The place is far too crowded, there is not room to expand (really), raise the rates please, it's the only way to thin out membership. I don't understand the sense of entitlement here. If it's important to you, then you'll pay more, if not, then don't.
Of course this is a child care solution for working parents, and one more step towards the government running our families. Children should be at home for the majority of the day at this age, and it's sad that people continue to use the excuse that they cannot afford to stay home. Let's take responsibility for our choices, like living here, where we have to work more to make it. The school system is slowly turning into an asylum for kids whose parents choose not to deal with their issues. Why don't parents want to be around their own children anymore?
If I had to choose between a genetically modified soy product or animal flesh that had been pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormone before being beaten and abused, i'll go with the first option.
There is so much more to this than just getting our protein, which, by the way, can be acheived by consuming beans, grains and vegetables combined over a day or two.
It's a tough issue in this valley, with ranching having such deep roots, but alot of things our ancestors did no longer seem wise. It's time to look at our consumption of beef and the whole standard american diet and make some changes.
Most of the tourists I see around the base area would be better off leaving their 10 year old ski gear at home anyhow. If you are spending a thousand dollars on a ski vacation, buck and purchase some modern threads that fit your droopy derriere!
The rabid comment by Jay illustrates exactly the problem with OTBP - the employees (although like someone else mentioned, I rarely find the books that I set out to purchase either).
Regarding her comment "As for reading an entire book to your daughter, I suppose a store with so few customers would actually have time to do that" let me remind you since your anger seems to have impaired your comprehension: when the owner opens a bookstore early for you, it makes sense that there would not be other customers in the store yet.
I don't work at the bookstore, I don't even know the lady that owns it, although I do recognize her now that I shop there quite often. No need to get so upset about people not liking your place of employment, remember, it's just a job and someday you will look back and laugh at how important you thought this was.
I was glad to see OTBP leaving. The employees couldn't be less helpful, perched behind the desk as if it's an honor. I converted to Epilogue last year and have never looked back. The owner even opened the store for me early once before Christmas, I was very impressed. And, she stopped and read a book to my daughter. Now that is what an indy bookstore is all about, personal service.
The mountain should have a public transit incentive program in place to encourage locals to use the free bus. I know it seems silly when global warming, rising gas prices and traffic should be incentive enough, but clearly they are not. Why not let the bus driver scan your season pass and accumulate points towards something? There has to be a solution other than to create more parking which just encourages more drivers. Come on Steamboat, let's at least pretend to be progressive.
The story referenced above by Kielbasa (Matthew Stoddard) is not at all coverage of this specific even but a generic glossing over of the 'bullying' issue. It has not been treated as a news story until this article, after the Denver Post covered it in detail, including a great photo.
Let's not make this worse by pretending it has been sufficiently addressed by our school district, community and 'news'paper, when it clearly has not.
I agree with the notion that we all need to do something. If you must send your child to public school, or state funded day care as it becoming, get active in the classroom. Bullying is learned behavior, and most likely learned from someone in a position of trust. Parents bully their children, older siblings bully younger ones, and then it goes outside of the family.
Children always pay the price for adult dysfunction. The parents of the boys who started all this should be absolutely mortified, not going to court. They should have been on their knees begging forgiveness from the defendent, and then looking in the mirror to see what they have taught their kids.
Isn't anyone horrified that it took the Denver Post covering it on the front page for our little paper to think it was newsworthy? The day it came out in the Post, it was buried in our paper several pages in.
You can't wonder only about what parents are teaching kids when our own "news"paper doesn't think it's worthy enough to make the front page the first time around.
I guess having racial issues in our town upsets the marketing plan for Steamboat.
Hot Springs rates on rise
The place is far too crowded, there is not room to expand (really), raise the rates please, it's the only way to thin out membership. I don't understand the sense of entitlement here. If it's important to you, then you'll pay more, if not, then don't.
I *heart* foodchain.
