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What happened in Vegas has come to Denver.After being held in Sin City for 37 years, the world’s

largest snow sports retail show is starting its 11-year

run in Denver today. The SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow

Show is expected to bring approximately 17,000 peo-

Colo. welcomesSIA Snow Show World’s largest snow sports retail show,

which starts today, is no longer in Las Vegas

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ple, and translate into around $30-$34 million, to the Denver area this weekend.

“This is one of the most significant bookings in the city’s history,” said Rich Grant of Visit Denver. “The 11-year commitment is really unprecedented. The to-tal economic value from this convention will bring more spending to Denver than the cost of expanding the convention center.”

And Richard Scharf, president and CEO of Visit Denver, said the Snow Show is now at home.

“Denver has more snow sports enthusiasts per capi-ta than any other city in America,” Scharf said. “Now that Denver is hosting the world’s largest snow sports retail show, the city has the opportunity to roll out the ‘white carpet’ and welcome this convention and at the same time celebrate our position as the snow sports capital of the country.”

The sold-out event that’s only open to members in [See SKI SHOW, page 5]

[See THE UPDATE, pages 6-7]

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NOAA: Snow likely for today ...

Local skier Andrew Couperthwait takes some time off from his new position as the North American product manager for Head Tyrolia to enjoy some fresh powder in the Vail area. The National Weather Service says snow is likely in the Vail Valley for today, with a 40 percent chance for tonight. Jeff Cricco photo.

Beaver Creek Bon Appétit magazine’s 12th Annual Master Chef Classic kicks off today, with epicurean enthusiasts getting the chance to get up close and personal with some of the world’s great-est chefs for exclusive dinners, tastings

and informative culinary seminars. Today’s Master Chef Cooking Class

and Wine Luncheon is sold out, but there’s were still a few spots available as of last night at the Master Chef Su-shi Workshop, set for 3 p.m. at the Bea-

ver Creek Chophouse. The class give you the chance to learn from Master Sushi Chef Hidekazu Tojo of Tojo’s in Vancouver. Students will also be able to enjoy sips and bites prepared by lo-

Bon Appetite Master Chef Classic begins today at Beaver Creek

Terrifying Moreau video seen in court

[See BON APPETITE, page 5]

+41.87Stocks reversed an early slide and

ended higher Wednesday after the Fed-eral Reserve issued a more upbeat as-sessment of the economy. Major stock indexes were down before the Fed re-leased its statement following a two-day meeting on interest rates, then advanced as investors digested the central bank’s comments. Treasury prices also reversed direction, falling after the announcement as investors withdrew money from safe haven holdings. The Dow Jones indus-trial average rose 41.87, or 0.4 percent, to 10,236.16. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 5.33, or 0.5 percent, to 1,097.50. The Nasdaq composite index rose 17.68, or 0.8 percent, to 2,221.41.

N. Korea opens fire on southern border

North Korea resumed firing artillery Thursday near its disputed western sea border with South Korea, an official said, a day after the country fired dozens of shells and prompted South Korea to fire back a barrage of warning shots.

North Korea fired several rounds of artillery toward the border early Thurs-day and the shells are believed to have landed in North Korean waters, an offi-cial at the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The official, speaking condition of anonym-ity citing department policy, said South Korea didn’t respond. No casualties or

Richard “Rossi” Moreau squirmed in his chair while sitting at the defendant’s table, watching video showing him shoot his unarmed victims, killing a re-cently retired doctor.

Dr. Gary Kitching died Nov. 9, 2009, on the floor of the Sandbar in West Vail, after Moreau shot him three times, the prosecution’s video shows. It had its first public viewing in yesterday’s preliminary hearing.

The video, the centerpiece of the prosecution’s case against Moreau, shows Moreau doing what he’s accused of doing – shooting Kitching three times,

By Randy WyrickMountaineer Staff Writer

[See MOREAU, pages 8-9]

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We are local high school graduates writing in support of the Hidden Gems Wilderness Proposal.

We grew up here fishing in mountain streams, stirring grouse in groves of aspen, ski touring through silent stands of conifer, climbing high peaks and glissading back down. We stalked deer and elk, tempted raging runoffs, dove into frigid alpine lakes, and pondered the beauty of it all in fields of wildflowers. The wilds were our classroom. Our field trips, mostly right out the backdoor, exposed us to natural sciences that most kids experience on DVD.

