This article summarizes a Women on Target shooting clinic held at the Prator Gun Range, sponsored by Trinidad State Junior College and the National Rifle Association. Over 20 women, mostly beginning shooters, attended the shotgun shooting event. The NRA program is designed to teach women firearm safety and marksmanship fundamentals in a supportive environment. Instructors said the women-only class allows participants to feel more comfortable learning without pressure or tension that can arise with male instructors or other students. The goal is to have more women instructors to fully run women-focused shooting programs.

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By Eric John Monson
News Editor
The Chronicle-News
“What’s the first rule of gun safety? Every-body
together now.”
“ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe
direction.”
“Second rule?”
“ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger
until ready to shoot.”
“And the third rule?”
“ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until it’s
ready to use.”
It’s a common mantra taught and repeated
at every gun safety course. The only difference
here might be the pitch of the voices repeating
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it. Just moments ago those voices were whoop-ing
it up with every clay pigeon they shattered
at the Prator Gun Range trap station. Gun fire
followed by glee.
“Way to go!”
“Alright!”
“Nice shooting, Bonnie!”
You see, this shooting class is all women.
“It’s really exciting to see all these women
out here and to see all these first-time shooters
come out to the range. We’ve been working so
hard over the last two years out here. This is
awesome! I love it,” said Shelly King Saturday
at the Women on Target event held at the Pra-tor
Range and sponsored by Trinidad State Ju-nior
College (TSJC) and the National Rifle As-sociation
(NRA).
According to TSJC, over 20 women, most
of them beginning shooters, signed up for the
class. The NRA’s Women on Target Instruc-tional
Shooting Clinics are designed to provide
women with firearm safety training and the
fundamentals of marksmanship in a hands-on
learning environment that is both welcoming
and supportive, says the NRA.
“Most people know the NRA through politi-
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Thursday
October 23, 2014
Vol. 138, No. 212
The Fine Print
AREA WEEKEND SPORTS
FOOTBALL
FRI: Trinidad @ La Junta 7 p.m.
SAT: Hoehne @ Custer Co 1 p.m.
SUN: Broncos vs. Chargers 6:25 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL
Hoehne at Districts in La Junta game
times TBD
OCTOBER 23
Trinidad Ambulance District
THURSDAY (4:30 p.m.) Trinidad
Ambulance District Board of Directors
regular meeting at the Trinidad Ambu-lance
District Office, 939 Robinson Ave.
Information: 719-846-6886.
Today’s Quote
“Instruction does much,
but encouragement
everything.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
OCTOBER 24-26
Golden Harvest Bazaar
FRIDAY (8:30 a.m.) Come out to the
great annual bazaar and bake sale fund-raiser
for the Sayre Senior Center, 1222
San Pedro. Complete with breakfast bur-ritos
and plenty of Christmas decorations
and other items for sale. Information:
Anna Risley, 719-846-3336.
Haunted House
FRIDAY & SUNDAY (6 p.m.) Friday’s
SPOOKTACULAR haunted house is for
very scary thrills and chills and Sunday’s
event is more for fraidy cats and little kids
at the LA Co. Fairgrounds on N. Linden.
Autumn Gathering
SATURDAY is RSVP DEADLINE:
Ladies and Gentlemen’s full English Tea
to be held Nov. 1 (3 p.m.) at 212 E. Sec-ond
St. Proceeds benefit the Trinidad
Community Chorale. Information: 719-
845-1625.
Community Men’s Breakfast
SATURDAY (8 a.m.) Bring your sons
and join us for food, fellowship and fun
every 4th Saturday at the First Christian
Church, 402 E. First St. Information: Tom
Berry, 719-846-0879 or 719-846-3843.
Event is free—everyone is welcome.
Special Fundraiser Benefit
SATURDAY (11 a.m.-2 p.m.) Enchi-lada
Dinner for Chris Samora, who is bat-tling
cancer, will be held at the Elk’s Club,
120 S. Maple St. — includes door prizes,
raffles, auction and music. Information:
719-680-1666 or 719-859-5784.
The Black & White Ball
SATURDAY (6-Midnight) The A.R.
