Colorado Center for the Blind

Month: December 2016

Kneading bread and philosophy together: Support us on #COGivesDay

by
Dan Burke

December 5, 2016

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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We’re on the Move! Support Us on #COGivesDay!

by
Dan Burke

December 4, 2016

Like Martin and Vika, blind people from five to ninety-five are on the move every day at the Colorado Center for the Blind! Please support us tomorrow on #COGivesDay December 6!
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It’s All About That Pie: Crable’s Mini-meal

by
Dan Burke

December 4, 2016

“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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Friday’s Fish Flaying

by
Dan Burke

December 2, 2016

Okay, it wasn’t that gruesome! But it was the 11th year that Professor Terry Harrison has led a shark dissection at the Colorado Center for the Blind. The idea was, and still is, to give blind youth a chance to get really hands-on with science. In this case, anatomy. Every year, Professor Harrison arrives about…
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Perez’s Mini-meal & the Mushroom Thief

by
Dan Burke

December 1, 2016

The kitchens at CCB are just a few steps away from the lobby where Robert mans the front desk and management offices are located. Because our students are constantly cooking up amazing things in the kitchens, the odors filling the lobby area are sometimes maddenly wonderful. That was certainly the case a few weeks ago…
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