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Longing for Local by Jennie Lay
Longing For Local
Homespun Gifts for the Holiday
Dear Santa,
I’ve been an extra good girl this year, so I hope you’ll keep that in mind when you and your generous elves start pondering my extra-special wish list. You see, this year I’ve been on a mission to live more sustainably. Solar energy powers my home and work. I bought organic food from a Community Supported Agriculture farm. I let my recycling pile sky-high while we waited for Waste Management’s recycling machine to get fixed. I slashed my carbon footprint with half as many car trips to town. I ate less meat, voted ... Full Article
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Hidden Highlights by Eugene Buchanan
Hidden Highlights
Key Design Components of Steamboat's new downtown.
The face of Steamboat’s downtown is being transformed before our very eyes, from the new Bud Werner Memorial Library at 13th Street and Lincoln Avenue to the commanding new mixed-use developments eastward on Lincoln. Apart from modernizing what was a simple ranching town a hundred years ago, what the new buildings share is an attention to design detail that goes above and beyond traditional developments. Following is a snapshot of some of their unique design elements. ##image1-center- Left: The Bud Werner Library welcomes bookworms with an epoxy, terrazzo floor with brass and mosaic inlays. Photo by: Tim Murphy Right: The Victoria’s native sandstones and brick highlight a curved ... Full Article
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The Ice Driver Cometh by Deborah Olsen. Photography By Corey Kopischke
The Ice Driver Cometh
Slow down, ease off, time to take your foot off the gas,” Bridgestone Winter Driving School instructor Morgan Kavanaugh says calmly into his radio.
It doesn’t register in time. His student, Joe, continues barreling toward the snowbank at the end of the curve, which greets his car with a muffled thud. Fortunately, no harm, no foul – Morgan has seen it before.
To the student in the next drill, timid old me, he gives opposite commands. “A little more gas!” he admonishes. “You have to go faster if you want to put the car into a skid.”
One drill ... Full Article
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