Please tune in to WWFM 91.1 on your radio dial at 10 a.m. Friday for Live from Steamboat, classical music from our own Strings Music Festival concerts, part of WWFM’s “Celebrating Our Musical Community” program. This broadcast will feature music from our 2013 concerts, Sergi Prokofiev’s Sonata in C Major for cello and piano, and Paul Coletti’s From My Heart and Circus.
We will also hear portions of a 2012 concert titled Baroque, Tangos & Jazz, with selections by composers Alejandro Scarpino, Juan Caldarella, Astor Piazzolla and Jacobo Gade. These broadcasts are brought to Steamboat by the team of WWFM in Trenton, NJ, Strings Music Festival, and West Slope FM. They are featured only once a month, on the last Friday of the month, so don’t miss this one.
Ski area taking entries for Go-Pro photo, video contest
Steamboat Ski Area is accepting entries for its season-long GoPro photo and video contest. The contest asks entrants to share their Steamboat story through a still photo or video edit captured on a GoPro.
To enter a photo, take a GoPro photo, post it to your public Instagram account and include #SteamboatResort and #GoPro. To enter a video, take a GoPro video no longer than two minutes, post it to your public YouTube account and fill out the entry form at www.steamboat.com/storycontest.
Entries are due by March 29. The top five entries in each category will be posted to the Steamboat Resort Facebook page for voting by fans from April 1 to 13. The grand prize winner in each category will receive a GoPro Hero 4 and a six-day Steamboat pass for the 2015-16 season. The runner-up in each category will receive a GoPro Hero 4. For more information and to read the official rules, visit www.steamboat.com/storycontest.
FDC’s Casino Night fundraiser set for March 7
The Family Development Center’s annual Casino Night fundraiser will be from 7 to 10 p.m. March 7 at the Steamboat Grand ballroom. This annual fundraiser provides an evening of fun Vegas-style games including black jack, roulette, craps and Texas Hold ‘em in a friendly, no-pressure atmosphere.
The winners in these games are the many families affected by the community programs provided by the Family Development Center, including Newborn Network, Discovery Learning Center and the Child Care Network. The event also features a silent auction from 7 to 9 p.m.
Casino Night is open to the public. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door, and you receive $300 worth of chips to gamble with during the evening. Tickets will be available at All That, The Space Station, Christy Sports in Central Park Plaza and through Discovery Learning Center parents.
Return migration of the sandhill cranes has begun
Cranes are leaving their wintering homes in New Mexico and Arizona and heading north. Many will stop to rest for a short time in the San Luis Valley at the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge. Some may make a brief stop in the Eckert/Delta area south of Grand Junction. The first arrivals in the Yampa Valley are expected sometime during the first or second week of March.
The Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition (CCCC), presenters of the annual Yampa Valley Crane Festival, is again sponsoring the First Crane Sighting Contest.
Participants are invited to document their first sandhill crane sighting by either emailing a photo to Colorado
Cranes@gmail.com or mailing a photo to CCCC headquarters: 40625 County Road 69A, Hayden, CO 81639. Include the date, time and location of the sighting, as well as any other pertinent details.
A prize will be awarded to the individual with the photo of the earliest sighting. At the end of March, all entries will be acknowledged on the CCCC website, www.colora
docranes.org In addition, the winner’s name and photo will be posted on the website and Facebook page.
This year’s Yampa Valley Crane Festival will take place Sept. 10 to 14. For more information about the CCCC and the Yampa Valley Crane Festival, visit the Yampa Valley Crane Festival website at www.coloradocranes.org.
School district lunch menus for the week of Feb. 23
■ Steamboat Springs School District
Monday: hot dog bar
Tuesday: chicken tostada
Wednesday: pasta Calabrian style or Alfredo sauce, assorted bread
Thursday: barbecue beef sandwich
Friday: homemade pizza (gluten-free available)
■ South Routt School District
Monday: taco, fruit and veggie bar, milk
Tuesday: chicken patty sandwich, oven potato wedges, fruit and veggie bar, milk
Wednesday: spaghetti, bread sticks, fruit and veggie bar, milk
Thursday: fishwich, frog-eye salad, fruit and veggie bar, milk
Friday: deli combo sub, fruit and veggie bar, milk
■ Heritage Christian School
Monday: Rex’s: tomato bisque, tossed salad, crackers
Tuesday: MountainBrew: turkey twister wrap, fruit, cookie
Wednesday: Qdoba Mexican Grill: chicken quesadilla, pinto beans, tortilla chips and salsa
Thursday: BeauJo’s Mountain Bistro: pizza slice and drink
Friday: half day, no lunch
Routt County Council on Aging menus for the week
■ Steamboat Springs Community Center
Monday: cheeseburger, baked beans, cole slaw, oranges, peanut butter cookie
Tuesday: chicken with mushroom sauce, roasted potato, green beans, roll, carrot cake
Thursday: lemon baked fish, herb potato, coleslaw, raspberries, brownie
Friday: corn chowder, wheat bread, chef salad, pears, lemon bars
■ Hayden American Legion Hall
Tuesday: chicken with mushroom sauce, roasted potato, green beans, roll, carrot cake
Thursday: lemon baked fish, herb potato, coleslaw, raspberries, brownie
■ South Routt Community Center
Monday: cheeseburger, baked beans, cole slaw, oranges, peanut butter cookie
Wednesday: lemon baked fish, herb potato, coleslaw, raspberries, brownie
Friday: corn chowder, wheat bread, chef salad, pears, lemon bars
All lunches are served at noon. There is a recommended donation of $3 per lunch for those 60 and older and $6 for those younger than 60. A $30 punch card is good for 10 lunches for seniors 60 and older or five lunches for those younger than 60. Find detailed menus at www.rccoaging.org. Call 970-879-0633 to make a lunch reservation, request Meals on Wheels or arrange for a van pickup.