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You may have heard about our less than average snowfall this year. Unfortunately that means the rafting season will be shorter. In consideration of that we are offering a "Prime Rafting" discount. You may stay in one of our great vacation homes for 10% off the regular rate in June while the water is still high (except StarVue). Additionally our rafting partner AVA will give you 10% off your trip. Click the Black Wolf link above to see the inventory of great homes,reserve and click through to AVA;
August boasts one of the great events of the year here: The USA Pro Cycling Challenge August 22 and 23. The race will be going west over Independance pass on Wednesday and east on Thursday. Come stay in one of our great homes for the best seats on the route.See you this summer,
More information:
USA Pro Cycling Challenge - Official Spectator Information click here

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Community Events and News

Community Garage Sale, Music night at the Dance Hall,
and S&B Days

News you can use!

May 13th 2012 - Our pass is open and naturally that brought snow. Please note Independence pass will close again Friday May 18 about 8p.m. through 4p.m. Saturday May 19th for a bike race.

May 1st 2012 - Spring is in the air and there has been lots of activity on the building that will be the home of Shooting Star Gallery this summer. Keep an eye out for the opening of our expanded gallery later this month.

October-2011 - It is official, the season has changed as Larry was seen in town yesterday with shoes on.

News update from Friends of Twin Lakes.

The Friends of Twin Lakes will have a meeting on Saturday August 13th from 9am to 10am at the Twin Lakes Dance Hall (red building on west side of 5th St / co rd 26, 1/2 block up from general store), to elect officers for the organization. please bring a friend or neighbor who may have interest in the community, lake creek valley or wish to gain a better understanding of plans the Forest Service &/or Lake County government & fire services have which may impact the area. fresh input and ideas always welcome!

We'd like to thank Dunk Decew for the use of the Twin Lakes Dance Hall for many of our events. The Dance Hall is also available for private functions. Dunk may be reached at 719-539 7022 for more information.

6/22/11 Membership Meeting July 2nd

Here's a copy of the e-mail that went out announcing the first general membership meeting. Please be sure and let them know if you will be attending the gathering.
Hello Friend, The application for the Friends of Twin Lakes 501c3 should be in the mail any day! We have a dozen or so voting members right now and if you haven't joined yet please let us know and we can get you an application. Our first general membership meeting will be Saturday morning July 2 at 9am. We will be meeting at the old fire station now called the Certs building or possibly next door on the picnic tables if it's nice out. Bring sunscreen just in case. We would love to have as many members as we can get so we are asking everyone to "bring a friend to the friends". If you know of anyone who might be interested in signing up either as a voting or a non-voting member please bring them to the meeting on the 2nd and let's all get acquainted. We will be exploring the two major issues we think, fire protection and working positively with the Forest Service. Please RSVP so we know how many donuts to buy. See you then, The Friends of Twin Lakes

3/17/11 -We are having a potluck dinner Saturday the 19th, 6pm at the Dance Hall,

to introduce the new Friends of Twin Lakes organization. Some of us have been working very hard to put together a formal organization that would involve a 501 non profit so that we can obtain some credibility in the eyes of Lake County and the NFS.

A draft bylaws, which are open to some discussion and adjustment, is available for viewing on through Google docs Please call Tom to receive a link to the site via e-mail. Tom sent the mission statement earlier, so let him know if you missed this and want another copy. We will also talk about appointing some temporary officers and collecting membership dues. We hope you can make it. We want everyone in the valley's input and participation. You may call Tom with any questions. Tom Driemeyer 970-389-6123 .

3/19/11 Please note the Town Potluck date has been changed to March 19th!

3/12/11 - town potluck where the Friends of Twin Lakes will explain what we are trying to accomplish - Please join us.

Notice of our meetings is sent to all on the e-mail list which Tom maintains. If you wish to be notified via e-mail, send your e-mail address to: FriendsOfTwinLakes@gmail.org. In addition a notice is posted in the general store on the community board and at the post office bulletin board. These meetings currently are open to all in the area who are interested and wish to participate.
Notes from the Jan 29th meeting are available on google docs. Please contact Tom Driemeyer to receive the link.

