1. Page 2 “Weekend Edition” Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 7-9, 2014 The Chronicle-News Trinidad, Colorado
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60 Obituaries
Bisentita Anna Vallejos
Bisentita Anna "Bessie"
Vallejos (nee Padilla), 86, of
Trinidad, Colo. passed away
peacefully on October 16,
2014 at Trinidad State
Nursing Home surrounded
by family and friends.
A celebration of her life will
be held on November 9th,
2014 at 12 p.m. in the
Knights of Columbus Hall in
Trinidad, Colorado,
65 Comi Funeral Home
Christina E. Duran
Christina E. Duran, age 78,
passed away at home with
her family by her side on
October 29, 2014.
A Rosary Service will be
held Thursday, November 6,
2014, at 7 p.m. at Holy
Trinity Catholic Church.
Funeral Mass will be
c e l e b r a t e d o n Fr i d a y ,
November 7 2014, at 1p.m.,
at Holy Trinity Catholic
Church.
The family respectfully
requests that they be
allowed privacy for her
inurnment at the Trinidad
Catholic Cemetery.
Details of a gathering will
be announced at the funeral
services.
Arrangements made under
the direction of the Comi
Funeral Home.
67 Mullare-Murphy Funeral Home
Billy Ray Laughlin
Billy Ray Laughlin, 59,
died, November 5, 2014.
Arrangements are pending.
The family has entrusted
Mullare-Murphy Funeral
H o m e w i t h t h e
a r r a n g e m e n t s .
62 Memorials
In Loving Memory of
Georgia Rino
who passed away 5 years
ago November 9
Just 5 years ago, Dear one,
Since you quietly slipped
away To a place among the
angels Where, we hope,
weʼll meet someday. But our
hearts are lonely And we
miss your loving face. We
cannot forget you, dear one,
None can ever take your
place. And while you sleep a
peaceful sleep, Your
memory we shall
always keep.
Sadly missed by John,
Louis, Dino
62 Memorials
In Loving Memory of
Georgia Rino
who passed ago 5 years ago
November 9, 2009
WHAT IS A MOTHER
A mother is a treasured gift
of love thatʼs deep and true...
You know sheʼs always
standing by to guide and
comfort you. A mother, with
unfailing strength, can keep
you safe from harm... And
yet you feel the softness of
her gentle grace and
charm... A mother gives
encouragement With wisdom
and a smile... She
understands your hopes and
dreams and makes them
seem worthwhile... A
motherʼs always in your
heart wherever you may go...
Sheʼs part of everything you
do, Thatʼs why you
love her so.
Sadly missed by husband,
John and sons, Louis and
Dean
The best
and most
beautiful
things in
the world
cannot be
seen or
even
touched.
They must
be felt with
the heart.
~Helen Keller
OUTDOORS
Prator Range among CPW
funded shooting range projects
Special to The Chronicle-News
DENVER - Colorado
Parks and Wildlife an-nounced
awards of
$500,000 to eleven shooting
range projects across the
state through the Shoot-ing
Range Development
Grant. Among those ranges
receiving grants is Prator
Range in Trinidad.
“The eleven projects
supported this year reflect
a priority to provide safe
and accessible recreational
shooting opportunities
throughout Colorado, from
small rural towns to major
metropolitan areas,” said
CPW Director Bob Bros-cheid.
Safety and access are
the common thread among
the grant recipients accord-ing
to CPW Shooting Range
Program Coordinator Jim
Guthrie. “The awards sup-port
improvements and
expansions at six existing
shooting ranges, address
safety issues at two ranges,
start development of two
entirely new ranges, and re-pair
one range heavily dam-aged
by the September 2013
floods,” said Guthrie.
CPW anticipates the im-provements
and updates
will result in a wider diver-sity
of recreational shoot-ing
opportunities, help in-troduce
more people to the
sport and provide a differ-ent
avenue for local youth
and new participants to
become involved in rifle, ar-chery
or other shooting dis-ciplines.
“There is tremen-dous
demand for new and
expanded ranges in all parts
of the state” added Guthrie.
“The Leadville and Sterling
projects will open up safe,
new, public ranges in areas
that currently do not have
good options.”
