$ $ June 28, 2009 page 2 page 3 page 20 Hang it on the wall and Watch it. [See ECO TRANSIT, page 11] Now open in Eagle [See BBQ, page 6] By Randy Wyrick and John LaConte Mountaineer Staff Writers Custom Metal Works Kids Under 10 Flat screen TV’s are like artwok. A bus can seat 35-40 comfortably and accommodate many more standing pas- sengers. ECO allows snowboards, skis and poles. Kayakers and evening bikers are out of luck. By Randy Wyrick Mountaineer Staff Writer page 6 page 9 page 12
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ECO Transit is poised to quadruple certain bus fares, and that has some reg-ular riders ready to walk.
The Eagle County Commissioners are set to discuss, and possibly put into ef-fect, the idea on Tuesday.
The ECO board has recommended replacing the 30-day pass with a punch pass system that will force passengers to pay by the ride. That will increase the amount ECO riders pay from an aver-age of 82 cents a ride, to at least $2.50 a ride.
ECO is currently spending $7.80 a ride based on expenditures over ridership.
But what’s in a ride?To find out, we took a cruise on some
of the local bus routes, and here’s what we found:
• 12 p.m. Hwy 6 Vail to Edwards Sat-urday: High occupancy reached 10 pas-sengers.
• 12:30 p.m. Hwy 6 Vail to Edwards Thursday: High occupancy reached 20 passengers between Eagle-Vail and Avon.
• 1 p.m. Hwy 6 Vail to Edwards Fri-day: High occupancy reached 14 passen-gers between Avon and Edwards.
Can’t provide high ridership statsECO isn’t actually able to provide
those crucial high number stats, how-ever.
“Automated systems keep track of when and where people get off, says
ECO Transit’s Harry Taylor. “Our sys-tem is not automated.”
ECO’s passenger counting system can tell you 45 riders rode a route between Vail and Eagle. But if 15 passengers got on in Vail and off in Eagle-Vail, another 15 on in Avon and off in Edwards, and another 15 on in Edwards and off in Ea-gle, the highest number of passengers on the bus at any given time was 15.
A bus can seat 35-40 comfortably and accommodate many more standing pas-sengers. ECO allows snowboards, skis and poles. Kayakers and evening bikers are out of luck.
More interesting numbersBuses run the same schedules on week-
ends as they do during the work week,
ECO transit examinedRiders urge commissioners to look at expenses before raising fares
June 28, 2009
Legends come to life
SUNDAY
Deciduousdecisions
page 3
page 12 page 6 page 2 page 3 page 20
page 9
Buses headed for Vail Wednesday stop at Edwards Riverwalk within minutes of each other. The Vail Hwy 6, left, was scheduled to arrive at the Vail Transportation Center at 2:15 p.m. The Vail I-70, right, was scheduled to arrive at 2:13 p.m. Neither bus was full. Bus riders are asking commissioners to examine parallel routes like these, as well as other expense saving ideas before OKing a fare increase, projected to generate $1.4 million. The ECO bus system operated at a $1.2 million deficit this year. Avery Cunliffe photos.
[See ECO TRANSIT, page 11]
By Randy Wyrickand John LaConte
Mountaineer Staff Writers
From left, brothers Will, 5, and Matt Mcloota, 3, and Gabi Dela-torre, 3, break for some barbecue Saturday at the Vail Chamber and Business Association 2009 Vail Barbaque Bonanza in Vail Vil-lage. In the background, Gabi’s brother Jordi Delatorre, 5, takes a break from the children’s fountain as well. Jenniger Ellis photo.
The art of BBQ
It seems right that Vail’s Barbecue Bonanza, spon-sored by the Vail Business and Chamber Association, was up the street from the arts festival. As all True Americans know instinctively, barbecue is a True American Art form, along with rock & roll and the V-8 engine.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, then he created man and then he created fire be-cause God knows that somewhere deep in the soul of every man is the spiritual gift of barbecue. The chefs
BBQ Bonanza smokes out the bestBy Randy Wyrick
Mountaineer Staff Writer
[See BBQ, page 6]
Jesse Jackson: Family wants 2nd
autopsyMichael Jackson’s family wants a pri-
vate autopsy of the pop icon because of unanswered questions about how he died and the doctor who was with him, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday.
“It’s abnormal,” he told The Associat-ed Press from Chicago a day after visit-ing the Jackson family. “We don’t know what happened. Was he injected and with what? All reasonable doubt should be addressed.”
People close to Jackson have said [See THE UPDATE, page 8]
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Justin Timberlake slept here.You’ve probably heard the stories about Brittany in
the hot tub in East Vail, and Cameron Diaz, too. Tim-berlake and his entourage stayed in a Bachelor Gulch property in February, said Mary Feraro, owner at Peak Properties in Avon.
“Over time, we’ve become well-known for having those kinds of homes among that circle of people,” Fe-raro said. “We have the corner on the market on them. It has taken 10 years to get here.”
