Category: CMC In The News
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People’s Choice awards announced for 2015 Colorado Mountain College and Vail Valley Art Guild Art Show
This article was printed in the Vail Daily. More than 300 works of art are on display at the Colorado Mountain College campus in Edwards through Oct. 29. All paintings, photographs and ceramic works are by CMC students and members of the Vail Valley Art Guild. During the opening reception on Aug. 21, visitors voted…
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CMC Corner: Don’t judge — or pick — a book by its cover
This CMC Corner column was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Mindy White. Books are a lot like music and food — you tend to have a certain taste or gravitate toward a particular kind. Some prefer the gritty, intense novels that can be uncomfortable and challenging to read, whereas others read for an…
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Breaking Silence exhibit at CMC this week
This article was published in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. By Teresa Ristow. Steamboat Springs — A unique exhibit called Breaking Silence is at Colorado Mountain College for the week and aims to start a dialogue about domestic violence and sexual assault. Visitors to the exhibit put on headphones to hear the difficult, true stories…
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Jimmy Westlake: The Equinox and the Harvest Moon
Jimmy Westlake’s Celestial News column appears Tuesdays in the Steamboat Today and is reprinted below. The season of autumn officially arrives for the northern hemisphere this year at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, Colorado time. Our season of autumn begins the instant that the sun crosses the equator on its way south. Thanks to the…
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Solar workshops planned for governments
CMC Rifle to host workshop on controlling costs with solar Libraries, schools, water plants and town halls in western Colorado are cutting their electrical energy costs by installing solar arrays. Two free workshops will explain how more governments and special districts can get started using solar to cut energy costs. The “Control Your Energy Costs…
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Summit County photography workshop with John Fielder benefits Domus Pacis Family Respite
CMC Culinary Institute Director Doug Schwartz teams with photographer John Fielder to benefit Summit County non-profit This article was printed in the Summit Daily News. By Heather Jarvis. Nature photographer John Fielder is teaming up with Domus Pacis Family Respite to offer a full-day photography workshop at his home. The workshop is Sunday, Sept. 20,…
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High school students can try college classes with CMC program
This article appeared in the Glenwood Spring’s Post Independent By Will Grandbois. While most Garfield County School District Re-2 teens are sleeping in Friday mornings, two dozen of their fellows are getting a head start on life after high school. Colorado Mountain College’s new Career Academy, a new approach to concurrent enrollment, is under way…
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GlenX Summit serves to inspire its own growth
This article was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By John Stroud. Ellis Garaudy has a pretty lofty goal as he works to develop a new software company: To disrupt the education system. That was what the budding entrepreneur wrote in the space provided on the back of his name tag, marked “My Success Goal,”…
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CMC Corner: 20 years: CMC the same, but different
A lot can change in 20 years. I certainly see the change in my children. I see it in myself as well, and I see it in the way Colorado Mountain College has changed and grown. In July of this year, I became the new Roaring Fork Campus dean. But CMC isn’t new to me;…
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CHEF OF THE MONTH: ‘Cooking is an act of love’
This article was published in the Destin Log. A new restaurant opened in March and in a short time has become a local favorite … a little different from the usual Destin fare. “Cultivate Cafe is a vegetarian restaurant with meat options,” Executive Chef Joyce Jean Sedersten told The Log. “We source everything that we…