Sidebar by Hal Walter
Food – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
If you live near an agricultural area I highly recommend getting to know an organic farmer. The nutrition and taste simply can’t be beat. And it’s nice to know where at least some of your food comes from.
Column by Hal Walter
Organic food – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
AS A YOUNG TYKE, probably not yet five, I lived in a trailer court in Richmond, Virginia. Behind our trailer, which had a front end shaped like Wilma Flintstone’s hairdo, flowed a creek I suppose was really just a large ditch, perhaps four or five feet wide and two or three feet deep. A very steep hill of maybe 35 yards ran directly down to the ditch, with just the slightest rise before the water.
Letter from Ray Schoch
Colorado Central – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
Four-color images are almost always a plus in a publication, but the cost is usually high, so I hope the move from spot color to four-color printing on some of Colorado Central’s pages turns out to be worth it or you and Martha will have trouble with the “…aside from making some money at home in our spare time…” part of your “corporate goal.” It seems especially effective to me on the covers, particularly on the front. I’m not sure that’s the case on the interior, however. Smaller photos (e.g., pages 8 and 9) do look better, but with low resolution (more-or-less an outgrowth of your paper stock?) images, I’m not sure printing them in four colors is really cost effective.
Letter from Kate Donithorne
Salida – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
The April ’03 issue of Colorado Central devoted to the Klan in Kolorado was interesting, and scary, coinciding as it did with a Klan gathering in Santa Fé. The KKK is not just historic trivia.
Article by Marcia Darnell
Local Artist – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
IT’S A LONG WAY from rural Kentucky to fine art galleries in the West, but Charles Frizzell has made it successfully, with style.
After earning a B.S. in Fine Arts from Murray State in Murray, Kentucky, Frizzell traveled extensively through the U.S. “looking for a place to land,” as he put it. He ended up in Cripple Creek in 1969 and moved to Central Colorado in 1994. He now lives with two dogs and six cats on 40 acres above Salida.
Review by Ed Quillen
Railroads – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Workin’ on the Railroad – Reminiscences from the Age of Steam
Edited by Richard Reinhardt
Originally published in 1970
Republished in 2003 by Red River Books, University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 0-8061-3525-5
Review by Martha Quillen
History – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
A Visit With the Tomboy Bride – Harriet Backus & Her Friends
by Duane A. Smith
Published in 2003 by Western Reflections Publishing
ISBN 1-890437-87-5
Review by Jeanne Englert
Western history – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
One Man’s West
by David Lavender
Republished by University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 0-8032-5855-0
Review by Martha Quillen
Leadville – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Second Glass of Absinthe
by Michelle Black
Published in 2003 by Tom Doherty Associates
ISBN:0-765-30854-1
Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Transportation – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
IN GENERAL, the route of the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad can be followed today in an automobile, and this time of year, there’s the bonus of the changing aspen.
From the east, Bailey is a good place to start. U.S. 285 comes down Crow Hill into town; the railroad came up the river, and from Bailey west, the railroad grade is often visible as you climb Kenosha Pass. At the top of the pass, the Forest Service has laid a few hundred yards of rail on one leg of the wye where locomotives once turned.
Article by Ed Quillen
Transportation – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
THE OFFICIAL COLORADO state highway map always showed railroads, and so over the years, quite a few people, even if they weren’t railroad buffs, must have noticed a territorial oddity that persisted from the 1930s into the 1980s.
Essay by Martha Quillen
Economy – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
ORDINARY WORKING PEOPLE can’t afford to live in Aspen, but that’s okay; Aspen is grander than diamond toothpicks. It’s a little more sobering, however, to realize that most families couldn’t really afford to move to Salida these days, either. Salida is a gorgeous resort town, though, so that’s not entirely surprising.
Column by George Sibley
Labor – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
DOES THE LAW apply to money, or just to people? Last issue, I commemorated the centennial of Colorado’s great miners’ strike of 1903-04, when the miners tried to raise that question: If America was a “nation of laws,” then shouldn’t mine owners have to obey Colorado’s eight-hour work day law? But I only managed to get as far as the beginning of the strike in August, 1903. Since the strike went on until late 1904, however, I guess there’s no hurry.
Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Higher Education – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Adams State’s new board is in place, and ready to work. Its members include:
— Vickie Ford, 71, Center. She’s an ASC alum, president and CFO for Sunny Valley Farms Inc., and is a member of the Colorado Agricultural Commission. She will receive ASC’s Outstanding Alumnus Award in October.
Sidebar by Marcia Darnell
Higher Education – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Like other small colleges in small places, Adams State has a profound economic impact on its hometown.
Article by Marcia Darnell
Higher Education – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
SMALL STATE COLLEGES are separating from the mother beast and swimming off to morph or die on their own. What does this mean to the average Colorado resident? Probably nothing.
To the average Colorado legislator, however, it’ll mean a lot. A lot more lobbying, a lot more calls, a lot more at stake for those small schools, now trying to score funding and influence without Mama.
