesday-Thursday

by appointment. Contact Hotchkiss Library at 872-4153 for details.

Teens. Craft/Book Event. Create a cool art project with old book cov-ers. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 4 p.m.

Computer Class. Make valentines in Pub-lisher. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 4 p.m.

Book Sale for the Hotchkiss Library. Fri-day, Feb. 15, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Call 872-4153 for infor-mation.

Storytimes. Story-times for babies, tots and preschoolers are Wednes-days starting at 10 a.m.

PaoniaComputer Help. Get

help with any computer or electronic device. Call Paonia Library at 527-3470 to schedule a time convenient for you!

Armchair Travel Series. Local travelers share their adventures. Tuesday, Feb. 12 and 26, at 6 p.m. Contact the library at 527-3470 for more information.

Evening Book Club. Paonia Library Book Club selection for February is “Amazing Grace” by Eric Metaxis. Trace the life story of the English abo-litionist from his birth to his role in ending slav-ery in the British colo-nies. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m.

Girls’ Book Club. Join the third-sixth grade girls’ book club in read-ing “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson. In 1993, mountaineer Greg Mortenson attempted to climb K2, the world’s second highest mountain in northern Pakistan, to honor the memory of his deceased sister, Christa. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 4 p.m. Call the library to reserve a copy.

Movie for Adults. Set in the near future: a retired cat burglar has two grown kids who are concerned he can no lon-ger live alone. Against the old man’s wishes, his son buys a walking, talking humanoid robot programmed to improve his physical and mental health. What follows is hilarious and a heart-breaking story about find-ing friends and family in the most unexpected places. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 6 p.m.

Storytimes. Baby, tot and preschooler story-times are Tuesdays start-ing 10 a.m. Contact Paonia Library at 527-3470.

What’s up at your library?

BY VERNA BARRStaff Writer

Election of five board mem-bers to the Surface Creek Valley Historical Society (SCVHS) was the main item of business for the February 2nd meeting. Nominated and elected were Nelson Ceder-berg, Chuck Harrington, Bill Kehmeier, Les Mergelman and Curt Williams. They will join Richard Udd and Carol Gamble to make up the seven- member board.

Awards were presented to special guests. Madison Eck-hart was named History Stu-dent of the Year. Sandy Carl-

son received recognition as Volunteer of the Year. Bob and Roxie Morris were honored with the 2013 Pioneer Award.

Dan Cotton spoke and pre-sented a slide show of his collection of historical photos depicting the creation of the Gould Reservoir.

The program listed the nine other planned events for the year. A soup supper will be on March 9, Clean Up Days (dates TBA) prior to the Pio-neer Town season’s opening with Heritage Day on Satur-day, May 25, Memorial Day weekend.

Night on the Town will be

in the evening of June 25. The ice cream social is on July 27. Color Sunday will fall on the last Sunday of September, on the 29th.

AppleFest brings the car show on Saturday, Oct. 5, with Pioneer Town closing for the season at the end of Apple-Fest on the following day, Oct. 6.

A dinner to recognize and thank SCVHS and Pioneer Town volunteers will take place in the Stolte Shed on October 8. 2013 events end with a Christmas concert on Saturday, December 2, at the Chapel of the Cross. The schedule for the summer con-certs at the chapel will be announced at a later date.

The banquet was taste-fully prepared and served by Les and Dorothy Mergelman, assisted by Cedaredge FFA members.

Historical society celebrates busy year

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Photo by Hank Lohmeyer

Following the rainSetting sunlight paints a colorful sky and sets the winter landscape glowing after a Janu-ary rain that visited the Surface Creek Valley a week ago.

Photo by Verna BarrMadison Eckhart, a junior at Cedaredge High School, was named History Student of the Year at SCVHS’s annual ban-quet. John Spurgeon presented Madison with a framed cer-tifi cate, a scholarship check and a copy of a book that he has written titled “Irrigating the Surface Creek Valley.”

Photo by Verna BarrDan Cotton was a special guest and speaker at the SCVHS annual meeting and banquet. His program was based on a series of historical photos that he had assembled for a slide show. Commentary included insights into the “Building of Gould Reservoir” (1901-1910) to provide water for Fruitland Mesa in the North Fork area.

Photo by Verna BarrThe SCVHS 2013 Pioneer Award was presented to Bob and Roxie Morris (Red Mountain Ranches) by Les Mergelman at the February annual meeting and banquet. Both of the recipi-ents were born and raised on established farm operations in Eckert and Cedaredge. They continue to foster the tradition of the fruit growing industry and support many community events and activities.

Photo by Verna BarrSandy Carlson was elected as the organization’s Volunteer of the Year. Les Mergelman presented her with a certifi cate of appreciation and told of her many accomplishments as a vol-unteer for the society and Pioneer Town. “Sandy,” he said, “is someone you can count on to get a job done at any time.”


In most years there is abundant water on the Grand Mesa to supply the needs of the Surface Creek Valley.

But even when there is plenty, the work of collect-ing, storing, managing and transporting that water to its rightful users is an enterprise of huge complexity involving local governments, special districts, state government and public land management on the federal level.

The lead players in this intricate balance of precious water and the maze of rules that govern it are the six water commissioners working out of the Cedaredge District 40 office of Division of Water Resources, the private Grand Mesa Water Users Associa-tion, and the Grand Mesa Water Conservancy District. The trio of local organizations works closely and cooperative-ly to see that available water is delivered to users.

A fourth player in the local water scenario is the Forest Service, which manages pub-lic lands where virtually all of the valley’s water supplies, both domestic and agricultur-al, originate.

During the two water workshops held at Orchard City and Cedaredge last week, Doug Wist, lead water commissioner for district 40 in Cedaredge, gave a general overview of the mesa’s water management system to some 150 people attending the workshops.

The six water commis-sioners working out of the Cedaredge office have pri-mary responsibility for see-ing that water is delivered through the intricate system of dams, creeks and ditches to its rightful users in accor-dance with the state law of prior appropriation and the doctrine of “first in time, first in right.”

The District 40 office also has responsibility for other water management tasks, including stream flow mea-surement and dam safety.

Ron Shaver of Cedaredge explained the role of the Grand Mesa Water Users. The organization manages the extremely complex system of water trading and trans-port among drainages on the south side of Grand Mesa, and sees that the exchanges are executed and recorded. The system on the south side of Grand Mesa is considered among the most complex any-where.

The Water Users also pro-vide downstream insurance for dam owners. They help broker water renting agree-ments and work with the Dis-trict 40 commissioners’ office on some system maintenance chores.

Jim Durr, vice president of the Grand Mesa Water Conservancy District board, made a presentation on the structure and functioning of the district. The district was formed in 1961 to develop the yet-unbuilt Grand Mesa Proj-ect storage reservoir and to administer the 29,000 acre feet of water allocated for it.

The seven members of the board are appointed by a judge, and their mission is to “support beneficial uses of the unappropriated waters of the state.”

The district is involved with developing water aug-mentation plans, and the dis-trict also has reservoirs on the Grand Mesa.

Last summer the District nearly completed rehabilita-tion of Peak Dam and Res-ervoir which will provide 30 acre feet to the valley’s sup-plies. Rehab work on Blanche Park Reservoir is scheduled to begin next, and when com-pleted it will secure another 120 acre feet for the valley’s use.

Water managers keep it flowing into the valley

What falls heredefinitely doesn’tstay here when itcomes to water


A series of two educational workshops on water specifi-cally tailored for people in the Surface Creek Valley were held last week in Orchard City and Cedaredge.

The workshops were host-ed jointly by the Gunnison Basin Water Roundtable and the Water Center at Colorado Mesa University.

Their purpose was to help educate local water users

about issues facing Colorado, the Gunnison River Basin and the Surface Creek Valley.

The range of topics was broad. The sessions started with an overview of super-regional and national issues that have impacts on local water usage. Those issues include the 1922 Colorado River Compact that divides Colorado River flows among seven Western states. Also impacting local water use is the thorny and contentious problem of Colorado’s own east/west water divide, and the political and economic fac-tors that create and compli-cate it.

(Two other general top-ics discussed at the sessions – the management of water in Surface Creek Valley and

the operations of the valley’s four domestic water provid-ers – are dealt with in related stories.)

Beginning with an outline of the 1922 Colorado Water Compact as his background, Austin Keiser, president of the board of the Grand Mesa Water Conservancy District, explained Colorado’s “water gap.” The water gap is an increasingly contentious issue between the Front Range and the Western Slope.

Stated simply, the state’s water gap is caused by the fact that 80 percent of Colorado’s population, and at least that much of its economic activ-ity, is located on the Front Range. But, 80 percent of the water in the form of annual

Workshops give locals a sense of big picture

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The Surface Creek Valley’s three domestic water providers, and one that serves residents of the Ward Creek drain-age, share common problems and concerns as they work to provide affordable, clean water to their customers and stay in compliance with strict health regulations.

Representatives from

Upper Surface Creek Domestic Water Users Association (USC), the Town of Cedaredge, the Town of Orchard City and Coalby Domestic Water Users Association shared details of their systems with attendees at the two Surface Creek Valley water workshops last week.

The Upper Surface Creek Association sup-plies domestic water to 1,005 taps and about 2,700 customers. The com-pany is not a government entity. But, like Coalby, it is a private association. Upper Surface Creek serves customers on Upper Surface Creek, and on Cedar and Redlands mesas, through 100 miles of water pipeline.

Upper Surface Creek takes its treatment plant feed stocks of raw water from Surface Creek. The association once shared water treatment facili-ties with Cedaredge. In 2005, USC built its own treatment plant but still owns 20 percent of the Cedaredge plant. It main-tains line interconnects with Cedaredge’s system for system redundancy.

The Town of Cedar-edge’s water collection system takes its supplies

from springs and reser-voirs high on the public lands above town. The water flows in its collec-tion pipelines to the treat-ment plant and, when treated, is stored in the two one-million-gallon storage tanks just above town on Highway 65.

Cedaredge water cus-tomers used 578 acre-feet of treated water in 2011, and they used 605 acre-feet during the 2012 dry year, reported Dave Smith, public works director.

The sprawling water system of the Town of Orchard City received a major upgrade last year when the new West Main transmission line was brought into service. The new line provides pres-surized, treated water to customers and has com-puter controls that ease management of the water utility and decreases

waste, said Mike Morgan, public works director for the town.

Coalby Domestic Water Users Association serves customers in the Ward Creek drainage west of Cedaredge. The Coalby system was established in 1975 serving 40 to 50 taps. Today it serves 132 taps, 113 of which are active.

The association has upgraded its plant which was built in 2004 above Uintah Road to meet health department regu-lations.

Coalby collects water from three source springs high on the south side of Grand Mesa. Peak flows average 120 to 150 gal-lons per minute in sum-mer, and 60 to 70 g.p.m. in the winter. The annual average is about 91 g.p.m. Coalby’s customers use an average of 18 g.p.m., which translates to 0.04 cubic feet per second.

Water systems reviewed

Big pictureFROM PAGE C1precipitation needed to support that population and economy falls on the Western Slope.

The water gap is the resulting deficit between increasing municipal and industrial water needs in the state and limits on available supplies.

Western Slope water interests, particularly agriculture which uses 86 percent of available water supplies state-wide, see themselves being squeezed by water needs of a thirsty Front Range, and by growing communities in down-stream Colorado River Basin states, especially

Nevada, Arizona and California.

Keiser explained that Colorado is trying to plan for dealing with water needs of the state as defined by the water gap. All of the easy answers to the problem were put into practice years ago.

Numerous transmoun-tain water diversions already supply the Front Range with about half of its water from the West-ern Slope. But the need keeps growing.

Keiser noted that water users in the Arkan-sas River drainage want the Western Slope to deliver 200,000 acre feet annually from Blue Mesa

via a transmountain diversion. But, while the idea is not favored by the Western Slope, it’s being discussed even though this year the recent dry period has nearly emp-tied Blue Mesa and no one can predict when it might fill again.

The Front Range thinks it is doing its part to help solve the water gap. In response to West-ern Slope complaints, Front Range communi-ties have begun metering and drastically cutting their water use. Colo-rado Springs residents use 55 gallons per per-son per day. In Denver, the amount is 60 gallons per day. But the West-ern Slope average is 160 gallons per day, Keiser said. Other estimates of per capita daily water use on the Western Slope run as high as 200 gal-lons. So, an argument for the Western Slope that the Front Range wastes water has been under-cut. And, both the Front Range and downstream states are now looking closely at the Western Slope’s own water use and wastage.

Keiser illustrated: “Front Range officials tell us at water confer-ences, ‘We are the eco-

nomic engine of the state. When are you going to give us the water?”’ And, they are becoming more insistent on the point.

The Grand Mesa Water Conservancy Dis-trict is working with other organizations to try and create a plan for

dealing with the water gap. The 35-member local Gunnison Basin Water Roundtable, on which Keiser also serves, is involved in the effort. So is the Colorado Inter-basin Compact Commit-tee, a super assemblage with representatives of

the nine separate basin compact roundtables along with state govern-ment officials.

The goal is to have a plan for dealing with the water gap drafted by 2016 for the Governor, General Assembly and the public to evaluate.

C2 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 SURFACE CREEK NEWS Delta County Independent

Journey Through Women’s Health

Saturday, March 2

Redeemer Lutheran Church

1000 Pioneer Rd. — Delta

Doors open at 10:30 a.m.,

Style Show 11:15 a.m.

Lunch 12 noon followed by

Guest Speaker:

Allan Miller, MD

Hematology and Oncology

Delta County Memorial Hospital

“The Skin and Cancer (not skin cancer)”

• Lunch catered by Altrusa International of Delta

• Silent Auction

• Fashion Show by Tara’s and Nina Suzanne’s

Tickets: $15

Must be purchased by February 27

Tickets available at:

Delta County Memorial Hospital Gift Shop

or Gazebo Florist in Cedaredge

TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR

For more information contact:

Beverly Moore — 835-4033

Miletta Knob — 874-3110

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At Horizons Care Center we understand the importance of sleep. That’s why we do what we can to let people sleep and wait until residents tell us

they are ready to get up for the day. Ken, a retired mapmaker, says, “Today I woke up at 7 a.m., read a couple chapters of my Bible,

and then called the staff. It’s been a great morning.”

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Sat., Feb. 9 JV Wrestling at Meeker, TBA.

Feb. 11-15 Winter Break.

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CorrectionDelta’s municipal attor-

ney Mike Schottelkotte was incorrectly identi-fied in a DCI story about Cedaredge last week. He serves as the municipal judge for Cedaredge.

Photo by Hank LohmeyerThere were 100 people at the water workshop session held in Cedaredge last Thursday. More than 30 had also attended the presentation at Orchard City two nights earlier.

Photo by Hank LohmeyerA plow cut through a snow bank near Lands End turnoff on Highway 65 gives an idea of the accumu-lated snowpack on Grand Mesa last weekend. For local water managers — charged with the tasks of forecasting, hedging forecasts, reacting to chang-ing conditions, maintaining systems and delivering water — more snow is better. “It takes a lot of snow to get 30 inches (of water) and fi ll our reser-voirs,” says a Grand Mesa Water Users offi cial.

Mary Ann Rathburn and Friends will present a program for Valentine’s Day, “Songs of the ‘40s,” at the next meeting of Friends of the Cedaredge Public Library.

The program will take place on Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. at the library. The regular meeting of the Friends will follow.

Everyone is invited to attend the program and enjoy this especial-ly entertaining way to observe Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’sprogram atthe library

Loans available for freeze losses

Mesa and Montrose Counties have been des-ignated a disaster area due to freezing tem-peratures that occurred in April 7 and April 8, 2012. Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, Ouray, Pit-kin and San Miguel Counties are included as contiguous counties which are eligible for Farm Service Agency emergency loans.

Low interest emergen-cy loans are available to operators of family-size farms/ranches that are unable to obtain credit elsewhere. Loans are based on production loss-es caused by the disaster. Producers must file an application for an emer-gency loan through the Farm Service Agency by March 25.

Each application will be considered on its own merit, taking into account the extent of losses, secu-rity available, repayment ability and other eligibil-ity requirements.

For more information about emergency loans contact Laurie Neilson at (970) 242-9133 ext. 2.


Snow goingDozens of young cross country ski enthusi-asts were treated to a few hours of organized competition at Skyway atop Grand Mesa last Saturday. The event was hosted by the Grand Mesa Nordic Council which helps maintain the Skyway winter recreation site.


Surface Creek Valley water managers began looking ahead during last year’s dry spell and made plans to help ensure there will be supplies of water available for domestic providers if a second low-snowpack year is in store for 2013.

During last week’s water forums in Orchard City and Cedaredge, Aus-tin Keiser, president of the Grand Mesa Water Conservancy District board, announced that the district had held back reservoir water for domestic use this year if needed.

Keiser explained to the Delta County Inde-pendent that a survey of domestic providers last year determined they

might expect to draw 480 acre feet from their res-ervoir reserves on Grand

Mesa during 2013.So, to provide an addi-

tional backstop for that

use, the District has held 500 acre feet in reservoir storage as a down pay-ment against the chance reservoirs may not fill with snowpack runoff this year.

The announcement may help quell any con-cerns the valley’s domes-tic water users have about available supply during the coming sum-mer months.

The 2012 dry spell has been compared in some ways with the historic 2002-03 drought. If, as some experts say, drought in the arid West occurs generally in seven-to-ten year cycles, and that dry years tend to occur in sequence, then moving to shore up domestic sup-ply for this summer could turn out to have been a wise move.

The hope of local water managers is that the next few months will produce snowpack suffi-cient to refill the Grand Mesa’s reservoirs. If

not, then the winter of 2013-14 could be a criti-cal and essential time for accumulating water reserves on the Grand Mesa.

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Photo submittedThe Grand Mesa Water Conservancy District has taken a step toward securing about 30 acre-feet of storage on Grand Mesa with last year’s reconstruc-tion of Peak Dam. The District has plans to rehab Blanche Park Dam, securing another 120 acre feet of reserve for use in the Surface Creek Valley.

American RobinThe countryside is in

shades of grays and tans, but a bit more white than I like. I do wish the snow would melt and give its moisture to our thirsty fields! And it seems there’s nothing much to see today.

Wait! What was that? A bird just flashed across the road! Of course we slow down. There’s move-ment in the field to our right ... more birds. Now they all take flight and cross the road in front of us. Robins! But they’re early, too early! Our area is in the grips of freezing temperatures and it’s only the first of Febru-ary. I think you should

have gone south, but then, what do I know! As the birds fly, the white of the underwing is obvi-ous and there’s a consid-erable amount of white in the plumage — white under the tails, white chins striped with black, and white eye rings.

Our birds land in the field to our left, and begin foraging. Apparently the ground is softer at the edge of the snow patches so maybe they can dig up something to eat. I sure hope so.

Although our robins nest at tundra’s edge and winter into Bermuda and Guatemala, many are residents within the United States. Now I’ve learned of another “robin.” In England, there’s a small brown bird known as “robin.” It’s less than six inches long, with an orange/red face and chest, a white belly and belongs to the bird group known as “wheatears.” When the

settlers came to this con-tinent, the name was apparently transferred to our native bird with the brick-red breast and belly. But our bird is of a totally different fam-ily and lifestyle, being related to the Eurasian Blackbird or Black Robin. Here the scientific names help sort out the confusion: Latin “turdus” means “thrush.” Our robin is Turdus migra-torius, from his broad range, while the black robin is designated Tur-dus merula, dark. There are four more European species of Turdus that are occasionally seen on our continent.

