Letter to Editor
Greetings and Salutations:
I am writing again after saying I wouldn't do it anymore. But after reading what went on here in town, I just can't hold back. One thing I do know for sure, Dutch will never lie to you. He always tells the truth, even if it might hurt. The way it sounds to me, the county Mounties didn’t have no grounds to do it themselves, or were too ignorant to know what to do. The truth be known, Lawdogs really get off on tearing up somebody's property.
I know and you know if any lawdogs read this I will be in dep oxen scheize. That is no problem, because I have been four jails just is Colorado. But every time I hear that a lawdog bit the dust, I do things. I pop a top on a cold beer and drink it, then I pop the top on another beer and I drink it.
Then I know there is one less lawdog to bother me. So keep up the good work Dutch. We are very proud to know you.
William (Bud) Michele
Deer Trail, CO
303-769-4625
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If the law enforcement gave the Town of Deer Trail the information about a raid, then roomers or some one would go and tell the party involved and give them a warning and they would destroy all the evidence that was need in case a person was doing wrong activities inside there home, drugs, pornography, Internet Underage Children Predator, etc.
So, as far as some one saying they give us an unauthorized raid is out to lunch and does not know the real truth in the matter. Mr. Michaels has nothing else to do (board) as he loves to pop open a can of beer and talk about other people and the way they run their lives, comments, or cut down about other people in town, Law enforcement like Dutch does. Mr. Michaels has own problems. I have known Mr. Michaels for year, but he has his Judgment days in what to say and that is the freedom of speech, just blowing off steam.
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Letter to the People of Deer Trail from the Editor: Ron Schaffer
Emergency Ordinance No. 246 - Ordinance No. 246 imposing a temporary moratorium on the use of property in Deer Trail pertaining to the sale and distribution of medical marijuana was approved by the Board.
Come on Board Members, we have enough problems with DRUGS in Deer Trail without adding more problems. If the residents of Deer Trail had to vote in it, which I think was the way to go! The vote would have been NO..!! Maybe add a CRACK house in Deer Trail too..!! We do not need a temporary or permeate medical marijuana in Deer Trail, you are asking for more trouble down the line. Other cities like Denver, Aurora Colorado., just to name a couple are still having problems with it and it looks like it will never end. Arapahoe County has too many other problems to address the ones in Deer Trail at a rate of $16,508.64 a year, and only come to Deer Trail to cruising the streets for few minutes and gone. It takes them over 2 hours to get to Deer Trail for and Emergency or Death.
Of course if the want to do a raid in Deer Trail, they have no problem with that at all?!! Any one that breaks in the medical marijuana in Deer Trail, no matter what kind of security you have forget it, they just got away with it, and no problems with Arapahoe County Sheriffs Department, because is to far to investigate the break in, and since Deer Trail is in the outer edge of Arapahoe County.
Editor for the www.Deertrailco.net
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Letter To The Editor: Ron Schaffer
Where has all the decency gone?
We have had two dogs run down in the past two weeks out on 1498,and the people didn't even have the decency to stop and check on the dog, one pickup killed my lab right in front of our grandson and didn't even slow down, what if a kid is on the road will the do the same thing, people come through here like they are on an interstate highway I have already had one vehicle stuck in my house because of the fast driving on these farm roads, what we need is some law inforcement on them with tickets, if they would set up random about twice a week it might make people thinks about their speed through here, because people think they can run on a farm road just like and interstate.
Dennis Malone
668 FM 1498
Paris, Texas 75462
903-785-6249
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| Retired Lori Moriarty, left, Dan & Eleen Moriarty Daughter, cousin of Ron Schaffer, who maintains the Deer Trail website |
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Letter to the Editor: Ron Schaffer
THE STAMP
Please read the following story and follow the instructions at the end! Thank You.
Like most elementary schools, it was typical to have a parade of students in and out of the health clinic throughout the day. We dispensed ice for bumps and bruises, Band-Aids for cuts, and liberal doses of sympathy and hugs. As principal, my office was right next door to the clinic, so I often dropped in to lend a hand and help out with the hugs. I knew that for some kids, mine might be the only one they got all day.
