Thursday February 25, 2010
The name of the skier who was killed in an avalanche near Ashcroft this week has been released.
Aspen resident John Joseph Kelley, 60, a local carpenter and experienced backcountry skier was the only fatality in Tuesday’s snow slide near the Lindley Hut.  Kelly was a member of a larger group ski touring in the area.
Investigators are not releasing any information about their search for whoever threatened an explosion at a mid-valley grocery store last week.
The Orchard Plaza Shopping center was evacuated last Tuesday after police received a telephone call that said a bomb would go off by five p.m. 
 No device was discovered.  Local authorities along with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation are not saying who the caller may have been or any description of the caller’s voice or possible gender.
Thousands of dollars in business was lost by merchants because of the bomb scare.
Deborah Cameron with the Denver bureau of the U.S. Census says workers are ready to hit the streets next Monday when the official counting begins.
Cameron has also arranged for local news to accompany some of the census workers in the Roaring Fork Valley, as questions including some relating to ethnicity are posed to residents.
Local activist Luis Polar will be our in studio guest on KSNO radio next week to explain briefly how the census works and why he feels not taking part could hurt funding for programs that benefit immigrants.
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