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Fat Tire Festival

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We have hit the 90-day mark of street construction right outside our
front door. It’s been an interesting journey. It’s been great to watch the
various stages of construction unfold right before our very eyes. On the
other hand, it’s been the most distracting, noisy 90 days of my life. It looks
like the project is getting closer to being finished. Some things I didn’t
know about the changes they’re making on our block are: Adding a new
patio that is going to be leased by the Rockslide; a kids area right in front
of our door and an “interactive fountain” on the northeast corner. I think
we may have the busiest corner block in all of downtown Grand Junction.
Time will tell.
I’d also like to welcome a new neighbor to the 400 block of Main Street—
Performing Arts Center, home of Grand Valley Community Theatre &
Showtime Productions. Terri Schaefer is moving her Redlands operation
to the heart of downtown Grand Junction. If you’re a theatre lover or
want to become one, please attend these shows. These brave souls need
the community’s support. You’ll find the Performing Arts Center at 448
Main Street; for info, call 970-8533.
This issue we give you a very large treat. Dance critic Jeffery Taylor from
The Sunday Express out of London joins us this issue with his review of the
movie Black Swan. My daughter and I met Jeffery while on a press junket
in Denver with journalists from various parts of the globe. My jaw about
dropped when he said his paper has a circulation of 900,000. I welcome
Jeffery with open arms—even if his name is spelled wrong:)
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Reader likes Meyer’s Duck Identity Crisis
To Gayle Meyer,
Thank you. I really enjoyed the story, getting many mental images via my past experiences as a farm boy. Had a few giggles and a guffaw or two, too; also a tear-stained laugh visualizing the epitaph lath.
Good writing, nice timing, great title. Earl D. Monroe
an old wanna-be writer and used-to-be teacher
up Delta way Dear Earl,
Thank YOU for writing. The slogan in this business—and it’s usually
true—is that we only hear when we’ve done something wrong. Arnold
was a real duck, and I took very few liberties in telling his story (and I
have a “license” for those).
Gayle Meyer, editor
To The Source,
I love the format of your paper. Each month it’s exciting to get the
latest edition to see what whacky articles your crew has come up with.
I would only ask that you continue to provide us with more articles on
the music scene in Western Colorado.
Julie C. Tyler
Hi Julie,
I agree with you 100%. The problem on my end is getting the information. Alot of the times the people that produce these events don’t send
me the information on time. I’ve been reminding the various promoters
in our area of our deadlines for over 19 years. Still the information is
sent to us 7 days after we print. I spend countless hours chasing down
this information, however we can’t read minds. I love anything involving the music scene. We do our best & will continue to raise the bar to
your expectation levels.
Jeffrey Inks - Publisher & Janitor
Survey: Mesa County Moving in
the Right Direction
Jobs and economy are community’s
top priorities, according to latest citizen
attitude survey.
More than 80% of residents
polled say Mesa County is either an
“excellent” or “good” place to live,
according to a new survey. A large
majority is also satisfied with the
overall quality of services provided
by Mesa County government.
“While the results of our last
Citizen Attitude Survey in 2009 were
mostly positive, this year’s survey
tells us that citizens are now more
satisfied in a number of areas,” said
Janet Rowland, Chair of the Board
of County Commissioners. “Our
community has been experiencing
some tough times, but people seem
to think we’re spending our limited
dollars in the right places.”
“The responses to a large number of questions in the survey show
Mesa County doing better than the
regional or national averages,” added Christopher Tatham, President of
ETC Institute, which administered
the survey. “In addition, many of
the customer service ratings from
citizens actually improved from the
last survey in 2009.”
Some of the areas where residents’ opinions have significantly
improved since Mesa County’s
2009 survey include: Ease of travel
as a motorist on county roads; local
traffic enforcement; how quickly
Sheriff’s office responds to emergencies; air quality; code enforcement efforts; quality of customer
service; ease of using county services; availability and maintenance
of local parks.
Some of the areas where Mesa
County is doing significantly better
Community
than regional or national averages
include: Safety felt in neighborhoods and parks; quality of county
services and customer service; public transportation; walking and biking trails; ease of travel on county
roads; and level of public involvement in decision making.
Most residents (92%) indicated
that they feel safe walking in their
neighborhood during the day.
Eighty-two percent indicated they
feel safe in their neighborhood at
night (compared to the national
average of 68%).
Many residents identified jobs
and economic development as the
top issues in our community. “We
do this survey so that our residents
can tell us what they want from
their county government,” added
Commissioner Rowland. “Their
opinions can help guide the county’s leaders in important decisions
about day-to-day operations. But
they also help us decide what our
most important goals should be in
the long run.”
The entire final survey report can
be found on our website: mesacounty.us (look on home page for “2011
Citizen Attitude Survey”).
WBA Montrose
Women’s Business Alliance of
Colorado
Thenewly formed Women’s
Business Alliance of Colorado promises to help businesses owned by
women to succeed by providing
resources and services that will
propel WBA members into peak
business performance. Co-founders
Terri Leben and Sue Hansen have
been discussing WBA’s formation
because, “Frankly, women keep asking for it!”
Both women are passionate about
business, and both understand the
unique qualities that women bring
to successful businesses.
“Women have a unique set of factors that go into building a successful concern, yet they still maintain
primary responsibility for caretaking, whether children or aging parents, they still accept the majority of
the household responsibilities, and
most manage household finances,
as well. Once these priorities are
accomplished, they can “squeeze
in a little work, too.”
WBA is a results-driven organization creating opportunities for its
members to be invited to mastermind groups, learning seminars and
to gaining access to a broad array
of business services at discounted
member rates.
For upcoming information on
events, you may visit them online
at wbacolorado.com and search for
the organization on Facebook, as
well.
Women’s Business Alliance of
Colorado … Promoting women in
business through content-rich business events and growth opportunities that provide substantive help to
our members.
Earth Day 2011 - Western Botanical Gardens
April 23, 2011
Schedule of Events:
8:00-9:30am 1st annual Exercise
Expo $3.00 a person or 2 for $5.00
includes free entrance into Earth
Day festival. For adults and children
Gyms participating are:
• Gold’s Gym Kids boot camp
exercise expo (amphitheatre)
• Crossroads Fitness
• Fruita Health Club
• 8th Street Gym
• Fresh Fitness
• Crossfit
• Zumba with Blanca
9:30 Family bike ride on the
Riverfront Trail starting at the
Gardens
11:00am Gates Open
50+ Booths, live music all day
(Flat Top Reed, After hours), food
vendors, Palisade Brewery (Dirty
Hippy Beer), Colterris Wine from
Palisade and Two Rivers Winery,
Animal Adventure Island (Watson
island), Bump-n-jump, Climbing
wall, Yo -Yo class, Illumicirque,
Kids castle fun (balloon twister, face
painter, recycled craft and more),
Demonstrations and education,
Bloomin Deals and more!
Night Concert Series:
Time: 3:30-11:00pm
Where: Amphitheatre
Cost: $10.00 a person $20.00 /
family of 4/ $2.00 each additional
child
Performances include: Atomga
Groove Alliance (headline band
out of Denver), Lil sum’n sum’n
(popular band out of Denver), and
One Tribe Fire Dancers, Jack + Jill
& more, Food vendors and 15+
exhibitors
Time: 8:00am-11:00pm
Where:Western Colorado
Botanical Gardens 641 Struthers
Ave. Admission: $1.00 per person 2 years and up. For more
info call 245-3288
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STALKING THE WILD ASPARAGUS
It’s moving
toward the height
of asparagushunting season
along the burnblackened ditches and fence lines in the country. I
begin to compose a serious poem
about the activity:
“The baby green spears thrust
through the charred skeletons of
their last-season mothers…” I compose.
Then: “The asparagus pushes
pointed caps skyward in the eternal rite of spring…” I compose
further.
Then: “ Turning right at spring,
these point little green guys poke
out of the dirt…” I decompose.
I quickly lose the mood and my
serious muse. I always do. I’ve
hunted asparagus around here
since I was a child (at which time
I picked it with wild abandon but
ate it only under threat of death),
and there is nothing serious about
picking asparagus. It’s just a plain
good time—strolling in the fresh
air, enjoying breezy conversation
or soothing solitude.
You may notice that I’ve used two
expressions—hunting asparagus
and picking asparagus. In referring
to the activity, either phrase is correct. In practice, however, one of
life’s curious consistencies necessitates that we hunt asparagus before
we can pick it.
Successful asparagus hunting
demands cultivating what I call the
“asparagus eye,” or a “green eye”
(nothing like pink eye). Initially, the
novice hunter’s gaze will grab at
anything green; but one soon learns
the difference between a spear of
asparagus and, say, a stem of pipe
grass—or the long-lost head section
of some kid’s jointed plastic snake.
