Creede Beadery Wins Second in County Fair
We have a wonderful new employee this year, Tera McGinnis. Tera is from Manassa, CO. She has a husband and four children, works part time for the postal service, and loves to bead! Tera has made many incredible pieces since she has come to work for us. On July 11th, Creede Beadery entered one of Tera's designs in the Mineral County Fair under Professional Jewelry Design. Tera's piece placed second, and is now proudly displayed in the studio. Congratulations Tera!
Article that appeared in South Fork Times January 30, 2009
Mystery, Colorado
Posted: Friday, Jan 30th, 2009
CREEDE — This past Saturday and Sunday, on a frozen pond in between two 800 ft. canyon walls just north of Creede, eight area hockey teams battled it out for the right to call themselves the 2009 “Golden Pick” Tommyknocker Pond Hockey Tournament champions.
In a scene reminiscent of the excellent 1999 movie Mystery, Alaska, the squads of about six each braved the San Juan Mountains’ freezing winter temperatures for hours on end to lace up their skates and try to put a little puck into a net more times than their opponents.
For the love of the game? Definitely. But also, as tournament organizer Brian Brittain laughingly put it, “There’s not a lot going on in this town in January.”
It’s true, sometimes you do have to make your own fun in Creede.
What has to be one of America’s highest-elevation pond hockey tournaments attracted teams from as close as down the street and as far away as Albuquerque, NM. Teams from Durango and Center also made the trip to Creede.
The four-on-four tournament, sponsored by Tommyknocker Tavern and Kip’s Grill for Creede Athletics, was actually the combination of two separate “levels,” based on the teams’ levels of ability. With games consisting of two 13-minute halves, round-robin play in each level determined the two teams that would play for that bracket’s championship.
The Durango Frozen Fish defeated the Creede Wild Beavers in the championship for Level 1, which featured those with more hockey chops, while the Creede Beadery team was crowned the champion of Level 2.
Happy with the overall turnout, Brittain called last weekend’s second annual tournament, which also drew a slew of local spectators in addition to the players themselves, a “huge success.”