We understand the uniqueness of this place and these experiences—they made us who we are. They are why we choose to remain nearby, why we’ve lured loved ones from distant places to call this home, and why we’ve chosen to raise families here. We have an obli-gation to protect these places and these opportunities for future generations.

Local wild lands are increasingly threatened by de-velopment and other activities. Climate change pres-ents a less understood and maybe more grave threat to our forests, wildlife, and water. These areas are not only places we go to ski, hike, fish, hunt, camp and to find solitude, they are critical to the prosperity of our communities and the health of our natural resources.

The Hidden Gems Wilderness proposal offers an opportunity to protect a few of the wildest remaining lands in the White River National Forest. The Hidden Gems are generally lower in elevation than existing wilderness. They provide migration corridors and habi-tat for a wider array of wildlife, and they encompass a huge variety of forest types. But like existing wilder-ness these areas are magnificent and they deserve the

strongest protections that we can afford. Truth be told, we can’t afford anything less than wilderness designa-tion for these lands.

JFK said “The supreme reality of our time is... the vulnerability of our planet.”

Thoreau reminded “In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

The Hidden Gems Wilderness proposal is backed up by years of research, outreach, and negotiations. Please join us in supporting protection of a few of the last pieces of wilderness quality land left here in and around the White River National Forest. Future valley grads will thank you.

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Colorado lawmakers have an un-likely ally in their first attempt to curb the state’s booming medical marijuana industry: owners of the some of the shops that sell pot.

Many dispensary owners say they’re on board with regulations if they give them uniform guidelines and avert a more severe crackdown like one approved this week in Los Angeles. Hundreds of Los Angeles pot shops face closure after the City Council voted Tuesday to cap the number of dispensaries in the city at 70.

The Colorado proposal — which a legislative committee approved 6-1 Wednesday — would make it more difficult for recreational pot users to become legal medical mari-juana patients. It would bar doctors from working out of dispensaries, make it illegal for them to offer dis-counts to patients who agree to use a designated dispensary, and require follow-up doctor visits.

Most of the 150 people at the hearing opposed the bill. Many of them worry it will cost them hun-dreds of dollars on top of the $90 annual fee they pay to register as a medical marijuana user.

William Chengelis said he can’t get his regular Veterans Adminis-tration doctors to sign off on medi-cal marijuana and said buying pot illegally and paying the $100 fine

would be cheaper than paying a pri-vate doctor for follow-up visits.

“I cannot afford this bill,” Chen-gelis told lawmakers.

In response, the committee backed allowing the state to waive the $90 fee for those who can’t af-ford it. Sponsor Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, said he would also see if there was a way to allow dispensa-ries to reimburse veterans for doc-tor visits.

While some advocates see any regulations as a violation of the medical marijuana law passed by voters in 2000, many dispensaries say they welcome the certainty that more regulation would provide.

“We’re saying we really can’t op-erate without any rules,” said Matt Brown, a medical marijuana patient and leader of a coalition of about 150 dispensaries and over 1,000 pa-tients.

Another bill still in the works could set up more regulations on dispensaries and suppliers.

Colorado cities are also looking to lawmakers to pass regulations. Hundreds of dispensaries have popped up across the state — in empty storefronts, office buildings and even a historic movie theater.

Some cities have passed morato-riums on pot shops as they figure out how to regulate them and wait for more guidance from the state.

The Denver suburb of Centennial voted to ban dispensaries and close a shop that had already opened, but a court blocked that move.

“Everyone is waiting to see what happens this (legislative) session,” said Mark Radtke, a lobbyist for the Colorado Municipal League.

Colorado already has some rules in place for medical marijuana dis-pensaries, including prohibiting dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools, day cares and other dispen-saries. Felons convicted within the last five years would be barred from running shops. Dispensary owners would have to be licensed, pass a criminal background check and pay a $2,000 application fee along with $3,000 a year to renew licenses.

The rules are set to take ef-fect March 1, although they could change depending on what state lawmakers to decide to do.

Fear that dispensaries would at-tract crime has been raised by those concerned about the growth of dis-pensaries. But police in Denver are discounting that.

Police say medical marijuana dispensaries were robbed or bur-glarized at a lower rate than liquor stores or even banks last year. A memo reported by The Denver Post on Wednesday says they were hit at about the same rate as pharmacies.