One morning I was putting a Band-Aid on a little girl's scraped knee. Her blonde hair was matted, and I noticed that she was shivering in her thin little sleeveless blouse. I found her a warm sweatshirt and helped her pull it on. "Thanks for taking care of me," she whispered as she climbed into my lap and snuggled up against me.
It wasn't long after that when I ran across an unfamiliar lump under my arm. Cancer, an aggressively spreading kind, had already invaded thirteen of my lymph nodes. I pondered whether or not to tell the students about my diagnosis. The word breast seemed so hard to say out loud to them, and the word cancer seemed so frightening. When it became evident that the children were going to find out one way or another, either the straight scoop from me or possibly a garbled version from someone else, I decided to tell them myself.
It wasn't easy to get the words out, but the empathy and concern I saw in their faces as I explained it to them told me I had made the right decision. When I gave them a chance to ask questions, they mostly wanted to know how they could help.
I told them that what I would like best would be their letters, pictures, and prayers.
I stood by the gym door as the children solemnly filed out. My little blonde friend darted out of line and threw herself into my arms. Then she stepped back to look up into my face. "Don't be afraid, Dr. Perry," she said earnestly, "I know you'll be back because now it's our turn to take care of you."
No one could have ever done a better job. The kids sent me off to my first chemotherapy session with a hilarious book of nausea remedies that they had written.
A video of every class in the school singing get-well songs accompanied me to the next chemotherapy appointment.
By the third visit, the nurses were waiting at the door to find out what I would bring next. It was a delicate music box that played "I Will Always Love You.."
Even when I went into isolation at the hospital for a bone marrow transplant, the letters and pictures kept coming until they covered every wall of my room.
Then the kids traced their hands onto colored paper, cut them out and glued them together to make a freestanding rainbow of helping hands. "I feel like I've stepped into Disneyland every time I walk into this room," my doctor laughed.
That was even before the six-foot apple blossom tree arrived adorned with messages written on paper apples from the students and teachers. What healing comfort I found in being surrounded by these tokens of their caring..
At long last I was well enough to return to work. As I headed up the road to the school, I was suddenly overcome by doubts. What if the kids have forgotten all about me? I wondered, What if they don't want a skinny bald principal? What if.
I caught sight of the school marquee as I rounded the bend. "Welcome Back, Dr. Perry," it read. As I drew closer, everywhere I looked were pink ribbons - ribbons in the windows, tied on the doorknobs, even up in the trees. The children and staff wore pink ribbons, too.
My blonde buddy was first in line to greet me. "You're back, Dr. Perry, you're back!" she called. "See, I told you we'd take care of you!"
As I hugged her tight, in the back of my mind I faintly heard my music box playing . . . "I will always love you."
Subject: Breast Cancer Stamp Booklet
We need those of you who are great at forwarding on information with your e-mail network. Please read and pass this on. It would be wonderful if 2010 were the year a cure for breast cancer was found!!!!
This is one email you should be glad to pass on. The notion that we could raise $35 million by buying a book of stamps is powerful! As you may be aware, the US Postal Service has the "Fund the Cure" stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda , Maryland . It is important that we take a stand against this disease that affects so many of our Mothers, Sisters, Friends, Coworkers, and Spouses of Coworkers.
Instead of the normal 44 cents for a stamp, this one costs 55 cents. The additional 11 cents will go to breast cancer research A "normal" book costs $8.80. This one is only $11.00. It takes a few minutes in line at the Post Office and means so much. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research. Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week. What a statement it would make that we care.
I urge you to do two things TODAY:
1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps.
2. E-mail your friends to do the same.
Many of us know women and their families whose lives are turned upside-down by breast cancer.
It takes so little to do so much in this drive.
