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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 /

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Ivar & Susan

It was time to stretch our wings, and so we sprung ourselves from the anodyne Spring of Telluride and headed for our second home: Denver.

Our loft is downtown, just on the edge of LoDo in Curtis Park, a neighborhood in the throes of a full-throated appeal for gentrification, but still a bit rough around the edges.

12 April, 2010 /

Here at Telluride Inside... and Out, one of our primary goals is to show off the twin jewels of Telluride and Mountain Village at their sparkling finest. If you ever ask anyone outside the region about Telluride, though, you're probably used to hearing "Tellu-what?" as often as you hear, "I totally love Telluride!" - with a smattering of, "Telluride - they ski there, right? Somewhere in Colorado?" thrown in for good measure. 

Knowing that striking the right balance between being a "best-kept secret" and bringing in tourists who occasionally fall so much in love with the place that they just have to live here (at least part of the year) is part of what keeps Telluride thriving, I love when I run across outside coverage of my favorite microcosm (in the fullest sense of the term). 

Two different people shared clippings about Telluride with me recently - one from Sunset Magazine, and one from New York Times featuring a review of Capella, one of TIO's most recent sponsors to come on board. That got me curious - who else has become enamored of Telluride lately? 

11 April, 2010 /

IMGP1105 2 Another great thing about being in Telluride: even the mundane can be a mini-adventure. Perhaps the errand is in town and could as easily be accomplished on a bike. In a month there will a number of choices about which route to take: quickly on the bike path, almost as quickly on the dirt track along the San Miguel, or a real adventure (and a fair amount more time) up Mill Creek Road and down the Waterline. See what I mean?

10 April, 2010 /
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Brooke Young and friend,
Bill Carson

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 /


By D. Dion


Most kids graduate high school and go to college to figure out what they want to do in life. Not Telluride’s Gus Kenworthy. Kenworthy knows exactly what he wants to do, and he's already doing it: pursuing his ambition to become a professional skier. This season his dreams became reality when he won $15,000 and the acclaim of Powder Magazine, which named him one of the top 20 young (under 18) freeskiers in the world.
08 April, 2010 /


Easter Sunday was a great day on the mountain at Telluride. First, the skiing was great. I did a few cruising runs on Lift 5 with Susan and our friends Lawrie and Sheila. At the top of the lift we chatted with Dylan and Dawn and their young kids. There were also some wild costumes in evidence, so the people watching was fun as well. Hawkeye was, guess what, a pirate. Hard to believe the lifts will be still tomorrow, another ski season done.

07 April, 2010 /
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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 /