uS reporter found guilty of espionage in Iran Celebrating a perfect season . . . Entire Dinner Bill page 4 page 8 page 17 page 8 page 5 page 2 THE Support locally owned and operated coffee shops all plants & wrapped cut fl owers April 19, 2009 SALE! SALE! SALE! Noon to 2 p.m. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 5 to 10 p.m. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Bud Light Post Party — Samana Lounge in Vail Village 2 to 5 p.m. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Contracting, Inc. Epic Lounge – public is welcome — Lionshead ski yard
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Our two years of fluff continued right up to Vail’s closing day, as more than 7 inches of new snow over the weekend brought the ‘08-‘09 snowfall total to a whopping 434 inches as of Saturday.
Add that to the 463 inches Vail re-ceived last year, and we’re talking near-ly 200 inches above the 700 that would be considered average for the two-year span.
Numbers like that will blow a global warming alarmist’s mind, along with a resort’s plans for a sunny Saturday cel-ebration.
The Tuaca World Pond Skimming Championships, the always popular wet
and wild end-of-the-season extravaganza at Golden Peak, was postponed Saturday due to, you guessed it, heavy snowfall. Road closures were also a factor.
If you think the postponement ruined your nice little Saturday, try taking a walk in event organizer Julie Fandry’s ski boots.
“I spent all morning trying to get ahold of the 100 participants,” said an exhaust-ed Fandry on Saturday afternoon. “And then I moved on to the media ... Nev-ertheless, we’re expecting a great pond skimming event on Sunday.”
In addition to the pond skimming, there’s also the Great Epic Giveaway, a free BBQ and free live music from DJ Logic, Crash Kings and O.A.R.
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Farewellfluffy friendGreat snow greets Vail’s last ski day of ‘08-‘09
RIGHT: Sheriff Masry, his son Quinton, 4, and their dog Oscar learn about Saturday’s pond skimming postponement the hard way. The Masry family is
looking forward to today’s rescheduled Tuaca World Pond Skimming Champi-onships at Vail’s Golden Peak from 2 to 5 p.m. Jennifer Ellis photo.
Vail closing day schedule
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ECO Village – Green Product Expo — Vista Bahn ski yard
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Epic Lounge – public is welcome — Lionshead ski yard
Noon to 2 p.m. Live music from D.J. Mo Rockin’ — Mid-Vail on Vail Mountain
2 to 5 p.m. Tuaca World Pond Skimming Cham-pionships — Vail’s Golden Peak
5 to 10 p.m. Bud Light presents O.A.R., Of A Revolution with special guest The Crash Kings — International Bridge, Vail Village
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.Bud Light Post Party — Samana Lounge in Vail Village—Check springbacktovail.com for updates
Mountaineer Staff Report
Celebrating a perfect season . . .Local skier Eric Lee poses with Vail scan team member Carli Davenport Saturday after Dav-enport reported Lee’s pass had been scanned on 144 separate days this season. Lee’s only missed days in Vail came while he was racing with Ski and Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV) Mas-ter’s program at the Nastar National Champion-ships in Steamboat Springs, where he took a bronze in his division. Lee says working nights and having “really cool employers,” at The George and The Club in Vail helped him achieve the milestone. He also credits SSCV, saying the great coaching staff helped keep him moti-vated all season. On Saturday night Lee, who has been racing for two years, received SSCV’s “most improved” designation at the SSCV awards banquet. Petar Hristov photo.
uS reporter found guilty of
espionage in IranIran convicted an American journalist of
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The White House said President Ba-rack Obama was “deeply disappointed” by the conviction, while the journalist’s father told a radio station his daughter was tricked into making incriminating statements by officials who told her they would free her if she did.
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There’s no doubt it will be hard to talk the ski bums off the mountain today, but a free concert with O.A.R. and the Cash Kings ought to sweeten the deal.
The show is at the International Bridge in Vail Vil-lage and starts at 5 p.m.
O.A.R. first formed in Maryland with three 8th grade boys playing in tribute to their favorite band, Pearl Jam. These boys are lyricist Marc Roberge, guitarist Richard On, and drummer Chris Culos.
Three years later, their bassist Benj Gershman entered the picture. He and Chris had been lifeguards together and knew that each other were musically inclined. Benj had seen Chris in marching band and said to him, “you play drums, I play bass, wanna play?”
There was an instant connection. They found a com-mon musical ground and ‘Of A Revolution’ (O.A.R.) was formed. Four years later they met saxophonist Jerry DePizzo, while gaining an excellent education at The Ohio State University and he joined the band.
