Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

  • Taking Time Out from Fishing: Two Recent Visitors

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    Dan Burke

    Taking Time Out from Fishing: Two Recent Visitors

    We’d like to acknowledge two special visitors that came for a tour of the Center on August 24. Bill Gideon is retired now, living in Longmont, but he served on New Mexico’s Services for the Blind Board from 1972 to 1984. He came to the Center with his friend Jo Anne Brubaker of Evans, and…

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  • From Poor Kid to Prof, Eddie Bell Challenges Students to Challenge Themselves

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    Dan Burke

    Dr. Edward (Eddie” Bell, Director of the Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech University, visited the Colorado Center for the Blind on September 3. In Colorado to provide expert testimony to the Colorado Legislature’s Interim Study Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation Services for the Blind, he also presented an excellent philosophy class…

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  • I’m Not Staying in my room anymore!

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    Dan Burke

    I’m Not Staying in my room anymore!

    Six remarkable women made up our late-summer Seniors in Charge the week of August 31 to September 4. Ranging in age from 58 to 90, it didn’t take long to figure out that each of them were accomplished, dynamic people, and had been all their lives. They came to Seniors in Charge because they intend…

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  • Cindy takes charge!

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    Dan Burke

    Cindy takes charge!

    Cindy served a great meal to the entire Center on September 4 as the culmination of her program. She had lots of family from Arizona with her – her Mom and sister, with two little nephews, as well as her Aunt and Uncle and two of her cousins made the long road trip from Nogales…

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  • Andy earns his Freedom Bell

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    Dan Burke

    Andy earns his Freedom Bell

    On August 27 Andy graduated from the Center following eight months of joyful learning powered by an intense desire for personal independence. “I can’t teach hard work and motivation,” his Home Management Instructor, Maureen told . him. Andy was a role model of both characteristics. He rarely missed a day and accepted each day’s new…

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  • Another Tick Toward Fall

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    Dan Burke

    Another Tick Toward Fall

    The days are hot, but the mornings increasingly cool, almost chilly, and the hot air stirs in the evening. The sound of those breezes, the sound of the leaves, has changed, though – just another tick toward fall. So we started up art classes with Ann Cunningham again on Monday afternoons and martial arts with…

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  • A Magical Evening

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    Dan Burke

    A Magical Evening

    It was a magical evening. May 15 marked the end to a long career at the Colorado Center for the Blind for Tom Anderson. More than 150 people came to send Tom and Linda off to Kansas after 27 years teaching Braille – and several other duties. We fed them, and gave the tribute to…

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  • A Summer Student’s Poem

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    Dan Burke

    A Summer Student’s Poem

    Help By Marie Frackiewicz (Editor’s Note: Marie was one of our Summer Youth 2015 students. She read this poem as part of the talent show on July 29. This week, she headed back to high school.) My heads spinning like a crashing airplane. My voice is broken like an old record. My courage is shattered…

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  • A Fitting Finale: Summer Youth Programs 2015

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    Dan Burke

    A Fitting Finale: Summer Youth Programs 2015

    The Summer Youth Programs for 2015 ended July 29 with a talent show, and this fitting finale dedicated to Youth Services Director Brent Batron: https://youtu.be/7b1ya8UusoE  

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  • The Last Week of July 2015

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    Dan Burke

    The Last Week of July 2015

    It’s the last week of July, and at the Colorado Center for the Blind we’re fighting the feeling that summer is almost over. We know that there are still weeks of hot weather, lovely warm Colorado evenings to enjoy. But that vague anxiety is fueled as the last week of July saw our 22 summer…

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