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Vol. 139, No. 49
TUESDAY
MARCH10,2015
MARCH 10
Las Animas County
TUESDAY (9 a.m.) Board of County
Commissioners work session will be
held in the Las Animas Courthouse, 200
E. First St., Room 201. Information: 719-
845-2568. COUNTY COMMISSION-
ERS: Gary Hill (719-845-2595),
Mack Louden (719-845-2592), and
Anthony Abeyta (719-846-9300).
Trinidad City Council
TUESDAY (1:30 p.m.) Special ses-
sion followed by the regular work ses-
sion in Council Chambers, City Hall, 135
N. Animas St., Third Floor. Information:
Audra Garrett, 719-846-9843. CITY
COUNCIL: Mayor: Joe Reorda and
Council Members: Carol Bolton, Joe
Bonato, Pat Fletcher, Anthony Mat-
tie, Michelle Miles, and Liz Torres.
Today’s Quote
“If you can learn to
love yourself and all
the flaws, you can love
other people so much
better. And that makes
you so happy.”
~Kristin Chenoweth
Trinidad Schools
TUESDAY (4:45 p.m.) District Ac-
countability meeting at the Administra-
tion Office, 612 Park Street. Informa-
tion: Diane Montoya, 719-846-3324.
Solemn High Mass
TUESDAY (6 p.m.) Special ser-
vice followed by a potluck supper in
celebration of Fr. Peter Raleigh’s 25th
Anniversary into the priesthood will
be held at Holy Innocents Catholic
Church, 119 W. Colorado Ave. Info:
Susan Martin, 720-443-9063.
Calling all Square Dancers
TUESDAY (6-8 p.m.) Swing your
partner and join the fun at the Square
Dance Club at LaCasa on Hwy 12 in
Jansen. New members and beginners
always welcome. Info: Peter Monzon,
719-845-0375 or pmm49@hotmail.com.
TMS Mini Health Fair
TUESDAY (6-8 p.m.) Everyone is
invited to the 4th Annual event will be
held at the Trinidad Middle School Gym
and Cafeteria, Park Street. Info: 719-
846-4411.
THS Spanish Club III
TUESDAY (6 p.m.) BINGO FUN-
DRAISER, including dinner, will be
held at the Knights of Columbus Hall,
205 S. Commercial. Info: Shantell
Quintana, 719-680-1715.
Caregivers Support Group
TUESDAY (6:30 p.m.) This group
meets at the LaQuinta Inn on Toupal
Drive. Information: Age Wise Advisors,
347-852-0752.
MARCH 11
Piñon Water Sanitation
WEDNESDAY (8:30 a.m.) District
meeting will be in the Century Financial
Building, 109 W. Main. Information:
Dana Phillips, 719-846-2080.
Tourism Board
WEDNESDAY (9 a.m.) Commit-
tee meets in the City Hall Third Floor
Conference Room, 135 N. Animas St.
Information: City Clerk, Audra Garrett,
719-846-9843.
Stonewall FPD
WEDNESDAY (5:30 p.m.) Board
of Directors meets in the Stonewall Fire
House. Information: Dana Phillips, 719-
846-2080.
LENTEN SERVICE
WEDNESDAY (6:30 p.m.) Week-
ly service will be held at Zion’s Lu-
theran Church, 613 Prospect St.
Info: 719-846-7785.
Trinidad Community Co-op
WEDNESDAY (7 p.m.) Acoustic
Music Jam is open to all levels, all mu-
sicians at the Coop, Corner of Elm and
Maple Streets. Info: communitycoop-
trinidad@gmail.com.
VFW Post 984
WEDNESDAY (7 p.m.) Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post 984 will meet in
the Elks Club Banquet Room, 120 S.
Maple St. New members need to bring
their DD214. Information: Post Com-
mander John Rios, 719-846-6094.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Carnegie Library Events
■ THURSDAY (9 a.m.-5 p.m.)
Throwback Tech interactive display.
■ FRIDAY (5-7 p.m.) Teens &
Tweens movie night showing Wreck-it
Ralph!
TSJC Student Art Show
FRIDAY (6-8 p.m.) Opening recep-
tion for this exhibition hosted by The
THEFINEPRINT
WEATHERWATCHTuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high
near 59. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming
northeast in the afternoon. Night: Mostly
clear, with a low around 31. Northeast
wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest in
the evening.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near
66. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Night:
Mostly clear, with a low around 33. West
southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high
near 63. West southwest wind 5 to 10
mph becoming northeast in the afternoon.
Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around
33. East northeast wind around 5 mph be-
coming northwest after midnight.
Friday: A 20 percent chance of rain and
snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high
near 53. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Night: A 20 percent chance of showers.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31.
RIVERCALL
Purgatoire River Call as of:
03/09/15. Hoehne ditch: Prior-
ity # 9 --- Appropriation date:
10/07/1865.
Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:
Release .63 AF
Inflow 65.37 AF -- 32.96 CFS
Evaporation 5.74 AF
Content 17,783 AF
Elevation 6,180.47
Precipitation 0
Downstream River Call / John
Martin Reservoir: (Conservation
Storage) 05/31/1949.
THECHRONICLENEWS
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Courtesy TSJC Art Department
Only one of the many interesting art pieces, above, that
will be included in the 2015 TSJC Student Art Show that
will be held at TAAC’s Gallery Main beginning March 13.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
New prenatal program set for Mt. Carmel
By Steve Block
The Chronicle-News
Young women expecting their
first child often have more ques-
tions than answers, and a new
prenatal care program coming up
at the Mt. Carmel Health, Well-
ness and Community Center is
designed to help them get the an-
swers to those questions. The “Be-
comingaMom”programwillhave
an introductory session from 1
p.m. until 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
March 18 at the Center, located at
911 Robinson Ave.,
in Trinidad.
A trained facili-
tator will lead the
class, which has the
primary goal of re-
ducing the number
of preterm births,
that is, before 39 com-
pleted weeks of preg-
nancy. The program
hopes to help expect-
ant parents identify
needed resources
that aren’t available
in this area and seek
ways to offer them.
Dr. Leo Bonfadini,
Mt. Carmel’s Well-
ness Director, said
the program was
badly needed in this area.
“Offering prenatal resources
to our community will create a
supportive environment that pro-
motes healthy behaviors, and will
help to overcome barriers to care.
Our hope is to offer information
that will help pregnant women
learn about having a healthy preg-
nancy and a healthy baby.
The Mt. Carmel Center got a
March of Dimes foundation grant
to support the program. March of
Dimes designed the nine-week,
two-hour sessions, which will be
offered twice a year. The weekly
sessionsincludebasicinformation
Steve Block / The Chronicle-News
Dr. Leo Bonfadini stressed the importance of expectant women learning about maternal and
prenatal care through the “Becoming a Mom” program starting March 18 at the Mt. Carmel
Health, Wellness and Community Center.
motes healthy behaviors, and will
Dr. Leo Bonfadini stressed the importance of expectant women learning about maternal and
prenatal care through the “Becoming a Mom” program starting March 18 at the Mt. Carmel
Dr. Leo Bonfadini stressed the importance of expectant women learning about maternal and
prenatal care through the “Becoming a Mom” program starting March 18 at the Mt. Carmel
Dr. Leo Bonfadini stressed the importance of expectant women learning about maternal and
Health, Wellness and Community Center.
prenatal care through the “Becoming a Mom” program starting March 18 at the Mt. Carmel
Health, Wellness and Community Center.
prenatal care through the “Becoming a Mom” program starting March 18 at the Mt. Carmel
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PREP SPORTS
Weekend
Roundup –
Lady Farmers
are dancing
By Adam Sperandio
The Chronicle-News
And then there was one—as in
one team left in the Trinidad area
with a chance to hoist the golden
basketball awarded to the state
champions at the end of the sea-
son. With the Primero Bulldogs
and Trinidad Miners officially
out of the race, the Hoehne Lady
Farmers still remain after claim-
ing their second straight regional
championship. It’s an entirely
new season now, as the eight best
high school basketball teams in all
the land face off to battle for top
supremacy and a chance to call
Adam Sperandio/The Chronicle-News
The Hoehne Lady Farmers will be making their second consecutive trip to the state tournament after defeating both
Custer County and Sanford over the weekend. The will go into “The Dance” as the No. 2 seed and will take on Ellicott
in the first round. Top Row (L-R) Manager Colton Grabel, Cydney Kreutzer, Brooke Lucero, Jordan Trujillo, Kendra
VanMatre, Brittani Hill. Head Coach Beth Kreutzer, Megan Robins, Assistant Coach Chuck Pugnetti. Bottom Row (L-R)
Bailee Jones, Sophia Anderson, Aspen Anderson, Sydney Aragon, Zoe Revis and Shaelyn Walton. Continued on Page 3 ...