March 29, 2008 at 1:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Full-day K to start in August
Of course this is a child care solution for working parents, and one more step towards the government running our families. Children should be at home for the majority of the day at this age, and it's sad that people continue to use the excuse that they cannot afford to stay home. Let's take responsibility for our choices, like living here, where we have to work more to make it. The school system is slowly turning into an asylum for kids whose parents choose not to deal with their issues. Why don't parents want to be around their own children anymore?
March 11, 2008 at 8:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Monday Medical: 'Who's bringing the tofu?'
If I had to choose between a genetically modified soy product or animal flesh that had been pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormone before being beaten and abused, i'll go with the first option.
There is so much more to this than just getting our protein, which, by the way, can be acheived by consuming beans, grains and vegetables combined over a day or two.
It's a tough issue in this valley, with ranching having such deep roots, but alot of things our ancestors did no longer seem wise. It's time to look at our consumption of beef and the whole standard american diet and make some changes.
March 11, 2008 at 8:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
United limits free baggage
Most of the tourists I see around the base area would be better off leaving their 10 year old ski gear at home anyhow. If you are spending a thousand dollars on a ski vacation, buck and purchase some modern threads that fit your droopy derriere!
February 9, 2008 at 9:30 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Still Off the Beaten Path
The rabid comment by Jay illustrates exactly the problem with OTBP - the employees (although like someone else mentioned, I rarely find the books that I set out to purchase either).
Regarding her comment "As for reading an entire book to your daughter, I suppose a store with so few customers would actually have time to do that" let me remind you since your anger seems to have impaired your comprehension: when the owner opens a bookstore early for you, it makes sense that there would not be other customers in the store yet.
I don't work at the bookstore, I don't even know the lady that owns it, although I do recognize her now that I shop there quite often. No need to get so upset about people not liking your place of employment, remember, it's just a job and someday you will look back and laugh at how important you thought this was.
February 8, 2008 at 9:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Still Off the Beaten Path
I was glad to see OTBP leaving. The employees couldn't be less helpful, perched behind the desk as if it's an honor. I converted to Epilogue last year and have never looked back. The owner even opened the store for me early once before Christmas, I was very impressed. And, she stopped and read a book to my daughter. Now that is what an indy bookstore is all about, personal service.
February 5, 2008 at 8:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Ski Corp. working on parking plan
The mountain should have a public transit incentive program in place to encourage locals to use the free bus. I know it seems silly when global warming, rising gas prices and traffic should be incentive enough, but clearly they are not. Why not let the bus driver scan your season pass and accumulate points towards something? There has to be a solution other than to create more parking which just encourages more drivers. Come on Steamboat, let's at least pretend to be progressive.
January 13, 2008 at 2:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
A history of threats
The story referenced above by Kielbasa (Matthew Stoddard) is not at all coverage of this specific even but a generic glossing over of the 'bullying' issue. It has not been treated as a news story until this article, after the Denver Post covered it in detail, including a great photo.
Let's not make this worse by pretending it has been sufficiently addressed by our school district, community and 'news'paper, when it clearly has not.
January 12, 2008 at 2:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
A history of threats
I agree with the notion that we all need to do something. If you must send your child to public school, or state funded day care as it becoming, get active in the classroom. Bullying is learned behavior, and most likely learned from someone in a position of trust. Parents bully their children, older siblings bully younger ones, and then it goes outside of the family.
Children always pay the price for adult dysfunction. The parents of the boys who started all this should be absolutely mortified, not going to court. They should have been on their knees begging forgiveness from the defendent, and then looking in the mirror to see what they have taught their kids.
January 12, 2008 at 1:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
A history of threats
Isn't anyone horrified that it took the Denver Post covering it on the front page for our little paper to think it was newsworthy? The day it came out in the Post, it was buried in our paper several pages in.
You can't wonder only about what parents are teaching kids when our own "news"paper doesn't think it's worthy enough to make the front page the first time around.
I guess having racial issues in our town upsets the marketing plan for Steamboat.
January 12, 2008 at 12:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )