POSTAL ADDRESS Tribune the TRI-LAKES REGION, MONUMENT, PALMER LAKE, WOODMOOR, GLENEAGLE, BLACK FOREST and NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY Volume 50 • Issue 50 • pikespeaknewspapers.com • trilakestribune.com December 16, 2015 | 75¢ TRI-LAKES TRIBUNE (USPS 418-960) By Danny Summers [email protected]Thirteen years ago, Roger and Carol Day, along with their nine children, moved to Monument from Fremont, Neb. The Day family kids have been mak- ing a splash on the Lewis-Palmer High School swimming program that still ripples through yet today. Beginning with Justin – the second oldest sibling – a Day has been on one of the school’s swim teams for more than a decade. And it won’t end until Hannah – an eighth grader – finishes her Rangers career in 2020. The current Day pool rats in the program are twins Julie and Joseph. They are best friends in and out of the pool. Joseph is team manager for the girls’ team, which is in season. Julie is the manager of the boys’ team, which swims in the spring. “I enjoy swimming, and I like swim- ming with Julie,” Joseph said. “But I like See Swim on Page 14 Day twins enjoying successful careers for Lewis-Palmer Silver tsunami alert Aging expert warns Trustees of growing elderly population Stresses need to create ‘ age-friendly’ community By Bill Vogrin [email protected]El Paso County has the fastest grow- ing population of people 55 and older in the U.S. and an expert on senior is- sues wants the Monument Board of Trustees to be prepared for what he called a “silver tsunami” headed to the Tri-Lakes Region. Monument resident Greg Coopman, better known for leading the No Meth- adone in Monument nonprofit group, spoke at the board’s special Dec. 10 meeting as an expert on senior issues. Coopman is vice president of Right at Home Senior Care in Colorado Springs. Mayor pro tem Jeff Kaiser said he asked Coopman to speak because Monument is confronting issues relat- ed to its large senior population. “Over the years we’ve struggled with how best to serve the needs of senior citizens in our community,” Kaiser said. “We have asked how might we better serve them.” Coopman said it was important for elected officials to be aware of the trend of an exploding senior popula- tion, identify gaps in services for them and, most important, create an “age- friendly community” to accommodate their special needs. And he said he hoped to prompt conversation among leaders to plan ahead as the Baby Boomer generation reaches senior-citizen status. The numbers alone were staggering. Coopman said demographic re- search shows 72,000 county residents are 65 or older. He said the total is ex- pected to nearly triple by 2040, soaring to 200,000. See Tsunami on Page 16 Few frills in Monument’s 2016 budget as town keeps pace with growth By Bill Vogrin [email protected]Sales tax revenue – which provides 55 percent of Monument’s spending money – is expected to reach a record $6 million in 2016. Income from property tax – which accounts for another 15 percent of the town’s General Fund bank account – will surpass $848,000. That’s another record. Ditto for franchise fees – paid by businesses providing electric, phone, cable or natural gas services in Monu- ment – which are projected to climb 26 percent to a record $415,600 or so. In fact, most all the town’s other rev- enue streams project increases and re- cords next year. And town General Fund spending – as approved last Thursday, Dec. 10, by the Board of Trustees – also will reach a record level of $5.9 million. But that doesn’t mean elected offi- cials went on a wild spending spree. Just the opposite. Officials and town staff described it as an austere budget that reflects adequate spending lev- els with little money for amenities like park upgrades, splash grounds, trials, senior centers and the like that the public has requested. “This budget is pretty benign,” said Mayor Rafael Dominguez after it was adopted unanimously by the board. Town manager Chris Lowe described the budget, his first since taking office in October, as “not overly aggressive.” “It’s a reasonable budget,” Lowe said. “We have to be responsible with the revenues we get and try to accom- plish our mission and strategic objec- tives.” For example, Police Chief Jake Shirk had requested permission to add two new patrol officers to his staff of 14. He said the officers were needed to address a crime rate that has grown along with See Budget on Page 6 Twins Julie and Joseph Day swim for their respective Lewis-Palmer High School swimming teams. /Photo by Danny Summers Tribune Coloring Contest Sledding bird See Page 11 Small Town Chirstmas Event in Monument See Page 4 Blanket Brigade brings comfort with quilts See Page 10 Left: Yule Log celebrants ride the log, originally from the Black Forest, as it is pulled up the hill out of the Glen, Sun- day Dec. 13./Photos by Rob Carrigan Above: Sara Plott, right on the crosscut, finder of the log this year, says she has searched for it for 16 years now. Last year’s finder is on the other side of the saw. The log formed a bridge over the creek, partial- ly obscuring the tale-tale red ribbon in the snow. Palmer Lake Yule Log
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TRI-LAKES REGION, MONUMENT, PALMER LAKE, WOODMOOR, GLENEAGLE, BLACK FOREST and NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY
Thirteen years ago, Roger and Carol Day, along with their nine children, moved to Monument from Fremont, Neb.
The Day family kids have been mak-ing a splash on the Lewis-Palmer High School swimming program that still ripples through yet today.
Beginning with Justin – the second oldest sibling – a Day has been on one of the school’s swim teams for more
than a decade. And it won’t end until Hannah – an
eighth grader – finishes her Rangers career in 2020.
The current Day pool rats in the program are twins Julie and Joseph. They are best friends in and out of the pool. Joseph is team manager for the girls’ team, which is in season. Julie is the manager of the boys’ team, which swims in the spring.
“I enjoy swimming, and I like swim-ming with Julie,” Joseph said. “But I like
See Swim on Page 14
Day twins enjoying successful careers for Lewis-Palmer
Silver tsunami alertAging expert warns Trustees of
growing elderly populationStresses need to create ‘
El Paso County has the fastest grow-ing population of people 55 and older in the U.S. and an expert on senior is-sues wants the Monument Board of Trustees to be prepared for what he called a “silver tsunami” headed to the Tri-Lakes Region.
Monument resident Greg Coopman, better known for leading the No Meth-adone in Monument nonprofit group, spoke at the board’s special Dec. 10 meeting as an expert on senior issues. Coopman is vice president of Right at Home Senior Care in Colorado Springs.
Mayor pro tem Jeff Kaiser said he asked Coopman to speak because
Monument is confronting issues relat-ed to its large senior population.
“Over the years we’ve struggled with how best to serve the needs of senior citizens in our community,” Kaiser said. “We have asked how might we better serve them.”
Coopman said it was important for elected officials to be aware of the trend of an exploding senior popula-tion, identify gaps in services for them and, most important, create an “age-friendly community” to accommodate their special needs.
And he said he hoped to prompt conversation among leaders to plan ahead as the Baby Boomer generation reaches senior-citizen status.
The numbers alone were staggering.Coopman said demographic re-
search shows 72,000 county residents are 65 or older. He said the total is ex-pected to nearly triple by 2040, soaring to 200,000.
See Tsunami on Page 16
Few frills in Monument’s 2016 budget as town keeps pace with growthBy Bill [email protected]
Sales tax revenue – which provides 55 percent of Monument’s spending money – is expected to reach a record $6 million in 2016.
Income from property tax – which accounts for another 15 percent of the town’s General Fund bank account – will surpass $848,000. That’s another record.
Ditto for franchise fees – paid by businesses providing electric, phone, cable or natural gas services in Monu-ment – which are projected to climb 26 percent to a record $415,600 or so.
In fact, most all the town’s other rev-enue streams project increases and re-cords next year.
And town General Fund spending – as approved last Thursday, Dec. 10, by the Board of Trustees – also will reach a record level of $5.9 million.
But that doesn’t mean elected offi-
cials went on a wild spending spree.Just the opposite. Officials and town
staff described it as an austere budget that reflects adequate spending lev-els with little money for amenities like park upgrades, splash grounds, trials, senior centers and the like that the public has requested.
“This budget is pretty benign,” said Mayor Rafael Dominguez after it was adopted unanimously by the board.
Town manager Chris Lowe described the budget, his first since taking office in October, as “not overly aggressive.”
