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Black Forest Vet and dogs compete at Meeker Classic

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October will live up to ‘Arts Month’

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By Avalon A [email protected]

Construction at Forest Lakes, the more than 900 acres of expansive open space at the west end of Baptist Road, which was postponed during the Great Recession, has resumed with gusto.

The area will eventually support more than 450 homes of varying sizes, leaving about 450 acres of open space inside the development. Houses will be erected on lots ranging from 5,500 square feet to over fi ve acres, and an eventual commercial de-velopment will sit on about 275 acres.

Forest Lakes has been trying to get un-derway since the 1980 when Colorado Springs’ Charles Helenberg fi rst bought the Beaver Creek Ranch, built two reservoirs and fi led plans for homes, a tech center and retail village in a $26 million project.

Helenberg lost the project to bankrupt-cy and eventually it was bought by Steve

Shuck of Shuck Corp. But when housing markets took a hit in the economic down-turn, the project again was placed on the back burner.

Because the area has already been through the county development and enti-tlement process and the economy is recov-ering, Classic Homes purchased the land in August and begins construction on the fi rst phase of residential projects next month.

“We’ve got about 33 estate lots that are just about ready to go,” said Jim Boulton, Classic Homes’ Project Manager for the construction at Forest Lakes, of the one- to fi ve-acre parcels that will support residenc-es ranging from $125,000 to $300,000.

“We’re going to take contracts on them towards middle or late October,” Boulton said.

During the development process, Shuck Corp. ensured that much of the area’s infra-structure was already in place.

“[The estate lots] have their own water

and sanitation district, so there’s no well or septic in there,” Boulton said, explain-ing that most of the properties have almost complete curbs and gutters already.

“We hope to be paved up there by No-vember, before the snow fl ies,” he said.

The estate lots are only phase one of the construction project at Forest Lakes, Boul-ton said.

“The next phase is the 80-foot lots, which are right on or close to the lake. There’s about 70 of those lots,” he said. “We should start models in there by January.”

Phase three will involve mid-sized lots, which overlook Pinon Lake.

“[Those offer] spectacular views of the . . . mountains, the Academy, and the lake,” Boulton said.

Those homes will be built exclusively by Classic, but another unnamed builder will also construct homes on the smaller lots.

Boulton noted that although the lotsSee Forest Lakes on 2

Construction begins on homes, businesses in Forest Lakes

By Bill [email protected]

Leaders of an effort to block a metha-done clinic from opening in downtown Monument are hoping to rally the commu-nity one more time.

The last time the No Methadone Clinic in Monument group called a community meeting, in July, its leaders were trying to raise $5,000 to retain an attorney to appeal a decision by town staff to approve zoning for the clinic, planned for a building across from Limbach Park.

Former El Paso County Attorney Bill Louis was hired, technically to represent Jamie Fenley, who appealed the zoning de-cision.

Since then, the zoning was overturned by the Board of Adjustment, a six-month moratorium on new clinics was approved by the Board of Trustees and a lawsuit has been fi led against the city seeking more than $800,000 damages by the Orlando, Fla.-based Colonial Management Group, which was trying to open the clinic.

The stakes are far higher this time. When the No Methadone group gathers at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the gym at St. Peter’s Catholic School, 55 Jefferson St., its leaders will be trying to raise $50,000 as the lawsuit looms.

“We need a litigator to fi ght it,” said Tom Allen of Woodmoor, leader of the group.

Pending fundraising, the group has hired Scott Mikulecky and Steve Hess, at-torneys at the Denver fi rm Sherman & Howard. Mikulecky represented St. Peter’s at the zoning appeals hearing in August and lives in the Monument area.

“The attorneys will be fi ling an injunc-tion to insert us in the lawsuit,” Allen said. “We really need the community to get be-hind us.”

Louis will continue to represent FenleySee Lawsuit on page 12

Group hopes to rally community to fi ght lawsuit

By Danny [email protected]

From the outside, Paul and Gabrielle Lewis and their sons look like a typical family.

Paul is an elite coach at USA Field Hock-ey, as well as at Palmer Ridge High School. Gabrielle works for Compassion Inter-national and helps with the fi eld hockey teams. Son Tre’ is a 22-year-old senior at Colorado Mesa. And 15-year-old son Vaughn is a sophomore at Palmer Ridge.

But the lives of this Black Forest family, like most families, is much more compli-cated.

In fact, Paul’s life has been haunted by cancer, which claimed two of his sisters and has stricken a third.

Now, Paul and Gabrielle fi nd themselves facing it again in son Vaughn.

It surfaced in July 2014 when they took Vaughn to their doctor to have an ugly mole removed that was growing on the lower left side of his back.

The procedure was to be a simple one.

A couple of cuts, a few stitches and protec-tive covering, and Vaughn would be on his way to recovery.

But things turned out to be a lot more complicated in the months that have fol-lowed.

“We returned from Amsterdam and got a call from our doctor telling us that Vaughn had stage 4 melanoma,” Gabrielle said.

Vaughn, who was about to begin his freshman year at Palmer Ridge, went in for more testing and doctors discovered a baseball-sized tumor was growing in his back.

Doctors also discovered cancerous lymph nodes under his left arm pit. Doc-tors performed surgery to remove the tu-mor and lymph nodes.

In the past year, Vaughn has had more lymph nodes removed under his arm. And his ordeal is not over. Soon, he will have an-other 20 removed.

“The doctors told us this is rare for someone (Vaughn’s) age,” Paul Lewis said. “Once you have stage 4 cancer, it’s some

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Family forges ahead even as cancer strikes again

Palmer Ridge � eld hockey coach Paul Lewis, far right, and his wife, Gabrielle, � ank their 15-year-old son, Vaughn, prior to a recent match at Don Breese Stadium. Vaughn, a sophomore at Palmer Ridge, is dealing with stage 4 melanoma cancer./Photo by Danny Summers

Haunted MINES opens for 2015 season

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2 The Tribune September 23 2015

Wondering how much longer the New Santa Fe Regional Trail will remain closed through the Air Force Academy?

Want input into the future of the seven-mile stretch of trail?

Plan on attending a public meeting at 6 p.m., Monday, Sept. 28, at the Col-orado Parks and Wildlife offices, 4255 Sinton Road in Colorado Springs. (Go south on Interstate 25 to Garden of the Gods Road, exit and go east to Sinton Road on your right.)

El Paso County Parks will be hosting a community meeting to discuss the public use of the trail.

El Paso County has had an easement for the seven-mile section through the Air Force Academy since 1989. The Air Force closed the trail section to general public in May citing security concerns.

El Paso County and the Air Force have been in discussions regarding public access to the trail and an update on those talks will be provided. The public is encouraged to attend and provide input on the future use of the trail.

For further information, please con-tact County Parks at 520-7529.

Community invited to discuss Santa

Fe Trail through Air Force AcademyWondering how much longer the

New Santa Fe Regional Trail will remain closed through the Air Force Academy?

Want input into the future of the seven-mile stretch of trail?

Plan on attending a public meeting at 6 p.m., Monday, Sept. 28, at the Col-orado Parks and Wildlife offices, 4255 Sinton Road in Colorado Springs. (Go south on Interstate 25 to Garden of the Gods Road, exit and go east to Sinton Road on your right.)

El Paso County Parks will be hosting a community meeting to discuss the public use of the trail.

El Paso County has had an easement for the seven-mile section through the Air Force Academy since 1989. The Air Force closed the trail section to general public in May citing security concerns.

El Paso County and the Air Force have been in discussions regarding public access to the trail and an update on those talks will be provided. The public is encouraged to attend and provide input on the future use of the trail.

For further information, please con-tact County Parks at 520-7529.