Most of those houses are in Bachelor Gulch and Bea-ver Creek, which also features ski-in, ski-out homes of stars like Kelsey Grammer and Tom Hanks (neither of which gets rented out, as far as Feraro knows, although pictures of Grammer’s home are on a few area real es-tate sale Web sites.)
If it’s legal, they’ll do itExclusivity drives the mostly vacation rentals, Feraro
said, as well as a concierge service that includes book-ings for heli-skiing in Telluride and gourmet grocery store runs.
“We like to tell them, if it’s legal, we’ll do it, just to have a brainless experience is pretty nice,” Feraro said. “You come here, put your skis on and go skiing right
away, or biking (in the summer months).”Other property management companies also book
celebrities and high-rollers who vacation in the county. Feraro says she has gained the trust of many more high-end homeowners, these days, however.
The Ford family house rents for as high as $10,000 over the holidays; other homes go for as low as $3,000 per night. Folks who rent the Ford house really like the chance to sit at the former president’s desk and look at the autographed copy of his memoirs.
Money is no object“It’s outrageous, but people in that group don’t really
care what they’re paying,” Feraro said. In a Dave Matthews interview on Entertainment To-
night, he talked about writing songs in Vail. Clothing designers show up, as do a myriad of other monied people, Feraro said. The recent economic downturn has affected the number of phone calls slightly, but celebri-ties, especially in the entertainment industry, are not shy about spending, as long as they keep their privacy, Feraro said. She splits the bookings 60 percent-40 per-cent with the homeowners.
But if you’re a rock star known for throwing temper tantrums, don’t bother calling.
“They’re pretty normal people, for the most part. But if they trash the house, if they make a mess in one of my houses, they’re not coming back,” Feraro said. “I don’t care who they are.”
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It’s worth a certain amount of taxpayer money to pay a group of attorneys not to develop a 1,017-acre ranch about 50 miles from Vail.
What that amount is, though, remains uncertain. Or at least it has not been made public and possibly won’t until Monday’s second hearing when the county com-missioners are scheduled to vote on it.
The county commissioners said they like the conser-vation cause, but not the price. They ordered the ranch owners and county staff back to the negotiating table to hammer out something less than the $5.7 million share of county property tax money, the county’s share of a conservation easement on the Colorado River Ranch, 12 miles north of Dotsero up the Colorado River Road.
The commissioners are holding a public hearing Monday, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Eagle County Building, 500 Broadway in Eagle.
The guts of the deal• The appraisal says the 1,017-acre ranch is worth
$13.25 million, $13,000 an acre.• After the development rights are removed by the
conservation easement, it would be worth $5.3 million, the appraisal says.
• Therefore, the conservation easement is worth $7.9 million, the appraisal says.
• County officials declined to release details of the appraisal that would support that valuation, but the Ea-gle Valley Land Trust insists it’s accurate.
• The county’s was asked for $5.7 million of that $7.9 million, paid through the property-tax supported open space fund that voters approved in 2002.
• The four Missouri attorneys who own the ranch say
they’re willing to leave $1 million in the deal, dropping the price of the conservation easement to $6.9 million. They can get up to $375,000 back in state tax credits. Some of the remainder could be considered a charitable donation.
• The Eagle Valley Land Trust has to raise the rest of the money. They’ll ask Great Outdoors Colorado for $600,000, and have been scrambling to come up with other funding sources.
‘County might as well buy the Brooklyn Bridge’The owners could chop it into 28 parcels of 35 acres
each, under Colorado law. Or it could remain a work-ing organic cattle ranch, which they’ve said they want to do. But the owners have not said what they’ll do if they don’t get the money from the conservation ease-ment.
A local Realtor who helped establish the market for farms and ranches said parcels that size aren’t selling, and that there is no development pressure and no rush.
“Eagle County might as well buy the Brooklyn bridge. I think Eagle County is blessed that we don’t have that many 35-acre developments,” said Dick Kes-ler. “There are no sales that could support that price point. There’s no urgency in any market right now and there isn’t a 35-acre market.”
The appraiser, David Peterson, is one of a handful in the state certified to appraise conservation easements. He said the parcels would eventually sell, especially if they have access to the Colorado River, which winds two miles through the ranch.
Open space deal could go MondayNo price announced yet
for promise not to develop Colorado River Ranch
By Randy WyrickMountaineer Staff Writer
Calculating how much you pay for open spaceOn your property tax bill you’ll see a line item
called “EAGLE COUNTY, 001 – 011” outlining the county entities into which your property tax dollars flow. They include general fund, open space, public welfare, road and bridge and in-surance.
The open space tax is 1.5 mills. A mill is a $1 tax for every $1,000 of assessed value.
Residential property is taxed at 7.9 percent. Commercial property and open land is taxed at 29 percent of assessed value.
If your house is worth $1 million, you’ll be taxed at 7.9 percent of that or its assessed val-ue of $79,000. Your annual tax payment to the open space fund is just under $118.50.
If your business is worth $1 million, you’ll be taxed at 29 percent of that, or your assessed value of $290,000. Your annual tax payment to the open space fund is $435.
