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Publisher’s ColumnBy Robert Sweeney

Summertime in the Colorado Mountains means it’s also time for road paving projects, as CDOT rolls out the asphalt equipment and paves the wearing roadways sometimes working 24/7 shifts.

Interstate 70 is our major East/West high-way and is the major transportation artery. The Eisenhower Tunnel was a great accomplishment in state transportation and boon to the tourist industry when completed in the 1970s.

We face major challenges in the future of how to handle the growing number of vehicles using I-70 for work and pleasure. The traffic on week-ends and holidays can add hours to a mountain drive. Efforts are continuing to study the prob-lem from highway widening to high-speed over-head trains.

Having Western Slope roots, we like to gath-er back in Craig, Palisade, Fruita, Grand Junc-tion and Vail with family and friends. Such was the case this past weekend with a mini-family retreat in Vail.

We spent the weekend with two daughters, and two grandchildren, taking in the Vail Farm-er’s Market, the ultimate in retailing on Main Street, literally on the pavement.

Long time readers may recall a family retreat where we moved into the wrong house for an afternoon, refrigerator full of beverages, great house, all had the same address number, but we were two doors away from where we were sup-posed to be. Thank goodness it all worked out.

This past Monday was another interesting memory and I’m reminded of daughter Saun-dra lugging a cooler full of food from the wrong house to the right house…not a happy camper at that moment.

Most recently this daughter has been fighting a good fight against colon cancer and has com-pleted all ph ases of surgery and chemo cocktails. She is still lugging the same cooler around.

On Monday, we departed the gathering after we cleaned up the house. Saundra left first driv-ing her trusty Mike Shaw Suburban loaded with those same coolers. Her daughter Michelle had already departed earlier to get back to her job in Parker.

Heading toward Vail pass, leading to Copper Mountain, we had a cell phone call from Saun-dra that her Suburban was boiling and she had pulled over in a massive lane of traffic some-where up ahead.

The long line of winding vehicles were creep-ing through the highway-paving zone and there was the white Suburban, steam blowing out of the radiator and Saundra on the side of the jammed roadway.

We pulled up behind her, turned on the emergency lights and surveyed the situation. We had a boiling radiator, no water, hundreds of cars creeping past and we were several miles from the top of the pass.

Being an old farm boy, who ran all kinds of tractors, I knew to be very careful in removing the cap from a boiling radiator. After a short time the antifreeze quit boiling in the clear plas-tic overflow tank and I thought it would be safe to take off the cap and try and find some new coolant to put back in the radiator. The fan belts seemed to be intact. I stood back and reaching from a distance unscrewed the radiator cap – while not boiling anymore the pressurized ra-diator just blew a geyser of steaming water into the sky. Saundra got a few hot splashes and I

was virtually unscathed from the boiling water gushing skyward.

Out of nowhere an American Civil Engineer-ing worker arrived with a spray can of water and he started spraying the radiator. A native of Fort Collins this man was an angel from heaven.

As we sprayed the radiator he peered inside the engine and said, “There’s a dead rabbit in the fan hood.”

He reached his arm into the radiator hood and with his gloved hand pulled out what was left of a rather large cottontail bunny rabbit. Talk about pulling a rabbit out of a hat, how about pulling one out of your radiator on Vail Pass.

The dead rabbit had plugged the radiator airflow, blocked the fan from turning and the result was a boiling hot engine. No idea where the bunny came from – but he was not an Easter Bunny gift on this day.

A trucker stopped and offered 2-gallon cans of antifreeze, and a nice lady gave us a gallon of water.

The next crisis was to find the radiator cap that had blown away in the geyser; without the cap, the coolant system wouldn’t work. We moved the van forward, and finally our saint found the cap on the engine block.

We filled the radiator with the various forms of liquid; brushed off more rabbit fur, checked the oil level and the oil didn’t appear to be burned. The motor started, the cooling gauge dropped to 210 degrees.

If we could make it several miles to the top of the pass it was almost all downhill, back to the Denver area and Saundra’s home near Elizabeth.

Saundra, who is a South Metro Denver Chamber Ambassador, observed that the CEO of the engineering company is a member of the South Metro Chamber also; he deserves a huge “thank you” for a concerned paving employee who came to the aid of a stranded motorist.

Standing on the highway was a lesson in feel-ing helpless, yet moving forward, and most of all to see the many helping hands that just came out of nowhere from people who gave assistance.

Along the road of life we need to give a help-ing hand to others and you never know when that hand may be helping you in return.

I will always remember the worker holding up a dead rabbit from a radiator on Vail Pass on a hot summer day.

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Self-Parking is availablePull into our parking lot, take a right and you’ll find close-in, self-parking spots. Canyon Casino also offers free valet parking 7 days a week.

www.theisleblackhawk.com.Win a Cadillac EscaladeWin a 2011 Cadillac Escalade Sept. 4 and 5 at the Isle Black Hawk in the End of Summer Drive-away giveaway. Receive one free entry daily beginning Aug. 1; earn additional entries Fridays through Sundays and Sept. 5 for each set of 25 unadjusted points. One lucky Isle winner will drive away on Sunday, Sept. 4, at 10 p.m. and another on Monday, Sept. 5, at 9 p.m. Visit IsleOne or Guest Services for complete details.

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Paradise 50 Plus All guests age 50 or better can join the NEW Paradise 50 Plus club Sundays through Thursdays. Take advantage of all the great benefits by registering at the guest service center prior to playing. You will receive 2X points on all slots and video poker games, a free soft serve ice cream and a Free Calypso’s Buffet for you and a friend after earning five unadjusted points.

New poker roomPull up a seat to experience the comfort and all-in excitement at Black Hawk’s newest poker room. Something is going on daily in the poker room beginning with Sundays, play four hours and receive a free dinner buffet. For complete information, visit the poker podium. Follow our poker room manager Matthew Dodd on Twitter @BlackHawkPoker.

UFC fights at Orchid GardenNow watch all UFC fights at Orchid Garden. Don’t miss the world middleweight championship, Silva vs. Okami Saturday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m.

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Play and stayPlay 30 unadjusted points on your IsleOne club card on Mondays thru Thursdays between 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. and stay the night on us. Check with Guest Services once you have earned your points to receive your hotel offer. This offer is valid only on the day the points are earned.

Bus fare refundDo you ride the bus to Black Hawk? The Isle will now refund your bus fare up to $20. Simply earn 35 unadjusted points on your IsleOne card and present your return bus ticket to the guest service center. Table Games players will receive bus fare back with four hours of consecutive play. This offer is available daily from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Table Games The Isle has all your favorite table games including black jack, three card poker, let it ride, bonus 6, Texas Hold’em bonus, roulette and craps with 10 times odds. The Isle will always have at least one Black Jack game with a $5 minimum bet.

Farraddays’ Farraddays’ has a new menu that you simply must try. Many favorites from the old menu return this spring and Chef David Oliveri has added new original and delicious selections as well. Farraddays’ offers exceptional quality for a great value. Farraddays’ is open at 5 p.m. nightly. Reservations are recommended and can be made by phoning 303-998-7777.

New menu at TradewindsTradewinds at the Isle has a new menu that features delicious burgers. Whether you try the classics, a green chile and chipotle, the black & blue or mushroom and Swiss burger you will not be disappointed. Tradewinds even offers a mouthwatering cheeseburger burrito. So the next time you are hungry for a great burger, visit Tradewinds at the Isle Casino Hotel Black Hawk

Pet friendly hotelThe Isle Hotel has Pet Friendly rooms available for a small fee. Furry friends less than 50 pounds can enjoy a stay at the Isle with you. Pet friendly rooms will offer your pet use of a doggie bed, food and water bowls and a fenced doggie area. Disposable litter boxes will be available for feline guests. For reservations in a pet friendly room please call 303-998-7777. Rooms are subject to availability.

