This document is a newspaper listing community events in and around Trinidad, Colorado for the week of April 7-11, 2015. It includes notices for several local government board meetings, a talent show, art show opening, flea market, mystery event, concerts, and parenting workshop. The sidebar provides additional local news briefs and weather forecasts.
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Vol. 139, No. 69
Tuesday
April7,2015
APRIL 7
THE SAMARITAN CLINIC
TUESDAY (9 a.m.-4 p.m./1st and
3rd each month) Here to serve the un-
der-insured and non-insured communi-
ty with free health care and low-cost lab
work, 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month
at 413 E. Frost. Info: 719-846-3536.
Las Animas County
TUESDAY (9 a.m.) Board of County
Commissioners meeting is in the Las
Animas Courthouse, 200 E. First St.,
Room 201. Information: 719-845-2568.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: Gary
Hill (719-845-2595), Mack Louden
(719-845-2592), and Anthony Abey-
ta (719-846-9300).
Trinidad City Council
TUESDAY (7 p.m.) Regular ses-
sion will be held in Council Chambers,
City Hall, 135 N. Animas St. Informa-
tion: 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
“Destiny is not a
matter of chance. It
is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be
waited for. It is a thing
to be achieved.”
~Epitaph
APRIL 8
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.
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
TRINIDAD’S GOT TALENT
THURSDAY (6:30 p.m.) Singing and
dancing talent with acts to amaze — fun
for the whole family at this annual event
attheTrinidadMiddleSchoolAuditorium,
614 Park St. Info: 719-846-4411.
FLEA MARKET & BAKE SALE
FRIDAY (8:30 am.) Sayre Senior
Center will be hosting their annual Flea
Market and Bake Sale fundraiser at the
Center, 1222 San Pedro. Info: Anna Ris-
ley, 719-846-3336. Proceeds help sup-
port the Center.
GREAT GATSBY MYSTERY
FRIDAY (5-7 p.m.) Wear your 1920s
costume and join the effort to solve the
murder that’s happened at the Carnegie
Public Library, 202 N. Animas St. Info:
Felicity Boepple, 719-846-6841.
ART SHOW OPENING GALA
FRIDAY (6-8 p.m.) Trinidad Area
Arts Council’s opening reception for
“Primal Dance: Movements in Color,”
an exhibition of art by Roxanne Regan-
Briggs will be held at Gallery Main, 130
E. Main St. Info: 719-846-1441.
EASTER CONCERT
FRIDAY (7 p.m.) Second perfor-
mance of “A Celebration of the
Resurrection” musical presenta-
tion by the Choir and TUMC Gospel
Combo will be held at the Methodist
Church, 216 Broom St.
SPRING FLING
SATURDAY: Come out for the an-
nual Holy Trinity Academy Flea Market
and Craft Sale fundraiser for the school.
Call for vendor info: 719-846-4522.
LOVE & LOGIC
SATURDAY&APRIL18 (9:30 a.m.-
4:30 p.m.) This outstanding parenting
program will be held at the Mt. Carmel
Community Center, 911 Robinson St.
Registration & Info: 719-845-4894.
ALL ABOUT GIRLS
SATURDAY (11:30 a.m.- 1:30
p.m.) An exciting musical luncheon
will be held at Mt. Carmel’s Primero
Café, 911 Robinson St. Tickets and
info: 719-845-4822.
Stonewall FPD Auxiliary
SATURDAY (2 p.m.) A general
membership meeting will be held at
the Stonewall Fire Hall. Info: 719-868-
2249.
TheFinePrint
WeatherWatchTuesday: Sunny, with a high near 73.
Breezy, with a southwest wind 10 to 20 mph,
with gusts as high as 35 mph. Night: Mostly
clear, with a low around 38. Breezy, with a
southwest wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as
high as 30 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 68.
Windy, with a southwest wind 10 to 20 mph
increasing to 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
Winds could gust as high as 40 mph. Night:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy,
with a west wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing
to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Winds could
gust as high as 35 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near
58. West wind around 10 mph becoming
north in the afternoon. Night: Mostly cloudy,
with a low around 31. North northeast wind
5 to 10 mph becoming west after midnight.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64.
