Tag: Events

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 —…

  • New Media Camp in the Rockies June 17-27

    Colorado Mountain College offers hands-on Internet broadcast experience By Kristin Carlson In today’s world of real-time Internet broadcasting, stories travel around the globe with the click of a mouse. The inaugural New Media Camp of the Rockies, at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley campus, aims to help youth tap into that world, by teaching them…

  • National Geographic BioBlitz

    Volunteer opportunities for students this summer at RMNP Have video and cameras? Media savvy? Journalistically or environmentally inclined?  National Geographic Education is looking for student volunteers to work as media producers for the Rocky Mountain BioBlitz event, scheduled for August 24-25, 2012. The National Park Service and National Geographic Adventure team up each year to…

  • The strongest woman in the world comes to Rifle

    Colorado Mountain College partners to screen “Strong!” The next free film screening in the PBS Community Cinema series, sponsored by Colorado Mountain College in Rifle and Chevron, will feature “Strong!” on Friday, May 18. This film tells the story of Cheryl Haworth, a young woman with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in…

  • Local philanthropist Eileen Finkel dies

    Memorial service today at CMC Breckenridge This article was first printed in the May 13, 2012, Summit Daily News. Eileen B. Finkel, 69, a full time resident of Breckenridge since 1998 and a part time resident for eight years before that died Saturday from complications of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She is survived by her husband…

  • The right rite

    Colorado Mountain College opens commencement season in new Edwards building This story first appeared in the Vail Daily. By Randy Wyrick. EDWARDS, Colorado — Inspiration is where you find it, and you can find it everywhere, said graduating Colorado Mountain College students. CMC hosted its first commencement in the newly expanded Edwards campus. The theme…

  • Arapahoe Basin Closing Weekend and Summer Internship

    CMC Breckenridge student Ali Gingras shares a few views of closing day at nearby Arapahoe Basin, and a few thoughts on an upcoming summer internship in her blog, See What I See. Ahhh… The first day of “summer”. And it’s just like Colorado to kick it off with a morning blizzard. *sigh* This past weekend…