{"id":1313687,"date":"2019-08-18T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/carbondales-our-town-one-table-event-celebrates-diversity\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:31:04","slug":"carbondales-our-town-one-table-event-celebrates-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/carbondales-our-town-one-table-event-celebrates-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbondale\u2019s Our Town, One Table event celebrates diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-986254-663\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"h-100\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Stroud\/Post Independent | Kade Mason carries flowers through the crowd on Carbondale's Fourth Street Sunday to help decorate a table for the Our Town, One Table community picnic.\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>Kade Mason carries flowers through the crowd on Carbondale&#8217;s Fourth Street Sunday to help decorate a table for the Our Town, One Table community picnic.<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Stroud\/Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919.jpg\" alt=\"Kade Mason carries flowers through the crowd on Carbondale's Fourth Street Sunday to help decorate a table for the Our Town, One Table community picnic.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"h-100\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Stroud\/Post Independent | Townsfolk line the Fourth Street Plaza in downtown Carbondale Sunday evening for the Our Town, One Table community picnic.\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>Townsfolk line the Fourth Street Plaza in downtown Carbondale Sunday evening for the Our Town, One Table community picnic.<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Stroud\/Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-1.jpg\" alt=\"Townsfolk line the Fourth Street Plaza in downtown Carbondale Sunday evening for the Our Town, One Table community picnic.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"h-100\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Stroud\/Post Independent | Rainbow bread, or\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>Rainbow bread, or &#8220;Dead Bread,&#8221; as table co- host Ralph Wanner referred to it, adds to the many colors at the Our Town, One Table event in Carbondale Sunday evening.<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Stroud\/Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow bread, or \" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"h-100\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Stroud\/Post Independent | The Wanner party at Carbondale's Our Town, One Table event Sunday evening.\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>The Wanner party at Carbondale&#8217;s Our Town, One Table event Sunday evening.<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Stroud\/Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/08\/OneTable-gpi-081919-3.jpg\" alt=\"The Wanner party at Carbondale's Our Town, One Table event Sunday evening.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a class=\"show-captions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/carbondales-our-town-one-table-event-celebrates-diversity\/#\">Show Captions<\/a><a class=\"hide-captions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/carbondales-our-town-one-table-event-celebrates-diversity\/#\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">David Conry of Glenwood Springs wasn\u2019t quite sure what he was in for when he was invited to join a table at Carbondale\u2019s Our Town, One Table community picnic Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But he had a hunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is what makes Carbondale so much fun,\u201d Conry said as he roamed the brightly decorated rows of tables lining Fourth Street \u2014 all with their own interpretation of the evening\u2019s \u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d theme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI love community events, and seeing everybody come out to have some fun,\u201d Conry said. \u201cA lot of fun stuff happens here in Carbondale, so it\u2019s always a treat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe have all kinds of food lined up over there. I can\u2019t wait!,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Conry was part of the Wanner party, organized by longtime Carbondale residents Pat and Ralph Wanner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pat said she had been to three of the four past One Table events, but always with other friends who had invited them along.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis year, we decided to invite some of our friends and do our own thing,\u201d she said of the fifth anniversary event. \u201cWe have a lot of creative people who all pitched in to do the decorations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The result was a pair of rainbow arches stretching lengthwise across two tables. Each member of the party wore a color of the rainbow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s fun, just to see everybody, and to see folks you haven\u2019t seen in a while,\u201d Ralph Wanner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Our Town, One Table is part community potluck, part dinner party, only with each of the individual parties gathered in one central location. Throw in a little roving dinner music and some other spontaneous entertainment, and call it yet another Carbondale celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt just sounded like a fun community event,\u201d said another first-time participant, Jessica Mason, as she and her young son, Kade, made their way to the table they were invited to join.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cSo, we made a bunch of food, put together some flowers for the table, and came down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Renee Ramge gathered up a table of Redstone residents for the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited about anything that brings the community together,\u201d she said. \u201cWe just wanted to come down and support the Carbondale folks in their efforts to build a stronger community that\u2019s united.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Before the guests arrived, Stefani Soychak was busy putting up the decorations for her True Nature Healing Arts table \u2014 a series of umbrellas, representing clouds, each with little raindrops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cBecause there wouldn\u2019t be rainbows without the rain,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe just moved here a couple of months ago, and just can\u2019t get over the overwhelming kindness \u2026 and this just feels like something out of a movie, where people can come together and share a meal in the middle of the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Niki Delson and Judie Blanchard helped organize a table for the new Carbondale Age Friendly Community Initiative, which has been working with the town government to make Carbondale more senior-friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Joining them were the Senior Matters group and several residents from the Heritage Park nursing home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe believe in building community,\u201d Delson said. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of just celebrating Carbondale, and I think one community under a rainbow really says who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:jstroud@postindependent.com\">jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/carbondales-our-town-one-table-event-celebrates-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kade Mason carries flowers through the crowd on Carbondale&#8217;s Fourth Street Sunday to help decorate a table for the Our Town, One Table community picnic. John Stroud\/Post Independent Townsfolk line the Fourth Street Plaza in downtown Carbondale Sunday evening for the Our Town, One Table community picnic. 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