{"id":2458272,"date":"2020-05-09T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/kudos-and-kindness-from-aspen-times-readers-may-10-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-05-09T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T03:52:00","slug":"kudos-and-kindness-from-aspen-times-readers-may-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/kudos-and-kindness-from-aspen-times-readers-may-10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos and Kindness from Aspen Times readers (May 10, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Dear Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Grateful for 90th birthday party<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">My sincere gratitude and thanks to all of my family, friends and acquaintances for your kind wishes and thoughts in the celebration of my 90th birthday! I am truly blessed!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jim Markalunas<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter HeadLarge\">Hospitality alive and well on the Frying Pan<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I am new to the sport of road-biking, and I recently rode up the Frying Pan with one of my best friends. Lo and behold I got a flat tire and I didn\u2019t have a repair kit with me. I tried to phone my kids to pick me up but there was no service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As luck would have it, we flagged down two very kind gentlemen on bikes who filled my tire with a canister enabling me to get back down the Frying Pan to the Basalt Bike Shop. A huge rose to Dr. John Miller (apparently an awesome dentist in Aspen!) and Hans Erickson. You\u2019ve restored my faith in humanity!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Kris Ferguson<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter HeadLarge\">Contribution will positively impact Snowmass<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Dear Klein Family Charitable Fund and BJ Adams,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Thank you for the generous donation of $3,000 to the Snowmass Village Community Outreach Fund. Normally the fund donates on a case-by-case basis to members within the community. Unfortunately this is not a normal time and we anticipate a much greater need in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With the unprecedented loss of jobs within the community, it is difficult to gauge what will be needed in the coming months; it is too early to know what will happen in the long run but we anticipate an increase in need to pay a variety of expenses from rent\/mortgage, HOA fees, health care, and child care, along with basic requests for food assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Respecting your request to make these funds impact the community in planned manner, we have used the donation to buy 40 gift certificates for Clark\u2019s Market Snowmass at $75 each. We have already started distributing the cards to those in need and will be working with other groups and organizations to ensure the rest of the gift cards are distributed to those most impacted. This gift to the community is earmarked for the basic need of food, guaranteed to stay within the community, and supports a local business. This will have a resounding positive impact within our community!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We graciously and humbly accept your donation and thank you for helping us as our community navigates the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Snowmass Village Community Outreach Board<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/kudos-and-kindness-from-aspen-times-readers-may-10-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor: Grateful for 90th birthday party My sincere gratitude and thanks to all of my family, friends and acquaintances for your kind wishes and thoughts in the celebration of my 90th birthday! I am truly blessed! Jim Markalunas Support Local Journalism Donate Aspen Hospitality alive and well on the Frying Pan I am new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 17:54:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}