“It’s a reasonable budget,” Lowe said. “We have to be responsible with the revenues we get and try to accom-plish our mission and strategic objec-tives.”
For example, Police Chief Jake Shirk had requested permission to add two new patrol officers to his staff of 14. He said the officers were needed to address a crime rate that has grown along with
See Budget on Page 6
Twins Julie and Joseph Day swim for their respective Lewis-Palmer High School swimming teams. /Photo by Danny Summers
Tribune Coloring Contest Sledding bird See Page 11
Small Town Chirstmas Event in Monument See Page 4
Blanket Brigade brings comfort with quilts See Page 10
Left: Yule Log celebrants ride the log, originally from the Black Forest, as it is pulled up the hill out of the Glen, Sun-day Dec. 13./Photos by Rob Carrigan
Above: Sara Plott, right on the crosscut, finder of the log this year, says she has searched for it for 16 years now. Last year’s finder is on the other side of the saw. The log formed a bridge over the creek, partial-ly obscuring the tale-tale red ribbon in the snow.
Palmer Lake Yule Log
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Dec. 18What: Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts celebrates Christmas with holiday songs featuring Sally Barris & Rebecca Folsom
Where: Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, 304 Hwy. 105, Palmer Lake
When: 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 18
Cost: $16 in advance for TLCA members/ $20 non-members; $20 & $24 day of show
Info: www.trilakesarts.org
Call: 481-0475
Dec. 19
What: Tri-Lakes Community Youth Ballet presents the “Nutcracker.”
Where: Lewis-Palmer High School, 1300 Higby Road, Monument
When: 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19
Cost: $12 in advance; $15 at the door Info: Call DanceArt Academy, 13866 Gleneagle Drive,
719-487-9271
Dec. 19What: 2015 Monument “ERY” Tour - drink specials, giveaways
Where: Catriona Cellars, 243 Washington St., 3 Hundred Days of Shine, 279 Beacon Lite Road, Pikes Peak Brewing Co., 1756 Lake Woodmoor Dr., Ice Cave Hard Cider, 174 Washington St.
When: 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday, Dec 19
Cost: Drink specials, winery toursInfo: Call Catriona Cellars, 481-3477; 3 Hundred Days of Shine, 488-2858; Pikes Peak Brewing Co., 208-4098; Ice Cave Hard Cider, 510-1636
Dec. 18-20 What: Tri-Lakes Music Association Annual
Choir and Orchestra Concert
Where: Palmer Ridge High School,
19255 Frontage Road, Monument
When: 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday;
2 p.m. Sunday
Cost: Free - Donations recommended for Tri-Lakes Cares and TLMA Scholarship fund
Info: Online at trilakesmusic.org, by phone at 232-4114, or email rwgmanning@comcast. net
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Model railroad open house this weekendBy Tribune staff
Bob Bandy, whose basement model train display has been described as the “Cistine Chapel of hobby railroads,” is hosting an open house this weekend for anyone interested in seeing his layout.
The public is welcome, by appointment, on Dec. 19-20. RSVP to [email protected]
By Tribune staff
After providing a Thanksgiving meal to nearly 200 Tri-Lakes area families, Tri-Lakes Cares is doubling down for Christmas.
“We are prepared to distribute to over 200 families, a Christmas meal,” says Kim Whisenhunt, Operations Manager for Tri-Lakes Cares. “We are also grateful that because of our gener-ous community, over 350 children and seniors will receive gifts for under their tree.”
But to make the dinners happen, the non-profi t group needs your help today. It urgently needs the following items to reach its goal:
Canned Yams/Sweet Potatoes Evaporated Milk
Cream of Mushroom Soup Pie Crust Mix Chicken Broth
Canned Fruit Pie Filling Instant potatoesCanned PumpkinStuffi ng Mix
Poultry Gravy (jars, cans, or dry mix) Cranberry Sauce
Canned Fruit Donations may be dropped off dur-
ing business hours at the following lo-cations:
Tri-Lakes Cares at 235 N. Jefferson Street, Monument
Re/Max Properties at 1761 Lake Woodmoor Drive, next to 3 Margaritas
US Taekwondo Center at 16328 Jackson Creek Parkway, in front of Walmart
Tri-Lakes Cares seeks items for Christmas meal
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The December meeting of the Black Forest AARP chapter at the Black Forest Lutheran Church observed the holidays with the usual meeting format embel-lished with a sing-along program.
The songs were led by Kay Zvonkov-ich and the Spirit of Grace Coral Group from the Our Lady of the Pines Roman Catholic Church in Black Forest.
A drawing for many gaily-wrapped gifts reflecting the season followed the program.
The lunch featured catered entrees supplemented by many delicious side dishes and desserts furnished by the members.
The needs of others were not for-gotten. Chapter members turned in 17 large filled holiday stockings that the Salvation Army will present to children who may not receive any other item during the Christmas holidays.
Members were also thanked for par-ticipating in the collect-ing of many items needed for a Native American Christmas relief project for seniors sponsored by the Black Forest Lutheran
Church. In addition, chapter members Ray
and Lin Rozak and Diane Apodaca were recognized for their exceptional service and support to the chapter over the past two years.
The annual election of chapter of-ficers was conducted during the short business meeting that followed. The elected officers will be installed at the Jan. 13, 2016, chapter meeting that starts at noon. The program for the January meeting is “Tax Changes for 2016.”
Individuals interested in becoming Black Forest chapter members can visit any meeting. The chapter motto, “To Serve, Not to be Served,” reflects the chapter’s active and ongoing dedica-tion to community service.
Visit the Chapter web site at http://aarpchapter1100blackforest.weebly.com for the projected calendar of events and information on what the chapter does and has done. For more informa-tion contact Chuck at 749-9227.
Members of the Black Forest AARP chapter display Christmas stockings to be delivered to needy children by the Salvation Army. The members are, from left, Electa Beckner, Edna Ea-ton, Ray Rozak and Diane Apodaca. /Courtesy photo
Black Forest AARP holds holiday celebration
By Tribune staff
Buried deep in the evidence room of the Monument Police Department’s of-fices at Town Hall is a box full of drugs.
These are not illegal substances con-fiscated from dealers and users in drug busts.
Instead, these are bags stuffed with prescription drug bottles and filled with painkillers and other legitimate medicines that either expired or were no longer needed by their owners.
They were all deposited in a secure collection box inside the office of the police department. The box was in-stalled about a year ago and Shirk said it is the only free prescription drug col-lection box he operates in town.
“For years, people have been dump-ing their unused prescriptions down the toilet,” Chief Jake Shirk said recent-ly as he displayed the collection box. “This is much safer.”
As part of the free service, the drugs are bagged, boxed, weighed and tagged
for destruction.“Instead of flushing them, they get
loaded into a furnace for destruction,” Shirk said. “Citizens can just drop by, Monday through Friday during busi-ness hours, come in and drop off their unused and outdated prescriptions.”
By Tribune staff
Volunteers are needed to create 40 two-person teams for an emergency drill, dubbed operation Deep Freeze ‘16, to train rescuers to find stranded motorists in a blizzard.
The volunteer actors will be dis-persed across the region to portray stranded and distressed citizens.
Volunteers must be willing to drive their own cars to designated rescue lo-cations and use personal cell phones to place simulated distress calls.
Besides the 80 actors, the drill team needs 30 volunteers to staff emergency exercise locations to help with setup, management and cleanup after the ex-ercise.
The drill is scheduled Jan. 8-9 and it will involve a full day of activities by volunteers.
The drill involves multiple emergen-cy services agencies including the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department, the county Office of Emergency Manage-ment, county Search & Rescue, state Emergency Operations Center, Colo-rado National Guard, American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Volunteer Orga-nizations Active in Disasters, and area first responders including the Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District as well as those from Black Forest Fire & Rescue, Elbert, Falcon and Wescott.
Anyone interested in helping can contact Andre’ Mouton at [email protected] or Lisa Hatfield at 339-7831.
Monument police offer prescription drug disposal
Volunteers sought for stranded motorists emergency drill
Unused or outdated prescriptions can be deposited in a secure collection box inside the police department./Photo by Bill Vogrin
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On Saturday, Dec. 5, I watched area parents giving their children priceless gifts they will open and cher-ish for the rest of their lives.