New proposal says you really have to be sick to get medical marijuana

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State legislative committee approved measure yesterday


Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s Kaytlyn Samuelson won her sec-ond downhill in a row yesterday in Winter Park.

Samuleson was one of three SSCV women to ski their way into the top five spots in the Surefoot Colorado Ski Cup. Samuelson took her num-ber 13 spot and turned it into gold with a 1:17.86 to beat out Aspen’s Katherine Ryan.

Samuelson said the races, her

first downhills of the season, were a rush.

“I try not to over think what I’m doing,” Samuelson said. “I just treat it like a training run, and this helps me perform the best I can. If I’ve performed to what I wanted to do, then I’m pleased.”

As for the other two SSCV wom-en skiing their way into the top five, Anne Strong placed fourth with a 1:19.06, and Celine Guilmineau

was right on Strong’s heels finish-ing in 5th with a 1:19.10, only .04 seconds behind her teammate.

SSCV’s men had Nathan Asoian move up one spot from his 4th in Tuesday’s downhill to 3rd place in yesterday, while Cannon O’Brien moved up from 15th in the first downhill to 12th in the second race. Christoph Nederhauser made it into the top 20, crossing the finish line in 17th place.

SSCV’s Samuelson wins 2nd downhill in a row

Tiger Woods’ odds of playing the Masters have been cut. The world’s No. 1 golfer is taking an indefinite break from the game ever since a November car crash outside his home in Florida and reports of marital in-fidelity. Shortly after the crash, William Hill, a British bookie, was giving 4-6 odds that Woods would be back in time for the Masters in April. On Wednesday, the

company cut the odds to 1-4.Adams said they have taken 224 bets, and 217 of

them are that Woods will be playing at the Augusta Na-tional. At 1-4 odds, a $4 bet returns $5; at 4-6 odds, a $6 bet returns $10. Adams said the bets have come from all over the world, with at least one coming from Dubai via the Internet.

Bookies cut odds of Woods in Masters

With the omission of a time trial prologue, which many feel is a stale means of starting an important three-week race, the 2011 Tour de France will start with a flat stage in the Vendee region on the western coast.

The race will start on July 2, 2011 in the windy Vend-ee region for just the fourth time in the race’s 107-year history. The previous races that started there were in 1993, 1999 and 2005.

Race director Christian Prudhomme said Tuesday that dispensing with the traditional opening prologue, which favors sprinters and often creates early time gaps, will give all types of riders a chance to win.

“Every rider can say it’s going to be me in the yel-low jersey, which is not possible with a time trial (pro-logue),” Prudhomme reportedly said according to a Yahoo cycling blogger.

The 180-kilometer (111.6-mile) first stage from Pas-sage du Gois to Mont Des Alouettes will be followed by a 23-kilometer (14.3-mile) team time trial around Les Essarts on July 3. The race ends July 24.

Seven-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong, who first wore the yellow jersey after winning the prologue at Le Puy du Fou in 1999 as he returned to racing fol-lowing cancer treatment, also has fond memories of the Vendee region. In 2005, Armstrong also beat rival Jan Ullrich in the prologue from Fromentine to Noirmouti-er, overtaking the German in a display of dominance that paved the way for his seventh straight Tour win.

Armstrong plans to be back for this year’s Tour and some think he’s stronger than in ‘09 when he finished third. Alberto Contador of Spain won the 2009 Tour.

’11 Tour to feature fresh startATHLETIC STUFF

U.S. speedskating star Shani Da-vis has decided not to go for a five pack and cut his Vancover Winter Olympic races off at four. Guy Thi-bault, the high-performance direc-tor at U.S. Speedskating, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Davis withdrew his name from the 10,000 before a Jan. 17 deadline

for final entries to be submitted to the international skating federation. Jonathan Kuck will take Davis’ place.

“He basically told us he was not interested in doing the 10K anymore,” Thibault said in a tele-phone interview from U.S. Speed-skating headquarters in suburban

Salt Lake City.Davis became the first black

athlete to win a Winter Olympics individual gold at the 2006 Turin Games. He holds the world records and is favored to win gold in both the 1,000 and 1,500.