Once the “asparagus eye” kicks
in, there’s no holding back. By midseason, I can spot a modest clump
of spears barely breaking ground
behind a scrub oak on the ditch
bank while I’m motoring along a
country road at 45mph yelling at
the kids.
along ditch banks and fence lines to
ensure my getting scratched and/
or cut, anyway.
We must now address the issue
of asparagus-hunting etiquette. We
all know that, in season, asparagus
is as blatant and abundant as Gary
Busey’s teeth. Equally abundant
are the city that line country roads,
prompting country folk to wish
they’d set up a valet parking concession.
City folk, immediately recognized by their nonchalant gait and
self-conscious whistling, comb the
edges of country fields for the tender spears, all the while pretending they aren’t lugging plastic bags
bulging with asparagus.
To the country folk who own the
fields, the right to hunt asparagus
ranks right up there with the right
to hunt birds on their land or to
fish in their ponds. Country folk
would like asparagus-less city folk
to remember their manners. It’s
just polite to ask “please” and to
say “thank you.”
Other than that, there’s nothing
serious about asparagus hunting…
except maybe “The silvered green
spears, tender arrows from the
earth’s eternal bow…”
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By season’s end, I think nothing
of screeching to a noggin-thumping
halt, leaping an electric fence, vaulting a four-foot ditch (which sometimes leads to fording a four-foot
ditch)—all to retrieve a solitary but
succulent asparagus spear growing
at the far edge of a field where a bull
is being pastured to service several
mean-spirited, hormonal cows.
As far as picking asparagus goes,
there are two schools of thought.
I was raised among people who
used their hands to break the
spears off near the ground. Later
on, I met purists who insisted that
the spears must be cut with a knife
below ground level. This assures,
they maintained, that a new head
would grow on the same spear.
Sound feasible to you?
Me, either.
So I still just pick asparagus. For
one thing, I don’t relish the idea
of leaping over ditches and scrabbling about on loose clods with a
knife in my hand. When it comes to
gracefulness, I don’t have years of
ballet lessons to fall back on. In my
experience, there’s usually a spiny
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Scrambled eggs?
I think we may have forgotten that we need to teach and
inspire our children to be better
than we are. I am in awe daily as I
watch my boys grow and change. I
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and there are times they’re influencing me more than I am influencing them, and I am okay with that.
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My son came home Sunday and
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me know when lunch was ready.
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have; and he picked an easy dish
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have to staple my mouth shut on
the possibilities of making a chicken salad—do we want apples,
grapes, pecans, walnuts, celery,
pickles… happy happy joy joy.... I
digress.
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kids make decisions, strike the path,
and then we may have to push them
along the path that they have chosen. I could have taken over and
made the salad; I could have bossed
him around until he was frustrated with the process and decided it
wasn’t worth it. But I hesitated and
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together we worked through this
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Releasing your kundalini.
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You are now in a state of utter stillness.
Or peanut butter and banana
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favorite. And meatloaf.
Your mind stilled, you are directly
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I think I have some bananas. And
I must have peanut butter. That
would be pretty sad not to have any
peanut butter in the house. How
totally adult. Maybe I’m more of
an adult than I want to admit. If I
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Enjoy your respite from the din of
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Welcome to Beginner ’s Mind
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are listening to the first disc in this
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song. Kind of a folky song. Drifting
comfortable level.
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Gradually quieting your mind.
that all the bass I’m going to get
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rewind it.
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Inhale.
Whatever. I’ll just go from here. bug me. Monologue or dialogue?
And why would I say, “rewind?” Maybe I should pause this real fast
It’s a CD. You don’t rewind CDs. and Google it.
Quieter.
Am I that old? Ugh, I hate being an
If I don’t look it up now, then
adult.
I’ll totally forget, and it really is
Exhale.
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headed. How much more of this some day. Plus, it’ll totally distract
exhaling is there gonna be, I wonder, me from this whole stillness thing,
before we get to the cosmic insight even worse than if I were thinking
part? Maybe I should fast forward about sex.
And quieter.
it. You can still say “fast forward”
Crap! Now I’m
thinking about sex.
OK... Don’t think
about sex.
Inhale.
Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex.
Sex. Sex.
Exhale.
OK, that didn’t
work. Maybe I
should take my
hands out of my
lap.
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light encircling your
head.
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somehow following the national
trends because some character in
Doonesbury hates George Bush or
Rush Limbaugh as much as their
local editor does.
Since that fateful breakfast,
I have a political litmus test to
easily gauge the validity of a
newspaper without ever wasting
a moment wading through the
diatribe on the editorial pages. If
I see Doonesbury, I drop the daily
paper, which I might add millions
of people across the country do
each year, and pick up my I-Pad to
get the latest edition of The Daily.
There is some tiny satisfaction in
knowing I am doing my part to rid
the world of one bit of pollution...
And who wants to read about
watermelon-eating contests, now
that they’ve invented seedless
watermelons?
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Swaraj and the US Public Education System
candidates, and unions are democratic institutions much feared by
authoritarian corporations because
unions use strong-arm methods to
ensure that workers are given their
fair share.
And you can’t buy unions. You
can buy politicians and public opinion, but at what cost to the soul of
our nation?
A recent exchange in a ninth grade
class went, roughly, like this:
Me: You guys need to get ready
for CSAP because it does matter.
14-year-old student: CSAP is
not about how well students are
doing; it’s about how well a school
is doing.
Good job, politicians and corporate America! Way to make
these kids take responsibility. In
Singapore, which is one of the bestscoring countries on international
comparison tests, if you don’t score
above average on their high-stakes
tests in fifth and ninth grades, you
track to inferior schools.
Wow! Bet their students study
harder than ours do! Bet those parents require a lot more midnight oil
from those kids.
Now, I know, from years of experience, that parents don’t excuse
their kids. And recent surveys show
that parents of students in the public school system approve of the
way their children are being educated by more than four to one. But
those parents, like my student, have
become convinced by the politi-
cal dialogue in this country that
the high-stakes tests are all about
finding and holding schools—not
students—responsible for failure.
Until these tests grow teeth sufficient to motivate our students to
work harder, they will be of limited
value in effecting positive change.
Evidence abounds to show that
our public schools are very good.
Our private schools are also very
good. With these two elements combined, we have the best education
system in the world.
I could cite a hundred statistics to
support this conclusion, but I don’t
have space for it. Let’s just say this:
Top scholars flock to our universities from around the world because
our education system produces
the highest number of world-class
intellectual artifacts, as evidenced
by our overwhelming perpetual
dominance in, say, winning the
Nobel Prize.
Teaching is a hard job. It’s not
some academic or political game.
It’s about struggling in the trenches
every day to reach every kid from
every imaginable background.
Like any job, it’s often thankless,
and most pats on the back have to
come from our own hands.
Absolutely the last things we
need in trying to do this difficult
job are politicians trying to dilute
the thing we try hardest to teach
all kids, that the outcome of their
education—and their lives—is their
own responsibility.
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Gandhi is
famous for
wi n n i n g b at tles against
England’s imperial power using
nonviolent methods, for stopping
a civil war by fasting, and for being
the inspiration and proxy strategist
for the civil rights movement in the
United States. What he is less well
known for is his belief in swaraj
(self-rule) and a son, Harilal, who
lived a life of profligacy and died
young of liver failure.
Gandhi’s concept of self-rule was
thoroughgoing. Every individual,
he believed, is absolutely responsible for the outcome of his life.
Excuses are immoral. A good person lives a life that doesn’t need to
be excused.
Gandhi’s son spent his drunken, erring life blaming his father
(“bapu”). He said things such as,
“Bapu didn’t send me to the best
schools in England” and “All of
India calls him ‘bapu’, but he was
never a bapu to me”—and so on, all
the crap weak people use to excuse
their own impotence.
This week, I gave my students
the Colorado Student Assessment
Program (CSAP) test. What should
be a good lesson in swaraj for our
kids has become anything but that.
Instead, results of high stakes tests
are spun by politicians and corporations to blast teachers.
And for good reason. Teachers
unions tend to support Democrat
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Entertainment & Dining Calendar
April
Thru 9 Apr-35th Annual Mesa
State College All-campus Exhibit
and Art Department Studio Arts
BFA Candidates’ Exhibition, Art
Center, 1803 N. Seventh. 243-7337.
7-9 Apr-Festival for Creative
Pianists, 7:30pm, Moss Performing
Arts Center Recital Hall, MSC. $10
adults, $8 seniors, $5 students.