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Rosemary FetterCathleen Norman

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Linda WommackAlan Krigman

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John BrokoppMargaret MalsamDorothy RosbyLarry JohnsonMike EikenberryRay LundinJan MacKellJeffrey Smith

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By Ray Lundin -Gemologist

Rubies and sapphires may look very different, but are from the same family called corundum; if they are red, they are called rubies; if they are any other color, they are called sapphires. They are not only royal gems, but are sacred as well. In the Catholic Church, sap-phires have been used in the rings of bishops and cardinals. The blue color symbolizes heaven, and supposedly, people who wear them become more virtuous, devout and wise.

Traditionally, Buddhists have believed sapphires signified friendship and wisdom. Ancient Hindus thought if they offered a ruby to the god Krishna, they’d be reborn as an em-peror. According to Hindu writings, the ruby represented the sun and the sapphire rep-resented the planet Saturn. Rubies and sapphires have been revered throughout history because of their rich looking colors. These colors make them look like jewels even when they are cut into simple rounded stones with no facets. A dia-mond cut this way would look very drab. Many people don’t realize that each stone is a blend of two colors. For example, in one direction a ruby may look purplish and in another have an orange look. But when you view it as a whole, you see a sumptuous red. In fact, the ruby is blessed with a red aura. It’s usually in the sun that you see this dis-tinctive glow. The ancient Burmese said it could even be seen in the dark.

Rubies and sapphires, because of their hardness, have been used as jewel bearings in watches, meters and aircraft instruments. Since 1960, lab-made ru-bies have been used as a core in lasers. One large sapphire was even used as a doorstop. An Australian gem buyer paid around $24 for a rough sapphire about the size of a chicken egg (1,156 carats). It had originally been found by a little boy and used as a doorstop. Later, the gem buyer sold the stone to an American who cut it into a 733-carat star sapphire called the “Black Star of Queensland.” According to one report, its value is estimated at more

than $300,000.If Cleopatra could see

today’s emeralds, she’d be amazed at how green and vibrant an emerald can be. None of her emeralds were faceted to bring out their brilliance and

sparkle. Most were mottled and heavily

flawed. Their color tend-ed to be either pale or drab

and they were the royal jewels.The first known emerald mines

were in Egypt. They operated from around 330 BC into the

1700s. Some reports say that Egyptian deposits may have been mined as early as 3500 BC. Egypt was the only significant source of emeralds for Asia and Eu-rope until the 1500s when the Spanish invaded the

Americas. Up to that time, it was unknown to the out-

side world that Indian tribes in Central and South America had

been using fine emeralds in jewelry and ceremonial objects. These

emeralds, which originated in what is now Colombia, were larger, more transparent and much greener than those mined in Egypt. During the

16th century, large quantities of Colombian emeralds entered

the European market. The emer-alds then made their way to Persia and

India and became part of the treasures of Indian Moguls and Arabian sheiks. Be-cause of the scarcity of green forests and fields in their countries, Muslims have long cherished the color green. In fact, it is the holy color of Islam.

The Roman Scholar Pliny the Elder from the 1st Century AD wrote: “Indeed, no stone (the emerald) has a color that is more delightful to the eye, for whereas the sight fixes itself with avidity upon the green grass and foliage of the trees, we have all the more pleasure in looking upon the emerald, there being no green in exis-tence more intense than this.”

The therapeutic effects of green are even recognized today. The use of the standard “hospital green” is based on the ability of green to induce a sense of calm and rest. In China, people working in fine embroidery factories are encouraged to often glance at green plants and trees to help maintain their eyesight.

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By Jeffrey V. SmithFollowing a nationwide search, St.

Louis-based Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. announced in late June it promoted Ar-nold L. Block, 63, to be its new chief op-erating officer. Block replaced Virginia McDowell who served as Isle’s president and COO.

The executive, who earned a BS in business administration from the Uni-versity of Missouri, brings nearly 20 years of experience in the industry to the position. Prior to being named the new COO, Block has served as senior vice president of Isle Operations from De-cember 2008. He also served as senior vice president and general manager of Harrah’s, St. Louis and worked in a va-riety positions for several years at Argosy Gaming Company. His career began as general manager, and later owner, of a 150-room hotel in Alton, Ill., and as the owner and operator of two restaurants in St. Louis.

“Throughout his career, he has con-sistently demonstrated his commitment to his customers, his employees, and the communities in which he operated,”

McDowell said in a press release. “His entrepreneurial spirit and focus on op-erational excellence are evidenced in his record in the gaming industry, as well as his background as a former restaurant owner/operator and tourism executive. Under his leadership, our casinos have and will continue to offer an experience that is consistently clean, safe, friendly and fun.”

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Nothing is rushed because the brothers take great pride in their food. Mike arrives at 5 a.m. to begin baking and prepares all the breads, buns, pizza dough and desserts before opening.

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Central City

Renovations are underway, and all Central City

businesses are open & welcome visitors By Suzanne Paulman

C entral City is undergo-ing an exciting beauti-fication project of Main

Street this summer called Streetscape. This is the first major and comprehensive ren-ovation of downtown’s primary street in more than 135 years and Streetscape’s design plans were more than several years in the making.

Streetscape officially be-gan on July 7 when the Mayor Ron Engels turned over the first shovelful of dirt in break-ing ground on the project. Streetscape is expected to be entirely completed no later than early October.

The renovation project is collaboration between the City of Central and the Black Hawk Sanitation District, each sharing a portion of the total project cost of approximately $948,000. The city bears the brunt of the expense, as the majority of the project is vested in improving the appearance – and pedestrian access and safe-ty – of historic downtown.

The infrastructure improve-ments belowground include the installation or replacement of sewage and water lines. Aboveground improvements and enhancements include an overall leveling of the street with installation of reddish-brown concrete slab faux brick pavers in different patterns to distinguish the street from the sidewalk. Additional benches, trash receptacles and lamp-posts for better street light-ing will also be installed. The Streetscape design also in-cludes a clock tower and a min-ing sculpture on the north end of Main Street.

The new additions will aes-thetically complement the historic character of down-town Central City. Doc Hol-liday Casino’s General Man-ager Doug James believes the beautification project will be a “nice improvement” for the city and he is looking forward

Dostal Alley Brew Pub and Casino’s general manager, Lisa Boulter, enthusiastically com-mented about Streetscape, “It’ll be beautiful when it’s done.”

Dostal Alley is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and provides patrons with conve-nient parking in its own lot. Dos-tal’s award-winning brews are once again competing in the Great American Beer Festival held in Denver in September.

Dostal Alley is located at 1 Dostal Al-ley in Central City.

Don Boring, the owner of Annie Oakley’s Emporium at 135 Nevada St., agrees with other Central City business owners that Streetscape will be beautiful when it’s finished. An-nie’s customers are able to con-veniently park in front of the convenience store during the beautification project. Annie’s is open on the weekdays, 8 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. and on weekends, 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.

General Manager Ann Dod-son of the two sister casinos Easy Street and Famous Bonan-za on Main Street in Central City is excited about Streetscape. Dodson said the beau-tification design was worked on for sev-eral years before it started this summer. She said, “It will be a positive thing for Cen-tral City.” The general manager is offering special promos during the project along with fun T-shirts carrying “I hit pay dirt” logos. Check with the casi-nos’ Miners Club for

promo details and see coupons offered in this newspaper. Dod-son said with a cheery smile, “Please come see us – we’re open!”