Public hearing MondayThe county commissioners may decide Mon-
day how much they’re willing to offer of tax-payer money for a conservation easement on a 1,017-acre ranch 12 miles north of Dotsero. The commissioners are holding a public hearing Monday, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Eagle County Building, 500 Broadway in Eagle. You’re welcome and encouraged to attend and voice your opinion.
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We often talk about evergreen trees. After all, we live in conifer paradise.
But a more difficult issue is de-ciduous trees. They’re the ones that change color and drop their leaves in the fall.
Our native aspens are a tree that clearly does well in this area. Its poplar cousins, both native and introduced cottonwoods are not as benevolent. And while a number of leafy trees do well around Eagle and Gypsum, there just aren’t many for the east end.
Aspens in their natural environ-ment do fine. This hints at the frustration some people have with aspens they plant that aren’t doing well As-pens are not super tough trees. They are susceptible to a list of diseases, and the most notorious is the cy-tospora fungus. It’s the one that causes orange streaks and oozing and a grody look, and is often fatal.
Aspens stress easily. Drought and physical damage are common weakening factors. They are often plant-ed in conditions other than their native environment. Planting shocks and stresses it, too. When stressed, their resistance to disease goes down.
So if you plant aspens, grow them properly. For the most part, this means an adequate watering schedule, especially during the establishment years. They have shallow root systems.
While a nice-looking tree, one of the biggest (liter-ally) headaches is its larger cousins, the cottonwoods. Whether our regional natives, or the hybrid Nar-rowleaf, the trees are giant weeds.
Where the spreading root systems of aspens bring welcome free trees by suckering, cottonwood suckers may as well be weed trees on steroids. You’ve prob-ably seen the lawn that became a grove of young cot-tonwoods. And they drop “cotton” everywhere in the early summer. (Narrowleaf Cottonwoods are a sterile, cottonless hybrid, but they still sucker freely.)
Yes, they’re big, and they look great in the fall, but if you use them, keep them far away from any struc-tures, sidewalks, and your neighbor’s yard.
We’ll talk about trees for downvalley another time, but there are a couple of really great small trees for the colder end of the county. Amur Maple and Amur Chokecherry are fantastic specimen plantings. Unlike our native serviceberries and chokecherries, which are really small trees but look like giant shrub, our
Amur friends have a nice tree form.The Asian maple is seeing more and more use here,
and what a treat. Acer ginnala is its scientific name (one of them), and its red tones in the fall are the stuff. While the species is more variable in color, popular varieties like ‘Flame’ are readily available at local nurseries.
Unlike our American red maples, which don’t like soils we don’t have here, Amur maple does fine in our alkaline dirt, and harsh conditions in general.
In summer, Amur Maple’s leaves are attractive, and a nice shade of green. They also have beautiful red twigs, and make a good feature for the whole season.
There is a dwarf version, Dwarf Amur Maple, which makes a great shrub for fall color.
Another Manchurian candidate is Amur Choke-cherry. This very nice tree has its best color feature not in its leaves, but its bark. The copper to bronze, peeling trunk is beautiful. Everyone should have one or more. This very hardy tree also has attractive ber-ries (cherries-it’s one of the cherry trees) and white spring flowers.
There are several planted at US Bank in Avon, and worth a look. Unfortunately back in the Vail Banks days when they were planted, they were put in a spot where they are suffering from lower trunk damage from being where snow gets piled, and the bark and trunk die from the excess moisture. But they’re still very pretty.
We would love any feedback on the column, even if it’s just that you read it. E-mail [email protected]. We’ll answer plant questions, too.
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Norma Broten and Michael Gallagher observe the unique red color in the stems of an Amur Maple at the Avon Library. Gallagher said the Amur Maple is perfect for this climate and thrives here. Jen-nifer Ellis photo.
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If you have ever clicked into a pair of skis and stood atop a snowy mountain, you know what it feels like to look out at the world and feel lucky.
For professional skier J.P. Auclair and heli-ski guide Mikey Hovey, this sense of privilege inspired them to make a difference in a part of the world that does not enjoy such fortune.
The two held an ‘80s dance party at Vendetta’s Fri-day, the proceeds from which benefited Auclair and Hovey’s Alpine Initiatives project.
Alpine Initiatives was conceived at the February 2008 Snow-sports Industries of America Trade Show in Las Vegas. Inspired by his mother’s work with Inter-national Peace Initiatives, Hovey proposed the concept of traveling to Africa to aide in the construction of an orphanage.
Hovey said at first they thought it’d be as easy as heading out there and pounding some nails. The guys soon realized, however, that what began as relatively simple idea was anything but. They hadn’t considered the complications of raising funds, creating a project and assembling a team.
With the help of Dr. Karambu Ringera of the University of Denver, a native Kenyan, the guys managed to over-come the financial and logistical obstacles and set off on a five-week journey to Mayra, Kenya in October ‘08.
