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2010_Calendar_FrontPage The Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities is one of the oldest nonprofits in the Telluride region, dating back to the town's bad old days, 1971, when hippies and miners made strange bedfellows. TCAH is and has always been an arts advocacy organization designed to support grassroots artists and initiatives, and public participation in local arts. The nonprofit hosts numerous free-to-public artist seminars, "First Thursdays" Art Walk, and runs the Stronghouse Studios to name just a few of the ways TCAH helps local artists help themselves.

Now its our turn to help TCAH. But the opportunity is a win-win: The Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities' 2010 Art Desktop Calendar, its signature fundraiser, is now available at locations around town and at Stronghouse Studios. Specifically, calendars,$12 each ($15 each for mail orders) plus tax, can be purchased at TCAH ( 283 South Fir Street, Tuesday-Friday, 12noon-4pm), or at Between the Covers bookstore, Bootdoctors in Mountain Village, and during Noel Night at Cashmere Red, and the Holiday Bazaar at the High School (December 4-6th, the first weekend in December).  Income from calendar sales provides critical support for the commission's ongoing programs.

09 November, 2009 /
ILC_0563.4 Telluride’s Inn at Lost Creek is launching a Proximity Promotion with exclusive rates for its neighbors in the Colorado counties of Alamosa, Archuleta, Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, La Plata, Montrose, Mesa, Montezuma and Pitkin.
 
“In the current economy more people are staying closer to home and taking mini-vacations or weekend getaways,” explains John Volponi, General Manager at the Inn at Lost Creek.  “Our Proximity Promotion makes it a little easier to take a well deserved break with special rates offered to people who are within driving distance of Telluride.”
07 November, 2009 /

KOTO, Telluride's radio station, hosted the Halloween bash at the Sheridan Opera House on October 31. KOTO's  Janice Zink (seen below blowing a kiss) sent along photos of the costume contest winners for the evening.First place went to Amy and Darrall Huber, as the swine...

06 November, 2009 /

[click "Play" to listen to Walter Wright talk about community leadership] Now and again, Telluriders play nice, achieving our goals through a sense of common purpose. The 350.org day (Saturday, October 24) is a shining example of mutual efforts succeeding big...

04 November, 2009 /
[click "Play to hear Susan's conversation with Andrea Benda]

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Andrea Benda (r) with friend and
council colleague, Lulu Hunt

Retiring Telluride councilwoman Andrea Benda spends a great deal of time wandering around a cemetery. She is not maudlin. She has nothing to bury, not even a hatchet, because she long ago she made peace with all her council colleagues. Telluride's Lone Tree Cemetery is simply one of the stops on the town tours her company, Explore Telluride!, offers.


Andrea Benda holds a degree in Library Science from James Madison University. After graduation, she worked in the Chicago suburbs as a media specialist in elementary schools until she and her then husband Terry, now deceased, moved to Telluride and ran the Ore Station Lodge as an inn, handling everything from taking reservations to cleaning toilets. Not being afraid to get her hands dirty was probably good training for the Telluride Town Council.
03 November, 2009 /

Up in the air has several meanings for Telluride's "Glider Bob" Saunders, who has gotten lots of practice  just idling his engines. Glider Bob is one of the candidates running for re-election to Telluride's Town Council, so tonight he awaits election results. After...

03 November, 2009 /

The weather wasn't great, but Telluride kids didn't seem to care. The annual Halloween Parade went off anyway. Two things you can count on in Telluride: we love a parade, and we love to dress up. Halloween and...

31 October, 2009 /

I was walking Gina the Dog on a Telluride afternoon, October 28. There was a break in the storm, and the late afternoon light on the San Miguel River also highlighted the peaks behind Telluride at the end of the valley. The sadness of...

31 October, 2009 /

Telluride's The New Community Coalition lead the charge locally on the global celebration of climate action, 350.org day, an event which brought together individuals, nonprofits and local businesses to finding local living solutions for worldwide climate change.350.org day was also a perfect time to...

28 October, 2009 /
Spook_tio In communities around the world like Telluride, 350.org day celebrations on October 24 represented a giant step in raising global and government awareness about the realities of climate change and the need to cap carbon emissions to 350 parts per million starting yesterday.

The Ah Haa School for the Arts played a major role locally that day by hosting two big events: the school's annual family day, Spooktacular was the first. Over 45 kids and parents showed up to make Halloween crafts like spooky spiders and trick-or-treat bags. Many of the craft projects involved repurposing and recycling and like magic, egg cartons and CDs turned into cool flying bats and jack o' lantern magnets.

At the end of the day, 350.org events culminated at the Ah Haa School for a community potluck, when around 30 people brought secret recipes to share, including many of the contenders for Town Council: Glider Bob, Chris Myers, Brian Werner, Lulu Hunt to name a few.
28 October, 2009 /