In his book, “The American Robin,” Rob-ert Wauer describes the birds’ expansion into areas being settled. They were welcomed by the settlers as friendly, cheer-ful birds as well as insect eaters. And the birds found a new and favored food, earthworms. Wauer states that when the prai-rie sod was plowed there were no such worms and they were apparently introduced through the potted plants and shrubs. Now this bird, previously found only in open areas within forest and wood-lands, is our most com-mon bird.

Birds of the Western Slope A look at local birds with Evelyn Horn

The 11th annual con-vention of the Ditch & Reservoir Company Alli-ance (DARCA) — “Water for Food; Food for Life” — will be held March 6-8, at the Two Rivers Convention Center in Grand Junction. During the multi-day conference, 23 speakers, several from out of state, will discuss their views on timely subjects facing ditch and reservoir companies.

On Wednesday, March 6, the pre-convention workshop, “Doing More with Less — Efficiency for Ditch Companies,” will look at improvements that ditch companies can make to save water and provide a more reliable and efficient delivery system. Representatives from the Three Sisters Irrigation District (Bend, Ore.) and the Provo Water Users Association (Provo, Utah) will explain how

they constructed cost- effective pressurized sys-tems. Also covered will be presentations on the legal and administrative aspects of water efficien-cy, not only in Colorado but how it is handled in other Western states.

On Thursday, March 7, the main convention convenes and features presentations on the rela-tionship between water and agriculture. Of par-ticular interest is how these mutual associations can play a role in help-ing to shape their future. Other topics will include: Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, The Legacy Ditch Bill, The Public Trust Doctrine, the Colo-rado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study and more.

On the final morning of the convention, March 8, DARCA will be holding three concurrent work-

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Welcome sightThe view from the Cedaredge Overlook on Highway 65 will again be cloudy as a storm front moves through this weekend. Hopefully, it brings more snow. According to the NRCS SNOTEL report, this water year began slowly but January storms brought the snow pack closer to normal. Water stored in reservoirs is down signifi cantly because of draws last sum-mer, increasing the signifi cance of each winter storm.

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BY TAMIE MECKDCI Sports Writer

Chris Allen looks at home on the basketball court. He’s 6 feet, 4 inches of long and lean. He steps into the fray with confi-dence, rebounding, shoot-ing, defending. And he’s got a winning attitude. Any coach would dream of having a guy like Allen on their team.

But to Allen, a junior who spent most of the season on junior varsi-ty or on the bench, the court is still fairly unfa-miliar territory. Prior to last November, Allen had never played a basketball game.

“I love football, that’s my passion,” said Allen, a starting wide receiver for the Bulldogs’ football team. “We lost in the state semifinals... I want-ed to work as hard as I could to get better so we could, hopefully, get far-ther next year.” He saw basketball as a way to improve his performance on the football field.

Turns out he’s a nat-ural, and he loves the sport.

Allen was disappoint-

ed that Hotchkiss only had one game last week. He scored nine points in Friday’s 73-32 win over Vail Mountain. “I would rather have two games,” said Allen. “It’s fun to play. I wish we could play all the time.”

“He’s made tremen-dous progress,” said head coach Kyle Crowder. “Every single week he’s getting stronger. He’s getting to understand the game.”

“I never really had a passion for it,” said Allen, who moved to Hotchkiss after attending Ken-Caryl Middle School in Littleton. “I lived in the big city. In a small school you’re contribut-ing to your school more. In a big school I wasn’t necessarily a key factor.” Now that he’s adjusted to the small-school feel, he’s finding that he has a big presence.

“I think I’m improving a lot, but I think I’ve got a long way to go,” said Allen.

Hotchkiss will lose six seniors this year, and Crowder is eyeing Allen as a key player on both

sides of the court next season. “We’re going to spend a lot of time this summer and he’s going to be a dominator next year. He’s going to be unstop-pable,” said Crowder. For now, “He’s kind of that X-factor for us... He’s going to start getting a little bit more time (in the coming weeks).

“He just needs to turn and shoot over the top. He needs to be a little more physical in his play in the post.”

Crowder said he’d like to give Allen more time with the starters. “He really does play bet-ter with (starting seniors Taylor) Schreiner and Mason (Oxford) and those guys on the floor. I want to get him in the rotation more.”

With 11 points, Cody Bartlett was Friday’s lead scorer. Eight players scored five or more points, with Oxford and Schrein-er each scoring 10. Josh Hardin and River Panish added nine, Tye Bayles had six, Andrew Tiede-man five, and freshman Clayton Oxford scored four second-half points.

Hotchkiss held Vail Mountain to single-digit scoring in the first three quarters.

“Games like this, we use to get better, we exe-cute some different sets,” said Crowder. “You can’t get too much out of this game.”

The Bulldogs have a 9-5 overall record. At 3-3, they are currently in sixth place in 2A Western Slope League play and are favored to win this week’s games, at home against Plateau Valley (1-3, 4-6) on Friday and at DeBeque Saturday.

But upcoming games against No. 3 Meeker, No. 2 Rangely, and Paonia, which upset No. 4 Vail Christian last Friday, won’t be practice games.

Allen will get as much court time as possible in the final games before playoffs, said Crowder. Allen said he’s working on defense, and hopes to up his scoring. And yes, he’d like to start before the season ends. “I’m not scoring as many points as I want,” said Allen. “I want to be a big part of this team.”

Chris Allen becoming aforce in Bulldog hoops

Photo by Tamie MeckHotchkiss post player Chris Allen defends against Vail Mountain guard William Sterett last Friday. Allen, who scored nine points in the win over the Gore Rangers, fi rst stepped onto a high school bas-ketball court last December.

BY WAYNE CRICKDCI Sports Editor

The Mojo is still with the Lady Panthers as they completed a success-ful weekend of 4A WSL competition. Delta was on the road against the league’s number seven team, Battle Mountain on Friday (Feb. 1) and then played number two Eagle Valley on Saturday. The two games were vic-tories for the Lady Pan-thers and marked their eleventh and twelfth straight wins after los-ing three straight early in the season.

Delta 73, BM 24An early emphasis

on defense helped Delta (10-0 and 12-3) ease past the Lady Huskies. Delta stormed to a 17-3 first quarter and held a com-fortable 42-5 halftime lead.

Skylyn Webb, one of the state’s top scorers, scored 10 of her game-high 23 points in the opening quarter. Another eight points in the second stanza gave her 18 at the break.

Callie Gafford and Brittanny Brasfield scored 10 and six points. respectively, in the third quarter, fueling a 22-8 run. Battle Mountain (2-7 and 2-12) outscored the Lady Panthers 11-9 in the fourth quarter

to make the final score 73-24.

Gafford’s 18 points gave Delta two players with double-digit scor-ing in the game. Battle Mountain’s Taylor David-son had 10 points to lead the Lady Huskies.

After the game, head coach Matt Hamm praised his team for play-ing one of the best games, execution-wise, they had played all year.

Delta 55, EV 30In one of the most

important games of the season, Delta was more than motivated for the task at hand. That task was to stay focused from the start and execute their offense and defense against the league’s num-ber two team.

Eagle Valley came into the Saturday contest with a 7-2 record, having lost to Glenwood Springs (49-33) on Tuesday (Jan. 29) and winning over Palisade (40-27) on Thursday.

The Lady Devils (7-3, 10-5) used hustle and a solid defense to stay with Delta in the first eight minutes. As the two teams headed to the sec-ond quarter, Delta owned a narrow 12-7 lead with Webb’s eight points a key ingredient in staying ahead.

Another eight points from Webb, and five

points from Gafford and Patti Chapman, helped propel the Lady Panthers to a 20-6 run and a 32-13 halftime lead.

Gafford controlled Delta’s offense with six points in the third quar-ter and Brooke Taylor had four in the fourth as the Lady Panthers out-played Eagle Valley 23-17 in the second half.

Webb was Delta’s lead-ing scorer with 20 points and Gafford finished with 15. Megan Asmussen led Eagle Valley shooters with 11 points and Taylor Martin finished with 10.

Hamm was excited for the Lady Panthers follow-ing the win in Gypsum. “This win leaves us with a three-game lead over our closest competition,” said Hamm in a post-game locker room talk.

Hamm went on to heap more praise on the team for an excellent game. “We were better today than we were yesterday (against Battle Moun-tain). Our execution was better and everyone con-tributed to the win.”

The Lady Panthers have tough opponents to finish the regular season and must stay focused and take care of busi-ness when Delta visits Glenwood Springs on Friday, Feb. 8. Glenwood is fourth (6-4, 10-4) in

league standings and is capable of knocking off any team.

Saturday’s game is at home with Steamboat Springs (3-7, 7-8), with varsity action set for 2 p.m.

On Feb. 15, Delta is set to host Summit (0-12, 1-15) for a 6 p.m. game.

Delta will conclude its regular season schedule on Feb. 16 against long-time rival Palisade (5-4, 6-8). That game has been scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

With Delta’s success this season, its state standings have steadily climbed after the win-ning streak began. The Lady Panthers are cur-rently listed in the 10th spot in Class 4A rank-ings. The top team, Mesa Ridge is 17-0 and has won 17 straight. Number two D’Evelyn is 16-1 and is on an 11-game win streak.

Pueblo West, the num-ber three team, is 16-1, Broomfield is fourth (16-1 and has won 10 in a row), Pueblo South is fifth (16-1, and has 14 in a row), Montrose is sixth with its 12-2 record with a seven-game streak, Windsor is listed seventh (15-3) after seven straight wins, Palmer Ridge (14-3) is eighth, and Sand Creek (13-3, with a nine-game win streak) is ninth.

Delta girls control 4AWSL after weekend wins

Photo by Wayne CrickDelta junior Brittanny Brasfi eld is fouled by Eagle Valley’s Ally Zehring during game action in Gypsum last Saturday. Delta swept weekend games with Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley to up its record to 10-0 (league) and 12-3 (overall).

Photo by Tamie MeckVail Christian forward Kevin Boselli watches Pao-nia’s Ben Linnell’s slam-dunk in the fi nal seconds of the Eagles’ 70-66 win Friday over the visiting Saints.


Friday night’s court battle between Paonia and visiting Vail Chris-tian was another nail-biter. Paonia held the lead throughout the first half and led by nine going into the third period.

The Saints, led by shooting guard Robby Bowles’ game-high 25 points, chipped away at Paonia’s lead, and in the opening seconds of the fourth Bowles sank a

three to give the Saints a one-point lead.

Two weeks earlier, the Eagles lost two confer-ence games, including one against top-ranked Hayden, each by a single point. Paonia has won the last three games by a total of 12 points.

“It was nerve-wrack-ing,” said freshman Tay-lor Walters, who scored a team-high 21 points. “When they got a point ahead, I thought, ‘Oh, geez, this is going to be

another one of those close games.”

Ben Linnell, who had been quiet throughout the first half, answered Bowles’ points with a three-pointer of his own to put Paonia back in the lead for good.

The Eagles ended the game with a 70-66 con-ference win.

“It was not an easy game,” said Jason Stur-gis, who scored a career-high 16 points in the win. “We knew that they were

going to be a challenge. They’re not a lay-down team.”

Sturgis hadn’t forgot-ten last year’s 27-point loss to the Saints. “One big thing the team talk-ed about is how we have to want to win it,” said Sturgis. “I mean, it was all want.”

With less than a min-ute to go, Paonia was in foul trouble. Starting forward Lane Clawson and point guard Taylor

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Katzer each had four infractions.

The Saints had fouls to spare. Paonia clung to a two-point lead with 18 seconds remaining after an intentional foul sent Sturgis to the line, where he hit his first shot and missed the second. Paonia got the rebound and Josiah Spano was fouled, but missed.

Again Paonia got the ball, and Katzer went to the line, sink-ing both shots and leav-ing the Saints trailing by four with just 2 seconds remaining. Vail headed down court, and Walters ended the game on a steal.

Spano, who is averag-ing almost 13 points per game, scored 13 on Fri-day.

Linnell finished the game with nine. Junior

Eric Carney scored two points, but was a key player at both ends of the court.

“It feels good to get one of those,” said head coach Chase Roeber of the win. “We’ve lost a lot of those. We needed one.” Roeber credited the win to the entire team. “Everybody that played contributed. That was a great team win.”

Paonia is now 5-8 over-all, 3-3 in 2A Western Slope conference play, and is seventh in 2A/1/A league standings. But Friday’s upset over No. 4 Vail Christian and its recent one-point loss to undefeated Hayden show that the team is finally coming together, said Roeber.

“We tried to go a little bit too far last week,” in the 10-point loss to No. 5 West Grand, said Roeber.

“We tried to run and gun a little too much... I think we got tired. We didn’t shoot the ball extremely well. But today we had the right mix of pushing the floor and slowing it down and running our offense.

“Basically, we played well top to bottom tonight,” said Roeber. “I think a big part of it is we really have kind of found ourselves.”

On Saturday, Paonia defeated Vail Mountain, 75-52, at Vail. They host-ed a make-up game Tues-day night against Rifle (scores weren’t avail-able at press time). This Friday’s home games against Plateau Valley begin at 2 p.m. The boys varsity game is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Follow-ing the game, the Eagles’ wrestling team will dual Meeker.

Paonia boysCONTINUED FROM C4

Photo by Tamie MeckDelta 132-pound junior Tylon Cordova controls Raphael Gurule of Eagle Valley. Cordova won by pinfall. The Panthers claimed wins in 11 weight classes to defeat the Devils, 55-15 Thursday at DHS. Delta hosts a tri-dual with Paonia and Glenwood Springs tonight. Starting time for the matches is 5 p.m.


Delta claimed wins over both visiting teams at last Thursday’s trian-gle dual with Gunnison and Eagle Valley.

Delta opened with a win over Gunnison, a small and young team which had eight open weights.

The Cowboys have two ranked wrestlers in brothers Justin and Zack O’Dell. Jayden Chyn-oweth (22-10) opened with an overtime win over Justin O’Dell (27-10) at 106 pounds. The match ended at 6-6, and with 20 seconds remain-ing in overtime, Chyn-oweth scored a takedown for the win.

Shane Anderson (22-6) controlled Zack O’Dell (22-7) for a 12-5 win at 126 pounds.

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(120) made short work of freshman Ryder Hod-gin, winning his match by pinfall in 1:23. At 145, Derek Horn scored six points on a first-round pin over Cody Willis. And heavyweight Marcus Garcia took less than half a minute to pin senior Miguel Marquez.

The Panthers opened with seven straight wins against Eagle Valley, with Anderson, Kody Komives (138), Horn, Hunter Brasfield (152), Cordell Stroud (160) and Kory Mills (170) winning by pinfall.

Eagle Valley claimed the next three wins. At 182, Alfredo Rosales (11-6) went head to head with eighth-ranked Ty LaFramboise. Rosales trailed by one going into the second round. Rosales held LaFramboise score-less in the third, but fell

short of an upset, with Laframboise claiming a 4-3 win.

At 195, Kyle Collins (12-16) managed to avoid a pin against Eagle Valley senior Joey Sanchez (18-7), losing the match by a 12-1 decision. At 220, No. 1-ranked Devil Andy Armstrong remained undefeated with a first-round pin over Lino Ortiz.

Garcia pinned Devil Xavier Mendoza in 1:20, and Chynoweth wrapped up the dual with a first-round pin over Jay Bull-ock. Eagle Valley was open at 113.

The Panthers have won 11 of their last 12 duals and have a 13-4 record heading into this Thursday’s triangle with Glenwood Springs (4A, 3-4) and Paonia (2A, 12-1).

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The Dogs took to the road last weekend, winning Friday night’s dual at Gunnison, 52-6. The Cowboys forfeited in seven of 14 weight classes. Hotchkiss lost two matches by deci-sion, according to head coach Glen Suppes: one to freshman Jack O’Dell (22-7) over Jake Hubbell, who lost in a last-second takedown at 106, and the other to sophomore Justin O’Dell (26-10) over Tanner Bizer at 126. The dual was held in the Paul Wright Gymnasium at Western State Colorado University and preceded the WSCU-Grand Can-yon University dual.

Hotchkiss opened Sat-urday’s Centauri Duals with three losses, then went on to win its last two duals. They opened with a 60-15 loss to Centauri, the team that went unde-feated for the tournament win. Brothers Jesse Head (138) and Dustin Head (152) won their respec-tive matches, and Zack Taylor (285) won by for-feit. At 145, No. 2-ranked Joe Boyle won his match by pinfall, but the No. 2-ranked senior wasn’t able to go up against top-ranked Jason Buhr, who was out with an injury. “We would have liked to have seen him,” said Suppes, of Buhr, “but we understand that injuries happen.”

At 113, Garrett Toothaker is back on the mat after an extended illness. Toothaker was pinned by fifth-ranked Dillon Bellino, but wres-tled well, said Suppes. He ended the day at 3-2.

Hotchkiss lost 40-24 to Florence. Scoring points were Boyle, Dustin Head, Erick Steckel and Tony

Ibarra (160), who all won by pinfall.

Hotchkiss came up short against Buena Vista with a 48-36 loss. With several very close match-es, the dual was closer than the score indicated, said Suppes. Boyle (20-3) pinned Malik Johnson (20-8), Hubbell pinned Christopher Meseke, and Toothaker (10-6) pinned Patrick Huffman (17-10).

The Dogs defeated Pagosa Springs, 45-18. After winning his open-ing matches by forfeit, heavyweight Zack Tay-lor wrestled to a 3-2 upset win over seventh-ranked Creede Wylie. Boyle, Steckel and Hank Edwards (132) all won by pinfall.

The final dual, against Trinidad, ended in a 30-30 tie and went to criteria, said Suppes. Hotchkiss was awarded a point for the most wins by pin — six — to win the dual, 31-30.

Dustin Head, Steckel, Toothaker, Tanner Bizer (126), Boyle and Hubbell each pinned their oppo-nent.

The team was “defi-nitely in a tougher pool,” said Suppes. Not the greatest day, but in most cases they won where they should have won. With regionals just over a week away, they got to see some of the competi-tion they’ll face as they battle for state seeding at the regional tourna-ment, which begins Feb. 15, at Grand Valley High School.

Hotchkiss will compete this Friday in the Western Slope Duals, which begin at 2 p.m., at Cedaredge High School. The Bull-dogs open against Basalt and will dual Grand Val-ley and Coal Ridge high schools.

’Dogs wrestle to 3-3 dual mark, WSLDuals Friday

Photos by Tamie MeckHotchkiss 152-pound senior Dustin Head wrestles against Olathe. Head, and twin brother Jesse, will take winning records into regional competition, which begins next week.

This Friday, Feb. 8, Cedaredge High School will host the 3A West-ern Slope League Duals. Eight teams, including Hotchkiss, Moffat Coun-ty, Coal Ridge, Gunni-son, Grand Valley and Cedaredge will compete in the duals.

This is the last chance to see some of the top-ranked wrestlers in the region and state prior to regional competition, which will be held Feb. 15 and 16 in Parachute at Grand Valley High School.

Round one wrestling

begins at 2 p.m. Friday. The host Cedaredge Bru-ins will open with a dual against Moffat County, and Olathe will face Grand Valley.

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Mesa University and Colorado Chris-

tian University RN programs and for

radiology students from the Colorado

Mesa University program.

Hospital employees focused their

fund raising activities in 2011 on sup-

porting the food banks in Delta and

Cedaredge and the Delta Opportunity

School’s “Food For Thought” program

and the Abraham Connection. As a

result of the employee fund-raising

activities, over $1500 was donated to

these programs.

