A futon frame with a “free” sign on it was recently discovered in the Crystal River, just down from the crossing on Crystal Bridge Drive in RVR. Another photo of the frame circulated on the Carbondale Facebook page. It was quickly revealed that a group of kids had been spotted hauling it toward the river, the futon’s former owner, Ashley Bennett Jardine, relayed to The Sopris Sun, having originally been placed at the intersection of Graceland and Holland Drive in hopes that someone else would make better, long-term use of it. When she learned the futon frame had made its way to the middle of the Crystal, her husband rallied a few friends who went to retrieve it. “We had hoped that it would find a new home, but not in the river!” Bennett Jardine commented on Facebook. Photo by Skyler Stark-Ragsdale