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[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Gordon Reichard and Dr. Sharon Grundy]

 

Health news you can use every other Monday

Dr. Sharon Grundy
Dr. Sharon Grundy

For 33 years, the Telluride Medical Center has provided health care services to Telluride and the 7,500 residents scattered throughout the R 1 School District. The Med Center is also the only 24-hour emergency facility within 65 miles. As a mountain town in a challenging, remote environment, a thriving medical center is vital to our community’s health. A brand new series on Telluride Inside... and Out features news you can use from the doctors at the Telluride Medical Center. Every other Monday, the column, To Your Health, will focus on news you can use to live a healthier life.

Remember the apple? No, not the one from the Garden that got us all in trouble. The one you take daily to keep the doctor away? Preventative medicine has come a long way since the original prototype. Now the challenge is making sense of the proliferation of received wisdom to make the right choices even about something as basic as which tests are essential. What should be routine in a "routine" check-up?

 Were you "in the running" on Day 1 of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival? Were you somewhere near the front of the line to get your position on the Town Park grounds to hear your musical heroes? If so, check out the video, you may be...

kicker: First of 12 market days on June 15, 2011

Advertisement Farmers and Artists Market Opening After years of toying with the idea of having an outdoor market in Mountain Village Center – a perfect locale with its pedestrian-friendly plazas, gondola connection, and unrivaled panorama – the town decided to put words into action. The first Mountain Village Farmers and Artists Market will take place Wednesday, June 15, 2011, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Heritage Plaza. The atmosphere will be causal, social and fun; the open air commerce enticing; the foods fresh and the art one-of-kind.

 

Town of Mountain Village reserves Bluegrass Festival parking spaces for its residents and businesses

June 8, 2011 (Mountain Village, Colo.) – As the Town of Mountain Village becomes inundated with parked vehicles during the 38th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the town has set aside specific parking spaces for its residents and businesses from Wednesday, June 15 through Sunday, June 19.

Mountain Village residents who have procured a parking permit may park in the Town Hall Plaza Parking lot, the same lot as The Market at Mountain Village. The 26 spaces designated for permit holders are those located along the rock wall. These parking spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and overnight parking is not allowed. Any resident with a parking permit may also park in the North Village Center pay-to-park surface lot for free. Again, overnight parking is not allowed.

Please join your fellow community nonprofit executive directors and the Telluride Foundation for our first Executive Director Breakfast on Thursday, June 9th at 8:30am.  This Breakfast will feature Jennifer Johnson, a consultant with JVA Consulting, who will be talking about connecting with your donors, text giving and more.   Please email me if you plan to come (and haven't already) by Wednesday at noon.
 
Each breakfast will begin around a specific topic or theme, but will allow plenty of time for Q&A, general discussion and networking.

[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Judyth Hill]

 

Judyth 1 Poet and author Judyth Hill is scheduled to be a guest instructor at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts. Her workshop take place Friday – Sunday, July 29 – July 31, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The subject is WildWriting.

WildWriting is an innovative process that encourages us to coax our minds into a Zen-like state of deep listening and at the same time remain open to the sensuous stuff we know, see, feel, hear, remember, forget, taste, and ponder. Weaving together what we understand with what we experience generates WildWriting.

Beginning to seasoned writers are encouraged to attend and develop a supple, supportive community. Judyth also provides a wealth of hand-outs with this class, lively, inspiring offerings of the Dharma Lineage of great poetry: Rilke, Rumi, Mirabai, Neruda, Dylan Thomas as well as reading lists of fabulous anthologies, and resources for making, performing, and publishing your own poems.

By Dan Collins

ArtGoodtimes_mushFest
Art Goodtimes, Mushfest

The Telluride Institute is on a roll! We are offering a menu of fabulous summer events you don't want to miss—from an outdoor eco-classroom, to our annual Ideas Festival; from an art exhibition, to the infamous Mushroom Festival. Mark your calendars!

The watershed education program will bring back its bi-annual Bridal Veil Living Classroom, led by Alessandra Jacobson and a host of guest teachers. It starts with two weeks of intensive fieldwork in the beautiful and ecologically rich headwaters of Bridal Veil Basin, and continues through the fall; it’s open to future scientists and ecologists!

[click "Play" to listen to Colleen Trout's interview with Angela Dye]

 

Green Infrastructure – Environments that Sustain

Date:              Fri.  June 10, 2011    Time:  8:30 - 9:30 am @ Wilkinson Public Library

Speaker:       Angela Dye, FASLA, LEED AP - A DYE DESIGN

Come Learn: What Sustainable Design looks like in the landscape; the principles and features involved and examples of projects.…..

    •    Learn what is being designed to help our urbanized environments be sustainable and regenerative;
    •    See national and local examples of green infrastructure in practice;
    •    Discuss what techniques work in our climate and setting – and what may not;
    •    Learn about SITES – The Sustainable SITES Initiative, a LEED-like rating system for landscapes