Champion the Enemy’s Needby Kim Stafford, former poet Laureate of OregonAsk about your enemy’s wounds and scars/Seek his hidden cause of trouble.Feed your enemy’s children.Learn their word for home.Repair their well.Learn their sorrow’s history.Trace their lineage of the good.Ask them for a song.Make tea. Break bread.Illène PevecCarbondale Shared responsibilityDear Carbondale friends, neighbors, business owners and […]
Illène Pevec
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Letters – June 2, 2022
Remembering a small town Memorial Day, as I write this, is a day to think back to people and things we miss. My father served in the Navy in WWII and Korea on aircraft carriers. I found a history of the ship he served aboard during the crucial naval battle for Leyte Gulf in the […]
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What can we do? We can plant trees!
What can we do? By Illène Pevec Special to The Sopris Sun In Colorado and around the world, devastating fires have burned, are burning, will burn. Droughts dry, high-speed winds blow. Sea levels rise around the globe, threatening entire island nations and our own coasts! What can we do to mitigate these challenges? We can […]
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Cada árbol es un ecosistema en miniatura
Traducción por Dolores Duarte Este 29 de abril, en el Día del Árbol, los amantes de los árboles tuvieron una buena razón y amplias oportunidades para celebrarlo. La historia del Día del Árbol en Estados Unidos data de la década de 1870. Julius Sterling Morton, editor del Nebraska City News, fue un ferviente partidario de […]
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Every tree is a mini-ecosystem
This Arbor Day, April 29, tree enthusiasts have good reason and ample opportunities to celebrate. The history of Arbor Day in the United States reaches back to the 1870s. Julius Sterling Morton, editor of the Nebraska City News, was an avid proponent of planting trees and often wrote on that very subject. Later, leveraging his […]
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Gratitude to the Native Americans who helped our ancestors
We learned in grade school about the Native Americans sharing seeds and agricultural knowledge with the Pilgrims. Just imagine, a Pilgrim had never seen corn, squash or beans, the “three sisters” plants cultivated and adapted by our continent’s first peoples. Later events, the broken land treaties, Trail of Tears and the expulsion of the Utes […]
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Letters – Sept. 16, 2021
RFSD board election This letter is in support of Kenny Teitler for Roaring Fork School District School Board District A. Being a former teacher, Kenny knows what it takes to keep quality teachers in the classroom. He knows that teachers need time with students and time to create and develop the lessons that ensure all […]