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Tag: Holidays

  • One Whole Day for Holiday Art & Ornaments #sharelittleton

    Tuesday is art day anyway, but this week it was art day all day long. Every student and staff member worked in the art room with Ann Cunningham and Jenny Callahan making ornaments, holiday cards or what ever else suited their fancy. Without a doubt , everyone enjoyed the break from regular classes and the…

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  • A Last Look at CCB Thanksgiving 2017

    Dishon, Maureen and Vicki around the L shaped tables loaded with hotel tray full of food for Thanksgiving 2017s

    Starting with a little turkey structured discovery right up to the point where we start stuffing our faces, when the videographer puts away his camera to get in line. Even journalism has its natural limits.

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  • Plenty to be thankful for: Our 2017 #Thanksgiving Feast!

    Lia, Ravi, Mason S. and Mason M. prepare four large turkeys to go into the ovens

    There was plenty on Thursday, November 16 – plenty to eat and to be thankful for at our 100-percent student-prepared Thanksgiving Feast! It’s tradition at the Colorado Center for the Blind to hold our own Thanksgiving feast before we break for visits to family and friends on the official holiday. Our students cook it all…

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  • Beeping Easter Eggs with @TelecomPioneers & Warm Weather Youth Plans

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    Editor’s Note: An update from our Youth Services Director Brent Batron about what’s coming tomorrow and through the summer for blind youth. Usually the second Saturday of each month is the FAST program at the Center, however this month we will be participate in the Pioneers Easter Egg Hunt! Information is below. Other upcoming events…

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  • Cookies, Candies, Balloons and Bouquets: Valentines Day at CCB

    A smiling young woman holds a Happy Valentines Day Heart Shaped Balloon and Flower Arrangement

    The day didn’t go uncelebrated. The Seniors had a Valentine’s party (there are rumors of romance there). Even ITP got into the act with Valentine’s cookies to mark “National Singles Day”?

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  • First Day Back: 2017 Is Underway!

    Classes started today for 2017, and on top of that it’s Tuesday – meaning that Seniors came in to the Center as well! After two weeks off folks were pretty happy to be back in spite of a bit of cold weather! Here is a collection of sights and sounds from the day, and here’s…

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  • A Holiday Gift from the 2016 CCB Choir

    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

    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

    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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  • Do Your Final Shopping at smile.amazon.com & Support Us

    A wreath hanging on the front desk, Christmas lights and wooden ornaments - a Christmas Tree and the word Jolly

    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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