Local support must be
strong for these projects
that require at least 25 per-cent
of the projects cost to
be matched by grantees
with matching funds or in-kind
donations. The CPW’s
Shooting Range Develop-ment
Grants encourage
grantees to develop local
partnerships, which helps
leverage the sportsmans
dollars and build a founda-tion
for further outdoor rec-reation
collaboration.
CPW’s shooting range
grant program is funded
with revenue from license
sales and federal Hunter
Education Program funds
generated from the sale of
hunting and shooting equip-ment.
No taxpayer dollars
are involved. The CPW
shooting range program is
the largest of its kind in the
nation. CPW has awarded
funds to more than 40 proj-ects
in 27 of Colorado’s coun-ties
over the last five years.
2014 Shooting Range
Grant Awards include:
Cheyenne Mountain
Shooting Complex, Colo-rado
Springs - $110,000 Con-struct
two trap and skeet
houses, electrical, parking,
and access road.
Common Point Shoot-ing
Range, Estes Park -
$90,000 Repair to range and
access road heavily damaged
in 2013 floods.
Logan County Shooting
Range, Sterling -$60,000 De-velop
site plan and range de-sign
for new shooting range,
begin initial construction
Prator Shooting Range,
Trinidad State Junior Col-lege,
Trinidad - $22,500 In-crease
berm height at
existing range to allow si-multaneous
use of rifle and
trap ranges
Summit County
Shooting Range, Dillon
- $77,400 ADA access im-provements,
new shooting
benches, cover structures,
drainage improvements
Lake County Shoot-ing
Range, Leadville
- $40,000 Complete design
work, begin initial construc-tion
of new range
Limon Shooting Range,
Limon - $2,500 Increase the
number of shooting posi-tions
at pistol and rifle rang-es,
install shooting benches,
enlarge berm to allow great-er
use of range
Piedra Bowhunters
Archery Range, Monte
Vista - $21,000 Acquire new
archery targets and 3-D
targets, replacing outdated
equipment
Park County Shooting
Range, Como - $50,000 Con-struct
new trap and skeet
range
Buena Vista Shoot-ing
Range, Buena Vista-
$6,600 Construct a two new
skeet houses
Pikes Peak Gun
Club, Colorado Springs
- $20,000 Expand archery
range, address erosion prob-lems
Learn more about Shoot-ing
Range Grants at http://
cpw.state.co.us/thingstodo/
Pages/ShootingRange-
Grants.aspx.
PARKS & WILDLIFE
PHEASANT & QUAIL
Special to The Chronicle-News
DENVER -- Colorado Parks
and Wildlife’s 2014-15 East-ern
Plains Upland Forecast is
just in time for pheasant and
quail season opening Nov. 8.
Across much of Colorado’s
core pheasant range, the ef-fects
of drought were clear and
significant in terms of the total
population of pheasants.
Two successive years of
drought have finally given
way to above normal precipi-tation,
and pheasant popula-tions
across the eastern plains
of Colorado are slowly improv-ing.
In 2014 Northeast Colora-do
pheasant call count surveys
were down approximately 44
percent from 2013, averaging
approximately 17.5 calls per
station, and down 66 percent
since 2012.
Hunters should not expect
to see a complete recovery
over a single year, as the level
of the breeding population im-pacts
recovery in addition to
weather and habitat. NE Colo-rado
(Yuma, Phillips, Sedg-wick,
Logan, Washington,
Morgan and SE Weld Coun-ties):
Populations across the
region are better than in 2013.
During the initial stages of
the nesting season, conditions
ranged from poor to excellent
across the region, suggesting
that hunters would be wise to
expect that the highest popu-lations
will be highly variable
and spot specific this year.
Beneficial precipitation
continued throughout the
summer in many areas, pro-viding
ample opportunities for
unsuccessful hens to re-nest.
There are some areas within
this area that did not receive
ample precipitation in 2014,
or were subject to severe and
widespread hail storms dur-ing
the summer period, both
of which contribute to the
“spotty” nature of the forecast
for 2014. Habitat is in much
better shape due to optimum,
in some cases record, levels
of precipitation that large por-tions
of the area received in
2014. However, it is also appar-ent
that precipitation did not
fall equally across this region;
leaving some areas relatively
dry through the summer peri-od.