Their band was named after a story that Mark had written called “The Wanderer.” You may recognize this from the name of their debut album and from their track name on “Any Time Now.” From that short story came not only their band name, but their song and first album title.
“The Wanderer” featured many songs that they still play at their concerts, including “Black Rock,” “Con-quering Fools,” and perhaps their most recognized song, an eighteen minute track entitled, “That Was a Crazy Game of Poker.”
And if you’re a NASCAR fan, you’re no stranger to O.A.R. whether you realize it or not. NASCAR has a commercial that runs at least once during every race, featuring O.A.R. and their song “This Town” off of
their most recent album entitled “All Sides.” Turns out the guys from O.A.R. are NASCAR nuts!
They met Ricky Hendrick, late son of Rick Hendrick and Hendrick Motor Sports, and NASCAR had them wrapped around their pinky finger. Bassist Benj Ger-shman said, “[Ricky Hendrick] found us years ago, came out to shows, and made friends with us. He got his friends involved and we all became friends with his friends and family.” When asked who Benj’s driver is, he replied “Brian Vickers and, of course, Dale Jr.”
O.A.R. still wants to do more for their fans and other artists, so in 2002 they created a music festival in their record company’s name. The inaugural Feeling Better Than Everfine Music Festival took place in Cleveland, Ohio and has featured artists such as the Ordinary Peo-ples, Matt Nathanson, Howie Day, The Clarks, and Red Wanting Blue. Needless to say, O.A.R. has performed at each festival.
They’ve also been known to play at large concert fes-tivals including Bonnaroo and the Denver-based Mile High Music Festival.
Music isn’t their only passion though. They contrib-ute a set amount of money from every ticket purchased to go to education and youth programs. One of the pro-grams is called WhyHunger.org and it focuses in the finding the answers and aid for hunger and poverty. Check out their Web site for information on what you can do to help.
These guys are just a group of down-to-earth music loving, happy people who want to spread their happi-ness through their love for music and mankind in gen-eral.
If you can’t make it to today’s free show, you can find O.A.R. at Red Rocks on June 5. But you’ll have to pay for that one.
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Nasty weather and road closures caused problems for motorists in addition to postponing some of the annual Spring Back to Vail festivities Saturday.
By Saturday morning an emergency shelter in Vail had handled over 60 stranded travelers since opening at 7 p.m. Friday, according to coordinator Dan Smith of the Salvation Army.
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The Visitor Information Center in Vail Village also assisted travelers by extending its hours until 10 p.m. Friday night, where the center fielded questions from 86 visitors.
Interstate 70 from East Vail (exit 180) to Golden (exit 259) was closed as crews conducted avalanche control work on the both sides of the Eisenhower Tunnel and at Berthoud Pass (US 40).
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We know what you’re thinking. “All this great snow and no lifts, what’s a snowrider to do?”
You’re right, you don’t need a chairlift. But before you strap on the snowshoes and hit the backcountry, have a listen to Steve and Mike’s story.
Steve was out skiing with a group of friends in the backcountry, and all were fairly knowledgeable and ex-perienced skiers. After many successful runs and with-out warning, Steve’s friend Mike injured his knee in an
unexpected fall. Utilizing his training as a Wilderness First Responder, Steve quickly and calmly assessed the situation to determine his friend’s condition, evaluating appropriate treatment and evacuation. After stabilizing the injury, the group fashioned a toboggan from extra gear they had, and were able to safely and effectively get Mike down the mountain and on to more advanced medical care in comfort.
Not only does a Wilderness First Responder course teach the hard skills necessary in handling an emergen-cy situation, but also the training to react in a calm and effective manner.
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The Apex Mountain School – SOLO Wil-derness First Responder curriculum uses the principles of long-term care, improvised re-sources, and varying environmental condi-tions as the framework for learning. Now the most widely recognized and most oft-required outdoor leader certification, the WFR course was initially devel-oped and taught by SOLO in the mid-1980’s. Created to provide outdoor leaders, guides, and rangers with the knowledge to deal with crises in remote settings, this 80-hour certification course meets DOT National Stan-dards for First Responder with additional protocols for extended-care situations. Like all of Apex’s Wilderness Medicine programs, the emphasis of the WFR is on prevention and decision-making.
Smith says that the WFR curriculum addresses, among other matters, the issues of medico legal con-cerns, blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases. The Patient Assessment System, the foundation of the course, trains students on the fundamentals of deter-mining and addressing the status and needs of back-
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Vail’s High Country high flierVail native Claudia Bouvier tops free skiing season
There ought to be some sort of lifetime achievement award for people like Claudia Bouvier.
Call it the Angel Award.Claudia hasn’t been alive all that long, she’s 23, but
she’s certainly packed life into those years.
She finished the international free skiing season with enough gold to start her own monetary system. The free skiing world isn’t quite organized enough yet to have an international organization that passes out points and keeps track of stuff like wins.
But Bouvier flies off high moun-tains and halfpipes better than al-most anyone alive, and won more free skiing titles this year than any-one ever has.
So, if free-spirited free skiers honored their season champions, it’d be named after Bouvier – the Angel Award.
Claudia won in Switzerland and Breckenridge, and finished on the leaderboard at the U.S. Open in Cop-per Mountain and on the Dew Tour. The story of her storybook season could be titled the High Flying High Country Highlight Reel.
She fell in the finals of a couple competitions in Eu-rope, “but I had lots of fun,” she says.
High flying physicianWhen we last visited with Claudia, she had won an-
other Big Mountain skiing competition, one of those things where you hear yourself saying that no one in their right mind would jump off something that high – and then they do.
Claudia most certainly did jump off something that high and she is in her right mind. She’s studying to take medical school entrance exams June 18, so she really needs her right mind. The plan is to pursue either ortho-pedics or pediatrics.
This season was her first full campaign back since breaking her neck, the kind of thing that might inspire caution in mere mortals.
With the end of the ski season, she’ll still spend some time on the mountain posing for photo shoots for her happy sponsors – Rossignol and Vail Resorts among them.
Family styleWhen it comes to Claudia, the apple didn’t fall far
from the tree. She grew up in Vail, the beautiful daugh-ter of Daniel, the first skier in the world to land a dou-ble back flip.
Those skills run through every branch of their family tree. Claudia’s cousin, Julie Mancuso, won an Olympic gold medal in Torino, Italy. Claudia is the reigning na-tional collegiate slopeside champion.
Claudia is a little miracle, an adorable 5-foot 1-inch package of power and athleticism.
She excelled in gymnastics when she was younger. When she tired of the gate-crashing training of alpine racing, she carried the gifts and fearlessness with her when she wandered over to the halfpipe, adding grace and athleticism that slopeside competitions hadn’t seen before.
Throw in some big air during big mountain compe-titions and before you know it you have your Angel Award winner.
By Randy WyrickMountaineer Staff Writer
The lovely Claudia Bouvier explodes through a patch of powder in Vail. Bouvier won free skiing events in Switzerland and Breckenridge, and finished on the leaderboard at the U.S. Open in Copper Moun-tain and on the Dew Tour this season. Jeff Cricco photo.
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Linda Sneath is half the person she used to be.When Sneath staggered into the Vail Valley Medical
Center’s cardiac rehab unit a year and a half ago, she weighed 301 pounds.
Tall and silver haired, Sneath now tips the scales at a svelte 140 pounds.
She looks good and says she hasn’t felt this good in years.
When it came to Sneath’s weight, what went up had to come down. If it didn’t, it would kill her.
Sneath was camping with her kids and grandkids, and had trouble getting out of her chair, or getting around, or doing anything.
Steroid shots had followed bad knees and a pinched nerve in her hack. Her medication to deal with carbon monoxide poisoning made food taste like nothing she’d ever tasted before, so she tasted it in record amounts and packed on more the pounds.
She ballooned to 301 pounds faster than you can say “Supersize me,” and stayed in there for about nine years.
“I put it on so fast that I had trouble with my balance, with just moving around and doing the normal things people do from day to day,” said Sneath.
She was at her doctor to talk about a different ail-ment, and when they were done he turned the conversa-tion to her weight.
It was brief.“He said, ‘Either you lose it or I will. I’m not going
to leave you like this,’” said Sneath.
That shocked her off the Barcalounger and onto the treadmill. Being told you’ll be dead soon gives you an entirely different outlook on life.
“I started blindly, but I took off 50 pounds before I realized I was losing weight,” she said.
Jeanne Stough and the crew with the Vail Valley Medical Center’s cardiac rehab unit outlined a work-out and diet routine for Sneath. It was pretty simple: Whatever you were doing and eating, it’s killing you so knock it off.
So she did.She hit the treadmill and weights. Her diet is strict –
low fat, low carbs.“The people at VVMC went through it with me, but
there was no sympathy,” said Sneath. “They let me gasp.”