And the funny thing is, probably none of them even realized it.
I was in Monument for the Small Town Christmas event.
Talk about your idyllic scene.Amid a fresh snowfall, windows of the small stores
downtown glowed, reindeer pranced and folks went about their holiday shopping.
If you were in historic downtown Monument on that day, then you will know exactly what I’m talking about.
If you weren’t there, you really missed out on what it means to live in a small town in Colorado at Christmastime.
What a beautiful day.Sure it snowed and was cold. But that’s the point.
It is winter, after all. And talk about setting the mood for the holiday season.
There were plenty of opportunities to buy unique gifts, books, artwork and more from the family-owned stores of the historic district.
Later in the afternoon, a crowd gathered to watch young dancers from SunDance Studio on the stage in the pavilion at Limbach Park. They were dressed for winter but they managed to piroette and plie and more despite the cold.
The only modern nod to the climate was the pres-ence of industrial electric space heaters. A couple of the heaters, which resembled small cannons, warmed the stage while another was positioned under a tree to provide relief to the crowd from the falling temperatures.
There was caroling and hot cocoa and cookies as the crowd grew in anticipation of the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus, who made their grand entrance aboard a Tri-Lakes Monument Fire District aerial ladder truck.
They posed for photos then paraded through the crowd to the stage, where Santa took a seat in a leather chair and proceeded to hear the Christmas wishes of dozens of children who waited their turn to sit on his knee and whisper in his ear.
I was struck by all the children who passed the time taking turns on a nearby snow-covered slide and spinning on a playground round-about as dark-
ness descended and it grew even frostier.They seemed oblivious to the cold as they clung
to the steel rails of the classic playground equip-ment, laughing and sometimes fussing about whose turn it was to push.
Other, smaller children took turns at a craft table next to the stage, making small trinkets that some wore and others gave to their parents.
The firefighters stood by on Front Street, hoisting children and some adults into their massive truck, which I learned was technically known as a “quint”
because it is equipped with hoses, ground ladders, aerial ladders, a water tank and water pumps.
They gave out souvenir fire helmets to the kids and allowed them to sit in the big rig for photos.
Finally, after a few more Christmas carols, came the big countdown to the lighting of the trees.
It was magical as the bright lights of the pavilion blinked out and the colorful lights strung throughout the trees of the park flashed on in a brilliant display.
The park was so colorful and bright the Palmer Lake star, holding vigil most of the evening, seemed to vanish on Sundance Mountain in the distance.
I’m glad I was there to see it. I just wished my own children were young again and able to come and create the memories now deeply embedded in the minds of all the children fortunate enough to be there.
Those memories are gifts from their parents; gifts those children will open and cherish, more and more each year, as they grow older. What a night.
When we left off, we were discussing the winter of 1934-35 and its odd weather.
The spring produced a series of snow storms. In early May, a cloudburst brought mudslides in the Manitou Springs-Colorado Springs area.
A 12-inch snowfall, which extended from Cripple Creek to Cascade, halted train service, cut all tele-phone lines, impeded automobile traffic and closed most activity in the district.
Steam shovels worked on the Midland Terminal in Ute Pass a short distance above Manitou in an effort to clear a mudslide which covered the tracks.
Progress in clearing away the side was slow as a soaking rain continued all day, bringing additional dirt from the mountainside down on the tracks.
The cloudburst brought water 12 inches deep through the streets of Manitou, but little damage was reported.
Snow 12 to 16 inches deep fell from Cascade to Divide during the night. The fall was lighter in the district and was melting rapidly. Traffic was mov-
ing on the roads, but motorists are cautioned of the potential of rock slides in Ute Pass.
Small mudslides were reported, but none of them large enough to block traffic. After a 48-hour block-ade due to the mudslide near Manitou, the Midland Terminal was able to resume service.
A five locomotive train of empty ore cars was hauled to the Cripple Creek District during the night, returning with as many loads on Monday morning. Another full train of empties was ready for the regu-lar freight train in order to fill the demand for cars in the district.
In addition to the mudslide, the wet weather caused rocks from above the new concrete bridge to block the highway above Manitou. Similar problems are expected on both the railroad and highway as long as the rainy weather continued. This was not the end.
On Memorial Day a thunderstorm passed over Woodland Park to Palmer Lake, dumping several inches of rain. The water in Monument and Fountain creeks rose immediately. The ground was already saturated from nearly six weeks of rain.
The people in Monument reported that the lake, used still for making ice in the winter, was full before the storm started. Streams could be seen where there normally was none.
Colorado Springs was hit with water from the north and west. The Memorial Day flood of 1935 is the worst flood that this area would see until it was hit by a similar storm 30 years later. The odd part about this one, though, is that it started after a seri-ous drought.
CABOOSE COBWEBSMel McFarland
Marveling at the gift many parents gave their children
Odd weather stories are the norm in Pikes Peak region
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When looking for information about the CCC Camp in Monument a few years ago, I ran into Mike Smith’s extremely valuable blog about the Civilian Conservation Corp titled “Forest Army.”
Not only did Smith know about the Monument camp, but his grandfather had spent time there.
“In a 1970s newspaper interview, my grandfather William Rutherford stated he went into USFS service with the third CCC camp in Colorado and left the service while at the last CCC camp in Colorado. The last of his USFS letters are from the Monument camp, so I presume that was the last camp. (It may have been the last USFS CCC camp in Colorado - a distinction the uninitiated might miss,)” Smith wrote in a recent email.
He explained the in-formation he had avail-able originally came from here in Monument as the result of an inquiry by him and a 1995 note from the postmaster in Monument stating that they passed the inquiry along to a local bookstore, Covered Treasures.
“Leona Lacroix at Cov-ered Treasures wrote me a note stating that they had passed my inquiry along to “The Tribune” and to the Pike’s Peak Region of the USFS. I did not receive any correspondence from the newspaper, but the District Ranger sent me the excerpts from the 1938 district annual, parts of which I’ve passed along to you now. (Neat how research sometimes works.)”
Smith asked if I found any reference to a William I. “Bill” Rutherford from Georgetown, Colo., in the CCC camps, to let him know as that was the afore-mentioned Grandfather.
“He was hired by the USFS in mid-1933 and worked at Wuanita Hot Springs, Norwood, Delta, Gardner, San Isabel, Idaho Springs and Monument - perhaps more,” Smith writes.
“He worked on the new divide road, did insect control in the Uncompagre and fence construction out of the Norwood camp. He was at a FERA camp in Florence for a short time, working with transient workers. He fought forest fire in the Hardscrabble Creek area and was in charge of the quarry that produced all the stone for the dam at San Isabel (on Charles Creek).
He was in charge of the Gardner camp for a time and wrote about bad flooding they experienced. I believe he had some involvement in construction near La Veta, including a tunnel project.”
But the family was headquartered in Georgetown.“Frankly, he didn’t particularly like Georgetown
and wrote often of how much he liked the country down around Gardner and Rye. I think he hoped to bring his whole family down there, but alas they stayed in Georgetown and today one of my uncles still lives there.”
The file he received from the district ranger in 1995 offer insight into the coming and goings of the camp.
“I don’t know what was there in 1942 when they liquidated the place, but I’d be interested to know what’s still standing today.”
“My Monument file is rather thin, but it does include excerpts from a 1938 district annual. The excerpt covers the Woodland Park, Colorado Springs and Monument Camps. I’m attaching the three pages that deal with the Monument Camp.”
The information in the district annual is as fol-lows:
“In May 1938, 1st Lieut. Alvin C. Jenkins, then commanding Company 3810, CCC, Monument, Colorado, was advised that his Company was to be disbanded, and that the camp was to be reoccupied by a new company from the First Corps Area. Ac-cordingly, the members were sent to three nearby
camps: 1st Lieut. C.A. Davis was transferred to the Oklahoma District: and Lieut. Jenkins was attached to Camp SCS-5-C Springfield, Colorado. Adviser J.W. Herrick and Contract Physician H.B. Frosh were retained to function with the incoming company.