15 Apr-Animal Creations with
Kay Crane, 11am-2pm, Blue Pig
Gallery, 119 W. Third, Palisade.
Bring reference materials and medium you’re most comfortable with,
$15/session. 464-4819.
16 Apr-Batik Method with Vera
Mulder, 2-5pm, Blue Pig Gallery, 119
W. Third, Palisade. Get materials list
with RSVP, $15/session. 464-4819.
Laura Bradley 970-248-1604.
7-9 Apr-MSC Department
of Theatre Arts/MSC Drama
Society host Broadway Director,
BT McNicholl to benefit Theatre
majors, other college students,
and interested participants from
the community. Master Classes
Open to general public: 7 Aproverview of Broadway musicals,
3-5pm; 8 Apr-Musical Theatre
Performance Workshop, 2-5pm;
16 Apr-“Dine in the Blind,” 5pm,
a dinner in the dark at the Center
for Independence, 740 Gunnison.
Entertainment by Flat Top Reed and
pianist Gary Sasser. Cash bar and
Live Auction. Seating is limited.
Tickets in advance are $13, $15 at
door, and available online at cfigj.
org. Children 12 and over ONLY.
This is your chance to find out if
you have the right stuff. To purchase
your ticket to fun or for more infor-
9 Apr-Writing the Broadway
Musical, 10 am-noon. 248-1452.
9 Apr-13th Annual Western
CO Fly Fishing Expo, all day, free
admission, DoubleTree Hotel,
Horizon Drive & I-70. Fly fishing
activities with many youth activities. 970-210-7941.
9 Apr-Second Saturday at Art
Center, film and discussion of “The
Rural Studio,” in which architecture
students study to design and construct home for low-income neighborhoods in Alabama, 2-4pm, 1803
N. Seventh. Free, open to public.
243-7337.
13 Apr-Poetry Night, 6pm,
Central Library, 530 Grand, Grand
Junction. Study others’ poetry; bring
your own! Free! 243-4442.
1 3 A p r- A r t s p a c e B u s i n e s s
Seminar, Portfolio Development
with Dianna Frtizler & Linda
Brotman-Evans, 5:30-8pm,
Alpine Bank, 225 N. Fifth St. room
205, $25 members/ $35 nonmembers. Info & RSVP: 970-640-8177.
14-17 Apr-Palisade Art Lovers’
31st Annual Peach Blossom Art
Show, Thursday-Sunday, Palisade
Memorial Bldg., 120 W. Eighth St,
Palisade. Free to public. 970-4346191.
mation, call (970) 241-0315.
16 Apr-2nd annual Grand Junction
Comedy Festival, 9am-midnight,
Country Inns Hotel, 718 Horizon
Drive. Preliminary rounds/tryouts
(Fridays) March 25, April 1, and
April 8 (the weeks prior to Comedy
Festival). The first 6 locals to sign
up get 7-10 minutes on stage (clean
comedy material only!). Judges pick
2 finalists from each of the 3 preliminary weeks, and the 6 finalists perform in the big show in front of 500
nice people at the Comedy Festival!
Signup is 7:15pm, with contest at
8pm. Prices $7 or $8 per show at
festival, which is family friendly all
day (suitable material for 10 years
of age and up) and just a bit spicier
at night (18 years and up). But these
are ALL clean shows! Get discount
if you purchase 10 or more tickets.
JComedyFestival.com, or call promoter Jeff Korn at (970) 422-6085.
16 Apr-Two River Sams Chapter,
Good Sam RV Club, noon. For location, call 523-5625 or 248-9846.
16 Apr-El Salvador Sister City
Benefit Concert, 7:30pm, MSC
Recital Hall, $10 adults, $8 seniors,
$5 students. Tickets at Back Porch
Music. 256-1851.
19 Apr-Arlo Guthrie’s “Journey
On” tour with son Abe Guthrie
and the legendary Burns Sisters,
7:30pm, Avalon Theater, 645 Main.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Reserved
seating: $25 $30 $35; tickets available at City Markets, Back Porch
Music and Triple Play. Ron Wilson
at Sandstone Concerts, 243-8497.
21 Apr-ReelTime at KAFM brings
What’s Your Calling? to the Grand
Valley, 7pm, KAFM Radio Room,
1310 Ute Ave. $6 adults, $5 students,
seniors and station members can be
purchased at door or online at kafmradio.org.970-241-8801 x223.
23 Apr-Earth Day, 8am-11pm,
Western CO Botanical Gardens,
641 Struthers Avenue. $1/person 2
years and older. Many events, much
fun! 245-3288.
23 Apr-UFO’s and their Spiritual
Mission, presented by David
Confietto, 7-8:30pm, Yoga West,
1025 Main Street, 201-3599, FREE.
23-24 Apr-Grand Junction Holistic
Arts & Metaphysical Festival,
Country Inn of America, 718 Horizon
Drive. Sat 10am-7pm; Sun 11am5pm. Features Readers, Healers,
Artists, numerologists, Dowsing
Rods, Healthy Chocolate, Salt
Lamps, Silver and Handmade
Jewelry, Astrology, Natural Oils and
Handmade articles, Angel Reader,
Chair Massage, Bowen Therapy,
Medical Intutive, Egyptian
Healing Practitioner, Egyptian
Healing Rods, Singing Bowls,
Healthy Coffee, Iron Works,
Handwriting Analysis, much
more. Info: 263-8850 or email [email protected].
24 Apr-UFO’s and their Spiritual
Mission, presented by David
Confietto, 1pm, Grand Junction
Holistic Arts & Metaphysical
Festival, Country Inn of America,
718 Horizon Drive, 201-3599,
FREE.
2 6 A p r- T h u n d e r M o u n t a i n
Camera Club monthly meeting (4th
Tuesday), 7pm, River of Alliance
Church, 701 24.5 Road, Grand
Junction. Monthly competition
results reviewed and discussed.
Info: Kathleen, 260-7488.
2 7 A p r- A r t s p a c e B u s i n e s s
Seminar, Public Art & Commissions
with Roni Thomas (Salt Lake) &
Allison Sarmo, 5:30-8pm, Alpine
Bank, 225 N. Fifth St. room 205, $25
members/ $35 nonmembers. Info &
RSVP: 970-640-8177.
27 Apr-Administrative
P ro f e s s i o n a l s D a y ( f o r m e r l y
Secretaries’ Day) luncheon and
c a re e r- e n h a n c i n g w o r k s h o p ,
11am-4pm, Two Rivers Convention
Center. Bosses and businesses honor
work administrative professionals
perform all year. More than 4.5 million people are employed as administrative assistants and secretaries.
Some 20 vendor tables give demos
and prizes to attendees, + “goodie
bags” from local businesses. Gifts
to Early Bird registrations before
April 15. $35 Lunch/Seminar, $70
Lunch/Seminar and Workshop for
non-members; $35 for members for
Lunch/Seminar and Workshop. 970261-2424. Book Cliff Chapter of
IAAP offers monthly meetings third
Wednesday of month at Two Rivers
Convention Center; w/networking
5:30pm.
28 Apr-Women’s Heartlink
Network, 11:30am-1pm, Golden
Corral, cost: $20. Contact Joyce
Breckenridge, Area Coordinator,
268-5299, PO 123, Mesa, CO 81643.
28 Apr-Oil painting with Travis
Jardon, 2-6pm, Blue Pig Gallery, 119
W. Third, Palisade. Get materials list
with RSVP, bring your own oil paint
supplies, $15/session. 464-4819.
29 Apr-Karaoke contest, Rocky
Mountain Pub, 539 Colorado. 970245-0995.
29 Apr-2 May-Fruita Fat Tire
Festival, downtown Fruita. Register:
active.com/mountain-biking.
29 Apr-Painting in
Layers with Travis Jardon, Blue Pig
Gallery, 119 W. Third St., Palisade.
Register for session starting any
time after 11am. Four hour sessions $15/person. Call 464-4819 to
register.
30 Apr-Watercolor Techniques
with Nancy Lewis, 1:30-4:30pm,
Blue Pig Gallery, 119 W. Third,
Palisade. Get materials list with
RSVP, $15/session. 464-4819.
30 Apr-King’n Trio in concert,
7pm, Avalon Theater, 645 Main St.
All concert proceeds benefit upcoming honor flight and Grand Junction
Symphony’s children’s programs.
Special guest Appleton Accoustical
Angel Choir. Tickets $20 @ Bray Real
Estate and Roper Music.
30 Apr-Pineapple Crackers, 9pm,
$5, Mesa Theater and Club. (970)
241-1717.
30 Apr-The Dead Cowboyz,
9:30pm, Tenacious Brothers Pub.