To help deal with the carbon monoxide poisoning, she spent five days in a hyperbolic chamber. They said she’d be brain damaged from it all. They were wrong. She’s charming and bright.
But she remembers what it was like to not move be-cause she couldn’t. She occasionally works out in a T-shirt she owned when she weighed 300 pounds. These days, you could fit three of her in it.
She rolls out about 3:30 or four in the morning, put-ters around the house for a while, reads little, writes a little, meditates a little, and is at the VVMC cardiac rehab unit’s door by around 6 a.m. They open at 6:30 p.m.
She’s been back down to fighting weight for about a year.
“My oldest daughter says, ‘I got my mom back!’” said Sneath.
The youngest of her six grandchildren says, “Gee grandma, when I hug you now I can reach all the way around you.”
Winning the weight gameLocal woman drops 160 pounds the hard way
On the left is local Linda Sneath’s before picture. She decided she didn’t want to live like that anymore, and when she completely changed her lifestyle and diet she went from 301 pounds to 140, with the help of the folks at the Vail Valley Medical Center’s cardiac rehab unit. On the right director Jeanne Stough helps keep an eye on Sneath during a morning workout.
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Brendon Todd made Nationwide Tour history by making a hole-in-one at the same hole for the second straight day at the Athens Regional Foundation Clas-sic.
The former Georgia All-American aced the 147-yard 17th hole on Friday, using an 8-iron during the second round at the Jennings Mill Country Club course.
“It’s still hard to believe,” Todd said after posting a 1-under 71. “It’s a bit surreal, even now.”
During Thursday’s opening round, Todd used a 7-iron when the hole played 157 yards and he finished with a 4-under 68. He is 5-under for the $550,000 event.
Todd is the first player in the 20-year history of the tour to ace the same hole twice in the same tourna-ment.
The last player to ace the same hole twice in the same tournament was Graham Marsh in the first and third rounds of the 2004 Senior British Open.
Yusaku Miyazato (2006), Bob Tway (1994), Glen Day (1994), Jack Rule (1964) and Bill Whedon (1955) are the only players in modern PGA Tour history to re-cord two aces in a single event. Miyazato and Whedon are the only ones to do it in the same round.
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By Dean BlazierSpecial to the Mountaineer
Brendon Todd, pictured here with a putter, didn’t need his putter two consecutive days on the par-3 17th at the Athens Regional Foundation Classic at Jennings Mill Country Club course, carding aces on two con-secutive days to make Nationwide Tour history.
Actor Bill Murray hooked a tee shot so badly during a Pro-Am event on Friday that the ball sailed across a street next to the hole and hit a woman in her front yard. She was knocked to the ground and had to go to the hospital.
Murray was on No. 9 at the TPC Tampa Bay during the first round of the Outback Pro-Am when he hit Gail DiMaggio as she was watching the tournament.
He was playing with Hal Sutton, Jeff Sluman and Fred Paglia. They continued while Murray’s caddy took him in a cart to the woman’s yard, where para-medics were attending to her. Tournament officials said
DiMaggio was lying on the ground, but conscious and moving.
“I wasn’t sure I was in bounds or not,” Murray said. “And I saw this NBC golf cart coming at me and he said, ‘I hate to be the one to tell you this but you hit a lady. She’s down on the ground.’ That is, you know, sobering.”
Murray said DiMaggio was taken to a local hospital.“She was overjoyed when she saw me because she
said she had come out to see me and her husband had just said, ‘I hope he hits it over here,’ ” said Murray, who did not finish his round.
After signing his scorecard he joked with reporters that DiMaggio isn’t the first spectator he’s hit.
The 58-year-old comedian is an avid golfer who of-ten plays in celebrity tournaments. He did not play in the Outback in 2008, but has numerous times in the past.
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$30,000 pot for first to sleep with Beckham
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A horde of Italian soccer groupies have been set-ting their sights on David Beckham for some time, and now they’ve decided to make it interesting by throwing down into a pot now totaling $30,000 to be awarded to the first woman who receives a Beckham rogering.
According to Grazia magazine, there is no sugges-tion that David is aware of the bet. A source apparently
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‘They have decided that the top prize is now David Beckham. Most of the girls have slept with several AC Milan players but no longer see them as a big deal.
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is 6000 miles away in Los Angeles. To make things even worse, pictures were recently released of Italian women throwing themselves at David last week dur-ing a Cancer Research gala dinner where he was the guest of honor. World renowned athlete and dozens of women competing to sleep with you … Things could be worse for David Beckham.
