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The question voters must answer in the coming weeks is: has my work as a trustee of Silverton been valuable to the community? It’s humbling to serve from the seat of trustee. I hold tremendous respect for the position and its responsibilities.

Ongoing • Monthly “Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Northern San Juans Group” Zoom meeting. Date: 12/07/20 Time: 1-3 PM Subject: Inside BLM Planning - Join guest Bruce Krickbaum, veteran BLM planner, for a presentation and discussion focussing on BLM’s NEPA process, grazing permitting, and recent e-bike decisions.

Photo Credit - Wes Berg.

Pond Hocky on Beaver Pond Photo Credit - Jeff Davis.

Swearing in of our County Commissioner. Photo Credit - Casie Lashley.

Ongoing • Monthly “Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Northern San Juans Group” Zoom meeting. Date: 12/07/20 Time: 1-3 PM Subject: Inside BLM Planning - Join guest Bruce Krickbaum, veteran BLM planner, for a presentation and discussion focussing on BLM’s NEPA process, grazing permitting, and recent e-bike decisions.

Photo Credit - Caleb Leland.

Independence brought me to this land where I could work with heavy hand and I could rely on my own self reliant not on communal help “Self-made” is my battle cry when criticized by freedoms’ lies if I, too, could get to where I am it’s not my fault their “can’t” replaced my “can” Success is how you play the game an achievement that affords no blame this recipe of hard work cannot be bought when mixed with a childhood of “have-not” Progress is where we are today trial and tribulation sit at bay comfort and ease we can now sell So what if we act like a cancer cell? Independence and Self-made stride along Success and Progress’s side Four Horsemen off into the smoke Of all the world’s burning hope..

A horse drawn cart makes it way over the Bear Creek Falls Bridge and Toll House on the Silverton-Ouray road in 1907. Courtesy of San Juan County Historical Society.