Meanwhile, at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, many CCC enrollees were gathering. On July 18, 1938, Company 2124 was organized with Lieut. Walter E. Quinlan Commanding, and 2nd Lieut. As Junior Officer. The trip west was begun on July 20, 1938. Of course, all the members were eager to start for the new location because it meant travel, new sights, and perhaps a little adventure. Their enthusiasm dimmed somewhat, however, as the train rolled for-ward, and the monotonous scenery failed to fulfill expectations. Once their destination was reached, a different feeling took place – a feeling hard to describe. The lasting beauty of the mountains, the magnificence of the vari-colored rocks, and gor-geous panorama of far-reaching plains studded with tableland made an impression that was to last a lifetime. Yes, their new home at the foot of rugged Mt. Herman was indeed a welcome sight.
The New Englanders found a well-maintained camp – one that had been built from the ground floor by Company 3810. This Company was formed in July 1935 and established in Dublin, Texas, as a soil conservation project. When the work in that vicinity was fulfilled, the company moved to Monu-ment, Colorado. The men were accompanied by Captain Paul N. Ivancich Commanding Officer: 1st Lieut. J.E. Burch, Company Officer: Captain George A. Ashfraugh, Camp Surgeon: and Mr. R.G. Steven-son, Educational Adviser.
The site for the now well developed camp was overgrown with brush and covered with rocks. As the only permanent building completed at this time was the mess hall, tents were set up until more per-manent buildings could be established. Within three months, the portable barracks had arrived, and their erection gave the camp an appearance of perma-nency. The buildings were arranged circularly so as to allow convenience in passing from one barrack to another.
Superintendent William Brisbane and his com-petent staff of foreman instructed the new men in the work which they were to carry on. They were told that the primary function of the Camp’s work program was to furnish the necessary labor for rais-ing and shipping of seedlings from the Monument Nursery to the various United State Forests through-out this region. It was pointed out that this process
of raising trees consisted of a series of operations that varied with the seasons. Cone collecting, seed extracting, seeding, weeding, cultivating, water-ing, shading, protecting, transplanting, and stock distributing were given the major divisions for each year’s work. In addition to these regular Nursery op-erations incidental to the raising of trees, consider-able construction work was completed by company 3810. The blacksmith shop, seed extractory, imple-
ment shed, seed storage building, tree packing shed, garage, barn and two pump houses will long remain as a tribute to the superior workman-ship of these enrollees. Interest in the project ran high for the members realized that they had an excellent opportunity to learn the nursery busi-ness as a career. Enrollees Corbell and Little were rewarded for their distin-guished work by being selected as semi-skilled foreman.
Sports were extremely popular with the Texans, and their teams were consistently among the best in the District. The baseball team proved its worth by winning by win-
ning all but one of its games in a difficult schedule. An enthusiastic basketball team, not to be outdone, ran up a score of victories with only two defeats. Swimming, boxing, and tumbling teams also created records of which the Company was justly proud.
Classes of study were organized, and the educa-tional program was functioning smoothly when Mr. Stevenson was transferred to Arizona. Mr. Vern C. Howard was sent to take his place with the disband-ment of Camp SP-12-C which was located in Colo-rado Springs, Colorado. He brought with him radio equipment, woodworking tools, and wide assort-ment of books to strengthen the educational set-up. Recognizing the fact that more adequate teaching space was necessary, Mr. Howard constructed a schoolhouse entirely built from scrap lumber. As-sistant Educational Adviser James Leasure, who had learned radio while a member of the Civilian Con-servation Corp, established his own station using the call letters W9ZCX. He sent and received mes-sages to and from every part of the world.
At the present time, a well-balanced educational program is being maintained. Planned courses in academic, vocational and job training subjects are conducted regularly, with determining factors being the needs and desires of members. Unusual interest has been taken in the informal groups of photogra-phy, woodwork, dancing, and the various
arts and crafts. Weekend trips to the Royal Gorge, the State Penitentiary, the coal mines, the Garden of the Gods, and Pikes Peak have already been taken with other scenic spots remaining on the “must see list.”
Dr. Samuel Lilienthol, one of the first Camp Surgeons to go on duty in the district, was assigned to Company 2124 in August 1938. Since his arrival, many significant improvements have been made in the Mess Hall and the Infirmary.
The work of the 2124th Company is far from com-plete. Its actual history still lies in the future.
Mr. Donald J. Hodges, present Project Superin-tendent, has intensive plans for the present and the future.
Several new buildings will be erected, a large amount of fence will be installed, roads will be built, and new areas will be developed to further expand the Nursery. Two side camps are in operation this summer. One to locate at Devil’s Head is developing a new campground, and the other situated at Indian Creek is constructing a road which will make it pos-sible to thin a large area of the forest land to market Christmas trees.”
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“What we want are kids who are curious, who dive into a text and can’t begin to think of
coming up for air until they know what happens. We want them inside the text, noticing every-
thing, questioning everything, weighing everything they are reading against their lives, the lives of others and the world around them.”
-- Beers and Probst, Notice and Note
We all have stories to tell about how reading opened the door for a child, an adult, or someone who made a signifi cant impact in some area of our lives.
As an educator, I have watched the transforma-tion that occurs when a student fi nally starts con-suming books after a prolonged period of practice.
I have also watched an adult deemed “illiterate” suddenly take his place in the world with pride when he let go of his concern of being judged and took the steps to learn to read.
Regardless of the details that accompany any of these stories, a common thread runs through them: lives are transformed through reading. Worlds that did not exist before open up, and suddenly, possi-bilities for the future present themselves.
A good book is a gift that keeps giving well beyond
the fi nal page.Reading is a signifi cant vehicle to comprehension
and to learning. In Lewis-Palmer School District, we have the privilege of sharing language daily.
While it is true that exposure to language at an early age results in reading for most children, some children process words differently; thus, reading may not be an easily acquired skill for them. There-fore, we share language in a variety of venues in order to ensure that all of our students grasp the meaning and relevance of words.
Since reading is a gateway to learning in most subjects, this is serious business, a business we rel-ish.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic, tells of Winifred who in her 80s began reading extensively about ancient
Mesopotamia. A decade later, Winifred was recog-nized as a leading expert in the fi eld. No degrees attest to her expertise in this area. Her learning was driven by her passion and her interest, and by years of reading about the topic. Words informed her; reading educated her.
Much like a good book, the benefi ts of education remain long after time spent in classrooms is com-pleted. Our parents and community members invest huge amounts of time and energy supporting our school district, and as a result, lives are changed.
There are many ways to give. In addition to volunteering time, working with
students, or helping with fundraising, anyone in our community can support a teacher, a department, or a school with a fi nancial donation through the Adopt D38 program.
More information is available on our website (lewispalmer.org) under the Community tab, select Adopt D38.
LPSD benefi ts daily from the generosity and tangible support of this community, and we thank you. You continue to impact future generations. You continue to make a difference in the lives of readers.
Karen Brofft is superintendent of Lewis-Palmer School District 38
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the town’s population, which stands around 7,200.
Dominguez said public safety is his top priority. But he couldn’t justify adding two offi cers, at a cost of about $123,000, especially after the town add-ed an offi cer in 2015.
“We agreed to add one and revisit the need for the second offi cer in about six months,” Dominguez said.
In addition to the new offi cer, the police department will get a new $38,000 patrol car, replacing a cruiser
will more than 105,000 miles, and bal-listic helmets.
Town personnel costs will exceed $3.1 million, representing a jump of $400,000 from 2015. But Lowe said that was a good expenditure because Town Hall hasn’t been fully staffed for two years.
“We are returning to full staffi ng and I believe that will help us better meet the needs of the citizens and spread the work around so we do a better job with our resources,” he said.
There are small expenditures in the budget for cemetery upgrades and new
signs to help visitors fi nd their way around historic downtown Monument.
When all funds are combined, in-cluding federal funds earmarked for specifi c programs and kept in special accounts outside the General Fund, Monument’s total budget in 2016 is $13.6 million, an 8.1 percent increase from 2015.