Central City’s own “Free Ride” shuttle bus continues its dedicated ser-vice to the casinos and businesses in both Central and Black Hawk.

Photos by Suzanne Paulman

Continued on page 10

Central City’s Operations Director Kent Kisselman of the Public Works department is hard at work in easing the city and its busi-nesses through the Streetscape project.

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to its completion. The renovation has a long-range goal of restoring a revitalized downtown area to Central.

The current phase of Streetscape is taking place at the south end of Main Street between Gregory and Eureka/Lawrence streets. The north end of Main Street between Gregory and Ne-vada/Spring streets is open to traffic. The current phase of the project is tentatively scheduled to be completed in late August.

The next phase will shift to the north end of Main Street. Traffic will then be routed from Eureka/Lawrence Streets along Main Street to exiting at Gregory Street. Main Street will return to its nor-mal traffic pattern once both proj-ect phases are finished, tentatively scheduled for early October.

Central City is commit-ted to providing updates on Streetscape’s progress through frequent informal meetings with

local casinos and other retail busi-nesses. The meetings have been invaluable in keeping the lines of communication open between the city and its businesses.

All of the casinos and retail businesses located on Main Street are open and accessible to pedes-trians by either walking or catch-ing a ride with one of the free busses serving the area. Drivers with their own vehicles will find easy parking in Century Casino’s free covered parking garage, Dos-tal Alley’s own large parking lot and the Big T free parking lot in the north end of the city off of the Central City Parkway.

Come to Central City during Streetscape and curiously watch the fascinating progress of the renovation project while still be-ing able to enjoy your game of choice at your favorite casino in the city. Central City welcomes you. For more information on Streetscape or other city events, contact Central City Hall at 303-582-5251.

Central City Streetscape projectto be completed late August

By Suzanne Paulman

I n late August more beauty is coming to Central City with the planned opening of the Crystal Palace Casino at 118 Main St. The

new casino is located in the former Papone’s Casino between the Dostal Alley and Easy Street casinos on Main Street, and features 102 slot machines.

General Manager Marc Garin, who has an extensive experience of 30 years in the gaming industry, commented that the casino will bring “something fresh, something new” to the city. Controller Julie Davis added that the casino’s ambience will be “a great mix of new and classic” features. Davis also brings a broad background of 25 years in accounting to the casino.

Davis and Garin are literally in the middle of adding to and creating the new casino’s interior space. The space they’re working with was already visually stunning with original, magnificent chandeliers hanging from mirrored ceilings. More mirrored areas and beautiful stained glass panels were also in place. New paint and carpet will complement the

reflective brilliance of the chandeliers.

Crystal Palace Casino will offer drinks and freshly made sandwiches from “an awesome deli” for their patrons.

C o l o r a d o Gambler will carry future articles with more information on Central City’s newest casino as it nears its opening day. The Crystal Palace Casino’s opening will be one brilliant night you won’t want to miss.

Continued from Page 9

Crystal Palace Casino readies to open in

late August

The Crystal Palace Casino, which has a late August plan of

opening, adorns beautiful crystal chandeliers hanging from

mirrored ceilings throughout the interior space.

Photos by Suzanne Paulman

Streetscape project crews continue their hard work despite con-tending with a temporary setback, a broken water main.

In Central City plenty of free covered parking is available across from Johnny Z’s Casino at the Century Casino parking garage, lo-cated at Lawrence Street before Main Street. More free parking is available in the Big T lot at the north end of town from the Central City Parkway. Photos by Suzanne Paulman

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www.famousbonanza.com

2X MondaysEarn 2X points all day on all machines, including video poker. One dollar equals one base point.

40 and getting better? Wednesday is your day.For our guests 40 and older, earn 2X points all day on all machines every Wednesday at Famous Bonanza. $1 = 1 point. Earn 200 base points and receive half off one menu item at Millie’s restaurant.

Bonanza BaseballJoin us from 8 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. every Friday night to play Bonanza Baseball and win your share of more than $2,000 in cash.

New Players/BirthdaysEarn 2X points all day on all machines on your first visit or the day of your birthday! If you choose to come in Monday or Wednesday, you could earn 3x points. $1 = 1 Point

The ParlourLocated on the second floor of the Famous Bonanza Casino, we offer 2 Deck pitch blackjack, roulette and 3-card poker. $5 minimum to $100 maximum on 2 Deck pitch blackjack and $3 minimum on all shoe games. The Parlour also offers pool and darts!

2X MondaysEarn 2X points all day on all machines, including video poker. $1 = 1 point

40 and getting better? For our guests 40 and older, earn 2X points all day on all machines every Wednesday. $1 = 1 point. Earn 200 base points and receive half off one menu item at Millie’s restaurant.

New Players/BirthdaysEarn 2X points all day on all machines on your first visit or the day of your birthday! If you choose to come in Monday or Wednesday, you could earn 3x points. $1 = 1 Point

Fun for the Kids tooBring your children to the lower level of the casino to enjoy a wide variety of arcade games for our younger than 21 guests.

Central City Nuggets Make a difference, become a CASA volunteer

If volunteering, helping children in need, or becoming more involved in the community is on your “to do” list then becoming a CASA volunteer is a great option for you to explore. The Court Appointed Special Advocates of Jef-ferson and Gilpin counties program is in strong need for dedicated community members to become a voice for a child in court. CASA needs your help and support to con-tinue to work toward making sure that every child in the community is in a safe and permanent home.

CASA volunteers are caring adults who get to know chil-dren in the Dependency and Neglect system and provide the courts with objective information and recommenda-tions to help ensure that the children’s best interests are served. Previous experience is not necessary, just compas-sion for children and the desire make a difference in the community.

For more information about the next training class in September, call 303-271-6539 or visit www.casajeffcogil-pin.com.

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CRIPPLE CREEK

Casino•Guide

This information is subject to change without notice.

CENTRAL CITY

BLACK HAWKAmeristar - 24/7 BJ, P, C, R, VP over 1400 536 rooms B, D, SD, Starbucks free valet and self parking 720-946-4000/.ameristar.com/Black_Hawk.aspx

Black Hawk Station VP 120 No SD,SB city lot 303-582-5582/ blackhawkstationcasino.net

Bull Durham VP 188 No SB city lot 303-582-0810/.bulldurhamcasino.com

Bullwhacker’s - 24/7 Fri/Sat VP 400 No SD free valet and self parking 1-800-GAM-BULL/bullwhackers.com

Canyon - 24/7 Fri/Sat BJ, C, R, VP 415 No SD, SB free valet and self parking 303-777-1111/canyoncasino.com

Fitzgeralds - 24/7 Fri/Sat BJ, C, R, VP 700 No SD, SB on weekends free covered valet 303-582-6100 (1-800-538-LUCK)/fitzgeraldsbh.com

Gilpin - 24/7 BJ, C, R, P, VP 460 No SD free valet across the street 303-582-1133/thegilpincasino.com

Golden Gates - 24/7 BJ, P, C, VP 280 No D free valet and covered self parking 303-582-5600/thegoldengatescasino.com

Golden Gulch VP 140 No V free self/free valet 303-582-5600/thegoldengatescasino.com

Golden Mardi Gras - 24/7 BJ, C, R, VP 680 No SD,SB,D free valet and covered self parking 303-582-5600/goldenmardigras.com

Isle Casino Hotel Black Hawk - 24/7 BJ, C, P, R, VP 1308 238 B,D,SD free valet and self parking 1-800-The-Isle/theisleblackhawk.com