Upon arrival, Auclair and Hovey were introduced to their team of Kenyan workers. They were received with skepticism by the natives, who thought they were there to steal their jobs. Little did they understand, it was Auclair and Hovey that were actually paying their wage.
Accustomed to seeing “mzungus” (white people) as passersby, the community didn’t understand that the guys were there to offer help—real help, that is, not to kick them a few charitable dollars but to actually get their hands dirty.
Auclair and Hovey also enlisted the help of Vail-na-tive and U.S. Ski Team legend Chad Fleischer, Alaska heli-guide Seth Koch and Lisa Lee Benjamin, an eco-logical landscape designer from Steamboat Springs.
Hovey describes a typical day on the job as being pretty intense.
“We needed to fill the area where the slab was going to be with rock, in order to create a good surface for the slab to sit. The best way to accomplish this was to create a [human] chain,” an excerpt from his journal reads. “The momentum kept picking up and the things
we were passing, rocks, can be dangerous and hurt… I think the whole crew enjoyed it as we were all laughing throughout the day.”
He later described it as the hardest work he ever did in his life.
It was important that they not only leave behind im-proved infrastructure, but a means to sustain a higher quality of life. So, the orphanage received a new van, and its farm and garden now provide food for the sur-rounding town.
Taking into consideration the cost of $3,000 each to travel to Kenya, the fellas considered that future proj-ects could benefit from sending only one man at a time. It wasn’t until they had to leave that they realized the true value of their work.
“It wasn’t about building a building,” Hovey said. “It was about the exchange, the cultural experience, which went both ways… It grabbed us by the heart. We really didn’t understand what we were getting our-selves into.”
“You go there to help, but really we were the ones receiving,” Auclair concurred.
Their physical contribution was dwarfed in signifi-cance by the relationships formed with their fellow workers.
“You are no longer mzungus,” one worker told them, “You are our brothers.”
The two will be embarking on their second project this week.
To donate or learn more about Alpine Initiatives, visit their Web site at www.alpineinitiatives.org.
J.P. Auclair, Mikey Hovey and Kithoka Amani com-munity members celebrate the construction of the Kithoka Amani Community Home in Kenya.
Alpine Initiatives efforts continueSkiers raise money for construction of African orphanages
By Geoff MintzSpecial to the Mountaineer
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let their spirits strut Saturday in Vail Vil-lage.
Master Brad the BarbeBoss was the right guy to run the Barbecue Bonanza contest. He has the perfect Southern lilt in his speech. If you thought he’s a bar-becue expert, you’d be right.
He’s a Certified Master Barbecue Judge with the Kansas City Barbecue Society, the Harvard of Barbecue
Master Brad the BarbeBoss said that if you ate everything on your plate, like your mama always told you to do, you’d eat two or three pounds of barbecue, and you’d be really happy to do it.
To become a Certified Master Barbe-cue Judge, Master Brad the BarbeBoss took a course, possibly the best applica-tion of academia in history. He’s judged 125 barbecue contests and competes constantly.
On the other hand, Master Brad the BarbeBoss says that when he is compet-ing and judging, he hardly ever brings home leftovers, much to the consterna-tion of his young son.
“After one of those things, I just don’t want to see barbecue for a couple weeks,” he said.
We, the judges, didn’t understand this at all.
This would be like judging the Miss America Pageant, then refusing to go to the beach for the rest of the summer because you were tired of experiencing that sort of thing.
William The Texas Expert is with the Texas Chefs Association, and was one of the judges. So when William’s head bobbed up and down you knew you were eating something so good it would make you tear up.
Of the dozens of entries we judged, they ended with a bacon cheeseburger, and Texas William’s ball cap was rolling up and down in appreciation of a thing done well – not well done as any barbe-cue aficionado can tell you. We left with a solemn vow that we’d never order one at a drive-thru window again.
Somewhere, there’s a hotrod revving a V-8 engine with rock & roll music blast-ing through the open windows, the spirit of Master Brad the BarbeBoss grinning behind the wheel, tiny traces of barbecue sauce on his happy fingers.
For the record, Pepi’s won the chicken category, Marketplace won the pork, Marketplace won the beef and Moe’s won the open class. Moe’s also won the overall category.
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Skiing legends immortalized on Colorado Ski MuseumAustrian Essl uses traditional techniques on buildings
If you walk by the Colorado Ski Museum in Vail in the next few days, you can still catch painter Horst Essl bringing skiing legends to life on the walls outside.
Folks stop to admire Essl’s work, as he stands on scaffolding outside the museum, which is located on the south side of the Vail Village parking structure.
Old friends call out greetings as they walk by, or stop for a minute or two to chat.
One of them is Hans Wiemann, who now teaches his grandchildren the same skiing techniques that Essl first taught him in 1972.
In fact, Essl is known as “the professor of skiing” among his friends for his ski instructor prowess, said Wiemann, whose grandchildren are 7 and 10.
“He’s just an amazing guy. He was my first ski in-structor when I joined Pepi’s Vail Week,” Wiemann said.
