Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

  • Seniors in Charge – Better Believe it!

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    Dan Burke

    Seniors in Charge – Better Believe it!

    by Diane McGeorge (Editor’s Note: Seniors in Charge is a five day sleep shade training for Colorado seniors. It is offered three times per year and two of those sessions participants stay in our McGeorge Mountain Terrace Apartments. This gives us the opportunity to work with Seniors from outside the Denver Metro area. The goal,…

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  • Our Legacy Garden: Planting Day 2015

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    Dan Burke

    Our Legacy Garden: Planting Day 2015

    Summer Tuesdays are gardening days at the Center, but with all the rain (and even a couple of late snows) it came down to June 2 as the drop-dead date for planting this year. It was just too wet till that late Tuesday to consider digging and planting. For many years now we’ve had the…

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  • CCB & MasterDrive Partner Again to Give Blind Students Driving Experience

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    Dan Burke

    CCB & MasterDrive Partner Again to Give Blind Students Driving Experience

    For immediate release: Contact: Dan Burke, Public Relations Specialist 303.778.1130 dburke@cocenter.org Englewood, CO – Focusing exclusively on the kinesthetic aspects of driving, students and staff from the Colorado Center for the Blind will get the feel of the skid pad on the MasterDrive campus here on Wednesday, May 27. Denver-area high school students will be…

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  • Make a Toast to Toasty!

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    Dan Burke

    Make a Toast to Toasty!

      On January 4, 1988 two feet of snow lay on the ground in Denver, and the temperature was around ten below zero. It was the first day of classes at the new Colorado Center for the Blind. Miles “Tom” Anderson was there. In fact, it fell to Tom as Residential Manager to help Travel…

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  • Wayne’s Word of the Week

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    Dan Burke

    Wayne’s Word of the Week

    (For the past year or so, Wayne Marshall has been sharing a “word of the week” on Wednesday and then discussing it on Friday. Below is an article Director Julie Deden included about this in the January-February CCB Newsletter. We’ll begin posting Wayne’s Words on Face Book and Twitter.) Message from the Director Every week…

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  • Taking a Prehistoric Journey by Touch

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    Dan Burke

    Taking a Prehistoric Journey by Touch

    March’s FAST Saturday will involve taking a journey through prehistory with our hands at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Blind kids participating will be putting their hands on actual fossil bones as well as plaster cast replicas – it might even mean holding fossilized dinosaur poop. I said it’s fossilized! it’s all coming…

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  • The Oscars and Partnering with Comcast on X1 Access

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    Dan Burke

    The Oscars and Partnering with Comcast on X1 Access

    When Comcast’s Mary Spillane called earlier this month to ask if we would work with them to test and improve the Talking Guide for the X1 cable box, we were naturally excited. Comcast gave us an X1 box with a year of cable service – and a new TV – so we could use, evaluate…

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  • Emily’s Oz: The Comcast Press Release

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    Dan Burke

    Emily’s Oz: The Comcast Press Release

    COMCAST BRINGS VOICE GUIDED TELEVISION TO COLORADO Company Partners with Local Disability Groups Across the Country to Introduce New Technology to More People “Talking Guide” Reads Aloud Channel Names, Show Titles and DVR Commands; National Commercial Set To Air During Academy Awards DENVER, CO – February 20, 2015 – Comcast today announced it is partnering…

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  • Braille Challenge at CCB February 5

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    Dan Burke

    Braille Challenge at CCB February 5

    (Editor’s Note: We are delighted to be partnering with the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind on this year’s Braille Challenge, a nationwide competition sponsored by the Braille Institute. It’s the first time that a test site has been located in the Denver Metro area. Below is the press release.) We’re all going…

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  • Breaking Blind’s Virtual Tour of the Center

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    Dan Burke

    Breaking Blind’s Virtual Tour of the Center

    We’re off for the holiday break, so it seems like a good time to share Breaking Bad’s virtual tour of the Center from YouTube. It’s not really as quiet at the Center right now as the day the video was shot — a remodeling project started on Monday, December 22. It’s also a lot colder!

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