As we continue to work within the

economic challenges that Delta County faces, we

remain committed to maintaining your confi dence in

our ability to meet as many of your healthcare needs

as possible, close to home.

1501 E. 3rd Street • Delta • 874-7681 • www.deltahospital.org

HERE for your HEALTH

The 2012 Delta County Health Fair is coming up March 14, 15 and 16 and

offers several blood tests for a very ressonable fee along with a variety of

free health screenings.

John Mitchell, Hospital Administrator

Delta County Independent • 2012 Focus On Business • 27

Pictured with Dr. Morgan Yost are (back) Tami

Astin and Jamie Thomas; (front) Gaylyn Brewer,

Jessi Heinritz and Cailin Russell.

Yost Family DentistryA wide range of services for patients of all ages, children

to geriatric, is provided by Yost Family Dentistry, which is

located in an attractive offi ce at the corner of 3rd and Main

streets in downtown Delta. “We will have been in our new offi ce three years this

March and appreciate all our current and future patients

that make my job enjoyable,” Dr. Yost said.Dr. Morgan Yost is carrying on a family business estab-

lished by his father, Lyle Yost, in 1976. Morgan grew up in

Delta, graduated from Delta High School, then earned a

bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. After

graduating magna cum laude from the University of Colo-

rado Dental School, he returned to his hometown, where

he and his wife are delighted to raise their three children.From the beginning, Morgan set out to

combine his father’s compassionate nature with the latest dental technology. For exam-ple, he recently incorporated a high mag-

nifi cation microscope that allows him to see cracks and

hidden canals that often are overlooked. He also offers

Avadent digital dentures, which fi t great and give patients

the option of having a spare without the need for new

impressions. Keep your smile bright with the Kor Whiten-

ing System, considered the most reliable and effective

bleaching system ever developed.Dr. Morgan Yost and his staff will go above and beyond

to make sure they do everything possible to make you

feel confident and comfortable in choosing them as your

dental providers. “We love to get to know each one of our

patients. Our mission is to change the perspective of den-

tistry to make it a more pleasurable experience.Address: 257 Main Street, DeltaPhone: 874-8227Website: www.yostfamilydentistry.com

The Surface Creek Veterinary Center is a beautiful new facility located at 17800 Hanson Road in Cedaredge. The road to the state-of-the-art clinic started in 2009, when Jeff Hirsch and Susie Hirsch, DVMs, moved to Cedaredge and started a mobile veterinary service. In Novem-ber 2011, they were joined by Jodi Black, DVM, the former owner of Best Friends Veterinary Clinic in Eckert. The three vet-erinarians and their staff offer excellent care and up-to-date medical procedures and testing for animals large and small. The mobile service is still available for your convenience — just call for an ap-pointment. Farm or ranch visits can be scheduled for your livestock, and clients can rest easy knowing 24-hour service is available for emergencies.The full service surgical and medi-

cal facility houses three exam/treatment rooms, an operating room, a room for X-rays, four indoor dog runs, offi ce space, laboratory, a nursery for children and a comfortable reception area. Vaccinations and examinations are performed Mon-day through Saturday. Routine dental procedures and geriatric check-ups are also available.Jeff Hirsch was raised in Phoenix,

Ariz., and received his Doctor of Veteri-nary Medicine degree in 1997 from Colo-rado State University. Jeff has an interest

in feline medicine and endocrine disor-ders such as diabetes, Cushings disease, hypo- and hyper-thyroidism, and Addi-sons disease.Susie was born and raised in Grand

Junction. She attended Colorado State University for both her undergraduate and graduate studies. Susie enjoys work-ing on a wide variety of animals, with an emphasis on the ruminants (alpacas, lla-mas, sheep, goats, and cattle). Susie and Jeff have four young children and are ac-tive in their church and the community.

Jodi Black was raised in rural North Carolina and attended North Carolina State University for both her undergrad-uate and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees. She graduated from veterinary school in 1989 and then completed a two-year clinical pathology residency at Colorado State University. Since selling Best Friends Veterinary Service in Eckert, Jodi has worked at Tiara Rado Animal Hospital and the Grand Valley Emergen-cy Clinic in Grand Junction. Jodi and her husband have three active children.

Mari Caldwell and Emily Williamson are the receptionists. Mari also works with Lori McKinney as a veterinary as-sistant. Flower and Abigail “Abi” are the resident cats. Surface Creek Veterinary Center is

open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Stop by and meet the doctors and their staff. If time allows, they’d love to give you a tour of the new facility. For more information about their services or to schedule an appointment, call 856-4474.Address: 17800 Hanson Road

CedaredgePhone: 856-4474Website: surfacecreek

veterinarycenter.com

Surface Creek Veterinary Center

Animals large and small are the focus of Susie Hirsch, DVM, Lori McKinney, Mari

Caldwell, Jeff Hirsch, DVM, and Emily Williamson. Not pictured: Jodi Black, DVM.


The intensity was there for most of the game against Eagle Valley last Saturday, but the results weren’t exactly what the Delta High School boys’ basketball team wanted.

The Devils (8-2, 12-3) were able to ward off Delta’s furious rallies to defeat the visiting Pan-thers, 63-62.

A much more enjoy-able evening was had by Delta on Friday against Battle Mountain where the Panthers rolled to a 77-56 victory.

Delta 77, BM 56Friday night’s contest

against the Huskies was never in much doubt, even with a 29-point fourth quarter by Battle Mountain.

Delta rolled to a 21-10 advantage in the first quarter.

The Huskies got plenty of firepower from Alex Banegas who rained threes on the Delta defense for 18 points. Banegas had three bombs in the fourth quarter and finished the game with four three-pointers.

Chris Black was on fire for the Panthers in the early going as he pumped in 11 points (nine coming from behind the arc) in

Delta’s 21-10 first-quar-ter run.

The defensive pres-sure continued in the sec-ond quarter while Doug-las Hawkins took over the Panthers’ offense in second-period play with seven points. Hawkins and company outscored the Huskies 17-7 to take a 38-17 lead to their lock-er room at halftime.

Both teams scored 39 points in the second half with Battle Mountain’s totals coming in a differ-ent manner than Delta’s.

Delta used balanced scoring to build a 60-27 lead after three quarters of play.

A furious rally that included some extreme-ly long-range shooting helped Battle Mountain close the gap to 21 after a 29-17 Husky run.

Delta’s offense was paced by the double-fig-ure scoring of four play-ers. Douglas Hawkins led the way with 13 points with Chris Black and Eian Baier chipping in 11 counters each. Jorge Olivas was close behind with his 10 points.

EV 63, Delta 62Despite shooting nine

three-pointers in the game, Delta could not contain the inside game of Eagle Valley in a one-point loss.

Delta had defeated the Devils by more than 20 points in their first meet-ing.

Eagle Valley (8-2, 12-3) got off to a strong start and ran its way to a 17-9 first quarter. The game settled into a slower-paced game for the sec-ond quarter with Delta outscoring the Devils 13-12 to trail 29-22 at half-

time.Keaton Reiher hit a

pair of threes in each of the third and fourth quarters to pace Delta’s offense in second-half play.

The Panthers (7-3, 9-6) shot only six free throws in a game that was, in appearance, much more aggressive and physical than the free throw stats show. Delta hit five of the six charity tosses while Eagle Valley was seven for 14.

Delta’s mental mis-cues and weak shooting accuracy hindered the Panthers in first-quarter play.

The loss marked the second time in as many weeks the Panthers lost a game by one point. Rifle sneaked past the Pan-thers 42-41 more than a week ago.

Reiher’s 13 points topped four Delta players who finished with double-digit scoring. The other three scorers in double figures were Hawkins (12), Black (11) and Ryan Whiteside (10).

Travis Edgar led Eagle Valley with 20 points and Sam Lounsberry had 17. Ryan Werner finished with 11 to give the Devils three double-digit scor-ers.

Delta is back on the road to Glenwood Springs on Friday, Feb. 8, for a 7:30 p.m. start.

A Saturday contest with Steamboat Springs is set to begin at 3:30 p.m.

The Panthers will wrap up their regular season on Feb. 15 and 16 with games at home against Summit and in Palisade against the Bulldogs.

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Photo by Wayne CrickSophomore Eian Baier fi nds himself in tall timber against Eagle Valley last Saturday. The Devils were beaten soundly by the Panthers in their previous matchup, but Eagle Valley eeked out a heartbreak-ing 63-62 decision in their latest encounter.


The Cedaredge boys’ basketball team had a rough weekend, losing two 3A WSL contests. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the Bru-ins fell to Gunnison 61-53 and then lost 52-40 to Aspen on Saturday. The losses drop the Bruins to 5-6 in league play and 7-7 overall. Gunnison is fifth behind Cedaredge in the league race at 5-6 and 5-9. Aspen is sitting in third place with records of 9-2 and 11-3.

Roaring Fork leads the league with its 11-0 and 12-2 records. Moffat County is in second place at 10-1 and 13-1.Cowboys 61, Bruins 53

The Bruins got off to a great start with a 21-13 first-quarter lead over the visiting Cowboys. Everything was working well for Cedaredge.

Gunnison found its legs and began execut-ing on offense. When the second period had ended, the Cowboys had out-scored Cedaredge 19-7 and trailed by only four, 32-28, at the half.

The Bruins battled evenly with Gunnison in the third quarter and were able to shave a cou-ple of points off the Cow-boy lead after winning the quarter 12-10.

Gunnison regrouped in the fourth stanza to outscore the Bruins 17-13 for an eight-point win, 61-53.

Reid Gates led all scor-ers in the game with 24 points for Cedaredge. Teammate Carter

Stoudt finished with 12. Gunnison’s T. J. Carry and Caleb Wilson each dumped in 22 points.

Skiers 52, Bruins 40Cedaredge’s Trent

Walker made up for a low-scoring effort against Gunnison with a pair of deuces and two treys in the first half against the Skiers on Saturday. The Bruins went on to post a 25-22 halftime lead and were playing well, notes Bruins’ coach Kevin Dun-bar.

“The kids played well for about three quarters. Fifteen turnovers, with six coming in the third quarter alone, is hard to overcome. Aspen stepped up its defensive pressure and we didn’t adjust,” noted Dunbar.

Somewhere in the third quarter, the wheels started coming off the wagon as Aspen finished the period with a 16-8 advantage to take the lead at 38-35. Fourth-quarter play also went to the Cowboys, 14-7.

Walker was the high scorer for Cedaredge with 12 points while Dillon Smith was next with nine counters.

Tren Lichtenwaller led the Skiers’ offense with 14 points.

Cedaredge has a pair of 3A WSL games on tap for this weekend begin-ning with Basalt (3-6 and 4-8) on Friday. That con-test is slated to be played in Basalt and begins at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, the Bru-ins host Coal Ridge (2-9 and 2-12) at 5:30 p.m.

Cedaredge boys tripped up in 3A

Photo by Wayne CrickCedaredge junior Trent Walker pulls down a defen-sive rebound against the visiting Gunnison Cow-boys on Jan. 29. Gunnison won the game 61-53.

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It’s been a perennial problem with the Lady Eagles in recent years. As the program has gained strength under head coach Scott Rienks, Paonia has dominated the court in league play, and have lost two con-ference games since the 2007-08 season. But it’s not easy preparing for playoffs when opponents offer little in the way of competition. This season, Paonia is 5-0 in Western Slope League competition after a 70-29 win Friday over Vail Christian.

The bench is getting a lot of court time.

But it’s tough to stay focused when the team is ahead by 30 points, said

Rienks, whose team has outscored its opponents in league play this season by more than 200 points. And that’s with putting the bench, all the way down to the freshmen, on the court for at least a quarter in every game.

Rienks told his team on Friday to “play bas-ketball the right way. Don’t gamble just because they’re easy.”

Despite the lopsided score, seven turnovers for the game (Vail Moun-tain had at least 40) and scoring 14 points before the Saints even got on the board, they’re still making mistakes, said Rienks. “Our second quarter was terrible. I can’t just sit back and let them get sloppy, which is

easy to do.“The girls know me

well enough to know that I’m not going to let them get away with stupid stuff.”

The team had Satur-day off and was already

looking ahead to Tuesday night’s make-up game against Rifle (8-5, 6-3, 4A WSL). The Lady Bears have a point guard who can handle the ball well, a junior shooter named Chante Church, who averages more than 17 points per game, and Joey Kuheim, a solid defen-sive player who averages seven rebounds and 12 points per game.

The team can’t play the way it did Friday and expect to win against a team like Rifle, said Rienks. And with just over two weeks remaining in the season, some tough league games, including a re-match against No. 2 Meeker (7-1, 13-1, No. 3 Hotchkiss (5-1, 10-5) and No. 4 Rangely (10-5, 5-3) lie just ahead.

Lady Eagles cruise on


Joe Berger’s Lady Bruins put together a two-win weekend with victories over Gunnison (32-26) on Tuesday (Jan. 29) and Aspen (32-30) on Saturday.Cedaredge 32 GHS 26

Neither team could pull away from the other and the result was a 9-9 score after eight minutes of play.

Cedaredge’s defense provided some breathing room for the Lady Bruins in the second stanza. An 8-0 run gave Cedaredge the lead, 17-9 at half-time.

Not much offense was generated in the third quarter with Cedaredge being outscored 8-5.

The Lady Bruins had enough offense to stay in front of Gunnison 10-9 in the last quarter. Kristen Gardner scored five of the 10 Cedaredge points (three coming at the free throw line) to help pre-serve the win.

Alyssa Isaman led the Lady Bruins with eight points with Kristen and Lindsey Gardner chip-ping in six counters each. Jordan Wallin had 11 points to lead the Lady Cowboys’ offense.

Cedaredge girls wintwo in 3A WSL play

Photo by Wayne CrickCedaredge junior Sierra McHugh focuses on her shot as Josie Blackwell (23) moves in for a block attempt.

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The No. 1-ranked Paonia Eagles will wres-tle their final dual of the season at home this Fri-day against Meeker.

Paonia is now 12-1 after claiming three dual wins last week. On Jan. 31, the Eagles defeated Rifle, 54-22, at Colorado Mesa University’s Brown-son Arena. On Friday, Paonia defeated Center

High School, 63-10, at Center.

Paonia is also 5-0 in tournament wins. They earned 302 points and placed 14 wrestlers, including five tourna-ment champions, to win the 2013 Valley Classic tournament on Saturday at Center High School.

Of those who placed, no wrestler finished lower than fourth. (See today’s scoreboard for scores).

The Eagles will com-pete in a triangle dual against Delta and Glen-wood Springs beginning at 5 p.m. tonight at Delta High School. Friday’s dual is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., following the Paonia basketball games against Plateau Valley. The 2A Region 1 tour-nament happens next Friday and Saturday at Grand Junction High School.

Eagles will wrestle final dual this Friday

Photo by Tamie MeckPaonia senior Morgan Rieder works toward a pin at Montrose. Rieder is one of 13 ranked wrestlers for the Eagles, who will compete in a triangle dual tonight at Delta. Paonia has a 12-1 dual record. Its fi nal dual of the season will be against Meeker this Friday at 7 p.m. at Paonia High School. The 2A Western Slope regional tourney happens next week at Grand Junction.

Photo by Tamie MeckPaonia guard Chelsy Reed defends VC’s Gracen McGuckin Friday. The Lady Eagles are outscoring their league opponents by an average of almost 45 points per game, which can work against them when playoffs begin in three weeks.

On Jan. 31, Paonia High School senior Lind-say Russell signed her National Letter of Intent to run for the Western State Colorado Univer-sity Mountaineers.

“I chose WSCU because they have an amazing track program,” said Russell. “The coaches are wonderful, and their training facilities are top-notch, especially when the new field houses are completed. I can’t believe I will finally be able to practice daily on a real track ... WSCU feels like the perfect fit for me.”

Russell is a three-year state qualifier for the Eagles and has medaled

in numerous individual sprint and sprint relay events. Last fall she trained with the newly-formed Paonia cross country team.

Lindsay Russellsigns letter torun for Western

Lindsay Russell

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YOUTH TOURNAMENT (SCOTCH DOUBLES) WINNERS:Division I (6-9 years) 1st place to Noah and Brian Benson 2nd place to Mathew and Milan 3rd place to Lety and Judy Anderson

Division II (10-13 years) 1st place to Kayla and Kathleen Ray 2nd place to Justin and Bill Mann 3rd place to Shelby and Savanah

Division III (14-18 years) 1st place to Gavin and Michelle Widner 2nd place to Destiny and Laurie Dodd 3rd place to Luis and Carol Pierce

ADULT TOURNAMENT WINNERS:Top Team (prize $500 courtesy of Alpine Bank) Pocket Pounders - Justin Soell, Brian Montagriff, Willie Reed, and Lynn MartinTop Individual Score (prize choice of new bowling ball courtesy of Brunswick) Willie ReedLast Place Team (prize four cans of Spam) Dan Shaffer’s TAB Team - Juan Valdez, Tallon Schamblin, Bruce Lee Valdez, and Ben Hecht

Youth Tournament Celebrating Partnerships 9:00 a.m. - Prizes Scotch Doubles - 2 Bowl as 1 $10 for a Youth/Adult Team Adult Tournament 12:30 p.m. - 4-Person Teams $500 Prize to Top Team $25 Per Person

Delta, Montrose and Ouray �

SUPERBOWL XIICongratulations to our Winners!

Winners of the adult tournament: The Pocket Pounders (l. to r.) Lynn Martin, Willie Reed, Brian Montagriff, and Justin Soell.

Tami Hale of Alpine Bank present-ing the individual highest score gift certifi cate from Brunswick for a new bowling ball to John “Willie” Reed.

Justin Soell with a new ball he won in the raffl e spon-sored by Valley Lanes.

Lowest scoring team sponsored by Dan Shaffer, who won the Spam award.

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Our thanks also to Scott and Willie at Valley Lanes as our hosts for this event.

BASKETBALL——— STANDINGS ———

Western Slope Conference (4A)(Girls)

TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL Delta 10-0 12-3Eagle Valley 7-3 10-5Rifle 7-3 9-5Glenwood Springs 6-4 10-4Palisade 5-4 6-8Steamboat Springs 3-7 7-8Battle Mountain 2-7 2-12Summit 0-12 1-15

(Boys)TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL Palisade 9-1 11-4Eagle Valley 8-2 12-3Delta 7-3 9-6Steamboat Springs 4-5 8-6Rifle 4-6 6-8Battle Mountain 4-7 8-8Glenwood Springs 3-7 4-11Summit 3-9 3-13


TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL Moffat County 10-1 11-3Olathe 10-2 12-3Grand Valley 8-3 10-4Roaring Fork 7-4 7-7Coal Ridge 5-6 6-8Cedaredge 5-6 6-8Gunnison 2-9 2-12Aspen 1-8 2-10Basalt 0-8 0-11

(Boys)TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL Roaring Fork 11-0 12-2Moffat County 10-1 13-1Aspen 9-2 11-3Cedaredge 5-6 7-7Gunnison 5-6 5-9Basalt 3-6 4-8Olathe 3-9 4-11Coal Ridge 2-9 2-12Grand Valley 1-10 1-13


TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL Paonia 7-0 11-3Meeker 8-1 14-1Hotchkiss 5-1 10-5Rangely 5-3 10-5Plateau Valley 3-4 4-8North Park 3-4 6-9Soroco 2-4 9-5Hayden 1-7 3-12Vail Christian 0-5 6-6West Grand 0-5 5-9

(Boys)TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL Hayden 7-0 12-2Rangely 5-1 6-8Meeker 5-1 10-4Vail Christian 4-2 9-4West Grand 3-2 6-7Hotchkiss 3-3 9-5Paonia 3-3 5-8North Park 2-4 3-10Soroco 2-5 6-8Plateau Valley 1-3 4-6Vail Mountain 1-5 1-10

De Beque 0-6 0-13——— BOX SCORES ———

BOYSTuesday, Jan. 29, 2013

Gunnison 61, Cedaredge 53GUNNISON

Alex Schlizsman 7, Caleb Wilson 22, Matt Howard 2, Andrew Nicholl 2, T.J. Carry 22, Trey Percival 4, Casey Nordberg 2. Totals: 61

CEDAREDGEAaron Henrie 3, Trent Walker 4, Dillon Smith 3, Reid Gates 24, Carter Stoudt 12, Corey Reynolds 7. Totals: 53Gunnison .................. 13 19 10 17 61Cedaredge ................ 21 7 12 13 53Three point goals: Cedaredge - Smith, Stoudt; Gunnison - Wilson 2.

