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United Way honors outstanding volunteers
LOVELAND - United Way of Larimer County today honored four county residents and one business for their "outstanding volunteer efforts" in Northern Colorado at the organization's annual State of the Community Event.
Award winners were:
- Volunteer Excellence Award -- Vicki Pitmon, Loveland
- Outstanding Volunteer Group Award -- A-Train Marketing Communications, Fort Collins
- Linda Nerger Youth Volunteer Excellence Award -- Elizabeth Vandesande, Loveland
- Community Collaborator of the Year -- Darcy McClure, Loveland
- Senior Volunteer Excellence Award -- Barbara Nuss, Loveland (died Oct. 17, 2008)
"We are so proud of the thousands of volunteers who give countless hours each year in our community," said Gordon Thibedeau, United Way president and CEO. "The volunteers recognized today were nominated by their peers because of their outstanding efforts."
About 500 people attended this year's event at The Ranch in Loveland. The featured speakers were Colorado Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien and Bev Thurber, executive director, Early Childhood Council of Larimer County. |
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TriMedia Film Festival set for Sept. 11-13
FORT COLLINS - The TriMedia Film Festival, Northern Colorado's first national-profile film competition and festival, will hold its fourth annual event Sept. 11-13 in Fort Collins.
The three-day festival will spotlight independent films from all over the world as well as original theater performances and television specials and pilots.
Four venues -- the Lincoln Center, Bas Bleu Theatre, Lyric Cinema Cafe and Colorado State University's Lory Student Center Theater -- will host the 2009 festival. Ticket prices start at $10 and special group, senior and student discounts will be available. Tickets and passes will go on sale in August.
A complete festival schedule will be available Aug. 1 on the festival's website at www.trimediafestival.org.
The festival is an annual event organized by Horsetooth Productions, a local educational nonprofit organization, with support from the Fort Collins Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fort Collins Downtown Business Association. |
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Good Day Pharmacy opens in Greeley Medical Clinic
GREELEY - Good Day Pharmacy has announced it has purchased and will operate the pharmacy located at 1900 16th St. in the Greeley Medical Clinic.
Staff, hours and services will remain the same and the pharmacy will continue to accept the same insurances. A new service, drug delivery, is expected to be added in the near future.
The new pharmacy in Greeley marks the 12th store for Good Day Pharmacy. Good Day Pharmacy founder and CFO David Lamb opened his first store in Loveland in 1985 and now Good Day owns pharmacies in Loveland, Fort Collins, Johnstown, Eaton, Wellington and Longmont in addition to the new location in Greeley.
For more information, call Good Day's corporate office at 970-461-1975 or visit www.gooddaypharmacy.com. |
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Aims selects new Fort Lupton campus dean
FORT LUPTON - Aims Community College has selected Heather Lelchook as the new interim associate dean of its Fort Lupton campus.
Lelchook, who has served as the director of the Aims Downtown Center since its opening in 2006, replaces former Fort Lupton dean Karen Sell, who is retiring from that position after four years.
Lelchook earned both her bachelor's degree in human development and family studies and her master's degree in teaching English as a second language from Colorado State University.
"Heather has provided solid leadership at our Downtown Greeley Center and the campus has flourished, so we expect she will be equally successful in Fort Lupton," said Aims President Marsi Liddell. |
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Colorado continues upward on foreclosure list
IRVINE, Calif. - Colorado placed No. 8 on RealtyTrac's list of states with the highest rates of foreclosure activity in May, continuing an upward path seen since January.
Colorado was No. 9 in the nation in April, No. 10 in March and No. 11 in February and January.
The May report from the Irvine-based company that specializes in listing foreclosed properties said the number of properties in some form of foreclosure across the nation exceeded 300,000 for the third straight month. The May number was down by 6 percent from April but about 18 percent higher than May 2008.
"May foreclosure activity was the third highest month on record, and marked the third straight month where the total number of properties with foreclosure filings exceeded 300,000 -- a first in the history of our report," said James Sacaccio, RealtyTrac's CEO.
Topping the list in May were: Nevada, California, Florida, Arizona, Utah, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Idaho and Ohio. |
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Fort Collins best place for young professionals
FORT COLLINS - Next Generation Consulting has selected Fort Collins as the best place to live for young professionals among cities with populations of 100,000 to 200,000.
NGC said it used 45 measures to develop lists of cities in three population categories for its "Next Cities" lists of best places for people between the ages of 20 and 40 to live and work. The criteria included employment, education and social opportunities.
"The Next Generation is very savvy about choosing where they'll live," said Rebecca Ryan, NGC's founder. "They look carefully at quality-of-life factors like how much time they're going to spend in traffic commuting, if they can live near a park or hike-and-bike trail and whether a city's downtown stays awake after 5:00."
Denver placed No. 5 on NGC's list of cities with populations over 500,000. NGC has been ranking cities since 1998. |
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