We can all afford the $0.55. Please help & pass this on to all your friends.
lorimori@aol.com Ron Schaffer Cousin Lori Moriarty
Lori Moriarty – Board President ~ http://www.coloradodec.org/board.html
Commander Lori Moriarty (retired) began her career in law enforcement in Colorado with the Thornton Police Department in 1987. From 2000 to 2006 she was the commander of the North Metro Task Force, a multi-jurisdictional undercover drug unit.
Commander Moriarty has been instrumental in implementing protocols for the safe investigation of methamphetamine labs and undercover drug operations. She has educated thousands of professionals across the nation about hazardous drug environments and their effects on children, and appeared on ABC News' 20/20, Fox National News, MSNBC, NPR and PBS. In April 2005, she testified before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC on H.R. 1528, “Defending America’s Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005.”
Commander Moriarty’s safety stance and public awareness efforts have won her regional and national attention. In 2001, the Office of National Drug Control Policy recognized her as Drug Commander of the Year. The Adams County Bar Association in Colorado named Commander Moriarty and the North Metro Task Force "2002 Peace Officer of the Year" and, in 2004, she received the “Friend of Children” award through the State of Colorado Court Appointed Special Advocates.
Commander Moriarty is the Executive Director of the National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children. She has served on the board of directors for the Colorado Alliance for Drug Endangered Children since 2003
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Mr. Editor:
I can very well understand the low rating as based on my asking a few students from the 7th grade, through to the 10th grade, who the first president of the United States of America was, only to find out that they did not know.
I have published this nation wide: It is alarming! In looking at the I-70 corridor schools, there are others in just as bad if not worse shape as Deer Trail. This is a shame and does not paint a good picture.
Looks to me as though the Deer Trail schools is pretty lacking in its standing as compared to other schools and in a ranking from 1 to 10 achieving a 50% or less rating.
I would say that Deer Trail schools needs to buck up a little. Perhaps as a result of the political hierarchy of the school board being in question and the often termination of school leadership might have a little to do with the schools substandard ranking. Let's face it, anything less than a 10 is substandard. It doesn't take money, it takes dedication to instituting a learning environment and jumping out of the basket of political one upsmanship and political correctness.
This rating must be from the 1st through the 12th grade: Not good!
 Deer Trail's rating is based on its public schools' test results; 10 is best. 
Deer Trail Junior/Senior High School
Click Here
The 5000 year leap should be incorporated into the learning system of the DT school system.
http://adlar.com/nccs/lesson_1.html
Thank you for your posting this.
Anglo
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Ron's History
RONALD A. SCHAFFER Patch Dedicated to Ron Schaffer
EDUCATION
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NO PRIDE
I have been scouting around the Internet for homes for sale in the Paris, Texas 15 mile radius and found a lot of nice home at better price than in Colorado.
Plus the cost of living is better, utilities, Taxes, Insurance Car & Home, Food, most of 99.9% of the roads & streets are paved. Etc.
And you never hear a problem like other cities or states having with economy, not Texas. It still has enough oil & natural gas to keep the state flowing in money for the next 100 year or more.
In Texas, every one knows each other, as you never seen them before or know them, but they still wave at you and people have more pride in what they have, home inside & out, car, boat, camper, what ever they own, they take pride in what they have and take care of it.
My ex-sister-in-law Judy had sold the home they had for 25 years in 2003 and within a year it look like a junk yard, no lawn, trees died, weeds, roof coming off, park junk cars in the driveway as they cannot afford to pay for the yearly tags or plates or fix them up and sell them, and Governor Ritter raised the price to pay for the econometric problems that they have cause in the last few year, spent more than what they had, that sould like home owners, and people cant' hold a job, too much work for them, should I go on? ? ? 
No, it is a waste of time.
I learned to make a dollar and how to save a dollar and that came from Mr. Otto Venter that past away in 1977 and a year before he passed away, he had told me, "you think things are bad now" "you just wait about 20 to 30 years from now, as you have not seen any thing like today" And he was right...!!!
http://realestate.yahoo.com/Texas/Paris/2520-culbertson-st:8b2f4c3060f8bc952ece9de7f9dca
http://www.century21.com/property/index.jsp?id=35502231
If I could sell this place at half of the price that I am paying for property tax, I would go for it and sell it and get the heck out Dodge and move to Texas were all of my wife family lives. I pay $125,900.00 Tax value on this house that I cannot sell it for even half $63,000.00 thanks to the Government in Colorado.
