As we write this from the WORLD's upstairs office in the bank building, the gentle sounds of violin waft through the air from the across-the-street arts building. The mesmerizing strains are indicative that one of the graduate violin students - Grace Merin from Costa Rica, we suspect, is already practicing her art. Adding to the musical morning, Merin's husband is trying out Lake City DIRT's downstairs piano - the art installation located within the bank office's outside overhang - Mr. Merin, a string musician in his own right, performing a superb rendition of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" on the piano. Brief chat with Public Health Nurse Shawna Shidler earlier in the week with confirmation of a spat of visitor COVID-19 diagnoses which have occurred in Mineral and relatively static number here in Hinsdale County. For our home base, Hinsdale, there was one active case reported last Friday, July 2, which has as of Wednesday already completed quarantine. Cumulative numbers for Hinsdale County at this writing are zero active, 32 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and eight non-residents. Over the hill in Mineral County. nine active cases are reported as of July 28, eight of whom are non- residents. Totals for Mineral to date, including the active cases, are 91 cumulative residents and 22 non- residents. Somewhat mysteriously, on the state health department's COVID dial graphic, both Hinsdale and Mineral remain in the red category as most contagious, compared to neighboring Gunnison which is tranquil blue. Local health officers are perplexed at Hinsdale continuing red status given the relatively low number of recent transmissions. Word from the state is that counties with high transmission rates may be returning to a requirement for indoor mask wearing regardless of innoculation status, although that report will await until next week when Silver Thread Public Health Director returns to her desk. COVID vaccine innoculations on Tuesday this week at Lake City Area Medical Center totaled four new second doses of the Pfizer vaccine and no new first doses. Totals to date for Lake City are now 423 second doses of the vaccine and a static number, 437, of first doses which have been administered. Changes are afoot with Town of Lake City's Planning & Zoning owning to the resignation of nine-year member Karen McClatchie. Karen, a champ volunteer with numerous other Lake City organizations - including Friends of Wagner Public Library and docent coordinator and cataloguer for Hinsdale County Museum - has been a loyal member of the board attending monthly meetings and with fellow board members tackling a number of complex issues. In addition to Karen, members of the planning board are it's long-tenured chairperson, Andy Dozier, and board members Ron Jones, Harry McKendrick, and Mary Nettleton. Lake City Mayor Bruce Vierheller served as ex-officio member of the planning team. San Juan Hills Subdivision residents Phil and Carolyn Virden enjoy periodic visits from Carolyn's sister, Marilyn Armstrong Hughey, who is in the process of adding a sizeable addition to her Riverside Estates abode. Another sister and her family enjoyed local sights during their visit last week, Marilyn and Carolyn's elder sister, Sally Hudnall, from Lawrence, Kansas. Joining Sally for the Lake City visit were her sons, Andy Hudnall, from Omaha, Nebraska, and Chris Hudnall, Denver, with his wife, Laura, and son Mateo. Visitors with Becky Campbell at her Campbell croft home overlooking Lake San Cristobal last week were the two daughters of the late Ed Campbell, Lynn Scroggins and Kim Cavender, both from McKinney, Texas. Duing the daughters' visit, they and Becky scattered portions of Ed's ashes at several favorite locales - Windy Point, North Clear Creek Springs and McKinney Spring which is the traditional waterflow pipe along Highway 149 after Wagon Wheel Gap and before the Deep Creek Cutoff. Becky tells us that it was a decades' old tradition for Ed to stop and take a celebration drink from the roadside spring on each return visit to Colorado. On a non-related note, Becky Campbell and Melanie Merrill passed undeterred by rain and sleet and road construction last weekend as they travelled to Grand Junction to inspect new models of electric bicycles. Gazelle-like, we now look forward to seeing Melanie on her new bicycle, appropriately called the Gazelle model. Lake City visitor for an all-too-brief stop-over on Monday was Elizabeth Hairston Keogh who was here with her daughters, Caroline, Margaret, and Emily.
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SILVER WORLD, Friday, July 30, 2021. Page 4 Recent visitors with Phillip and Carolyn Virden was Carolyn's sister, Sally Hudnall, from Lawrence, Kansas, shown here with her sons and their families.
Harmonious strains...
One of the most stellar musical performances in the history of Mary Stigall Theater took place Monday evening this week for the Lake City Arts' concluding chamber music concert. The local stage was filled to capacity with an unprecedented number of string musicians, including String Academy students Ebner, Karmakar, Lunkes, Jung, Marin, Tai, and Southwick, joined by Haley Kirychul and Academy instructor Annie Chalex Boyle on violin; Dr. Mark Morton, bass; Dr. Nataliya Sukhina, harpsichord; Catherine Hanson and Irma Borup, viola; and James Holland and Nicholas Cheon, cello. The harmonious musicians presented Antonio Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' and Astor Pantaloon Piazzolla's 'Seasons'. - photo, Celeste Scott
Sunday, Aug. 1 Episcopal Service with Bishop Lucas
Special outdoor services with social distancing are planned at historic St. James Episcopal Chapel in Lake City starting at 9 a.m. this Sunday, August 1. Special guests taking part in the service and celebration communion is Colorado Bishop Kym Lucas, accompanied by her husband, Mark Retherford. Bishop Lucas, who will be assisted at the Sunday service by Rev. Ed Nettleton, made history in Colorado last year when she was formally elected as the state's first and only woman bisphop in the Episcopal Church. Sunday's service will include Lake City Community Choir, directed by Claire Jessee and accompanied by Janet Potter, singing "A Place at the Table." On her inaugural visit to Lake Citty, Bishop Lucas will tour Lake City, including St. James Chapel on 5th Street, which is one of the oldest structures in the Lake City Historic District. The chapel started out as a carpentry shop in 1875 and was used briefly as a classroom by Lake City Public School prior to being acquired by the Episcopalians late in 1876.
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