1. Sports REGION IX SOUTH
14 TSJC Soccer players named to Region IX team
The Chronicle-News Trinidad, Colorado Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Page 5
All Region First Team: Aleksa Blagojevic, Ricardo Zacarias, Pedro Veiga Perez and Alan Garcia Pena
All Region Second Team: Julian Padilla, Jose Martinez, Wesley Padgett and Christian Rico
All Region Second Team: Lukas Smith, Saad Hissien and Shawn Rusk
Carnegie Public Library receives grant ... Continued from Page 1
down from last year’s
$4,100 however, the money
is greatly appreciated.”
Public libraries are
mainly funded from prop-erty
taxes.
“They make it very easy.
They don’t require 40 pag-es
of grant materials, and
there are a lot of hoops to
jump through. Just show-ing
the need makes a library
eligible, so we’re grateful in
many aspects.”
How state grants can be
used are specifically listed.
“We will use the grant
to purchase books, periodi-cals,
and other print media
such as e-books, along with
early literary activities that
come in family backpacks
for home use and are the
returned to the library for
others to utilize.”
The State Grants to Li-braries
Act Fast Facts sheet
states, “In 2013, the Colorado
State Library administered
almost 2 million dollars in
grant...to 290 schools and
public libraries across Colo-rado.
52 percent of grantees
used funding to subscribe
to electronic databases, and
91 percent of grantees used
funding to purchase print
books,” while, “38 percent
used funding to purchase e-books.”
The sample press release
says, “The State Grants to
Libraries was funded by
the Colorado Legislature to
help increase access to ear-ly
literacy and educational
materials. This non-com-petitive
program adminis-tered
by the Colorado State
Library funded a combined
total of 301 libraries, aca-demic
libraries, and school
districts this 2013-2014 fiscal
year.
In a letter dated October
16, 2014, announcing the
award, Grants Management
Senior Consultant, Susan
H. Burkholder, said, “We
are pleased to provide this
award from the State Grants
for Libraries Act for Fiscal
Year 2014-2015. We value
your work serving students
and the public through-out
the state, and we are
happy to be able to partner
with you to help provide
educational resources not
otherwise available to your
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A Grecian statue of “Phoebe”
graces the historic Carnegie
Public Library. It was a gift to
the library from the local Pier-ian
Club in 1911.
library.”
Gene Hainer with the
Colorado Library said, “Ba-sic
requirements for public
libraries include showing
they have local, public fund-ing,
are staffed at least 20
hours a week, and provide
free access to materials. The
$2 million allocation, part of
the state general fund, was
created as the State Grants
to Libraries Act in 2001. It
was funded for two years,
before a line-item veto in
2003. The $2 million appro-priation
was restored in
2013 through efforts of the
state’s Joint Budget Com-mittee,
and remained in the
2014-15 budget. Each eligible
applicant receives the mini-mum
$3,000 stipulated in
the law, with an additional
per capita amount provided
to libraries serving larger
populations. Carnegie Pub-lic
Library received $3,987
this year, and $4,102 last
year. The decrease is due to
a few more libraries seeking
a share of the $2 million. We
anticipate the funding will
be included in the budget
proposals coming forward
next month through the
Governor’s office. The Colo-rado
Association of Librar-ies
has a goal of one-dollar
per person in state support
for libraries. The organiza-tion’s
members continue to
work toward that goal. The
“dollar does it” goal would
translate into almost $25
million dollars for educa-tional
and materials being
available to learners of all
ages who use the public, ac-ademic,
and school libraries
in person or online.”
The Colorado State Li-brary
agency is located in
Denver, at 201 East Colfax
Avenue, 80203. Their phone
number is 303-866-6900, and
their website is: Colora-doStateLibrary.
org.
With a staff of 8 employ-ees,
Mallory stated, “It all
goes back to the patrons
and the people who inter-act
with the library. We’re
not buying office supplies
with this grant. Everyone
on our staff is dedicated to
serving the community. We
do our utmost best to fulfill
everyone’s requests, and to
make library materials and
services as available as pos-sible.
Sometimes people for-get
that.”
Carnegie Public Library
is located at 202 North Ani-mas
Street. The phone num-ber
is 719-846-6841. Their
email is: trinidadpublicli-brary@
msn.com, and the
website is: carnegiepublicli-brary.
org.
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By Mike Salbato
Correspondent
The Chronicle-News
Trinidad State finished the regular season with a 15-1-
1 record and the No. 8 ranking in the national polls. Fol-lowing
that tremendous success TSJC recently received
word that 14 Trojan athletes had been named to the Re-gion
IX South All-Region Team. Included in the honors
were two of the top region honors. The MVP award went
to Trojan center back Oscar Rivero and Coach Aaron
Miller was named Coach of the Year.
Earning First Team awards were forward Ricardo
Zacarias, midfielder Alan Garcia Pena, defenders Os-car
Rivero and Aleksa Blagojevic, and goalkeeper Pedro
Veiga Perez.
Zacarias, a sophomore transfer from Las Cruces, New
Mexico, scored 19 goals this season to go with six assists.
He is ranked 11th in the nation in goals scored. Garcia
Pena, a freshman from San Diego, California is the field
general setting up scoring opportunities for his team-mates.
He has tallied a team high 14 assists this season
ranking him 7th in the nation. Rivero is the team captain.
A sophomore from Acapulco, Mexico, he is the leader on
and off the pitch. He has nine goals and three assists this
season. Blagojevic is a big freshman from Serbia. He has
tallied six goals and three assists this year, including the
game winner in the quarterfinal playoff game last week-end.
Veiga Perez is a tall freshman keeper from Spain.
He tallied 58 saves this season while only surrendering
seven goals.
Earning Second Team honors were forwards Julian
Padilla, Shawn Rusk and Wesley Padgett, midfielders
Saad Hissien and Jose Martinez, defender Lukas Smith
and goalkeeper Christian Rico.
Padilla is a 6’4” freshman from Las Cruces, New
Mexico that can attack and can also play the center back
position. He had five goals and two assists this season.
Rusk, a sophomore from Thornton, is a physical right
side attacker who had five goals and three assists this
season. Padgett, a freshman from Fruita, is a quick at-tacking
player who had four goals and two assists this
year. Hissien is a freshman speedster from Denver. He
scored three goals and had five assists this season. Marti-nez
is one of the hardest workers on the field who rarely
loses the ball. The freshman from Aurora scored once
this season and had four assists. Smith, a freshman from
Grand Junction, scored the game winner in overtime
against Northwest earlier this month. He scored twice
this season and had one assist. Rico is a 6’3” freshman
from Brighton. He completed the year giving up just four
goals against 52 saves. He is ranked first in the nation
with a .929 save percentage.
The Trojans also had a pair of sophomores named
honorable mention; they are midfielder Cesar Escamilla
and defender Brayan Molina. Escamilla works tireless-ly
in the TSJC midfield, creating opportunities for his
teammates. Molina is the last line of defense in front of
the Trojan keepers. He made several big plays this year
and also had a couple of long assists on free kicks.
Overall it has been an amazing year for the Trojans
with different players stepping up each week to make
huge plays. The team will continue their playoff run this
Friday as they head to Tuscon, Arizona to play for the
coveted shot at Nationals.
Photos by Mike Salbato / TSJC
All Region Honorable Mention: Cesar Escamilla, Brayan Molina
MVP: Oscar Rivero and Coach of the Year: Aaron Miller