News
ENLARGE
Talk about the trip of a lifetime: Some local ice hockey players toured foreign lands with the Vail International Hockey Team.
This is the tour: Stockholm, Sweden; St. Petersburg, Russia; Budapest, Hungry; and Prague, Czech Republic.
The five Summit boys who went were Sonny Magrino, Sam Dudick, Jon Gutierrez, George Lowrey and Philip Contos.
Chaperoning mothers included Susie Magrino, Amy Black, Jan Gutierrez and Melanie Lowrey.
“In Prague,” reports Susie, “the city had been hit with 100 inches of snow in a week, the biggest snowfall in over a century.”
Another Susie observation of Eastern Europe comes with the amount of smokers lighting up, especially when compared to The Summit and other Colorado areas.
The team and chaperones spent Christmas Eve and Day in Budapest and New Year's Eve in Stockholm.
Here's Sonny Magrino's report on Christmas in a wine cavern:
“We topped off Christmas day with a very lovely dinner in Budapest. We went to a wine cellar that was like a cave. We enjoyed wonderful folk music and dancing throughout the night while the parents had their share of wine tasting. Everyone enjoyed Houli's and Amy's dance moves. Leslie was singled out to help stir the pot . ..we're not sure what she was making. All 53 of us sat at one long table and it was quite a sight. The food was the best on the trip so far. It was a pleasure spending Christmas night with such a fun and exciting group. It is very memorable and all the Summit kids really appreciate being allowed to come along on this trip. It was a wonderful Christmas and everyone is looking forward to heading to Russia.”
For even more on the hockey tour, check out the team blog:
www.vihteurope09.blogspot.com
***
New Copper Mountain/Powder Corp. CEO John D. Cumming reports via Twitter he and wife Kristi Terzian were invited guests of President Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House, just before Christmas.
JDC was here on Dec. 18 for a management meeting and the 27th to ski.
He noted that on the 18th when he drove into the resort, the Intrawest sign was being taken down.
***
In a variety of settings over the holidays we spotted out and about: Dan Pins and Sandy Sheffield, Tom Connolly, Dan Kibbie, Peter and Alicia Dunn, Bobby and Marla Starekow, Kathleen Kennedy, Larry and Judy Sawyer, Steve and Sandee Smith, Jim Deines and Linda Simon, Tom Eble and Christy Baker, Keith Bilisoly and Melanie Frey, Anne Krebs-Clark, Mary Margaret Motsinger, Mark Fox, Mike Bohlender, Larry and Pat Schmidt, Frisco Mayor Bill and Karen Pelham, Jim "JW" and Cheryl Walsh, Dr. Jim Bachman and Amy Nelson, Gary Wilkinson, Gray Pearson and Linda Axelrod, Myra and Chris Eby, Jay and Brenda Herman, Rob and Brenda Hughey, Joe and Angie Maglicic, Steve, Jennifer and Jake Brauns, Dan Reisdorph, Crystal Mathews and Brian Wrisk, Ricky and Judi Amico, Gary and Mary Runkle, Terry Erwin, Gary “Bike Doctor” Lunsky, John Davis, Jim and Pat Dover, Laurie and Rob Huggins, Karen Meyer, Jeff Baum, Sue Downen, Mel Adams, and Clayton Miller.
And our families, who were in and out of town: The Staby family of matriarch Martha of Loveland; John, Kathie, Annie and Betsy Staby, and Mike Sluis, all of Minneapolis; Judy and Randy Hoch of Salida; Kirsten and Miss Toby Lawson of Durango; and Paul and Jigger Staby, also of Durango; The Porter family of matriarch Medith of Delta, Marsha and Gene Magill of Denver; and Mel, Michael, Alayna and Tasha Magill of Arvada.
••••
Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed “Spike,” a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a resident of Summit County since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers in Summit County for 20 years.
Email your social info to milesfporteriv@aol.com
This is the tour: Stockholm, Sweden; St. Petersburg, Russia; Budapest, Hungry; and Prague, Czech Republic.
The five Summit boys who went were Sonny Magrino, Sam Dudick, Jon Gutierrez, George Lowrey and Philip Contos.
Chaperoning mothers included Susie Magrino, Amy Black, Jan Gutierrez and Melanie Lowrey.
“In Prague,” reports Susie, “the city had been hit with 100 inches of snow in a week, the biggest snowfall in over a century.”
Another Susie observation of Eastern Europe comes with the amount of smokers lighting up, especially when compared to The Summit and other Colorado areas.
The team and chaperones spent Christmas Eve and Day in Budapest and New Year's Eve in Stockholm.
Here's Sonny Magrino's report on Christmas in a wine cavern:
“We topped off Christmas day with a very lovely dinner in Budapest. We went to a wine cellar that was like a cave. We enjoyed wonderful folk music and dancing throughout the night while the parents had their share of wine tasting. Everyone enjoyed Houli's and Amy's dance moves. Leslie was singled out to help stir the pot . ..we're not sure what she was making. All 53 of us sat at one long table and it was quite a sight. The food was the best on the trip so far. It was a pleasure spending Christmas night with such a fun and exciting group. It is very memorable and all the Summit kids really appreciate being allowed to come along on this trip. It was a wonderful Christmas and everyone is looking forward to heading to Russia.”
For even more on the hockey tour, check out the team blog:
www.vihteurope09.blogspot.com
***
New Copper Mountain/Powder Corp. CEO John D. Cumming reports via Twitter he and wife Kristi Terzian were invited guests of President Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House, just before Christmas.
JDC was here on Dec. 18 for a management meeting and the 27th to ski.
He noted that on the 18th when he drove into the resort, the Intrawest sign was being taken down.
***
In a variety of settings over the holidays we spotted out and about: Dan Pins and Sandy Sheffield, Tom Connolly, Dan Kibbie, Peter and Alicia Dunn, Bobby and Marla Starekow, Kathleen Kennedy, Larry and Judy Sawyer, Steve and Sandee Smith, Jim Deines and Linda Simon, Tom Eble and Christy Baker, Keith Bilisoly and Melanie Frey, Anne Krebs-Clark, Mary Margaret Motsinger, Mark Fox, Mike Bohlender, Larry and Pat Schmidt, Frisco Mayor Bill and Karen Pelham, Jim "JW" and Cheryl Walsh, Dr. Jim Bachman and Amy Nelson, Gary Wilkinson, Gray Pearson and Linda Axelrod, Myra and Chris Eby, Jay and Brenda Herman, Rob and Brenda Hughey, Joe and Angie Maglicic, Steve, Jennifer and Jake Brauns, Dan Reisdorph, Crystal Mathews and Brian Wrisk, Ricky and Judi Amico, Gary and Mary Runkle, Terry Erwin, Gary “Bike Doctor” Lunsky, John Davis, Jim and Pat Dover, Laurie and Rob Huggins, Karen Meyer, Jeff Baum, Sue Downen, Mel Adams, and Clayton Miller.
And our families, who were in and out of town: The Staby family of matriarch Martha of Loveland; John, Kathie, Annie and Betsy Staby, and Mike Sluis, all of Minneapolis; Judy and Randy Hoch of Salida; Kirsten and Miss Toby Lawson of Durango; and Paul and Jigger Staby, also of Durango; The Porter family of matriarch Medith of Delta, Marsha and Gene Magill of Denver; and Mel, Michael, Alayna and Tasha Magill of Arvada.
••••
Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed “Spike,” a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a resident of Summit County since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers in Summit County for 20 years.
Email your social info to milesfporteriv@aol.com