If you’re proud owner of a Dead
Cowboyz t-shirt, wear it! Want ot
purchase one, + CD before show,
call (970)216-3872 or (970)640-2742.
This show will sell out!
30 Apr-Fine Art auction gala, Art
Center, 1803 N. Seventh, 9am-8pm
to preview, 5pm reception, preview,
silent auction, 7pm live Fine Art
auction. $20. Art Center ’s fundraiser. Featured artist Jared Davis.
970-243-7337.
30 Apr-1 May-6th Annual Western
Slope Coin Show, Lincoln Park Barn.
Fri 10am-6pm, Sat, 10am-5pm. $2.50
Tables of coins and paper money,
supplies, etc. Buy, sell, trade or just
ask questions! 970-242-3716.
30 Apr- Spring Swing dance and
silent auction, 6:30-10pm, Clarion
Inn ballroom. Fundraiser for
Counseling & Education Center.
$30/person includes dance music,
complimentary appetizers from
Pantuso’s Ristorante, cash bar. All
proceeds support CEC’s low-cost
counseling for Mesa County residents. 243-9539.
May
1 May-Free Sunday at Botanical
Gardens, Greenhouse and Butterfly
House, 641 Struthers Ave., 10am4:30pm. 245-9030, 245-3288.
11 May-Poetry Night, 6pm,
Central Library, 530 Grand. Study
others’ poetry; bring your own to
share! Free! 243-4442.
Earth Day 2011
Saturday, April 23
Western Colorado Botanical Gardens
655 Struthers Ave ~ GJ Colorado
8am - 9:30: Kicking it all off with a Community
Exercise Expo and Bike Ride.
11am - 3pm: Earth Day Festival
Cost: $1 (Free w/ Concert Ticket)
Kids Activities: Arts & Crafts, Balloon Twisting,
Face Painting, Parade, Pot-A-Plant, Yo-Yo Class,
Animals, Climbing Wall, Rides, and more!
Entertainment: Live music all day, Earth
Friendly Vendors, Educational Speakers, Mascot
Race, Tree Hugger Contest, Eco-Car Show, Fire
Dancers, Drum Circles, Illum Circ Performers, and
more!
Food & Refreshments: You’ll enjoy great
locally grown & organic food as well as Palisade
wine and microbrews.
3:30 - 11 pm: Earth Day Concert
3:30 - 5:00 pm ~ Dem Bones
5:30 - 7:00 pm ~ Jack + Jill
7:15 - 8:45 pm ~ Lil Sum’n Sum’n
9:15 - 11:00 pm ~ Atonga Groove Alliance
Tickets:
Individual: $10 in advance ~ $15 at the gate
Family: $20 in advance ~ $25 at the gate
Tickets can be purchased at:
Area Alpine Banks, Botanical Gardens, and
Ecofly Solar - 2526 Broadway
For more Information:
www.gjearthday.com
www.facebook.com/earthday.gj
970-245-3288
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WHAT’S NEW IN DENVER 2011
New Developments, Structures and Additions Throughout Denver
Lonely Planet Names Denver
One of the Top 10 U.S. Travel
Destinations for 2011 Lonely
Planet travel guides has named
Denver as the sixth best place to
visit in the United States in 2011.
Lonely Planet has an incredible
worldwide reputation and when
these travel experts say a place
is worth visiting, travelers listen.
This is the first time Denver has
been on this list. Lonely Planet
wrote: “Another sesquicentennial—bet you didn’t know it’s the
150th anniversary of Colorado
Territory. Maybe you did. The
Colorado Gold Rush started in
1861 and brought an influx of settlers into the region. We’re lucky
that Colorado is now much easier
to get to as it has some of the best
skiing in the country with over 26
resorts, including the country’s
first ski-in/ski-out ballroom at the
Viceroy Snowmass. Even though
Boulder often gets all the love, we
highly recommend Denver. This
sparkly-clean mile-high city is
nestled amid beautiful mountains
yet urban delights abound. The
Denver Art Museum, designed by
Daniel Libeskind, is an architectural feat where you can see modern art as well as historical exhibitions. The shopping area near
16th street features some fabulous
stores including Tattered Cover –
one of our favorite independent
bookstores in the U.S. And I.M.
Pei, who designed the Louvre pyramid, also designed several projects in Denver like the Mile High
Center and Courthouse Square.
It’s like Paris in the West.”
Arts & Culture
The Scientific and Cultural
Facilities District (www.scfd.org)
sales and use tax revenue was
$42.4 million in 2007, the most
money collected in one year since
voters approved the seven-county
district in 1988. Denver’s arts and
cultural community created $1.69
billion in total economic activity
in 2007, up 19 percent from 2005.
The 2007 $42 million of SCFD
funding to nearly 300 organizations is a catalyst for the nearly
$1.7 billion of cultural economic
activity in the seven-county area.
Nearly $331 million was generated from cultural tourism at area
arts, cultural and scientific institutions. www.scfd.org
Colorado History Museum
to Get New Home
The History Colorado Center,
currently under construction at
12th Avenue and Broadway in
Denver, will house the new history
museum, education/public programs, the Office of Archaeology
and Historic Preservation, the
State Historical Fund, the Stephen
H. Hart Research Library, and
other History Colorado functions.
The Colorado History Museum
was demolished in May 2010.
Designed by Tryba Architects,
managed by Trammell Crow
Company and constructed by
Hensel Phelps Construction
Company, the History Colorado
Center will be a new dynamic
tourist destination, a hub for
learning, a thought-provoking
center for civic conversation, and
an environment that encourages
an inspirational journey into the
future by understanding the past.
The new building includes more
than 7,700 square feet of expansion space and is being built LEED
certified “green.” Construction
will be completed in fall 2011.
No public opening date has been
determined, however. www.coloradohistory.org
Denver Art Museum’s
Hamilton Continues to Bring
Diverse Art to Denver
The Frederic C. Hamilton
Building at the Denver Art
Museum, designed by worldre n o w n e d a rc h i t e c t D a n i e l
Libeskind, opened on October
7, 2006, doubling the size of the
facility. The Hamilton Building is
Libeskind’s first building in the
United States. www.denverartmuseum.org
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Coming soon will be exquisite upscale restaurants, summer
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and lots of outdoor Denver activities. Plus…
Baseball...
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Oh, and lots of discounts!
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if you have questions or just
want to talk—send me a note.
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Museum. The Museum is scheduled to open in late 2011. www.
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Denver Performing Arts
Complex Plans New Symphony
Center
The Denver Performing Arts
Complex, the second largest
performing arts complex in the
country, is planning a new symphony center to be constructed
on the Boettcher Concert Hall
site. Denver voters approved $93
million to the project in 2007. The
new hall will create a new look
for the DCPA as a whole, adding 35,000 square feet of public
space to the Speer Boulevard
side of the concert hall. This will
include more dining and event
space, an expanded lobby, education and lecture space, additional
restrooms, new beverage stations
and retail space.
The actual concert hall will
focus on acoustical fine-tuning,
which should result in a reconfiguration of the stage, audience seating areas and other interior features of the concert hall. Musician
space and support facilities will
be improved with the addition
of 13,000 square feet dedicated to
instrument and equipment storage, a music library, warm-up and
rehearsal rooms and CSO office
space. Accessibility and life safety
issues will also be addressed and
upgraded. Bond funded work on
Denver Performing Art Complex
/ Boettcher Concert Hall will be
occurring in 2010 and 2011. www.
denvercenter.org
Wow it is spring already! Spring
in my step, spring forward, spring
in the Rockies…. What a fabulous
season!
We have added a new department called Globe Trotting with
Barron. He will take you on a
magic carpet ride to different destinations, explorations and new
adventures. Who knows where
he will land?
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Art in Denver Earns LEED
Certification
In 2009, MCA Denver received
its Gold certification from the
USGBC (US Green Building
Council) for its design, which
includes a variety of energy efficiency and sustainability measures. The David Adjaye-designed
MCA | Denver opened to the
public on October 28, 2007. The
27,000-square-foot facility, located
in LoDo (Denver’s downtown historic district) at the corner of 15th
and Delgany streets promotes
environmental sustainability and
direct connection between artist
and visitor. There are five intimate
gallery spaces, three educational
spaces, a museum shop, a garden pavilion and other spaces for
people to engage with art. www.
mcadenver.org
Third New Denver Art
Museum to House 2,400-Piece
Clyfford Still Collection
Created by Brad Cloepfil
of Allied Works Architecture,
the $29 million Clyfford Still
Museum’s 31,500-square-foot
design reflects the institution’s
mission to preserve, present,
and celebrate the work of this
legendary American artist. The
Museum’s extraordinary collection will encompass some 2,400
works spanning Clyfford Still’s
career and will be one of the most
comprehensive single-artist holdings in the world. The Museum,
which broke ground in December
2009 adjacent to the Denver Art
Museum’s acclaimed Frederic C.