I have no reason to stay in Deer Trail no more since my Mom Lorraine (Mickey) Venter passed away in May 2004 God rest her sole. If she could see the way the house looks like today, it would be too bad for the people living there today, as it looks like a junk yard!
My son & daughter have there own family to raise and have no time for Dad or Mom that brought them into the world. They are too busy with there life with there own children or my grandchildren as they are never home and never call back from the anwser machine.
Answering machine:
You know what I hate about answering machine messages? They go on and on, wasting your time. I mean, all they really need to say is, "We aren't in, leave a message." That's why I've decided to keep mine simple and short. I pledge to you, my caller, that you will never have to suffer through another long answering machine message when you call me...as usual I will not call you back, too much of a pain?!!
Besides the weather in Paris or Glory, Texas is much warmer, even though it does get down to 34 to 38 and snow about few inches every 10 years or so and now I know why a lot of resident from Deer Trail move to a warmer climate other than Colorado or only 6 months out of the year and why people just get up & move to get out of Dodge or just the high cost of living in Colorado. Ron Schaffer
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Letter to Editor
December 16th, 2009 Tri-County Tribune
Well here I go again. Only I am not going to make anybody mad, I hope. I do remember we had a Biology and Algebra teacher by the name of Johnnie Dugan. He was a veteran of the Second World War era. He was a real nice guy. He gave us a problem to figure out at least fifty or sixty years ago.
With the computers and machines today it is probably real simple, o. k. It takes 800 pounds of air pressure to blow a flax seed out of an elephant's behind, how far does a petrified rat "turd" have to drop to split a shingle.
You should Now about Turds One Turd to another..!!
I await your reply.
Bill Michele
820 2nd Ave. POB 55
Deer Trail, Colorado
303-769-4625
Boring, Boring Again With The Same Old Song & Dance.
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letters To the editor
Medicinal marijuana defended
Dear Editor:
In regards to the recent letter regarding medical marijuana (Nov. 17 edition), evidence shows that medicinal marijuana has actually been in use since 4000 B.C. It is used for treating pain. You must, of course, have a viable cause to receive your prescription card, just like every other pharmaceutical drug. A'number of pain killers are much more addicting and self-destructive than marijuana could ever be — substances ranging from OxyContin to hydrocodene and other opiates. These drugs are also used to treat chronic pain, and are in the top 10 of the most abused painkillers. Marijuana isn't on the list, nor should it be.
Of course the health book says that smoking pot is bad, because inhaling any kind of smoke is most likely damaging to your lungs in some way. Studies have shown that smoking pot for long periods of time can't even compare to the amount of brain cells killed when you drink alcohol. But alcohol is legal, so who cares, right? Where would all this tar come from when marijuana is grown naturally out of the ground? The only reason cigarettes have tar and other dangerous chemicals in them are because the tobacco companies put them in there. I'll have to disagree and say that "it is only pot." Tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, the drug found in marijuana, is not habit forming. The worst side effect of not smoking marijuana after a long period of use is acute anxiety and lower sperm count.
The only reason this "anonymous" teenager had to hide from and seemed devious to their parents was because the parents were most likely un- or misinformed. If this were a real story, I'm sure they could have talked to her about it and been open about the subject instead of hiding it, possibly making it seem not that big of a deal when her friends would talk about it.
There are no reported cases of death from marijuana use. Statistics show alcohol is responsible for 85,000 deaths, tobacco accounts for over 435,000 deaths, and prescription drugs at 32,000 deaths per year.
The only reason marijuana could be considered a gateway drug is for people with addictive personalities that started smoking pot. Even then, most would attest that they were probably drunk when they first took drugs. How many people do you know that "have to have their coffee" in the morning. Caffeine is a drug also. It's already a legitimate business to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes, so I suppose if you don't like that fact, write your congressman.