GIRLSTuesday, Jan. 29, 2013

Cedaredge 32, Gunnison 26CEDAREDGE

Kaitlyn Kissner 4, Lindsey Gardner 6, Sierra McHugh 1, Jordan Smith 3, Alyssa Isaman 8, Kenzie Kehmeier 2, Kristen Gardner 6, Dakota Baldozier 2. Totals: 32

GUNNISONBobbie Corn 7, Sarah Shamblin 4, Savannah Nelson 2, Josie Blackwell 2, Jordan Wallin 11. Totals: 26 Gunnison .................... 9 0 8 9 26Cedaredge .................. 9 8 5 10 32Three point goals: Gunnison - Corn.

BOYSFriday, Feb. 1, 2013

Delta 77, Battle Mountain 56DELTA

Robin Milabo 3, Chris Black 11, Keaton Reiher 8, Ryan Whiteside 8, Jaden Cowley 6, Jorge Olivas 10, Kenny Wood 3, Douglas Hawkins 13, Cade Gafford 2, Eian Baier 11, Sergio Andrade 2. Totals: 77

BATTLE MOUNTAINAlex Barnegas 18, Jimmy O’Rourke 2, Owen Riley 4, Cody Brown 5, Curz Villalobos 3, Jack Kamby 5, Amadeu Dath 7, Joe Lybarger 8, John Rulon 4. Totals: 56Delta .......................... 21 17 22 17 77Battle Mountian ....... 10 7 10 29 56Three point goals: Delta - Black 3, Reiher 2, Wood; Battle Mountain - Barnegas 4, Riley, Brown, Villalobos.

Paonia 70, Vail Christian 66PAONIA

Taylor Katzer 5, Taylor Walters 21, Jason Sturgis 16, Josiah Spano 13, Lane Clawson 4, Eric Carney 2, Ben Linnell 9. Totals: 70

VAIL CHRISTIANAustin Ellsworth 2, Gunnar Wilson 15, Nigel Johnsen 5, Luke Berger 3, Robby Bowles 25, Parker Poage 2, Kevin Boselli 8, Zach Linder 6. Totals: 66Three point goals: Paonia - Sturgis 2, Katzer, Linnell; Vail Christian - Bowles 3, Johnsen.

Hotchkiss 73, Vail Mountain 32HOTCHKISS

Unidentified player 4, Cody Bartlett 11, Andrew Tiedeman 5, Josh Hardin 9, Taylor Schreiner 10, Chris Allen 9, River Panish 9, Tye Bayles 6, Mason Oxford 10. Totals: 73

VAIL MOUNTAINMitch Saalfeld 4, Trevor Sheldon 3, Wily Fair 9, John Linn 3, Zac Wirth 8, William Sterrett 5. Totals: 32

Three point goals: Hotchkiss - Bartlett, Tiedeman; Vail Mountain - Wirth 2, Sheldon, Linn, Sterett.

GIRLSFriday, Feb. 1, 2013

Delta 73, Battle Mountain 24DELTA

Brooke Taylor 4, Skylyn Webb 23, Shelby Curtis 6, Erin Zunich 7, Brittanny Brasfield 6, Katie Puderbaugh 2, Patti Chapman 7, Callie Gafford 18. Totals: 73

BATTLE MOUNTAINTaylor Davidson 10, Aileen Arreola 2, Iridian Reyes 2, Izzy Forstman 1, Elizabeth Olivas 6, Abby Varela 2, Chandler Bettis 1. Totals: 24Delta .......................... 17 25 22 9 73Battle Mountain ......... 3 2 8 11 24Three point goals: None

Paonia 70, Vail Christian 29PAONIA

Brooklyn Erickson 3, Braiden Clement 5, Carson Pipher 16, Easton Hartigan 2, Chelsy Reed 2, Taylor Plymale 8, Mandy Bushta 5, Taylor Carsten 3, Morgan Hartigan 3, Annavah Kropp 9, Abby Campbell 12, Claire Tracy 3. Totals: 70Three point goals: Paonia - Bushta, Pipher, Clement, Campbell, Morgan Hartigan, Carsten, Kropp.

BOYSSaturday, Feb. 2, 2013

Eagle Valley 63, Delta 62EAGLE VALLEY

Chris Black 11, Keaton Reiher 13, Ryan Whiteside 10, Jaden Cowley 5, Jorge Olivas 6, Kenny Wood 2, Douglas Hawkins 12, Eian Baier 6. Totals: 65

DELTAJuan Baca 6, Sam Boyd 2, Travis Edgar 20, Samuel Lounsberry 17, Ryan Werner 11, Tanner Harris 7. Totals: 63Delta ............................ 9 13 21 19 62Eagle Valley .............. 17 12 13 21 63Three point goals: Delta - Reiher 4, Black 3, Whiteside, Wood; Eagle Valley - Baca, Lounsberry, Harris.

Aspen 52, Cedaredge 40

CEDAREDGETylor Beach 4, Trent Walker 12, Dillon Smith 9, Reid Gates 8, Corey Reynolds 7. Totals: 40

ASPENLuke Rider 8, Evan Palzoldt 13, Daniel Schwartz 1, Trent Lichtenwaller 14, Taylor Henschke 6, Clayton Crawford 10. Totals: 52Cedaredge ................ 10 15 8 7 40Aspen ........................ 11 11 16 14 52Three point goals: Cedaredge - Smith 3, Walker 2; Aspen - Palzoldt 4, Schwartz 2, Lichtenwalker 2, Crawford 2.

Paonia 75, Vail Mountain 52VAIL MOUNTAIN

Trevor Shelden 11, Dylan Cunningham 2, John Linn 4, Willy Fair 2, Zac Wirth 9, Watts Austen 3, William Sterett 5, Mitch Saalfeld 16, Totals: 52Paonia ....................... 11 33 18 13 75Vail Mountain .......... 10 12 6 24 52Three point goals: Vail Mountain - Saalfeld 4, Shelden 2; Paonia -

GIRLSSaturday, Feb. 2, 2013

Delta 55, Eagle Valley 30DELTA

Brooke Taylor 4, Reilly Quist 2, Skylyn Webb 20, Shelby Curtis 2, Erin Zunich 1, Brittanny Brasfield 2, Patti Chapman 9, Callie Gafford 15. Totals: 55

EAGLE VALLEYCarly Volkmer 2, Mariel Gutierrez 2, Lauren Thorpe 3, Megan Asmussen 11, Madeline Lounsberry 2, Taylor Martin 10. Totals: 30Delta .......................... 12 20 13 10 55Eagle Valley ................ 7 6 9 8 30Three point goals: Eagle Valley - Asmussen 2.

WRESTLINGDelta 72, Gunnison 5

Thursday 1-31-2013at Delta High School

Individual Results

106 - Jayden Chynoweth-Del, def Justin O’Dell, 8-6; 113 - David Brown-Del, win by Def; 120 - Hayes McCracken-Del, pinned Ryder Hodgin, 1:23; 126 - Shane Anderson-Del, def Zack O’Dell, 12-5; 138 - Ty Reed-Gun, def Kodie Komives, 14-4 (MD); 145- Derek Horn-Del, pinned Cody Willis; 152 - Hunter Brasfield-Del, win by def.; 160 - Cordell Stroud-Del, win by def; 170 - Kory Mills-Del, win by def.; 182 - Alfredo Rosales-Del, win by def.; 195 - Kyle Collins- Del, win by def; 220 - Lino Ortiz-Del, win by def.; 285 - Marcus Garcia-Del, def. Miguel Marquez, 8-6 OT.

Delta 51, Eagle Valley 15Individual Results

106 - Chynoweth-Del, pinned Jay Bullock, :31; 113 - Brown-Del, win by def.; 120 - McCracken-Del, win by def.; 126 - Anderson- Del, pinned Victor Hernandez, 2:58; 132 - Cordova-Del, def Rafael Gurule, 7-6; 138 - Komives-Del, pin Branden Ehman, 1:04; 145 - Horn-Del, pin Davey Madrid, :49; 152 - Brasfield-Del, pinned Kiefer Kaufman, :47; 160 - Stroud-Del, pinned Devin Ward, 4:30; 170 - Mills-Del, pinned Cole Nielsen, 2:29; 182 - Ty LaFramboise-EVHS, def Rosales, 3-4; 195 - Joey Sanchez-EVHS, def Collins-Del, 1-12 MD; 220 - Andy Armstrong- EVHS, pinned Ortiz, :54; 285 - Garcia-Del, pinned Xavier Mendoza, 1:20.

Paonia 54, Rifle 22at CMU

106 - Nolan Jones-Pao, win by forfeit; 113 - Josh Altman-Pao, win by forfeit; 120 - Jesse Reed-Pao, def, Oscar Ruelas, 7-1; 126 - Bo Pipher-Pao, def Isaac Rider, 2-0; 132 - Coy Zang-Rifle, pinned Dylan Stroud, 1:27; 138 - Dallas Rohrig-Rifle, def Gunnar Chesnik, 3-13 MD; 145 - Ty Coats-Pao, pinned Hugo Ruelas, 2:41; 152 - Zach Milner-Pao, pinned Zach Wisniewski, 1:49; 160 - Jorge Quinonez-Pao, pinned Logan Stephans, 1:02; 170 - Antonio Galaviz-Rifle, pinned Matt Hayden, 5:17; 182 - Clayton Coombs-Rifle, pinned Morgan

Rieder, 3:01; 195 - Tyler Kendall-Pao, pinned Oscar Tovar, 1:43; 220 - Joel Simianer-Pao, pinned Omar Lerma, 1:27; 285 - Tony Darling-Pao, pinned Jose Prado, 3:23.

Feb. 1, at Rocky FordPaonia 55, Rocky Ford 15

106 - Jeremy Fraser, RF, pinned Jones, 0:54; 113 - Altman, Pao, pinned Austin Muniz, 4:19; 120 - Reed, Pao, pinned Michael Estrada, 1:15; 126 - Pipher, Pao, pinned Fransisco Franco, :25; 132 - Stroud, Pao, def Damien Feltner, 12-3 MD; 138 - Chesnik, Pao, def Ricky Aragon, 2-0; 145 - Coats, Pao, pinned Daniel Bustamante, 3:07; 152 - Aiden Stengel, RF, def Milner, 2-8; 160 - Quinonex, Pao, pinned Daniel Sauceda, :15; 170 - Seth Finnell, RF, def Hayden, 9-10; 182 - Rieder win by forfeit; 195 - Nate Finnell, RF, def Kendall, 4-6; 220 - Simianer, Pao, win by forf; 285 - Darling, Pao, win by forf.

Feb. 2, at Center Paonia 63, Center 10

106 - Jones, Pao, pinned Alberto Rodriguez; 113 - Altman, Pao, pinned Mauricio Paez; 120 - Reed, Pao, def. Jose Angel Chavez, 3-2; 126 - Pipher, Pao, pinned Jeremy Moreno; 132 - Stroud, Pao, def. Gustavo Nungaray, 8-2; 138 - Jeremiah Moreno, Center, def Chesnik, 3-13 MD; 146 - Coats, Pao, pinned DeAngelo Martinez; 152 - Milner, Pao, def Christian Espinosa, 6-2; 160 - Quinonez, Pao, pinned George Weatherford; 170 - Hayden, Pao, pinned Marco Ledezma; 182 - Rieder, Pao, pinned Billy Giron; 195 - Kendall, Pao, pinned Jose Macias; 220 - Luis Mariscal, Cen, pinned Simianer; 285 - Darling win by forfeit.

2013 Valley Classic1. Paonia, 302. 2. Center 220. 3. Del Norte 164. 4. Fowler 125.5. 5. Antonito 76. 6. Custer County 74; 7. Rye 68.5. 8. Nucla 61. 9. Mountain Valley 53. 10. Norwood, Soroco, 46. 12. La Veta 41. 13. Hayden, John Mall 33. 15. Centennial San Luis 30. 16. Crowley County 23. 17. Sargent 12.

Paonia senior Ce’rra Carsten was named all-conference first team and all-state first team in volleyball for the 2012 season. The senior set-ter and middle hitter was also named the 2A West-ern Slope League MVP. Carsten played in the Colorado Coaches of Girls Sports’ all-state volleyball games in November, and is a runner-up to com-pete in the Colorado High School Coaches Associa-tion’s all-state volleyball games this June.

In the last two volley-ball seasons she played 184 sets, scoring 682 kills. She completed almost 90 percent of her 826 serves, with 122 aces. As a set-ter, she recorded 1,941 attacks.

Carsten, along with freshman sister Taylor Carsten, Abby Campbell, Carson Pipher, Morgan Hartigan, Easton Har-tigan, Taylor Plymale and Claire Tracy, were the first Paonia team in 18 years to qualify for

state volleyball. “That had been my goal since I was little,” said Carsten, whose mother, Krista Carsten, is head coach and the athletic director at PHS. Krista Carsten was named the 2012 WSL 2A Coach of the Year.

This year, Paonia post-ed a 23-5 record — the best record in the school’s history, and placed fifth at state.

Carsten transferred from Hotchkiss in eighth grade because she saw more opportunities in sports at PHS. She has thrived at PHS, was an all-conference player in basketball and was named all-state honor-able mention her junior year. Carsten is also a three-time state qualifier in track and field.

Carsten credits her teammates and family for her success. Her dad, rancher Bill Carsten, “...always said to give 110 percent no matter what you’re doing. We were raised that way.” Work-

ing 12 hours a day on the ranch, preparing to show 4H animals and keep-ing up with school work, sports, and a job assist-ing in surgeries at the North Fork Veterinary Clinic are all part of the routine.

She’s been around horses her entire life, and recently began competing in rodeos.

But volleyball is her passion. Carsten traded her senior year of basket-ball for club volleyball in Grand Junction. Her goal is to play at setter in col-lege. Because she’s only 5-feet, 7-inches, many schools don’t see her as being tall enough. “Col-leges don’t want girls who are short,” said Carsten. Even setters and liberos are often 6 feet tall. “But they see a vertical of 26 inches and it’s kind of a different story.”

Carsten plans to study elementary education and is eyeing several schools, including Hawaii Pacific University. “Their

spring program is com-pletely beach volleyball,” said Carsten. She’d love to escape the cold for a while, but admits she’d get homesick. “It would be good to get away and say I left Delta County and Colorado,” said Carsten, “but I came back for good reasons.”

Carsten earns VB honors

Photo by Tamie MeckCe’rra Carsten was the 2012 WSL Player of the Year and her mom, head Paonia volleyball coach, the Coach of the Year.

RussellRussell thanked her

parents, grandparents and coaches, including Brian Mitchem, Scott Rienks, Casey Carney, Kevin Parks, Richard Hypio and Johnna Mar-tin, “as well as my awe-some teammates. I would also like to recognize (400-meter state cham-pion) Teresa Bell because she saw something in me and pushed me to run my very first 400-meter dash. She is my biggest inspira-tion.”

Russell will study psy-

chology with an empha-sis on clinical counsel-ing, and school psychol-ogy. She will minor in art/photography. Russell, who was awarded aca-demic scholarships to all six schools she applied to, was also awarded an academic scholarship to attend WSCU.

Russell is the daughter of Paul and Paula Rus-sell of Paonia. “We believe Lindsay will do very well at WSCU,” stated the Russells, “and we can’t wait to watch her com-pete at the college level.”

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Court Address: 501 Palmer St #338Delta, CO 81416Phone Number: (970) 874-6280Plaintiff(s):

HARMON L. LOWMAN III AND JED LOWMAN,v.Defendant(s):

MICHELLE CORISTINECase Number: 12 C 649

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Under a Writ of Execution/F.I.F.A. issued by the Court on the 30th day of October, 2012, in the above entitled action, I am ordered to sell the following mobile home:

1970 Marlette mobile home, 12'

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Orchard City, Colorado

I shall offer for public sale to the highest bidder, for cash, at public auction, all the right, title and inter-est of the Defendant in said mobile home on the 7th day of February, 2013, 10:00 o'clock a.m. at the front steps of the Delta County Courthouse, Delta, Colorado.

Signed the 14th day of January 2013.

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Published in the Delta County Independent January 23, 30 and February 6, 2013.

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STOCKHOLDER'S MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the regular Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of Consolidated Finance Corp will be held at the office of the company in Delta, Colorado on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at the hour of two o'clock p.m. for the purpose of electing a Board of five Directors and for the transaction of such business as will properly come before such meet-ing. Dated in Delta, Colorado this 14th day of January 2013.

Published in the Delta County Independent January 30, February 6 and 13, 2013.

MEETING NOTICE

The Annual Meeting of the Young Creek Reservoir Company will be held Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in the Grand Mesa Water Users Office, 125 Grand Mesa Drive, Cedaredge.

Board of directors will be elected for the ensuing year; an assess-ment will be levied for 2012 and other business proper to come before the meeting will be trans-acted.

Bob Morris, PresidentDorman Frost, SecretaryI hereby appoint ______________

to vote my ____ shares of stock at the above meeting.Mail to: Dorman Frost, 22980 Frost Rd., Cedaredge, CO 81413_______________________________

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Independent January 30 and February 6, 2013.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

The Annual Meeting of NORTH DELTA IRRIGATION CO. will be held February 9, 2013 at 2 p.m. at the Delta Middle School Cafeteria, 910 Grand Ave. On the agenda: election of officers, update on the tunnel project and any other busi-ness.Current officers: Ken Nelson-Pres., Vernon Nutter-VPres., and Carolyn Hawkins-Sec./Treas.

Published in the Delta County Independent January 30 and February 6, 2013.

MEETING NOTICE

The 2013 Annual Stockholders' Meeting of the Monitor Ditch Company will be held Saturday morning, February 23, 2013, 10:30 AM at the Cox/Major residence located at 38810 Hwy 133.We must have a Quorum in order to elect a board of officers and transact any other business that may come before the floor. If you can not attend, please assign your proxy to another stockholder so that legal business can be con-ducted.Thank you./s/ Laura M. Major, President

PROXY

Being unable to attend the stock-holders' meeting of the Monitor Ditch Company, on February 23, 2013, I hereby assign my ______ number of shares by proxy to ____________________ to vote in my absence. I understand that if I am able to attend the meeting and vote in my own behalf, the proxy will be returned to me at the meeting.Signed: _________________________Return to: Laura Major, P.O. Box 1552, Paonia, CO 81428orEvelyn Roseberry, 13804 Pumpkin

Hollow Rd., Hotchkiss, CO, 81419Published in the Delta County

Independent January 30, February 6, 13 and 20, 2013.