Mitchell will host the annual Black & White
Western Ball Dinner & Dance fundraiser
with music by Whiskey Creek. Informa-tion:
719-846-4224.
PUBLIC SERVICE
THE SAMARITAN CLINIC
Here to serve the under-insured and
non-insured community with free health
care and low-cost lab work on the 1st and
3rd Tues. of each month from 9 a.m.-4
p.m. at 413 E. Frost. Info: 719-846-3536.
Thrift Store Benefit
DON’T MISS THIS: St. Vincent De
Paul’s annual Fall Benefit Sale with most
items $1, including Levis, at its new loca-tion
on Convent Street inside the Soup
Kitchen Building, 308 W. Church Street.
Info: Isabelle Gutierrez, 719-846-2009.
Kids Fun Festival
OCTOBER 31 (5-7 p.m.) Annual
“Trunk or Treat” event for the kids will
be held at the Fisher’s Peak Community
Church on Santa Fe Trail Drive. Come for
popcorn, candy, music and a whole lot of
fun! Information: Lana Roberts, 719-868-
3375 or 719-251-1169.
SCRT Gala Reception
NOVEMBER 1 (5:30 p.m.) A free
Grand Opening “Wine & Cheese” Recep-tion
in celebration of the new mezzanine
gallery at the Famous Theater will be held
prior to the Jacquie Gipson / Wilson &
McKee Concert. Info: 719-846-4765.
Area Essay Contest
NOVEMBER 1 DEADLINE: The Trin-idad
VFW Post 984 will again be sponsor-ing
the Voice of Democracy and Patriot
Pen competitions for all local school stu-dents
(grades 9-12). Information: Com-mander
John Rios, 719-846-6094.
TIME CHANGE
NOVEMBER 2: Colorado Clocks
move backwards one hour.
ELECTION DAY
NOVEMBER 4: Ballots must be
turned in to the LA County Courthouse,
200 E. First St., by 7 p.m.
SUICIDE/CRISIS HOTLINES:
*ADULT HOPE: 800-784-2433
*TEEN: 877-968-8454
*GLB-YOUTH: 866-488-7386
*VET-2-VET: 877-838-2838
“It is often in the darkest skies that we
see the brightest stars.”
ABUSE HOTLINES:
*Domestic Abuse Hotline: In Trini-dad
call 719-846-6665 (24-hours a day).
In Walsenburg call: 719-738-0770. Na-tional
Hotline: 1-800-790-SAFE (7233).
*Animal Abuse: Report animal abuse
and dog/cock fighting at Crime Stoppers
anonymous tip line: 720-913-7867.
Weather Watch
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near
74. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph
becoming light and variable in the after-noon.
Night: Clear, with a low around
45. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph
becoming west southwest after mid-night.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 80.
West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph be-coming
light and variable. Night: Clear,
with a low around 45. Southeast wind
5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest
after midnight.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near
78. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Night:
Mostly clear, with a low around 47.
South southwest wind around 5 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near
74. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around
42. West southwest wind around 5 mph.
River Call
Purgatoire River Call as of:
10/22/14. Hoehne ditch: Prior-ity
# 9 --- Appropriation date:
01/01/1863.
Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:
Release 0 AF
Inflow 68.94 AF -- 34.76 CFS
Evaporation 6.94 AF
Content 12,006 AF
Elevation 6,170.07
Precipitation 0
Downstream River Call / High-land
Canal: 04/01/1884.
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Ladies find their mark
at Prator Gun Range
HEALTH & WELLNESS
New Nurse Practitioner Cappellucci
delighted to make Trinidad home
By Steve Block
The Chronicle-News
Trinidad’s newest Nurse Prac-titioner
has a special reason to be
happy that she’s now working at
the rural health clinic that’s part
of Mt. San Rafael Hospital. Lynne
Cappellucci, NP-C, is married to
Trinidad native Mike Cappellucci,
so she feels right at home here.
She’ll be seeing mostly prima-ry
care patients at the hospital’s
clinic, working with patients who
have an acute illness. Primary
care nurses handle walk-in pa-tients
who don’t feel well, but don’t
have an appointment. She started
her new job on Tuesday, coming
off a five-year stint at a privately
run prison in Olney Springs, while
working part-time at clinics in La
Junta and Rocky Ford. She’s also
worked at medical facilities in the
Phoenix, Arizona area and on the
Navajo Indian Reservation.