1/14/2011 - Our next meeting will be Saturday January 29th at 9am at the Dance Hall. We will be reviewing the mission statement, bylaws and nominating officers for the new 501c3. We will also be planning our kickoff pot luck dinner.
Questions respond to this e-mail or call Tom Driemeyer - 970-389-6123

We had a great meeting of the Friends of Twin Lakes on Saturday. Next meeting is Saturday January 29th at the Dance Hall at 10 am - everyone welcome...Pan Ark (north and lake sides!), Gordon Acres, up the valley (what is that area called?) and the Village. If I missed anyone/any area let me know. Any questions contact Larry Marcum or Tom Driemeyer (emails are included to everyone I have)
We also had a GREAT New Years Eve Potluck, about 55 people attended, locals and guests. Thanks to all for the wonderful food and to Tom for doing a perfect job on the prime rib. If you missed it you missed a fun time, especially when MaryLee and Carl started to dance!
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Kendra Driemeyer
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Community Music and Sing

Mount Elbert Lodge Invites the whole Twin Lakes Community to an informal Music Night
The next Music night will be in November. We'll post the date as soon as we know.

S&B days

We get together, bring some project we may be working on and spend time with others from the area. S&B runs in the winter only (after the Pass closes) and gives a chance to catch up with each other and do some of those things that you never seem to have time for otherwise. If you live in the valley, please bring your stitching, mending, recipe sorting, scrap booking or what ever needs a bit of attention and join us.

Our gathering dates for this year: Watch for fall 2012 dates

Next Gathering: April ends our gatherings so we'll see you all in October.

For other details please write jjkester using at wildblue.net

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Past Events

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Wildrose Kennels training Demo - July 9th

This Saturday at 1:00 we have Mike & Cathy Stewart from the Wildrose Kennels coming here to show us how they work with Labs (the dog). http://uklabs.com/index.php
Some of the things they will show us are how to get a dog safely in a kayak, how NOT to have your arm pulled off when walking your dog and how service dogs can help folks that have diabetes among health problems. You can bring your dog if he will behave otherwise let him stay home (please?).
The area just west of the info center looks like it would be most comfortable if it's hot and sunny, if the weather is not cooperating I will see if June still has the key to the Dance Hall since Dunc has offered it to the Village for events.
Let me know if you are coming so I can give them an idea of what kind of group to expect but don't worry if you don't know - just come on down.
Also if you know of a group that would like to do this type of thing contact them and see if we can set up another fun Saturday!
See you there,
Kendra

Community Garage Sale

OPENING OF THE PASS (or not) WEEKEND

Thanks for another great day at the
4th Annual Community Yard Sale And
Town Picnic – after the yard sale
Saturday May 28, 2011
All are welcome to set up a table or trailer along the side of the highway starting by the Nordic Inn. We had a great turnout last year for sellers and buyers, heard of some deals for both sides!
The picnic will held up at the CERTS building (the old fire station) on Lang. Bring a dish – we’ll have the BBQ going and see the folks who were away for the winter/vacation! Take a tour of the facilities and meet your local EMTs and the board of the new “Friends of Twin Lakes” non-profit organization.
We look forward to a sunny fun day.

We'd like to thank Dunk Decew for the use of the Twin Lakes Dance Hall for many of our events. The Dance Hall is also available for private functions. Dunk may be reached at 719-539 7022 for more information.

Community Music and Sing

Mount Elbert Lodge Invites the whole Twin Lakes Community to an informal Music Night
Friday May 13th 2011
at the Twin Lakes Dance Hall
Thank you to all who came out to enjoy our music. We hope you had as much fun as we did. Watch for our next music evening coming up in November. - Mount Elbert Lodge

Twin Lakes Ice Fishing Derby

Results from February 12th,2011

Bike and Build stay 2010 was a great success

At the end of the ride for today.

Supper time with Chef Tom and assistant Susie.

Outside dining.

and a pep talk before departing the next morning.

Thank you to all in the community that helped to make this event possible!

Chinese New Year/Valentine's Day Celebration 2010

Another fun party, Thanks to all the folks behind the organizing and those that came out. We are looking for photos to post here if you have any that you'd like to share, please send them on.

New Year's Eve Community Potluck 2009

WOW what a huge success Thanks to everyone that came out to join the party.

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