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New items of interest have been uncovered in areas connected with the death of Dylan Red-wine and are being investigated further to determine whether they bear any direct relation to the case.

Dylan Redwine was 13 when he disappeared dur-ing a visit to his father’s home outside Durango at Thanksgiving 2012.

His remains were discovered seven months later,

in June 2013. Last month, new evidence spurred officials to re-

classify Redwine’s cause of death from indeterminate to “homicide.” Shortly thereafter, Redwine’s father, Mark Redwine, was named as a person of interest in the ongoing investigation.

La Plata Sgt. Dan Bender said last week there is still no official suspect in the case. The new items of in-terest were located in an area that had been searched before, but, due to snow coverage and the volume of rain to hit the area over the summer, was slotted for another sweep.

“The search that was conducted over the weekend [of the 12th] was one that had been planned for quite some time,” Bender said. “It was simply a follow-up search of an area that had been searched before . . . once it dried out, we wanted to go back out and search.

“Several items of interest were found during that two-day search. We’re not stating what items were found, or what quantity, at this time. We’re not sure they’re related to the case: they have to be analyzed to determine if there was a possible connection,” Bender said.

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Air Force Academy

Work projects needed for Air Force cadets on community

service day Sept. 25For the Tribune

The Air Force Academy is spon-soring a community service day, sending roughly 4,000 cadets out into the region to work on projects on Friday, Sept 25.

Melissa Chambless said Black Forest Together has arranged for 400 cadets to provide fire recovery and mitigation work in the area.

Now, the community group is seeking projects the cadets can work on that day. The cadets will be available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for manual labor.

Black Forest Together views this as a tremendous opportunity to utilize young, energetic workers for a full day to help Black Forest residents with the ongoing fire restoration work.

“We at Black Forest Together, as well as the residents of the Black Forest, are so thankful to the Air Force Academy for the ongo-ing support they have provided, particularly since the 2013 wild-fire,” Chambless said. “ This day of service from a large group of cadets will help at least 5-10 Black Forest homeowners on their road

to recovery!”The cadets may not use any me-

chanical equipment. But they are able to help with projects such as:

Hauling and stacking of slash for a future chipper project Hauling and tossing of slash and yard debris into trailers for trans-port

Fencing projects

Raking & clean-up

Tree planting (trees to be provided by the property owner)

Weed pulling

Simple rock work, such as low wall building or pathways

Simple erosion-control projectsIf you need assistance with this

type of work, and are available to supervise and direct cadets on your property on Friday, Sept. 25, please contact Donna Arkowski at 719-495-2892 or [email protected], as soon as possible.

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By Norma [email protected]

Veterinarian Lise Andersen of Rocky Mountain Equine in Black For-est deals with big patients on a daily basis.

But when it’s time to get away, she goes to the dogs.

Andersen entered her border col-lies, Piper and Mack, in the Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials, on Sept. 9-13. Dogs and their handlers came to Meeker from all over the world to test their mettle.

Each dog in the field of 130 dogs ran 13-minute preliminary trials, Wednesday through Friday.

The dog herded five sometimes uncooperative ‘Meeker’ sheep 500 yards from the end of a large course,

through gates and finally into a pen. All the while, their handlers directed them with whistled and verbal cues.

Dogs that made it into the semi-finals had 17 minutes to make similar runs on Saturday.

On Sunday, 12 finalists had 30 minutes to run two flocks of 10 sheep through the course and into the pen.

Neither dog placed but both owner and dogs had fun.

Andersen is the trial director for the five-day Table Top Stock Dog Tri-als every year around Memorial Day weekend in a location just north of Black Forest.

For more information about this premier sheepdog competition, visit www.meekersheepdog.com.

Susan Core contributed to this article.

Black Forest Vet and dogs compete at Meeker Classic

Border Collies Piper, left, and Mack, right, make their owner Lise Andersen laugh with their antics on the rest day between their preliminary runs at the 29th annual Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials, Sept. 10. /Photo by Norma Engelberg

Fall ColorLeaf peepers seeking Aspen gold and other fall colors in the high country may want

to hit the trail sooner, rather than later, as the vibrant displays are already evident and some experts are expecting early storms.

Mueller State Park celebrates the fall colors and the bugling of the elkSaturday, Sept. 26 with “Mueller in Gold”, a festival slated at peak time for fall colors and elk activity. Visi-tors can see the beauty and take part in a full day of fun, family activities at the visitor center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Family friendly activities include gold-panning, ornament making, and animal masks for kids. Hear interesting elk facts from experts, see a display from the Lake George Gem and Mineral Club, explore a camping demonstration from Sportsman’s Warehouse, or learn about living in bear country with Bear Aware seminars.

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4 The Tribune September 23, 2015

By Bill VogrinPikes Peak Bill

Bob Dellacroce isn’t particularly surprised at what’s happening to the peaceful valley where he grew up on the family ranch, situated at the spot West Baptists Road ends, just north of the Air Force Academy.

But that doesn’t mean he likes it.Actually, his family has been expecting for years

the explosion of streets and driveways and homes that is detonating, in slow motion, adjacent to his Dellacroce Ranch.

Dellacroce, 67, just shakes his head at the thought of what’s coming just beyond his north fenceline and what it might mean for his life on the ranch his family bought in 1952, where they raised dairy cattle and a few crops, where his father, Raymond, lived until his death in 1968 and his mother, Christine, lived until she died in 1992. At that time, Bob returned and has lived here ever since.

To appreciate what’s at stake, you almost have to see the Dellacroce Ranch. It’s a beautiful 725-acre spread of rolling land, west of Monument Creek and the railroad tracks and hidden behind a ridge that separates it from Interstate 25 and the world beyond.

Beaver Creek runs through it, tumbling down through the Rampart Range foothills, winding through pastures, irrigating his hay fi elds, before splashing into two small lakes built by an ambitious Colorado Springs developer about 30 years ago.

Developer Charles Helenberg purchased 1,395 acres known as the Beaver Creek Ranch back in the early 1980s. (Years ago, Beaver and Dellacroce were one big ranch.)

Helenberg built two lakes _ Bristlecone and Pinion reservoirs _ along Beaver Creek and fi led plans with El Paso County to build the Forest Lakes subdivision. He envisioned homes on 897 acres, a tech center on 315 acres to the east and a 181-acre retail village not far away.

Of course, his grand $26 million project collapsed, damaging nine fi nancial institutions including seven savings and loans that failed when the loans to Helen-berg were foreclosed in 1986. After the meltdown, the land and lakes ended up in the hands of the Resolu-tion Trust Corp.

It was put on the market in 1993 and fi nally sold for $4 million in 1995. It was eventually acquired by developer Steve Schuck and sat mostly dormant until recently.

The ramping up of construction has coincided with the building of a $13 million bridge, which looks as big as an aircraft carrier, to carry Baptist Road over the railroad tracks and Monument Creek. (Del-lacroce’s maps show it by its original name: Baptist Assembly Road.) It should open in a year or so.

Crews are cutting in streets and preparing to build 475 homes on 867 acres. But these won’t be homes on 1- or 2-acre par-cels. Most will be built on tiny, urban-sized parcels with just 33 “estate” par-cels larger than an acre.

That’s one of the things that bugs Dellacroce and many of his neighbors. County zoning, they say, calls for homes on fi ve-acre parcels and tiny 5,500-square-foot lots don’t belong here. Had the county not granted a variance to the one house on fi ve acres rule, they’d be looking at one-third the number of homes and far fewer issues like traffi c and noise.

Neighbor Carrie Johnson, who has lived for de-cades in Green Mountain Ranch Estates at the far west edge of the development area up against the Pike National Forest, is aghast at the project.

“It’s going to be far too dense of construction,” she told me recently. “This never should have been devel-oped this way. Everybody’s upset.”