South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Night:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. South-
west wind 5 to 10 mph.
RiverCall
Purgatoire River Call as of:
04/06/15. Hoehne ditch: Priority
# 20 --- Appropriation date:
10/07/1865.
Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:
Release 37.31 AF
Inflow 127.28 AF -- 64.17 CFS
Evaporation 10.97 AF
Content 20,271 AF
Elevation 6,184.02
Precipitation 0
Downstream River Call / High-
land Canal: 05/31/1866.
TheChronicleNews
Work
beginsBright and early Monday morning
the construction work to rebuild Com-
mercial Street began. Funds for the
project came from a DOLA grant and
matching City funds. Look for partial
road closings, a block at a time, over
the next several months.
Photos by Eric John Monson / The Chronicle-News
COMMERCIAL ST.
ADVANCED & UPDATED PROGRAMING
Computer Kernel offers
technology solutions,
service for area usersBy Steve Block
The Chronicle-News
Many people are only too fa-
miliar with that dreaded moment
when their computer freezes up,
crashes or just runs too slowly.
Computer Kernel is one of Trini-
dad’s newest businesses, and of-
fers a complete package of soft-
ware programs to fix computers
and keep them running smoothly.
It derives its unique name from
a computer kernel, which inter-
faces between the three major
computer hardware components,
providing services between the ap-
plication / user interface and the
Central Processing Unit (CPU),
memory and other hardware In-
put / Output devices, according
to the website: www.techopedia.
com.
The team at Computer Kernel
includes Kris and Paula Alworth
and Billy Robb, but the key player
is Hayden Alworth the 16 year-old,
home-schooled tech whiz who has
developed a software program
called “PC Popper,” that prevents
unwanted programs from opening
automatically when the computer
starts up. They can work on, and
if necessary replace, any of the
components of a computer’s hard
drive.
“We can do the hardware re-
placements,” Kris Alworth said.
“Ourmainfocusisspeedingthings
up and making the operating sys-
tem function more smoothly.”
The team concentrates on the
various Windows operating sys-
tems, though they will have a look
at Apple computers and see what
they can do. Computers get dirty
when too many software programs
are downloaded onto them and
they can get so slow it isn’t even
worth turning them on. It took
young Hayden about 2.5 years to
develop the PC Popper program,
which he started when he was try-
ing to fix the Alworth’s own home
Steve Block / The Chronicle-News
The Computer Kernel opened in January at 827 Arizona Ave. Billy Robb, left,
and Kris Alworth of Computer Kernel work to make computers run more
smoothly and effectively. Continued on Page 3 ...
Staff Report
The Chronicle-News
WALSENBURG—Contemptof
court charges filed against Third
Judicial District Attorney Frank
Ruybalid were dismissed Thurs-
day, March 19, after a brief hear-
ing in District Court, reported the
Huerfano Journal last week. Last
week was also the first week attor-
ney Terry Ruckriegle began his
monitoring of Ruybalid’s office as
part of an agreement, after sanc-
tions, with the Office of Attorney
Regulation Counsel.
Ruybalid faced the charges of
contempt when no attorney from
the DA’s office appeared in court
for three criminal hearings on
Thursday, December 11, 2014. The
court dismissed the three separate
criminal cases against defendants
Noah A. Graf, Jodie Howard and
Michael Montez when they were
called due to the lack of a pros-
ecutor in the courtroom. District
Judge Claude Appel had to dis-
miss the cases and cited Ruybalid
for contempt of court. Ruybalid
later, as way of explanation, cit-
ed a misunderstanding between
he and fill-in Deputy DA, Steven
Jones.
Graf had faced 10 local charges
including: two counts of posses-
sion of a controlled substance
with intent to manufacture or
distribute, one count was a class 2
felony, the other a class 3 felony;
first degree aggravated motor
vehicle theft, class four felony;
second degree criminal trespass,
a class four felony; criminal mis-
chief, a class four felony; vehicu-
lar eluding, a class five felony,
obstructing a peace officer, class
two misdemeanor, driving under
restraint, eluding a peace officer
and speeding.