Lady Luck - 24/7 BJ, P,C, R, VP 500 164 SD,SB free covered valet and self parking 1-888-Lady-Luck/ladyluckblackhawk.com

Lodge - 24/7 BJ, C, R, P, VP 975 50 B, D, SD, SB free valet parking 303-582-1771/thelodgecasino.com

Red Dolly VP 149 No SD free self parking 303-582-1100/reddollycasino.net

Riviera - 24/7 BJ, C, R, VP 766 No B free valet and self parking 303-582-1000/rivierablackhawk.com

Wildcard VP 220 No D city lot 303-582-3412/thewildcardsaloon.com

Century Casino - 24/7 BJ, P, C, R, VP 520 26 SD,D free covered self parking 303-582-5050/cnty.com

Doc Holliday VP 178 No SD free city lot 303-582-1400/dochollidaycasino.net

Dostal Alley - 24/7 VP 64 No SD free self parking 303-582-1610/dostalalley.net

Easy Street VP 205 No SD free self parking 303-582-5914/famousbonanza.com

Famous Bonanza BJ, P, R, VP 244 No SD , D free self parking 303-582-5914/famousbonanza.com

Fortune Valley - 24/7 BJ, P, C, R, VP 665 118 SD free valet and self parking 1-800-924-6646/fortunevalleycasino.com

Johnny Z’s BJ, C, R, VP 219 No SD, D free covered parking 303-582-5623/johnnyzscasino.com

The Brass Ass - 24/7 BJ, P, C, R, VP 250 No SD free covered self parking 800-635-LUCK/triplecrowncasino.com

Bronco & Buffalo Billy’s - 24/7 BJ, P, C, R, VP 750 23 SD free self parking 877-989-2142/broncobillyscasino.com

Century Casino - 24/7 BJ, C, R, VP 437 21 SD free self parking 719-689-0333/cnty.com/casinos/cripplecreek

Colorado Grande - 24/7 BJ, R, VP 211 5 SD, SB free self parking 877-244-9469/coloradogrande.com

Double Eagle & Gold Creek - 24/7 BJ, P ,C, R, VP 700+ 158 SD, SB free valet and covered self parking 800-711-7234/decasino.com

Johnny Nolon’s - 24/7 VP 255 No SD free self parking w/validation 719-689-2080/johnnynolons.com

J.P. McGill’s - 24/7 Fri/Sat VP 300 40 SD validated self parking 800-635-LUCK/triplecrowncasinos.com

Midnight Rose - 24/7 P, VP 400 19 SD, B validated self parking 800-635-LUCK/triplecrowncasinos.com

Wildwood Casino- 24/7 BJ, P, C, R, VP, TH 530 68 SD, D Climate controlled self parking 877-945-3963/playwildwood.com

Casino Table Slots Lodging Food Parking Contact Games

Table Games Key

BJ - Blackjack, P-Poker, C-Craps, R-Roulette, TH - Texas Holdem’, VP-Video Poker

Food Key

B-Buffet, D-Deli, SD-Sitdown, SB-Snackbar, V-Vending Machine

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Gaming

It’s essential for slot players to declare their independence from the games in an effort to become a well-rounded player who seeks to derive the most fun and value from the money they allocate for gambling.

Roulette is the best “breakaway” game for slot players to try. There’s no strategy, no peer pressure, and the game progresses at a leisure-ly pace.

The game of roulette isn’t nearly as intimi-dating as craps. The basic premise of the game is picking numbers, or guessing red or black or odd or even.

The house advantage on roulette is about 5.25 percent. That’s because in addition to numbers 1 through 36, including an equal number of blacks and reds, the American rou-lette wheel has two green slots marked “0” and “00”.

When you walk up to a roulette wheel and decide to play, place your money on the layout. The dealer will give you non-negotiable casino chips with which to play. Every person at the table plays with different colored chips so that the dealer knows who’s who when it comes time to make payouts.

At most Chicago-area riverboat casino des-tinations, the value of the chips is one dollar each. Therefore, a $20 buy-in will give you 20

roulette chips with which to play. When you are finished playing, just tell the dealer you wish to “color” your chips. He’ll bring them in, count them, and give you negotiable casino chips that you may in turn redeem for cash at the casino cage.

Once everyone has placed their bets, the dealer gives the wheel a spin and then sends the little roulette ball spinning in the opposite direction the wheel is turning. When the ball finally slows down, it’ll eventually drop into a numbered slot. The dealer will mark the cor-responding number on the layout and proceed to collect losing chips and pay out winning wa-gers.

One word about roulette etiquette: Do not make any new bets or collect your winnings until the dealer has removed his marker from the layout! If you attempt to do so, you’ll be given a friendly reminder that it’s a no-no. Once he removes his marker from the winning number, that’s the signal for the table to start placing their wagers on the next spin.

If you make a score at the wheel, it’s a nice gesture to tip the dealer a buck or two. Just toss in a couple of your colored roulette chips, and the dealer will convert them into negotiable casino chips and drop them in the “toke” box.

Now let’s check out the types of roulette wheel wagers:STRAIGHT UP: A bet on one number. If it

hits, you’ll be paid 35-1. Since there are 38 spots on the roulette wheel, the true math-ematical pay out is 37-1, but here’s where the casino takes its unbeatable edge.

SPLIT: A bet on two numbers that pays 17-1.STREET: A bet on three numbers that pays

11-1.CORNER: A bet on four numbers that pays

8-1.FIRST FIVE: A bet on the first five numbers

(0,00,1,2,3). It carries a FAT house “vig”,

higher than the 5.25 on all other roulette wheel bets. DON’T MAKE THIS WAGER!

SIDE STREET: A bet on six numbers that pays 5-1.

COLUMN: A bet on one of three columns of numbers that pays 2-1.

DOZEN: A bet on the first dozen numbers (1 through 12), second dozen (13 through 24), or third dozen (25 through 36) that pays 2-1.

Then there are the even money bet-ting propositions of RED/BLACK, ODD/EVEN, and HIGH (1 through 18) or LOW (19 through 36).

The even money and 2-1 bets are clear-ly labeled on the layout. The other wagers require you to place your chips in certain ways. It won’t take you long to catch on, and the dealer will be most helpful in assisting you. Just ask!

Observations from the World Series of Poker – Part IIThis year’s

main event had more than 6,800 players with an aver-age age of 37. The Novem-ber nine have 7 players in their 20s. The money bubble came at 694 players with those hanging

on receiving at least $19,700 for their $10,000 investment. The Rio gave the bubble boy (the player going out just before the money) a free entry into next year’s main event.

For the first time a boyfriend/girl-friend made it to the final 31 players. Erica Moutino and David (Doc) Sands made a combined half million dollars

for making it to the final four tables. Al-though Erica made it two spots farther than Doc, she seemed to play a little too tight. On one hand she raised pre-flop with a pair of 9’s and was called by a loose player. She made a small bet on the flop and check/folded on the turn to a board of eight, king, two, five. Her op-ponent showed a bluff of Queen/Nine. After that she was raised or re-raised out of every hand she played. She was the “last woman standing” out of only just over 200 female entrants.

Another interesting hand showed the lucky part of poker when two play-ers got all in on day 3 of the 8 day event. One player had A/six offsuit and was hoping to hit an Ace until his opponent turned over his two aces. But, the poker Gods decided to show that even pocket aces can bite the dust when a six hit the flop and the river.

More, next time

O n c e upon a time, in a galaxy a far, far away…well, actual-ly it was on earth and considering the geologi-cal expanse

of time it really wasn’t that long ago. How-ever, what I am about to relate occurred not only in the last century, but in the last millennium as well. So it was, considering human cognition of time, a long, long time ago.