Dellacroce agrees. He says Helenberg’s original 30-year-old development plan should have been tossed out and a new plan created.

Instead, homes are going up and Dellacroce is worried about how his new neighbors will like living near cattle and the quarry and huge trucks that haul gravel from his place day after day.

“I hope they like the smell of manure,” Dellacroce said. “And I worry about people trying to pet the cows and climbing fences and getting in with the animals. And I use chemicals to control weeds. That could be an issue.”

He also is concerned about protecting his water rights, which date to 1867 and 1872.

Once the homes get built, Dellacroce fi gures it won’t be long before Mitchell Avenue is extended south to reach the new bridge, bringing a stream of traffi c from the north.

“I expect an increase in traffi c,” he said. “They say we’ll get 4,000 trips a day if they connect with Mitch-ell.”

I wondered, maybe Dellacroce should get out be-fore “progress” ruins the place.

Never, he vowed without hesitation.“I’ve been offered a lot of money for my place but I

tell them not in my lifetime,” he said. “This is my own little paradise. I’ll never sell.”

He worries about what will happen to the place when he’s gone. What will happen to the home he built using timbers from a century-old barn?

“I tell my kids how special this place is,” he said. “I’m hoping one of them recognizes and keeps it as it is. We’ve got something here -- this land and open space -- we’ve got something they don’t make any-more. You gotta protect it.”

VOICESLOCAL

By Mel McFarland

In November 1932, Billy Garland passed away. But who was he that I should bring up his name? He lived in a one room log cabin just north of Woodland Park. The spot then was well away from town, but now it is almost downtown!

His cabin, in those days was well hidden from public view. He had lived there over thirty years, which is about the time the town was just getting going.

He had come here looking for gold, and dug lots of holes in his 30 acres of land. Once in a while, he actually found gold and samples of other minerals.

He would come into town periodically, enough that business owners knew who he was.

He had come to Colorado in the 1890’s and worked as a stone mason in Denver along with a carpenter by the name of Stratton. The two came

By Rob [email protected]

Ernest Chapin Gard seemed determined to make his mark on the world, even as young man. Evidence of his talents became manifested in a talent for stringing words together.

Perhaps he was thinking along those lines when, in 1880 as a 23-year-old newspaperman, he scratched out his moniker above those of members of the gold-seeking Lawrence Party on Signature Rock in Garden of the Gods.

Signature Rock, standing on the sunny side of the North Gateway in the Garden, contains 600 names, many which are of historic signifi cance.

Gard’s name is right at home there.Gold’s discovery in the Cripple Creek District pre-

cipitated Gard and his partner’s race to become the fi rst newspaper in Cripple Creek. He pulled out all the stops to beat William McRea by four days, pub-lishing the fi rst edition of the Cripple Creek Crusher on Dec. 4, 1891.

Descendant of the Crusher and other consolida-tions, The Cripple Creek Gold Rush still published until 2007 when it became incorporated into Pikes Peak Courier View, of Woodland Park. That paper today, of course is the Pikes Peak Courier.

Gard, and partner, W.S. Neal, celebrated the feat by printing in gilded ink — a layer of gold over the regular ink — for the inaugural edition. McRea, four days late and perhaps more than a dollar short, sported vermilion headlines that said: “New Gold Field.”

In general, Gard was noted for not trying to hold anything back.

For example, consider his description in a booklet published by the Town of Palmer Lake in 1894 of one local landmark shortly after it was built.

Bill Vogrin

PIKES PEAK BILL

Forest Lakes will pave paradise and put up parking garages

Bob Dellacroce, 67, lives on the 725-acre ranch his parents bought in 1952 and where he grew up. He has lived here since his mother’s death in 1992. Over his shoulder, crews are building a massive bridge to carry Baptist Road over Monument Creek and the railroad tracks. Behind him, developers are beginning to build 450 homes in the Forest Lakes subdi-vision. He is not happy and vows he’ll never sell. Photos by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune


Parents’ concerns about unnecessary data collection validated

To the editor,

The current concern by many parents about the assessment and testing by our School District is valid!

TSGOLD has been accepted as a common practice amongst 97 percent of Colorado schools being used on preschoolers and kindergartners. To learn more, I attended the State Board of Education meeting on Sept. 1, 2015.

State legislation requires child school readiness information yet the TSGold assessment does much more than the legislative requirement needs.

The CSBE determines school readiness to be “en-hanced when schools, families and community ser-

vice providers work collaboratively to ensure that every child is ready for higher levels of learning in academic content.”

During this meeting a TSGold representative dem-onstrated how students’ personal data, as well as comments and notes, are inserted into the TSGold program for documentation purposes, as well as color coding showing developmental, emotional and social levels.

Some contracts require videos and pictures for evi-dence based purposes.

One teacher expressed feeling uncomfortable tak-ing pictures and videos of our young students. Par-ents are not given notice of this intrusive data col-lection, nor schools receiving parental authorization!

Another concern is the safety of the collected data. The TSGold representative stated: “Encryption

at best is a challenge for all vendors, including assess-ment publishers.” It is possible that our children’s in-formation can be intercepted!

Why is our district expending money taking teach-ing time away for these assessments when they can-not be used to deny admission to kindergarten or progression into first grade? Parents know if their child can count, recite the alphabet, share, plays well, etc. Our skilled teachers are trained to determine a child’s readiness. Why burden them with this addi-tional task?

The School Board has the authority to cease taking liberties without parental oversight, stop the unnec-essary data collection of our youngest children and remove this burden from our teachers and taxpayers!

Tammy John

Letters to the Editor

By Mel McFarland

In November 1932, Billy Garland passed away. But who was he that I should bring up his name? He lived in a one room log cabin just north of Woodland Park. The spot then was well away from town, but now it is almost downtown!

His cabin, in those days was well hidden from public view. He had lived there over thirty years, which is about the time the town was just getting going.

He had come here looking for gold, and dug lots of holes in his 30 acres of land. Once in a while, he actually found gold and samples of other minerals.

He would come into town periodically, enough that business owners knew who he was.

He had come to Colorado in the 1890’s and worked as a stone mason in Denver along with a carpenter by the name of Stratton. The two came

south to Colorado Springs, and eventually Cripple Creek at about the same time.

In a down moment, Garland told the story of how Stratton once offered to sell him his Indepen-dence claim for $40, but he did not have that much money. A couple years later Stratton sold it to Eng-lish investors for many millions of dollars.

He gave up on mining and moved to Grand Junction to try farming. He bought land outside of town and, after giving it a good try, he decided to move back to the

mountains. The fellow who bought his land was also someone

he already knew from the mining camp, A.E. Carlton.

It seems Carlton and a couple other mining inves-tors was looking at starting a new enterprise.

The others were Spencer Penrose, and the Tutt’s, but to Billy they were well known from Cripple Creek. The land was used to build a big mill for the new Holly Sugar Co.

Most of the time he just prospected on his land. His visits were rare, mainly in the fall, or if he had something to sell. He kept to himself, and was known to many as the “Hermit of Woodland Park.”

One of his old friends from Cripple Creek regular-ly checked in on him, but even the businessmen he regularly did business with had not seen him when the weather turned cold in October.

He was found tucked away in his bed. He had gone quietly it seems.

Who knows how much his property is worth now? Another close call for Billy Garland.

Billy Garland led a life of close calls . . . with fortune and fame

Mel McFarland

CABOOSE COBWEBS

By Dan Edwards

I have saved the most extraordinary, unforget-table character for my final column.

Bill McGreevy (1896-1995) arrived in Palmer Lake with his sixth “dad,” Oscar Deaner, in 1958. I worked for Bill two summers as he was remodeling Deaner’s “shack” on Montana Avenue into a modern cottage. He was good with tools, treated me well and paid me $1 an hour.