The annual Cathedral Water Company meeting shall be held at 7:00 PM Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at the Crawford elementary school in Crawford Colo. Three directors shall be elected to serve three year terms; an increase of assessments shall be discussed along with other old and new business.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., Notice is hereby given that the following property of:Unit #I01Daniel Naparstek whose last known address is 7253 2200 Rd., Delta, CO 81416 whose property is stored at Delta's Best Storage, 629 Crawford Ave., Delta, CO 81416 will be disposed of March 2, 2013. The storage unit contains the following property: Household and miscel-laneous items.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., Notice is hereby given that the following property of:Unit #H27William Hannifan whose last known address is 676 Hwy 50, #17, Delta, CO 81416 whose property is stored at Delta's Best Storage, 629 Crawford Ave., Delta, CO 81416 will be disposed of March 2, 2013. The storage unit contains the following property: Household and miscel-laneous items.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., Notice is hereby given that the following property of:Unit #G08Sylvia Martinez whose last known address is 4801 S. Wadsworth Blvd., #3-201, Littleton, CO 80123 whose property is stored at Delta's

Best Storage, 629 Crawford Ave., Delta, CO 81416 will be disposed of March 2, 2013. The storage unit contains the following prop-erty: Household and miscellaneous items.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., Notice is hereby given that the following property of:Unit #D16Herman Proctor whose last known address is PO Box 138, Delta, CO 81416 whose property is stored at Delta's Best Storage, 629 Crawford Ave., Delta, CO 81416 will be dis-posed of March 2, 2013. The stor-age unit contains the following property: Household and miscel-laneous items.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., Notice is hereby given that the following property of:Unit #31John Nemetz whose last known address is 1485 E. 7th St., Delta, CO 81416 whose property is stored at Delta's Best Storage, 629 Crawford Ave., Delta, CO 81416 will be dis-posed of March 2, 2013. The stor-age unit contains the following property: Household and miscel-laneous items.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Sunshine Mesa Domestic Water Company will be held Saturday morning, February 16, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the Hotchkiss City Hall, Game Room, 276 West Main, Hotchkiss, Colorado 81419. We will meet for the purpose of election of Board of Directors: one three-year board member and two replacement one-year board members due to two resignations, approval of assessments for 2013 and the transaction of any other business that may properly come before said meeting.Kathie Sabatke, Secretary/Treasurer

Published in the Delta County Independent February 6 and 13, 2013.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., Notice is hereby given that the following property of:Unit #26Pam Barber whose last known address is 1090 E. 5th St. #28, Delta, CO 81416 whose property is stored at Delta's Best Storage, 629 Crawford Ave., Delta, CO 81416 will be disposed of March 2, 2013. The storage unit contains the following property: Household and miscel-laneous items.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., Notice is hereby given that the following property of:Unit #14Melanie Pierce whose last known address is 1640 Lincolnwood Dr., Delta, CO 81416 whose property is stored at Delta's Best Storage, 629 Crawford Ave., Delta, CO 81416 will be disposed of March 2, 2013. The storage unit contains the following property: Household and miscel-laneous items.



The annual meeting of the Lake Fork Ditch Company will be held Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 1:30 P.M. in the Grand Mesa Water Users office at 125 Hwy 65, Cedaredge, Colorado. Two directors will be elected for two year terms; an assessment on the stock will be levied for 2013 and any other busi-ness proper to come before this meeting will be transacted.Ken Sodowsky, PresidentChuck Richards, Secretary



The annual meeting of the Childs Ditch Company will be held Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. in the Grand Mesa Water Users office at 125 Hwy 65, Cedaredge, Colorado. Two direc-

tors will be elected for two year terms; an assessment on the stock will be levied for 2013 and any other business proper to come before this meeting will be trans-acted.Chann Fogg, PresidentChuck Richards, Secretary



The annual meeting of the Granby Ditch & Reservoir Company will be held Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. at 125 So Grand Mesa Drive, Cedaredge, Colorado. Three directors will be elected for two-year terms; an assessment on the stock will be levied for 2013 and any other business proper to come before this meeting will be transacted.Brain Thompson, PresidentChuck Richards, Secretary



The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Turner Ditch Company will be held at the Paonia Public Library Community Room, Paonia, Colorado at 7:00 P.M. Monday, February 11, 2013. The agenda be:Treasurer’s reportPresident’s report2013 assessmentsElection of the 2013 Board of DirectorsA report of the salinity projectDawn UllreySecretary/Treasurer

Published in the Delta County Independent February 6, 2013.

DELTA COUNTY

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Delta County Commis-sioners Board Room Suite 236 501 Palmer Avenue, Delta, Colorado on Tuesday February 19, 2013 at 9:15 A.M., to consider the addition or deletion of the roads listed below in Delta County to the County Road System:

ROADS TO BE ADDED:

District 1*E Road from Hwy 50 to State Park, 0.60 miles T15S, R65W District 3*Doc Maloney Way from S4th Street & Hwy 92, 0.17 miles T14S,

R92WROADS TO BE REMOVED:

District 3*Unnamed 0018 from Black Bridge Road to End, 0.05 miles T13S, R91W.

BOARD OF DELTA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:By: C. Douglas Atchley, Chair.


PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to CRS 1973, section 38-21.5-101 et seq., notice is hereby given that the following property of Dylan Huston whose last known address 26563 Cactus Park Rd., Cedaredge, CO 81413 whose prop-erty is stored at Cedaredge Plaza Storage 455 S. Grand Mesa Dr., Cedaredge, CO 81413 unit 39 will be disposed seven days after the last published notice on February 13, 2013. The storage unit contains the following property: Household and miscellaneous items.



The Annual meeting of the Relief Ditch Co. will be held at the School District Office at Read, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors, discussing repairs and maintenance and to transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting.

Carol Morrell,Secretary TreasurerIf you are not able to attend the

meeting, please send proxy.Published in the Delta County

Independent February 6, 13 and 20, 2013.

PUBLIC HEARING

The Hotchkiss Board of Trustees will have a Public Hearing on Feb-ruary 14, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hotchkiss Town Hall, 276 W. Main Street, Hotchkiss, CO for the dis-cussion of an amendment to 15-2-3 of the Town Code. This code is in reference to sidewalk construction and repair. Concerns and com-ments may be presented at the Public Hearing or by fi ling written comment to the Town Clerk’s of-fi ce at P.O. Box 369, Hotchkiss, CO 81419 prior to the hearing.Marlene F. Searle,Town Clerk


COMPILED FROM DELTA NEWSPAPERS

By DELTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

251 Meeker St., Delta • 874-8721February 7, 1913

(From the Delta Independent)The Paonia peach pickers, all members of

the high school in that town, were here last Saturday night and put up a superior quality of basket ball against our high school team in Armory hall before a large and enthusiastic audience. The visitors had no “gift,” however, for it was anybody’s game at any time, the score resulting 39 to 36 in their favor.

On the same night, and in the same hall, the eighth grade team of Delta took in the same grade team of Olathe by a score of 40 to 18.

Monday night, the All Star team of this city, walloped the Navy team by a score of 66 to 16. The Navy’s are fighters but got started

off wrong and failed to get proper action. They are awaiting a future engagement for revenge.

* * *Work on the new Hotchkiss bridge has

been resumed again and with any kind of decent weather, some progress can be made.

Harvey Sare, with a force of men, is tear-ing down the remains of the old bridge that was partly washed away last spring.

* * *At a meeting of the Cedaredge First

National bank held last Friday, the same offi-cers and directors were named. The officers are: President, H.W. Bull; vice president J.B. Ratekin; 2nd vice president, W.B. Stockham; cashier, Roy A. Downs; assistant cashier, W.C. Overhults. The directors also decided to put in an up-to-date set of safety deposit boxes.

* * *An ocean going ship will pass from one

ocean to the other through the Panama canal before the end of 1913. This was the promise that Col. George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama canal made at a dinner in his honor, given by the Lehigh University club last week.

* * *James McLeod, Grand View mesa, killed a

ninety-foot [sic] mountain lion last week.* * *

There is nothing more impossible than the ideal newspaper. A newspaper that would be considered ideal by one, would not be by

another. There are too many different minded people for one paper to suit them all.

* * *The two boys basketball teams and the

girls team of the high school played the three Cedaredge teams on the Eckert court Saturday. After the games the visiting teams were entertained at supper, served in the basement of the high school. The room, which is a fine large one, was decorated in red and white, the Cedaredge colors, and orange and green, the colors of the home school.

* * *“He was hanging there in the alleyway

and gasping for breath when I hurried up and quickly cut the rope around his neck and saw him drop to the ground, apparently life-less, but finally come to life,” is the story Bert Norton, manager of the F.J.M. Cattle com-pany was telling when an Independent scribe came up and inquired into the incident.

Bert had rescued a fine, big Shepherd dog that had jumped across the rear fence at Hammond-Harrington’s corral when tied with a strong rope, and he was hanging on the outside about a foot from the ground at a mid-night hour rapidly nearing the final gasp.

It was just by accident that Norton heard the faint gurgle of the dying dog and went to his rescue. The liberated fellow was soon restored to life and getting up, greeted his preserver with a caress.

* * *

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THE DELTA COUNTYIndependent runs these items as a public service free of charge for non-profit organizations, if no fees are charged. However, each group is asked to please keep them current by call-ing 874-4421.

PIONEER AL-ANON Family Group will host a special speaker meeting on the last Thursday of each month. Everyone is wel-come. 8-9 p.m. in Cedaredge at First Baptist Church, 370 W. Main Street in Wick Hall behind the church, west end. Call Mary 856-6123 or Vicki 856-7115. (tfnx12)

FREE DIAPERS FOR UPto one year! Pregnant women in Delta County can now get help to quit smok-ing and get something they can really use after their baby arrives — free diapers. Healthy moms have healthy babies. Enroll in the Baby & Me Tobacco Free program today. Contact the Delta County Health Department at 874-2165 or your local physician. (TFNx2)

SUPPORT THE DELTAPublic Library. Give a gently used book in the Downstairs Book Store.

ALATEEN, DELTA: TUES.7:30 p.m., St Luke's Church, 5th & Palmer, 874-9832. (tfnx38)

HELP!!! KEEP THE animal population under control, and SAVE an ani-mal's life. Adopt your new cat or dog from the Delta County Humane Society. Adoption fee is minimal. Call 874-2149. (DCHS)

THERE IS A VFW MEETINGon the first Monday of each month. At 6 p.m. there is a potluck and the meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Veterans Building, 15th & Howard, Delta. For further informa-tion, call 874-5150 Paul Carter. (tfx31)

BECAWS! ADOPT A DOGor cat today. Call 970-527-3350, or visit cawsonline.org. Delta County Citizens for Animal Welfare and Shelter (CAWS)

CHAPTER, UNITS OF DAVregular meetings on the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Veterans Building, 15th & Howard, Delta. For further information, call Paul Carter 874-5150. (tfx19)

SAVE EYEGLASSES, OLDjewelry and silver or bits of gold and silver scraps. The Grand Odd Fellow Lodge is sending them to: New Eyes for the Needy, 549 Millburn Ave., Short Hills, NJ 07078 or send them to: Gale Conger, Secretary of IOOF Lodge #116, 544 St. Hwy. 548, Delta, CO 81416.

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UNDERGROUND COALAssistant SurveyorBowie Resources LLC, an underground coal mining company near the town of Paonia, Colorado has an opening for an Assistant Surveyor to work in its Engineering Department. The qualifi ed applicants should pos-sess a high school diploma or GED, strong math and computer skills. General knowledge, experience in land or underground coal mine survey-ing experience, and MSHA 32-hour training is preferred. AutoCAD and SurvCADD experience is also preferred over all other applicants.

The company offers a competitive pay and benefi t package that includes a medical, dental, vision, prescription drug program, life insurance, bonus plans, 401(k), plan. If you qualify for the above vacancy and want to work in a team-oriented environment, and would enjoy working underground and on the surface at a coal mine with high standards in safety and an outstanding future, please send your resume to the following address:

Apply:Bowie Resources, LLCPO Box 1488Paonia, CO [email protected]

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874-4421

D4 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 PUBLIC NOTICES Delta County Independent

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. 2012-0212

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 9, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) Lisa J. Escher and Kenneth A. EscherOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for River Funding CorporationCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee for RALI 2006-QS11Date of Deed of Trust July 14, 2006County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust July 19, 2006Recording Information (Reception Number) 605705 Original Principal Amount $318,000.00Outstanding Principal Balance $299,725.03Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, POHL MINOR SUBDIVISION

The property to be foreclosed is:Also known by street and number

as: 44307 Minnesota Creek Road,

Paonia, CO 81428.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED

HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY

CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY

THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has fi led Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 03/13/2013, at Public Trustee’s Offi ce, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certifi cate of Purchase, all as provided by law.First Publication 1/16/2013Last Publication 2/13/2013Name of Publication Delta County Independent• IF THE SALE DATE IS

CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE,

THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE

OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE

PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY

ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/09/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:REAGAN LARKIN #42309CASTLE STAWIARSKI, LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2301, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-12185©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

Published in the Delta County Independent January 16, 23, 30, February 6 and 13, 2013.

DISTRICT COURT,DELTA COUNTY, COLORADOCourt Address:501 Palmer St.Delta, CO 81416Plaintiff: Harris Orion Investment, LLC f/k/a Harris Orion Investments, LLC v. Defendants: Larry A. Mautz; Elaine Mautz; D.L.H. 2001 Family Trust; and all unknown per-sons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action.Attorney for Plaintiff:

Wilderson Lock & Hill, LLC Marcus J. Lock, Atty. Reg. #: 33048 Jacob A. With, Atty. Reg. #: 40546 525 North Main Street Gunnison, CO 81230 Telephone: 970.641.1903 Facsimile: 970.641.1943E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Case No.: 12CV292

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN-DANTS You are hereby summoned and

required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint fi led with the court in this action, by fi ling with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to fi le your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the com-plaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to fi le your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judg-ment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situate in Delta County, Colorado, more particularly de-scribed as:

A parcel of land in the NE1/4NE1/4. Sec 14, Township 13 South, Range 91 West of the 6th P.M. described as follows:

Commencing at a point on the South subdivision line of said NE1/4NE1/4 which is South 89°02’41” East 265.54 feet from the Southwest comer of said NE1/4NE1/4; thence North 00°00’00” East to the center line

of State Highway 133; thence Northeasterly along the center line of State Highway 133 to the East bank of Hubbard Creek; thence Southerly along the east bank of Hubbard Creek to the North bank of the North Fork of the Gunnison River; then South-easterly along the North Bank of the North Fork of the Gunnison River to the South subdivision line of said NE1/4NE1/4; thence Westerly along the South bound-ary line of said NE1/4NE1/4 to the point of beginning.

The basis of bearings used herein is astronomic north as determined by solar observations. Dated January 7, 2013. Published in the Delta County Inde-pendent. First Publication: January 16, 2013Last Publication: February 13, 2013

WILDERSON LOCK & HILL, LLC By: /s/ Marcus J. Lock, Atty. Reg. # 33048 Jacob A. With, Atty. Reg.#: 40546


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0216

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 19, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) FELIPE OROPEZAOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) FIRST STATE BANK OF HOTCHKISSCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt FIRST STATE BANK OF HOTCHKISSDate of Deed of Trust April 03, 2009County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust April 06, 2009Recording Information (Reception Number) 633410 Original Principal Amount $85,788.49Outstanding Principal Balance $64,389.48Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 45 OF THE SUBDIVISION OF

LAZEAR AS AMENDED BY PLAT

RECORDED MAY 10,2005 IN BOOK

32 AT PAGE 55 AT RECEPTION

NUMBER 591178 INCLUDING ALL

WATER AND WATER RIGHTS,

DITCH AND DITCH RIGHTS

APPURTENANT THERETO,

TOGETHER WITH, WITHOUT

WARRANTIES, A 1/3 INTEREST IN

DOMESTIC WATER WELL. COUNTY

OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO.


as: 31117 LAZEAR ROAD, LAZEAR,

CO 81420.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/19/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:AARON CLAY #9666CLAY and DODSON PC 415 PALMER STREET, PO BOX 038, DELTA, CO 81416 (970) 874-9777The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # FSBH/OROPEZA©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

Published in the Delta County Independent January 23, 30, February 6, 13 and 20, 2013.

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0214

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 16, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) KENT L. COTTEN AND KATHERINE A. COTTENOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) PAONIA STATE BANK, NOW KNOW AS FIRST STATE BANK OF COLORADO PAONIA BRANCHCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt PAONIA STATE BANK, NOW KNOW AS FIRST STATE BANK OF COLORADO PAONIA BRANCHDate of Deed of Trust July 16, 2008County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust

August 22, 2008Recording Information (Reception Number) 628257Re-Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 30, 2012Re-Recording Information (Reception Number) 660786 Original Principal Amount $80,652.00Outstanding Principal Balance $104,693.20Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, RE-SUBDIVISION OF LOT

1, REESE MINOR SUBDIVISION

AND LOT 3, REPLAT OF LOTS 2

& 3, REESE MINOR SUBDIVISION

COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF

COLORADO.

TOGETHER WITH ALL WATER

AND WATER RIGHTS, DITCH AND

DITCH RIGHTS APPURTENANT

TO OR USED IN CONNECTION

THEREWITH. ATTACHED HERETO

AND MADE A PART THEREOF BY

REFERENCE.

The property to be foreclosed is:Also known by street and

number as: 30585 HIGHWAY 92,

HOTCHKISS, CO 81419.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/16/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:DAVID A. MAREK #8388DAVID A. MAREK ATTORNEY AT LAW, PO BOX 1387, Paonia, CO 81428 (970) 527-5353The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # PSB/COTTEN©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0211

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 7, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) Jorge L. Olivas and Yvonne K. OlivasOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, NADate of Deed of Trust July 31, 2006County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust August 08, 2006Recording Information (Reception Number) 606451 Original Principal Amount $166,074.00Outstanding Principal Balance $171,025.52Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 112, STONE MOUNTAIN

VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, DELTA

COUNTY, COLORADO.


as: 794 Albany St, Delta, CO 81416.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/07/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER #34145CASTLE STAWIARSKI, LLC

999 18TH STREET SUITE 2301, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-12432©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

Published in the Delta County Independent January 9, 16, 23, 30 and February 6, 2013.

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0210

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 7, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) Kyra Kenniger and Guy KennigerOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, NADate of Deed of Trust December 15, 2008County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust December 22, 2008Recording Information (Reception Number) 630959 Original Principal Amount $157,712.00Outstanding Principal Balance $156,173.00Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 20 OF WILLOW HEIGHTS

SUBDIVISION NO. 2 AND THE

NORTH 30 FEET OF LOT 19 OF

WILLOW HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION

NO. 1, AS AMENDED. COUNTY OF

DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO.


as: 519 Aspen Lane, Hotchkiss, CO

81419.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/07/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER #34145CASTLE STAWIARSKI, LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2301, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-12389©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

Published in the Delta County Independent January 9, 16, 23, 30 and February 6, 2013.