Hamilton Building, will further
enhance the cultural and architectural dialogue within the city’s
arts district. When American artist
Clyfford Still died in 1980, he left
a much-desired 2,000-piece private collection to an American city
that would create and maintain a
museum exclusively devoted to
his art. In August 2004, his widow,
Patricia A. Still, confirmed that
Denver would be the recipient of
this collection of works by her late
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from the first expansion draft when they
picked up David Nied
and their first draft pick
of John Burke from the
University of Florida.
Please don’t ask me to
quote every draft pick
because I won’t be able to do it.
I’m not like the guys on City Slickers
who can quote every stat and every
player’s position. I just remember
that year and how excited I was that
Colorado finally had a professional
team—and I could go and see some
games. Yeah, there were the Denver
Bears, but that’s a whole different
story. Sorry, I digress.
This year, the Colorado Rockies
look strong with most all of their
players from last year returning.
They only lost a few to free agency,
so an intact team that looked fairly
It’s Time to Play Ball
Can you smell the hot dogs, the
peanuts, the Cracker Jacks? It’s
that time of the year again—to get
the Major League Baseball season
opened up. We’re all excited for our
team to throw that first pitch and
get this thing under way. Even I, a
person who doesn’t follow baseball
very much, am ready to begin a new
season and see how the Colorado
Rockies do. If they live up to the
expectations I think they have, I
might just become a hardcore follower.
Don’t get me wrong—I love
the Rockies. I’ve followed them
strong last year is awesome. The
re-signing of Carlos Gonzalez and
Ian Stewart were major grabs for
Colorado. The Monforts have been
known for holding tight on the
purse strings, but they knew a good
thing in CarGo, and he is a big hit
with the fans. Also, relief pitchers
will help send them into the top of
the National League West by keeping the leads of the openers. Belisle,
Betancourt, and Morales must come
up strong for the Rockies this year.
That is where they seemed to have
trouble last year and caused a lot of
late-game comebacks to occur.
The next question will be if
Ubaldo Jimenez will have the year
he had last year. That was a wonderful surprise for us fans. If he can
stay strong, and De La Rosa and
Hammels will be tough, then it will
make it a lot easier for the offense to
Denver Launches “B-cycle” Bike Sharing Program: 500 Bikes
Available for Short Hops Around the City
As of April 2010, some 500 new,
shiny red Trek bicycles are now
available for sharing at 50 stations
around the Mile High City, all part
of Denver B-cycle, the nation’s first
citywide bike-sharing program.
Each of the sturdy, three-speed,
bright red Trek bikes comes with a
wire basket, built-in light and lock.
Denver visitors can purchase a $5,
24-hour membership with a credit
card at any B-cycle station. After
becoming a member, riders can pick
up a B-cycle from any station and
drop it off at any other station. All
rides of 30 minutes or less are free
and rides up to one hour are only
a dollar, with prices going up from
there. Starting in June, the Denver
B-cycle bikes will be equipped
with RFID chips and computers to
track mileage, calories burned and
carbon offsets. Riders can monitor
their personal fitness and see their
contributions to the City’s greening efforts to lower carbon emissions. Popularized in Europe and
Asia where there are more than 50
cities with public bike-sharing systems, Denver follows on the heels
of two other cities in North America
that have launched successful bike
sharing systems in the past year –
Montreal in the summer of 2009 and
Mexico City in the spring of 2010.
Users can also sign up for 7-day
($20), 30-day ($30) or annual memberships ($65) online. Discounts are
available for students and seniors.
Once registered in the system as
a member, there is no charge for
the first 30 minutes every time
the member checks out a B-cycle
from a station. After 30 minutes
additional usage fees apply that
escalate every half hour thereafter.
Bikes stations are located in convenient spots downtown near hotels,
on the 16th Street Mall, by museums, at the Colorado Convention
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relax and start to score again.
Will Cook ever be healthy and
be able to produce for the Rockies
consistently? I am not sure on that
one. He just seems to get hurt or
injured at the wrong times (is there
ever a right time?). I wish him the
best and know he sure could help
the Rockies if he can get himself
back in the game.
What scares me this year is that
many of the baseball analysts are
picking the Colorado Rockies to win
the National League West. I could
be wrong, but usually when I see
teams picked to win a division, they
never make it. It’s like the curse of
losing to be picked to win a division or the World Series. Last year,
it was the Yankees to win it all, and
let’s see how they fared? I don’t
remember their hanging a banner.
I believe it was the San Francisco
Giants. It could be having to live up
to the expectations, but the teams
just don’t seem to make it that often.
Let’s hope that this is not true of
the Colorado Rockies because it
would be great to see them succeed again and get to World Series.
Which is predicted to be won by the
Boston Red Sox or the Philadelphia
Phillies.
Oh well, even if they don’t win,
it’s great to be able to get over to
Denver and watch the Rockies
play in one of the best parks in the
nation. Just go get a nice Rockpile
seat, sit back in the great Colorado
weather and see a great baseball
game. Nothing could be better,
well unless you add in a good hot
dog with everything and an ice-cold
beer. Now that is living. So, as they
say, LET’S PLAY BALL!!
Botanic Gardens’ new, $15 million,
15,000 square foot Greenhouse
Complex is scheduled to be complete
and open to the public by Labor Day
weekend of 2010. Displays and educational programming throughout
the facility will provide information about tropical ecosystems, their
diversity, functions and importance.
Funded by the citizens of Denver
through the voter-approved Better
Denver Bond Program, the greenhouse facility is located just to the
west of the Boettcher Memorial
Tropical Conservatory.
The new complex consists of state
of the art greenhouses with flexibility for 12 climate control options. A
renovated Marnie’s Pavilion serves
as a display space for plants collections that are predominantly orchids,
bromeliads and ferns, known as
epiphytic plants. The Greenhouse
Complex also includes an Orangery
with seasonal year-round displays
reminiscent of traditional European
Renaissance garden displays. The
facility also has a public classroom
and horticulture department offices.
The new buildings
incorporate sustainable building in their energy efficient and
economical heating and cooling
systems, and use of recycled materials.
Visible to the public, the greenhouses inside the Greenhouse
Complex will provide visitors a better understanding of all the operations that happen behind the scenes
in creating beautiful and dynamic
botanic garden displays.
In September 2010, the Gardens
opened the $5 million Mordecai
Children’s Garden at the York Street
location. This new garden offers a
place to play, explore and discover.
Because the natural environment
constantly changes, no two visits
in this magical three-acre oasis will
be alike.
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Art Denver, opened in 2007 and
was designed by London architect
David Adjaye. It offers five galleries
for changing exhibits, as well as a
spectacular rooftop café.
• The third new art museum will
house the 2,000-Piece Clyfford Still
collection. When
American artist Clyfford Still
died in 1980, he left a priceless
2,000- piece private collection to
an American city that would create
and maintain a museum exclusively
devoted to his art. In 2004, Denver
Mayor John Hickenlooper met with
his widow, Mrs.
Patricia A. Still, and in August of
that year, she confirmed that Denver
would be the recipient of this collection of works by her late husband
in the new Clyfford Still Museum.
The City of Denver broke ground
on the museum in December 2009,
with an opening date expected in
November 2011.
• Other art museums in the region
include the Kirkland Museum of
Fine & Decorative Art, which displays a nationally important collection of 20th Century decorative
art as well as the works of Denver
painter Vance Kirkland; and the
Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western
Art, which is the nation’s largest
public collection of contemporary
Western art. The Denver Public
Library (the 4th largest in the nation
which was built in 1995 with a voter
approved tax increase) also has its
own Western art collection.
• Denver has a growing reputation for its collection of art galleries in trendy neighborhoods that
include more than 30 art galleries in
the ArtsDistrict on Santa Fe; the hip
galleries of RiNo (River North); the
Golden Triangle Museum District;
LoDo (short for Lower
Downtown) and Cherry Creek.
• The Cherry Creek Arts Festival
is consistently ranked as the largest
outdoor-juried arts
event in the country and attracts
more than 300,000 people every July
4th weekend.
• Denver hosts Denver Arts Week
every November, including free
museum nights, special
art gallery happenings, live music
and dance, and more.