Bill dominated conversations and spoke confi-dently and authoritatively on almost every topic. I heard his life story on numerous occasions: born in 1910; all-American halfback at USC, played in the Rose Bowl; graduated summa cum laude; Stanford law degree; heroic Army Ranger who scaled the cliffs of Normandy on D-Day; colonel wounded in World War II; Purple Heart recipient; corporate attorney who retired at age 42; and adventuresome world

traveler who visited 100 countries. People in Palmer Lake believed

his every word.Years later, still curious about

this man, I filed a Freedom of In-formation Act request for Bill’s Vet-erans Affairs records after he died. (Dead people have no legal right to privacy.) Eight pounds of Bill’s medical records dating from 1923, supplemented by Army docu-ments in the National Archives in Washington, revealed the incred-ible story of a man who pretended to be someone he wasn’t.

The true story: Bill was born in 1896; joined the Army as a private in 1912; went AWOL; was arrested, convicted and sentenced to the Army prison on Alcatraz Island, but served time at

another location. Bill escaped, later talked his way back into the Army, guarded German POWs at a Georgia army base in 1918, and was discharged as a corporal in 1920.

Bill then joined the Denver police force, was harshly criticized for bullying behavior by the Denver Post in 1923 and took sick leave constantly for mysterious ailments (e.g., fainting, “hysteria,” tingling in the arms, temporary paralysis—all self-induced or psychosomatic symptoms, I believe). He retired on disability in 1929 and never earned a penny after that!

VA doctors were baffled as well, but Bill relent-lessly (deliberately?) “got worse,” so by 1935 the VA gave up and declared him 100 percent disabled!

Bill continued to receive free medical care until his death. I estimate he received government ben-efits totaling $2 million (in 1995 dollars) over

See Edwards on page 8

William McGreevy lived a life of deception

Dan Edwards

PALMER LAKE MEMORIES

By Rob [email protected]

Ernest Chapin Gard seemed determined to make his mark on the world, even as young man. Evidence of his talents became manifested in a talent for stringing words together.

Perhaps he was thinking along those lines when, in 1880 as a 23-year-old newspaperman, he scratched out his moniker above those of members of the gold-seeking Lawrence Party on Signature Rock in Garden of the Gods.

Signature Rock, standing on the sunny side of the North Gateway in the Garden, contains 600 names, many which are of historic significance.

Gard’s name is right at home there.Gold’s discovery in the Cripple Creek District pre-

cipitated Gard and his partner’s race to become the first newspaper in Cripple Creek. He pulled out all the stops to beat William McRea by four days, pub-lishing the first edition of the Cripple Creek Crusher on Dec. 4, 1891.

Descendant of the Crusher and other consolida-tions, The Cripple Creek Gold Rush still published until 2007 when it became incorporated into Pikes Peak Courier View, of Woodland Park. That paper today, of course is the Pikes Peak Courier.

Gard, and partner, W.S. Neal, celebrated the feat by printing in gilded ink — a layer of gold over the regular ink — for the inaugural edition. McRea, four days late and perhaps more than a dollar short, sported vermilion headlines that said: “New Gold Field.”

In general, Gard was noted for not trying to hold anything back.

For example, consider his description in a booklet published by the Town of Palmer Lake in 1894 of one local landmark shortly after it was built.

“Estemere House commands one of the most magnificent views in the Rocky Mountains. The lake and both railroad depots lie beyond it, is plainly visible. To the southeast stretch the plains, on which can be seen the village of Monument, and the bewilder-ing scene is lost in the dim dis-tance where the meeting sky and plain unfolds the siren mirage to the vision on the desert waste; to the east are the fertile farms and pine groves of the rich Divide. To the northeast can be seen the pretty pyramidal buttes of Green-

land and Larkspur. To the west are the ‘rock-ribbed’ mountains, lofty and sublime. It is a scene which, when once beheld, can never forgotten.”

When legendary scoundrel, Joseph H. Wolfe, crossed his path in Cripple Creek in his administra-tion and management of the Clarendon Hotel, Gard let loose because he felt Wolfe was attracting too much attention by throwing money around the gam-ing tables and consorting with shady characters.

“This curious hostelry is run by a red-faced, cock-eyed boob who ought to be back in Missouri flats pulling cockle-burrs out of a cornfield,” wrote Gard in the Crusher in the early 1890s.

He proved to be on target when later Wolfe’s ef-forts to organize one of the only bullfights ever held in the United States at the racetrack at Gillette Flats landed him in jail and fleeing from creditors.

Prior to his founding of the Crusher, Gard was already wielding his wit and pen in the Palmer Lake area, founding the Palmer Lake Herald with his brother, J.M. Gard, just before incorporation to the town in 1889.

On April 2, 1889, he was also elected to a two-year term as trustee on Palmer Lake’s first board.

“The Gards, who came to town early with the Daltons, were always prominent in the affairs of the town. Their newspaper, however was several times on the verge of suspending publication due to lack of funds …” notes Marion Savage Sabin in her 1957 book Palmer Lake: A Historical Narrative.

In addition to his business endeavors in Cripple Creek, Gard also published the Pikes Peak Populist and the Westcreek Gold Brick in 1896. An item in the Weekly Gazette in 1893 also had him leaving for the Cherokee Strip with printing equipment and plans for a paper there during the Oklahoma land rush at that time.

And possible mining riches in the Palmer Lake area attracted his attention. He and J.M. were listed as directors on the boards of “The Puzzler” and “The Apex,” which never produced and were soon aban-doned in 1894.

Some of his finest work was involved in a promo-tional advertising piece for the town of Palmer Lake in the form of a complex pamphlet created in 1894 titled: “The Gem of the Rockies.”

“Though grandiloquent in tone it is full of real facts about the town – its buildings, its industries, its natural resources, its geological landmarks, and the many alluring features of Glen Park were set forth,” notes Sabin.

Gard continued to be involved in publishing con-cerns in this area at least until 1897, later in Denver. But after that period, though there is mention of newspaper endeavors in the Leadville area after the turn of the century, his trail begins to fade a bit.

He eventually resurfaces as a promoter of mining camps in the California Gold Rush area of Placerville as late as 1926. Still promoting, still full of energy and bombastic prose. Still trying to make his mark.

On Gard, and making his mark in the mining camps

Rob Carrigan

RESTLESS NATIVE


Tri-Lakes TribuneSept. 25. 1975

Sheriff Gary D. Shoemaker said three color photos

taken by private citizens between Cripple Creek and Florissant show an unidentified blue helicopter with V-type tail system with a plain white spot possibly used to cover identification numbers. These are clues to cattle mutilations. Also spotted was a green helicopter with red gasoline tanks on the side. Shoe-maker said due to lack of gunshot wounds on the cattle, he believes a tranquilizer dart was fired.

James Bailey of Elizabeth High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bailey, was accepted at Denver Institute of Technology in the general automotive program.

A banquet dinner at Woodmoor Inn will be held Sunday, Oct. 5. Dick Barber, Denver Police firearms instructor, will talk about handgun shooting. Others

involved in the presentation will be those involved with the firearms industry, sporting goods, business and game management

A fried chicken dinner will be served at 7:15 p.m. The County Gun Shoppe will show two films: “Bucks and Bulls” and “A Question of Hunting.” Members of Ben Lomond Gun Club of Palmer Lake will also be there and are looking for new members.

John N. Yates, a representative of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. in Colorado Springs, completed the advance pension planning course of American College of Life Underwriters. Yates is a resident of Monument.

A section of land which includes Chaparral Hills will be transferred from Air Force Academy District 20 to Lewis-Palmer District 38. Dr. Ray Kilmer re-ported that there are eight more students than there were the first week of school. Usually enrollment drops with students transferring elsewhere.

