Author: coloradomountaincollege
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CMC’s PEAK Performance Receives $1,000 YOUTH-Turn It Around Award
Spring Valley student group turns adversity into action and garners national award Glenwood Springs, CO (June 2012) – To celebrate Global Youth Traffic Safety Month® during May 2012, National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) launched the third annual YOUTH-Turn It Around Awards program to recognize and award cash prizes to youth organizations that utilized the…
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Supporters celebrate pre-collegiate grads in
Program looks to make Summit High grads first in families to attend college BRECKENRIDGE — When he started high school, Einar Alejandro Rivera, who goes by Alejandro, didn’t think he would go to college. No one in his family ever had. Then, when he was 15, he joined the pre-collegiate program at Summit High School…
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Running for their lives
Saturday race a benefit for Nanci Limbach’s Schneegas Foundation This story first appeared in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Jeff Caspersen. Nanci Limbach was the child who would bring home a squirrel that had been hit by a car, hoping to nurse it back to health. As an adult, she’s tending to animals of all…
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Greener Pastures: Summer means local food in valley
Gardening lecture, workshop will help you start producing your own great veggies This article is excerpted from an article first published in the Vail Daily. By Cassie Pence. No matter where your plant starters were grown or how heirloom your seeds may be, experienced gardeners know when it comes to success in the garden —…
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Glenwood Springs visitor center now a lot more central
Downtown move a partnership between chamber, CMC GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — The Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association Welcome Center just got a lot closer to the visitors it aims to serve, and just in time for the Memorial Day launch to the summer tourist season. The chamber, in partnership with Colorado Mountain College, officially opened…
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Collaboration on solar project a bright idea
This article first appeared in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Emily Hisel. When the Garfield Public Library District began construction projects in 2009, having energy efficient buildings was a goal for all six libraries. The Parachute and Rifle branch libraries were the first buildings completed. Both were equipped with solar panels, and the Rifle Branch…
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My Echo Story: Summit pre-collegiate
Local non-profits share how what they do reverberates throughout Summit County This article first appeared in the Summit Daily News. By Molly Griffith, Summit School District pre-collegiate coordinator. In an ever-changing global community, educators constantly try to stay ahead of the curve while preparing students to be productive citizens of society. A high school diploma…
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Stars of Summer
Vertical Dreams – Jackie Kuusinen This article first appeared in Steamboat Magazine. By Murray Selleck. Jackie Kuusinen’s dreams come true. Her dreams are of granite and sandstone, rock faces reaching into the sky, and hanging out on tiny ledges high above horizontal ground. Her dreams are also her job. Kuusinen is a climber. A good…
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CMC moves to buy land next to Rifle campus
Colorado Mountain College is working out the final details to buy 25 acres of land adjacent to the school’s Rifle campus, near the Garfield County Regional Airport.The college’s board of trustees, at its May 14 meeting in Glenwood Springs, authorized the administration to move ahead with a plan to pay $500,000 for the land. The…
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Gallegos Corporation creates Colorado Mountain College scholarship
This article first appeared in the Vail Daily. EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado — Gerald Gallegos was committed to local philanthropic needs, especially those supporting youth and education. To honor this tradition, The Gallegos Corporation has partnered with the Colorado Mountain College Foundation to create The Gerald G. Gallegos Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship will benefit Eagle County…