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Edited by Ryan Graff

Thanks to a group of dedicated local volunteers, the eight-lane community track at Basalt High School will become a reality. The Field of Dreams Committee of the Basalt Booster Club was awarded a $200,000 Grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) this month to build the track at the high school sports complex.

Matching funds for the GOCO grant came from the Re-1 School District ($75,000), the Field of Dreams Committee ($40,000) and the town of Basalt ($10,000). The Field of Dreams Committee has given thousands of hours of volunteer time to bring this phase of the Basalt High School sport complex to fruition.

The GOCO grant will fund the actual track, but the committee is still looking for money for the bleachers and a concession.



Anyone interested in helping should call Leslie Newbury at 927-8080 or Will Vannice at 927-2430.

Whitney Kesler of Rifle recently jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. She did a tandem skydive with Jim Stokes, who skydives all over the United States and trains other tandem sky divers. “It was the greatest thing I have ever done,” she said, even better than her other hobbies of riding horses and four-wheelers.



Whitney became paralyzed when she was 7 years old from the rare transverse myelitis virus. She is a recent Rifle High School graduate, and she and her twin sister, Cortney, plan to attend the University of Utah this fall.

In addition to her other accomplishments, Whitney plays the piano in Relief Society Women’s organization, received her Young Women’s Award (the equivalent to the Eagle Scout Award) and attends The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joshua James Craine and Sonja Anita Thomas, of Rifle, March 13, 2004

Sandro Torres Cigarroa and Cassandra R. Bunce, of Basalt, April 9, 2004

Ricardo Gonzalez Campos and Celina Erica Cereceres, of El Mirage, Ariz., April 14, 2004

Stowman L. Stines II and Daniela Gabriela Moldoveanu, of Snowmass Village, April 14, 2004

Santos Escarcega Flores and Mariela Zulema Alcaraz, of Rifle, April 12, 2004

David Bencomo Vargas and Juana Medrano, of Rifle, April 16, 2004

Kenneth Wayne Ferbrache and Virginia Lee Dupew, of Silt, Feb. 29, 2004

Timothy Lee Charlton and Sarah Dawn Jones, of Carbondale, April 17, 2004

Ramiro Sanchez and Gladis Guadalupe Tinoco, of Rifle, April 16, 2004


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