From the Upper Room Bible Class of Little Log Church: “Every man, wise or fool, is responsible for his own deeds.”

There will be a Hunter Stag night at L&L Supers, 7-10 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7th. It will include a turkey shoot, free refreshments and Tae Kwon Do demon-strations. Big specials on grocery needs.

A progressive dinner will be sponsored by the Church At Woodmoor for Senior High Youth on Sept. 28. The meal will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Col. and Mrs. Burton C. Andrus, Jr. Next, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd L. Lilly will provide soup. At 3:15 p.m., salad will be served at the home of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Gene R. Thompson followed by the entrée at home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Robinson Chance. The youth will attend vespers at 5 p.m. and then have dessert at the home of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Philip Caine.

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Clockwise from Top Left: Ni-cole Laree Kirk is a suspect in a crime spree that took place over the course of three days last week, and ranged from Monument to Cimarron Hills. A photo of two female sus-pects involved in the crime spree was released last week, and although there are males suspected as well, no images of them have been made available./Photos Courtesy of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Of-fice

Megan Graybeal was ar-rested on two outstanding warrants, for drug related of-fenses and criminal imperson-ation.

David Reza was charged with possession of narcotics and firearms, unlawful manu-facture, distribution, and sale.

Autin Walpole was found in possession of metham-phetamine, a stolen vehicle, and a defaced firearm.

Christopher Lacotti was ar-rested on an outstanding war-rant for identify theft.


Criminals were busy in the Tri-Lakes area last week and authorities are ask-ing for the public’s help in finding sus-pects.

The first was a crime spree that El Paso County Sheriff’s officials say spanned three days and led them from Monument to Cimarron Hills.

It began on Monday, Sept. 14 about 10:55 p.m. when a victim in Monument reported a vehicle had been broken into. The suspects reportedly fled and fifteen minutes later entered a detached garage in Black Forest, though nothing was reported stolen from that location.

At 11:20 p.m., the suspects broke into another vehicle in Black Forest, where a firearm was stolen. The victim there dis-covered a crashed vehicle that matched the description of the vehicle in which the suspects had fled the scene in Mon-ument.

Around 12:03 a.m. on Tuesday, a ve-hicle was reported to have crashed into a fence and car in the Cimarron Hills area. The Sheriff’s Office determined that it was a stolen vehicle from Black Forest. The stolen firearm was found nearby.

A photo of two female suspects was released, and while there are perhaps three or four male suspects, no images of them have been made available.

As sheriff’s deputies were trying to solve one crime spree, officers from the Monument Police Department were busy, as well.

They announced arrests stemming

from an investigation that began Aug. 31.

It started when officers responded to a call to check on the welfare of those in a residence on 4th St. Over the next two weeks, investigations and sweeps of the house led to the arrests of four people on a variety of charges, many drug-re-lated.

“Officers are routinely dispatched to respond to calls from the general public,” said Police Lt. Steve Burk. “For this residence, we received several calls from different people about suspicious activities. Cars coming and going, and a person walking around looking in other people’s’ yard. Things that just didn’t look right.

“I know it sounds like a broken re-cord, but this is what law enforcement has been saying for years: If it doesn’t look right, call us.”

The initial welfare check met with an individual in possession of controlled substances, which, Burk explained, spurred officers to begin sweeping the properly thoroughly.

Over the course of the investiga-tion, which involved Monument police, Fountain police drug dogs, and assis-tance from the federal Bureau of Alco-hol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, more than 6 ounces of methamphet-amine was seized – with a street value of more than $13,000, according to Burk.

In addition to other controlled sub-stances found at the scene, officials also recovered two stolen vehicles, mul-tiple firearms, some of which had se-rial numbers removed, and other drug paraphernalia.

Sheriff’s office seeks suspects in three-day crime spree as Monument cops bust four on variety of charges


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The Haunted Mines has been a staple of Colorado’s Halloween festivi-ties since 2005, and after taking on a number of different scares and themes, this season will see the haunt return to its roots.

“They’ve simplified it a lot this year,” said Rick Sauers, director of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, which hosts the Haunted Mines. “[The Mines] are getting away from extraneous stuff and back to the mining theme.”

Those familiar with the haunt need not worry: the indoor/outdoor/underground route still takes about a half hour to navigate.

And it still features all the crawling, climbing, and elevator-plummet-ing-down-a-mineshaft scares patrons have come to expect.

It’s the theme of the haunt – and its props – that are different this year.

Angel Nuce took over as executive director for the Haunted Mines in January. She’s been involved with the haunt since its inception. But as director, she has helped steer the Mines back toward the things that made it novel when it first opened: the mines themselves.

That means historic props, which were provided by Sauers straight from the museum’s warehouse.

“There was so much incredible, inspiring stuff in there,” Nuce said. “It’s a whole warehouse full of beautiful things. And that’s unique to us; we took the Mines back to the 1800s, back to its connections to Cripple Creek.

“It’s been really inspiring to return to the roots, and we’re utilizing real [mining] equipment. Everything you see in the queue line, that’s real stuff we can put our little scary twist on.”

To make room for all the historic mining equipment, Nuce and crew pared about 25 percent of the haunt’s props and redirected most of the scares inside to a more mining-centric theme.

“It’s been exhausting and wonderful,” Nuce said. The Haunted Mines has always been a volunteer-run, philanthropic

endeavour, with all profits going to a combination of local charities and

The Haunted Mines is an indoor, outdoor, and underground course that takes most patrons about a half hour to navigate. /Photos Courtesy of the Haunted Mines

Haunted Mines opens for 2015 Season

nonprofits. About half of the Mines’ proceeds goes to the museum, and that money makes up about a third of the museum’s annual budget.

“After the dust settles [after haunt season],” Nuce said, “we decide where we think the money will do the most benefit.”

Proceeds in past years have benefited Care and Share, animal rescue or-ganizations, humanitarian causes, and more. Nuce has been pleased every year with the amount of revenue generated to support local nonprofits.

“It’s been fantastic. This community has been mind-blowing in its ca-pacity to give and assist,” she said.

The Mines present more than just a philanthropic outlet to Nuce and fellow haunt guru Stacy Packer.

“It’s not just the money we give out,” Nuce said. “It’s these kids.” The Haunted Mines is facilitated each year by more than 100 volunteers,

many of them local teenagers who come back to work year after year. “It [gives the kids] a place to express themselves,” Packer said. “They’re

safe here.” “It provides a chance for mentoring and leadership [for those] who loved

it since the beginning,” Nuce said, explaining how the family atmosphere that exists among the volunteers helps build friendships and skills among the teens.

“What sets us apart [from other haunted houses] – not better or worse, just different – is that we want to be here. Nobody’s getting paid; we’re all here for the love of it,” Nuce said.

Last year, more than 19,000 people flocked to the Haunted Mines over the 17 nights the haunt was open. The Mines are open Friday and Saturday nights until the last three weekends of October, when it will also open on Thursdays.

The Haunted Mines opened on Friday, Sept. 18, and tickets are available online at hauntedmines.org.

Returns to thematic roots

Stacy Lacker, left, and Angel Nuce, right, stand inside the graveyard area of the Haunted Mines. They love the community aspect of their work at the haunt – for the volunteers and the attendees. /Photo by Avalon A Manly

The Haunted Mines returns to its roots this year, featuring authentic mining equipment and scares. /Photo by Avalon A Manly

The haunt has always featured a mineshaft and frightening faux elevator drops, but this year, those scares are set to a backdrop of real mining tools, on loan from the museum next door. /Photo by Avalon A Manly


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Or maybe you want to help fund art scholarships for Lewis-Palmer District 38 high school students.

Whatever the reason, plan on going to the Palmer Lake Art Group’s 42nd annual Christmas Craft Fair, Oct. 2-4, in the Palmer Lake Town Hall, 28 Valley Crescent St.