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LEFT: David Beckham was the guest of honor at a Milan fundraiser and was nearly assaulted by wom-en. Socialite Gabriella Dompe placed the highest bid for David Beckham’s shirt. She is not implicated in the alleged bet to woo the soccer star.
Indians score 14 runs in one inningAnd it comes against the
New York Yankees, no lessAsdrubal Cabrera hit his first career grand slam and
drove in five runs Saturday as the Cleveland Indians scored 14 runs in the second inning, the biggest inning ever against the New York Yankees.
It was the most runs by a major league team in an inning since the Boston Red Sox scored 14 in the first against the Florida Marlins on June 27, 2003, at Fen-way Park. Cleveland tied its franchise record set in the first inning on June 18, 1950, against the Philadelphia Athletics.
The 14 runs and 13 hits amassed by the Indians were the most allowed by the Yankees in a single inning. The Indians thrashed the Yanks 22-4.
RIGHT: Cleveland Indians Asdrubal Cabrera hits a grand slam New York Yankees Saturday. AP photo.
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Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Aaron Cook reacts to a home run by Andre Ethier of the Los An-geles Dodgers in the fourth inning of a game in Los Angeles Saturday. Manny Ramirez hit his first two home runs of the season, and dropped a fly ball for his first error, and Andre Ethier also homered twice as the Dodgers extended their winning streak to seven games with a 9-5 victory over the Rockies. AP photo.
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ABOVE: Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James hoists a half-court shot at the end of the first half of a first-round NBA playoff game against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday in Cleveland. James made the shot at the buzzer. James played 40 minutes, 52 seconds, scored 38 points with 8 rebounds and 7 assists and never turned the ball over once in Cleveland’s 102-84 vic-tory over the Pistons. AP photo.
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They’re looking to catch male Capuchin monkeys in three city parks, each of which has about eight female mates. The animals will be netted, snipped and released.
The parks’ monkey population has grown to about 170 in recent months, and project head Marize Moreira said Thursday some have been found to carry yellow fever.
Sick monkeys can’t pass the disease directly to humans, but mosquitoes that bite infected monkeys can transmit it.
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JAMES WITCHER, on vacation in Vail from Alabama, was out and about in Vail Village on Thursday night, looking for some fun.
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JAMES HOGAN, vacationing from Michigan, Gabriel Gonzalez and Rudy Leos, vacationing from Texas, and Victor Alber, (in front) who didn’t want to tell us where he hails from, went snowmobiling Thursday night in white-out conditions.
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THESE THREE FINE GENTLEMEN should win the award for parking attendants of the year. There are so many of us that appreciate you allowing us to park in your lot for longer than we planned on being there. Thank you for a great season and for not having out cars towed!
TSU WOLLEN BROWN is the face behind the magic of The Vail Valley Salvation Army. She is pictured here with her two sons, Eric Brown, left, and Harrison Brown, right.
BECKY, TERESA AND HOLLIS of Human Resources Plus stand with Michael the president of the Vail Valley Partnership as he awards HR Plus a free membership for the upcoming year because the bought the most raffle tickets at Friday night’s event.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE Vail Valley Special Olympic Ski and Snowshoe team for their successful season. The team would like to thank all the people who made the year so successful by their support. Vail Resorts, The Town of Vail, Kevin Brubeck, Susan Cahill, Paul Curnutte, Kelsey Dunaway, Kara Heide, Kristin Lefevre, Kathy Mikolasy, Donna Pratt, Sondra Slappey, Sudi Sloan, and John and Robin Wolnik.
Lionshead, lobster and blue jeans, oh my!Lobsters in a snowstorm! The Vail Valley Partnership (VVP) held their annual
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MATTHEW CHARLES AND MARY-JANE WHITAKER of Vail-Beaver Creek Magazine and Deb Curd of Comcast were all about lobsters and smiles.
RUTHIE, EVENTS COORDINATOR for the VVP (left), and Hannah (right) certainly enjoyed the lobster.
TINA DEWITT, from Edwards Jones and Jeremy Lepore, from Millennium Bank had a meeting of the financial minds.KRISTINA, MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR THE VVP, shows off her catch.
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JASON SHOWS OFF HIS GIFT BASKET that he won in the raffle. This gift basket was donated by 14 vodka. Others were donated by Steam Master, Vail & Beaver Creek Catalog and The Market Place in Vail.