Also, it is important to note
that total CRP acres are declin-ing
across the core pheasant
range, a trend that will likely
continue, as many CRP con-tracts
will expire over the next
two years.
South Platte River (east-ern
Morgan, Washington,
Logan, Sedgwick): Bobwhite
quail populations remain a
question mark for 2014 due
to the impacts of higher wa-ter
during the spring runoff
period. Cover will be greatly
improved from what hunters
observed in 2013, but that will
also impact hunting success
because in some areas, cover
may be too tall and dense to
effectively hunt. Landowner
reports have been highly vari-able
in 2014, while CPW staff
has reported some bobwhite
broods and coveys on State
Wildlife Areas. Hunter reports
from the upcoming opening
weekend will provide another
clue as to bobwhite numbers
in the South Platte corridor in
2014.
East Central Colorado
(Southern Yuma, Kit Car-son,
Cheyenne, Kiowa
Counties): Pheasant popula-tions
should be higher than in
2012 and 2013. Expect similar
conditions in the NE portion of
Colorado with very site-specif-ic
conditions in terms of habi-tat
and pheasant population
recovery. While precipitation
levels were much improved
over the recent past, some ar-eas
experienced severe hail
storms and populations will be
lower in these areas, although
the habitat may look very good.
Expect to find drier conditions
in Cheyenne County, where
conditions have improved but
not to the degree that Kit Car-son
County has. Pheasant den-sities
will increase within the
areas that provide sprinkler ir-rigation
fields. Hunters should
note that many areas in WIA
in Kiowa County are enrolled
primarily for their value for
light goose hunting, including
some fields that will offer little
cover for pheasants and quail.
Extreme SE Colorado
(Baca & Prowers Counties):
Populations of pheasants were
severely impacted by drought
from 2010 through the spring
of 2013. Conditions have im-proved
this summer to nearly
normal precipitation in some
areas, but recovery of the habi-tat
and population will require
additional years of good condi-tions.
Even so, CPW observed
a fair number of quail broods
this fall. Expect that pheasant
populations will be low across
the area, although a bit higher
in areas with sprinkler irriga-tion
systems. Some late hatch-es
of quail have been observed,
although both bobwhites and
scaled quail breeding popu-lations
were reduced by the
severe 2010-2013 drought. The
general feeling is that quail
populations are improving but
not yet recovered from the re-cent
drought, with some areas
that will be better in terms of
habitat and population.
Not sure where to go hunt-ing?
Search more than 215,000
walk-in access acres available
at http://cpw.state.co.us/thing-stodo/
Pages/WalkInAccess-
Program.aspx.

2. Page 10 “Weekend Edition” Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 7-9, 2014 The Chronicle-News Trinidad, Colorado
Post-season: Farmers vs. Caliche
TSJC soccer honored with
Player of the Week awards
EDWARD JONES FINANCIAL FOCUS
Prepare Far Ahead for Long-term Care Costs
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward
Jones Financial Advisor.
Lori M. Hoffman
Financial Advisor
134 W. Main St. Suite 31
Trinidad, CO 81082
719-846-6301
www.edwardjones.com
Member SIPC
November is Long-Term Care Awareness
Month – a month dedicated to educating
the public about the need to prepare for the
potentially devastating costs of long-term
care. And the more you know about these
expenses, the better prepared you will be to
deal with them.
To begin with, just how expensive is long-term
care? Consider this: The average cost
for a private room in a nursing home is more
than $87,000 per year, according to the 2014
Cost of Care Survey produced by Genworth,
a financial-services company.
And the average cost of an assisted living
facility, which provides a level of care that is
not as extensive as that offered by a nursing
home, is $42,000 per year, according to the
same Genworth study. All long-term care
costs have risen steadily over the past several
years, with no indication that they will level
off.
Many people, when they think about long-term
care at all, believe that Medicare will
pay these costs — but that’s just not the case.