The free event is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sunday.

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a 75-year period. Bill also lived off the confi scated wealth of an elderly “dad” he took care of in the 1940s.

Bill never went to USC or Stanford, never graduated from law school, never passed the bar or practiced law, but he freely gave “legal” advice to one and all!

He regularly dined at the Air Force Academy’s Offi cers Club. (He was a

retired colonel after all!) Bill’s life illustrated the saying:

“Truth is stranger than fi ction.” But while he was living in Palmer

Lake, no one had reason to question the fi ctitious tales he told about him-self. Perhaps only a psychiatrist could have unraveled the threads of Bill’s personality and explained why he in-vented a past life that bore no relation to reality.

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For my talented and creative friends and me, every month is Arts Month.

But October has received a special designation as a time to celebrate the arts by the Cultural Offi ce of the Pikes Peak Region, said Andy Vick, execu-tive director of the nonprofi t agency dedicated to promoting art across the region.

“Arts Month is an opportunity for us to focus special attention on our creative community,” Vick said, noting it coincides with the National Arts & Humanities Month, which was estab-lished in 1993 and is observed every October throughout the U.S.

Vick said the designation is de-signed to “encourage area residents and visitors to engage the arts by hav-ing at least one new cultural experi-ence with family or friends during the month of October.”

Monument will have such a new cultural experience at Bella Art and Frame, which is sponsoring the fi rst annual miniature show to run the entire month of October.

What is a minature, you may be asking? Miniature paintings and sculptures are fi ne art on a small scale, with minute attention to detail, which can withstand close inspection or enlargement.

We’re talking subjects no larger than 1/6th actual size. For example, a human head is about 9 inches, so a painted miniature head should be no larger than 1.5 inches.

Finished sizes usually do not ex-ceed 64 square inches. Some can be even smaller. (And no, they are not only intended for the “tiny houses” so popular right now.)

Bella’s show will run the entire month and be judged by local art-ist Anthony Archuleta. There will be prizes for fi rst, second and third place, as well as honorable mentions. More

information can be found at www.Bel-laartandframe.com.

Miniatures are a great addition to the art scene. For one thing, they usu-ally give you the opportunity to collect a particular artist’s work at a smaller price!

But I like miniatures because it allows me to place small treasures of beauty in unexpected places. Small wall spaces between doors are perfect for miniatures.

I know of one woman who had a collection of four paintings, each de-picting the four seasons. Four times a year she would place these tiny works of art on the wall over her thermostat to remind her of another season!

Think of using miniatures in easels on table tops. Put one next to the bed in a guest room. Display one in an ea-sel or on the wall in a guest bathroom. Place one on the entry table at your front door. What says welcome more than an expressive work of art?

Also in October is “From the Earth: Fine Art in Wood.” The show is on display during the month of October in the Lucy Owens Gallery at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Palmer Lake.

This diverse collection of wood art includes furniture, sculpture, wood-turning, woodcarving, wall art and marquetry.

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Let October be the month you ex-pand your creative horizons to include this category of art!

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We are barely a month into the prep sports season and many of our Tri-Lakes area teams and athletes have provided us with highlights galore.

Here is a look at some of the top events and per-formances through Sept. 16.

The Discovery Canyon football team is 0-2, de-spite scoring 89 points in its first two games. I have attended both Thunder contests – a 36-29 last-min-ute loss to Silver Creek, and a wild 64-60 last-second loss to Holy Family.

The Holy Family game is one I will not soon forget. I have played in, attended or covered more than 500 high school football games and never have I witnessed anything like I did Sept. 11 at District 20 Stadium. Holy Family senior quarterback Chris Helbig completed 30 of 46 passes for 462 yards and seven touchdowns.

Helbig, who is being recruited by Pac 12 schools Colorado and Arizona, among others, led the Tigers on a five-play, 80-yard scoring drive in 29 seconds to pull out the come-from behind victory His 16-yard touchdown pass to Joe Golter with three seconds remaining in the fourth quarter gave Holy Family a 62-60 lead. Helbig and Golter then hooked up for the two-point conversion.

The two teams combined for nearly 1,200 yards of total offense in a game that saw nine lead changes – seven in the first half alone as Holy Family went into the locker room up 35-32.

Discovery Canyon senior quarterback Matt Call did his best to match Helbig, using his legs to rush for 192 yards and four touchdowns, including the go-ahead score on a two-yard plunge with 32 seconds remaining.

Thunder junior Josh Tomjack rushed for a game-high 210 yards, including touchdown runs of 65, 19 and 39 yards. He also returned a kickoff 90 yards for a score.

The Lewis-Palmer volleyball team is 4-0 after straight-set victories over Pueblo West, St Mary’s, Legend and Highlands Ranch. The Rangers are get-ting strong efforts from numerous players; Nicole Mack, Lydia Bartalo, Emily Reich and Michaela Putnicki all have better than 26 kills. Emily McCur-

ley has a team-leading 67 digs, while setter Mariah Evans has 119 assists, an average of almost 10 per set.

Discovery Canyon’s volleyball team is 6-1 with its only loss coming to Colorado Springs School (2-0) in the Mesa Ridge Tournament. Leading the way for the Thunder is Ellie Verhey (40 kills), Rebecca Lynam (36 kills, 21 digs), Mary Smith (30 kills) Jade DeLange (28 kills, 41 digs), Kaitlyn Seagren (21 kills), Emily Wandershield (20 kills), Emma Zamora (31 digs), Jenny

Hall (17 digs, 59 assists) and Arianna Boushell (66 assists).

The Classical Academy volleyball team is 3-1 as it heads into the meat of its Class 4A Metro League por-tion of its schedule. Emma Porter has 75 kills, Chloe Weeks has 88 digs, and Maggie Zielinski and Jordan Sudbrack have 65 and 63 assists, respectively.

Looking at softball, traditional area power Dis-covery Canyon is 8-3 and looking every bit like a team that could make its fifth consecutive trip to the state tournament. The Thunder has won six straight behind a lethal offense (.339 team batting average), solid defense (.924 fielding average) and the clutch pitching of sophomore Corah Price (8-1, 2.12 ERA, 54 strikeouts, 4 walks, 56 innings).

Other top performers for the Thunder include Kai-lee Clark (.517 batting average, 5 extra base hits, 11 RBIs) and Madison McCoy (.435, 4 doubles, 8 RBIs).

Looking at boys’ soccer, Lewis-Palmer’s Jackson Neal has a team-leading six goals for the Rangers, while TCA’s Titus Grant leads the Titans with seven goals.

TCA is 4-1, losing its only match to Cheyenne Mountain (3-2 on Sept. 3). That was the Titans’ first regular season loss since Oct. 3, 2013 (3-2 to Salida).

We here at the Tribune would like to give as much publicity to your kids as possible; whether they are the stars of their teams or play supporting roles.

Please send us your photos and ideas you think might make interesting stories or are worthy of our “Faces to Follow” feature.

