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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 31-April 3, 2018 Continued from A-22 Mountain Town that New England ski areas will have far more problems than Colorado. “We don’t have the same problems. We have a problem of people stupid enough to try to open on the first of October,” he said. That may be a stretch. Some ski areas, with the artifice of snowmaking, try to open by Halloween, however. In Colorado, he said, Steamboat might have more trouble than others because of its lower elevation. The base area is about 6,800 feet and the mountain faces west. As such, they’re more likely to be blasted by spring afternoon sun. Top elevation is 10,400 feet — three hundred feet lower than the base area for Arapahoe Basin, one of the four ski areas in Summit County. Sonja Macys, a member of the Steamboat Springs City Council, recently told Colorado Public Radio that the changing climate poses a question of how to create a permanent, yearround economy that supports jobs that are less dependent on snow. That has long been a quest of many ski towns, but the warming climate makes it more urgent for at least some of them. Sun Valley hit by hard rain, flooding on spring equinox KETCHUM, Idaho – It rained hard in Sun Valley and Ketchum on the first day of spring this year, resulting in flooding of basements and crawl spaces of homes. A Sun Valley homeowner reported a foot and a half of water on a road that spilled into his basement. “All that water came in like a fountain,” Latham Williams told the Idaho Mountain Express. “My basement is destroyed.” It had also rained the week before the vernal equinox, the Express noted. Rain afflicted ski towns of The Park Record Colorado, too. “Nothing is quite right with super-thin snowpack and rain in the forecast,” said Mark Reaman, editor of the Crested Butte News. cluding himself. “As a person who pays a free-market mortgage, there is nothing more insulting than having a tax-subsidized unit being rented out,” he said. “They are getting a subsidy and then turning it into income.” The fines being planned would range to $500, depending upon severity. Bitcoin payment OK for seller of high-end home ASPEN, Colo. – Bitcoin has arrived in the world of resort real estate. The seller of a home in one of Aspen’s high-end neighborhoods is offering to accept bitcoin or another form of cryptocurrency. Asking price for the six-bedroom home in Starwood, the gated community, is $5.35 million, reports the Aspen Daily News. It’s the first known Aspen property to be advertised for sale with the stated offer of accepting an alternative digital currency. However, Erik Berg, a real estate agent involved in marketing the property in Aspen, says bitcoin was used as payment last year for two $2 million houses in Park City. Berg told the Daily News the reason the sellers will accept bitcoin is because they see it as a currency that’s not going away. William Small, a financial advisor in Aspen, concurs about the staying power of bitcoin. He also points out that it’s a smart marketing move on the part of the seller and its agents because of the attention it will attract. Small also suggested cryptocurrency real estate purchases won’t long remain a novelty. Jackson moves toward law about LGBTQ discrimination JACKSON, Wyo. – Elected officials in Jackson are moving forward with an ordinance that formally prohibits discrimination against the LGBTQ community. This acronym stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. The town has had a non-discrimination resolution since 2014, the first in Wyoming to do so. But the resolution lacks the force of law. The Jackson Hole News&Guide reports qualms on the town council centered around the fear of increased cost of enforcement, forcing existing commitments to be discarded. But the mayor, Pete Muldoon, would have none of it. “I’ve had people come and tell me they’ve been mistreated and discriminated against in housing and in jobs because they’re gay,” Muldoon said. “If we think that people’s civil rights are being violated in the town of Jackson, that’s the No. 1 budget priority.” Banff sorts trash to see what can be diverted from landfill BANFF, Alberta – Town officials in Banff hope to figure out a way to boost the level of recycling and organic diversion. A recent analysis showed that 46 percent of the garbage in the community gets recycled, leaving 54 percent for the landfill. A consulting company that sorted through garbage sent to the landfill found that 65 percent of it might also be diverted. One-third of food and foodsoiled paper could be diverted from the landfill. Banff’s 46 percent diversion rate significantly lags behind the Canadian cities of Vancouver, Guelph and Halifax, where municipal officials report 61 to 63 percent diversion of waste. Aspen housing directors to get tougher with scofflaws ASPEN, Colo. – Fines are being assigned for bad behavior by people living in the 3,000 units of affordable housing administered by the Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority. Last year, 154 violations were investigated, reports The Aspen Times. They include people not working full time in Pitkin County, people not living in their units, and people owning property elsewhere in the Aspen area in violation of restrictions. 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