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  • First Day Back: 2017 Is Underway!

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    Dan Burke

    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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  • Reblog: Grafton’s Chaz Davis has a surprising finish

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    Dan Burke

    Chaz presents a Christmas basket of items prepared by CCB students to an officer from the Littleton Police Department

    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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  • Kneading bread and philosophy together: Support us on #COGivesDay

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    Dan Burke

    Tabea kneads dough with both hands

    Philosophy bakes no bread. Philosopher Bertrand Russell said that. But a wise man we know once pointed out that no bread is baked without philosophy. Tabea graduated from CCB in 2016 and has gone on to graduate school. She knows that our belief in our blind students is the yeast that leavens the bread of…

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  • It’s All About That Pie: Crable’s Mini-meal

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    Dan Burke

    “I cook all the time now that I’ve been here as a student,” Chris says in this mini-meal video. He took his first shot at baking a pie – three pies actually, sour cream apple pies. He graduates next week! “Crable” is his CCB nickname.

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  • See What Graham’s Doing Here

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    Dan Burke

    Graham standing in front of the CCB logo in the front lobby

    You hear from us all the time about what’s going on at the Center, so here’s a chance to get a student’s story from the very first. Graham arrived in Denver from Brooklyn in mid-October, and he’s been blogging each week about his time at the Center for his friends back home and wherever. Check…

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  • #Thanksgiving Turkeys and Structured Discovery

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    Dan Burke

    Three sets of hands work on a Fully Cooked Turkey

    Before learning to carve a turkey, a blind person can greatly benefit from learning the bird by touch – how things are connected and how they will come apart. Since our students and Home Management staff started preparations for our own Thanksgiving meal (held a week before the actual holiday) Dishon Spears led students through…

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  • Thankful for Each Other: Our 2016 #Thanksgiving Together

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    Dan Burke

    We were more than ready by noon last Thursday! we’d been waiting for this meal for two weeks, smelling the roasting turkeys and the pies and so much more! Of course, all of our students had a part in preparing it, so they’d been right in the kitchen smelling what we were at last all…

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  • From Super Bowl Parade to Freedom Bells: A Video Retrospective of 2016

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    Dan Burke

    Got about 20 minutes to be wowed? We’re just back from our 2016 National Federation of the Blind of Colorado Convention in Lone Tree from October 27 to 30. All staff and students attended and, since we’re an NFB training center (the NFB of Colorado started the Center in 1988), Executive Director Julie Deden always…

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  • The Excited Hostess: Hindley’s Mini-meal

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    Dan Burke

    Hindley didn’t really cook when she first arrived at the Center. She’d never used a hot oven. That’s all changed, as her mini-meal clearly demonstrated:

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  • Body Pads and Karate Punches: Tuesday’s Orange Belts

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    Dan Burke

    Another round of testing for the Martial Arts class on Tuesday was followed by an awards ceremony. The entire Center turned out in the gym as five students and Travel Instructor Steve Patten all received orange belts from Karate Denver instructors Rachel and Travis. Steve is a bit of a ringer, of course, since he…

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