• Doors Open Denver, held every
April, allows admission to more
than 70 architectural treasures in
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B G L Y Y K G L V P S E N R H
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cultural presence. Even when it
C D B T E O X L B E W W T O F
was a Wild West gold mining boom
town in the 1860s, Denver had a theatre and a performance of Macbeth,
2. Take the St. Charles trolley to Cafe Dumand’s for Bin nets long before the city had a school or
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to the end of the line and go visit Motown old school band. All three times to approve a 1/10 of a
the old cemetery. The destina- black band very soulful, the lead cent sales tax increase for the arts.
tion sign on the trolley car will male singer is about four feet tall More than $42 million was collected
and the lead female singer rocks in 2007 and distributed to 300 arts
say “Cemetery”
it out. ( I think the name of the and cultural organizations.
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4. Take the Trolley to City group is the “Connection”,
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will see work by Monet, Degas,
sporting events – and Denver has
8. If you want to do some eight professional sports teams,
1. Buy a three day buss pass Picasso, and countless other
for $12.00 for unlimited trolley cool art. The destination sign gambling, go to Harrahs on more than any other city.
Denver’s cultural scene has never
and bus use good for three days on the trolley car will say “City Canal Street.
shined
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portation. You can pick it up at
Visual Arts & Architecture
5. Take the trolley to the city the Mississippi river and at mid
the convenience store/liquor
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store in front of the Holiday zoo and check out their zoo. point on the river, you will get itself as a world capital of art and
in on Royal Street and Canal. The destination sign will say some great city scape pictures architecture.” Sunset
• Denver hosted The Biennial of
of the city.
(I am sure the bus drivers and “Zoo”
the Americas in July 2010, a twotrolley drivers can also tell you
10. On Sunday catch a “Gospel month long, curated celebration of
6. Take the trolley to the
where to buy them). Pick up a
contemporary art from throughout
city map from any concierge at “French Market” where you Brunch” for some great music North America.
any hotel, the city is very easy can pick up spices and south- and excellent food.
• Denver has one of the nation’s
leading public art programs. One
to get around on public trans- ern items hard to find in Denver.
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• Denver opened three new art
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Hamilton Building at the Denver
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The Truth behind ‘Black Swan’
By Jeffery Taylor, Dance Critic and
arts feature writer
The Sunday Express
Publisher’s Note: I met British writer
Jeffery Taylor on a recent media junket to Denver. We hit it off, and Jeffery
expressed interest in writing
for our paper.
His knowledge
and personal
experience give
real depth to
this movie critique. We hope
you appreciate
it. —Jeff Inks,
publisher
Twentieth
Century Fox’s
new film,
Black Swan,
has stirred
up Britain’s
dance fraternity with an explosive
cocktail of outrage and admiration.
Natalie Portman plays Nina, a budding ballerina facing the challenge
of dancing the dual role of Odette,
the White Swan Queen and the evil
Black Swan, Odile, in Tchaikovsky’s
ballet Swan Lake. Pushed by her
failed-dancer mother, played by
Barbara Hershey, and blackmailed
into bed by her artistic director,
Vincent Cassel, Nina rapidly disintegrates into a paranoid mess,
finally dying a suicide on stage with
blood soaking her feathery tutu and
a sick smile of triumph flickering
across her lips. She is another victim
pushed over the edge by the pressured search for perfection.
How disgraceful, splutter the
experts, usually with no performance experience whatsoever upon
which to base their indignation.
What a shame they had to focus
on the negative. In fact, American
director Darren Aronofsky has
performed a skillful post mortem,
ruthlessly exposing the emotional
vulnerability of young women in
an art form traditionally perceived
in this country as female dominated. Happily, Aronofsky avoids
the cheap option of glamorising
Nina’s painful descent into madness even though the film’s concept
could have been based on American
dancer Gelsey Kirkland. Kirkland
was a supremely gifted artist whose
career was beset with eating, alcohol
had already developed a dread of
physical contact. In my home town
of Manchester, my first ballet teacher, Irene Williamson, ignored my
instinctive flinch whenever a hand
came near me, and with a relentlessly matter-of-fact air adjusted my
body to its new physical demands.
Looking back, her total indifference to my unhappy home life and
unspoken expectation of a new and
precious kind of discipline certainly
salvaged my sanity. It also pointed
to an eventual escape route from a
nightmarish domesticity. No wonder classical ballet is so important
to me.
Former Royal Ballet principal
dancer and subsequently successful teacher, Hazel Merry and I were
contemporaries at the Royal Ballet
School then established in West
London’s Barons Court. “There were
ten of us girls,” she remembers, “all
being pushed to become the next
Margot Fonteyn. The pressure to
be perfect started the moment we
walked through the door,” she says.
“We had to be Little Miss Perfect
from top to toe whether in class or in
the street. We were threatened with
expulsion for any misdemeanour.
One of my friends in class was
slashing her arms and attempting
suicide at the age of 12.”
In Black Swan, Winona Ryder plays
Beth, an aging ballerina replaced in
Swan Lake by Nina, who later discovers her former friend slashing
her arm with a kitchen knife. “All
comments were negative in a culture of sarcasm,” explains Merry.
“It was a system based on a wish
to improve us pupils, but it bred
a total lack of self-confidence.” In
an eerie reflection of Black Swan’s
theme, Merry, aged 25, was given
the signature role of Aurora in
Zurich Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty,
another iconic classic. “Though he
knew I had never danced Beauty,”
she recalls, “the artistic director
asked me in private, would I go on,
because the first cast ballerina was
crumbling. I stood watching in the
wings night after night, and I don’t
know to this day if she knew why
I was there.”
Another fellow student at the
school who fell hideously victim
to the unforgiving price for achieving the impossible was a youngster
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Peter Schaufuss, who partnered
Kirkland in 1979, remembers. “The
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the lack of fuel going to the brain.
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Interview with Seth Larson from
Something Underground. Catch
Something Underground live at The
Fruita Fat Tire Festival Friday, April
29th at 6pm in downtown Fruita.
Name: Seth Larson
Age: 36
Occupation: Musician
Hobbies: many outdoors activities with my friends and family,
tending to my garden.
Family: wife of one year and two
dogs
Goals: make great music for the
world to enjoy
What kind of music can music
lovers expect to hear at the Fruita
Fat Tire Festival? Something
Underground plays an energetic
blend of rock, reggae, blues, funk
and folk, a.k.a. Roots Rock. We
play originals and original versions of covers.
How large is your band?
Something Underground is a
stadium full of sound delivered
by a power trio. Instrumentation
includes guitar, bass, drums, percussion, keys (on occasion) and a
lot of harmonizing vocals by the
Larson brothers.
What is the largest crowd
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Band Profile: Amp Tra
Name: Amp Tramp: Bruce
Safken (drums & vocals), Mark
Shortess (bass & vocals), Ivy
Williams (vocals &
percussion),
E a r l
Wi l l i a m s
(keyboards
& vocals)
and Fidel
(guitar &
vocals).
A g e :
Members range
in age from mid-40s to mid-50s
& continue to age nicely.
Occupation: Members are
either employed or own &
operate local businesses.
Hobbies: Amp Tramp has a
longstanding relationship with
Homeward Bound. The band
volunteers their services for
fundraisers and other events
s p o n s o re d b y H o m e w a rd
Bound.
Family: Children abound.
Grand and great-grandkids,
too, spread all over, from San
Francisco to Paris.
Favorite Restaurant: Anything
open at 2am
Goals: To keep playing music
and hopefully get around to
writing and recording an album
of songs.
How long has this set
of musicians been playing
together? The band has been
together almost
three years.
The newest
addition
(Mark)
has been
with us for
around six
months.
What are
ten songs that
you play at your live
gigs? Whiskey Man, Runaway,
Gimme Three Steps, What’s Your
Name, Radar Love, You Make
Loving Fun, White Rabbit, LA
Woman, Don’t Misunderstand
Me & Born on the Bayou.
What song do you enjoy
playing live the most? Most any
of them, as long as the people
are having a good time.
What is your favorite venue
to play? Outdoor festivals are
the band’s favorite venues.
The Guthries are comin’!
Arlo Guthrie’s “Journey On” tour reaches Grand
Junction on April 19. Arlo is bringing his band
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with son Abe Guthrie and the legendary Burns
Sisters. Arlo is the musical heir to his father Woody
Guthrie, who helped write the great American
songbook. This is the
ultimate Arlo Guthrie
show—don’t miss it!
The April 19 show
starts at 7:30pm, with
doors open at 6:30pm.
Reserved seating: $25 $30
$35, with tickets available
at City Markets, Back
Porch Music and Triple
Play. For more information, contact Ron Wilson
at Sandstone Concerts,
243-8497.
you’ve played for? Favorite venue?