Cappellucci’s a Michigan native
who earned her bachelor’s degree
with honors from the University of
Michigan and her master’s degree,
also with honors, from Graceland
University in Missouri as a Fam-ily
Nurse Practitioner. Face to face
contact is her preferred method of
helping patients.
“Just coming from a nursing
perspective, you try to get down
to their level and ask them what’s
going on,” Cappellucci said. “You
never want to talk down to anyone,
so I try to get them to tell me what
kind of problems they’re having.”
Trinidad and Las Animas
County have many senior citizens,
and she said there a few things
that definitely help with senior pa-tients.
“I definitely think they should
have a family member with them
when they come in to the clinic, be-cause
that really helps a lot,” she
said. “It’s very important because
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THE ARTS
Steve Block / Chronicle-News
Lynne Cappellucci, NP-C, is the new Nurse Practitioner working at the Mt. San
Rafael Hospital Clinic.
Photos by Eric John Monson / Chronicle-News
Above (top), Sam Martin, center, takes some instruction, while Keith Gipson helps a women shooter on
the Prator Gun Range located east of Trinidad.
New CD released
by popular artists
Willson & McKee
By Scott Mastro
Correspondent
The Chronicle-News
Ken Willson and Kim McKee
are Willson & McKee. They live
and play traditional, Irish and
Scottish music, out of La Veta, and
they’ve been doing music for 23
years.
Their new album— On this
Days of Days— is traditional Brit-ish
Isles, with the Americaniza-tion
of acoustic guitar parts lean-ing
the Irish and Scottish into
bluegrass, traditional folk and
even the 1970s singer-songwriter
style, harkening wisps and mists
of Gordon Lightfoot, Don McLean
and Cat Stevens.
Hinting Moody Blues vocally,
Kishmul’s Galley opens the set, a
song from the West Hebrides, an
archipelago of islands off western
Scotland.
Irish harp and accordion go
strolling on the bogs, joyous-brooding
in Fig Set, a guitar com-ing
along, stealing the accordion
from the harp and offering a fig for
a kiss, a favorite piece from Will-son
McKee’s Montana days.
Tinkerman’s Daughter opens
like a women walking, toe to heel,
head down along the river, reflect-ed
in twilight water, her smitten
suitor not able to sleep, going the
next morning to ask for the hand,
Continued on Page 5 ...
Photo courtesy of the artists
BEGINNING MARKSWOMEN
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cal things, but one of the NRA’s main things
over the years has been education and
there’s a whole group of women’s programs.
So, this is a women’s only shooting clinic.
We have some beginners; we have some
with a little bit of experience, but mostly
limited experience, or beginning shooters.
And it was a shotgun event today. They also
do handgun and rifle events and this is our
first. And I believe it’s been very success-ful,”
said Keith Gipson who was leading the
day’s program. Gipson has taught at TSJC
in their world famous gun-smithing pro-gram
for over 26 years and is currently the
Associate Dean for Career and Technical
Education.
“It’s a safe way to get started,” continued
Gipson, who’s wife Jacquie, a well-known lo-cal
musician, was also a student in the class.
“There’s a lot of women interested in shoot-ing,
but they get in trouble if their husband,
or boyfriend, or somebody like that tries to
help them with shooting. There’s tension
sometimes and this male ego that gets in the
way. These Women on Target events are de-signed
to be a safe place where women are
surrounded by other beginners and there’s
less tension and pressure. So, it makes for a
safer environment for them to get started.”
King, an experienced shooter and also
owner of C&S Outdoors on N. Commer-cial
St. in Trinidad, echoed that sentiment;
speaking for her gender. “Women tend
to—for whatever reason—if there’s a man
teaching them, they tend to clam up and be
apprehensive. When it’s all women around
them they tend to be more at ease. They tend
to absorb more.”
It’s been well documented that even in
grade school girls excel much more readily
in subjects like math and science in gender-specific
environments. “And women tend
to do better learning in a group rather than
through one-on-one instruction with a man.
