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CoorsTek
Oct. 07, 2020
Bio: Andrew Golike is the plant manager for CoorsTek in Grand Junction. Mr. Golike has held diverse responsibilities including global multi-site management. Mr. Golike holds a BA in Business Management from Colorado Mesa University. He is a lifelong resident of western Colorado. Topic: CoorsTek is the international partner of choice for companies requiring the unique, high-performance properties of products manufactured from engineered technical ceramics and advanced materials. CoorsTek delivers outstanding value through unsurpassed expertise in materials engineering; broad research, development, and manufacturing capabilities; collaborative relationships, and operational excellence. For more information about CoorsTek, including product information and company history since 1910, visit CoorsTek.com. |
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Clifton Christian Church Food and Clothing
Oct. 14, 2020
Bio: Born and raised here, I went to local schools in Clifton and Palisade. My path was full of choices that helped me in many ways. I was a young teenage mom, that made poor choices in many forms. As I look back, I know my path was preparing me to be the Executive Director of Clifton Christian Church Food and Clothing. I am married with three adult children and three grandchildren. I have been the Director for 10 years, The first year we gave food to only 5000 individuals the entire year. In 2019 we were blessed to be able to give food and clothing to over 20,000 individuals. Our mission is to provide nutritious food and clothing to those individuals who find themselves with a need. We not only give them what they need for their hunger, but most important we show them love, compassion, and respect, touching each one with the love of Christ. When they leave our doors they know they are an important and valued member of our community. My past has shown me to love individuals no matter what they are going through, that we all are important, and we can change the world one person at a time. 2020 has been a year to remember for all of us. It has been extremely overwhelming, with many challenges. Nevertheless, we have been able to show grace and mercy to our community. We are honored to be able to stand in the gap for individuals who find themselves with a food insecurity. Thank you, so very much for your kindness, generosity and your support. |
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COSI
Oct. 21, 2020
Bio: My name is Stephanie and I am originally from Kansas. I have lived in many places across the United States! I studied criminal justice at California Lutheran University. After living in California, I moved to Nevada and eventually to Colorado. Now, I love living in western Colorado and helping students attend CMU. I really enjoy the sense of community in Grand Junction. Western Colorado is a fun, friendly place with an adventurous spirit. I enjoy riding my bike and walking with my dog. There are many great local restaurants and businesses across the Grand Valley. One of my favorites is the Hot Tomato Pizzeria in Fruita. Make sure that you check it out! Topic: The Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative (COSI) provides qualifying Colorado students with scholarship awards to aid them in their pursuit of a college degree. In addition to financial assistance, COSI scholars are able to meet with COSI advisors on a regular basis. These COSI advisors take on many roles, including:
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Nov. 01, 2020 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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360 zooms
Nov. 04, 2020
Topic: Interactive Virtual Tours has become the best way to experience a space in the palm of your hand. Imagine that you can provide a 24 hour open house to your customers. The use of virtual tours is increasing as businesses find it as one of the most effective ways to interact with customers and clients online. Not only for Real Estate, for businesses that want to stand out from the crowd and bring the crowd to them. Therefore, this presents an opportunity not only for fields such as restaurants and real estate, but for businesses of any kind that aspire to showcase their products online in a highly effective and FUN interactive manner. Realtor.com concluded that listings with virtual tours receive 87% more views than listings with no photos or still photos alone, and that 54% of buyers exploring on the site will most likely not look at properties that don’t include virtual tours. Home buyers are most likely to shop based on a Virtual Tour inclusion and Photos. The time that would be spent on giving tours will actually be spent sealing the deal and signing the contract. |
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Support a Soldier
Nov. 11, 2020