We played for 10,000 people at a
sold-out Red Rocks Amphitheatre
in August 2010. We played a full
set of mostly Beatles music opening for the movie Across The
Universe at the final Film on the
Rocks show of the 2010 season.
Red Rocks is a magical place. We
like it a lot!
Which artists have influenced
your music style the most in the
past 10 years? We spend a lot of
time working with other Colorado
musicians and get much of our
inspiration from that. Between
co-writing, sitting in, backing
up and good ole jammin’, we get
our creative batteries charged on
a very regular basis. On a more
international level, we’ve been
heavily influenced by bands like
the Beatles, Bob Marley, U2, Led
Zeppelin, the Police, Muse, Lenny
Outdoor
Adventure
Fruita Fat Tire Festival
April 28-May1! The fun starts April 28 and continues through May 1 in downtown
Fruita, plus all the extra fun riders
have on surrounding trails! This is
Colorado’s traditional kickoff to
the mountain biking season in our
beautiful red-rock country. Visit the
shop that started it all—Over the
Edge Sports—and join the expo at
Civic Center Park.
This event is a fun event geared
toward the recreational rider. Bike
trails around Fruita are used, and
there’s a live-band dance that draws
big crowds. Whether you’re a biking participant or just along for the
ride, find fun at Civic Center Park,
325 E. Aspen, Fruita. For info, call
858-7220.
Fat Tire VIP passes include $30
Early Bird pricing until March 31,
$35 after. That includes VIP party
with free beer, drinks, catered food,
as well as over $5000 in prizes to
be given away via name drawing
Here’s the Lineup
for Belly Up Aspen!
Belly Up Aspen,
450 S. Galena St., Aspen
970-544-9800
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Apr 9, 10pm-The Wailers w/
Duane Stephenson and special
guests. The band, synonymous
with reggae, has played to more
than 24 million people across the
planet. Apr 10, 10pm-This Must Be
the Band, a Talking Heads tribute
band.
Apr 11, 9pm-Matt Wertz w/Ben
Rector. Three years since his last
album release, the singer-songwriter is back with his fourth album,
“Weights and Wings.”
Apr 12, 9pm-Iration w/Pacific
Dub and Mike Pinto. iTunes reggae
chart-toppers, this roots-rock group
has shared the stage with Slightly
Stoopid, Steel Pulse, Stephen
Marley.
Apr 13, 10pm-Dark Star Orchestra.
Tribute band dedicated to the
nuances of the Grateful Dead.
Apr 14, 10pm-DJ Vice. One of Las
Vegas’ most renowned DJs, with a
standing four-year residency at
TAO and two years at Lavo. He’s
worked with Timbaland, Mariah
Carey, and Lady Gaga.
and NOT to random attendees,
socks, special Over the Edge Sports
offers.
The Expo starts April 28, followed by a VIP Party for industry
and registrants before April 25. VIP
Pass registration takes place 3-6pm
at Civic Center.
Apr 15, 10pm-Ana Sia w/Samples
(Fresh2Death) and Epcot. Dubstep
meets glitch and “global slut psyhop,” with this San Francisco-based
electronic producer.
Apr 16, 10pm-Prezident Brown.
“…doesn’t let stylistic boundaries
get in the way of ambitious songs
that combine Dancehall toasting
with gruff, rootsy singing,” says
Rhapsody.
Apr 17, 10pm-Oakhurst – NO
COVER. Named “Best Bluegrass
Band” in Colorado by Westword
2007, they blend old-timey acoustic
bluegrass string band music with
rocking alt-country.
Apr 18, 9pm-MiMOSA w/
Archnemesis. After a sold-out show
in October, the trip-hop, dubstep
DJ returns!
Apr 19, 10pm-The B Foundation
w/Katastro. These Southern
California surf rockers toured with
Slightly Stoopid and co-headlined
the Surf Roots Tour with Ballyhoo!
Apr 21, 10pm-Shpongle (Simon
Posford DJ set). Combining eastern
ethnic samples and western contemporary psychedelic synth music.
Apr 22, 10pm-Collie Buddz
w/New Kingston and MTHDS.
Debuting at top of Billboard Reggae
charts, this Bermuda-raised dancehall artist’s music became an immediate hit.
Kravitz, Sublime, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, the Exit…
What are the benefits of living/working under the same
roof? Something Underground
operates and lives at a studio loft
warehouse in North Denver. The
Warehouse has given the band a
musical playground to create and
collaborate. It allows us to play,
write and record music 24/7. It
also gives us space to have everything we need as a working band
under one roof. The commute is
really easy, too.
What do you think the key to
commercial success is? We’re still
working on the answer to that
question. We believe the key to
our success is being in love with
what we do and doing it as much
as possible. To quote one of our
generation’s most profound philosophers: “Build it, and they will
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April 29, enjoy the Expo, Beer
Garden, rides, party 6-10 pm-No
Cover. Live music with Something
Underground. VIP Pass registration
10-6pm at Civic Center and daily
schedules posted at the Info tent!
April 30, laugh at the Clunker
Crit, enjoy the continuing amenites
and party 6-10 pm—no cover! Live
music with Sweet Crude featuring
Billy Conn from Treehouse with
rockin vocals by Wanda Micheli.
It’s last day for VIP Pass registration
10am-noon. Daily schedules posted
at the Info tent!
On May 1, enjoy the trails before
you head home! Ride board and trail
info are posted at the info tent. And
don’t forget your socks! Everyone
signed up to ride gets a pair of socks
with registration! See more at fruitamountainbike.com.
Apr 23, 10pm-Savoy w/Opening
Act TBA. An electro-house hybrid
group that fuse club remixes with
rock ‘n’ roll.
Apr 24, 9pm-Stephen Marley w/
Ghetto Youths Crew. An accomplished singer, songwriter and
producer, the seven-time Grammy
award-winner’s first solo release
debuted at No. 1 on Billboard
Reggae charts in 2007.
Apr 26, 9pm-Sierra Leone’s
Refugee All Stars. Formed in a
refugee camp in Guinea in Sierra
Leone’s civil war, this world music
crew continues to raise awareness
for the plight they escaped.
Apr 27, 9pm-KT Tunstall w/
Robert Francis and MIGGS. This
BRIT award-winner and Grammy
nominee is a Scottish singer-songwriter touring to promote last year’s
“Tiger Suit” release.
Apr 28, 10pm-Xavier Rudd w/
honeyhoney. Focusing on socially
conscious lyrics, this Australian
singer-songwriter is a multiinstrumentalist who incorporates
the didgeridoo into many of his
performances.
May 5, 9pm-Federico Aubele w/
Opening Act TBA. Catch the Latin
lounge vibe for Cinco de Mayo with
this Argentine artist who fuses tango, bolero, hip-hop and electronic.
Adventure
Shaking like Hell in Japan
so, (oh, jeez, don’t tell my wife), I
was headed into the hotel cigar
shop to see if there were any decent
stogies I could still afford.
As soon as I hit the entrance to the
shop, however, the staff looked panicked. It seemed there was a madman in the humidor room, for the
clerk was holding his hands out and
nearly squatting in a way that communicated there was
danger inside. I’d had
a few glasses of beer
at the party, so it took
a couple of seconds
longer than usual to
recognize that he was
saying “JISHIN!” and
motioning for me to
get out of the building. Taking the hint, I
made for the door.
Jishin, as you must
have guessed, means
earthquake. It felt
st ron g er than the
usual t remors we
get from time to time
here, so I made haste.
In front of the hotel,
students and others
were wearing faces
that said something
was awfully wrong—
although I could feel
the earth literally moving beneath my feet, it
Photo taken from Seth’s Balcony
seemed no worse than
being aboard a rocking
graduation ceremony for the junior ship. Come to think of it, though,
college where I work had just end- the whole main island of Japan must
ed. Students, teachers and staff were have been moving like that rocking
filtering out of the hotel where the ship! I proceeded to comfort those
event is held yearly. There was to around me who were more scared
be an after party. Since it had been a than I and walked one of my stugood year or more since I had done dents as far as the next train station,
Editor’s Note: Our writer, Seth
Hensley, and his wife and two tiny children live in the central area of Japan,
which is divided into 23 wards or ku.
The Hensleys live on the southwestern edge of that metropolitan set called
Setagaya. Within Setagaya, their area
is called Tamazutsumi.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Exactly one week ago today, the
Continued from page 13
from daycare. It was from her parents’ landline, so I got in line at a
payphone and called. They were all
okay. She wanted to send her dad
down Meguro Dori, the long road
that leads from our area into the
heart of the city, but I immediately
advised her not to. “No way—the
traffic is absolutely packed.” And
she understood that I would just
have to walk the rest of the way
home.