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL

ESTATE LIEN AT TAX LIEN SALE

AND OF APPLICATION FOR

TREASURER'S DEED

TAX YEAR 2008 SALE YEAR 2009

TAX LIEN SALE CERTIFICATE

NO. 2009-00081

YOU ARE ADVISED TO CONSULT WITH YOUR OWN LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING ANY RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE TO CURE THIS PROPERTY TAX LIEN.TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and to every person in actual posses-sion or occupancy of the here-inafter described land, lots or premises, and to the person in whose name the same was taxed or specially assessed, and to all persons having an interest or title or record in or to the same, and particularly to:

JOSEPH E. MILLER

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AT TAX LIEN SALE LAWFULLY HELD ON THE 5th, DAY OF November,

2009, the then County Treasurer of Delta County, State of Colorado, duly offered for delinquent taxes and/or special assessments for the year 2008, the following described property, situated in the County of Delta and State of Colorado, as described below:PROPERTY LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Parcel B, B.A. #1589

A Parcel of land located in the

NW1/4SE1/4NE1/4 of Section 19,

Township 15 South, Range 95 West

of the 6th P.M. in Delta County; and

having a description based upon a

bearing of S.0°00'00"W. from the

NE1/16 corner of said Section 19 (a

3 1/4" cap in street monument box

marked "1/16 County Surveyor")

to the SW corner of the NW1/4

SE1/4NE1/4 of said Section 19 (a 3

1/4" cap in street monument box)

with all other bearings relative

thereto. Parcel boundary is thence

described as follows: Beginning at

a point from which the NE1/16 cor-

ner bears N.44°40'49"W. 42.67 feet

also being on the South line of 7th

Street R.O.W.; thence S.89°21'38"E.

142.00 feet along said R.O.W.;

thence S.0°00'00"W. 161.00 feet;

thence N.89°21'38"W. 142.00 feet

to the East line of Pioneer Road

R.O.W.; thence N.0°00'00"E. 161.00

feet along said R.O.W. to the Point

of Beginning. Said Parcel contains

0.52 acres., County of Delta, State

of Colorado

Also known by street and number as: 1410 E 7TH ST DELTA, CO 81416COUNTY OF DELTA,STATE OF COLORADOTax Parcel Number: 345519100057

Tax Account Number: R012105

Said premises were assessed and taxed for the year 2008 in the

name(s) of:HUBERT HARRIS

At said sale, a lien secured by the property herein was sold to, and a Tax Lien Sale Certificate of Purchase was duly issued to:

DUANE L HOWARD

JOYCE E HOWARD

on November 5th, 2009. The present holder, and legal owner thereof, has made request to the Treasurer of Delta County for a deed, and unless the same be redeemed on or before the 24TH day of May, 2013 or unless the parties described or anyone else having an interest in the property, files a written response disputing this action under the protection of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, accompanied with a statement, under oath, and also accompa-nied by the facts and supportive documents for this dispute and this response delivered to the Delta County Treasurer's Office, 501 Palmer, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416, no later than 4:30 p.m. on the 24th day of May, 2013, the said County Treasurer will issue a Treasurer's Deed therefore to said Certificate Holder or his/her assigns.Dated at Delta, Delta County, Colorado, the 18th day of January,

2013.

/s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Delta County Treasurer(SEAL)CERTIFICATE HOLDERS: DUANE L

HOWARD

JOYCE E HOWARD

First Date of Publication: 01/23/13

Second Date of Publication: 01/30/13

Third and Last Date of Publication: 02/06/13

Published in the Delta County Independent January 23, 30, and February 6, 2013.

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0217

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 20, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) Terrance W. Neuberger and Teresa D. NeubergerOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for River Funding CorporationCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt CitiMortgage, Inc.Date of Deed of Trust August 30, 2006County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust September 05, 2006Recording Information (Reception Number) 607367 Original Principal Amount $190,000.00Outstanding Principal Balance $187,164.14Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO

AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY

REFERENCE

EXHIBIT A

PART OF THE SW 1/4 SE 1/4 OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 15 SOUTH, RANGE 95 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID NW 1/4 SE 1/4 WHENCE THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID NW 1/4 SE 1/4 OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 15 SOUTH, RANGE 95 WEST, 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN BEARS NORTH 701.90 FEET THENCE SOUTH 145 FEET ALONG SAID EAST LINE; THENCE WEST 251 FEET; THENCE NORTH 153.03 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 88°10' EAST 251.13 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING,EXCEPT: FOR A 10 FOOT WIDE UTILITY EASEMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 25, 2004 AT RECEPTION NUMNER 576965.EXCEPT: FOR AN EXCLUSIVE FIVE FOOT ACCESS EASEMENT DESCRIBED AT RECEPTION NUMBER 590406,County of Delta,State of Colorado.The property to be foreclosed is:Also known by street and number

as: 2361 Pioneer Road, Delta, CO

81416.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/20/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:REAGAN LARKIN #42309CASTLE STAWIARSKI, LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2301, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-11723©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0215

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 19, 2012, the

undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) STEPHEN A. ATTARIANOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) FIRST MORTGAGE CORPORATIONCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONDate of Deed of Trust October 29, 2004County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust November 02, 2004Recording Information (Reception Number) 584995 Original Principal Amount $166,350.00Outstanding Principal Balance $148,384.34Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY

NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED LEGAL

DESCRIPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

Parcel 1.

Lot 1 of Jones Subdivision.

Except that portion of said Lot

1 lying East of the West bank of

Surface Creek

County of Delta, State of

Colorado

Parcel 2:

That portion of the SW 1/4 of the

SE 1/4 of Section 31, Township 13

South, Range 94 West of the 6th

PM more particularly described

as follows: Beginning at the more

Southerly corner of said Lot 1 of

Jones Subdivision,

Thence N23°45'E along the

Easterly boundary line of said Lot

1 a distance of 54 feet;

Thence East along the Easterly

boundary of said Lot 1 a distance

of 49.42 feet to the West bank of

Surface Creek.

Thence S46°59'W along said West

bank a distance of 81.87 feet,

Thence N58°W a distance of 12

feet more or less to the point of

beginning.


as: 2801 S GRAND MESA DRIVE,

CEDAREDGE, CO 81413.



CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF

TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE



THE DEADLINE TO FILE A

NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY

THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO

CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/19/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:EMILY JENSIK, ESQ. #31294Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, CO 80204 (303) 813-1177The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 1068.05564©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0144

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On August 14, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) ELTON MUSEOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., acting solely as nominee for TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP.Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.Date of Deed of Trust 1/23/2009County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust 1/26/2009Recording Information(Reception Number and/or Book/Page Number) 631604Original Principal Amount $196,417.00Outstanding Principal Balance $191,879.14Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2, ADOBE HILLS ESTATES

MINOR SUBDIVISION, DELTA

COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number

as: 8155 3400 RD, HOTCHKISS, CO

81419.





NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has fi led Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 03/27/2013, at Public Trustee’s Offi ce, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta,

CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certifi cate of Purchase, all as provided by law.First Publication 1/30/2013Last Publication 2/27/2013Name of Publication Delta County IndependentDATE: 08/14/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:JOAN OLSON, ESQ #28078Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, CO 80204 (303) 813-1177The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 1269.20600©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 6/2011

Published in the Delta County Independent January 30, February 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2013.

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0218

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 26, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) David V. Smith and Tonya L. SmithOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, NADate of Deed of Trust January 23, 2004County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust January 28, 2004Recording Information (Reception Number) 576024 Original Principal Amount $67,500.00Outstanding Principal Balance $59,028.47Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 3, MCCALL’S SUBDIVISION-

AMENDED. DELTA COUNTY,

COLORADO.


as: 155 Se Buffalo Ave, Cedaredge,

CO 81413.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/26/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Barbara J. Pierce, Deputy Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:ALISON L. BERRY #34531CASTLE STAWIARSKI, LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2301, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-12591©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


County CourtDelta County, ColoradoCourt Address: 501 Palmer, #338;Delta, CO 81416In the Matter of the Petition of:

Parent/Petitioner: Victoria Brownfor Minor Child: Tristan Robert CollierFor a Change of Name to: Tristan

Robert Watkins

Case Number: 12c118

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION FOR

CHANGE OF NAME

The Court having read and con-

sidered the Petition for Change of

Name of a Minor Child finds:

That the statements made in the Petition satisfy the statutory requirements.That the desired change of name is proper and not detrimental to the interests of any other person.That the change of name is in the best interest of the minor child.The Court orders the following

publication for a change of name:

1. Name of Tristan Robert Collier is requested to be changed to Tristan Robert Walkins.2. Pursuant to statute, public notice of this change of name shall be published three times in a legal newspaper published in this coun-ty. This publication is to be made within 21 days of the date of this Order.3. Proper proof of publication shall be filed with the Court upon final publication to receive a Final Decree for a Change of Name.Date: 1/8/13

/s/ Sandra K MillerJudge

Published in the Delta County Independent January 23, 30 and February 6, 2013.

Public Notices

Legal Deadline is Monday at 10 a.m.

YourRight

To Know

Delta County Independent PUBLIC NOTICES Wednesday, February 6, 2013 D5IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND

FOR WATER DIVISION NO. 4

STATE OF COLORADO

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN SAID

WATER DIVISION NO. 4Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, as amended, you are notified that the following is a resume of all applica-tions filed in the Water Court dur-ing the month of January, 2013.The names, address of applicant, source of water, description of water right or conditional water right involved, and description of the ruling sought are as follows: There has been filed in this pro-ceeding a claim or claims which may affect in priority any water right claimed or heretofore adjudi-cated within this division and own-ers of affected rights must appear to object and protest as provided in the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969, or be forever barred. "THERE HAS BEEN FILED IN THIS PROCEEDING A CLAIM OR CLAIMS WHICH MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHT CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT AND PROTEST AS PROVIDED IN THE WATER RIGHT DETERMINATION AND ADMINISTRATION ACT OF 1969, OR BE FOREVER BARRED.”

CASE NO. 2013CW1. Applicant: Michael and Kathryn Ward, 38905 Back River Road, Paonia, CO 81428. Application for Absolute Surface Water Rights: Kathy’s Spring – SW1/4SE1/4 of Section 11, T14S, R92W, 6th PM. 479 feet from the south line and 1,713 feet from the east section line. Source: North Fork of the Gunnison River. Appropriation Date: 12/19/2006. Amount Claimed: 0.028 c.f.s. absolute for domestic, stockwater, wildlife, fisheries and irrigation of 2 acres. Damian’s Spring – SW1/4SE1/4 of Section 11, T14S, R92W, 6th PM. 529 feet from the south line and 2,419 feet from the east section line. Source: North Fork of the Gunnison River. Appropriation Date: 12/19/2006. Amount Claimed: 0.028 c.f.s. absolute for domes-tic, stockwater, wildlife, fisheries and irrigation of 2 acres. DELTA

COUNTY.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED THAT you have until the last day of March, 2013 to file with the Water Clerk, in duplicate, a Verified Statement of Opposition setting forth facts as to why a certain application should not be granted or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. A copy of such a Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the applicant or the appli-cant’s attorney and an affidavit of certificate of such service shall be filed with the Water Clerk, as prescribed by C.R.C.P. Rule 5. (Filing fee: $158.00; Forms may be obtained from the Water Clerk’s Office or on our website at www.courts.state.co.us).

DARLEEN CAPPANNOKEEP, Water Clerk

Water Division 41200 N. Grand Ave., Bin A

Montrose, CO 81401Published in the Delta County

Independent February 6, 2013.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND

FOR WATER DIVISION NO. 4

STATE OF COLORADO

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN SAID

WATER DIVISION NO. 4Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, as amended, you are notified that the following is a resume of all applica-tions filed in the Water Court dur-ing the month of January, 2013.The names, address of applicant, source of water, description of water right or conditional water right involved, and description of the ruling sought are as follows: There has been filed in this pro-ceeding a claim or claims which may affect in priority any water right claimed or heretofore adju-dicated within this division and owners of affected rights must appear to object and protest as provided in the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969, or be forever barred. “THERE HAS BEEN FILED IN THIS PROCEEDING A CLAIM OR CLAIMS WHICH MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHT CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT AND PROTEST AS PROVIDED IN THE WATER RIGHT DETERMINATION AND ADMINISTRATION ACT OF 1969, OR BE FOREVER BARRED.”

CASE NO. 2013CW8 (REF NO.

06CW95). Applicant: George Barker and Mary Barker, P. O. Box 652, Paonia, CO 81428. Application for Finding of Reasonable Diligence – Barker Spring – NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4 of Section 17, T14S, R92W, 6th P.M. 2,504 feet north of the south line and 1,225 feet west of the east section line. Source: Jay Creek, North Fork of the Gunnison River. Appropriation Date: 03/23/2006. Amount Claimed: 0.033 c.f.s. con-ditional for domestic use in one single family dwelling. The appli-cation on file with the Water Court contains an outline of the work performed during the diligence period. DELTA COUNTY.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED THAT you have until the last day of March, 2013 to file with the Water Clerk, in duplicate, a Verified Statement of Opposition setting forth facts as to why a certain application should not be granted or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. A copy of such a Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the applicant or the appli-cant’s attorney and an affidavit of certificate of such service shall be filed with the Water Clerk, as prescribed by C.R.C.P. Rule 5. (Filing fee: $158.00; Forms may be obtained from the Water Clerk’s Office or on our website at www.courts.state.co.us).

DARLEEN CAPPANNOKEEP, Water Clerk

Water Division 41200 N. Grand Ave., Bin A

Montrose, CO 81401Published in the Delta County

Independent February 6, 2013.

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0220

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 27, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) ERICK D SOWELLOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. acting solely as nominee for MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, LLCCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, NADate of Deed of Trust August 26, 2010County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust September 30, 2010Recording Information (Reception Number) 645743 Original Principal Amount $150,767.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $146,477.07Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED LEGAL

DESCRIPTION

Part of the SE1/4 of the SW1/4 of

Section 20, Township 13 South,

Range 94 West of the 6th Principal

Meridian, described as follows:

Beginning at a point 197.5 feet

North of the Northwest corner of

Lot 32 in Block 2, of Plat "A" of the

Town of Cedaredge, Colorado.

Thence North 62.5 feet;

Thence East 150 feet;

Thence South 62.5 feet to the

Northeast corner of tract described

in Book 412 at Page 397, Thence

along North line of said Tract West

150 feet to the place of beginning.

Delta County,

State of Colorado

The property to be foreclosed is:Also known by street and

number as: 245 NW 3RD STREET,






NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/27/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:LISA CANCANON #42043Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, CO 80204 (303) 813-1177The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 9105.05025©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0221

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 28, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) Max P. Chesnik and Kristin ChesnikOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, NADate of Deed of Trust September 17, 2010County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust September 22, 2010Recording Information (Reception Number) 645487 Original Principal Amount $345,000.00Outstanding Principal Balance $336,180.29Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO

AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY

REFERENCE

EXHIBIT A

The NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 14, Township 14 South, Range 92 West of the 6th P.M.Together with a non-exclusive easement 30 feet in width for ingress and egress, the centerline of which shall be the centerline of an existing road which runs generally in a North-South direction from county road M-75 to the subject property and running through the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 14, Township 14 South, Range 92 West of the 6th P.M.County of Delta, State of ColoradoThe property to be foreclosed is:Also known by street and number

as: 38928 Stewart Mesa Road,

Paonia, CO 81428.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/28/2012

Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:KIMBERLY L. MARTINEZ #40351CASTLE STAWIARSKI, LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2301, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-12533©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0146

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On August 16, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) KENT L. COTTEN AND KATHERINE A. COTTENOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) PAONIA STATE BANK, now known as FIRST STATE BANK OF COLORADO PAONIA BRANCHCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt PAONIA STATE BANK, now known as FIRST STATE BANK OF COLORADO PAONIA BRANCHDate of Deed of Trust January 31, 2008County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust February 26, 2008Recording Information (Reception Number) 623247 Original Principal Amount $283,288.00Outstanding Principal Balance $273,573.54Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

THE SW1/4 OF THE SE1/4 AND THE

NW1/4 OF THE SE1/4 OF SECTION

32, TOWNSHIP 13 SOUTH, RANGE

93 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M. COUNTY

OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO.

TOGETHER WITH ALL WATER

AND WATER RIGHTS, DITCH AND

DITCH RIGHTS APPURTENANT

TO OR USED IN CONNECTION

THEREWITH. ATTACHED HERETO

AND MADE A PART HEREOF BY

REFERENCE. TOGETHER WITH,

WITHOUT WARRANTY, ONE (1)

SHARE OVERLAND DITCH AND

CANAL.

Also known by street and number

as: TBD P-50 ROAD, HOTCHKISS,

CO 81419.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 08/16/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: Jim D. Ventrello, Public TrusteeThe name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:Marek, David A #8388David A. Marek PO Box 1387, Paonia, CO 81428-1387 (970) 527-5353The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # PSB/COTTEN©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

Published in the Delta County Independent February 6, 13, 20, 27 and March 6, 2013.

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0222

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 29, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) Haeston SlaughterOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Republic Mortgage Home Loans LLC.Current Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMorgan Chase Bank, National AssociationDate of Deed of Trust August 24, 2009County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust August 25, 2009Recording Information (Reception Number) 637143 Original Principal Amount $187,755.00Outstanding Principal Balance $180,493.55Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 15 OF MESA CREST ESTATES

AMENDMENT NO.3, COUNTY OF

DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO.


as: 3001 Ridge Road, Delta, CO

81416.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/29/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:ALISON L. BERRY #34531CASTLE STAWIARSKI, LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2301, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-12984©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0223

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 29, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) LANDON R. PHILLIPS AND PAULA A. PHILLIPSOriginal Benefi ciary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, ACADEMY MORTGAGE CORPORATION, A UTAH CORPORATIONCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.Date of Deed of Trust February 26, 2009County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust March 03, 2009Recording Information (Reception Number) 632499 Original Principal Amount $178,215.00Outstanding Principal Balance $170,137.74Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 3, BOULDER PARK

SUBDIVISION AS AMENDED,

COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF

COLORADO.


as: 460 NORTH WEST 7TH STREET,






NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/29/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:MICHAEL MEDVED #14669LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL P MEDVED PC 355 UNION BLVD #302, LAKEWOOD, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 12-910-23278©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION


SALE NO. 2012-0224

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:On November 30, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Delta records.Original Grantor(s) JOHN T. HOBBS AND KAREN L. HOBBS

Original Benefi ciary(ies) WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Date of Deed of Trust October 14, 2004County of Recording DeltaRecording Date of Deed of Trust October 19, 2004Recording Information (Reception Number) 584464 Original Principal Amount $113,000.00Outstanding Principal Balance $101,409.37Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notifi ed that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT

BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 2,

FERRARO MINOR SUBDIVISION

#MS98-080 AND MJ02-010.

DELTA COUNTY, COLORADO.


as: 20453 E ROAD, DELTA, CO

81416.





NOTICE OF SALE






ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/30/2012Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee in and for the County of Delta, State of ColoradoBy: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee(SEAL)The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:EMILY JENSIK, ESQ. #31294Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, CO 80204 (303) 813-1177The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.Attorney File # 9105.05048©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012


PUBLIC NOTICE

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

DELTA COUNTY

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

REQUEST FOR CONTRACT

SERVICES

The Delta County Health & Human Services Department is seek-ing proposals from a qualified individual(s) or firm to provide sup-portive services for Delta County’s Foster Care Program.The successful individual(s) or firm shall enter into a contract with Delta County to provide foster and kinship home recruitment, licens-ing, retention and case manage-ment for the Department of Health and Human Services.This is a Contract Position - no benefits. Contractor shall be responsible for his/her taxes and insurance.Bid Proposal documents may be picked up at the Delta County Administration Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer St., Suite 227, Delta, Colorado. Questions concerning the Bid Proposal docu-ments can be directed to Carolyn Clemens at (970) 874-2101 or e-mail [email protected]. For information concerning this proposal please contact Anne Gallegos at (970) 874-2072 or [email protected] Proposals must be submitted on County Forms and submitted to the Delta County Administration office, Attention: Carolyn Clemens, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer St., Suite 227, Delta, CO 81416 by 9:00 a.m., February 22, 2013, at which time they will be opened in Room 234. Individual/firm must provide a list of previous work and references, along with a list of Qualifications.The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bid proposals if it feels, to do so, is in the best inter-est of the County.


