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Billie | 27 October 2005
1ST SUPER G IN A LONG TIME
The women’s World Cup races in Aspen, scheduled for Dec. 9-11, will include a Super G for the first time in years. The Aspen World Cup events will be the sixth on the schedule this season, and will include Aspen’s first big outdoor concert of the winter scheduled for Dec. 10 on closed streets at Hunter and Hyman.
-Aspen Times, 10.27.05
WIENERSTUBE TO BASALT
Aspen’s venerable Wienerstube restaurant will open a second restaurant in Basalt on December 1. The Wienerstube in Basalt will be in the Riverside Plaza building where the Hestia restaurant used to operate. The Wienerstube will continue its Aspen location. The Wienerstube opened 40 years ago in Aspen.
-Aspen Times, 10.27.05
SOUTHWEST: 1.5M MORE TO DIA?
Southwest Airlines will announce its plans today for what cities it will connect to Denver and its introductory fares. Denver International Airport officials project that Southwest will add as many as 1.5 million passengers to DIA.
-Denver Post, 10.27.05
BLM: NOTIFICATION REPORT
The Friday meeting of the Southwest Resource Advisory Council meeting will feature a response from the Bureau of Land Management on the council’s six-point resolution designed to improve the agency’s communication to surface owners of the sale of mineral rights beneath their property.
-Montrose Daily Press, 10.26.05
MANNING LEAVING TRAILS 2000
Bill Manning, who has headed Trails 2000 since 1993, is leaving his post to become the first managing director of the Colorado Trail Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Golden that helps maintain the 500-mile Colorado Trail, that stretches across Colorado. While heading Trails 2000, Manning directed the construction of the Telegraph Trail in Horse Gulch, among others.
-Durango Herald, 10.27.05
DOW CHECKING AT DOTSERO
All hunters coming off the Colorado River Road are being stopped at the hunter checkpoint set up at Dotsero. Members of the Colorado State Patrol, Colorado Division of Wildlife and the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office have set up the annual checkpoint to verify hunting licenses, animals taken and information on where hunters had been and animals seen.
-Vail Daily, 10.26.05
IT’S SKI SWAP TIME
The Vail Ski and Snowboard Club will hold its annual Vail Ski Swap this Friday and Saturday, with 30 to 35 vendors expected to be selling skis, snowboards, boots, clothing and accessories at discounted prices at the Dobson Ice Arena in Vail. Admission from 7 p.m. Friday to 3 p.m. Saturday is $5, with free admission after 3 p.m. on Saturday.
-Vail Daily, 10.26.05
TRAPPER’S LAKE RULING
A federal district court judge ruled on Oct. 19 that the U.S. Forest Service should not have revoked its permits for operations of the Trapper’s Lake Lodge, and awarded Trapper’s its court costs, but not legal fees. The permit revocation led to the sale of the property, but the decision will not impact the recent sale of the property.
-Rio Blanco Times Herald, 10.27.05
BIOCONTROL: IT WORKS, SLOWLY
Officials of Colorado State University reported Wednesday that efforts to control bindweed using the bindweed mite has proven successful, but the biocontrol method takes time. There have been more than 3,000 releases of the mite around the state, with the majority in the Grand Valley and the Uncompahgre Valley and one of the most successful efforts has been along the U.S. Highway 50 corridor.
-GJ Daily Sentinel, 10.27.05
USFS DONATES MAPS
The U.S. Forest Service has donated about 250 maps to the Routt County Search and Rescue team. Search and Rescue has had about 60 missions this year, about twice as many as the total mission for the past years, with more than half the missions on National Forest Service land where tree cover sometimes prevents GPS systems from working.
-Steamboat Pilot, 10.27.05