BOB, BECKY, AND JIM smile for the camera. Bob and Jim work for Alter Construction and Becky is with HR construction.
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DID YOU MAKE A BET with the Pope at Mountain Peddler? One of us here at the Mountaineer did and lost, which meant that the Pope got a bottle of Tequila! If you loose a bet to the Pope then ride your bike down to the Minturn Mile Liquor store and Jean will point you in the right direction. Thanks for the help Jean!
MATTHEW IS NEW to town and is thrilled to have his new job at American Furniture Warehouse. If you have not been by the new location that is in the Riverwalk in Edwards, then you are missing out on some great ideas for your home!
CHUCK AND RAJ! Chuck is the owner of EcoTech Mechanical Systems. They do plumbing, heating, solar and geothermal products. Chuck can help you with everything from design to construction and everything in between. Raj works for Steam Master and they clean your carpets, tile and any other service that you don’t feel like cleaning. So as the winter winds to a close and you begin to think about spring cleaning and home improvement give either one of these guys a call! Chuck at 328-3333 and Raj at 827-4217.
KRISTINA AND SETH enjoy an evening at Lift Flooring for the VVP Mixer last Wednesday Night. Kristina is the Marketing Director for the Vail Valley Partnership. Seth works for Green Limousine, the eco-friendly luxury transportation. Green Limousine’s vehicles are powered by biodiesel, ethanol, and hybrid gasoline-electric engines. Green Limousine was named the VVP’s Green Business of the Year in 2007. Next time you need a ride give them a call. 331-5032.
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TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Sunday, April 19, the 108th day of 2009.
There are 256 days left in the year.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.In 1897, the first Boston Marathon was held; winner John J. McDermott ran the course in 2 hours, 55 minutes and 10 seconds.In 1933, the United States went off the gold standard.In 1939, Connecticut became the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after it took effect.In 1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces.In 1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Harry S. Truman, bid farewell in an address to Congress in which he quoted a line from a bal-lad: “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”In 1982, astronauts Sally K. Ride and Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first woman and first African-American to be tapped for U.S. space missions.In 1989, 47 sailors were killed when a gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa in the Caribbean. (The Navy initially suspected that a dead crew member, Clayton Hartwig, had deliberately sparked the blast, but later said there was no proof of that.)In 1989, Trisha Meili, a jogger in New York’s Central Park, was brutally beaten and raped. (Five teenagers were convicted of the crime; all served prison time. But they were cleared in 2002 after another man, Matias Reyes, confessed.)In 1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including leader David Koresh, were killed.In 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.)
Ten years ago: The German parliament inaugurated its new home in the restored Re-ichstag in Berlin, its prewar capital. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a federal law aimed at limiting e-mail smut did not violate free-speech rights. Joseph Chebet of Ke-nya won the Boston Marathon, in 2 hours, nine minutes, 52 seconds; Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia won the women’s race in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 25 seconds.
Five years ago: A Russian rocket soared into space carrying an American, a Russian and a Dutchman to the international space station on the third manned mission since the halt of the U.S. shuttle program. Catherine Ndereba won the Boston Marathon for the third time, finishing in 2 hours, 24 minutes and 27 seconds; Timothy Cherigat won the men’s race in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 37 seconds to complete a Kenyan sweep.
One year ago: President George W. Bush wrapped up two days of talks at Camp David with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. A Russian capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, touched down 260 miles off target in northern Kazakhstan after hurtling through the atmosphere in a bone-jarring descent from the international space station.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Hugh O’Brian is 84. Actress Elinor Donahue is 72. Rock musi-cian Alan Price (The Animals) is 67. Actor Tim Curry is 63. Pop singer Mark “Flo” Volman (The Turtles; Flo and Eddie) is 62. Actor Tony Plana (“Ugly Betty”) is 57. Former tennis player Sue Barker is 53. Recording executive Suge Knight is 44. Singer-songwriter Dar Williams is 42. Actress Ashley Judd is 41. Singer Bekka Bramlett is 41. Latin pop singer Luis Miguel is 39. Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is 35. Actor James Franco is 31. Actress Kate Hudson is 30. Actor Hayden Christensen is 28. Actress Catalina Sandino Moreno is 28. Actor Courtland Mead is 22. Tennis player Maria Sharapova is 22.
Thought for Today: “There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.” — Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst (1870-1937).
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136 Monument StrPriced to sell at $300,000
Matt 970.390.2692970.926.SAVE (7283)
This quaint 3BD home in historic Red Cliff has been remodeled, incl new landscaping, patio & great views.
