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May marks the end of the spring off-season and the beginning of yet another calendar-filled summer season. Please take note of the transportation changes that will occur at the end of the month. Moreover, the opening of the gondola signifies the official opening of Mountain Village's various hiking and biking trails. To review all the recreational opportunities the town offers and their associated trail maps, please refer to the Mountain Village web site.

11 May, 2010 /

The Telluride AIDS Benefit (TAB) is pleased to announce that it will give over $100,000 to five HIV/AIDS charities in Colorado and Africa. TAB will distribute the funds to the Western Colorado AIDS Project, Denver Children’s Hospital Immunodeficiency Program, Brother Jeff’s Community...

10 May, 2010 /

Tuesday, May 11, 10 a.m, Tech Lab.: Webinar

"Making Ecological Intelligence a Competitive Advantage" with Daniel Goleman. 

Daniel Goleman lectures frequently to business audiences, professional groups and on college campuses. A psychologist who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, Dr. Goleman previously was a visiting faculty member at Harvard.

Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), and is co-chairman of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. The Consortium seeks to catalyze research on best practices for developing emotional competence, and the impact of emotional intelligence in leadership and organizations.

10 May, 2010 /

by Art Goodtimes

IMG_5178 I threw a hissy fit in Norwood last week. At our regular meeting of the San Miguel County Board of Commissioners.

It’s something that’s bugged me for years.

My poor colleagues and staff had to put up with my ranting on and on over contested word choice in a county document that I, as chair this year, was going to have to sign my name to. Ridiculous? You decide…

08 May, 2010 /

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Matthew, with makeup,
out of costume

Telluride Inside... and Out is in Bellevue, Washington, strategising and getting technical issues solved. Daughter Kimm Viebrock is listed as "head geek" on our organization list, so TIO has spent the better part of the past week with faces buried in our computers. We have been working hard during the days, but there has also been time to enjoy family.

Grandson Matthew Nesteroff had a busy weekend: it began with a jazz band contest on Friday morning. Matthew is in the trumpet section of the Chinook Middle School band, and this was our first chance to hear him play in concert. We enjoyed the opportunity, and the band sounded great. For Matthew, that was just the beginning. In addition he was an "Evil Eel" in the Bellevue Youth Theatre production of "The Little Mermaid." We went Friday evening, and once again were proud of our boy's artistic abilities. The cast played to full houses for three more performances: a matinee and an evening show on Saturday, and a matinee on Sunday.

05 May, 2010 /

Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts's Visiting Artists program, one of the many gems in the wide-ranging curriculum, is a magnet, drawing students to town from all over the country as well as locals.Ceramicist Diana Fayt teaches "Nature on the Surface," June 4...

05 May, 2010 /

[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Gunter Pauli]

 

Gunter 9.2007-3 Kris Holstrom of Telluride's The New Community Coalition welcomes her colleague Gunter Pauli, founder of ZERI – Zero Emissions Research Initiatives  –  to town today, May 4, for an informal chat with anyone interested in saving the planet, while putting bread on the table. (ed. note: Pauli will be at Wilkinson Public Library at 7:45 pm) If you are unable to attend the local program, on Wednesday, May 5, Pauli is in Durango, where he speaks at SKA Brewing, 225 Girard Street, 7 – 9 p.m.
Pauli has written several books and a series of "fables" designed to convey complex notions in plainspeak. His newest book, "The Blue Economy: 10 years, 100 innovations 100 million jobs" is an example.


04 May, 2010 /

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Monday, May 3: Free film, "Pirate for the Sea," 6 p.m.

A longtime militant environmentalist is held up for close scrutiny in "Pirate for the Sea," a homemade-style documentary in which filmmaker Ron Colby's admiring stance doesn't shroud the downside of the subject's relentless approach. A self-appointed maverick watchdog for mistreated and illegally hunted sea creatures, Paul Watson uses confrontational tactics that could be classified as terrorism, which, along with bloody footage of whales, sharks, and baby seals being slaughtered, makes for some disturbing viewing. Just released on DVD, we are screening this film with special permission of the director, Ron Colby. 

After eight years, Colby completed his film only one week before the 2008 Telluride Film Festival opened. To make "Pirate for the Sea," he participated as a crew member on Watson's voyages to Cocos Island in 2002, Antarctica in 2005, and to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2006. The film includes interviews with Martin Sheen, and Farley Mowat in addition to numerous crew-members.

03 May, 2010 /

Editor's note: For eight years, Telluride local/mountaineer Ben Clark and a few friends/professional colleagues have made Spring treks to the majestic mountains of the Himalayas. If you have missed any of Ben's posts, just type "Ben Clark" into Lijit Search to find them all. Sadly, this is likely to be the last dispatch of his most recent adventure.

Benbioshotlr-254x300 "Dispatch 10: So it is done, my ankle is broken

My ankle is broken after my fall yesterday. We iced 8 times, we went through 5 rounds of Ibuprofen and Tylenol and we kept it elevated almost 14 hours before I slept in a compression wrap and elevated for the night. Currently, I believe it wants to ski or hike downhill...because that's the only way it will point! Then I try to move it...ooooh. It looks like a baseball that has soaked in water staining the lower part of my foot with a purple and green base. Yuck.

So...I guess that this Spring, even after our initial and really charged foray onto the hill, we will not be going higher. Jon says so and I just nod. He's a great partner who despite ambition can see the facts. We have gone over every boot-cutting splinting option you can imagine...None will get me back across base camp even. Ha...ohh, we are climbers.

02 May, 2010 /