Illegal dumping a costly discharge
The Basalt Sanitation District recently raised the fine for any discharge into its system without proper authorization to a maximum of $5,000 per day, or occurrence.
The district also is seeking the public’s help and offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction of those who have been illegally pumping their wastes into the district’s manholes.
Bus service extended for jazz festival
The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority will be running enhanced service to and from Snowmass Village from Friday, Sept. 3, through Sunday, Sept. 5, for the Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) Labor Day music festival.
As in past years, RFTA will provide service to the rodeo lot from Aspen, the intercept lot and all points downvalley. The dedicated buses from Aspen to the music festival will depart Rubey Park at the same times that the regular downvalley local buses depart (:15 and :45), however they will not go through the intercept lot. Anyone going to points above the jazz festival will need to catch the regular Snowmass local bus at the usual departure location in front of Rubey Park. The jazz festival buses will only go as far as the concert (rodeo lot) in Snowmass.
Buses will depart from the intercept lot at least every 15 minutes.
The bus stops between Owl Creek Road and the rodeo lot will be closed for the duration of the event. An alternate to the Owl Creek stop is across from the chapel/firehouse village shuttle stop.
Once the venue gates open, the Snowmass Village Shuttle will provide free service every 10 minutes from the mall to the concert site. Service will be extended on Friday, Saturday and Sunday until 2 a.m.
For information on transit routes and schedules, call Rubey Park information at 925-8484 or Snowmass Village Shuttle at 923-2543. Information also is available at www.rfta.com.
Ride Against Genocide stops in Aspen
A 15-city tour of bicyclists riding to rid the world of genocide will make a stop in Aspen today.
The “Ride Against Genocide” will have a formal stop in Aspen on Sept. 2 from 9-10:30 a.m. on the Cooper Avenue mall. Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland will speak, among others involved in the Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action.
The ride started Aug. 30 and is aiming to educate Coloradans about genocides past and present, and provide them with tools of action to help bring an end to the current genocide in Darfur, as well as prevent future genocides.
The Ride Against Genocide tour, which covers more than 1,500 miles in four days, started in Denver, and at each of its city stops, tour riders erect a 10-foot by 10-foot tent that houses a 20-panel photographic and informational exhibit entitled “The Deadweight of Complacency.”
The exhibit travels through a series of genocides marking the destructive nature of mankind.