Howard, in a companion case
with Graf, had been charged with
theft over $20,000, a class three
felony, possession of a schedule II
controlled substance with intent
to manufacture or distribute, a
class three felony and vehicular
eluding, a class five felony.
Montez had been charged in
association with an assault at
the Huerfano County Jail in late
November 2014. The charges dis-
missed against him were retalia-
tion against a witness or victim,
a class three felony and assault in
the third degree, a class three mis-
Contempt of court charges against DA Ruybalid dismissed
OFFICE MONITORING BEGINS
Continued on Page 2 ...
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Computer Kernel offers technology solutions, service for area users ... Continued from Page 1
computer. The Windows operating sys-
tems use registry keys in order to organize
their data, and sometimes those registry
keys get broken and a technician has to go
inside the hard drive and replace them so
the computer can be directed to the proper
link. Hayden began developing new soft-
ware programs and eventually PC Popper
was born.
“You basically take out the broken link
andputinanewone,”Krissaid.“Hestarted
building up a library of that and then all of a
sudden he started developing software that
would do it automatically. Then he took it
to the next level with the PC Popper pro-
gram. It will catch the potentially unwanted
software and get rid of it completely, totally
out of the system, as opposed to some of
the other software that will just take por-
tions of it out so it’s not operable. With this
program he tries to get it completely out of
the system. Then he deals with the startup
menus. Many programs start up as soon as
you start the computer. He likes to set it up
so that nothing starts up unless you want it
to start up. It’s on-demand software.”
Paula Alworth said that some software
programs, such as Adobe Shop, tend to el-
evate themselves above other programs. All
software companies try to do this with their
programs, she said, and with multiple soft-
ware programs opening automatically on
startup it can cause the computer to slow
down or crash.
Team member Billy Robb said the tech-
sters at Computer Kernel seem to prefer
the Windows XP operating system, feeling
that it’s a more stable platform to work with
than the other Windows systems, though
they will work with any Windows platform.
The team members will go directly to a
business or a home whose computers aren’t
working properly though that costs a little
more than if the computer owner can bring
the computer in to the store. They can also
work on a computer remotely from their
Trinidad office, as long as they have that
computer’s identification information.
“For example, we have a customer in La
Junta,” Paula said. “We visited her once,
and since then we have worked on her com-
puter from our office. That saves time both
for her and for us.”
Robb said his biggest challenge in the
new business is getting parts, with some
of them having to be shipped in all the way
fromChina.Ifthewrongpartisshipped,the
customer has to wait for the correct part to
be shipped. Robb said he’s been working on
getting the technology he needs to replace
broken cellular phone screens, thus add-
ing a new component to the business. The
techs can also fix broken cell phones and
computerized tablets, which Robb said are
a rapidly growing area in the computer in-
dustry.
Many computer users thoughtlessly
download software programs from the
Internet, and wind up with spyware, mal-
ware or adware on their computers, which
can severely damage a computer’s perfor-
mance, Paula said. It helps to think before
you download anything.
The team members love the challenge of
digging into a broken computer, and bring-
ing it back to peak performance. Having
their own software program that can do
that, as developed by Hayden Alworth, cer-
tainly helps a great deal.
The Computer Kernel software can be
downloaded at the website: www.down-
load.cnet.com, for a cost of approximately
$20. The facility is located at 827 Arizona
Ave. and the phone number is: 719-859-6493,
while the e-mail address is: www.Com-
puterKernel@yahoo.com.
BUSINESSHELP WHEN YOU NEED IT
Photo courtesy of TSJC
Hayden Alworth, 16, is also a student at Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC). Pictured above, Alworth, tests
sensors to put on TSJC’s autonomous robot, which competed this past weekend in a science competition.
He also regularly assists electronics professors at TSJC. Alworth hopes to seek a graduate degree once he
gets his bachelors degree in the science and engineering fields.