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the snow sports industry will feature more than 3,100 exhibitors representing more than 800 snow sports brands. Featured at the show will be the hottest snow sports trends, innovations, educational seminars, product presen-tations, events, concerts, meetings and parties.

“The city of Denver has rolled out the red carpet for the entire snow sports in-dustry and we’re encouraging members to take advantage of everything the city and state of Colorado has to offer,” said a statement from David Ingemie, SIA president.

Buyers and sellers of winter sports products at the Snow Show similarly expressed enthusiasm that the event has moved from Las Vegas to Denver.

Tracy Gibbons, owner of Sturtevant’s in Vellevue, Wash., is among the buyers at the SIA Snow Show ex-

cited about the opportunity to see all the newest winter products in the Convention Center.

“I am happy to see the show move to Denver after all these years. It will be refreshing to be in a new environment and especially nice to be in a commu-nity where we are really wanted,” he said in a statement.

The SIA Snow Show boasts much more than just products. Other high-lights include the Premier Snow Fash-ion Show, the official announcement of the 2010 SIA U.S. and Canadian SnowSports Retailers and Reps of the Year, brand events, parties, and a full line-up of free seminars for show at-tendees. The Snow Show will also host a Winter Olympics exhibit that will

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The event continues all weekend. Highlights include a Master Chef Challenge, cooking classes, wine and spirits seminars and the signature Grand Tasting event. Beaver Creek chefs will be joined by the following guest chefsselected by Bon Appétit magazine:

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John, Elizabeth Edwards separate

after 30 yearsElizabeth Edwards has separated from husband John

Edwards, the former presidential candidate who lied about cheating on his cancer-stricken wife and the child he fathered during his affair.

The disclosure Wednesday came as a longtime aide to the two-time candidate promotes a tell-all book that provides an unflattering portrait of the couple and the tumultuous relationship they tried to maintain after he first acknowledged the liaison. Another wrenching twist for a couple that had previously weathered the death of a 16-year-old son and Elizabeth’s ongoing battle with incurable cancer.

They were law school sweethearts who got married just days after they took the bar exam together in the summer of 1977. Though John Edwards, 56, later went on to make millions as a trial lawyer, the couple had humble beginnings: He had to borrow money from her parents for a one-night honeymoon. She always wore her $11 wedding ring. For years they spent their an-niversaries going to Wendy’s, just as they did on their first one.

Study: Less than a penny per dollar going to Haitian

Government Less than a penny of each dollar the U.S. is spend-

ing on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Asso-ciated Press review of relief efforts.

Two weeks after President Obama announced an ini-tial $100 million for Haiti earthquake relief, U.S. gov-ernment spending on the disaster has nearly quadrupled to $379 million, the U.S. Agency for International De-velopment announced Wednesday. That’s about $1.25 each from everyone in the United States.

Each American dollar roughly breaks down like this: 42 cents for disaster assistance, 33 cents for U.S. mil-itary aid, nine cents for food, nine cents to transport the food, five cents for paying Haitian survivors for recovery efforts, just less than one cent to the Haitian government, and about half a cent to the Dominican Republic.

Relief experts say it would be a mistake to send too much direct cash to the Haitian government, which was already unstable before the quake and routinely includ-ed on lists of the world’s most corrupt countries.

Obama addresses countryVowing to deliver the changes he promised, President

Barack Obama urgently implored Democrats and Re-publicans in his State of the Union address Wednesday night to overcome a “deficit of trust” in government and come together to fix the nation’s broken health care system, soaring deficits and polarized politics.

His No. 1 demand was for lawmakers not to walk away from his prized health care overhaul, which is in severe danger in Congress.

“We face big and difficult challenges,” Obama said, according to excerpts of his State of the Union address released in advance by the White House. “What the American people hope — what they deserve — is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences, to overcome the numbing weight of our politics.”

Obama was looking to change the conversation from how his presidency is stalling — over the messy health care debate, a limping economy and the missteps that led to Christmas Day’s barely averted terrorist disaster — to how he is seizing the reins on the economic wor-ries foremost on Americans’ minds.

Colo. tax cuts may get cutColorado lawmakers are reviewing elimination or

suspension of $19 million in tax breaks after Gov. Bill Ritter said lawmakers need to cut another $50 million from the state budget this year.