There’s a waiting listThat “Pepi” would be Pepi Gramshammer, owner of
Gasthof Gramshammer, who still holds Pepi’s Wedel Weeks. Essl painted the traditional Austrian accents on the outside of Pepi’s hotel, too, and on several other buildings in Vail Village and around town.
“People see his work and spend two years finding us, then get on a waiting list,” said Jean Richmond, Essl’s wife and his assistant on the painting projects. “That’s how busy he is.”
At the museum, Essl is painting a timeline of skiing that starts off with mail carriers slogging through the snow. The last panel, which the duo hadn’t gotten to by Thursday at lunchtime, will depict the freestyle skiing and snowboarding of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
“This is a gateway to Vail and the first impression folks get when they come to the village,” said Justin Henderson, a ski museum employee. “It brings the in-side of the museum to the outside.”
No names for legendsAlso immortalized on the outside walls: Carl How-
elsen, a Norwegian known for building the first ski jump in Steamboat Springs for the town’s first winter carnival; soldiers involved in the 10th Mountain Divi-sion, many of whom visited Vail recently for the fu-neral of Bill “Sarge” Brown.
Over the museum doorway is a female skier that Essl jokes is Richmond, skiing through powder in Vail’s
back bowls. Mount Holy Cross is in the background.Names of the skiers are not on the paintings, mainly
because they represent so many people, both well-known and not, Essl said.
“Four of the old timers from the 10th Mountain Divi-sion came by here after the Sarge Brown funeral. One of them said he used to drive the snowcat,” Essl said, pointing to the snowcat in the picture on the wall. “I told him, ‘You’re the one in the snowcat’. I enjoyed it very much, visiting with them.”
Painting school in ViennaThe paintings, done in sepia tones, are meant to look
like the old pictures in the museum. They’re covered with three clear coats of protective laquer.
“It’s just a great way for our guests to see our his-tory,” Henderson said.
Essl will guarantee his work for 20 years, Richmond said, since that’s the amount of time the couple expects to be around. A painting of St. Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters, on the outside of the Essl/Richmond house in Lake Tahoe has lasted for 28 years.
Essl was born in Austria, attending painting school in Vienna and working at an inn at the top of the mountain in Sudwienerhutte, Austria, in the 1940s that doesn’t exist anymore. He still teaches ski school in Vail in the winter, as does Richmond.
Horst Essl and his wife Jean Richmond take a break Thursday from a pictorial timeline Essl is painting on the outside of the Colorado Ski Museum at the Vail Village parking structure.
since his death that they were concerned about the superstar’s use of painkillers. Los Angeles County medical examiners completed an autopsy Friday and said Jackson had taken prescription medica-tion.
Medical officials also said there was no indication of trauma or foul play. An of-ficial cause of death could take weeks.
Boehner: Climate bill a ‘pile of s--t’
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Ca-lif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday, reports The Hill.
The hill reported Boehner saying “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of s--t,” in response to a question on why n asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night.
Late Friday the House passed legisla-tion that would, for the first time, require limits on pollution blamed for global warming — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
The “pile of s--t” now heads to the Senate for consideration.
Legality of SC gov’s tryst raises
questionsSouth Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford
admits he used bad judgment when he secretly visited his mistress during a state-funded trip to Argentina last year. But did he break the law?
As calls mounted for a criminal probe of the trade mission, a spokeswoman for
the state’s law enforcement division said it doesn’t appear Sanford did anything illegal.
Spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said the information provided so far indicates Sanford met his mistress on private time during a legitimate business trip.
“Perhaps his judgment was clouded, but he did not have criminal intent,” Timmons said Saturday. “The situation would be completely different if he’d asked Commerce to set up the trip to Ar-gentina with the sole intent to set up an extramarital affair.”
Kevin Bacon rocks Pikes Peak
Actor Kevin Bacon hiked 14,110-foot Pikes Peak Saturday to play a concert at the top as part of an event to raise money for a cancer charity.
Bacon woke up around 4:30 a.m. to make the roughly six-hour climb with his brother, Michael, and about 95 hikers at an event to raise money for the Love Hope Strength Foundation can-cer charity.
Michael Bacon’s wife and son also joined the hike in weather that switched from chilly to sunny and back.
“It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done physically,” Kevin Bacon said after the trek. “I’m in pretty good shape, but it still really kicked my ass.”
At the mountaintop, Bacon took a puff of oxygen before The Bacon Brothers performed three songs.
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As a tyke growing up in Marietta, Ga., Melanie Oud-in would watch Venus and Serena Williams on TV and tell anyone who would listen that she was going to play at Wimbledon, too, one day.
Who knew she’d be right? And do so well, so quick-ly?
Making her Wimbledon debut at age 17 after getting through qualifying, the 124th-ranked Oudin joined the Williams sisters in the fourth round at the All England Club by beating former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic 6-7 (8), 7-5, 6-2 Saturday in the most startling result of the tournament’s opening week.
“Was just thinking that she was any other player, and this was any other match, and I was at any other tournament—you know, not, like, on the biggest stage, at Wimbledon, playing my first top-10 player,” Oudin said. “I mean, I go into every match the exact same, you know, like, no matter who I play. It’s not, like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m playing the No. 1 player in the world.”’