PUBLIC NOTICE

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

DELTA COUNTY SHERIFF’S

DEPARTMENT

VEHICLE PURCHASE

2013

Please be advised that Delta Coun-ty is interested in soliciting bids to purchase the following vehicles to be used by the Delta County Sher-iff’s Department.2013 4-Wheel Drive Pickup, full size 1⁄2 ton with Extended Crew CabBid specifi cations and bid docu-ments may be picked up at the Ad-ministration Offi ce, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer St., Suite 227, Delta, Colorado.Bids must be submitted to the Board of Delta County Commis-sioners, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer St., Suite 227, Delta, CO 81416 by 9:00 a.m., February 15, 2013. Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids if the Board feels it is in the best interest of the County.For further information concerning the bid package, please call Caro-lyn Clemens at (970) 874-2101 or e-mail at [email protected]. Questions concerning the vehicle specifi cations should be di-rected to Mark Taylor, Delta County Undersheriff at (970) 874-2002 or e-mail [email protected]. Bids will also be available on the County website at www.deltacoun-ty.com.


NOTICE OF DEMAND FOR

REPLACEMENT STOCK

CERTIFICATE

The Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company hereby gives notice that a Petition for Replacement of Stock Certificate was filed by Paul

W. Grosse-Rhode, and Gregory A. Grosse-Rhode, d/b/a G-R Land and Cattle Co for Stock Certificate No. 1561. The Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company, in the amount of 59 shares, to be issued to Paul W. Grosse-Rhode, and Gregory A. Grosse-Rhode, d/b/a G-R Land and Cattle Co. Notice is further given that on March 10, 2013, unless a claim is made of ownership of the stock certificate, a duplicate certificate will be issued to Paul W. Grosse-Rhode, and Gregory A. Grosse-Rhode, d/b/a G-R Land and Cattle Co. in accordance with Colorado law.

Signed this 4th day of January, 2013.

THE OVERLAND DITCH AND RESERVOIR COM-PANYBy /s/ Debbie L. ChristnerSecretary


TOWN OF PAONIA

JANUARY 2013

DISBURSEMENTS

ALCOPRO, INC ……… 1,034.00Benson Bros. ………… 896.71Caselle, Inc …………… 557.00CIRSA ………………… 57,683.00CMCA …………………… 140.00Colorado Chapter ICC 30.00Colorado Municipal League Inc ………… 974.00Colorado Rural Water Assoc ………………… 300.00Colorado Tree Coalition 60.00Delta County Economic Develope …………… 250.00Delta County Independent ………… 47.52Dependable Lumber, Inc …………………… 207.83Dolphin House ……… 200.00Don's Market ………… 10.49Double J Disposal Inc 186.00Duckworks Auto Parts Inc …………………… 23.72Enterprise Fund/Landfill Fee …………………… 1,354.75Feather Petroleum Company Inc ……… 2,205.31Flower Motor Company Inc …………………… 371.30GALLS ………………… 119.97Hartman Brothers Inc 4,152.46Hays Drug Store Inc … 34.45Hospice & Palliative Care ………………… 500.00KVNF …………………… 100.00MARC …………………… 176.13Master Petroleum Company Inc ……… 726.28Mesa County ………… 90.00Mountain Harvest Festival ……………… 1,000.00North Fork Horse Patrol ………………… 400.00North Fork Valley Heart & Soul ……………… 2,000.00OneTime ……………… 10.00OneTime ……………… 25.00OneTime ……………… 50.00Paonia Auto Parts …… 101.55Paonia Chamber of Commerce ………… 500.00Paonia Farm & Home Supply Inc …………… 193.61Paonia High School … 500.00Paonia Senior Citizens, Inc. …………………… 3,300.00Paper Works, Ink ……… 101.83Phils Towing ………… 125.00Pitkin Mesa Pipeline Co Inc ………………… 53.00Quartermaster ………… 396.98Region 10 League for Economic …………… 1,693.00Scott Leon …………… 189.11Shawn LaBounty Plumbing LLC ……… 2,493.07Slow Food Western Slope ………………… 500.00Snap-On Tools ………… 4,183.45Spring Branch Excavating Inc …………………… 200.00Summit Supply Corp of Colo ………………… 3,168.00The Center for Mental Health ………………… 250.00U.S Tractor & Harvest, Inc. …………………… 465.99UNCC …………………… 98.21United Companies Inc 163.08USDA Forest Service … 1,642.07Weekender Sports, Inc 70.06Winston Water Works LLC …………………… 2,542.53Winwater Corp ……… 17,890.36Bolinger & Queen, Inc 813.64Briscoe & Associates, PC …………………… 2,056.00Information Only Check .00 VDelta Montrose Electric Assn. ………………… 3,605.12Hack Company Inc …… 1,875.19Hanson International Inc …………………… 69.86Hartman Brothers Inc 33.46John Frazier Cornwell Tools ………………… 461.89Kwiki Tire II Inc ……… 20.00Leon, Susan …………… 650.00Loberg, Travis ………… 113.71Mail Services, LLC …… 677.04Medical Systems of Denver Inc ………… 85.00Nationwide Environmental Service ……………… 1,671.41Orion Rising LLC …… 250.00Paonia Car Wash …… 35.70Reedys North Fork Service ……………… 1,415.61Robert's Enterprises Inc …………………… 62.00Snap-On Tools ………… 140.45Southwestern Systems, Inc …………………… 480.50Specialty Printers …… 226.00Spillman Technologies Inc …………………… 3,723.00Tatiltale ………………… 420.00TDS Telecom ………… 505.45TDSNet Internet Services ……………… 129.00UNCC …………………… 53.13USA Blue Book ……… 167.21West's Home Center Ltd …………………… 29.99WestWater Engineering Inc …………………… 1,395.66Totals …………………… 137,945.06Jan. Payroll …………… 47,112.36


District CourtDelta, Colorado5th and Palmer StreetDelta, Colorado 81416ROCKING HORSE WINNERS, LLC,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

EVELYN MARIE WILBURN; KEVIN

J. KLEIN; KEITH D. YERGERT;

MARVIN J. HARRIS; KAREN ANN

FUCHS; SHIRLEY J. HARRIS; EVE

YERGERT; PATRICIA McGOYNE;

ROBERT D. WILBURN; PAM WIL-

BURN, ROBT WILBURN; EVELYN

MAE HARRIS; KATHY BAGLEY;

AND JOHN DOE, ET. AL.

Defendants.

Attorney for Plaintiff:Drew Moore300 Main Street, Suite 101Grand Junction, Colorado 81501Phone Number: (970) 256-9017Atty. Reg. #: 23318

Case Number: 2012 CV 324

Division: 1

SUMMONS

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADOTO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT

You are hereby summoned and required to file with the clerk of this court an answer or other response to the attached com-plaint. If service of the summons and complaint was made upon you within the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 21 days after such service upon you. If service of the summons and com-plaint was made upon you outside of the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after such service upon you.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within the applicable time period. judgment by default may be entered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the com-plaint without further notice.

The following documents are also served herewith: PETITION

FOR DECLARATORY RELIEF PUR-

SUANT TO CRCP 57 AND CRCP

105, SUMMONS and DISTRICT

COURT CIVIL (CV) CASE COVER

SHEET FOR INITIAL PLEADING OF

COMPLIANT FOR DECLARATORY

RELIEF.

Dated at Grand Junction, Colorado, December 20, 2012.

/s/ Drew MooreDrew Moore, #23318Attorney for Plaintiff

Plaintiff's Address:202 N. AvenueGrand Junction, CO 81501This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended. A copy of the Complaint must be served with this summons. This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.TO THE CLERK: If the summons is issued by the clerk of the court, the signature block for the clerk, deputy and seal of the court should be provided by stamp, or type-writer, in the space to the left of the attorney's name.


TOWN OF HOTCHKISS

DECEMBER 2012

DISBURSEMENTS

ATTN: Cashier ………… 9,291.05Chase …………………… 1,253.47Delta Montrose Electric Assoc ………………… 698.00Hotchkiss Post Office … 255.80AMERIGAS …………… 381.97Bank of the West …… 25,550.00Beep West Paging …… 35.00BOSS in Montrose …… 120.00Briscoe & Associates, P.C. …………………… 725.00Caselle, Inc. …………… 644.00Cedaredge Communications …… 325.00Chad Lloyd …………… 15.00City Market-#29 ……… 2,279.50Daniel Miller ………… 15.00Daniel Wilde ………… 60.00Delta County Independent ………… 213.66Delta Montrose Electric Assoc. ……………… 4,491.56Division of Water Resources …………… 600.00Don White …………… 15.00Double J Disposal, Inc 7,952.50Drug Testing, Inc …… 75.00Duckworks Auto Parts 367.32Flowpoint Environment Systems ……………… 795.00Gambles of Hotchkiss 315.87Gates Shaklee ………… 15.00Grand Junction Pipe & Supply ……………… 900.00Greg Allen …………… 15.00Greg's Lawn Service … 165.00HACH Co ……………… 244.58High Country Car Wash 83.06Hotchkiss Automotive 277.35Hotchkiss Fire District 100.00Hotchkiss Meats ……… 136.65Hotchkiss Rentals …… 168.30Hunt's Towing ………… 30.00Kroger-MSC 410066 … 43.79Leonard McCulloch … 15.00Leroux Creek Water Users Assoc ………… 1,975.00Liberty National ……… 67.17Master Petroleum Co 546.74Mesa County Health Depart. ……………… 80.00Michael Owens ……… 15.00Midwest Radar & Equipment ………… 120.00Neil Tripp ……………… 425.00Pine Valley Eco Products, Inc. …………………… 1,290.15Rocky Mountain Locksmith …………… 30.00Source Gas …………… 200.28Sprint …………………… 210.06TDS Telecomm ……… 650.04The Lincoln Nat'l Life Ins. …………………… 685.23Town of Hotchkiss …… 4,258.33Town of Hotchkiss …… 3,860.00Town of Paonia ……… 195.00United Companies …… 181.18USA Blue Book ……… 92.05Utility Notification Center ……………… 12.88Weekender Sports, Inc 3.90WEX Bank ……………… 789.70Wilmore & Co Professional ………… 260.00Pinnacol Assurance … 1,923.00Delta Housing Authority …………… 250.00Marlene F. Searle …… 45.29Tammes Owens ……… 261.65Totals: A/P ……………… 77,096.08Payroll ………………… 33,485.77Total …………………… 110,581.85


LAWFUL NOTIFICATION TO THE

COURTS AFFIDAVIT OF TRUTH

AND FACT

I, Luther Sterling of McCracken family and Chad Mitchell of Rundle family, A living breathing natural born American, of sound mind and having attained age of majority, claiming all GOD given Unalienable rights including Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, have per-sonal knowledge of facts herein stated:This is a LAWFUL NOTIFICATION to the COURTS: They can only bring, Luther S. McCracken and Chad M. Rundle before a Article III, § 2, §§ 1 and §§ 3 COURT Provided for in the "Constitution for the United States of America" ratified September 7, 1787 and the "Bill of Rights" Ratified December 15, 1791.

Published in the Delta County Independent January 16, 23, 30 and February 6, 2013.

PUBLIC NOTICE

The annual meeting of Stockhold-ers in the Grand View Canal Irriga-tion Co. will be held Saturday, Feb-ruary 16, 2013 in the Upstairs Coun-cil Room in the Crawford Town Hall at 1:30 p.m. for the election of of-fi cers, setting of assessments and any other business coming before the meeting.Mark LeValley - PresidentDawna Cotten - Secretary

Published in the Delta County Independent January 23, 30, February 6 and 13, 2013.

OVERLAND DITCH AND

RESERVOIR COMPANY

NOTICE OF ANNUAL

STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING

FEBRUARY 11th, 2013

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the regular annual stockholders’ meet-ing of the Overland Ditch and Res-ervoir Company will be held pursu-ant to the by-laws of said Company at the Redlands Mesa Grange, 2800 Road and Redlands Mesa Road, Hotchkiss, Colorado, on Monday, February 11th, 2013, 7:00 MST, atwhich meeting an election of three (3) Board of Directors shall be held, 2013 assessments will be set, and to act on all other business that may properly come before this meeting.BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORSPhilip Ceriani, President38638 Stucker Mesa Rd.Hotchkiss, CO 81419Debbie Christner, Secretary28444 Redlands Mesa RdHotchkiss, CO 81419


D6 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 CHURCH Delta County Independent

DELTA FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GODEaton & Dodge, Delta • 874-3568

Pastor: Lee PonderSunday: Celebration Service 8:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Celebration Service 11:00 a.m.Tuesday: Bible Study 9:00 a.m.Wednesday: Family night 7:00 p.m. Royal Rangers Missionettes Fireproof Youth (Jr. & Sr. High)Saturday: Men's Prayer Breakfast 6:00 a.m.

LANDMARK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

12th & Grand, Delta • 874-3717Pastor: Ken Gilchrist

Sunday: Sunday School (all ages) 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Sunday Afternoon 2:00 p.m.Wednesday Evening 7:00 p.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST164 Grand Blvd.

(Left on top of 3rd St. Hill) • 874-4971Sunday Bible Study 9:45 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.Sunday Brown Bag Lunch 12:00 NoonSunday Afternoon Service 1:00 p.m.Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m.

EL BUEN PASTORSPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD

860 Crawford Ave., DeltaCarlos & Rosemary Sluder,

Pastors – 874-0167Benjamin y Eunice Aviña Addlescentes – 874-0517Arturo & Alicia Carrasco,

Children – 874-0771Domingo: Escuela Dominical 10:00 a.m. Predicacion 11:00 a.m. Culto de la Tarde y Niños 5:00 p.m.Miercoles: Family Night 7:00 p.m. Jovenes 7:00 p.m.

GUNNISON VALLEYCHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

1721 H Rd., Delta • 874-0848Website: gvcnazarene.org

Email: [email protected] Pastor Terry D. Hedrick

Associate Pastor Edward (Mike) SandridgeSunday: Sunday School for all ages 9:30 a.m. Worship Service: With Worship Leader Gary Lear & The GVC Praise Team Including Children’s Church And Nursery 10:45 a.m.Wednesday: Ladies’ Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Fellowship & Bible Study Including Potluck Dinner 6:00 p.m.Study Groups:Meeting at various places and times throughout the week.

We want to extend a personal invitation to every-one. Please come and make yourself at home.

“Our church could be your home.”“We exist to glorify God by raising up

Christ-centered, Spirit-filled Disciple makers.”

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH4th and Meeker, Delta • 874-4893

Rev. Alisa SecrestAdult/Children’s Sunday School 9:00 a.m.Praise Music 10:15 a.m.Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Child care available

DELTA CHRISTIAN CHURCHReaching the children and youth of

Western Delta CountyI Rd. & 1600 Rd., North Delta • 874-4322

www.deltachristianchurch.orgMinistry Staff: Will Pruett, Jeremy Kane,

Kirsten Alsdorf, Jake SullivanFind us on Facebook at Delta Christian Church

Sunday: Worship First Service 9:30 a.m.Second Service 11:00 a.m.Children’s Church: Age 3-5th grade

Childcare (infant/preschool) all services.For Elem., M.S. & H.S. activities, please call

GARNET MESA BAPTIST CHURCH863 A Street, Delta

Jerry Hilterbrand, Pastor • 874-4837Sunday School 9:45 a.m.Services 11 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.Prayer Meeting (Wednesday) 7:00 p.m.

Independent, Fundamental

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH(Missouri Synod)

1000 Pioneer Road • 874-3052Pastor Jeffrey Ryan

Worship Service 9:00 a.m.Bible Classes and Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

Tiny Treasures Preschool

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST1061 Meeker St., Delta • cofchrist.org

Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 a.m.For more information call 626-3347

CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH (SBC)1290 A St., Delta • 874-9497

Pastor: Randy UnruhWebsite: www.calvarydelta.orgE-Mail: [email protected]

Sunday: Bible Study 9:00 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY751 Meeker St., Delta • 874-8083

Sunday: Bible Lesson Sermon 10:00 a.m.Sunday School 10:00 a.m.Wednesday: Testimony Meeting 7:00 p.m.

Child Care Provided • Everyone Welcome

GRAND MESA BIBLE CHURCH710 Crawford Ave., Delta • 874-8315

Pastor Gary CulpSunday School For All Ages 9:30 a.m.Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Please call for information about Bible studies and Prayer times

FIRST CHURCH OF GOD1102 Howard St., Delta • Church 874-4647

deltafirstchurchofgod.comBob and Linda Aubery

Sunday School Classes for All Ages 9:00 a.m.Sunday Worship Service 10:15 a.m.Wed. Bible Study (Fellowship Hall) 2:00 p.m.Wed. Cedaredge Bible Study (856-3854) 4:00 p.m.Prayer Chain Contact Janice Bridwell 874-4621

MARANATHA FELLOWSHIP(The LORD Cometh)

1712 H Road, Delta • 874-9135Pastor Earl Douglas

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.Sunday Night 6:00 p.m.Wed. Prayer & Bible Study 6:30 p.m.

All Welcome

ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH“Loyal to the orthodox Christianfaith as received by Anglicanism”

5th & Palmer St., Delta • Rector's Study: 874-9489Pastor Tom Seibert

Holy Eucharist and Sunday School (Sunday) 10:15 a.m.Order of St. Luke & Healing Service, First Monday each month 6:00 p.m.Morning Prayer/Communion Wednesday 10:30 a.m.

ST. ANDREW THE APOSTLE ORTHODOX

298 Bert St., Delta • 874-5225www.saintandrewsdelta.org

Father Daniel JonesSaturday Great Vespers 5:00 p.m.Sunday Divine Liturgy 9:30 a.m.Please call: for feast day services schedule

SEVENTH-DAYADVENTIST CHURCH

763 Meeker St., DeltaPastor: Seth Coridan

Sabbath School Saturday 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.Prayer Meetings Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRISTOF LATTER DAY SAINTS

1679 Pioneer Rd., Delta • 874-3444Corner of E. 16th St./F Rd. and Pioneer Rd.

Sunday: Uncompahgre Ward 9:00 a.m. Delta Ward 11:00 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DELTAAmerican Baptist Church

1250 Pioneer Road, Delta • 874-3847deltafirstbaptist.org

Pastor James ConleySunday:Sunday School 9:15 a.m.Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.Sunday Night Church 6:00 p.m.Wednesday:Middle School Blitz 6:00 p.m.AWANA (Sept.-April) 6:00 p.m.Saturday:Men’s Bible Study 7:30 a.m.High School Saturday Night Live 7:00 p.m.

COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Meets at Bill Heddles Recreation Center, DeltaRon Howard, Pastor

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.Children’s Church Provided

Home Bible Studies AvailableInformation: call 200-7816 or 874-4372

ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH628 Meeker St., Delta • 874-3300

Father Canice Enyiaka Saturday: Confession 4:00-5:00 p.m. Mass 5:30 p.m.Sunday: English Mass 10:00 a.m. Spanish Mass 12:00 NoonDaily Mass Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING658 Howard St., Delta

Rev. Joy Robinson • 874-3425Sunday Services 10:30 a.m.Children’s Classes 10:30 a.m.