The bills considered Wednesday by the House Fi-nance Committee include eliminating a candy and soft drink tax exemption, taxing sales on the Internet, and reinstating a state sales tax on software.

Dozens of businessmen, workers, educators and indi-viduals packed a House hearing room and overflowed into the foyer to testify on 11 bills to eliminate tax breaks. After four hours of testimony, lawmakers only passed one bill, a measure to eliminate tax breaks for junk mail.

Ritter urged lawmakers to help find solutions to the state budget crisis.

Public option suffering bad health

The nation cannot afford the spending Democrats have enacted or the tax increases they propose, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Wednesday in the Republi-can response to the State of the Union address.

McDonnell, in excerpts of his speech released in advance, said Democratic policies are resulting in an unsustainable level of debt. He said Americans want affordable health care, but they don’t want the govern-ment to run it.

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Obama has amped up his populist rhetoric and prom-ised a renewed focus on job creation.

Dems: Ignoring health care not a public option

Giving up on overhauling the nation’s health care system is not an option, the top House Democrat said Wednesday as lawmakers looked to President Barack Obama for guidance in his State of the Union address on how to revive the stalled legislation.

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Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political ac-tivist whose leftist “A People’s History of the United States” sold a million copies and became an alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday. He was 87.

Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, “A People’s History” was — fitting-ly — a people’s best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1 million sales in 2003. Although Zinn was writing for a general reader-ship, his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country, and numerous companion edi-tions were published, including “Voices of a People’s History,” a volume for young people and a graphic novel

At a time when few politicians dared even call them-selves liberal, “A People’s History” told an openly left-wing story. Zinn charged Christopher Columbus and other explorers with genocide, picked apart presidents from Andrew Jackson to Franklin D. Roosevelt and celebrated workers, feminists and war resisters. Zinn died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Calif., daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said. The historian was a resident of Auburndale, Mass.

Tablets haven’t been this popularsince the abacus

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A McDonald’s restaurant was wrong to fire a worker for giving a colleague an extra piece of cheese on a hamburger, a Dutch court ruled on Tuesday, according to the Telegraph a British newspaper.

“The dismissal was too severe a measure,” the dis-trict court in Leeuwarden, in the north of the Nether-lands, reportedly said in a written judgment. “It is just a slice of cheese.”

A written warning would have been a more appropri-ate punishment, said the court, which ordered the fast-food chain to pay the worker the salary for the remain-ing five months of her contract - a total of 4,265.47 euros according to the Telegraph’s report. The company was also ordered to pay court costs the report stated.

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killing him, and wounding three others as he stalked around the Sandbar with a .45 caliber handgun in his hand, firing up to 18 shots.

The question remains, why, and that’s what Moreau’s defense attorneys are trying to show.

Moreau is charged with eight felonies, topped by first degree murder. Judge Katharine Sullivan will rule this afternoon which of those charges, if any, Moreau will face if he goes to trial in District Court.

Moreau has lived in Vail for three decades, and has long blamed his alcohol and drug problems on his time in Vietnam with the Army.

“You have no idea how long I’ve been trying not to do this,” Moreau said, according to a Vail police officer who responded to the scene. “Is this what it takes to get people to recognize PTSD?”

Captured on video“It is not very often that you get to witness the crime,

and this time the court got to witness the crime,” said District Attorney Mark Hurlbert in yesterday’s closing arguments.

The prosecution’s video captures the entire incident, composed from footage captured on the Sandbar’s 16 security cameras.

On the video, Moreau is shown stalking around the bar, his 1911 .45 caliber handgun in his extended right hand.

The video shows Sandbar patrons scattering and run-ning when Moreau opened fire.

Kitching, a doctor, apparently stopped to take a quick look at James Lindley, another of the victims that the video showed Moreau shooting, according to testimony by Vail Police Detective Justin Dill.

Kitching, a USC grad, and his wife were in the bar watching the USC-Oregon State college football game, stopping on their way home to Carbondale. It was get-ting late and Kitching went to the car to find the game on satellite radio, so they could listen to it on the way home, according to Dill’s testimony.

It was the last time she would see her husband alive.

Kitching rushed back into the bar after the shooting started, the video shows. Kitching died less than 10 feet from his wife, who dove for cover between a couch where they were sitting and the table in front of them.

