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Show SatSunMonAues, March 27-30, 2004 The Park Record C-9 Canmore hazy on elders, banning smoke Continued from C-8 Foundation seeks to integrate inte-grate Hispanics TELLURIDE, Colo. - The Telluride Foundation has set out to help integrate Hispanics into the Telluride community. "The foundation's mission is about the quality of life in Telluride, and Hispanics are clearly a part of the community," explained Paul Major, president of the organization. organiza-tion. "We just want to lower the barriers bar-riers so Hispanics can be a part of the community," he told The Telluride Watch. "If we don't think about it intentionally, we will probably discover too late that there are a lot of problems out here." How the foundation intends to do this seems a little fuzzy, but involves identifying for the broader broad-er community how important Hispanics are. This importance is most easily identified economically. economical-ly. "These people are a huge economic eco-nomic engine," he said. "Not only are they working critical jobs, but they affect the economy. Why wouldn't we embrace the. Among the specific steps the foundation foun-dation plans during the next year are a focus on childcare, a translating translat-ing resource, and youth activity outreach. Hispanics are assimilating slowly for several reasons, among them language and cultural differences. differ-ences. Also, there's the fear of deportation. Many although not all recent immigrants from particularly partic-ularly Mexico gained access to the United States illegally, and hence fear deportation. Second summer flight from Texas to Vail area EAGLE, Colo. - Last year promoters in Vail and others in the Eagle Valley initiated daily direct flights during summer months to Dallas The flights were a $475,000 risk, a third of the money put up by the county government. In the end, the hotels, developers, and government paid a collective $20,000. About half of passengers were second-home owners. This year, those fights will continue, con-tinue, but various businesses and governments are pulling together $250,000 to guarantee flights from Houston, another primary source for tourist and second-home owners own-ers in the Vail area. A key question is whether flights from Houston will take away from the Dallas market. The answer: mostly no. An official at Beaver Creek, Tony O'Rourke, estimates 10 percent of the customers cus-tomers for the Dallas flights will go to the Houston flights. Whistler searching for answers to slow winter WHISTLER, B.C. - Last year it was Vail, Aspen, and other destination des-tination resorts of Colorado that had become introspective, wondering won-dering what they had done wrong to offend overnight vacationers. This year it's Whistler. The fundamental cause of the shift is easily explained. The U.S. , dollar has weakened, making U.S. vacations less expensive and Canadian vacations more expensive. expen-sive. Whistler's dependence upon U.S. visitors is illustrated by the fact that the January economy depends upon a holiday designated designat-ed to honor a preacher from the American South, i.e. Martin Luther King. With the destination business in Whistler falling off by as much as 25 percent this winter, tourism promoters are evaluating any number of things. For example, are costs too high? Can events be better managed? Despite the Martin Luther King holiday and other carefully staged events, January remains a black hole in the winter economy. In Colorado, that's something of the same story. In Vail, longtime long-time ski executive Andy Daly notes an improved January for the overnight, destination business. However, the trend remains the same, he says. The peaks of business busi-ness volume during holidays and spring vacation continue to get higher, but the valleys of business volume remain shallow. But a series of marginal years for Colorado resorts has produced changes in pricing. At least in Vail and in Summit County, the prices of lodging seem to remained lower than several years ago. Tourist town turns into something else DURANGO, Colo. - Durango is often described as a tourist town. Two stories in the Durango Herald during one week strongly suggest otherwise. In one case in North Durango, the owners of a motel are replacing replac-ing it with 15 small doctor-sized offices and 17 one- and two-bedroom apartments in a project intended to have an old-town look, with staggered rooflines. "The tourism business is drying, dry-ing, especially in Durango, explained co-owner Elizabeth Kulesza. Meanwhile, outside of Durango, another developer is carving up a raw 21 acres in a $20 million combination of duplexes, and triplexes, along with 44,000 square feet of commercial and office space. His target: people in their early 60s, suggesting that gray hairs instead of tourists are the market. All of the 65 townhomes (target (tar-get price: $350,000 to $450,000), will be single story, as the developer, develop-er, Daniel P. Robinowitz, says they outsell two-story townhomes by 10 to 1 in Southwest Colorado. Robinowitz hopes to realize $34 million to $35 million in sales. , As for affordable housing, the county has no leverage to require any. Meanwhile, along the 1-70 corridor, a study is being done to better understand the needs for service workers of communities that are expected, much like Durango, to be refugees for retiring retir-ing baby boomers in years ahead. Gate to community down -for awhile CANMORE, Alberta - A gate erected at the entrance to Canmore's most expensive real estate project, called the Cairns on the Bow, has been removed. The gate, the first of its kind in Canmore, an old mining town, had been denounced by the town's politicians, as well as the newspaper, newspa-per, the Rocky Mountain Outlook. However, municipal authorities have no legislative authority to deny the gate, as it is located on private property, even though there is a municipal park within the 19-home neighborhood. A representative of the developer devel-oper said the gate was intended as a way of controlling traffic, but that option will be left to the people peo-ple who move there. He professed to believe that as such, the gate would be different from gated communities in the United States. Smoking bandwagon rolls, but over seniors? CANMORE, Alberta - The anti-smoking bandwagon keeps getting more members. Even as Banff considered a sweeping limitation limi-tation on smoking in all public places, smoking foes were strate-gizing strate-gizing in the down-valley town of Canmore. Canmore already bans smoking smok-ing in businesses where kids would be exposed to it. but permits smoking in liquor-dispensing establishments. Crusaders hope to eliminate that prerogative. A trickier dilemma is at the other end of the age spectrum, at the Bow River Seniors' Lodge. There, about 20 percent of the residents res-idents continue their life-time habits of smoking. A health organization has reservations about nurses working in so much smoke. But authorities aren't sure they want to get tough with old men and women. "It's a tough decision to make, because these people have been smoking all their lives. A lot of them can't go outside because they're too frail," said Gailen Neville, a Canmore town councillor. council-lor. In fact, there is some concern that forcing the senior citizens to not smoke may imperil their health. "On the surface we have people peo-ple that are not in the best of health, and they've been smokers all their lives, and any major change in their routine might not be good for them," said Don Holding, a member of the housing board. "We have to be careful not to place an undue stress on them." 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