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Happy New Year! Here’s to all of our 2017 students taking charge with confidence!

by
Dan Burke

January 1, 2017

In 2016 31 CCB students received their Freedom Bell – the symbol that they completed all the requirements to graduate from the Center. As we start classes again on Tuesday, January 3, let’s wish our students of 2017 the same success and the confidence to take charge with self-reliance so that they can live the…
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A Holiday Gift from the 2016 CCB Choir

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Dan Burke

December 23, 2016

This year our CCB Choir formed itself in about a week under the direction of student Julie McGinnity, then went caroling at the Littleton Light Rail Station, outside Romancing the Bean Coffee shop. The next day they gave a performance at the Seniors’ Holiday Party. Mostly students, but with a couple of staff voices as…
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#BreakingBlind: How a Blind Person Makes Fudge, @WEFitwellness @MBassmaster

by
Dan Burke

December 21, 2016

What could be more fitting on the shortest day of the year than a video about making fudge? Here’s Maureen with another Breaking Blind video with a holiday theme!
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#Breaking Blind: How a Blind Person Makes Sugar Scrub, @WEFitwellness @MBassmaster

by
Dan Burke

December 20, 2016

Here’s the first of a couple of holiday videos from our own Maureen’s Breaking Blind channel. Because … well, there might still be a few people who haven’t run across it yet!
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Reblog: Grafton’s Chaz Davis has a surprising finish

by
Dan Burke

December 19, 2016

Editor’s Note: We thought this hometown article about our student Chaz and his American record in his first-ever marathon last month well worth the read. Needless to say, we’re excited for him and proud of his achievements! By John Conceison It’s always fine when a competitor thrives during an Olympic year. For Grafton’s Chaz Davis,…
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Do Your Final Shopping at smile.amazon.com & Support Us

by
Dan Burke

December 19, 2016

Only a few days and hours to shop online, so why not make your holiday gift-giving go a little further still? Amazon’s Smile program donates 0.5 percent of your purchase amount to the charity of your choice, and that could be the Colorado Center for the Blind. Just go to smile.amazon.com and select CCB as…
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Wrapping It Up on the Downhill Slope

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Dan Burke

December 17, 2016

Students and staff wrapped it up on the downhill side of the year, putting final touches on Secret Santa gifts before our traditional holiday brunch. This year, we fed on breakfast burritos from Littleton’s GraceFull Cafe, a community cafe whose mission is “to provide a home in the Littleton community where people of all backgrounds…
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Not Exactly Winding the Year Down

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Dan Burke

December 15, 2016

We’re in our final week – final days, really – of the 2016 year at the Colorado Center for the Blind. It’s not exactly like winding down, but more like an all-cylinders-open surge for the finish line. Alejandro went on a support drop yesterday, and is cooking a big meal tomorrow. Ryan served his mini-meal…
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We’re Excited – Thanks for a Successful #COGivesDay 2016!

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Dan Burke

December 14, 2016

Our 2016 Colorado Gives Day was our most successful ever, and we want to thank all of our friends and new acquaintances who helped make it so! In all, we received $15,230 via the online Colorado Gives web site, and all of that counts toward a share of the $1 million Incentive Fund offered by…
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Decorating for the Holidays 2016

by
Dan Burke

December 9, 2016

We’re nine days into December and, not all that surprisingly, 9 is the temperature this morning. Robert routinely interrupts class with overhead PA announcements, requesting some student or staff member to please stop by his desk on a break. This is a sure sign that there’s a Secret Santa something or other waiting for the…
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