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Interest runs high in Town Board election April 1

Steamboat Springs — For the first time in several years, interest in a Town Board election for Steamboat Springs runs high with 11 candidates on file for the six trustee places before the deadline last Friday.

Gordy Wren wins coveted place in skier's hall of fame

A place in a skier's hall of fame - now a coveted accolade of the nation's ski greats - is the latest honor to come the way of Gordon Wren, former Steamboat Springs ski coach and only U.S. four-way Olympian.

Wren, last month, was among seven new members nominated to the Skiing Hall of Fame instigated last year at Isnpeming, Mich., by the National Ski Association. Membership now stands at 13, and Wren, recreation director and head of a rapidly expanding ski school at Reno, Nev., is the youngest appointed.

Hundreds of nominations were submitted by ski associations from throughout the country, but only a limited number were chosen.

County's best spellers to vie for honors here

Top spellers from all of Routt County will pit their skill against one another this Friday to see who will be selected to compete on a two-state basis in the spell-down at Denver on April 19.

State Lions Club ski team race will be staged here

At least 10 ski teams are entered in the important Lions Club high school team meet that will be staged on Howelsen Hill this weekend. And some out-of-state ski centers in the Western division of the National Ski Association are expected to send teams.

3-district plans for schools to be heard Monday

School reorganization and a plan to redefine Routt County's school districts into three new districts will be discussed at a public hearing in Steamboat Springs next Monday at 8 p.m. at the REA building.

The meeting will be one of four being held elsewhere in the county. A 13-man committee has been functioning for several months in an effort to reorganize the county's school districts, some of which are not operating but are sending students to schools in other districts, paying transportation and tuition.

Under the new plan evolved by the special committee, which was formed under state school reorganization policies, the county would have a district in the Hayden area, the Steamboat Springs area and South Routt County. Both the Hayden and Southern Routt County school districts would have seven directors, and the Steamboat area would have five. Each district would have zone area representation, county superintendent of schools Mrs. Geraldine Elkins said.

Under the proposal, most schools would continue in operation and the county's four high schools, Steamboat, Hayden, Oak Creek and Yampa would remain as at present. Schools will be maintained in all of the county's economic centers, committee members said.

Each district would be a first-class school district to "increase educational opportunities for all school children in the county," it was stated.