They’re more at ease in a herd,” said King
with a laugh. “We have everybody from
an 80-year-old women, a school teacher, a
nurse, a couple of women from the college.
There are all walks of life out here. They’re
learning and they’re shooting and they’ll
get themselves a shotgun soon and they’ll
come out here and interact. It’s just great for
someone like me to see this get started.”
Gipson, doing his best recruiting pitch,
mentioned several times to the gathered la-dies
that as this program goes on, they’d like
to have more and more women instructors,
until the program is completely run and at-tended
by women.
There are already plans for some more
Women on Target events in the future. The
classes, sponsored by Prator Range the
TSJC are mini-seminars with three hours
spent in a classroom and three hours spent
on the range. Other shooting safety classes
generally run about 16 hours and get more
in depth, said Gipson. Currently, the college
is working with the NRA to offer a full range
of shooting and safety classes out at Prator
Range. It’s expected that the next Women on
Target shooting clinic will deal with hand-guns.
And that’s OK with Donna Haddow, who
was a student Saturday, but is generally the
TSJC President’s Assistant and the sum-mer
NRA Program Coordinator. “I’m hop-ing
they have one for hand guns. That’s my
weak point. I’m still a little afraid of them.
And I think if they do they’ll probably see a
lot of these same women there.”
“We’re trying to add a lot more of these
classes,” continued Haddow. “And I thought
the more I learn the more I can help. I’m
hoping this class gets some of the word out
to women about how fun a class like this can
be. Once you’ve been around firearms you
realize how much fun you can have with
them and still be safe about it. At the college
we’ve been trying to develop more teachers
for these classes. Like Keith said, it would
be nice to have a few women teachers. But
these guys did a great job. They made every-one
feel very comfortable.”
Oh, and by the way, Haddow—who ad-mits
to having attended a couple of Satur-day’s
trap shooting gatherings at Prator, but
still describes herself as a beginning shoot-er—
broke 8-of-10 clays during the class.
According to TSJC this first class filled
up extremely fast—a big indicator of much
more to come. “It filled up very fast,” said
King. “It’s refreshing and exciting to finally
get some women out here. This is what (the
range) is for and this is a great hobby. It can
be an expensive hobby, but it’s a good hob-by.
It’s great therapy, cheap therapy. You
get to blow stuff up.”
King works with many beginning shoot-ers
through her store and through her con-nections
at TSJC and Prator Gun Range.
“Most of the women that come into the
store want self-defense. We try to steer them
towards shotguns—if they’ve never handled
a pistol before. We get them into a shotgun
that they’re comfortable with and we tend to
bring them out here—especially first-time
gun owners. We bring them out here and
teach them and let them shoot. Then we try
to get them out here Saturday afternoons
from 1 p.m.- 4 p.m. and shoot trap with us.
We have a big group and we have a really
good time. It gets you more comfortable with
a gun, gets you better at handling your gun
and like I said its good therapy. It’s cheap
therapy, too, at only $5 a round (25 clays).”
Student Sam Martin also had a great time
Saturday. “I enjoyed everything about this
class. It was just great being out here with all
the girls. It was just a great experience and
I’m so thankful to these guys who came out
to teach us. You learned a little something
from everyone. I’d really tell women not to
be afraid to come out here and start shoot-ing.
I’d recommend this to everybody.”
“It sure seemed like they were having a
ball,” said Gipson. “And that’s what it’s all
about— some good, safe, fun.”
For more information you can contact
TSJC and Keith Gipson at 719-846-5577, Prator
Gun Range at 719-680-7236, or Shelly King at
C&S Outdoors at shelly@candsoutdoors.com.
ELECTIONS
Photo by Eric John Monson / The Chronicle-News
By Scott Mastro
Correspondent
The Chronicle-News
Dashing and debonair, Grant Doherty, came walking along
the Trinidad Round-Up parade route espousing an idea that is
appealing, as well as gritty and formidable as an entreaty. “I’m
Grant Doherty, and I’m running for Congress as an Indepen-dent,”
meaning un-afilliated with any party, namely the Demo-crats
and/or Republicans.