SPORTSLOCAL

Danny Summers

FROM THE

SIDELINES

Highlights piling up early in the prep sports season

The Classical Academy’s Titus Grant is a big reason why the Titans could make a return trip to the Class 4A state soccer finals again this season./Courtesy photo

The Lewis-Palmer volleyball team is off to another solid start. Here, Elaine Thibadeau, No. 1, and Tylar Fugate have fun during a recent match./Courtesy photo

Growing rivalry pits struggling Thunder against defending champs

Who: Discovery Canyon (1-2) at Pueblo East (3-1)When: 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 25Where: Colorado State University, Pueblo (The

ThunderBowl)What you need to know: These teams are cer-

tainly no strangers to one another … They have been playing each year since 2010 … They played twice in 2014, with Discovery Canyon winning 27-21 in a Week 5 matchup, and Pueblo East defeating the Thunder 39-21 in the Class 3A state semifinals … The schools also met twice in 2013, with Discovery Canyon winning the regular season matchup 49-28, and losing in the first round of the state playoffs 47-13 … Pueblo East defeated the Thunder in regular season matchups in 2010 and 2011, and lost to the Thunder during the regular season in 2012 … Pueblo East is the defending state champion … The Eagles have won three straight games this season after a Zero Week loss to Longmont, 48-27 … Senior quar-terback Daniel Martin is the team’s main offensive weapon accounting for 828 combined passing and rushing yards and 10 touchdowns in the Eagles’ first three games … Junior running back Bryson Torres rushed for 362 yards and seven touchdowns in Pueb-lo East’s first three games … The Eagles’ top receiver is junior Luke Padula (15 catches for 279 yards and 2 touchdowns).

Huskies play host to Florence and its dominating quarterback

Who: Lewis-Palmer (2-0) vs. Florence (1-1)When: Friday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m.Where: Don Breese StadiumWhat you need to know: This will be Lewis-Palm-

er’s fourth consecutive game at Don Breese Stadium to begin this season … The Rangers will also host D’Evelyn on Oct. 3 before playing their first game away from their friendly confines on Oct. 9 at Canon City … Lewis-Palmer won last year’s game against Florence, 21-13 … Florence quarterback Alec Lucero is the Huskies’ go-to guy, accounting for 353 com-bined passing and rushing yards (75 percent of their offense) in the team’s first two games … Florence

was 5-5 in 2014, failing to make the playoffs for the first time since 2004 ... The Huskies won the Class 3A state title in 2011 and advanced to the quarterfi-nals in 2012 … Florence also won the 3A state title in 2005 … Lewis-Palmer has not been in the playoffs since 2011 when it advanced to the quarterfinals. The Rangers also advanced to the quarterfinals in 2010 …

With post-season in sight, Palmer Ridge face stout Wolves team

Who: Palmer Ridge (2-0) at Vista Ridge (2-0)When: Friday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m.Where: Vista RidgeWhat you need to know: Palmer Ridge is play-

ing its fourth season at the 4A level and is hoping to make its first postseason appearance in the class … The Bears made the playoffs as a 3A team in 2010 and 2011, losing in the first round each season … Palmer Ridge will finish the non-conference portion of its schedule with a home game against Cheyenne Mountain on Oct. 2 … Vista Ridge won its first two games this season (48-21 over Northglenn) and 55-7 over Pueblo West) … The Wolves are led by senior quarterback Elway Tubbs (37 of 48 for 521 yards and 7 touchdowns) and senior running back Louie

Quinones (241 yards and 4 TDs, 10 catches, 10123 yards, 2 TDs) … Vista Ridge’s top receiver is Breon Michel (14 receptions for 207 yards and 3 TDs) … Vista Ridge won last year’s meeting with Palmer Ridge, 35-21.

Rematch pits TCA and its star running back against Liberty

Who: The Classical Academy (1-2) vs. Liberty (2-0)When: Friday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m.Where: TCAWhat you need to know: TCA and Liberty are

meeting for the second consecutive year … TCA won last year’s game 28-22. TCA running back Jayce Hall rushed for 110 yards and a touchdown in the victory … Liberty quarterback Hunter Wierenga completed 9 of 18 passes for 146 yards and a touchdown … Hall had a great start to this season, rushing for a career-high 207 yards in a 38-35 loss to Delta. He was held to 83 combined yards in the Titans’ next two games to Palisade and Littleton … Liberty won its first two games this season (27-0 over Cheyenne Mountain) and (20-6 over Widefield) … Wierenga is 14 of 31 for 219 yards and 2 TDs … Liberty’s top running back is Cole Pelt (105 yards and 3 TDs) … Senior receiver Ryder Cuppett has six catches for 117 yards.

Tri-Lakes Week 4 football capsules

Lewis-Palmer quarterback Brian Tims, No. 11, and running back Nick Pavlik are two of the many bright spots for the Lewis-Palmer football team this season./Photo by Julie Tims

Palmer Ridge quarterback Isaiah Sanders is a big reason why the Bears should be in the hunt for a Class 4A postseason berth this season. Here he is getting congratulated during a recent game by a Palmer Ridge coach./Courtesy photo


thing you have to check on all the time. The key is staying on top of it.”

Vaughn, who spends much of his free time read-ing Japanese anime, and writing nonfiction stories, seems to be taking the whole thing in stride.

“When I first heard about the cancer it actually didn’t bother me,” said Vaughn, who hopes to be a doctor or businessman someday. “I just don’t worry about anything, really. I guess not knowing is bliss.

“So far there’s not anything that’s real threatening to me. The doctors know what they’re doing.”

Vaughn planned on running cross country this season for Palmer Ridge, but dealing with his cancer has taken center stage.

The rest of the family is trying to maintain the same positive attitude while acknowledging Vaughn’s health has had a big impact on them.

“I’m proud that we’re all moving on doing the stuff we need to do,” Gabrielle said. “We’re getting it all done, but things are stressful. A lot of this is out of our

Family


Hannah Capekcross countryPalmer Ridge

Capek, a senior, fi nished sixth among all 189 girls at the pres-tigious St. Vrain Invitational on Sept. 12 at Lyons High School. Capek ran a 5K cross country course in 19 minutes, 45 seconds. Teammate Audree Furst, also a

senior, was second on the Bears (16th overall) with a time of 20:23. The Bears fi nished third as a team with 101 points behind Mountain Vista (44) and The Classical Academy (96).

Susan OdenbaughvolleyballLewis-Palmer

Odenbaugh, the long-time vol-leyball coach of the Rangers, has guided her club to 39 consecu-tive victories over the last three seasons. The Rangers’ last loss was Oct. 26, 2013, at Cheyenne Mountain during the Cheyenne

Mountain Invitational; a season-ending tourna-ment that was held prior to the state tournament. Lewis-Palmer has won 65 of 68 matches dating to late in the 2012 season, including back-to-back 4A state titles in 2013 and 2014. The Rangers were state runner up in 2012.

Corah PricesoftballDiscovery Canyon

Price, a sophomore, is 8-1 with a 2.12 ERA for the Thunder this season. She has 54 strikeouts and just four walks in 56 innings. She had a season-high 12 strikeouts in a 7-1 victory over Cheyenne Mountain. Price can handle her-

self at the plate, batting .250 with two home runs and 11 RBIs.

Faces to Follow


Even with its top golfer sidelined with an injury, Discovery Canyon won the 22-team Panther Invitational Sept. 15 at Shining Mountain Golf Club in Woodland Park.

Thunder junior Owen Pasvogel, who fi nished 15th at last year’s Class 4A state golf tournament, watched the ac-tion along with his coach Mark Liggett as a consistent breeze and damp con-ditions made temperatures dip into the low 50s, making things a little tougher for the golfers.

“It’s all accuracy and all control on this course,” Liggett said.

Many of southern Colorado’s best high school golfers were at Shining Mountain, which was also the site of the Class 4A Southern Regional, for the Sept. 20 tournament. The top teams at regional and about a dozen oth-ers qualifi ed for the state tournament, which will be played in early October at Fox Hill in Longmont.

“Fox Hill is tree lined and pretty

short,” Pasvogel said. “It’s a placement course. You’re hitting hybrids when you need to, playing the 150 markers and staying out of trouble.”

The Panther Invitational also saw strong performances by three other

Tri-Lakes area high schools: Lewis-Palmer, Palmer Ridge and The Classical Academy.

Discovery Canyon won the event with a team score of 240, four shots better than Mesa Ridge.

