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- 1. 50CENTS TRINIDAD COLORADO Proudly Serving SoutheasternColorado and Northeastern New Mexico • www.thechronicle-news.com ~ 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 Continued on Page 2 ... 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 Continued on Page 2 ... 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- Continued on Page 6 ... PAGE6 OVERTHEPASS
- 2. Page 6 Tuesday,March 10, 2015 The Chronicle-News Trinidad, Colorado 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.