I was out of the service and working my way through the echelons of higher edu-cation keeping in mind the axiom, “Never let school interfere with your education.” While the GI Bill helped with the major expenses, there were still little matters of food, shelter and clothing to deal with. I was adept at creating all sorts of variations from the How to Cook Brown Rice and Like It cookbook and of course The Food Stamp Gourmet sat right next to the Biker’s One Pan Cookbook on my milk crate shelving. It was a real Bohemian existence but hey, at least no one was shooting at me anymore.

At the time, there were a number of ways to earn some extra scratch. Legiti-mate jobs with set hours, routines and ba-sically Bracero wages could be found but as my class schedule changed from quarter to quarter, a job like that couldn’t be held for any length of time. As a matter of fact, by the time we graduated (read: were finally asked to leave) a good buddy of mine, Bob Hamilton, had a résumé covering three and one-half pages, typed single spaced. He was quite proud of that and included copies whenever he was asked for his employment history. But I digress…

Another way to earn some pocket mon-ey was playing pool for spare change in the student union. I was a passable pool player before but with the damage I had sustained in the service, this really was no option for me. I could not hold a cue properly nor steadily enough to consistently be good. So, that left poker. There was always a poker game going on evenings, the best games were on Friday and Saturday nights. One player kept the bank in his pocket and we played only using poker chips on the table to not set off any in loco parentus alarms. Keep in mind this was the early to mid-

1970s and the games we enjoy now at the casinos and card clubs were non-existent.

The games played then were dealer’s choice, mostly 5-card draw, 7-card stud or the usual mixture of kitchen-table games (criss-cross, baseball, night baseball, wild cards of all manner and sorts, Maria, Black Maria, low-hold card wild…you get the pic-ture). It was purely luck-of-the-draw poker, especially when wild cards entered into it. Playing nickel-dime-quarter stakes a good night was a $10 profit; which meant you could put some meat in your Top Ramen that night. A really good night meant you could order in a pizza and fill up your gas tank (back then, it cost me $3.25 to top off. What a change today is from back then.).

As mentioned, this was the early 1970s and the hottest new thing, the gear that all the “cool” guys had (meaning the football and baseball players) was the brand-new mirrored sunglasses. They came in silver and gold reflection and for the first time anyone wearing one of these could not have their eyes seen by someone gazing their way. Even with regular sunglasses, in the right light one can still see eyes and the expressions therein. But now, the cool guys could keep others from seeing their eyes and they wore them everywhere, day and night, to show how cool they were. Even at the poker games.

It did not take long to discover that when one of the “cool” guys held his cards up to see what he had one could see the reflec-tion of the cards in his glasses. After that, there was always a rush to make sure we sat directly across from these cool guys to take advantage of that fact (I guess that’s where the idea of good seat selection made it into the poker lexicon). For the rest of that year and partly into the next, my take from the table more than doubled. No longer were there meatless meals on any day that end-ed in “-ay”! I could actually fill the tank and take a date to the movies without the risk of having to push the car back home.

Of course, all good things must come to an end sooner or later. One night the seat-ing arrangements got SNAFU’ed and one of the cool guys sat across from the others. He saw what we had been taking advantage of all that time and spilled the beans. The cool guys never wore their glasses to the game again. But I’ll always remember the year and a half when I knew exactly when to call a bluff and exactly when to lay my cards down. All that helped get me through school and the rest, as they say, is history.

Thinking About Poker: Once upon a time…

FULLHOUSEBy Drew Chitiea

Roulette essentials for casino goers

August 9 - 22, 2011 THE COLORADO GAMBLER – Celebrating 20 Years PAGE 15

Gaming

In the standard ver-sion of casino keno, 20 numbers – called “spots” – are drawn from a set between 1 and 80. Play-ers bet by marking as many choices as they wish – forming a “pick” – on a card showing all 80 possibilities. Some establishments limit pick sizes, for example between four and 10 numbers; other operators accept as few as one or as many as 15 or 20 selections. Winners are those whose picks “catch” designated comple-ments of the spots drawn.

Credible gaming gurus advise casino buffs to avoid keno. Their ar-gument is that house advantage is too high – between 25.0 and 28.6 percent depending on the number of spots in a pick and the pay schedule at a particular casino. For compari-son, slot machines typically have 6 to 10 percent edge. And table games like blackjack and craps can be played with edge under 0.5 percent.

Many solid citizens flout this ca-veat. They like the high “utility” of gambles that offer big bucks for small

bets. The slow speed at which bets are typically resolved, once in 10 or 15 minutes, is another at-tractive feature because losing doesn’t hurt much despite how often it occurs and the total sacrificed to house edge doesn’t mount vary fast. Action is also promoted by ubiquity in joints where keno bets can be made in restaurants,

rest rooms, elevators, and every-where else.

The parameters of a keno wager depend on the number of spots in a pick. Bettors accordingly have stra-tegic options for tailoring the game somewhat to meet their personal preferences.

Overall hit rate, the theoreti-cal frequency of returns regardless of amount, varies with how many spots are selected. It also hinges on the number of catches which have payouts for each pick. To illustrate, say a player chooses five spots. The probability is 22.72 percent of no catches, 40.57 percent of one, 27.05 percent of two, 8.40 percent of three, 1.21 percent of four, and 0.06 percent

of five. A pick of five should accord-ingly average at least one correct spot in 77.28 percent of all rounds. But on picks of five, one or two catches lose; players only win on three, four, and five catches, dropping the productive hit rate for this selection from 77.28 to 9.67 percent.

Players who relish wins, regard-less of how much they collect, might want to make their bets based on hit rate. Picks of four spots are best by this criterion, at 25.89 percent. These are followed by picks of one spot at 25.00 percent, six spots at 16.16 per-cent, three spots at 15.26 percent, and 14 spots at 10.20 percent. The lowest hit rates are on picks of eight spots at 2.08 percent and 11 spots at 2.43 per-cent.

Individuals more eager to toss a buck on a longshot at the biggest possible payday might be inclined to make large picks and hope for lots of catches. With a representative pay-off schedule, picking and catching 14 spots returns $100,000 for $1 bet. Chance is one out of 38,910,016,282. Those who pick 14 spots but miss the sweep are still eligible for con-solation returns of $50,000 with 13 catches (one out of 324,250,136),

$25,000 with 12 catches (one out of 6,764,018), $8,000 with 11 catches (one out of 262,397), $1,100 with 10 catches (one out of 16,740), $310 with nine catches (one out of 1,644), $42 with eight catches (one out of 239), $9 with seven catches (one out of 50), or $1 – their money back for a push – with six catches (one out of 13).

A third criterion for selecting numbers of spots is house advantage, a consequence of the offset between returns and the odds surmounted to win. The lowest edge is 25.0 percent on a pick of one spot, paying 2-to-1 on a hit with adverse odds of 3-to-1. Next lowest is 25.1 percent on a pick of nine which returns $4, $50, $280, $4,000, and $50,000 – including the initial bet – for five through nine catches respectively. Overall hit rate on a pick of nine is 3.89 percent, though, and the $50,000 return isn’t exactly an everyday occurrence at a chance of one out of 1,380,666.