Mesa Ridge’s Braden Bentley was the top individual golfer, posting a 1-under par 69. He was the only golfer to break par.

Discovery Canyon placed three golf-ers in the top 10 – Luke Trujillo (78, third), Grant Bettis (81, tied for 10th) and Hayden Fry (81, tied for 10th).

Discovery Canyon has won the fi rst four Pikes Peak Athletic Conference tournaments this season. There is one fi nal PPAC tournament to be played on Sept. 30 at Flying Horse.

“Our boys like the game and our goal has been to beat Cheyenne Mountain, and this year they’re doing it,” Liggett said. “They played their summer ball and they are coming out here and do-ing it.”

Pasvogel is hoping to get a top eight fi nish at the state tournament.

“That’s where you medal and make all state,” he said. “I played in a two-day tournament at Fox Hill this sum-mer. I think medaling is doable, but if you’re not hitting well you’re in the trees and your score can go up real quick.”

The Classical Academy’s Titus Grant is a big reason why the Titans could make a return trip to the Class 4A state soccer � nals again this season./Courtesy photo

Despite injury to top golfer, Thunder claims tournament championship

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thing you have to check on all the time. The key is staying on top of it.”

Vaughn, who spends much of his free time read-ing Japanese anime, and writing nonfi ction stories, seems to be taking the whole thing in stride.

“When I fi rst heard about the cancer it actually didn’t bother me,” said Vaughn, who hopes to be a doctor or businessman someday. “I just don’t worry about anything, really. I guess not knowing is bliss.

“So far there’s not anything that’s real threatening to me. The doctors know what they’re doing.”

Vaughn planned on running cross country this season for Palmer Ridge, but dealing with his cancer has taken center stage.

The rest of the family is trying to maintain the same positive attitude while acknowledging Vaughn’s health has had a big impact on them.

“I’m proud that we’re all moving on doing the stuff we need to do,” Gabrielle said. “We’re getting it all done, but things are stressful. A lot of this is out of our

hands, but we have plenty of people praying for us.”Paul echoed his wife’s thoughts.“With all that’s going on with Vaughn this has been

hard on all of us,” Paul said. “It’s not something you wish on anybody. Especially your child.

“But you have to keep moving forward.” It’s an attitude that he learned from his earlier

brushes with cancer.“I had two sisters pass away from cancer and one

in remission,” Paul said. “One from leukemia and one from breast cancer that spread throughout her entire body.”

Rather than focus on such tragedy, Paul has put his effort into building successful teams.

“When I’m coaching, it takes my mind off of it,” he said.

Perhaps winning also provides a good distraction. Palmer Ridge has one of the most successful fi eld hockey programs in the state. The Bears have played in two of the last three state championship matches, twice losing to Colorado Academy.

Palmer Ridge is off to another great start this sea-

son, improving to 5-1 this week with victories over Cheyenne Mountain (5-0) and Mountain Vista (5-0). The Bears’ loss was a non-conference match to Colo-rado Academy (1-0) on Sept. 12. Colorado Academy and Palmer Ridge are ranked Nos. 1 and 2 in the state, respectively.

“I do my job at hand,” he said. “It falls in the back of my head until we’re done, and then I think about it again.

“(Cancer) is a messed up thing to be going on with anybody, especially your own kid. Hopefully we can get this thing cleaned up and move on.”

For Gabrielle, the issues with Vaughn’s health has had some positive effects.

“Going through this helps with priorities,” she said. “Knowing what is important and what isn’t im-portant in life. We’re a pretty tight family, but this kind of brought us back in a little bit. Now we take more time for ourselves as opposed to everything revolving around fi eld hockey.

“Now we take more time for ourselves as opposed to everything revolving around fi eld hockey.”

Family

Discovery Canyon junior golfer Owen Pasvogel, left, is a two-time state quali� er. Pasvogel was a spectator, along with DCC coach Mark Liggett, during the 23-team Woodland Park Invitational on Sept. 15. Pasvogel and his Thunder teammates have won the � rst four Class 4A Pikes Peak Athletic Conference tournament this season./Photo by Danny Summers



are not yet for sale, he expects they will sell quickly.

“We haven’t officially started mar-keting yet, but the interest list is over-whelming,” he said. “The estate lots, I can’t get contracts out [for] fast enough, but I’m guessing [that will happen] within the next three weeks.”

The open space inside the develop-

ment will feature several trails, Boulton said.

And the project is getting a boost from a $13.2 million overpass under construction that will carry Baptist Road over Monument Creek and the railroad tracks, to help alleviate traffic in the area.

Those amenities should be com-plete in the summer of 2016.


and his role in opposing the lawsuit will be to introduce all the evidence he presented to the Board of Adjustment regarding the town’s zoning and defi-nition of “clinic” that led the board to overturn the zoning.

Meanwhile, Mikulecky and Hess handle the group’s legal effort against the lawsuit.

Allen is convinced the town will try to negotiate a settlement with Colonial to avoid paying damages and legal fees that could climb to $1 million.

He is not convinced by repeated pledges given by Mayor Rafael Domin-guez and other Trustees to fight the lawsuit. The promises were made re-peatedly at the Sept. 8 board meeting.

“We’ve got a $50,000 budget that we’re going to be discussing with the community,” Allen said. “We have to have an honest conversation with the community.

“If they don’t support this, there’s a very high percentage were going to have methadone dispensary in down-town Monument.”

He predicted that failure to raise the bankroll will signal to Colonial an unwillingness to fight and prompt the town to cut its losses and settle.

“Everyone thought this fight was over after the Board of Adjustment,” Allen said. “It’s far from being over.”

Besides hiring new attorneys, the No Methadone group launched a new front in its war against the clinic by calling on residents to write Gov. John Hickenlooper to demand

Greg Coopman, another leader of the No Methadone group, began cir-culating a letter to Hickenlooper and state lawmakers asking the state to deny an operating license to Colonial’s methadone clinic in Grand Junction.

Coopman’s letter asks for the denial citing a litany of problems Colonial clinics have experienced at its 69 clin-ics nationwide and reported in July by The Tribune after an investigation of

company operations.“(Colonial) methadone facilities

across the country have been cited for multiple violations, including not giv-ing clients adequate counseling, not screening for other illicit drugs and raising doses without a doctor’s or-ders,” the letter states.

“Officials in Minnesota and Texas have cited chronic and repeat viola-tions.

“Officials in Minnesota revoked the license for CMG’s Lake Superior Treat-ment Center following more than 50 violations and take-home doses that were sold on the streets.

“Colonial Management Group LP has received deficiencies in mul-tiple states regarding missing doses of Methadone; the largest being more than 3,400 missing doses in Alabama. Resulting in a DEA fine.”

In the letter, Coopman notes Colo-nial’s clinic in Grand Junction was re-viewed for compliance by the Office of Behavioral Health and was found to “not be in full compliance with state regulations and denied full licensing.”

He also criticized state regulators for “irresponsibly and negligently” ex-tending its provisional license.

“It would be irresponsible and grossly negligent to allow continued operations in Grand Junction, or to al-low any additional locations to open,” Coopman said in the letter.

“We’re asking the community to sign it and mail it to the governor’s office

quoting all the information we’ve gathered,” Allen said.

On a related issue, a recall petition he initiated against Dominguez and Trustees Jeff Kaiser and Kelly Elliott, Allen said he was not confident his supporters would be able to gather the necessary 200 signatures to force a vote.

“The recall is not going well and it’s running out of time,” he said. “We’re going to miss our window of opportu-nity and be stuck with another 2 1/2 years of this leadership.”

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More than 450 homes are planned in Forest Lakes, a subdivision being developed around two reservoirs constructed in the 1980s across Beaver Creek on former ranch-land at the far west end of Baptist Road. /Photo by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune

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