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New Welcome Center Aims to Double Tourism Attendance
This article first appeared in the KREX TV News blog. By Cori Coffin GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.- Of the two million tourists that come into Glenwood Springs every year, only about 50,000 of them visited the city’s old commerce center. Officials hope to double that this year through a unique partnership between the chamber resort association…
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Sewing up a skill
GarCo Sewing Works has it all in the bag This article first appeared in the Citizen Telegram. By Mike McKibben. Sewing clothes wasn’t at the top of, or even on, Jessica Lowry’s list of things to learn. But now, the Rifle resident has mastered an important skill she can use in her daily life, if…
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CMC grad puts degree to work for sustainable CMC business partnership This article first appeared in Colorado Mountain College student Jordan Callier’s blog, The Art of Visual Communication. As a student in the Graphic Design Program at Colorado Mountain College, I was able to participate in real-life projects. My professor, Brian Tinker, helped me find…
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Explore the soil food web with a true garden expert
Jeff Lowenfels kicks off the Vail Symposium’s summer season with organic gardening lecture at CMC This article first appeared in the Vail Daily. By Tracey Flower. Gardening writer and expert Jeff Lowenfels grew up working, as he describes it, as an indentured servant on his parent’s hobby farm in Scarsdale, N.Y. There he said he…
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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…