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The snow was flying as my brother helped my mother gently into the car. We made what felt like a getaway. After beinggone for two months, returning home was freedom for our mother.It'd begun with a...
DATE: May 5, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
The 4th annual Durango Wine Experience will be held in downtown Durango on May 6, 7 and 8. This three-day event is thearea's only real wine festival. Wine aficionados and those who want to learn...
DATE: April 28, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
This month, Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center celebrates 50 years as a local nonprofit agency.The center has spent the last 50 years continually expanding its mission and services to meet the...
DATE: April 21, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
It is the first of May, and a small group gathers around a pole fitted into a hole in the earth. This is, of course, ascene from the seventh annual Golfing for Kids with Disabilities Golf...
DATE: April 14, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
This is National Public Health week.The 2010 theme Building a Healthier America, One Community at a Time" envisions a place where everyone has access tohealth care and services, where healthy...
DATE: April 7, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
I am asked all the time how many nonprofit organizations there are in Southwest Colorado.We all see the multitude of fundraising events that seem to occur every day. Is there such a thing as too...
DATE: March 25, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
National statistics indicate that April and May are the most common months for completed suicides.Why do so many deaths by suicide occur when the snow melts, cabin fever ends and there is a promise...
DATE: March 16, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
Language shapes the way we think. The way we think shapes the way we act. As such, it is no wonder people withintellectual disabilities are fighting against the use of derogatory language.You may...
DATE: March 10, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
Today, hundreds of individuals with disabilities, family members, direct-support professionals and other serviceproviders will descend upon the capital in Denver.There legislators from both sides...
DATE: Feb. 17, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
I believe the elusive definition of community can best be described using the Lakota Sioux phrase Mitakuye Oyasin(Mee-tah-koo-yay O-yah-seen). Mitakuye Oyasin roughly translates into all my...
DATE: Feb. 10, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
We would like to offer an early Valentine's Day tribute to someone held dear here at San Juan Basin Health.Lynn Westberg is our resourceful leader - the person who has taken us through both...
DATE: Feb. 3, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
United Way of Southwest Colorado is putting the finishing touches on our annual fundraising campaign. There is stilltime to donate to help us address a myriad of needs in the communities of...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2010 | COLUMN: Creating Community
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