Moreau shot Kitching once in his left hip, the shot that sent Kitching to the ground. Moreau aimed again at Kitching, extending his right arm with the gun in it, and shot him once in his left arm – the side facing Moreau, the video shows.

As Kitching lay on his back about eight feet away from Moreau, after Moreau shot him in the left hip, Moreau aimed and fired again, hitting Kitching in the chest, the video shows.

Kitching’s wife was hiding and did not see Kitching get shot or fall. But she knew what had happened the second she saw him. She’s a nurse, and when she was being escorted from the bar 10 minutes after the shoot-ing stopped, she spotted him lying on his back on the floor. She immediately knew he was dead, Dill said.

“You (expletive). How many of you (expletive) did I kill? Oops, out of ammo,” Moreau shouted in the middle of the shooting spree, according to Dill’s tes-timony.

With that, Moreau pulled the magazine from his .45, examined it to determine how many bullets he had in it, and then reached to his left side pants pocket to get

another clip, Dill said.Moreau lay on his back in a corner for several min-

utes, his legs twitching. Kitching also lay a few feet away on his back, lifeless, the video shows.

Fifteen minutes elapsed between the time Moreau shot Kitching and the SWAT team stormed through the Sandbar to arrest him.

As Moreau lay on his back in a corner, he made two cell phone calls during the incident, one after shooting Kitching.

The video shows Moreau shooting Vail local Jim Lindley four times, at least once at point blank range. Lindley fell where he was shot, then Moreau shot him three more times as he stalked around the bar with his gun, Dill said.

Lindley knows Moreau, Dill said. When Moreau shot Lindley, Lindley shouted, “Why me? Why would you shoot me?” Dill testified.

SWAT team nearbyA SWAT team was nearby, handling a hostage/sui-

cide situation in Avon. They were at the Sandbar in minutes, and quickly stormed the bar and took Moreau into custody, pushing through the bar in a flying wedge formation with their shields in front of them.

“Go ahead and shoot me,” Moreau told SWAT team members, according to testimony by SWAT command-er Lt. Greg Daly, of the Avon police department.

Daly wrestled Moreau’s gun away.Later talking to Vail police in the jail, Moreau said,

“I killed some people tonight, didn’t I guys?” Dill testi-fied.

“We’d like to talk to you about that,” Dill said he told Moreau, during the first round of questioning.

“C’mon, I’m a Vietnam vet. I killed some people,” Dill said Moreau told him.

That day, Moreau woke up, fed his cats, got a coffee and a newspaper, Dill testified. He said he was feeling a little lonely and was looking forward to Veterans Day two days later, so he could get a little recognition, Dill said. On Nov. 9, his ensemble included a Stetson hat with military insignias, two knives and his .45 pushed into his belt, along with two magazines of bullets.

“Why two magazines?” Dill asked Moreau during that interrogation.

“I was looking for trouble,” Moreau told Dill, Dill testified.

Several times Moreau said, “I’m pretty sure I killed some people tonight,” Dill testified.

Dill said Moreau told him that he didn’t remember pulling the gun, shooting the gun or reloading the gun.

“I really (expletive) up. I finally did it,” Moreau told Dill.

One of the witnesses, a target shooter from Florida, said Moreau fired 18 shots, He said Moreau’s shots were deliberate and carefully aimed.

Prior to the shootingsJason Barber is one of the Sandbar managers. He

arrived for work at 5:30 p.m., about the same time Moreau showed up at the bar.

About an hour and a half later, Moreau shot Bar-ber through the left arm when Barber and some of the Sandbar staff tossed him out.

As soon as Barber noticed Moreau in the bar, 5:30 p.m. or so, Barber alerted the bartender that Moreau is a “red flag” patron, citing previous problems and because Moreau was known to carry a gun. Moreau

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Witnesses say that Moreau began the evening in a jovial mood, but quickly soured as patrons began to ignore him.

As trouble became more appar-ent, Barber asked Moreau to leave, finally escorting Moreau out, as-sisted by his staff and some patrons. Moreau resisted, pushing back.

Witnesses say Moreau looked “humiliated” when he fell, landing on his back. He was helped up and was herded out the door.

When Moreau falls, his gun is vis-ible on the video in his waistband.

As they went outside, Moreau asked one of the Sandbar patrons, “Do you know what I’m packing?” Dill said.

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“No, much bigger than that,” Moreau responded.

