Colorado Mountain College student wants Amnesty International chapter

Faculty member Bob Gumbrecht is CMC’s Amnesty International sponsor in Steamboat Springs

Larry Haines wants Steam­boat Springs residents to think beyond the mountain paradise they live in. Thousands of miles beyond.

Haines, a member of Colo­rado Mountain College’s Amn­esty International program, thinks Steamboat is a perfect place to start another Amnesty chapter dedicated to fighting for human rights overseas.

“This is a place where people have a really strong social conscience,” he said. “This is an activist type of community.”

Read the rest of this article in the July 13 edition of the Steamboat Pilot & Today.