Enquiring minds might want to know how keno compares with state lotteries. In the New Jersey Pick 6, for instance, six numbers are drawn from a set of 1 to 49; play-ers also pick six. Jackpots start at $2,000,000 and grow until they’re

won, but are split among multiple winners and are awarded as annui-ties with cash options of 60 to 65 percent of nominal value. Jackpots require catching all six, the chance being one out of 13,983,816. Five, four, and three catches also win. Amounts for five and four are pari-mutuel – based on sales and how many tickets are winners; averages are $2,700 and $56, corresponding to prospects of one out of 54,201 and one out of 1,032, respectively. Matching three returns $3 for $1, a $2 profit, and has a chance of one out of 57. Across all its lotter-ies, New Jersey estimates it gives 57 percent of ticket sales to back to players. This constitutes a 43 percent edge for the state, worse than what casinos keep for keno. There’s a moral dilemma, however, in deciding between social services supported by the state versus the salaries of the grunts and bonuses of the bosses who bring you the ca-sino’s thrills and chills. Both situ-ations were mulled by the muse, Sumner A Ingmark, when he mut-tered:

A gambler noble always should,Try doing well by doing good.

Decades ago when I first started looking into blackjack as a viable ca-reer, I read every book I could get my hand on. I’d taken theoretical math, statistics and computer science in college and so I was able to test the betting systems of what I now call the old school systems on the computer.

None worked well. In fact, some were great ways to lose a lot of mon-ey. With table-maximum-bets rec-ommended at times when the player advantage was either slim or nega-tive.

So I launched into more than 10 years of research into blackjack bet-ting and card strategy techniques, shuffling, casino card handling and card behavior among other things. One of my goals was to learn how to time bets to when the cards were fa-vorable.

While many of today’s blackjack writers seem to forget this, even the grandfather of the old school meth-ods, Edward Thorp, admitted that

the favorability of the cards varied depending on the card mix. As we now know, however, he did not de-velop a good way of dealing with that fact.

He spoke of large downswings using his betting methods and large losses he incurred. Fortunately, he had a wealthy sponsor with him during the 30 hours of blackjack he played, Manny Kimmel, to fund his large downswings and not go broke. His readers did not have such a sugar daddy to help them through the mis-takes in his betting system.

He recommended, by the way, that players bring $7,000 to the table in order to play his system. That was in 1961 dollars. Do the math. That sum is incredible. According to dol-lartimes.com, that would be equiva-lent to $51,485. And I’m not even sure that’s correct. How much were homes going for in 1961 vs. today? Or cars?

So...if you want a risky system with admittedly large downswings that requires that you bring at least 51 grand to the table, then the old school way, written about by most of today’s blackjack writers, is for you.

If not, read on.The old school systems, all imi-

tations of the one Thorp unveiled in the early 1960s, used imprecise indicators to control player bets and

became overly optimistic when their fuzzy systems supposedly uncovered a minuscule player advantage going into the next round. Perhaps that why one of the MIT blackjack teams’ lead-ers, Semyon Dukach, reportedly lost all of the $150,000 he’d brought to the table in 10 rounds one day, using the Hi-Lo card counting system. And why he and his former colleagues no longer play blackjack today.

(FYI: They felt the Hi-Lo’s im-precision required that they bring $150,000 to the table, to hope to make a good profit. Today, using dol-lartimes.com’s inflation calculator, that minimum requirement would be nearly $261,000.)

Without a good betting system, the fact is that you can go broke.

Fortunately, in the course of my research, I was successful in iden-tifying a number of good indicators of future player success or failure. I developed solid betting approaches based upon solid scientific and math-ematical principles based upon what my research uncovered.

Later, in sharing my discoveries with others in my books, I designed three levels of betting methods, for the beginner, intermediate and ad-vanced player - just as I’d seen done for the game of Bridge. The fact is beginners, whose skills are only na-scent, cannot pull off what more

knowledgeable players can. So this three-tiered method approach makes perfect sense.

But here’s what you need to know about state-of-the-art betting: To play blackjack the smart way, today’s advantage players can and should, using my methods, keep track of long-term and short-term trends.

That is, due to the repeating nature of the cards, as my research revealed (a concept I introduced nearly 10 years ago in Cutting Edge Blackjack), and the long-term trends unveiled by my studies into winning and losing cycles, we can now raise and lower our bets intelligently based upon the qual-ity of cards at the table. And, more precisely, the quality of the cards the repeating cycles tend to deliver to our one particular betting spot.

Or, sometimes, we can choose to either leave the table or move to a dif-ferent betting smart if we are at a bad spot or table. The truth is that some card mixes are killers; horrible for players (as I’ve demonstrated at my seminars). You cannot win against some of them. So even the best bet-ting system would not work well against those cards. My betting sys-tem warns you away from those situ-ations. That’s something any cutting edge betting system should do.

My Precision Betting System, introduced in the Third Edition of

Cutting Edge Blackjack, is, to my knowledge, the world’s most precise way of adjusting your wagers to your likelihood of winning or losing in the next round. That’s too complex to go into here.

But you need to know that today we have the means to know when to intelligently raise our bets and accu-rately know by how much. You ide-ally should only raise your bet (when that’s appropriate) to reflect your precision likelihood of winning in the next round. If your likelihood of win-ning is three times your normal prob-ability, for instance, you should raise your bet threefold.

The truth is that each of the 10 types of blackjack cards affects your future in a different way. This is what my research uncovered. So intelli-gent card analysis can now tell you what the card imbalance at the end of any pre-shuffle round portends in terms of your precise likelihood of winning in the next round.

And the beauty part is that you can use my methods successfully no matter what your bankroll is.

It took me years to simplify the betting method I use personally to responsibly share it with others. It is now available to you. And you can take that to the bank.

For more info see http://www.blackjacktoday.com

Should you avoid keno just because the gurus rail against it?

Blackjack – betting the smart way

By Richard Harvey

PAGE 16 THE COLORADO GAMBLER – Celebrating 20 Years August 9 - 22, 2011

By Rosemary FetterAlthough Venice, Italy, actually

gave birth to the first gaming par-lors, most of today’s casino games – blackjack, roulette and baccarat – originated in France. At the Palace of Versailles, world-weary royalty found solace in gambling, which quickly became the real “sport of kings.” In fact, one historian wrote that during the reign of The Sun King, Louis XIV, three-quarters of the country thought of nothing but cards and dice.

The French Revolution did little to diminish the nation’s infatuation with gambling, although the order of a deck of cards became ace-high instead of king-high as a nod to the proletariat. Roulette first appeared shortly thereafter, a mish-mash of three different games, hocca or bibiri, which is a board/numbers game, combined with the wheel games of roly-poly, ace of hearts and odds and evens.

In roly-poly, played in England as early as 1720, a ball spins around a little wheel with several slots, two of which belong to the banker. Ace of Hearts resembled faro, played with a faro layout and cards paint-ed on a wheel. Both games were popular in England until 1739, when they were outlawed by King George III’s new government.

A similar amusement, odds and evens, soon took their place. This new pastime (strangely called E/O

instead of O/E) involved a wheel marked with 40 slots, 20 odd and 20 even, with one of each marked for the bank. If the ball landed on a bank slot it was an automatic win for the house.

The French made some modi-fications to roly-poly and E/O changing the numbers from black and white to black and red. By 1796, the wheel had been com-bined with a version of bibiri that had 36 numbers and two 0’s for the bank slots, thus creating the mod-ern roulette. Most of the features of today’s game were by then in place: red/black and even/odd betting, straight and combination betting, column betting and splits and com-binations. A 0 and double 0 were marked in green, neither red/black odd or even.

The first written description of a roulette wheel appears in an 1803 French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee and de-scribes a Parisian game in the Pal-ais Royal in 1796. “There are exact-ly two slots reserved for the bank, whence it derives its sole mathe-matical advantage,” he wrote, sub-sequently describing, “two betting spaces containing the bank’s num-bers, zero and double zero.”