Science of Mind Classes Also Available

DELTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH5th & Meeker Streets, Delta • Office — 874-9501

[email protected] Siaosi Prescott

Sunday Worship Service 8:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.Youth Group 5:30 p.m.Communion Worship 1st Sunday

RIVER OF LIFE CHURCH1065 E. 7th St., Delta • 874-0308 • Cell: 314-0116

Pastors David & Michele MurphySunday:Prayer Time 9:00 a.m.Annointed Worship & Praise 9:30 a.m. Annointed preaching to follow

Where the fire & glory of God are manifested

AGAPE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPOF DELTA

326 Main St., Suite 103 (Columbine Mall), Delta(970)201-7013

Pastor Jason HavertapeSunday Service 10:30 a.m.Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

THUNDER MOUNTAIN CHURCH OF CHRIST

800 Palmer St., DeltaSundays: Bible Classes 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

(Children’s church available)Weekly home Bible studiesInformation: 234-7816

COWBOY CHURCH AT THE Z-BARN1384 Hwy. 50, north of Delta on west side

Info: (970) 256-7299Worship & Service Saturday 6:00 p.m.1st & 3rd Sat. — Pastors Don & Meme Carey2nd & 4th Sat. — Pastor Bobby Clement

Also, offering Christ-centered horse events.Come as you are! Cowboy hats welcome!

DEREKH HAMASHIYACH(Way of the Messiah)

Community Messianic FellowshipMeets in Cedaredge • For directions call 589-6142

Shabbat (Saturday) 10:00 a.m.Tuesday Evening Midrash 6:30 p.m.

[email protected] for deaf available

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CEDAREDGE

370 W. Main St., Cedaredge • 856-3830P.O. Box 400, Cedaredge, CO 81413

Email: [email protected] Pastor Dik Abbott

Sunday:Sunday School for All Ages 9:00 a.m.Morning Worship Service 10:15 a.m. Children’s Church AvailableEvening Service 6:00 p.m.Wednesday:Bible Study 6:00 p.m.AWANA and Youth 6:30 p.m.

GRAND MESA SOUTHERNBAPTIST CHURCH

110 S.E. Jay Ave., Cedaredge • 856-4672Rev. Steven Puls

Bible Study 9:30 a.m.Worship Service 10:45 a.m.Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.Team Kid (Wednesday) 6:00 p.m.Prayer & Bible Study (Wednesday) 7:00 p.m.Brotherhood Breakfast (1st Saturday) 8:00 a.m.Fellowship Breakfast (last Tuesday) 8:00 a.m.

(at Ole Bakery)

ECKERT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH13025 Highway 65, Eckert • 835-3441

P.O. Box 7Pastor Jo DeVinny

Sunday: Morning Worship: Year Round 10:30 a.m.Children’s Sunday School during worshipThursday: Bible Study Held at Big E Market 7:30 a.m.

NEW HOPE EVANGELICALFREE CHURCH

17464 Surface Creek Rd., Cedaredgewww.newhopefree.orgPastor Bill Williamson

856-4458Sunday Worship Service 10:00 a.m.Children’s Church 10:45 a.m.

Nursery AvailableMen’s Breakfast 1st & 3rd Sat. 7:00 at Ministry CenterMen’s Prayer 2nd & 4th Sat. at churchYouth Groups — schedules vary Call for time and place

CEDAREDGE COMMUNITYUNITED METHODIST CHURCH

3rd & Aspen, PO Box 369, Cedaredge • [email protected]

Pastor Deb EdwardsVickie Richards-Street, Pastoral Associate

Bob Watts, Pastor EmeritusSunday School 9:00 a.m.Worship Service 10:00 a.m.Youth Group 4:00 p.m.Communion Worship First SundayYouth and Adult Choirs, Bible Studies, Nursery

OPEN HEARTS! OPEN MINDS! OPEN DOORS!

CEDAREDGE ASSEMBLY OF GOD1596 S.W. 9th St., Cedaredge • 856-3586

Bob Hillyer - Senior PastorMarvin Pemberton - Assoc. Pastor

Youth Pastor: Eric MusilJanet Noble - Children

Sunday School 9:00 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 a.m.Wed. Family Night: Adult Bible Study, Youth & Children's Ministries 7:00 p.m.Men's Breakfast (Saturday) 7:00 a.m.

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ALL SAINTSLUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA

20101 Deer Creek Rd., Austin • 835-3667www.allsaintslutheranco.org

Tom Lange, PastorSunday: Worship 10:00 a.m. Adult Bible Class 9:00 a.m. Children’s Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Open Communion (1st & 3rd Sundays)

ST. PHILIP BENIZI CATHOLIC CHURCH290 N.W. Cedar Ave., P.O. Box 713

Cedaredge, CO 81413Rev. Canice Enyiaka, Pastor

Sunday: 8:00 a.m. MassTuesday: 6:00 p.m. Mass

For more information, call 970-856-6495

SURFACE CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH

21987 Austin Road • [email protected]

John Copper, Pastor • 856-4675Sunday: Worship Service 10:00 a.m.with Children’s Church and nursery providedWednesday: Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE2291 Q25 Road, Cedaredge • 856-6137Pastors John and MaryLouise Dannels

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH290 S.W. 2nd Ave., Cedaredge • 210-3398

Pastor Seth CoridanSabbath School Saturday 9:15 a.m.Morning Worship 10:50 a.m.Prayer Meeting Wednesday 3:00 p.m.

PAONIA FRIENDS CHURCH409 3rd St., Paonia • 527-6151

Pastor Gaylen KinserSunday: SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 9:00 a.m. with NURSERY for children 19 mos.-3 years SUNDAY SCHOOL for ages 19 months-adults 10:00 a.m.

SADDLE MOUNTAIN FELLOWSHIP“Common Ground in Christ”

Non-denominational3842 Stearman Lane, Crawford • 921-LORD (5673)

Pastor Jerry DuttonSunday Worship Service 8:30 & 10:30 a.m.Coffee & Fellowship 10:00 a.m.Children’s Church and Nursery 10:30 a.m.

Youth Group and Adult Life Studies

MOUNTAIN VIEW BIBLE CHURCHLazear, CO – 872-2139

Pastor Jim Jesser – 323-6412Youth Pastor Jake Erickson - 872-6329

Sunday School 9:45 a.m.Morning Service 11:00 a.m.Evening Service & Youth Night 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Service 7:00 p.m.

Christ Centered Country Church Independent and Fundamental

HOTCHKISS COMMUNITYUNITED METHODIST CHURCH

2nd & Orchard, Hotchkiss • Office: 872-3540Pastor John Hiestand • 872-4881

Sanctuary is handicapped accessibleChildren's and Adult’s Sunday School 9:45 a.m.Worship Service 11:00 a.m.Peace Circle, 2nd Tues. 12:30 p.m.Wearhouse hours: Monday 9 a.m.-3:00 p.m.UMW Meet 3rd Saturday 9:00 a.m.

National Historical Register site

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHOF HOTCHKISS

203 W. Main, Hotchkiss • Church 872-3313Sunday School (all ages) 9:45 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.Sunday Evening Service 5:00 p.m.After School Program (K-8) Wed. 3:45 p.m.Adult Bible Study & Prayer Wed. 7:00 p.m.Youth Group/Teen Bible Study Wed. 7:00 p.m.

Also offering counseling, men’s prayer meetings, ladies’ Bible study, teen outings, nursery and a food pantry. Contact Pastor Jake DeField for

more information.

PAONIAUNITED METHODIST CHURCH2nd and Onarga, Paonia • 970-527-3348

Pastor Russell FletcherBible Study 9:30 a.m.Sunday School 9:30 a.m.Worship 10:30 a.m.Youth Group 6:00 p.m.

Child care provided every Sun. and on special occasions.

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH(Missouri Synod)

5th & North Fork, Paonia at the Northwest corner of City Park

Pastor Duane O. Daeke • 527-3232Morning Worship 9:00 a.m.Lent Worship Wednesday 7:00 p.m.Bible Study following worship service

Visitors Always Welcome.

HOTCHKISS CHURCH OF CHRIST175 N. 1st St., Hotchkiss • 527-3225

Minister Windell HowardSunday Service 10:30 a.m.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRISTOF LATTER-DAY SAINTS5th and Oak, Paonia • 527-4239

Bishop Stephen W. BaylesSacrament Meeting 10:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m.Sunday School 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.Priesthood & Relief Society 12:10-1:00 p.m.

NORTH FORK CHURCH OF CHRIST

40259 M Rd., Paonia • 970-527-5443Sunday Morning 10:00 a.m.Wednesday Evening 5:00 p.m.

Teaching Sound Bible Doctrine

BIBLE CENTER CHURCH1117 Third Street, Paonia • 527-4629

www.biblecenteronline.comJohn Owen, Pastor

Sunday School 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.Awana Clubs - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

NORTH FORK BAPTIST CHURCH639 Samuel Wade Rd., Paonia • 527-4644

www.nfbcpaonia.orgPastor Tobey Williams

Bible Study 9:45 a.m.Worship Service 11:00 a.m.Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:00 p.m.

Nursery Provided

CRAWFORD COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH297 Dogwood Ave., Crawford • 921-3300

Rev. John HiestandSunday Worship 9:00 a.m.Adult Education 8:00 a.m.Children’s Education 9:00 a.m.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF PAONIA

227 Oak Ave., Paonia • 527-7291 • 527-3450P.O. Box 413, Paonia, CO 81428

Pastor Ed HollettSunday School 9:30 a.m.Traditional Church Service 10:45 a.m.

PAONIA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH

235 Box Elder Avenue, Paonia • 527-3161www.paoniachristianfellowship.com

Pastor Scott McIntireSunday Services: Sunday School for ages 2-112 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:15 a.m. Children’s Church 10:15 a.m.Monday Ladies Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Young Ladies Bible Study ages 12-18 6:30 p.m. Men’s Bible Study 7:00 p.m.Tuesday Ladies Bible Study 1:00 p.m.Wednesday: Converge for Ages 7-12 4:30 p.m. Youth Dinner 6:15 p.m. Youth Group Grades 7 & Up 7:00 p.m.

Please join our family for a variety of music and worship.

Something for everyone!

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH235 North Fork, Paonia • 527-3214

Saturday Evening Mass 5:00 p.m.Sunday Mass 8:30 a.m.

ST. MARGARET MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH

Bridge & Pinon St., Hotchkiss • 527-3214Sunday Mass 11:00 a.m.

PAONIA SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTCHURCH

41006 Lamborn Dr., PO Box 932, Paonia, CO 81428Pastor Seth Coridan • 970-210-3398

Saturday Services 9:00 a.m.Discover Answers to Life’s Deepest Questions:

Hope Channel 368 on Direct TV

OLD KING JAMES BIBLEBAPTIST CHURCH

112 Main St., Olathe • 970-497-0790Pastor Brian Lopiccolo

Sunday School 9:30 a.m.Preaching 10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 p.m.

ST. JOSEPH’S TRADITIONALROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Latin Mass59350 Carnation Rd., Olathe • 323-0243

Sunday Masses 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m.Rosary & Confessions 1/2 hour before each mass

Daily masses as scheduled

LIVING WORD LUTHERAN CHURCH2820 Peyton Dr., Montrose • 249-4405

Pastor Matthew FreySunday Service 9:00 a.m.Sunday School/Bible Study 10:15 a.m.Wednesday Night Bible Study 4:00 p.m.

QUAKER SILENT WORSHIP2900 Sunnyside Rd., Montrose

(St. Paul’s Episcopal)970-417-6639 or 970-874-8979

Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.Coffee, tea and fellowship 11:30 a.m.

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Redeemer Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) at 1000 Pioneer Road in Delta will open the annu-al penitential season of Lent with its observance of Ash Wednesday next week. Redeemer will offer two services on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, one at 12:10 p.m. and the other at 7 p.m. The impo-sition of ashes as well as Holy Communion will be offered at both services. The noon-hour service is offered for working people who might find this time more convenient as well as for older ones who don’t like getting out and driv-ing at night.

Ash Wednesday, observed by Western Christianity on the church

calendar 40 weekdays before Easter, always marks the beginning of the six-week Lenten season. It is observed by marking a cross with ashes on the foreheads of worshippers as a sign of mourning and repentance to God for their sins in remembrance of the suffering and sacrifice made for their redemp-tion by Jesus’ death on the cross. Ash Wednesday is not only observed tradi-tionally by Catholics and Lutherans, but by many other Christian denomi-nations as well.

Wednesday mid-week services will continue to be held at Redeemer Luther-an Church throughout the Lenten season, culminat-ing in special Holy Week

observances and Easter Sunday.

Pastor Jeffrey Ryan welcomes all to worship with Redeemer Lutheran Church throughout the season of Lent.

Two Ash Wednesday services offered at Redeemer Lutheran

Musicalworship

Everyone is invited to a musical worship service at Mountain View Bible Church in Lazear (3100 Road) on Sunday, Feb. 10, at 11 a.m. The message of Christ will be proclaimed through scripture and a musical program pre-sented by Vern Davis and pianist Sharon Clark.

Hotchkiss United Methodist Church will celebrate an Ash Wednes-day service on Feb. 13. The service will begin promptly at noon and end at 12:30 p.m. Fol-lowing the service a soup luncheon will be offered in Stewart Hall for all who wish to enjoy a sim-ple lunch. This service is being offered so that

those who cannot get out in the evening will have a chance to enjoy the ser-vice. It’s also hoped many from the working commu-nity will be able to enjoy a lunch hour with some worship, a lunch and fel-lowship. Please plan to be with Hotchkiss United Methodist Church as the observance of the Lenten season begins.

Lent begins withAsh Wednesday service

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Delta will serve its annual Shrove Tuesday pancake sup-per Feb. 12 beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon,

sausage, juice, coffee and tea are on the menu. A freewill offering will be accepted.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is located at 145 West 5th Street in Delta.

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Since Cambodia is located in southeast Asia, Asian dishes are suggested for the pot-luck meal. Beverages will be provided.

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D8 Wednesday, February 6, 2013 BACK PAGE Delta County Independent

BY VERNA BARR,Staff Writer

Adapted from a story by Susan Wilmot.

Come meet Linda Bull and her regular group of spirited exercise

enthusiasts. Cedaredge hosts a tri-weekly workout session free of charge for anyone ram-bunctious enough to hang with this group. There have been as many as 50 people who have shown up for class. The group attracts both men and women working together and encouraging one another. The ages of participants span many decades from 20 to 80 years or more.

Physical Therapist Linda Bull, employed by Delta County Memorial Hospital, started the classes six years ago when she was recruited by a friend to lead an exercise group at the Cedaredge Com-munity Center. A few chang-es have occurred in location over time as the group con-tinued to grow. At one point the class was held outdoors in the Cedaredge City Park, until the winter chill blew the group indoors.

The class gathers Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Stolte Shed for a full hour of move-ment therapy. In addition, an evening class started January 10 on Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. This group accommodates those who are unable to attend during day-time hours and those who choose to take part five days a week. The evening class will continue until spring.

As a therapist, Linda works with patients whose medical

history is known to her. Now she has the responsibility of looking after entire groups spanning vastly differing fit-ness levels. She is a natural born leader and a strong fit-ness instructor.

Each class begins with participants sitting on chairs, with attention to posture, breathing, stretching, and strengthening exercises using Therabands as resis-tance. Linda runs through a

whole gambit of exercises that strengthen each large mus-cle group in legs and arms. Abdominal work brings on groaning.

Everyone tries to keep it down because if groans are too loud, Linda adds another set. Balancing exercises are next . . . standing on one foot, moving it forward and back and then shifting weight to the other foot.

The fun revs up with the last 20 minutes of aerobic exercise consisting of march-ing, dancing and specific foot movements to engage an accel-erated heart rate and coordi-nation. Everyone checks his or her pulse between songs to determine how hard hearts are working.

Sharon Johnson and Doro-thy Mergelman serve in the crucial role of DJ. The music blasting from a boom box is a catalyst for robust participa-tion. They choose the tunes, including many old-time rock-and-roll songs, bringing everyone back to the years of youthful liveliness while Linda leads the group with vigorous enthusiasm.

This is a serious (and seri-ously fun) workout, not for the faint of heart! Everyone is reminded to check in with his or her own bodies, push-ing each to a healthy level of movement without overdoing it. Participants are encour-aged to workout at their own level. Beginners and those with less ability are welcome and encouraged by others in the group.

The class is free of charge, though participants are encouraged to become mem-bers of the Surface Creek His-torical Society and a donation jar is there to help cover utili-ties. On occasion the group voluntarily stays after class to give the Stolte Shed a once over clean up. Participants volunteer their services as needed. Everyone benefits from this cooperation.

Bodies need exercise and are designed to move. This is true through every stage of living but as the years tick on it becomes imperative to engage in regular exercise. When bodies are engaged in stretching, strength building, balance and aerobic exercise we are much less prone to falls and injuries. Our energy levels improve and we’re bet-ter able to participate in an active life.

Exercise encourages lymph flow for healthy immune sys-tems; meanwhile movement pumps synovial fluid, flushing joints while nourishing con-nective tissues allowing for less pain as we move through-out our busy days.

Regular exercise lowers blood pressure and blood sug-ars, decreasing the need for medication.

Of course the benefit of socialization can’t be over stated. There’s nothing like the dynamics of a supportive group to enliven spirits and give the impetus to exercise stronger and longer than if left to ourselves.

This class could be called, “the laugh a lots!” Laugh-ing is fundamental to health and lifting our spirits. Linda, along with several other quip-sters in the group, keeps the laughs and smiles rolling.

Here’s to Linda Bull for showing up three times a week for six years and now five times a week, consis-tently helping our community stay strong, healthy and inju-ry free.

Thanks to Delta County Memorial Hospital for spon-soring this class and donating the Therabands, and the Sur-face Creek Historical Society for donating the use of the Stolte Shed for this communi-ty class which is encouraging many to “use it, not lose it!”

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Use it, Use it, not lose it!not lose it!

Photos by Verna BarrCarol Robertson has been working out for a little over a year wth the exercise group gathering at the Stolte Shed in Cedaredge. “All the women in my family have had high cholesterol,” said Carol. “It has dropped signifi cantly. Exercising did it!”

Glen Hansen started the program three or four years ago when the group was meeting at the Com-munity Center. He says that the program has absolutely helped with his Parkinson’s disease. “I go faithfully fi ve times a week now. I enjoy the exercises and socializing with others.”

Sharon Wallace joined the class two years ago. She was on blood pressure medication. She said, “Now, the medicine is no longer needed. I don’t want to miss a single class.”

Linda Bull leads exercise classes at the Stolte Shed in Cedaredge. Morty Baran has attended regularly for the past 18 months following two surgeries and three and a half weeks of rehabilitation while he learned to walk again. He said, “I have gained strength and mobility. Everyone works at their own pace, starting easy and working into it. Now I don’t need to think about it when walking.”

Polly Pulver has been tak-ing classes for one and a half years. She said, “The exercise has reduced my blood pressure medi-cations. It has given me enough strength to allow me to continue cross coun-try skiing and through socializing I’ve met a new friend who will be cross country skiing with me.”

Harold Schoffroth says, “I am 70 years old and have Parkin-son’s disease. The cardiovascular and stretching exercises have been a great help in increasing my strength. The social aspects with chit-chat have been helpful as well.” Nathan Key (on the right), is another regular participant.

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