While the 2016 budget basically treads water, Dominguez said he has hopes for more initiatives next year, which will evolve as the town updates its comprehensive plan.
Also at its Dec. 10 meeting the Board
of Trustees gave unanimous approval to the Jackson Creek Commercial Center on a two-acre parcel at Jackson Creek Parkway and Leather Chaps Drive.
Developers plan to build a 3,000-square-foot building to house a Qdoba Mexican Grill with an outdoor patio and 30 parking spaces. A second, 9,000-square-foot building with 76 parking spaces also is planned for a fu-ture retail shop or restaurant.
Construction is expected to begin in the spring after necessary approvals are received from regional building of-fi cials.
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Kiwanis sponsored a Christmas party for Frontier Boys’ Village on Thursday, Dec. 18 at the Inn at Wood-moor.
Adel J. Merrick of Palmer Lake is on the Dean’s List at Mesa College.
Members of the Circle K Club of Colorado State University raised $850 for CROP (Community Hunger Appeal of the Church at World Service) dur-ing a 30-hour fast. The fast was Nov. 15-16. Douglas Wasson told of the Fast Program and their work of CROP with slides taken of projects in Peru.
Elaine A. Herburger of Pueblo was transported to St. Francis Hospital by the Monument Ambulance after her car ran off the road at 3:05 p.m. Dec. 6.
On Dec. 5 at 1:15 a.m., Romelle Da-vid Kroll of Monument lost control of his car on a slight curve, skidded and rolled his car. Colorado Patrol Offi cer Stevens covered the accident.
“Festival of Carols and Candlelights for Christmas” at Church at Wood-moor will be 5 p.m. and 11 p.m., Dec. 24, at a barn on the shores of Lake Woodmoor. The barn was built late in the 19th century and moved to this location. A living nativity will also be presented.
The Outreach Committee of the Church at Woodmoor adopted a
needy family in Colorado Springs. The family consists of a mother and six children ranging from 2-15. There is no father or immediate relatives in the area. Clothing, food and toys are needed. The committee wants to build a continuing relationship with the family, not just a one-time Christmas approach.
Mount Herman Lions Club meeting on Dec. 9 was a dinner and program presented by the drama students of Lewis-Palmer Middle School. They presented “Proof a Man” published by Bakers Plays. Janet McCurdy super-vised the presentation. The wives of members were invited and had a very enjoyable evening.
Mountain Bell has many holiday phone call suggestions. Christmas day is one of the busiest for phone calls. Dial the call yourself rather than going through an operator. The call will be cheaper and faster. If you need a phone number, call the universal directory assistance before Christmas. Don’t call on the hour or ½ hour as that is the beginning and ending of TV shows. Lower rates will be in effect from 5 p.m. on Dec. 24 until 8 a.m. on Dec. 26.
Charles Edward (Chad) Hewins was dedicated to God through baptism at the Church at Woodmoor. Chad was born Oct. 1, 1975.
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When she finds something, Kiri the German Shepherd lights up like a kid on Christmas morning. It’s her favorite game and her owner, Eileen Nobles, knows it.
But it’s a serious job as they prepare for duty searching for the lost.
Kiri is an El Paso County Search and Rescue dog. She wears a neon vest, with a bell on it, to alert others to her movements. Clearly, she loves her job.
Each weekend, weather permitting, volunteers like Nobles meet to train their dogs.
“It’s her favorite time of the week,” Nobles said of Kiri. “Human remains are her specialty.”
She spoke as they hiked up a snowy hill during HRD – human remains de-tection – training earlier this month.
Donated human remains, like blood samples, had been hidden in trees and under the snow and soil for the dogs to track. When Kiri scents something, she alerts Nobles by running back down the hill and gleefully jumping on her.
On two legs, the dog is easily as tall as her handler, and on the ice-covered hillside, Kiri’s exuberance could floor her trainer. Fortunately, Nobles is good-natured about it.
Nobles then follows Kiri to whatever the dog found, and Kiri will dig in the snow or jump against a tree trunk to direct her.
If a sample is uncovered, Nobles pulls out a special rubber ball that Kiri only gets to play with when she successfully detects something, and the dog takes off down the hill after it in the heights of canine joy. It’s her reward for a job well done.
While the objects of their searches – human remains, lost people, articles of clothing – might be macabre, to the dogs, it’s the best game in the world.
And it has to be, says Barbara Yaschik, whose dog Choco recently started training.
“They love it,” Yaschik said. “They have to think it’s the best part of their week.”
If they don’t love it, they won’t be effective search and rescue dogs, she explained.
There’s no breed of dog that’s bet-ter for search and rescue work than another, Yaschik said. It’s about drive:
if a dog wants to work and loves the search, they’ll be good at it. That’s why the hillside is covered in a wide array of breeds, from shepherds to blood-hounds to mutts.
No matter the breed, though, train-ing begins the same way.
“We start them at runaways,” Yas-chik said, describing a training process wherein a dog’s owner will hike away from their dog, who is held by another handler. Then the dog has to find its owner. The drill is repeated from an increasing distance away. Eventually, Yaschik said, dogs can track someone down a mile or more of trail using this technique.
It strengthens the bond between handler and dog, she said, and helps build the connection in the dog’s mind between finding and reward.
From there, the dogs can train into all sorts of specialties, from HRD, like Kiri, to scenting objects or tracking shell casings at a crime scene.
Shell casings aren’t as exciting as human remains to Kiri.
“She thinks finding shells is stupid,” Nobles said, having the dog scent a bag of casings before searching for some that had been planted earlier.
Kiri eventually found a few, but she was clearly not as excited about them as she had been about the blood sample from under the snow.
While Kiri hunted for shells, dogs and handlers at various stages of experience – some nationally certi-fied, some working towards that – were engaged in all sorts of training.
Some handlers had taken their dogs up the nearby Blodgett Peak to prac-tice tracking along trails; others were walking neigh-borhood streets to practice SAR protocols; still others were working on scenting articles of clothing at a park down the road.
All this training – the hours every weekend, the inclement weather and early mornings – is for the six or eight times a year that the county or the sheriff’s office calls upon this network of volunteers and their dogs for assistance.
Usually, said Patty Baxter, who is training her dog Halo, that’s to help with cold cases, though occasionally the dogs will search for live people or
objects like weapons or shells. “The dogs are nationally certified
for (assisting with) live people,” she said, “(and) we get deployed with El Paso County Search and Rescue, of which we’re all members.”
When out in the field, there are always at least two people per dog: a handler and a support person. The handler is busy watching the dog, another trainer explained, while the support person manages everything else: watching for cars or other obsta-cles, operating the radio, watering the dog and, when it comes to it, calling in a find or checking the status of a live subject while the handler rewards the dog.
For the community of handlers and their dogs, though, there’s more to the training than what the dogs learn. They share tips and tricks for train-ing and abating undesired behaviors in their pets over breakfast and coffee before taking the dogs outside to work.
“It’s about spending so much time around other people who own dogs,” Jared O’Reilly said. He’s just started training his dog, Kepler.
“It’s amazing how much dogs learn about how to be dogs from watching other dogs,” he said.
And they even do the jobs they don’t especially enjoy, like Kiri and the shell casings.
She eventually found several shell casings, prompting Nobles to reward her by tossing her beloved reward ball.
Then it was on to tracking scented clothing, wiggling and waggling with the joy of the hunt.
Eileen Nobles and her dog, Kiri, search a snowy hill for human remains as part of a train-ing exercise. Inset:A tea strainer with a blood sample inside it, buried in the brush, was un-covered by Kiri. This method allows dogs to scent the human remains without, hopefully, attracting too much other interested wildlife – though, Nobles said, other animals will oc-casionally abscond with the planted samples, if they find them before the dogs. /Photos by Avalon A Manly
Search and rescue dogs, handlers find joy in work
Nobles encouraging Kiri to scent shell casings before starting to search for them along the driveway and road.
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It’s an assembly line to rival any ma-chinist shop in the modern world.
