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  • Happy Thanksgiving 2022!

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    Dan Burke

    Three of our volunteer student servers for this year’s Thanksgiving feast, left to right, Rhonda, Shirley, and Aaron with hotel pans of cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and green bean casserole set out in front of them on the table

    Three of our volunteer student servers yesterday. From left to Right, Rhonda, Shirley, and Aaron serve up the cranberry sauces, the sweet potato dishes, and the green bean casserole, respectively. This is the end of the line (except for the dessert table), so by this time there’s precious little real estate on our plates! It…

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  • Turkeys and Ten Years of Colorado Gives Day #CoGivesDay

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    Dan Burke

    Emily with a golden-brown Turkey she just took out of the oven

    Colorado Gives Day 2019 is December 10, and it’s the tenth year of this highly successful program to encourage online giving to Colorado nonprofits like the Colorado Center for the Blind. And were proud that we’ve been a part of Colorado Gives Day from the very first! Sure, we’ll gratefully accept donations any day, any…

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  • FAST November: Kicking off the Holiday Season with CCB!

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    Dan Burke

    FAST - (Fun Activities & Skills Training) logo

    The date of our annual FAST Thanksgiving activity has been changed from earlier dates you may have seen. Who? Blind students of all ages, families and teachers Where? Colorado Center for the Blind, 2233 W. Shepperd Ave. Littleton CO, 80120 When? Saturday, November 23, 2019 from 10:00AM – 2:00PM If we are expected to eat…

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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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