By Martin B. Hamilton
The Johnstown Breeze

JOHNSTOWN – Roosevelt FFA collected three state championships Monday at the state convention in Fort Collins.

Roosevelt High School ’s Future Farmers of America chapter took top honors in livestock judging, dairy judging, and agricultural mechanics.

“It was a very special day for Roosevelt FFA,” remarked Roosevelt FFA Instructor Brent Hopkins. “We’ll be lucky if we can repeat a day like this again.

By Martin B. Hamilton
The Johnstown Breeze

Mother’s Day is Sunday (May 11), and at least one person has arranged to give the perfect gift this year.

That would be the gift of life.

Johnstown resident Linda Allour, who owns and operates Daylight Donuts in Dacono, is planning to donate a kidney to her mother, Wilberta Fagler of Sterling.

Fagler is suffering from polycystic kidney disease ( PKD) and was to begin dialysis in July.

Instead, they’ve devised an alternative plan.

“My mom had surgery in March,” Allour said, adding that the procedure of grafting a vein into an artery was done “for dialysis hook-up.”

“When she had the surgery, I just thought, ‘I don’t want her to have dialysis. I’ve got to fix this.’”

'Cardenio,' a seldom-staged work attributed by some to the Bard, opens May 10 in Cambridge, Mass.

Remo Airaldi played the part of Rudi in a rehearsal of Shakespeare's Cardenio as fellow actors Will LeBow and Karen MacDonald looked on at the American Repertory Theatre. The play was believed to have been lost after its first performance and will now be performed in a new, contemporary version. Photo by Mark Thomson/The Christian Science Monitor

By Iris Fanger
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

Playwright Charles L. Mee remembers the phone call. A Harvard scholar, Stephen Greenblatt, had been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and wanted to use the funds to explore how a dramatist crafts a play. Professor Greenblatt had chosen to observe Mr. Mee at work, noting that Mee's cut-and-paste methods of "resituating and appropriating" materials reminded him of William Shakespeare's manner of writing.

"I'm the biggest thief," says Mee, who was honored this past year with the staging of an entire season of his plays at New York's Signature Theatre. He recalls telling Greenblatt that the project wouldn't be fun unless the pair wrote a play together – and then asking Greenblatt if he knew of any lost plays by Shakespeare.

"His answer?" says Mee, " 'Oh yes: 'Cardenio.' "

By Sheldon Richman
Future of Freedom Foundation

I can predict the winner of the presidential election even now: the government.

In a one-party system, that’s how things work. One-party system? Yes. The American political scene makes much more sense if you think of the two parties as two divisions of the same party.

Recreation district and Milliken fire district voters turn away from incumbents for most part in Tuesday’s election

By Matt Lubich
www.johnstownbreeze.com

The winds of apparent political change kept blowing this week in Johnstown and Milliken, as voters elected a number of newcomers to two local special district boards.

Tuesday, voters went to the polls to select members for the Thompson Rivers Parks and Recreation District board of directors, as well as the board of the Milliken Fire Protection District.

RHS track team takes titles, also in ‘playoff’ mode

By Martin B. Hamilton
johnstownbreeze.com

JOHNSTOWN – After a close call Saturday in the District 3 finals, Roosevelt High School’s Rough Riders are eager for the next round of the Class 3A state baseball tournament.

After edging Middle Park, 11-10, at Rough Rider Ballpark, Roosevelt goes to Greeley on Friday to face a familiar foe in the first game of the double-elimination portion of postseason play.

Eaton awaits the Riders at 12:30 p.m. Friday (May 9) at Butch Butler Field.

“We’re excited to play them again,” said senior Matt Cooper, who along with his teammates faced the Fightin’ Reds April 25, when Eaton bounced back from a 3-0 deficit to win, 5-3.