Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

Month: December 2017

  • Cesar’s FB Post … (he) was feeling accomplished at Colorado Center for the Blind

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    Dan Burke

    Julie handing Cesar his Freedom Bell

    Editor’s Note: Cesar was the final student to graduate in calendar year 2017, on Friday, December 15 in fact. This is the post he made just hours after receiving his Freedom Bell. His parents drove up from Phoenix and he returned with them before our coldest weather set in, assuring us all that he was…

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  • Recent Newspaper Articles Highlight CCB Partnerships

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    Dan Burke

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    We wanted to bring your attention to a couple of newspaper articles that appeared in November and brought attention to the Center. Both reflect great partnerships that help us ensure that our students can, as our tag line says, learn to “Take Charge with Confidence and Self-reliance!” The first, from November 5, appeared in the…

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  • Your White Cane Can Take You Very Far: A Travel Note from Libby at Antelope Canyon Arizona

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    Dan Burke

    Libby with her cane exploring the wind and water whipped canyon walls at Antalope Canyon Arizona

    Editor’s Note: Libby graduated from the Center this fall. She recently sent us this photo following a tour to this beautiful spot in her home state, a Navajo Tribal Park. It’s a great testament to how far a blind person can go with a white cane. Sounds like a great trip Libby! . I got…

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  • Access & #TactileLiteracy: A Day in Our College Prep Class

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    Dan Burke

    Access to concepts and information presented in graphical form has long been a challenge for blind college students. In the past couple of decades the surge in digitally-displayed content has, well, gone supernova. Thus, blind college students need to develop basic tactile literacy with two- and thre-dimensional representations that their sighted peers may have learned…

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  • Before Departing, One Last Meal & Secret Santas Revealed #ShareLittleton

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    Dan Burke

    Here we are with a white Christmas in Colorado when it was looking pretty dusty and dry. Naturally, the Center closed for the holidays, but we finished up in the spirit last Tuesday. Our traditions involve a breakfast together, provided by the GraceFull Cafe in downtown Littleton consisting of very large and very delicious breakfast…

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  • Meet the Volunteers Who Give Time to Our Programs

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    Dan Burke

    The holidays are a time of giving, and our volunteers at CCB give a lot of their time to drive, read and other necessary tasks at the center. We invited them to a lunch in October, but let’s also acknowledge all they give at this time of giving and sharing.

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  • Sixty Attend Senior Holiday Party 2017 #ShareLittleton

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    Dan Burke

    Festive Senior Christmas Party montage featuring 2 views of the Senior Party over a background of the CCB Christmas Tree with hand strung popcorn and cranberries - Also a Braille Christmas Card and Snowman and Santa decorations

    Last Friday’s Senior Holiday Party brought together members of all three of our weekly Seniors groups that meet at the Center – Tuesday, Thursday and Friday – along with sighted and unsighted spouses (insider’s joke), and both old and new friends. There were adult children and grandchildren There. was plenty of food, lots of laughs…

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  • Tuesday’s Seniors Prepare for Senior Holiday Party on Dec 15 #sharelittleton

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    Dan Burke

    Blanca and Priscilla wearing festive colored aprons prepare a rack of home made powdered sugar cookies

    Friday, December 15 is the annual senior Holiday Party at the Colorado Center for the Blind, and the Tuesday group got into the kitchen this week to bake cookies for the event. Among the cookie corps was CCB founder and Chair of our Board of Directors, Diane McGeorge. Also our Volunteer Extraordinaire, Diane is often…

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  • One Whole Day for Holiday Art & Ornaments #sharelittleton

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    Dan Burke

    Tuesday is art day anyway, but this week it was art day all day long. Every student and staff member worked in the art room with Ann Cunningham and Jenny Callahan making ornaments, holiday cards or what ever else suited their fancy. Without a doubt , everyone enjoyed the break from regular classes and the…

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  • Eagle Scout Project Enhances Art Room

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    Dan Burke

    Alex LaBarre stands next one of the newly completed work benches showing how a rolling art supply cart fits underneath

    With many students and the results of their projects, supplies ranging from clay to wax to stone and of course the tools to work with each, an art room can quickly succumb to forces best summed up in the statement: “All things tend toward disorder.” This may be a paraphrase and we certainly don’t recall…

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