The only time Oudin really lost her way was when her match ended and it was time to leave Court 3, a patch of grass known as “The Graveyard of Champi-ons,” because of the long list of stars upset there. She wasn’t quite sure where to go and asked someone to direct her toward the exit.
Not all that surprising, when you consider that a year ago, Oudin entered the junior event at Wimbledon—seeded No. 1 among the girls—and failed to make it out of the second round, losing 6-1, 6-3 to eventual
champion Laura Robson of Britain.Yet there Oudin was Saturday, outlasting 2008 U.S.
Open runner-up Jankovic over nearly 3 hours, then call-ing Mom and Dad back home to share in the revelry.
“My emotions are all over the place,” Oudin’s fa-ther, John, said in a telephone interview. “When I think about watching Bjorn Borg and Boris Becker in their starched whites at Wimbledon, I just can’t believe Mel-anie is there. It’s hardly any words other than, ‘Wow!’ We’ve been saying a lot of that. Just, ‘Wow!”’
17-year-old stuns No. 1 Jankovic at Wimbledon
Melanie Oudin of U.S. reacts to a point won against Jelena Jankovic of Serbia during their third round singles match at Wimbledon Saturday.The unseed-ed Oudin defeated Jankovic in one of the most stun-ning upsets in recent memory. AP photo.
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NFL asks high court to weigh in on antitrust case
In the legal equivalent of running up the score, the National Football League is going to the Supreme Court in search of a bigger victory
in an antitrust tussle over team mer-chandise than it already won from a lower court.
The Supreme Court could de-cide as early as Monday whether it will hear the case, which involves American Needle Inc.’s challenge to the league’s exclusive contract for selling headwear such as caps
and hats with team logos on them. American Needle of Buffalo Grove, Ill., is also urging high court review. Football team owners hope the high court will issue a broader decision that would insulate the NFL against what they contend are costly, frivo-lous antitrust lawsuits.
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and the 7:30 a.m. Hwy 6 from Vail to Edwards, which is flanked by 7 and 8 a.m. routes, can get busy during the Monday to Friday grind. On Saturday it maxed out at five people.
But during the week it can be dead as well, and in some cases two not-very-full buses will be running par-allel to each other. On Friday night the 10:30 p.m. from Gypsum to Vail had a grand total of one rider between the Avon and Vail section. And that rider transferred on from the Hwy 6 bus that runs parallel to it because it made a few less stops.
That 10:30 p.m. Gypsum to Vail, which ends its route at the Vail Transportation Center at 11:41 p.m., makes stops at Avon and the Beaver Creek Elk lot at 11:18 and 11:20 p.m. The nearly empty Hwy 6 bus the passenger transferred off of — which reaches the Vail Transporta-tion Center at 11:45 p.m. — makes stops at those loca-tions at 11:15 and 11:17 p.m.
Transfers?Ask bus drivers, however, and they will tell you the
system isn’t designed for transfers.Unless, of course, Average Joe Edwards/Eagle Resi-
dent finds him/herself stuck in Minturn with no ride home after a long day on the hill. Edwards and Eagle residents who enjoy the Minturn Mile can look forward to a double hit on their new 20 rides for $50 pass. And the same goes for the Minturn resident trying to get home from Edwards, Eagle or Gypsum.
Other expenditure curbing optionsECO bus riders are suggesting ways to cut spending,
like eliminating those wonderful, and wonderfully free and abundant, 17-by-21-inch glossy schedules., and tightening up some schedules.
The nifty little plastic sheaths those 30-day passes are issued in are raising some eyebrows, as well, as passen-gers are being asked to pick up more of the tab.
“I see plenty of options for cutting expenditures that should be taken into consideration before raising fares,” said ECO rider Dan Peterson. “Buses are run-ning parallel along I-70 and the Highway 6 at the same time, and neither is full. And there’s another not full bus following a half hour behind [the Hwy 6 bus].”
Service costsOf course, taking advantage of some of these obvious
opportunities for consolidation of routes would get a few buses off the street.
If said buses sit too long during a glorious Valley winter, they might need to be serviced in order to be charged up again. Keep reading the Mountaineer to find out how much it costs the county to charge up a dead bus in the winter.
Economic ups and downECO expenses are up, revenue is down. “We’re obviously doing everything we can to deal
with that,” said Taylor.The ECO budget was counting on $5.8 million in
sales taxes to help fund an $8.8 million operating bud-
get. The last two years, that dedicated sales tax gener-ated more than $6 million each year.
But the sales taxes that fund the system are off 20 percent this year, creating a $1.2 million shortfall. A similar hit is projected for next year.
The proposed fare increase would generate $1.4 mil-lion in additional dollars, assuming ridership doesn’t fall much.
But it’s already well off last year’s record pace of 1.2 million riders.
After ridership increased through the first three months - 26 percent in January, 12 percent in February and 2 percent in March - April was down 12 percent and May was off 29 percent.