Article by Marcia Darnell
Municipal finance – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
WHAT CAUSES A CITY to go belly-up, financially? The answers are murky and the opinions are loud and angry.
In the last month, Monte Vista, a city of 4,500 in the San Luis Valley, has lost its city manager, finance director, mayor, and one city council member. The city is awash in red ink, and took out a loan from a local bank using — really! — city hall as collateral.
Brief by Central Staff
Communications – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Although Colorado has a “do not call” list to discourage tele marketers, it doesn’t cover companies that you have an established business relationship with.
Thus at least once a month, we get an annoying call from Qwest, the local telephone monopoly, advising us that Qwest now offers long-distance service and we could enjoy the convenience of only one telephone bill, etc. We explain that we’re happy with our current long-distance carrier (MCI, which is bankrupt but still functioning well enough), and have no desire to switch, and would Qwest please quit calling until it has something we want, like DSL.
Brief by Central Staff
Preservation – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine –
The State of Colorado doesn’t have a lot of money to hand out these days (shorter hours at the courts, driver’s license offices closing, etc.), but the State Historical Fund still has money, since it’s financed by casino-style gambling in Cripple Creek, Central City, and Black Hawk.
Brief by Ed Quillen
News Roundup – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Deadly Skeeters
Colorado leads the nation in West Nile virus infections, and the disease has spread into the mountains, with one human case and two horses reported in Chaffee County during the first week of August. One of the horses’ cases was fatal.
Brief by Central Staff
Wildlife – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
On your next trip to the hills, maybe you should pack a jug of bleach. Not for doing laundry, but to help keep Colorado’s boreal toads from going extinct.
Boreal toads (Bufo boreas boreas) live in forested areas from 8,000 to 12,000 feet, and breed in shallow water. Their populations have been declining for about 20 years — the Colorado Division of Wildlife estimates that 85% of the state’s population has disappeared.
Brief by Central Staff
Mining – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Some mining camps get preserved, but most just fade away, or turn into a collection of cabins.
But in New Mexico, they’ve come up with a new use for a mining company town — a training ground for the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Brief by Central Staff
Arts – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Saguache artists Blair Meerfeld (he pots) and Marty Mitchell (she paints) were featured in the fall edition of Do It Yourself, which comes from Better Homes & Gardens.
Brief by Central Staff
History – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
The charges against her are rather vague, but there’s going to be a trial anyway.
Margaret Tobin “Unsinkable Molly” Brown, along with many other characters from Colorado’s past, will rise from the grave for a mock trial, scheduled for 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville.
Brief by Central Staff
Terrorism – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
The FBI in May passed the word that al-Qaeda might be thinking of setting forests ablaze in the West.
Brief by Marcia Darnell
San Luis Valley – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Summer Sizzle
The heat’s on in the Valley, and the hot topic is adult entertainment. Rumors are that a strip club is in the works in Alamosa County, and the county commissioners are struggling to find middle ground between the entrepreneurs who want it and the residents who don’t. Thanks to the First Amendment, adult entertainment can’t be outlawed, but it can be regulated. What hurdles the county erects, and how new businesses respond to them, remain to be seen.
Brief by Ed Quillen
Geography – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Back when I was editor of the Summit County Journal in Breckenridge (1977-78), I ran into a problem with nomenclature concerning that county’s largest body of water. The chamber of commerce liked to call it “Lake Dillon,” but I preferred “Dillon Reservoir.”
In my view, lake should be reserved for natural bodies of water, and Dillon had been built by the Denver Water Board to store Western Slope water to be delivered by the Roberts Tunnel that emerges near Grant on U.S. 285.
Comic Strip written by Clint Driscoll and illustrated by Judie Moorhead
Mountain Life – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Essay by Gail Binkly
Outdoors – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
WHEN I READ that the Outdoor Industry Association threatened to move its biannual gear show out of Salt Lake City as a protest against Utah’s wilderness policies, I was taken aback. Not by the announcement, but by the reported magnitude of the show: 15,000 visitors spending $24 million in the region to pore over high-tech gear.
When, I wondered, did we decide that going outdoors takes so much money?
GREEN MOUNTAIN RESERVOIR WATER BEING WITHHELD
The Colorado River Water Conservation District is charging the Bureau of Reclamation of illegally retaining water in Green Mountain Reservoir on the Blue River that is due water users on the West Slope of Colorado. The River District claims, in 2002, that the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) arbitrarily decided to impose restrictions on the use of the reservoir’s water only to a certain portion of the reservoir’s beneficiaries, due to concerns about earth movement at an ancient landslide area near the Town of Heeney. The full burden of lost yield was placed the West Slope water users. The water lost from the restrictions to the reservoir’s “compensatory pool” is a crucial source of water for many West Slope farms, ranches and municipalities. Green Mountain Reservoir was built as compensation for transmountain diversions from the Colorado/Big Thompson Project. Western States Water Council (WSWC)
