Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

Month: July 2018

  • Is summer really coming to an end? Our Summer Earn and Learn Students finish up their jobs Friday! #ShareLittleton

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    Dan Burke

    Beth at the coffee machine behind the counter at Dirt Coffee

    Yes, summer is racing to its conclusion, especially for our Summer Earn & Learn students. for the past two weeks these high school-aged students have been work and getting paid. For many, it’s the first job they’ve had. For others, like Beth in the photo above, it’s her first job since becoming blind a year ago.

    How important is that first job for our blind youth? A sense of success, of confidence in their capabilities, and some cold, hard cash in their pockets? Yes, yes and yes! Simply, every great career has to start with that first job or internship.… Read the rest “Is summer really coming to an end? Our Summer Earn and Learn Students finish up their jobs Friday! #ShareLittleton”

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  • Please Bear with Us – It sure Ain’t Paradise, So We’re Rebuilding It, Not Just Paving It!

    by

    Dan Burke

    Damaged pavement on the East side of the parking lot

    Damaged pavement on the East side of the parking lot

    We hope you’ll bear with us this summer with a project that will result in some dust, noice and truck traffic on neighborhood streets. Construction caution fencing is already going up around our parking lot as a projected 87-day construction project begins today.

    As the photos show, the Colorado Center for the Blind’s parking lot has deteriorated badly in recent years. Rather than simply repave, we decided to use the opportunity to do more than just lay new asphalt. The total project will put utilities underground, upgrade parking lot lighting, provide more walkways and landscaping around the parking area, build a concrete dumpster pad to withstand heavy trucks, and reconfigure the front of the building and the sidewalk approaches to it.… Read the rest “Please Bear with Us – It sure Ain’t Paradise, So We’re Rebuilding It, Not Just Paving It!”

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