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Smoke wafting up from the canyon from his wood-buming stove gave Moore away to a Department of Energy employee. Police arrested the secret tenant for trespassing and, after spotting 10 marijuana plants growing near the cave, they added drug charges as well. DOE spokesmen admitted that finding someone holed up in the midst of a top-secret facility was "pretty strange," but added that the cave was in a decommissioned part of the lab's 40 square miles. Colorado Newspapers keep bulking up, what with dozens of glossy inserts from big-box stores, along with announcements of the latest sales on ground beef and paper towels. But the Colorado Springs Gazette took inserts to a new level Dec. 19, by wrapping its daily around the Bible and delivering both the news and the New Testament to 91,000 subscribers. The promotion cost the International Bible Society $36,000, and the group says other cities, such as Seattle, Denver, and Santa Rosa, Calif., may be targeted next. Asked whether the Christian Bible and the news really fit together, the Gazette publisher likened the distribution to giv- month in Jackson, Wyo. But surprisingly. Many six- and seven-year olds wanted something besides the latest video game, or a Barbie doll and a big house for Barbie. Among the scores of kids whose letters were printed in the Jackson Hole News & Guide, several stood out for their compassion, asking "for the whole wide world to never get sick" and for the war in Iraq to end in peace. The phonetic spelling was fun, with one boy asking for a "moutin hick." We also liked the • • Volunteerism defines Americans as much as jibe from second-grader Nicole Nickas, who advised Santa "to cut anything, though in the West it can take novel forms. down on the cookies." But only About 60people volunteered... to save turtles evict- Cheyenne Garnick, also in the second grade, concluded: "I don't ed from their winter home." know what 1 want." Colorado - Betsy Marston Volunteerism defines Americans as much as anything, though in the West it can take ing out laundry detergent without Stales. 'Human trafficking" slows novel forms. About 60 people volnecessarily endorsing it. The anal- down as the year ends, though U.S. unteered in Boulder, Colo., to save ogy amused the city's alternative Border Patrol agents were amazed turtles evicted from their winter weekly, the Independent, which by one family's ingenuity: A tod- home. Turtle-helpers waded into headlined one of its stories, "The dler was "stuffed in a pinata," the "stinky mud" of a drained irrigospel according to the Gazette." reports The New York Times. The gation canal to grab hundreds of Then there was the future promo- family was deported. Agents also the hibernating animals, reports tion envisioned by Independent nabbed 90 wild parrots that had The Associated Press. Then they columnist Rich Tosches: "Fresh off been smuggled into the United escorted the turtles to a new home the roaring success of its 'Let's States, repatriating them to in a nearby pond. The canal had Throw Bibles Into The Jews' Mexico. One cynical border offi- sprung numerous leaks and had to Driveways' program, the Colorado cial predicted that the birds be drained for repairs. Springs Gazette strikes a deal with "would probably make their way Betsy Marston the Humane Society of the Pikes back to Los Angeles after Three (bctsym@hcn.org) is editor of Peak region and stuffs a kitten into Kings Day." Writers on the Range, a service of each plastic delivery sack." High Country News. Tips of Wyoming Maybe they were coached just a Western oddities are always apprelittle, the elementary school kids ciated and often shared in Heard who wrote to Santa Claus last around the West. BRINGING THE POWER CLOSER TO HOME. MNS.DE ALBERTSONS) PINEBROOK BLVD. 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