TSJC STUDENT SHOW 2015
Dusting off the gold – with
passion, enthusiasm, goodwill
By Cynthia Berresse Ploski
Art Correspondent
The Chronicle-News
The Art Department at Trinidad State
Junior College has always been a quality
program. In recent years, like bread dough
rising in a closed container, new faculty, new
programs and increasing attendance have
begun to strain the walls of the two large
rooms on campus in which all art classes are
taught.
Additional students generate a larger
body of artwork. Satisfying a desire to publi-
cally display the abundance of artistic excel-
lence produced this year, TSJC’s administra-
tion accepted an invitation to bring student
work down from the hill on Pine Street into
town. From March 13-26, one hundred and
eighteen of these student-created beauties
are brightening the walls of the Trinidad
Area Arts Council (TAAC) Gallery at 130
Main Street for the whole of downtown to
enjoy. The reception and awards ceremony
at the gallery will be at 6 p.m. on March 13.
Everyone is invited.
Our college has blended with our commu-
nity through art.
The mixing agent is one man’s passion.
But he will tell you that it is the generous
contributions of people in our town that has
made the whole thing possible.
From the time the whirling energy vortex
named Vilas Tonape arrived in Trinidad to
teach art at the college a couple years ago,
he felt at home. Not that Trinidad is much
like Vilas’ birthplace in Bombay, India. It
couldn’t be more different. But people are
people, and Trinidad people felt like home
folks to Vilas because they resonated with
generosity and goodwill.
Tonape soon found that anything he need-
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OVERTHEPASS
TRINIDAD-RATON CONNECTION
“What’s the farthest
you’ve been away from
home?”
By Tim Keller
Correspondent
The Chronicle-News
Photos by Tim Keller / The Chronicle-News
“South Africa in 2011, for our 40th wedding anniversary and a
hunting trip. My wife wanted a trip and I wanted to go hunting.
We compromised.”
– Tim Nash, retired construction project manager (Trinidad)
“I’ve been 7500 miles from home in Southern California to Bris-
bane, Australia. I did a cycling trip in 1985, from Brisbane to Ad-
elaide.”
– Jon Edwards, lab assistant, MCMC (Raton)
“Counting Texas as my home, the farthest has been Hawaii
when I was six or seven. In the last five years, the farthest I’ve
been is here. I’m traveling now just to see everything while I’m
still young.”
– Bonnie Parker, Dallas, at Raton Depot, passing through
“The farthest I’ve ever been from Trinidad is Denver. I’ve never
been outside Colorado. My sister lives in California and I had a
chance to go see her, but I didn’t go. I didn’t feel comfortable
going that far.”
– Katherine Zamora, homemaker (Trinidad)
“I’ve been all the way to Trout Creek, Montana, way up there by
the North Pole almost. I worked for the railroad. I saw the north-
ern lights. It was pretty nice!”
– David Montoya, window washer (Trinidad)
“Astoria, Oregon. My son lives there. It’s right on the estuary
where the Columbia River reaches the Pacific. The river is four
miles wide there. We went last summer and we’re driving out
again in June.”
– Carl Swanson, artist (Raton)
Now
Celebrating
Over the Pass’
1stAnniversary
Dusting off the gold – with passion, enthusiasm, goodwill ... Continued from Page 1
ed was willingly supplied.
When he wanted to put on a college
student show for the first time, last year,
TAAC generously waived the fee to host
it at Gallery Main.
Trinidad residents
Ida and Sherry
generously do-
nated frames and
Dave Frank con-
tributed needed
mat board. Profes-
sor Tonape taught
the students to
frame the work
themselves, and
the first student
show was a suc-
cess.
Sponsors and
supporters for
this year’s show
are honored and
thanked by be-
ing featured on
a poster near the
entrance and
listed on all the
invitations and
flyers. They are:
The Trinidad
Area Arts Council,
Frank Images, Ida
and Sherry Used
Furniture, The
Trinidad State Ed-
ucational Foundation, Cedar Street Print-
ing, Judy and Edward Fuentes, Lucky
Murphy’s L&L Fine Art Gallery and gener-
ous donations from the entire community.