Quilts that will warm a needy child or comfort a victim of tragedy start as stretches of fabric, cut into precise squares and laid out on a table by a design team in Evy Van Tiem’s Palmer Lake home.
When the pattern is decided, the squares are all rolled together into a “kit.”
That’s when members of the Palmer
Divide Blanket Brigade, all volunteers, take the kits home and start sewing the squares together. When finished, bridage members bring the quilt tops back the next Tuesday to the group’s weekly meeting at Van Tiem’s home, where most of the lower level has been transformed into the work and staging areas for the group’s quilting enter-prise.
Once a top is done, it’s paired with a back and sandwiched with batting, a kind of stuffing, to make it soft and warm. A long table of women then tie the top to the bottom, through the bat-ting, and once the edges are hemmed, the finished quilt is added to a stack for inventory, sorting, and eventu-ally delivery to any number of places – Kids of Hope, TESSA, local school districts and hospitals, the family of a fallen state trooper, and many more.
The group usually makes about 1,000 quilts per year. They meet for upwards of four hours a week and then work hard at their homes. It takes a month or so to see a single quilt from design to completion.
Last month saw them at 1,079 and counting, with 986 already given away and more demand than they can rea-sonably meet.
The Blanket Brigade started in the fall of 1996 as part of the Binky Pa-trol Comforting Covers organization, which makes blankets for kids, and became its own nonprofit in 2004.
The women of the Brigade met
through word of mouth, church groups, and other volunteer organiza-tions, like the Colorado Springs Quilt Guild, and they span denominations, life experiences and beliefs. Some members are more than 90 years old and do their quilting mostly from home.
All the quilts look different. Some are lines of colored squares, made from larger fabric pieces, while others utilize donated strips and form geo-metric lines across the blanket top.
“I’ve never seen one I didn’t think was wonderful,” said Patti Dahlem, who works designing the quilts. “(Quilting) became something of an obsession…(it’s nice) doing it for someone else and not me.”
The quilts are given to anyone in the community who might need some comfort, a reminder of humanity and compassion, as they recover from medical or emotional trauma. It gives them a feeling of security and care, said Meg Edmonds, as she finished stuffing a pillow to add to the invento-ry of finished items. Edmonds started with the Blanket Brigade early, when
she retired. “I gotta do something, I thought,”
she said, laughing. “And we use every-thing, even scraps that are too small (to quilt).” Those scraps go to Mission Training, which gives kids a chance to practice their sewing skills.
Most of what they group uses in the creation of quilts is donated. Batting, though, has to be purchased, and doesn’t come cheap. For every wave of production, they hope they have enough to finish the quilts they’re working on, and that enough dona-tions will come in to buy more. If any donations are left over, they buy spe-cialty fabrics, like Christmas designs, for holiday quilts, most of which go to Christmas Unlimited.
Donations of fabric or money can be made by contacting Evy Van Tiem at [email protected], or by mail-ing donations to P.O. Box 222, Palmer Lake, 80133.
If you know of someone, child or adult, who could use the comfort of a quilt from the Blanket Brigade, you can reach out to them with that infor-mation, too.
Patti Dahlem designs many of the quilts the Blanket Brigade makes.
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this holiday season
From left, Carol Cox, Mary Scott, Terry Wages, Ginnny Sanders and Fran Freese tie quilt tops and bottoms together through batting, exchanging life news, quilting techniques, recipes and traditions as they work. /Photos by Avalon A. Manly
Carole O’Mara cuts squares of fabric in the first stage of quilt development. From left to right, Kitty Kutz, Evy Van Tiem and Karen Mirras measure and cut batting for the insides of the quilts.
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As I watched the Heisman Trophy ceremony over the weekend, I took special notice of Stanford sophomore Christian McCaffrey.
McCaffrey, a former Valor Christian star and son of former Denver Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaf-frey, was among three finalists invited to the famed Downtown Athletic Club in New York City along with Alabama running back Derrick Henry and Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson as finalists.
The Heisman Trophy is awarded annually to the top player in college football. McCaffrey certainly fit that description. He leads all Division I players with 3,496 all-purpose yards, breaking the record of 3,250 set by Barry Sanders in 1988. And he has 15 touch-downs.
Maybe some of you, like me, saw McCaffrey play back in the fall of 2010 when Valor Christian played Pine Creek at District 20 Stadium in a Class 4A state quarterfinals game. McCaffrey, though just a fresh-man at the time, had a game-high 121 all-purpose yards (68 rushing, 53 receiving) and had a touch-down rushing and receiving. Valor Christian won 41-16. He went on to lead Valor to four state titles in his four years at the school.
Or maybe you saw McCaffrey on March 16, 2013, when Lewis-Palmer basketball faced Valor at the University of Colorado’s Coors Events Center in the finals of the boys basketball championships. Lewis-Palmer won the game, 51-40, to capture the second of its back-to-back titles.
McCaffrey averaged 11.1 points and 2.5 assists per game as a four-year varsity player for Valor’s basketball team.
Of course, on the court for those LP champion-ship teams were some of the Tri-Lakes region’s own standout athletes. In fact, our area has produced some amazing athletes in recent years.
Three former Lewis-Palmer stars quickly came to mind – Josh Scott, Alexa Smith and Nicole Mont-gomery.
Scott is a senior at the University of Colorado, where he leads the team in scoring (18.3) and rebounds (9.8), while helping the Buffaloes to a 7-1 start. He is a legitimate pro prospect, and might even be among those selected in next June’s NBA draft.
Scott was named the Colorado Boys Gatorade Player of the Year his senior year at Lewis-Palmer in 2012, its first championship year.
Smith is a freshman outside hitter for Purdue. She recorded 80 kills and 227 digs for the Boilermakers this season. She helped Purdue to a 23-10 record and the trip to the second-round of the NCAA tournament. As a senior at Lewis-Palmer, Smith was named Colorado Volleyball Player of the Year for 2014.
Montgomery is the most decorated female track and field athlete in Tri-Lakes area history. She is run-
ning for the University of Kansas. Her dream is to be an Olympian. Watch for her in 2020 when the games are in Tokyo.
A current Lewis-Palmer student, Paul Tillotson, is another athlete to keep track of in college and/or the pros.
Tillotson is one of the top baseball players in the state. He has already committed play for the Uni-versity of Nebraska. According to some of the major league scouts I have spoken with, Tillotson could be selected in the high rounds of next June’s amateur draft.
Looking back over my years covering sports in the Pikes Peak region since 2001, I have been lucky enough to see many other future college and pro stars play a variety of sports.
The list includes Lewis-Palmer soccer player Bobby Burling (now a star defenseman for the Colorado Rapids); The Classical Academy’s Daniel Carlson (now a kicker for the Auburn football team,
who has scored 111 points this season, including 18 of 24 field goals and all 57 of his extra-point at-tempts); Doherty football player Lamarr Houston (now a linebacker with the Chicago Bears), Palmer basketball player Reggie Jackson (now a guard with the Detroit Pistons); and Fountain-Fort Carson foot-ball player Phil Loadholt (now a starting offensive lineman with the Minnesota Vikings, although he is out for the year with an injury).
A few years ago I did a story for the Tribune on Jenny Simpson, who competed in two Olympics and won the 2011 World Championship in the 1,500 meters. Simpson lived in the Jackson Creek area of Monument at the time and did a lot of her training on the Santa Fe Trail and Air Force Academy.
Others you might see on a grander stage in the years to come include Steven Leonard (a Palmer Ridge alum and catcher in the Colorado Rockies or-ganization); Jackson Spalding (a Discovery Canyon grad who competes in the shot put and discus for the Air Force Academy); Anders Carlson (a kicker for TCA who is being recruited by numerous Division I schools); and Caleb Ojennes (a track star for Palmer Ridge).
Who knows, maybe one of these days we’ll see a Tri-Lakes native vying for the Heisman Trophy!
Above: Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey played against Lewis-Palmer in basketball when he was in high school at Valor Christian. He was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy this year./Photo courtesy of Stanford Athletics Left: Lewis-Palmer pitcher Paul Tillotson has signed with the University of Nebraska. He will likely be selected in next June’s amateur draft./Photo courtesy of Paul Tillotson
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The Classical Academy landed six players on the Class 3A All-South Cen-tral Conference football team. Eight other Titans were named Honorable Mention.