Perhaps you’ve already seen
news to this effect, but you cannot
imagine how orderly things were.
There was no honking, no fighting,
no complaining, just people walking, biking, driving, being driven,
uphill, home. I hesitate even to
mention the word “looting,” as it
is so far out of the realm of thinkability here. That guy working the
7-Eleven register is as much your
family as the emperor himself—and
I think that’s what people outside
may never fully understand about
Japan. This country operates on
a family principle that extends in
varying degrees to everyone you
see. It’s not the kind of family,
either, whose members bicker at
the reunion dinner, but the kind of
family that cannot bear to imagine
hurting each other or even doing
something rude. I won’t say there
are no divisions at all in society, but
the average CEO in Japan makes a
fraction of what his counterpart in
America might, and this is a direct
reflection of this mentality.
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After about two hours walking, I
ran into a network engineer working for Cisco (can I get in trouble
for mentioning his company? Strike
that, insert “a major American networking firm”), who had been
walking even longer than I had.
We talked about how it must have
felt up inside a building (apparently scary as all hell—you could
see skyscrapers swaying from the
ground), where we were from in
the States, and how cold it had suddenly become.
*****
Over the past week, things ran
out first at the convenience stores,
then supermarkets, then supply
stores (the Japanese division of Walmart is called Seiyu). It was odd, not
being able to buy milk or bread for
a couple of days. But apparently,
bit by bit, supply routes have been
reopening, and local bakeries have
been busting their buns baking
bread.
Even the nuclear plant seems
nearly, nearly, nearly back under
control. Oh, God, please help those
Tepco workers who are giving their
lives to keep the temperatures down
and get power back to those cooling units.
I’ve read up on the current state
of the nuclear power industry, and
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most gentle-natured beings I ever met. His burden was being born before
the world was ready for him. In Fifties’ Britain, no one knew what on earth
to do with a perfect male technique. Royal Ballet founder Dame Ninette de
Valois unashamedly adored him. Unfortunately, in those days, his extravagantly arched feet, high arabesque and fluidly graceful arm movements
were categorised as strictly female, and, upon his entry to the company,
there were only limited roles for the potential star, with virtually no outlets
to exhibit,
let alone
develop,
h i s
natural
gifts.
Wr a c k e d
with guilt
and selfdoubt, this
balletic
phenomenon hit
the bottle,
a n d ,
after a car
crash
permanently
disfigured
his face,
he died in
mysterious circumstances
in 1975
aged 37.
Ironically, had Usher been born in today’s post-Rudolf Nureyev era, his
talent would have launched him into global celebrity on a par with the
spectacular Maryinski Ballet dancer, Farouk Ruzimatov.
However, Nina’s terrible fate in Black Swan is not inevitable. During
1987, Schaufuss, director of London-based English National Ballet 19841990, invited Gelsey Kirkland to coach his company in Giselle. “She had
beaten her demons and said to me when she arrived, `Don’t expect me to
be different; I’m just older.`” He adds, “When I first met her, she was so
frail she could hardly stand. But by then you could see how gifted and
talented she really was.”
For the past three years, Desmond Kelly, a former Royal Ballet star, has
been artistic director of Birmingham’s Elmhurst School for Dance in the
UK, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s feeder school. His attitude to pupils with
suspected anorexia, or any other negative response to the rigours of ballet
training, is simple. “I will not tolerate it,” he says emphatically. “I will call
them in to my office a few times to try to steer them into a healthy middle
path. I ask them to think long-term, what are they doing to their bodies,
how it affects their having children. Then I ask their parents to take them
home and deal with it. Three out of three girls exhibiting symptoms in the
past two years have returned to school cured.
“But the basics never change,” adds Kelly. “You fall in love with ballet,
and you can’t do anything about it. It’s important that my children have
fire in their belly and know what to do with it.” What a pity Nina was
unaware of Elmhurst and Kelly; but then, we wouldn’t have had a gripping film like Black Swan.
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By Seth Hensley
from which she was, I trust, able to
make her way home. (Hi, Mei Lin!
Hope you made it home safe!)
Business as usual in the land of
the rising sun: people here accept
that home is a place that shakes now
and then.
We had assessed that no trains
were moving (crap), consequently
busses were packed (rats). At this
point, taxis would have been advisable, even for a hundred-dollar ride
home, but the trains never stop for
that long, right? Right? An hour or
so after the quake, still not having heard any news, I figured that
things should have been moving
already. To my dismay, people were
crowded around the entry gates to
the station, which showed no sign
of budging.
“Okay, then, if I start walking
now, maybe I can make it home in
time to pick up Honoka from daycare, and my wife won’t kill me.”
No cell signal, all busses full, all
taxis taken, a thousand people standing at the train gates. I figured that,
if I really hoofed it, I could make it
home in two hours, but I suppose I
was really lying to myself.
*****
Several hours later, after a stop
or two (giving directions to New
Zealanders, then later asking a
police box for the quickest walking route to my area), I arrived at
Jiyugaoka, where an insurance company (Afflack!) had an HDTV in the
window with the sound on, showing
the news (everyone in Tokyo who
wasn’t stuck on a train was walking
home, it seemed—perhaps several
million commuters). My heart sank
into my stomach at the first sight of
water rushing up at cars and semi
trucks still driving, washing over
fields, carrying houses that were
on fire. I ascertained that the epicenter had been up north, on the coast,
near Iwate or Sendai, but that was
about it.
Before that, about halfway home,
I got a voicemail (no cell connections still) from my wife saying that
her father had picked her and our
newborn up immediately and that
they had also gone to get Honoka
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Okay e-mailers, lets keep this going until everyone has seen
it, and with no help from the news media. Imagine how this
must feel to all those servicemen seeing it for the first time.
It tells them that people care and do support them. Lets
make it a BIG THANK YOU by sending it around the world
and if you receive it more than once keep sending. After all,
they stand in the line of fire more than once for us. (This should
have made national news, but we all know why not.)
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The Performing Arts Center of the Grand Valley, 448 Main Street, is a
conceptual space where small groups of all kinds can perform for audiences of under 100. So many theatres have come and gone, mostly because
of overhead for facilities. Terri L. Schafer, BA, MA, NBPTC, is going out
on a limb and moving her private studio, Showtime Productions, Inc. to
downtown Grand Junction.
“I love Main Street and can just feel the artistic ambience,” Schafer said.
“I teach voice, piano and acting lessons and group classes during the day.
The theatre space can be used for evening performances, daytime meetings, dance classes, and other artistic pursuits requiring a performance or
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fall. “Grease” auditions will be produced in May, followed by “Hairspray,”
“The Women,” “Little Women,” “Rent,” and “My Fair Lady” for the
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Mesa County Fair and last year did nine shows.) Schafer, a former District 51 teacher, has lived in the Valley all of her
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Grand Junction area. She has another passion, too—taking students and
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Walking can add minutes to
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1. At lunchtime, sit in your
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and point a hairdryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom.
Don’t disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you
to do something, as if they want
fries with that.
4. Put decaf in the coffee maker
for three weeks. Once everyone has
gotten over the caffeine addiction,
switch to espresso.
5. In the memo field of all your
checks, write “for drugs.”
Please do your part!
By making sacrificial and proportional cuts in your own personal budget, you can appreciate
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the quick. Please accept my apology
in advance for the following email
about an unpleasant subject. I tried
very hard not to do it, but because
it helped my perspective and made
me feel much better; I thought
perhaps it would do as much for
you. It’s tough, but we all need to
do our part.
The President ordered the cabinet
to cut a whopping $100 million from
the $3.5-trillion federal budget. I’m
My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he
was 60. Now he’s 97 years
old, although we have no idea
where he is.
I like long walks, especially
when they are taken by people
who annoy me.
6. Finish all your sentences
with “in accordance with the
Prophecy.”
7. Skip down the hall, rather than
walk! See how many looks you get.
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go out to eat, and do it with a serious face.
9. Specify that your drive-through
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10. Sing along at the opera.
11. Put mosquito netting around
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your friends you can’t attend their
party because you have a headache.
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going to have to let one of you go.”
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so impressed by this sacrifice that I
have decided to do the same thing
with my personal budget. I spend
about $4,000 a month on groceries,
medicine, bills, etc., and now it’s
time to get out my budget-cutting
axe, go line by line through my
expenses, and get to work.
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at exactly the same ratio as the
President - 1/35,000 of my total budget. After doing the math, it looks
like instead of spending $4,000 a
month; I’m going to have to cut that
number downward by eleven cents!
I know that’s a lot and I must
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that is what sacrifice is all about.
The President has requested that
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frankly, luxuries those eleven cents
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