Moreau spun around, pulled his .45 out from his belt in the small of his back, pointed it at Barber and opened fire. The first shot hit Bar-ber in the left forearm and grazed his abdomen.

Barber wrapped a bar towel around his arm, ducked back inside bar and ran toward a pool table to hide, because Barber and some oth-ers heard Moreau re-entering the bar. A bartender was already dialing 911, Dill said.

The fourth shooting victim, Justin Center, was outside the bar smok-ing a cigarette when Moreau was

ejected from the Sandbar. When Moreau saw him, he pointed his gun at Center and fired, hitting Center in the leg as Center was diving over a concrete wall to take cover.

Moreau did not seem to be shoot-ing indiscriminately, Dill said.

One of the Sandbar employees, and one of Moreau’s acquaintances, walked out the kitchen doors and Moreau pointed the gun at him.

“Rossi, it’s Tony!” the man shout-ed, putting his hands in the air.

“Get the (expletive) out of here,” Moreau replied, according to Dill.

Moreau was in court early. Tweed jacket, crisp white shirt, matching patterned in earth tone colors. Un-like his previous appearances, he was not dressed in his orange jail jumpsuit.

A frame of surveillance video from the shooting incident at the Sandbar in West Vail Nov. 9, 2009. The video, which was viewed in court yesterday at Moreau’s preliminary hearing for first degree murder, The video, the centerpiece of the prosecution’s case against Moreau, shows Moreau shoot Dr. Gary Kitching three times, killing him, and wounding three others as he stalked around the Sandbar with a .45 caliber handgun in his hand, firing up to 18 shots.

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The chamber’s board members took a no-non-sense bare knuckles look at where they are, and started kicking around ideas about where they want to be.

They were up front about it. Membership is down for several reasons. Merchants ski passes are no longer necessary because Vail Resorts made its Epic pass available for hundreds of dollars less. Before the Epic pass, business could only buy mer-chant passes through local chambers of commerce, and merchant passes were a standard employee benefit for season workers.

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Edwards Commercial Park turnkey space w/ overhead door. Great for contractor w/ storage needs. Includes small kitchen. Finished as a contemporary office space.For 1or 2 yr lease. Available immediately.Starting at $15 psf

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4 Bedroom, 3 Bath + Office, 3 Car Garage, Irrigated Horse Property, Up to 4 Horses.

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3 Bd, 2 Ba Townhome, Seldom on Market. Great views of mountains off decks of both living room and master. Located right on the golf course. Vaulted Ceilings, garage w/ plenty of storage

$550,000Teryl Limbocker, Keller Williams970.331.6653

Historic And Updated - Five Bedrooms on a Large Lot - Bromwell School

130 Gaylord Street$1,875,000

Susan MatthewsFuller Sotheby’s International Realty303.388.7200

Charming and Traditional with great space in an amazing location.

40 Garfield #F$374,500Susan MatthewsFuller Sotheby’s International Realty303.388.7200

Lots of Updates, Combined with the Fabulous Charm of 1908

740 Marion Street$1,050,000Susan MatthewsFuller Sotheby’s International Realty303.388.7200

3 BD, 3BA Large 3rd floor 3 bedroom end unit on one level with views north and west. Ski in/ski out building, easy access to Beaver Creek Village.

#328 Kiva Lodge, 2057 Sq. ft.$1,375,000, John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate

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2BD, 3 BA, Completely remodeled. Excellent location in the building. Ski in/ ski out location. Easy walk to Beaver Creek Village.#327 Kiva Lodge, 1520 Sq. Ft.$969,000John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate970.949.1902

2 BD, 3BA 2 bedroom plus loft, top floor, end unit. Common areas of the Kiva Lodge just recently remodeled.

#436 Kiva Lodge, 1836 Sq. ft.$1,265,000John Warnke, Hoffman West Real Estate

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Great 2 BD condo in Chapel Square. Great rental history. Southern views. Offered fully furnished. Convenient to everything. Walkable distance to the gondola.

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Nestled against a beautiful hillside and boasting magnificent views, this residence features an open floorplan, 5 Bedrooms, and is steps to world-class skiing and golf.

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802 Beard Creek Trail. Modern mountain luxury. 5BR, multiple stone verandas, fire pit, large rec room, wine cellar, elevator, & gorgeous views from every room.

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