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By D. Dion

Telluride Snowkiting Instructor Mark Worth is a wind junkie. After spending winters here teaching people how to snowkite, he blows out of town and spends summers in Hood River Gorge in Oregon, where he teaches people how to kite surf. He owns his own businesses in both towns, Telluride Snowkite School and Gorge Kiteboard School, and leads something of a double life.

“The migration thing’s just become part of the deal. It’s really a challenge to deal with the logistics,” says Worth, “but the upside is that in the Gorge, in the summertime, it’s really sunny and dry; but in the winter, it’s cloudy and rainy, so it’s nice to be in Telluride where the sun is shining and the snow is falling.”

25 April, 2010 /

by Tracy Shaffer

What a wonderful morning! One of those where it’s a bit overcast and you’re wishing you’d never scheduled one of those outside meetings, especially on a Friday. You'd be oh so content to work from home.
The light looked silvery in my golden room as I roused myself, vowing to keep my commitment. I’d set up coffee and an interview with Brooke Young, Autism Specialist with the Colorado Department of Education to discuss autism: not something I would normally bounce out of bed for, but April is National Autism Month and Brooke is headed for the Telluride region to mentor a Model Autism Team. I write for Telluride Inside... and Out. You get the picture.

I headed downtown to one of 15 Starbucks in a five block radius, ordered my Joe, asking if any of the many blondes in line was Brooke. Feeling luckily out of luck, I sat down to write and enjoy my overpriced java, secretly hoping I was at the wrong Starbucks as I guiltily scrolled through my Blackberry to find her number. One minute later in walked Brooke, apologetic for having gone to the wrong Starbucks, along with Gina Quintana, Significant Support Needs Specialist, also with the CDE.

19 April, 2010 /

[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook talk about cashmere] In Telluride, it is the quiet before the storm of summer activities, the perfect time for Spring cleaning, which includes swapping sweaters for t-shirts, cashmere for cotton – or maybe...

16 April, 2010 /
[click "Play', Annie talks with Susan about the retreat]



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9D63565C-188B-3B72-2EE2529693A0530F Get anywhere near this human tornado and you will be blown away – this time to Mexico.

Telluride local and yoga instructor Annie Clark joins certified Pilates instructor Lauren Ferioli, founder of ReSource Pilates & Yoga Retreat. The restorative getaway takes place May 1 – May 8, 2010, in Maya Tulum Spa & Resort in Mexico, a gorgeous resort on the Caribbean Sea with pristine white sand beaches. Resource Retreats likes alliteration, suggesting its week-long immersions offer opportunities to reinvigorate, rejunvenate, recuperate, reconnect, realign, refresh, and relax.
13 April, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Brooke Young]

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Brooke Young

The Telluride region's Autism Behavioral and Consultation Team (ABCT) received one of two model autism teams in the state just before Christmas.

The local team is headed by occupational therapist and yoga instructor Annie Ripper Clark. April is National Autism Month and in honor of the occasion, Clark's mentor at the State level, Brooke D. Young, Autism Specialist/Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education in Denver, pays a visit to the district – Telluride, Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood and the West End – the week of April 19.

Among the activities planned for Young's visit are a parent chat, and an assessment of basic language and learning skills (revised) training.

13 April, 2010 /
[click play to listen to Susan's interview with Brooke Young]   

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Brooke Young and friend,
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The Telluride region's Autism and Behavioral Consultation Team, headed by Occupational Therapist and yoga instructor Annie Clark, is working hard to raise awareness about the new protocols for affected families during the month of April, National Autism Month. Clark's mentor at the State level is Brooke D. Young, Autism Specialist/Senior Consultant, Colorado Department of Education in Denver.

A funny thing happened with the dawning of the new millennium. The neuro-biological spectral disorders that fall under the banner of autism, a brown-bagged diagnosis until then, suddenly infiltrated pop culture. The trigger was the publication of a book in 2003 with an improbable title: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon.

09 April, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Annie Clark's conversation with Susan]

IMG_1228 It's a tangle of eye-popping acronyms – UnBOCS, ABCT, CO-MASP –  that boils down to one simple thing: greater support for Telluride regional families with children affected by autism and related syndromes that fall  under the banner of Autism Disorder Spectrum (ASD). The work of the ABCT goes stereo in April because April is National Autism Month.


Telluride local/Occupational Therapist/Yoga instructor Annie Clark has been a member of the Board of Uncompaghre Coop Services (UNBOCS), Autism and Behavioral Consultation Team (ABCT) since it was founded in 2007. By 2010, the ABC Team expanded to its current configuration: two occupational therapists, a speech therapist, two school psychologists, and an early childhood specialist. The Team covers the Telluride region, working in five districts: Telluride, Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood, and the West End.
07 April, 2010 /

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Needle Rock is a mountain pillar in the Telluride region, climbing to 10,564 feet above sea level. Needle Rock – pun intended – is also the name of the town's only fiber arts store, as of April 20, comfortably ensconced in brand new digs: 320 West Colorado Avenue. (It's the little purple house set back from the road, originally a fabric and sewing store. What goes around....)


On Friday, April 2, Telluride's community radio station, KOTO, held its annual street dance to close out the winter season with a bang, not a whimper. The entertainment included Telluride's all-women rock and roll band, The 525s, who opened the festivities for the main event, Ralph Dinosaur and the Fabulous Volcanos – and a fashion show. (I am not talking about the parade of pink on Main Street.) Between the acts, Needle Rocks Fiberarts, our local knitting salon, strutted its stuff on the stage adjacent to Telluride's courthouse.
06 April, 2010 /
[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Dr. Howard Savin]

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Dr. Howard Savin

April is National Autism Month, and once again Telluride is on the map. Annie Clark, an OT and yoga instructor, heads the Autism and Behavioral Consultation Team (ABCT), designated a Model Autism Team by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), working to develop increasingly comprehensive family support inside and outside the school systems in five districts: Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood, the West End and Telluride.


Autism is a general term used to describe a group of complex spectrum of developmental brain disorders known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). Autism produces significant impairment in social, communicative, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, typically lasting a person's lifetime.
05 April, 2010 /