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If you see someone wearing a Bonfils Blood Center T-shirt at the Louisville Rec Center, there’s a good chance it’s Virgil Olson doing his daily workout. At 83, Virgil has no plans to cut back on the frequency of his workouts or his blood donations. He became only the 9^th Bonfils blood donor to reach the 70-gallon mark Thursday, June 16 at Bonfils’ Boulder Community Donor Center.

Only one other Bonfils donor is expected to reach this milestone in…

Violinist Vadim Gluzman will be joined by Boulder piano virtuoso David Korevaar for…

RefactorU now offers 27 competitive scholarships for women and minorities underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers.

“RefactorU has developed the most comprehensive and rigorous diversity-related scholarships of any accelerated skills bootcamp in the United States,” said Sean Daken, CEO and founder of RefactorU. “We recognize that structural inequality exists, and we are committed to reducing that inequality by offering a competitive…

DENVER – Roxanne Bailin was elected to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy’s Board of Directors earlier this month. Formerly the Chief Judge for the 20^th Judicial District, Bailin has devoted much of her career to improving the quality of life for at-risk and low-income families in Colorado.



Among her many accomplishments, Bailin initiated Boulder County’s Mental Health Task Force, and helped develop a…

(BOULDER, Colo., June 9, 2016) – 8z Real Estate is excited to be the Presenting sponsor of the Venus de Miles bike ride, as a continued effort to support Greenhouse Scholars.   Venus de Miles is an annual non-competitive, organized women’s bike ride, held in Boulder County. The 2016 ride will take place on Saturday August 27^th at Prospect Park in Longmont Colorado.…

APRIL 29, 2016 -- After months of work on a collaborative project that wrapped up this week, University of Colorado civil engineering students are walking away with “real-world” experience and Flatirons Habitat has planning documents that will serve as a starting point for the eventual development of a parcel of land in Louisville.

Senior students, working as design firms (eight four- to five-member teams), submitted proposals for the…

Kim English, Quang Ho, Fritz White are first to be featured

Loveland, CO – The Colorado Governor’s Art Show & Sale is pleased to announce a new Legacy Artists program as part of this year’s Silver Anniversary Celebration. Each year, selected artists who have participated in the Show in years past and have works in the City of Loveland's Art In Public Places collection will be invited back to the show as part of a special exhibit and sale of their works.…

Kim English, Quang Ho, Fritz White are first to be featured

Loveland, CO – The Colorado Governor’s Art Show & Sale is pleased to announce a new Legacy Artists program as part of this year’s Silver Anniversary Celebration. Each year, selected artists who have participated in the Show in years past and have works in the City of Loveland's Art In Public Places collection will be invited back to the show as part of a special exhibit and sale of their works.…

Ladies & Gentlemen:

From time to time, a success story worthy of talking about (and repeating) comes across the desk of an interested party. I am very interested in presenting Mr. James and his 3 book memoir with apparel to you as one of those stories.

I would be very thankful if you would consider publishing the following article in your paper. Jimmy James, fighting a hard long battle of 3 years of homelessness, penned half of his 3 book memoir with a 791-page count. James…

For immediate release                         Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Contacts:  Bonnie Sundance, director, Our Sacred Earth. Email: delight@denver.net

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Two hundred forty years ago General George Washington, the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, took to the field with his troops and spent the next eight years engaging in a military campaign to secure freedom for our patriot ancestors and their posterity. He made some of his toughest decisions in his sleeping and office tent, what we…

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Local teen in the spotlight for her fight against bullying is being bullied behind-the-scenes.

Maya Claridge, a freshman at Legacy High School, is no stranger to bullying.  She was bullied for over two years in middle school and says it was the “darkest and loneliest time” of her life.  With the hope of helping other kids who are experiencing bullying, Claridge began…

             In the film “The Martian,” Matt Damon stars as a biologist who is left on Mars by his crewmembers.  Although this seems like science fiction, Brian Cooper, robotic engineer for Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says this is closer to reality than many would believe.

            As part of the team that helped build the software, which makes it possible to control the Mars Exploration Rover, Cooper is much closer to visiting Mars than most other people on planet…

Hawthorne brings us a pickup truck-driving, Ruger-packing heroine who takes to the Colorado woods for solitude, only to be attacked by a pack of mythological fae-creatures.

Look for the book at Boulder Bookstore and online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and www.KevinFury.com.…

The month of November is officially Zonta Says No month in Boulder and around the world. Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County is taking this effort very seriously and working hard with local organizations to help fight sexual violence.

“Zonta…

We live in a world where women live in constant danger. It’s a harsh reality to learn that: 1 in 3 women around the world will experience physical/sexual violence by a partner … About 140M women suffer from female genital mutilation/cutting. Three million girls a year are at risk … Globally, 38% of all murdered women were killed by their intimate partners …  Women are 2-4…

Around the world there are an estimated 93 million children not in school, 48.4 million are girls. Zonta International has increased access to educational opportunities and vocational skills training for girls and young women in Africa, Asia and South America. Zonta Foothills Club is working hard to make a difference here in Boulder.

Through the…