“You can see the trend and ridership has dropped off,” said Taylor. “If you have a workforce that depends on construction, they’ve moved on. Construction workers have always been heavy users of mass transit.”
ECO Transit has its own funding source, that voter-approved dedicated sales tax, but the county still has to use other tax dollars to keep it running.
The commissioners waived $1 million in administra-tion fees. But that money has to come out of the coun-ty’s general fund, the checkbook the county uses to do its day-to-day business.
But the general fund comes from property taxes, not sales taxes, and property owners pay an annual stipend to the county’s general fund.
Private roadOf course, the private sector could always give the
busing thing a try, too.Seth Bounds of Green Limousine runs hybrid Chevy
Tahoes that burn biodiesel and ethanol.“The fuels are less polluting and it’s changing and
getting better by the day,” said Bounds. If you’re a tourist and you want to get to Paddy’s, it’s
a $6 round trip. On the other hand, if you want to ride all the way to the Eagle County airport and back, it’s also $6 and that’s a great deal.
If you don’t use ECO, $6 is not going to get you far. Currently on ECO you can go all the way from Vail to the Eagle County Airport and back for that price. On the other hand, if you catch the ECO from that stop outside your Eagle-Vail place and you’re only going a half mile up the road to Paddy’s, you still have to pay the $6 round trip.
Regarding a private sector shuttle business, Bounds says he likes that line of thinking, but he’s not ready to drive down that road just yet.
Fare increase public hearingThe commissioners want your input on proposed
ECO Transit four-fold fare increases and service reductions. The public meeting is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Eagle County Room, located at 500 Broadway in Eagle.
Comments may also be submitted in advance via comment cards available from ECO Transit bus driver and at the Vail Transportation Center; or via e-mail to [email protected]; fax to 970-328-3539; or call 970-328-3531.
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church.LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — More than 200 people
answered gun-toting Pastor Ken Pagano’s call to cel-ebrate the Second Amendment at New Bethel Church in Louisville on Saturday. There was just one rule for the several dozen who brought their guns along: No bullets.
“We are wanting to send a message that there are le-gal, civil, intelligent and law-abiding citizens who also own guns,” Pagano said during the 90-minute event, which was open to the public. “If it were not for a deep-seated belief in the right to bear arms, this country would not be here today,” he told the crowd, drawing hearty applause and exclamations of “Amen!”
The “Open Carry Celebration” included a handgun raffle, patriotic music and screening of gun safety vid-eos. Some gun owners carried old-fashioned six-shoot-ers in leather holsters, while others packed modern police-style firearms.
Moving along . . .
THE GyPSUM FIRE DISTRICT got cute points for featuring this darling face at the Eagle Parade Saturday. A good time was had by all.
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TODAy IN HISTORyToday is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2009.
There are 186 days left in the year.
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. In Independence, Mo., future president Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace.
On this date:In 1491, England’s King Henry VIII was born at Greenwich.In 1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey; it was from this battle that the legend of “Molly Pitcher” arose.In 1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Va.In 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were assassi-nated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist — the event which sparked World War I.In 1928, New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith was nominated for president at the Demo-cratic national convention in Houston.In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the National Housing Act, which established the Federal Housing Administration.In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France.In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he’d been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
Ten years ago: Announcing even bigger projected budget surpluses, President Bill Clinton said the government could drastically reduce the national debt while still but-tressing Social Security and Medicare.
Five years ago: The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government two days ahead of schedule. The Supreme Court ruled that the war on terrorism did not give the government a “blank check” to hold a U.S. citizen and for-eign-born terror suspects in legal limbo. The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.
One year ago: Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama vied for the sup-port of Hispanics in separate appearances before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Washington, with each vowing to re-make immigration policy. Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the Angels won 1-0. (The Angels became the fifth team in modern major league history to win a game in which they didn’t get a hit.)
Today’s Birthdays: Blues singer-musician David “Honeyboy” Edwards is 94. Come-dian-movie director Mel Brooks is 83. Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is 75. Comedian-impressionist John Byner is 72. CIA Director Leon Panetta is 71. Rock musician Dave Knights (Procul Harum) is 64. Actor Bruce Davison is 63. Actress Kathy Bates is 61. Actress Alice Krige is 55. Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 49. Record company chief executive Tony Mercedes is 47. Actress Jessica Hecht is 44. Rock musician Saul Davies (James) is 44. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is 43. Actor John Cusack is 43. Actor Gil Bellows is 42. Actress-singer Danielle Brise-bois is 40. Jazz musician Jimmy Sommers is 40. Actress Tichina Arnold is 38. Actor Alessandro Nivola is 37. Actress Camille Guaty is 33. Rock musician Tim Nordwind (OK Go) is 33. Rock musician Mark Stoermer (The Killers) is 32. Country singer Kellie Pickler is 23.
Thought for Today: “Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, American lawyer and statesman (1833-1899).