In 1843, François and Louis Blanc introduced the single “0” roulette wheel, which subsequent-ly became universal except in the United States, where the double “0’

wheel has always been preferred. According to fable, François Blanc made a deal with the devil to solve the mysteries of the roulette wheel, a fanciful notion based on the fact that the numerical sum on the rou-lette wheel, 1 – 36, equals 666.

Roulette was quite popular in Germany until the late 1860s, when the great gaming houses were forced to close. The Blanca family, one of the casino owners, moved Europe’s last legal establishment to Monte Carlo, where they operated a gaming paradise for the wealthy. European players still prefer the single zero roulette wheel.

The French probably intro-duced the first North American roulette wheels in Quebec and New Orleans, the latter of which became America’s gambling Mecca after Jefferson bought Louisiana Ter-ritory in 1803. By the 1830s, New Orleans and Mobile, Ala. had be-come the early frontier versions of Vegas and Reno, until Mississippi riverboat gamblers took the game up the river and out West.

During the years following the California Gold Rush of 1848-49, roulette came into its own in the

gaming houses of San Francisco, where cheating became so com-mon that the wheel was moved to the top of the table and a simplified layout devised to prevent further bloodshed. When several of the gambling brethren were uncer-emoniously hanged in San Francis-co in 1856, the sporting fraternity drifted toward the east, settling in frontier towns like Kansas City, which became the “new” New Or-leans.

In Denver, which ran a close second in terms of vice, a young gambler named Ed Chase offered roulette at the Palace Variety and Gambling Theater in the early 1860s. The game seemed to ex-pand with the mineral strikes and the railroads, moving to the Alaska wilderness by late 1890s.

A rush to morality in the early years of the twentieth century ille-galized certain activities that were somewhat unfairly grouped togeth-er, like drinking, prostitution and gambling. Games of chance contin-ued to flourish during subsequent eras, including the Roaring Twen-ties and the World War II era. By the 1950s-60s, roulette was legal

only in Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, although the game was still played subversively in certain small west-ern towns.

A resurgence of interest in le-galized gambling and its profitable taxation began during the 1970s. Both the interest and the taxes continue today, with roulette usu-ally incorporated into the gaming repertoire after slots, poker and blackjack.

Although numerous betting systems like the Martingale and Fibonacci systems have been de-vised since roulette was invented, no strategy thus far devised can statistically overcome the house’s advantage. Casinos guard against modern technological devices like lasers by rotating wheels, changing dealers and taking other precau-tions.

Still, there’s no denying plain old good luck. In the summer of 1891, one Charles Wells from Lon-don continuously won all the mon-ey from each table he played over a period of several days. The memo-ry of his famous triumph still lin-gers in the old song, The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.

Drawing illustrates a gambling hall in Cripple Creek. Note the roulette

wheel on the right.

rou·lette, pronounced rü-ˈletA term meaning “small wheel,”in French, roulette, is a casino game in which players bet on a number, a series of numbers, the colors red or black or odd and even numbers. After bets are made, the croupier, who collects and pays bets, spins a large wheel with alternating red and black squares that are each marked with a number. The croupier immediately spins a small ball in opposite direction around a tilted circular track that runs along the wheel’s circumference. The ball eventually slows down and falls and into one of 38 (in American roulette) colored and numbered pockets.

How roulette became the king of casino games

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Trail’s End

By Elizabeth Chapman Allen (87 years old in 1976)with comments by her grand-daughter, Anna Lee Ames Frohlich

This should have been written ear-lier as my children wished me to. There is little that I can remember in the first years of my life other than the summer trips with my family on the marvelous Union Pacific Railroad.

My father after leaving M.I.T. (then known as the Mas-sachusetts Mechani-cal University of Tech-nology from which he graduated in 1878) was employed as head engineer (after graduating, George F. Chapman came to Omaha, Neb., engaged in railroad-ing, and at the time he closed his con-nection with this road he was the mas-ter mechanic of the Union Pacific Rail-road, with headquarters at Evanston) in the Union Pacific shop in Evanston, Wyo., where I was born in 1888.

My parents were both born in Can-ton, Mass. Mother returned there for the birth of Ruth (Beth’s older sister) but Hobart and my other brother El-win and I were born in Evanston.

My mother brought her four chil-dren east to her mothers’ home in Martha’s Vineyard several summers

and how I loved the trip by train on the Union Pacific.

At that time the engines were run by coal sending cinders through the train so we must have been very dirty. We had to change to the New England States in Chicago and often took a room with a bath. At that time it took three days and three nights. The meals were good but no breakfasts served. We could get din-ners at Harry’s diners where the train waited.

We liked a conductor who had been partly scalped by the Indians. He had to wear a wig. At that time they were not as common as

today. I remember a time when I, fear-ing a hold-up, wore a little gold ring

on my toe. The engineers, I believe, were forced to stop the train

while the passengers were “frisked.”

Tramps would sometimes throw themselves under the cars onto a con-traption they could use to get a free ride to the next sta-tion. The porters I remember were

jolly and efficient.An amusing thing

happened on one of my later train trips when one had a pri-vate section and when you pulled your bed down from the wall and sat on the end of it in order to close the door. Having done this

I was startled to see a pair of legs. I thought I must have done the wrong thing but discovered there was a mir-ror and the legs were my own. Laughs!

When living in Evanston, I was about 9 years old my dear mother died. The sister of an aunt came to care for us but we were not very fond of her. After two years my fa-ther told me that he was going to be married again. I was quite crushed as I felt stepmothers were difficult. She, however, proved far from it and was responsible in bringing us East for a better education. We only returned to Wyoming during the summers on vacation. Beth’s stepmother had her Union Pacific Railroad connec-tions as well. Her name was Alice Lu-rana Ames, and her grandfather was Oakes Ames of early Union Pacific fame. Oakes’ brother Oliver, presi-dent of the Union Pacific from 1866 - 1871, was a close friend of Beth’s grandfather Oliver Smith Chapman, yet another old UP man. He was a surveyor and was on the Board of Di-rectors of the Union Pacific.

Elizabeth (Beth) had another great love in her youth, the Nepon-set Ranch, owned by her father and his brothers, which stretched from the very westernmost part of Wyoming well into Utah. The were engaged in sheep raising. Beth loved riding her dappled-grey horse Bluebonnet through the sage and taking day trips into the

hills with family and friends who came to visit from the East. Alice Ames Chap-man adapted well to the West, and Beth enjoyed Alice’s nieces and nephews and their friends. One of these friends was Oliver Roosevelt, a cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Later when on a house party at Oliver Roosevelt’s, cousin of Theodore R., we were invited to tea with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt in Oyster Bay.

Beth had long-lasting ties with her friends from Evanston.

My very good friends were Marga-ret and Frances Clark, daughters of Sen. Clarence Clark. He was senator for many years in Wyoming. My brother Hobart married Frances in Washington, D.C., (April 12, 1910), and President Taft attended. I was their bridesmaid, so I was excited.

Now with 87 years behind me I spend much of my time thinking of the past. I certainly had a variety. People say I couldn’t remember anything at the age of 2 when I stood on the piazza of our home in Evanston waiting for

my brother and sister to return from the ranch to tell them that we had a baby brother. So many things in my early life to remember as I lie awake... First and foremost was my husband Thomas Allen with whom I lived for 50 years. Such HAPPY ones. My dear husband, knowing my love for the Union Pacific, bought me stock in it. I still hold it. It has traveled up.

