Barbara Lawlor, Peak to Peak. The old Stage Stop Loft in Rollinsville had its timbers shaken last Friday night as Gary Harrabye, Gilpin School music teacher, and his band Hot Spell performed.

A constant flow of people—adults and many children—showed up for the benefit for Miles Pancoast and his family. Pancoast suffered a spinal cord injury in a rollover accident last month and since then there have been numerous fundraisers to help the family pay for expenses while he goes through treatment at Craig Hospital in Denver.

The benefit was organized under the Peak to Peak Healthy Communities Project and was put on by Harrabye and his band and Gilpin County students, who painted faces of the kids who showed up to the party, hoping to win the bicycle or drum set that was to be raffled off.

The adults danced and enjoyed Stage Stop food and had a chance to talk to Pancoast's mother, Bee, who says he is now able to lift his upper body up with his arms. He is gaining ground everyday and Bee has found a house in Nederland where she can care for him during his recovery.

Harrabye says the donations from the evening totaled $1,724.

"A good time was had by all and I think we did some good. I wanted to show the young students to appreciate the joy of giving. It was good to see so many members of the community out to have a good time."

An especially good time was had by Brett Shewburger, who won the drum set which, he says, will go to his four-year-old grandson; and by Caleb Murphy, fifth grade, who won the much-desired mountain bike.