As before, under Vilas’ supervision stu-
dents framed all the work entered in the
2015 show—all 118 pieces—with donated
frames and materials. Undergraduate
students, community students and college
staff contributed the fruits of their artis-
tic studies, including sev-
eral high school students
enrolled in a concurrent
program which gives them
credits for college courses.
The resulting effect of
so many entries is that the
paintings and drawings are
forced to hang uncomfort-
ably close to each other.
Next year, says the profes-
sor, the number of accept-
ed entries will have to be
smaller.
Judging the show will
be well-respected local and
national artist Paula Little.
■ 1st prize is full in-state
tuition for one art class,
donated by The Trinidad
State Educational Founda-
tion, valued at $300.
■ 2nd prize is a $ 150 gift certificate for
art materials from the college bookstore,
donated by Ed and Judy Fuentes.
■ 3rd prize is four college art course
handbooks, a value of over $50, contribut-
ed by Cedar Street Printing.
■ 4th prize is a $25 gift certificate for art
materials from the college bookstore con-
tributed by the Artifyer Student Art Club.
■ In addition, there will be five certifi-
cates of honorable mention awarded.
As professor Tonape walked around the
gallery to observe the photographing of
some of the artworks, he commented about
things that surprised and enlightened him.
One of the things that surprised him at
TSJC was that so many athletes enrolling
in his classes produced very remarkable
art, as demonstrated by their work hang-
ing on the Gallery Main walls. He was also
pleased to compliment the very young stu-
dents taking college art courses for addi-
tional high school credits.
The professor shared a couple of anec-
dotes from his own teachers that illumi-
nated his personal career. One was about
the professor in India who told him that
everyone is born with a piece of gold inside
them and the job of a teacher is to find just
the right ways to dust it off in each student.
Another anecdote was about his
“American Guru,” the graduate profes-
sor Ron Watson, who told him, “You can
find everything you are teaching in books.
Don’t think you are a genius. Students will
remember what you say for a week, or a
month, or a year, but they will forget. The
one thing they will never forget is if they
witness the passion in you.”
The results of that passionate teaching
adorn Gallery Main’s walls.
Thus it is with passion, enthusiasm
and goodwill that this student art exhibit
is presented, in and with the community
of Trinidad, as a glowing example of what
people working together can accomplish
as they dust off the gold.
Easter Sunday
April 5 • 11 a.m.
Friday, April 10
7 p.m.
216
Broom St.
Trinidad United
Methodist Church
Gospel Easter Concert
Featuring:
Church Choir & the
TUMC Gospel Combo
Directed by Dr. Amy Lee
Wilson-Mangelsdorf
THE LAS ANIMAS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
SERVICES WILL ISSUE COMMODITY FOODS ON
March 11, 2015 FROM 8:30A.M. TO 3:30P.M.
AT THE LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
FAIRGROUNDS (BOXING ROOM).
ID REQUIRED. NO EXCEPTIONS.
THE ISSUE WILL BE ONE DAY ONLY
March 11, 2015
THE ISSUE WILL BE FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO MEET THE TEFAP
INCOME STANDARDS THROUGH A PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM,
LEAP, TANF, FOOD STAMPS, OAP, AND, SSI OR MEETING THE INCOME
LIMITS INDICATED BELOW. YOU MUST BRING PROOF OF LAS ANI-
MAS COUNTY RESIDENCY WITH PICTURE IDENTIFICATION.
HOUSEHOLD GROSS MONTHLY INCOME SHALL NOT
EXCEED THE FOLLOWING:
HOUSEHOLD SIZE ALLOWABLE GROSS MONTHLY IN-
COME
1 $1,800.00
2 $2,426.00
3 $3,051.00
4 $3,677.00
5 $4,303.00
6 $4,929.00
7 $5,555.00
8 $6,181.00
EACH ADDITIONAL MEMBER ADD $626.00
THE COMMODITY FOOD PROGRAM SHALL BE EXTENDED TO ALL
ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, SEX,
RELIGION, NATURAL ORIGIN, OR POLITICAL BELIEFS. USDA IS AN
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER AND EMPLOYER.
“This is a Community Show,” comments Art Professor Vilas Tonape. Ev-
eryone is encouraged to attend and see what the students are doing in the
world of art. The show runs from March 13-26. The reception and awards
ceremony at Gallery Main will be at 6 p.m. on March 13.