WESTERN FOOTPRINTSBy Anna Lee Ames Frohlich

My family’s stories lurked in the recesses of my con-sciousness until I became friends with Sam Arnold, cre-ator and proprietor of The Fort Restaurant in Morrison. Sam, the great raconteur, and I used to sit and tell each other stories from our pasts and the histories of our families.

He said to me, “You have to tell these stories.”

Sam passed on in 2006, and I gradually began col-lecting family histories. By 2008 I was researching in earnest and traveling from Massachusetts to Hawaii meeting distant relatives and gathering family stories and photos. In 2010 I started do-ing a slideshow presentation about the Ames Monument in Wyoming for western history groups in Colorado, Wyoming and Massachusetts. Here I will have a chance to tell that story and more about how my ancestors left their footprints on the West.

This first story was written by my grandmother.

Daughters of U.S. Sen. Clarence Clark (Wyoming), Margaret and Frances, and Elizabeth Louise Chapman – c.1896

Siblings Beth and Ruth standing, and Hobart and Elwin seated – c. 1892

Elizabeth Louise Chapman (Beth)

and her mother Eliza Capen

Chapman

Elizabeth L. Chapman – c. 1908

Photos courtesy of Anna Lee Ames Frohlich

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LEO - (July 23 – Aug 22)You may benefit from another source of income. Closure to a problem may occur. A gift, recognition, realization or part of an inheritance may come. A joy in life, a deeper meaning  or a conundrum is solved or recognized. Something is about to shift in a close relationship. It’s all part of the plan. Lucky Numbers: 8, 15, 32, 45, 53, 77

VIRGO - (Aug. 23 - Sept. 23)An encounter with a person you’ve been interested in may give you a perspective of the kind of person you want and would be proud to show the rest of the world. Others may give you help and an older person may appear. A little kindness goes a long way. You will make a good impression. Lucky Numbers: 11, 14, 28, 37, 54, 72

LIBRA - (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23)You may be feeling overwhelmed by your duties and responsibilities. You’ll achieve the most satisfaction from doing your best work knowing praise and recognition will come. An increase of vitality or health may come. You’ve got a creative idea. Go with it. This could be an exciting experience. Lucky Numbers: 12, 17, 30, 44, 60, 70

SCORPIO - (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)Your creative nature will be strong and you’ll have the courage to be yourself thus endearing yourself to others. You’ll be extra productive and your income should increase. A radically different love relationship may thrive. The Full Moon this week gives you insight into what your heart desires. Lucky Numbers: 12, 17, 30, 44, 60, 70

 SAGITTARIUS - (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)Seek inner peace and harmony. Many areas of your life are about to improve. You may purchase real estate or add an important asset or investment for your security. Be sure to get reliable guidance. Family dynamics come to a decision that is best for all concerned. Know that you have done your best. Lucky Numbers: 9, 23, 35, 38, 51, 63 CAPRICORN - (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)Old thought patterns may be replaced by new or expanded perceptions or consciousness. Extended travel, training or education will bring a greater understanding. An on going financial situation comes to an end, or someone may help you financially. Love and children will bring you joy. Lucky Numbers: 10, 13, 26, 42, 57, 80

AQUARIUS - (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)This time will help you to make money and possibly gain further wealth or desired material possessions. This could also be an important time about how to learn to use your resources. Be careful where you place important items. It may be awhile before you find it again. You may be restless concerning your living situation. Lucky Numbers: 7, 19, 36, 48, 59, 62

PISCES (Feb 20 - March 20)Take advantage of your resources or offers other people make to you. Working with a partner may be to your advantage. Increased self-confidence will help bring good fortune into your personal life and much learning. This is an introspective time. Conserve your energy for a later date. Lucky Numbers: 5, 22, 25, 41, 56, 78

ARIES - (March 21 - April 20)People and projects working behind the scenes may cause a mild disruption to the flow you’ve created for yourself. Turn your personal power into an assertive outlet that will put you in the lead once again. The Full Moon this week brings new associations to aid and assist. Lucky Numbers: 4, 18, 31, 39, 49, 64

TAURUS - (April 21 - May 21)Your friends may be of considerable help or will benefit you now, Most likely you’ll become involved in some type of group event. Don’t try to go this one alone. People are needed to help fulfill your destiny. Drama in the work area comes to a head this week.Lucky Numbers: 6, 20, 33, 47, 52, 79

GEMINI - (May 22 - June 21)Attention must be directed towards work or professional matters. Your career choices, reputation or decisions may be questioned. This time is about excelling in action and at work. Recognition may finally come. Spiritual revelations come through dreams and the synchronicity of life.Lucky Numbers: 3, 16, 27, 43, 50, 68

CANCER - (June 22 - July 22)Your perspective about yourself or life may expand tremendously. You may find an opportunity to travel and it’s more than just a weekend getaway. Start to make your plans now. Others may look to you for guidance in your area of expertise.Lucky Numbers: 2, 21, 34, 46, 58, 73

Horoscope

Contact Mary Nightstar at marynightstar@yahoo.com and type “horoscope” in the subject line.

Rollin’ Doughin the

C larissa Crozier is a busy woman. She is associated with Colorado State University’s School of

Journalism where she is a professor in the Journalism and Technical Communications department. In a Professional Communications course, she lectures to 125 students; she is also an instructor to 18 news-writing students using coaching techniques. Her free time is used to grade/edit/coach to improve stories for print, web, television, radio and Twitter.

Among her bragging rights are the remarkable Crozier offspring: their daughter moved from Denver to Texas more than seven years ago

and started a non-denominational youth program – from start to a successful finish. This project helped her make the decision to study for church ministry so she’s back in Colorado and attending Colorado Christian University. Their son is equally talented – he’s in construction management as a field engineer and is highly qualified in drafting that began when he was in high school. The combination of field engineering/drafting is an irreplaceable skill!

We learned she has another talent: tempting our palate with special rhubarb recipes. This is the time to harvest a final crop of rhubarb and we are pleased

to share Clarissa’s recipes handed down from her grandmother and mother. When asked if the rhubarb recipes may have originated in the Midwest, we learned both ladies lived in Kansas.

Clarissa CrozierProfessor

RHUBARB CREAM CHEESE PIE 3 cups (750 ml) diced rhubarb 1 cup (250 ml) sugar 1/2 cup (125 ml) water 1/4 cup (50 ml) cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon (2 ml) grated orange peel 8 oz. (250 g) cream cheese, softened 

1/2 cup (125 ml) sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla 1 baked 9-1/2 inch (24 cm) deep-dish pie shell 

Send us your recipes!To be featured in Rollin’ in the Dough: Send us a recipe, your name, a little about yourself, why you chose that recipe, a little about your cooking style, and of course your phone number in case we have questions. Email gambler@villagerpublishing.com or mail to 8933 E Union Ave., Suite 230, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. Questions? Call Sharon at 303-503-1388.

Combine rhubarb, 1 cup (250 ml) sugar, water, cornstarch and orange peel in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened, about 1 minute.  Remove from heat and cool 5-10 minutes.  Meanwhile, to prepare cream cheese topping, use medium speed of an electric mixer and beat together cream cheese and 1/2 cup (125 ml) sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until blended. Beat in vanilla. Pour rhubarb mixture into pie shell. Pour cream cheese topping over rhubarb mixture. Bake at 325 degree F (160 degree C) for 35-40 minutes or until cream cheese topping is set. Cool pie on a rack.  Refrigerate until serving or for up to 2 days. Serves 8. NOTE: Barbara writes that “This pie is a little like a baked cheesecake with the fruit topping on the bottom.”

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