First team members from TCA were: seniors Kyle Peterson offensive line/linebacker), Jayce Hall (running back/defensive back), Luke Bethany (offen-sive line/defensive line), Alex Miller (running back/defensive back) and Austin Bervig (quarterback/defen-
sive back), and junior Anders Carlson kicker/punter).
TCA players who made Honorable Mention were: seniors Patrick Gheo-rghe (running back), Kenny Plant (offensive line/defensive line) and Reese Plantenberg (wide receiver/linebacker); juniors Sawyer Weeks (running back/defensive back), Aus-tin Weingart (linebacker) and Nathan Boyles (offensive line/defensive line), and sophomores Donavan Pacht (of-fensive line/defensive line) and Rhys Ryba (linebacker).
TCA represented well on All-South Central League football team
The Classical Academy’s Jayce Hall was named to the All-South Central League First Team. /Photo courtesy of Jeff Weeks
Discovery Canyon freshman Nick Lorenz and The Classical Academy junior Tanner Norman top a long list of Tri Lakes area athletes named to Colo-rado High School Activities Association All State fall teams.
Lorenz finished runner up in No. 1 singles this fall was named to the Class 4A All State tennis team.
Norman was named Runner of the Year after win-ning the Class 4A boys cross country championship and he led the All State boys’ cross country team.
Several Palmer Ridge girls made the All State field hockey team. Senior Edie Statham (six goals, three assists) and junior Emily Munn (eight goals, seven assists) made the first team. They helped the Bears to an 11 4 1 record and a trip to
the state semifinals.Making the all state second team from Palmer
Ridge were junior goalkeeper Keelin Broeker, junior Shannon Snediker (team leading nine goals, eight as-sists) and sophomore Liz Phillips (eight goals, team-leading 16 assists).
TCA freshman Chantae Steele was named to the girls’ All State cross country team.
Only seven boys and seven girls were named to each All State cross country team.
In softball, Discovery Canyon junior Kailee Clark was named Second Team. Clark batted a team leading .586 with 14 extra base hits and 31 RBIs.
More all state teams for other fall sports will be re-leased later this month.
All-State teams littered with Tri-Lakes area athletes
Discovery Canyon’s Kailee Clark was named Second Team all-State in softball by the Colorado High School Activities Association. /Photo courtesy of Discovery Canyon Softball
Lewis-Palmer running back Nick Pavlik and Dis-covery Canyon quarterback Matt Call were named co-Most Valuable Offensive Players of the Year in the Class 3A Southern Conference.
Discovery Canyon linebacker Beau Beattie was named the co-Most Valuable Defensive Player of the Year.
Discovery Canyon football coach Shawn Mitchell was named the Coach of the Year after his Thunder rebounded from a disastrous 0-4 start to win the con-ference for the fourth consecutive year and make a deep run in the playoffs.
Pavlik rushed for 1,586 yards and 24 touchdowns in nine games in leading the Rangers to their first postseason appearance since 2011.
Call rushed for 1,188 yards and 21 touchdowns to help the Thunder claim the league title and its fourth playoff appearance in as many seasons. Discovery Canyon lost to eventual state-champion Pueblo East in the quarterfinals.
Beattie had 81 tackles, two quarterback sacks and
one fumble recovery.Mitchell started the Thunder program in 2007 and
has directed the team to a 37-10 record since 2012.Lewis-Palmer players selected to the first team
were: Adley Piccolo (defensive line), Dayton Madison (tight end), Jared Pope (linebacker), Jordan Brines (linebacker), Michael Corkill (defensive back) and Ryan Oliver (defensive line).
Discovery Canyon players selected to the first team were: Josh Tomjack (running back/all-purpose), Ryan Weber (defensive line), Matt Call (linebacker), Max Smith (kicker), Sterling Watkins (defensive back), Mi-chael Draper (defensive back), Josh Umiamaka (of-fensive line) and Jack Roy (offensive line).
Lewis-Palmer players selected for the second team were: Kevin Tims (quarterback), Curran Chapman (defensive line) and Cody Fitzgerald (kicker), Noah Sathre (defensive back), Ryan Earl (offensive line) and Sam Hough (offensive line).
Discovery Canyon players who made the second team were: Colt O’Connell (running back), Kendall Carter (defensive line), Brandon Storch (lineback-er), Zach Kavale (punter) and Ryan Weber (offensive line).
Pavlik, Call and Beattie earn top football honors in Southern League
Lewis-Palmer’s Nick Pavlik was named co-Offensive Player of the Year for the Class 3A Southern League./Photo courtesy of Julie Tims
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Faces to FollowAndy Parteebasketball coachColorado CollegePartee, a resident of Monument, is in his 10th season as coach of the Colorado College men’s basketball team. Partee has coached the Tigers to double-digit victories during each of the last six seasons, posting a combined 84-70 re-
cord. That stretch includes fi ve consecutive trips to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament, including back-to-back appearances in the champion-ship game. Partee brought more than 15 years of coach-ing and recruiting experience to the Tigers when he was named as head coach in April 2006. He had served as an assistant on the men’s staff at Brown since June 1998, co-ordinating national recruiting efforts and helping guide Brown to three runner-up fi nishes in the Ivy League. Par-
tee and his wife Kendra, have a daughter Halle, and sons Tre and Zevien, who shares May 11 as a birthday with his father.
Laura DayswimmingSan Diego State
Day, a former star swimmer for Lewis-Palmer High School, is in her se-nior year for the San Diego State swim team. She began her college career at Liberty University. Day was named to the Mountain West all-conference team
in the 100 and 200 breaststroke as a junior last winter. She captured the 100 breast race at the league champi-onships with a time of 1 minute, 01.42 seconds, which ranks as the second-fastest ever by an Aztec swimmer. She is majoring in food and nutrition.
Ryan ArataswimmingStanford
Arata, a Lewis-Palmer alum, is in his senior season for the Stanford swim-ming team. He is specializing in back and butterfl y. As a junior at the Pac 12 Championships, he fi nished 12th in 100 fl y (47.32), sixth in 100 back (47.01) and
ninth in 200 back (1:42.04). Arata led Lewis-Palmer to pair of 4A state titles (2009, 2010). He won 4A state titles in 200 medley relay (2009, 2010), 400 free relay (2010), 100 back and 100 fl y (2009, 2010), and a 5A state title in 100 back (2011). He was a multiple All-American from 2009-2012. He has already graduated with his degree in mechanical engineering. His brother, Bryce, swam for California Baptist.
Discovery Canyon improved to 2-1 after 60-33 victory over Woodland Park
Things are already looking up this season for the Discovery Canyon boys’ basketball team.
The Thunder defeated Woodland Park, 60-33, on Dec. 10 to improve to 2-1. The victory came on the heels of a 70-55 win over Coronado on Dec. 8, mark-ing the fi rst time since the 2013-14 campaign that Thunder teams won consecutive games. And one more win will match the Thunder’s total for all of last season when it struggled to 3-20 under coach Al Blanc in his fi rst year at DCC.
“We were in the gym a lot this summer and we’ve made it a goal to get past last year and make this year count; especially with the seniors we have this year,” said Discovery Canyon senior forward Colin McGetti-gan, who scored a game-high 14 points, including the Thunder’s fi rst 10 to begin the fourth quarter. “Our team chemistry is a lot better. We all have the same goal; we just want to win.”
Other top scorers for the Thunder were Hunter Wil-liams (12), Chase Rogers (10), Hayden Frye (10), Seth Clawson (6) and Brandon Storch (5).
In the recent Woodland Park game, the Thunder’s defense was impressive, limiting the Panthers to just 19 percent (10 of 52) shooting from the fl oor.
“It was really just shots not falling and not rebound-ing,” said Woodland Park senior guard Dominik Cuni-co. “One of our biggest things right now is not getting off the ball and rebounding. I think if we make one quarter of the shots we put we are right in this game.”