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• Carpet & Upholstery • Tile & Grout Cleaning
• Spot Removal• Pet Odor Treatment• Carpet Protectant
• Commercial & Residential
Environmentally Safe ProductsBonded & Insured
24/7 Emergency ServiceSe Habla Espanol
SUV #4537A, 3.7L V-6cyl
Clean title, kept up to date w/ maintenance.
Inside/outside clean.
#V9243A,2.0L, Auto, $18,995
Full Time or Part Time, Day Time Position.
Generally 10:30a - 4:00pSometimes 6:30a - 4:00p
Included Weekends & Holidays
Uniform Provided & Dry Cleaned
Golf Privileges
970.926.4597 x227
Full time position available through mid-October. Must have valid Driver’s License,
Must be insurable, Pay depending on experience.
Low Cost Living! 16x80 new windows, new heat,
new insulation, large storage shed.
call 970.379.8046
P5192A,3.5L V-6cyl, Auto,
888.279.1445
Computer desk with file cabinet drawer, slide in/slide
out keyboard shelf.
Camper Shell fits 8 foot Ford truck bed. It’s in OK condition and comes with
the mounting hardware. and it’s yours to pick up today.
Military Truck. Runs Well. New Tires, Parade Ready!
Great off road. Own a piece of history.
call 970.471.1830
(and other cities that might apply including Minturn, Vail,
Eagle Vail, Avon, Beaver Creek, and Edwards, CO.) Shovels
snow into truck. Chops ice using pick. ice chopper to clear area.
May spread self or thawing chemicals from rear of moving
truck using shovel. Must possess valid driver’s license, also
insurable. On-the-job training not avail. 40 hours a week from 2AM to 2PM (M-F) no OT.
Send cover letter and resume to: Vicky Trujillo, Rosenfeld
Equipment, CO., P.O. Box 843, Minturn, CO. 81645.
Home improvements and repair, Second home main-
tenance, Office build outs. No job too small. Drywall, Paint,
Light Electrical and Plumbing.Call
Lawn and Garden Maintenance, Renovations
& Instalations.Vail to Beaver Creek areas30 years local experience
1Bd, 1Ba Lock off w/Kitchenette2 Walk-in closets, W/D,
cable and utilities included. Fully Furnished. NP/NS.
1st month & Deposit
call 917.557.0473
3Bd, 1.5 Ba, 2 car grg, 10 min to Beaver Creek, features privacy and views. Vaulted ceilings soar
20 ft. with timber frame construction and massive log posts. Open kitchen w/ island
and breakfast nook, plus formal living and dining.
Winter Optioncall 970.949.7049
Private bedroom & bath in SF home avail now. Renter will
share laundry & kitchen facilities. N/P N/S,
refrigerator provided.Great views from deck.
1st month & security upfront.
1 or 2 roommates in 3Bd, 2.5Ba duplex. On free bus route
and Nottingham Lake. NS, pets considered
$750/mo negotiable + Utilities (couples a bit more)call 970.376.3204
Buck Creek, 2Bd, 2Ba, on bus route. Hardwood floors, Your patio is on the
lake. NS. 1st, last mon deposit.
Sonnenhalde, 2Bd, 2Ba, WD, FP, 2 Decks, NS.
1 yr Lease $1750/month2 yr Lease $1650/month
2Bd Condo at the Edwards Business Center, unfurnished, wood burning stove, W/D, NS,
NP, 1 year lease.
Call 970.471.0720
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Owner has reduced the price for this immaculate 3Bd, 2.5Ba
home in Singletree. Living room w/fireplace, dining room, family room, breakfast nook. Great floor plan, hardwood floors, granite coutertops;W/D, 2 car garage, master
bath Jacuzzi, unfurnished, No Pets, no smoking.
1st, last, Deposit
Brand new large apts, 2Bd, 2Ba, laundry or stackables in unit. Picnic area in back.
Must see, NS, Pets Ok w/ approval.
call 970.688.1275
Up to 2,400sq ft, available immediately,
professional office space.Duplex, Beautiful views from the great room and Deck!
2014 sqft, 3Bd, 4Ba. Fenced yard with large Laundry. Newly painted, wood/carpet/tile floors Beautiful mature trees. Quiet Neighbors, Single garage w/
extra parking spots. Pets Nego.
Partially furnished, Avail NOWCall 970.390.3164
2 Bd in Lionsquare Lodge, available July 1st - Dec 1st.
Pool, Hot Tub, Beautiful Views. Sleeps 3-5 people
Call any hour970-845-0203
Main St., MinturnOne desk in real estate office in exchange for greeting occasional customers. No pets.
May require references.
Beautifully furnished 3Bd, 2Ba condo, located in Vail
Develper offering buyer incentives! You choose...free basement build out, owner
carry, free upgrade package, or Lease-to-own
*** Only 10 Homes Left ***Prices Starting at $679,900
970.376.0041Rick Messmer
Beautiful Duplex in Aidan’s Meadow. 4br, 4Ba 3306 sf., Great views, fantastic high end finishes, fireplace, 2 car grg, high ceilings, finished basement +loft,
