Montrose - Daily Press

Stephen Woody
Publisher’s Notebook

The Montrose High School Class of 2010 has some good people pitching for it, particularly for its celebratory graduation party. People like Natalie Lashley, Angela Halsey or Renee Cornejo. These ladies are going to host an auction March 19 at the Holiday Inn Express to raise items, money and awareness for the big graduation wingding May 23 at the Montrose Pavilion. There also are a couple of fundraising nights at Chili’s scheduled.

If you’d like to help, give them a call at NuVista Credit Union.

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The annual Winter Carnival at Cerro Summit is Feb. 13. Free food, refreshments, tubing, snowboarding and shuttles to and from the Aquatic Center. More details will come.

Community-minded, youth-supporting sponsors include: Montrose Daily Press, Montrose Rotary Club, City of Montrose, Montrose Chamber of Commerce Redcoats, DMEA and Pepsi.

The Daily Press last week published a guest column by Tim Foster, president of Mesa State College, with campuses in Grand Junction and Montrose. He outlined curriculum and how MSC is committed to helping Montrose with its higher education needs locally.

Part of that MSC connection involves Derek Wagner, a Montrose native and MHS graduate (1997), who is the school’s director of strategic initiatives. He graduated from Mesa State in 2001 with a degree in political science. He and his wife, Adrianne (Greene) Wagner, are the proud parents of two daughters.

I first met Derek a few years ago, fresh out of college, when he worked for former Sen. Wayne Allard, a guy I always liked and who was always a good interview.

Many also know Derek’s folks, Scott & Penny Wagner, who moved to Denver in 2009. Scott was formerly the chief investigator for district attorney Myrl Serra’s office, and his mom was the jury commissioner. Scott is working for the Denver DA in a similar position; his mom, he says, is working for the state’s court administration office.

Speaking of Myrl Serra, the DA ...

Myrl bowled a perfect 300 game last Wednesday at the Rose Bowl. It also was featured in our Sunday bowling report.

Many know Myrl went to Arizona State University on a bowling scholarship. And for a time, before injury, he bowled professionally before getting into criminal law biz and doing play-by-play at local sports games.

Friday last, the Notebook stopped into the Coffee Trader, owned by Don Coram and his family. Don’s a Republican who is running for House District 58; his pal Scott Tipton, our current representative who’s running for Congress, has been keeping the seat warm for him in Denver.

The coffee therein is bipartisan, even those frou-frou drinks they serve. I just wanted a cup of Joe and, while there, was asked to explain the dark arts of community newspapering to a few members of the Spit-and-Whittle Club, most of whom are hospitable and friendly. One of the charter members noted that the Daily Press’s opinion page has begun to tilt to the “right.”

Well, after the EMTs came and revived me from my little fainting spell, I was able to answer the question, well, yes. We’ve added a second conservative columnist, Cal Thomas, and a conservative cartoonist, Lisa Benson.

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