USA Pro Cycling Tour coming to….Telluride

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Twelve Colorado cities will host next year’s USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

Next year’s race, scheduled for Aug. 20 through Aug. 26, will begin in Durango and end in Denver after some 520 miles of racing that include five ascents of passes over 10,000 feet.

Several sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because race organizers will not officially announce the route until Tuesday, confirmed that a dozen of the 25 Colorado cities and towns that bid for host status won a coveted stage. This year’s inaugural seven-day race started in Colorado Springs and ended in Denver, with 135 of the world’s top cyclists drawing one million spectators along a 518-mile montane route.

The first stage of the 2012 race will wind 111 miles from Durango over 10,222-foot Lizard Head Pass and down into Telluride.

Read more here!

Barry – a play for children of all ages

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The Sheridan Arts Foundation & Telluride Theatre present:

BARRY – a play for children of all ages
featuring the music of famed children’s musician Barry Louis Polisar

Friday 12/9, Sunday 12/11 & Monday 12/12
@ 5:30pm
FREE! and open to the public
donations gladly accepted – a hat will be passed

Perfect show for the whole family!

Right To Play

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RIGHT TO PLAY, Director Frank Marshall (Producer for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, BACK TO THE FUTURE, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABIT?, THE SIXTH SENSE, THE BOURNE IDENTITY, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, plus many others) will discuss his brand new documentary about Norwegian speed-skater and four time Olympic gold medalist Johann Olav Koss. Koss founded the non-profit organization, Right to Play, which brings sports to children in third-world and war-torn countries. With the help of his army of volunteers, teachers, coaches and diplomats, he has har-nessed the power of athletics to elevate the lives of the world’s neediest children.

In person: Director, Producer Frank Marshall.

The 2nd Annual Telluride Horrow Show

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October 14, 15, 16, 2011 marks the 2nd Annual Telluride Horror Show, a 3-day genre film festival in world-famous Telluride, Colorado. For three days, genre fans will experience the latest horror, fantasy, and sci-fi films in Telluride’s historic Sheridan Opera House and Nugget Theatre. The festival screens an average of 15 feature films and 25 short films, and hosts special programs, guests, and a party or two. If you love genre flicks then you don’t want to miss this….

http://www.telluridehorrorshow.com

Scott Cossu Live in Concert

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Scott is an internationally known, composer, pianist and recording artist. Scott was up front when New Age was just beginning over 30 years ago. He was one of the first Windham Hill Artists to join and toured with his label mates as they forged the way for the many artists that would follow in that genre.

Scott would call his music Heavy Mental or Cosmic National Geographic, even though he was one of the grandfathers of the New Age scene; he was labeled a “jazz luminary of the future”, by Billboard Magazine. Much of Scott’s work exhibits departures from the New Age field and includes a melodic blend of jazz, classical and ethnic influences.

See Scott and his trio live in concert at the Sheridan Opera House on Friday, September 30th. Come at 7pm for a free glass of wine and end of season silent auction/fundraiser -$16 GA seated.

Association of Realtors pledges $10K

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Association of Realtors pledges $10K to regional air org.

TAR has given $216K to airline guarantee program since 2002

 The Telluride Association of Realtors recently pledged $10,000 to support the Telluride Montrose Regional Air Organization’s Airline Guarantee Program.

TAR believes that the program is critical to the success of the region’s tourist-based economy and has been a supporter of it for years. Since 2002, TAR has contributed upwards of $215,000 to TMRAO’s guarantee program. This year’s pledge of $10,000 puts the exact donation total at $216,800.

“We’re pleased with the support from TAR and also the broader support of many individual TAR member brokerage firms of our air service development and support efforts,” said Scott Stewart, TMRAO’s executive director of air service development. “Air service is a critical part of the local economic infrastructure and the TAR contribution helps TMRAO continue its efforts toward the overall economic health of the community.”

TMRAO’s Airline Guarantee Program provides broader air travel options to those flying to and from the area. Started in 1985, the program encourages major airlines to offer adequate and attractively priced flights into the Telluride and Montrose regional airports by utilizing revenue guarantees, a type of cost sharing. Through donations from numerous local and regional entities, it shares the fiscal risk with certain airlines, allowing such carriers to better and more cost-effectively serve the region. This is critical in a place like Telluride because, due to their small population bases, Telluride and Montrose typically would not support the quality of air service they presently possess.