Daniel Reid has been an international negotiator and crisis mitigator for over 40 years. He is the founder and Managing Director of Paladin International, LLC. , providing new country entry facilitation; risk identification, planning and mitigation solutions; government liaison, and security & protection services for industry and government. He has worked in more than 42 foreign countries throughout Latin America, the Middle East and Europe and has been an advisor and intelligence consultant to the Special Operations Command of our US armed forces for much of his career. Dan received his MBA in 1991 and among many certifications holds the highest rating (CPP) from ASIS (American Society for Industrial Security.) He is a decorated Vietnam special operations veteran and has served in many foreign venues with the US special operations and intelligence community. In addition, he is the author of many technical articles on counter terrorism and crisis identification & management as well as a book on firearms for the uninformed, Guns Are Stupid, People Are Smart; the Novice’s Guide to Understanding Guns. Dan is co-founder and Chairman of the Support-a-Soldier Clearinghouse, a 501 (c) 3 tax deductible charity. Since 2007, its mission has been to provide deployed US military men and women with ancillary non-lethal equipment and other necessities that improves their safety, readiness, comfort and efficiency in areas of combat operations. To date SAS has provided over 5,000 needed pieces of equipment to over 4500 US combat troops and units around the world. SAS operates with minimal overheads and a volunteer cadre of dedicated current and former combat soldiers and business men and women. |
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Hilltop Community Resources - Health Access
Dec. 02, 2020
Bios: Anna Cubel is a certified Health Coverage guide and has been with Health Access for over 6 years. Anna is very well versed in the different health insurance options from public assistance programs to the health insurance exchange options. Christie Higgins is the Community Access Manager and oversees Hilltop's Health Access program. Topic: Hilltops Health Access is a Certified Assistance Site for Connect for Health CO insurance marketplace that can help people who qualify get tax credit assistance to bring down the cost of health insurance. Health Access can also provide health care coverage options for small businesses that are not required to offer insurance but want to give their employees a trusted place to go for help and possible financial assistance. Discover all the ways Hilltop's Health Access can assist in providing health coverage options!
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Dec. 05, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Mesa County
Dec. 09, 2020
Bio: Cody is a husband, a father, a successful business owner, and a community leader. Cody was born and raised in the Grand Valley and is a fifth-generation native.
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COVID Update
Dec. 16, 2020
Bio: Jeff Kuhr is the Director of Public Health for Mesa County. He is an active participant in statewide policy and program development, serving on the Colorado Board of Human Services and the Colorado Early Childhood Leadership Commission. Jeff is a Colorado Children and Families Fellow with Ascend at the Aspen Institute, and is a PHRASES Fellow with the de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute. In Grand Junction, he serves on the boards of directors for St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center and Quality Health Network, is immediate past board chair for the Rocky Mountain Health Foundation, and is Co-Facilitator of the Mesa County Health Leadership Consortium. Jeff has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Nebraska and is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist. He has been a local public health director for 17 years. |
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Timberleaf Trailers
Jan. 20, 2021
Bio: I started my career in 1976 in Denver as a woodworker. Within two years of working as an employee in either a shop making wooden puppets ( where I met my future wife) of building children’s furniture, I just fell into being a part owner of a custom cabinet shop. Since that beginning at the very young age of 25 I have been self-employed ever since. After five years of that initial partnership I went on to own my own woodworking business for another fifteen years. I then segued into kitchen remodeling and then that transitioned into full on home remodeling for twenty years in older Denver homes. Five years ago I had a wild idea to build a teardrop trailer for my wife and I because none of the fifty or so manufacturers in the U.S. built one that met all the criteria I was searching for. After obsessing about the design for a month or so and sharing the drawings with friends and hearing their feedback, the idea of launching my own business building them for the public launched. After nervously sharing my idea with my wife and getting the thumbs up within minutes of sharing my idea with her I jumped right in forming a business plan. That was in November of 2015. My goal was to phase into building trailers while phasing out of my construction business and to be building trailers full time in two years. I had four employees in my construction business at the time. I reached that goal in Four months! I have had ups and downs since the start but have kept every employee busy and paid on time since we started. I completely shut down the construction business in mid 2016.After two years of solid growth I realized the shop we started in was not going to be enough and started searching for a new facility. After living in Denver for over forty years and the same home for 31 years, my wife and I decided to move out of the city to somewhere where the real estate was more affordable. We landed here in Grand Junction. We moved into a leased shop that is two and half times as big as the old one and are now finalizing plans to build a new custom shop with the capacity to more than double our output. WE hope to be in that facility, up and running by Fall of 2021.