— Morgan Lowell, Deer Trail
Kids on bikes concern Strasburg man
Dear Editor:
I am writing this letter in full amazement that a child lost her life riding a bicycle in a tragic accident. On Dec. 5, the town of Strasburg hosted "Christmas Night in Strasburg" from 4-8 p.m. Colorado Equipment was asked to sponsor and drive the hay rides for the third year in a row, which, of course, I was thrilled to do.
I could not believe the people that attended in the bitter cold and supported all the local businesses. The support that everyone gives to this community was, as always, overwhelming.
That being said, I am not sure anyone has learned a lesson from the tragedy that took that little girl's life so young. There were, in my opinion, way to many children on bikes for the time of day or, should I say, night. These children were cutting in and out of traffic even on Colfax, trying to race the tractors and hay ride, seeing if they could cut in front of me, then swerve back out. Most of these children had on black or dark clothing and were very hard to see; at one point, I had to pull over and give them a warning to stay back from the tractor.
In my opinion, I do not understand why parents would let their children be out on bikes in that time of night dressed in dark colors and not obviously watching where they were or what they were doing. I am asking to please take heed and learn a lesson from the tragedy we, as a community, obviously took very strongly, noting the letters to the' editor at the time.
— Dan Crouch, Colorado Equipment, Strasburg
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Another take on 'illegal alien' usage
Dear Editor:
Ms. Madrid (Nov. 10 edition), please refer to Webster's Dictionary for the definitions of "solidarity," "illegal" and "alien."
Is your "solidarity" to this country, the United States of America? Or to the country to the south known as Mexico? Are your Latin "brothers and sisters" coining here legally?
In regard to your reference to "immigrants" from other areas, please note — most of them have come here legally, they have proudly become U.S. citizens, are responsible tax-paying citizens, have allegiance to this country, have learned and speak the language of this country, and obey the laws of this country.
— Niles Dingman, Deer Trail
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In reference to an article on your news page of town business:
( The Subject matter)- In other business, Trustee John Monnahan expressed concern that ground owned by the town at 692 First Ave. is adversely affecting property of the adjacent landowner.
"It looks like a time bomb," he said. "I think the town needs to get rid of it. It's going to nip the town board in the butt some day."
Other board members were informed that the town owns only the ground and no part of either adjacent building. Owens said the town abated the building previously located on the lot by demolition and removal and now owns the vacant lot only.
Resident Philip Steel, not necessarily speaking on behalf of store owner Wendy Wood, asked the board to consider buying into the store.
"She has invested her heart and soul into that store and that store is very important to this town," he said. "... I would, strongly urge the town instead of arguing about liability, to consider it an opportunity."
"Let's kick it around and put it on the agenda next month," Monnahan suggested.
The board agreed, and Fields directed Steel to look into the matter further.
Robert (Bob) Copley
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In reference to Trustee Monnahan and his assumption of the property so noted as 692 First Ave. having an adverse affect on the adjacent land owner, (there are two adjacent land owners BTW) but this assumption obviously pertains to the feed store as somehow being affected in some sort of adverse manner. I fail to see how that can be as the vacant lot, if anything, causes the feed store to stand out and apart making it, "the feed store" more visible and viable. This in my opinion is a mundane observation on behalf of Trustee Monnahan. My real concern with this article is that of, perhaps as a note of ignorance of the danger involved, the suggestion, as I understand it being made by Mr. Steel, is that he is suggesting that the town buy into the feed store. Not only can the town not be in commercial business, the suggestion is "fascism" of the first degree. We have a Fascist government as per the U.S. Government buying into General Motors which by all practical terms is now Government Motors. Mr. Steel, having been in the military and supposedly having a commission should review his Oath, and or consider Oathkeepers.org as a place of review. Long story short, I would think that with the support of Trustee Monnahan and Mr. Steel, the feed store owner is looking for a reduction in the 692 property price for the sake of personal procurement. Of course that would be better than the town government becoming a Fascist form of government like that of the U.S. government.
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