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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 25-28, 2014 M A-15 The Park Record OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS Senior living at its best! A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities By ALLEN BEST Record contributing writer Building resumes as foreclosures clear out TELLURIDE, Colo. - Construction is returning to resort mountain towns that haven't seen much since before the recession. In Jackson, Wyo., erection of several large, expensive commercial projects resulted in a five-fold increase in construction last year. More broadly in Teton County, residential development hit $184 million, compared to $107 million the year before. "Real estate agents, contractors and business owners say the data confirm the proverbial ‘bottom' of the economic downtown is well behind us and show a general rebound in confidence around the valley," reports the Jackson Hole News&Guide. A new Walgreens and other projects "are indications to me that people feel good about the future," said Matt Faupel, an owner and broker with Jackson Hole Real Estate Associates. John Jennings, owner and president of Peak Builders, who specializes in custom building, said that high-end resort towns recover more rapidly than other places. He predicted an even bigger 2014. Aspen also has had a quickened pace. "Speculative builders are sniffing around the Aspen-area real estate market again after all but disappearing for five years," says The Aspen Times, citing real estate agents as its source. The newspaper reports increased construction activity of 37 percent last year. With the market for vacant land heating up, there's expectation of new homes at $1,000 a square foot. In Steamboat Springs, a 10unit multifamily building and two duplexes are before city officials. If approved, they will be the most significant addition to Steamboat's multifamily inventory in years, says Steamboat Today. But unlike conventional townhouses, these would be horizontal in layout, and not small either: 2,000 to 3,000 square feet. The backdrop for all this new construction is a drop-off in foreclosures. In Aspen and Pitkin County, foreclosures last year dropped to their lowest level since before the recession. In 2008, as the recession started, there were 34. The annual total leaped to 144 at the height of the real-estate shakeout, and last year dropped to 57, reports The Aspen Times. Down-valley in Basalt and El Jebel, foreclosures grew from 3 before the recession to 107 at the peak. Last year they dropped to 30. In Telluride, real estate sales last year dropped 8 percent, but nobody seems to be crying the blues. Declining foreclosures give agents cause to think a more hepped-up market lies ahead. "Once the prices stabilize, people feel that the bottom has been found and that their investments are safer than they were three or four years ago," says broker George Harvey. "Those folks were gamblers," he says of early buyers in the recovery. "The stability of the market is much easier to determine right now." Pot taxes need to fund treatments FRASER, Colo. - Andy Miller admits he smoked pot for a long time, but he's dubious others should now, just because it's legal. Miller, 62, says he began smoking after he got out of high school but quit 15 years ago. "I quit after finally understanding the insidious effects this drug had on my memory, but more importantly, on my motivation. I am old enough now to see the long-term effect on the few friends I have who still imbibe. Their lives have been reduced to a meek dayto-day existence, dreams long since lost. We need to admit pot will drag our community down as some citizens lose the gifts they can give toward building our community's future," he writes, in a letter published in the Sky-Hi News. He calls for measures to keep THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, from ending up in the bloodstream of children. "I am not sure what would have happened if I had started with the more powerful socalled ‘couch weed' (so strong the user can't get off the couch) when I was 12." Instead of seeing pot sales allowed like alcohol, he'd like to see more stringent regulations. He also wants local governments to allocate some of the tax revenues they will reap from sales to offer free drug treatment for people like he once was. "Tax revenues should also go to enhancing healthy physical activities, which can lure children and adults away from pot and liquor stores," he asserts. Ten minutes for avie rescue wasn't enough GRANBY, Colo. - From Colorado comes details about an avalanche that killed a 28-yearold split-boarder on New Year's Eve. The report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center says George Dirth and his companions did everything right as they descended Parkview Peak, including stopping several times along the way to dig snow pits. But he skied slightly outside of a treed area and into a clear avalanche path and got nailed. His companions, thanks to beacons, probe poles and shovels, had air to his face within 10 minutes - but it wasn't soon enough. He had already suffocated. This victim was rare in having companion WHISTLER, B.C. - News of the death of another skier by immersion in a tree well comes from Whistler Blackcomb. But this one is different from the others in Montana, British Columbia and Colorado during recent years in that the victim, a 63-year-old man from Vancouver, had a companion. Experts say that when skiing in places with tree wells, be sure to stay within eyesight of a companion. That way, if one person falls headfirst into the well around a tree, the other person can help him or her out. It didn't work in this case. Pique says it wasn't clear whether the victim died of suffocation, as is commonly the case in tree-well fatalities, or of another medical condition. Memorial abounds with stories of Vail avie victim VAIL, Colo. - The Vail community said good-bye to Tony Seibert, the 24-year-old grandson of Vail's original visionary founder, Pete Seibert, and the Vail Daily says that it wasn't your usual memorial. "You knew the celebration of Anthony Pardee Seibert's life would be a celebration when, before the opening prayer, people began carefully working their way through the standingroom-only crowd carrying trays of wine glasses," writes the Vail Daily's Randy Wyrick. The hall atop Vail Mountain had 1,000 people, he says (although others think that vastly underestimated the head count). The stories about Seibert, who died in an avalanche just outside the Vail Mountain ski area on Jan. 7, went on for a good long time. Among those stories was one from his father, Pete Seibert Jr., also known as Circle. He said he took his kids, including Tony, who was then 4, to a petting zoo, and when he turned his back he heard a loud hissing. It was a goose that Tony had cornered, and the goose was trying to bite. In a flash, the boy had his hands around the goose's neck. "Tony didn't want to hurt the goose, but he damn sure wasn't scared of it, either," said Pete, his father. "That's how Tony lived his life, and that's how he wants us to live ours." Assisted Living and Memory Care 435-783-5575 www.elkmeadowsalf.com T 4200 North 400 West • P.O. 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