Typically, Medicare only covers a small
percentage of long-term care expenses, which
means you will have to take responsibility.
Of course, if you are fortunate, you may go
through life without ever needing to enter a
nursing home or an assisted living facility,
or even needing help from a home health-care
aide. But given the costs involved,
can you afford to jeopardize your financial
independence — or, even worse, impose a
potential burden on your grown children?
To prevent these events, you will need to
create a strategy to pay for long-term care
expenses — even if you never incur them.
Basically, you have two options: You could
self-insure or you could “transfer the risk” to
an insurer.
If you were going to self-insure, you would
need to set aside a considerable sum of
money, as indicated by the costs mentioned
above. And you would likely need to invest
a reasonably high percentage of this money
in growth-oriented investments. If you chose
this self-insurance route, but you never really
needed a significant amount of long-term
care, you could simply use the bulk of the
money for your normal living expenses
during retirement and earmark the remainder
for your estate. However, if did need many
years of nursing home care, you could end up
going through all your money.
As an alternative, you could transfer the risk
of paying for long-term care to an insurance
company. Many plans are available these
days, so, to find the choice that is appropriate
for your needs, you will want to consult
with a professional financial advisor. Here’s
a word of caution, though: The premiums
for this type of protection rise pretty rapidly
as you get older, so, if you are considering
adding this coverage, you may be better off
by acting sooner, rather than later.
None of us can know with certainty what the
future holds for us. Ideally, you will always
remain in good shape, both mentally and
physically, with the ability to take care of
yourself. But, as you’ve heard, it’s best to
“hope for the best, but plan for the worst.”
So, take the lessons of Long-Term Care
Awareness Month to heart and start preparing
yourself for every scenario.
... Continued from Page 1
downs. Along with fullback Seth Silver’s 1,100
yards rushing, the two-headed monster aver-ages
just South of 350 yards on the ground a
game, not too bad for one of the top running
back tandems in the state.
“We were a little rust at the beginning but
as the season dragged on we became better as
a team,” said Tyler Moltrer. “I think and be-lieve
if we play like we played against Sangre,
we can beat Caliche. We have to come out and
pop then first thing and keep our momentum
up. We have to go out there with the drive to
win. It should be a good game.”
Moltrer, who rushed for 370 yards and four
touchdowns in last Saturday’s win against
Sangre De Cristo, had one career carry for 85
yards prior to this season and was used main-ly
as a tight end, where he has 33 receptions
for 557 yards. He noted the tough transition
from tight end to running back, but was up for
the challenge when it was presented to him. “I
was used to getting the ball 7 times a game at
the most. Now I’m getting it almost every play.
I’m glad my coaches switched me to tail back.
Couldn’t be any where without my line and
my lead blocker Seth Silver,” he said.
Handing the ball off to Moltrer and Sil-ver
is junior quarterback, Tyson Montoya,
who up until this season completed just nine
passes for 303 yards and six touchdowns while
backing up Schafer. In his first full year at the
helm, Montoya has had a stellar season; com-pleting
50% of his passes for 1,037 yards and
10 touchdowns. His management of the game
against Sangre was almost flawless. “Tyson
has done a good job managing the game,” said
Dasko. “He does all the little things to make
the team better in practice and in the game.”
The Farmers rolled through the season
with only two losses in Springfield and Simla
for the Southern Conference Championship.
Just like the Farmers, both programs have
historically had success in the post season
over the years and faced off against each other
last weekend with Simla coming away with
the victory, setting up a date with another his-toric
Farmer foe in Norwood. If it is written
in the stars, the Farmers and the Cubs could
meet up again next week with a birth in the
state championship game on the line should
both teams come away with the win this week-end.
The Farmers can’t get too far ahead of
themselves, however as they get set to take on
the No. 2 Caliche Buffaloes in a rematch of last
year’s state semi final where the Buffs defeat-ed
the Farmers, 44-40.
“Caliche is Caliche,” said Dasko. “They
play hard and run the ball well and that is
what makes them good. In playoff football
teams are going to try and take away what you
do well. Against Sangre we did things defen-sively
to keep the game on one half of the field.
We forced them to throw the ball more than
they liked to. It’ll be different with Caliche.
They have a pretty athletic quarterback too.
They don’t attack the edges as much. They
like to run the ball between the tackles and
they throw more than Sangre did. We need
to play our game and be turnover free. If we
play as good as we did last week, we’ll be OK.”
The responsibility of stuffing the middle
will fall on junior, Chris Lujan, who just re-cently
found his calling as a linebacker in
Dasko’s defensive scheme. Lujan had five
solo tackles and two sacks against the high
powered Sangre de Cristo offense last week
and played a key part in the Farmers defen-sive
success, holding Thunderbirds dual
threat quarterback Kyle Beiriger in check
most of the game. “Chris is the strongest kid
on the team. We put him at linebacker for the
first time against Sangre and I think it’s safe
to say he’s our guy,” said Dasko.
The road this Farmer team took to get to
this point had its ups and downs. The success
they’ve had this season while in “rebuilding
mode” shows testament to the hard work and
dedication the players and coaching staff put
into the program year in and year out.
While this Farmer team may be different
than Farmer teams of the past, the message
remains the same: Give it your all, and don’t
ever give up. “We played two good playoff
teams in Springfield and Simla and we took a
lot out of those games. It showed against San-gre
when we fell behind 21-13 and we didn’t
give up. We performed well in the second half
and it really showed how much they’ve come
this year The boys grew up a lot that that
game. They got their first big win of the sea-son
and they left it all out there on the field.
The main thing is for the boys to go out there
and give it their all and leave everything they
got out on the field. If we can do that we will
be alright.”
Special to The Chronicle-News
Trinidad State Soccer was honored
with two national player of the week
awards for Week 11 (Oct. 27 - Nov. 2) of the
2014 Soccer Season.
Sophomore Jennifer Hastings and
Freshman Christian Rico (pictured right)
were chosen by the NJCAA for their out-standing
play in their playoff games this
past weekend. Jenn made three saves in
the first half against Western Nebraska
and then scored a goal in the second half.
Christian had 14 saves as the Trojans
shut out Otero and USU to claim the Re-gion
IX Title.
Sports
Adam Sperandio/The Chronicle-News
Hoehne running back Tyler Moltrer shows off his impressive speed and running abilities against
Sangre De Cristo Saturday afternoon in Mosca. Moltrer toted the rock 27 times for 370 yards and
four touchdowns.
Trojans take
Region IX title
By Mike Salbato
Correspondent
The Chronicle-News
In only their third year of existence the
Trojan men’s soccer team claimed the Region
IX title defeated defending champion Otero
3-0 to bring home the hardware. Trinidad
State is now set to play in the District Tour-nament
this weekend.
First Team All-Region forward Ricardo
Zacarias sent the Trojans into the title game
last weekend in Powell, Wyoming with a pen-alty
kick in the 85th minute against USU Col-lege
of Eastern Utah. Zacarias’ goal, the only
ball to find the net in the full 90 minutes, was
set up when Saad Hissein was pulled down
from behind in the box. The Trojans defense
tightened up for the last few minutes secur-ing
the victory.
In the championship against Otero, Julian
Padilla got the scoring going with a beautiful
left-footed free kick in the 27th minute. A few
minutes later Alan Garcia Pena used some
fancy footwork to get free at the top of the
box. His long left-footed blast found the net to
give TSJC a 2-0 lead at half time. In the 77th
minute Region IX MVP Oscar Rivero picked
up a rebound in the six and blasted it into the
net for the final score of the match. The Tro-jan
keepers, Christian Rico and Pedro Perez
have now combined for three playoff shut-outs,
combining for 13 saves in the title game.
The Trojans got more good news this week
as Rico was named the NJCAA Goalkeeper of
the Week for his brilliant play in the playoffs
so far.
The #6 Trojans (18-1-1) will next face #15
Phoenix College (17-6-0) in the district semi-final
on Friday at 4:30 p.m. A win Friday
afternoon will send TSJC to both the district
title game and the 2014 National Tournament.
The other semifinal will feature Pima Com-munity
College against Otero Junior College.
Photos courtesy of Mike Salbato / TSJC