Cunico and super freshman Skye Ciccarelli were the focal points of a stingy Discovery Canyon defense that focused on shutting down Woodland Park’s two scorers.
“We knew who (Woodland Park’s) scorers were and
we had a game plan to take them out of the game,” McGettigan said.
Cunico made just 1 of 11 shots (a 3-pointer) on his way to a team-high nine points. He made 6 of 10 free throws before fouling out with 5:16 remaining in the fourth.
Ciccarelli, who averaged 24 points per game in his fi rst three games to being his career, was held to just three points on 1 of 9 shooting. He was 1 for 3 from the free throw line. Ciccarelli was coming off a 38-point effort against Dolores Huerta Prep on Dec. 5.
“I just didn’t get open because they were on me the whole time,” Ciccarelli said of Discovery Canyon’s de-fense.”
Williams has been Discovery Canyon’s leading scorer, averaging a team-leading 17.3 points per game.
“I don’t think we have a weakness,” a confi dent Wil-liams said. “We have to continue to play together and get some chemistry.
“Last year was our fi rst year with coach, but we re-ally learned a lot. We had learn how to play his offense and his defense. This year we’re coming back with a lot of chemistry and we’re doing pretty well.”
The matchup between the two schools also was a much-anticipated homecoming for Woodland Park coach John Paul Geniesse. The high-energy Geniesse started the Discovery Canyon program in 2007 and coached the team through the 2013 season when he left to become an assistant at Doane College in Ne-braska. He returned to coaching at the prep level in 2014 when he accepted the Woodland Park position.
“It was nice to come back and to see the kids and the parents who we had great relationships with,” Geniesse said.
Thunder basketball team off to solid start
Discovery Canyon’s Hunter Williams (No. 24) and Hayden Frye (No. 31) get in the face of Woodland Park’s Dominik Cu-nico during the Thunder’s 60-33 victory on Dec. 10./Photo by Paul Magnuson
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helping out the girls’ team and helping out the coaches so their jobs can run smoother.
“Mostly I take (split times). The coaches do all their coaching and talk to the girls. Me and the other managers take splits.”
Like their brothers and sister before them, Julie and Joseph are home-schooled. The only member of the Day family who never swam for Lewis-Palmer is Nathan, the elder sibling, who graduated in 2002 when the family was living in Nebraska.
Justin and Laura Day were good enough to com-pete in the Olympic Trials. Laura is a senior on the San Diego State swimming team.
Justin set several records during his Air Force Academy swimming career.
“We learned how to swim right here when we were four years old,” said Julie, before a recent workout at Monument Hill Country Club, where the Rangers practice and train. “We started swimming competi-tively when we were six.
“It was always big thing for Mom that we learned how to swim. It was a natural thing for us because all of our brothers and sisters were swimmers.”
The Days’ mom, Carol, was a swimmer in high school and wanted her children to enjoy a sport that could help draw the family even closer together.
“Carol still swims every once in a while at (Monu-ment Hill Country Club),” said Lewis-Palmer swim-ming coach Alan Arata, who has coached most of the Day kids. “When you have a big family and you can all swim, it makes for a lot of fun.”
Julie is the more accomplished of the twins through her fi rst two years of high school swimming. As a freshman, she had state-qualifying times in six of the eight individual events.
“Julie works really hard, harder than most girls I know,” Joseph said. “She just doesn’t train hard, physically, but she is smart mentally. She doesn’t let her technique go lax. She probably has one of the best techniques on the team. She always streamlines. Always does the little extra that you can do.”
She had an up and down sophomore year deal-ing with various illnesses, but she managed to fi nish 18th at the Class 5A state meet in the 100-yard breast stroke, and swam on all three relay teams.
“This year my goal is qualify for all eight individual events,” Julie said. “The 500 is going be tough for me. I’m not a distance swimmer.”
Julie began this season on a positive note, winning the 50 free and 100 breast during a 167-148 Lewis-Palmer victory over Air Academy on Dec 1.
Joseph has qualifi ed for the state meet each of his fi rst two years. Last spring, he qualifi ed in three indi-vidual events (100 fl y, 100 back, 200 individual med-ley) and three relays. As a freshman, he qualifi ed in the 200 IM.
“As good as Joseph’s brothers were, he is the only Day to qualify for state as a freshman,” Arata said.
The Day twins have rarely been separated for any length of time.
“We’ve always been best friends as long as we’ve grown up,” said Joseph, an accomplished classical pianist. “The longest I’ve been away from her is four weeks when I was at (music) camp. It was kind of tough. I usually called home once a week and talked with her for a few minutes.”
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In the Tri-Lakes area, he said there are 4,016 residents 65 or older, with half of those in Monument.
In the category 55 and older, there are 9,952 in the Tri-Lakes area includ-ing 5,354 in Monument.
“Yet we have zero senior living cen-ters in the Tri-Lakes area,” Coopman said.
He also identifi ed a subset of se-niors he called “frail elderly” who are 80 and older. He said studies show 588 frail elderly in the area including 326 in Monument.
The number of frail elderly is signifi -cant because the average life expectan-cy in the U.S. is 79.
To put the numbers and projections in perspective, Coopman noted that once a man turns 65, he can expect to live another 17.9 years and a 65-year-old woman can expect to live another 20.5 years.
Given the growing number of se-niors, Coopman said it’s important to offer opportunities for them to engage in the community and provide servic-es that accommodate a wide range of functional abilities.
That’s where the concept of an “age-friendly” community comes in, based on a concept pioneered by the AARP in 2012.
The program focuses on eight ar-eas where communities can become age-friendly – from outdoor space and buildings, transportation, housing, so-cial participation, respect and social inclusion, civic participation and em-ployment, community and informa-tion, community support and health services.
Working with the World Health Or-ganization, AARP identifi ed common needs such as geriatric clinics and hospitals, adult day care, community centers offering health and social ser-vices, respite care and training for fam-ily caregivers, rehab, health and nutri-tional guidance.
Coopman offered some sobering
statistics about the process facing our aging population. He quoted AARP re-search that shows 70 percent of all se-niors will need some form of long-term care during their lives.
He said the big myth about aging is that Medicare or supplemental insur-ance pays for long-term care.
In fact, 80 percent of all care is being provided unpaid by family members. While many prefer to “age in place” in their homes, many can’t afford it. Few have the saving to offset what insur-ance won’t cover.
Among Baby Boomers, a whopping 43 percent have less than $25,000 in savings. And 78 percent have saved less than $250,000, meaning they are ill prepared for retirement, much less long-term care.
“How are we going to pay for the care people are going to need?” Coop-man said. “Nobody is talking about this.”
Coopman said Gov. John Hicken-looper has appointed a group to study the issue and devise a plan to serve the state’s aging population.
Kaiser asked what Monument could do to start addressing the problem.
First, Coopman said, the board should initiate conversations with area seniors to determine their specifi c needs.
Coopman also advised developing senior centers with programs targeting seniors.
He said the town should create se-nior living options. And programs should be encouraged to provide se-nior transportation and meals.
Development of a caregiver work-force is another priority as well as offer-ing education programs and resources to support family caregivers.
“I could hire 100 people today as caregivers but they just aren’t out there,” Coopman said.
Coopman suggested interested peo-ple and groups contact the Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging at 471-7080 to learn about its Senior Information and Assistance Center and Family Caregiv-
er Support Center as well as its Senior Insurance As-sistance.
He strongly suggest-ed the town investigate the Innovations in Aging Collaborative, www.innovationsinaging.org, and its SeniorReach Program, which educates and trains community partners.
Another good partner agency is the Tri-Lakes HAP, www.trilakeshap.org, as well as the Federal Ad-ministration on Aging, at longtermcare.gov.
Kaiser said senior hous-ing is “fi rst and foremost on our minds.”
And Mayor Rafael Dominguez pledged to take up the cause in 2016.
“We need to have meetings with our senior citizens,” Dominguez said. “We’re going to do that over the next few months.”
And he said the town has tried to get develop-ers interested in a senior center.
“We would bend over backwards to make that happen,” Dominguez said.
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