If the program didn’t exist, airlines would be forced to reduce their flight numbers/frequencies into the region, which would, in turn, drive fares up, potentially devastating the local economy and causing damage to the ski resort.

“Because of this community’s commitment to air service, and in particular the real estate community’s strong contributions, our air program has helped us through some of the toughest economic conditions in the last few years,” said Dirk de Pagter, chairman of the board of TMRAO.

To emphasize the Airline Guarantee Program’s success over the years, $175,000 was invested into the program back in 1992; by the 2007-2008 season that amount had increased into a guaranteed payment of more than $1.2 million from a budget of almost $2.2 million. In 2009, the maximum exposure for summer and winter went up to over $4 million, thus exemplifying the program’s success even through tough economic times.

“These are difficult times,” says de Pagter, “not to mention that oil prices are going through the roof and aircraft sizes are ever increasing. These factors all make it more challenging to service our small airports, which is why the real estate community’s support is so vital.”

We got another overnight….on Great Lakes

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All,

Great Lakes has added an additional weekly Overnight Flight between 7/17/11 and Film Festival/Labor Day Weekend on Saturday Nights!

 What this means is we will have an Overnight DENVER TELLURIDE FLIGHT coming in on:  Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday

 Early AM Return from TELLURIDE to DENVER on:  Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday

  Let’s try to fill up that NEW Saturday EveningInbound/Sunday Morning Return!

Also Note that Great Lakes has added some additional flights over Film Festival!

Flight loads have been good so far into Telluride Airport this summer…let’s keep on filling these flights…it helps our efforts to keep them and/or in the case of the overnight flights get them back in the winter!

2011 Summer Concert Series Lineup

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The Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association invites you to another season of outstanding music on the Sunset Concert Series stage. In its 12^th year, the series brings an impressive lineup to town; a mix of blues, bluegrass, soul, Americana, rock and more.

The party happens at Sunset Plaza, on the lawn near Lift 1. The bands start at 6:00 p.m. every Wednesday and they play rain or shine. All sunset Concert Series shows are free and open to the public.

2011 Summer Concert Series Lineup:

July 6 ~ Darrell Scott and the Brothers

July 13 ~ The Stone Foxes

July 20 ~ Joint Point

July 27 ~ 3 Twins

August 3 ~ Paul Thorn

August 10 ~ Nathaniel Rateliff

August 17 ~ Mountain Standard Time

August 24 ~ Ruthie Foster

Telluride Festival of the Arts

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Telluride Festival of the Arts ~ Celebrating Visual and Culinary Arts August 12, 13, 14, 2011

The 2011 Telluride Festival of the Arts will once again delight both food and art lovers alike. Culinary enthusiasts and fine art aficionados come together to share a common passion for food, art and entertainment in Telluride Mountain Village, CO.

Highlights of the 2010 festival included signature Grand Tasting and nationally juried fine art exhibits organized by the producers of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, one of the nation’s most well known and competitive juried arts festivals.

INFO AND TICKETS:

http://www.TellurideFest.com

Telluride Airport Extends Operating Hours

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Telluride Regional Airport will operate 6 a.m. – 9 p.m. year round, effective
immediately

By Kathrine Warren
Staff Reporter

In a board meeting on Thursday, the TRAA voted 7-0 to change the Telluride Regional Airport’s operating hours, with the hopes of bringing in more air passengers in the wintertime. The new operating hours are open to both commercial and private aircraft.

For more than 25 years the airport’s operating hours were 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after sunset.

The idea to change the airport’s operating hours first gained traction last summer when TRAA realized the airport could be ineligible for $1 million in Federal Aviation Administration funding if the its enplanement numbers — the amount of commercial passengers arriving and departing — dipped below 10,000.

Airport officials saw extended winter night hours as a chance to attract more commercial flights per day and in turn, more visitors.

As TRAA explored extending hours, residents of the Last Dollar and Aldasoro subdivisions came out swinging against the proposal while other community members thought the change would help the region’s economy.

Past meetings have been rife with passionate opposition and support for the idea, however only a handful of people were present Thursday and there was no public comment.

“This has been very contentious,” said TRAA chairmen John Micetic. “I hope we move forward and move forward positively, for the whole community.”

Ann Brady, Telluride Town Council member and TRAA board member, acknowledged that the community will grumble about it, but pointed out, “We’ve given months and months to this.”