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Rotary Foundation
Jan. 27, 2021
Bio: Aaron Tice is the Treasurer of The Rotary Club of Grand Junction and The Rotary Club of GJ Foundation. He also serves on the District Grant committee as the Chairman and is currently serving as the Vice President of Bookcliff Country Club. He is the founder of a Registered Investment Advisor, Delphi Wealth Partners, which he founded in 2015 to provide fiduciary advice to his clients, friends, and family. Aaron is both an alumnus of CMU and, of course, University of Oregon where he graduated with a BS in Biochemistry. He married out of his league when he met Bailey and they are lucky the two, Sawyer (8) and Kinley(6), take after their mother. Program will include discussion of the role and finances of the Rotary Foundation. |
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Hope West PACE
Feb. 03, 2021
Bio: HopeWest is excited to announce that Dusty Dodson has accepted a position as the new Senior Vice President over the HopeWest PACE program. Dusty has been a long time, highly respected, health care administrator on the Western Slope and most recently has served as a health care consultant. For a decade he was the Director of Extended Care and Services for Grand River Hospital District. He has an extensive background in both acute and long term care, and has served as a consultant for CMS Region V. He holds an MBA in Healthcare Administration from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in Sociology. Dusty has been active in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and has served on the board of the Colorado Health Care Association. He has also been involved with governmental affairs and policy working as a Governor-appointed member of the Community Living Advisory Group and Colorado Rural Health Center Policy Committee. Throughout his career as a leader in healthcare, he has been successful in not only starting programs but dramatically turning around programs. Dusty strongly believes in the power of teamwork and credits his successful track record to those who have worked for him – speaking volumes about his leadership style. HopeWest is truly thrilled to have Dusty as part of our Senior Leadership Team and knows that the people working on his team will enjoy working for such an inspirational and capable leader. |
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Are We As Smart As. . .?
Feb. 10, 2021
Come to our next Zoom meeting ready to have fun and to tax your memory. We are going to explore what you remember from school. We will also find out how much we remember about Rotary. This is easy, straightforward, and highly interactive. For complete fun, we will determine how smart we are as a group. Are we as smart as a 5th grader, or as an 8th grader, or as a 12th grader, or as a Rotarian? Can we as a group graduate from a modern elementary school, middle school, and high school? And are we well-prepared to be able to tell the world all about Rotary. Don’t worry, your answers will be completely anonymous—so no one will be embarrassed about how smart they are. |
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Fly Fishing, Fly Tying & Project Healing Waters
Feb. 17, 2021
I've been fly fishing since I was 14. That's 34 years. I'm always learning something new and always seeking out new water to test myself against. I began learning fly fishing from one of my Scouting leaders who tied his own flies and began learning to tie flies in 1994. After an unfortunate event of losing all my tying materials and gear in 1996, I finally bought just enough materials and basic tools to get "back in the saddle" and today, thousands of flies and fish caught on my own creations, the fire still burns as brightly as it ever did for this sport that is as much about solitude and recharging (as Steven Covey always said "sharpening the saw") as it is about the thrill of catching a new personal best or a first catch of a new species. I look forward to sharing some of my adventures and a few of the basics of the sport and its attendant accessories, with my fellow Rotarians
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“The Inconvenient Data “A Story About Narrative and Perspective (Economic Update)
Feb. 24, 2021
Bio: Aaron Tice, a Certified Financial Planner, is not your usual Investment Advisor and took an odd route to becoming the expert that he is. He self admittedly got lucky because he heard other people’s good ideas and used them himself, buying Intel when he was 11 years old through the generous help of his father, Dr. Larry Tice, and the educational savings account he set aside for Aaron’s future education. Facing the culmination of the effects of that edification with a Biochemistry degree, he finally learned his most valuable lesson in life. . .