Many complain the two-party system is broken. Politicians
are either in the beltway or they never get to spin the wheel and
play the game. Along comes Grant Doherty, trying to break that
broken merry-go-round.
About how he decided to attempt such a noble, and perhaps
naive endeavor, Grant said, “I am not really sure when the idea
to run really came to me. I haven’t been satisfied with the way
our government has been run for many years now, but have al-ways
had an interest in US History and politics. I considered
it in 2010 and decided not to run in 2012. With how volatile this
current congress has become, and with as ineffective as it is, I
finally got tired enough to stand up and try to make difference.”
Citing the difference between an Independent and Unaffiliat-ed
candidate, Grant said, “Technically I am not an Independent.
I am running as an Unaffiliated, so I am completely Unaffiliated
with any and all parties. The reason I decided to run as an Unaf-filiated
was to separate myself from all parties, to give myself
the best ability to do the job of representing the people of the 4th
Congressional District.”
About where he stands on the issues, Grant opined, “There
are three major issues that come to mind. First, and by far the
most pressing, is our ineffective Congress. It’s time to get Con-gress
working for the greater good of the entire population, and
actually doing their job representing their constituents. The
second issue is our national debt. It was an issue long before our
current administration, however this administration has just
exacerbated the issue. Democrats and Republicans talk about
needing to either raise taxes, or cutting programs, but there’s
a ton of wasteful spending in our federal government either
way, and either way they try to solve the debt issue with raising
taxes or cutting programs, they do not address the root issue
of wasting taxpayer money. It is our hard-earned money. The
government should use it as effectively and efficiently as pos-sible.
As your representative, I will look at ways to make gov-ernment
utilize tax money better, and not just try to patch the
issue by cutting programs or raising your taxes. The final issue
is our infrastructure. As an engineer, I’m potentially bias, but
our infrastructure has long been neglected. Millions of dollars
are lost every year due to poor roads. Thousands of gallons of
water are lost every year due to our leaking water infrastruc-ture.
And it’s only a matter of time before our electrical grid can
no longer handle the load being demanded of it.” Grant added,
“The Government shutdown negatively affected our economy,
the citizens, governmental employees, and also our Veterans
while Congress continued to get paid for sub-par performance.”
With money being a big factor in campaigns, Grant paid
compliments where due. “I have to give credit to all the people
that have helped me with this campaign not only financially,
but emotionally, and through their hard work volunteering. As
an Unaffiliated, I definitely have a disadvantage financially, but
what we don’t have in money we make up in hard work.”
About what is wrong with the US today, Grant offered, “Our
congress is completely ineffective. It fails to address the con-cerns
of its constituents. The country needs to get back to its
roots, a government of, for, and by the people, giving less con-sideration
to what the political parties have at stake. The coun-try
was founded by people that put in the hard work to come
together through the hard decisions to find common ground
to form this country. The role of our representatives is not to
push their party agenda or that of special interest groups, but
do their best to work on solutions to issues that help a vast ma-jority
of the population, not just their party affiliates.”
As for a political role model, Grant revealed, “Abraham Lin-coln,
because just as I am today, he grew tired of the political
parties and the political games of his time which lead him to
break off. He also found success by surrounding himself with
people of various viewpoints from across the political spec-trum.”
About campaigning, he said, “It’s been great, getting down to
the wire now with ballots being mailed out. It’s been good to get
the opportunity to meet many of the great people from this state,
and I’ve been fortunate to visit some really great places here in
Colorado I’ve not been to before. The largest characteristic that
I have found is just that people are really tired of Washington
and party politics. Many are excited to seen an Unaffiliated in
the race, as well as someone that is of a younger generation. It
really is past time that we stop voting in party representatives
and actually vote for someone that will represent the people of
the state and district as they are intended to. I didn’t choose to
run and to run as an Unaffiliated because I thought it was the
easy way. I’m doing it because I feel it is the right way.”
For more information about Grant Doherty’s running for
the 4th Congressional District seat in the US House of Repre-sentatives,
phone 307-575-1280, or email grant.doherty@doherty-forushouse.
com. The website is dohertyforushouse.com.
Photo courtesy of Grant Doherty
Grant Doherty is running for the US House of Representatives
seat in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.
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