Santa is making a special trip to ‘Light up Carbondale’ Santa is coming to Carbondale a little early this year to help residents light the town up for First Friday. “There’s some magic there,” said.
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Call it a Christmas resurrection story. Or, maybe the miracle of mountain wildflowers blooming in late December.
However the story gets played, it’s a special one to close out a year that has seemed especially void of feel-good stories.
It was spring 2016 when longtime Carbondale hand bell and chime choir director Rosemary Clark was unable to continue bringing music to the western Colorado valleys, due to declining health.
For more than 25 years, she and husband Dave Clark shared their hand bell and chime set with community members who volunteered to play in the choir.
“They invited all who were interested to share in the process of learning to play the bells and chimes,” recalled choir member Sherry Herrington in a March 2016 article written for the Carbondale Community United Methodist Church newsletter.
Staying busy through a pandemic has not been a difficult task for Larry and Alyce Meredith. From their home near Redstone, the couple has been able to make the best use of their talents, from Larry’s skills as a writer to Alyce’s music, which has resulted in mini concerts out on the patio.
“Occasionally through the last few months, we have had some informal gatherings outside where we can practice social distancing and everyone wears masks and we just visit to stay in touch and see what is going on,” Larry said. “We manage to find things to occupy our time. The young people, I don’t think they read as much as we used to. That’s a good outlet. It’s a good way to learn things, it’s a good entertainment possibility and it takes you away from TV and the computer or the phone, which they seem to spend so much time on.”