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Palisade Plunge Trail Project
Mar. 03, 2021
Bio: Scott Winans has been involved with singletrack trail creation for over 25 years, and has served since 2009 on the board of directors of the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, Inc. (COPMOBA), and since 2011 as President. COPMOBA is a 32+ year western Colorado regional non-profit organization committed to advocacy for, and construction and maintenance of, non-motorized singletrack trail. Via its current four chapters, COPMOBA furthers its mission through active and responsible partnership with Federal and State management agencies, County, Municipal, and organizational agents, as well as business and individual members in all of the communities in which it operates. Scott believes that these community relationships, and the demonstrated lifestyle and economic benefits of trails in the communities, are the keys to the grounded success of the organization. Scott is the V.P. of Engineering for Mountain Racing Products, based in Grand Junction, where the team designs, tests, and manufactures high-end mountain bike components, utilizing the local trail networks as our testing grounds. Scott is also the co-owner of Rapid Creek Cycles, in Palisade, serving the needs of local riders and paddlers as well as visitors to the regions agriculture and viticulture resources. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Palisade Plunge Trail project, "The Plunge", is spearheaded by the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association (COPMOBA), a 32+ yr grassroots non-profit with five chapters throughout western Colorado, dedicated to planning, creation, and maintenance of singletrack trail resources in the region and their economic and lifestyle benefits to our communities. The Plunge is a federally approved route connecting the top of the Grand Mesa to the valley floor in the Town of Palisade via high quality non-motorized singletrack trail plus a paved path connection along North River Rd into downtown Palisade The Town of Palisade, City of GJ, City of Fruita, Mesa County Commissioners, Palisade & GJ Area Chambers of Commerce, GJEP, Outdoor Recreation Coalition, Visitors and Convention Bureau, and others, back COPMOBA’s submission of the Palisade Plunge for designation as a "16 in 2016" trail project by the State. 2015 the state designates the Palisade $527K Phase 1 funding was awarded to Mesa County via Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Colorado the Beautiful grant. Construction of Phase 1, roughly the lower half of the route, began in July, 2019. $1.234M Phase 2 funding was awarded to Mesa County via GOCO Connect Initiative grant funding. Phase 2 construction will be completed in the late Spring to Summe |
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COVID Update
Mar. 10, 2021
Bio: Jeff Kuhr is the Director of Public Health for Mesa County. He is an active participant in statewide policy and program development, serving on the Colorado Board of Human Services and the Colorado Early Childhood Leadership Commission. Jeff is a Colorado Children and Families Fellow with Ascend at the Aspen Institute, and is a PHRASES Fellow with the de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute. In Grand Junction, he serves on the boards of directors for St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center and Quality Health Network, is immediate past board chair for the Rocky Mountain Health Foundation, and is Co-Facilitator of the Mesa County Health Leadership Consortium. Jeff has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Nebraska and is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist. He has been a local public health director for 17 years. |
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Mesa County Update
Mar. 17, 2021
Janet is a Mesa County Commissioner from District 3. Prior to being elected as commissioner, Janet served in several capacities generally focused on protecting kids from abuse and neglect including: - the National Director for Project 1.27 for 3 years, - the Executive Director of CASA for five years, - Mesa County Commissioner for 8 years, and - the Mesa County Department of Human Services for 10 years. |
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Grand Mesa Nordic Council
Mar. 24, 2021
Bio: Tom Ela is a Grand Junction native who took a 15-year hiatus for college and to see the world before returning at end of 1985. One big factor in my return was the promise of cross country skiing having gotten the bug in Boston. I skied my first marathon that Winter and have been avid since. I helped found the Grand Mesa Nordic Council in 1990 to ensure that I and the public had great groomed ski trails to exercise on and enjoy. Many locals know me as the front-of-the-house manager for 12 years at Gladstones, now the Ale House. After a career change that led me back to school and then 14 years as an analyst for Rocky Mountain Health Plans, I have now retired spending the bulk of my time outdoors skiing, biking, running and exploring.
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Cello Recital
Mar. 31, 2021
Bio: Nicholas Berry is an impressive young cellist who has been playing since he was five years old. He has taken lessons from his father, Jackson Berry, a professional cello instructor and plays in the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra and Centennial Band (among other organizations). Nicholas has also studied with Kristin Yun, the cello professor at Colorado Mesa University. He is currently studying (via Zoom) with Zachary Sweet, instructor of cello at Nazareth College, Binghamton, and Colgate universities. Currently, Nicholas is a lead cellist in the Grand Junction High School Concert Orchestra (as a freshman). He won third place in the junior instrumentalist division at the Rising Stars competition in Denver. This summer, he intends to continue his musical journey by attending Lamont Summer Academy in Denver. Nicholas was born in Little Rock, Arkansas but has lived in Grand Junction ever since he was three. The second of five children, Nicholas enjoys skiing, drawing, mountain biking, fishing and anything outdoors. Today, the musical selections that Nicholas will play for us includes Mark Summer’s Julio, Eugene Friesen’s Slap, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s 2nd Suite Prelude. |
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Raditation Oncology
Apr. 07, 2021
Bio: Dr. Erica Kinsey is the Chief Medical Physicist and Manager of the Department of Radiation Oncology at St. Mary's Hospital. Before moving to the Grand Valley, she was an Assistant Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Erica grew up in Central Illinois, has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her residency in Medical Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Outside of work, Erica is the Past President of Junior Service League and keeps busy with finishing up her MBA (graduation next month!) and chasing after her newly-walking one-year-old son, Gavin.
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