Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

Month: November 2024

  • Delfina Leads Her Class in the Turkey Dance

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    Dan Burke

    Delfina leads the class in the Turkey Dance

    It’s a tradition! Each year, our Home Management instructors take students through weeks of preparation for our annual Thanksgiving feast. This year the feast was held on November 21, and all four of the classes roasted a turkey for the big meal. But it’s also become a tradition for Delfina, our longest-tenured Home Management instructor,…

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  • Celebrating Seniors and Duncan Larsen

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    Dan Burke

    Two women working on knife skills, one wears sleepshades

    Make a Colorado Gives donation that celebrates Duncan Larsen and our blind seniors! Duncan Larsen’s commitment to instilling confidence in all blind people goes back to her earliest professional years in Nebraska. She was one of our founders in 1988 after moving to Colorado. In fact, Duncan was the cane travel instructor on that storied…

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  • Challenge and Success at the Colorado Center for the Blind

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    Dan Burke

    Ernesto and Megan smiling, snow falling

    The snow is just about melted in the Denver area, but here’s a photo from last Thursday, just as the big storm was moving in. Travel Instructor Ernesto Lucca with his student Megan are coming back to the Center after a class on the snowy sidewalks of the city. Megan is definitely doing things she…

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  • Colorado Gives Treat, No Trick on November 1!

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    Dan Burke

    Smiling woman wearing white angel wings, silver halo, and a pink cap-sleeved dress

    Dafina came as a fashionable angel on Halloween. Everyone wearing a costume was asked to describe theirs at morning announcements. Not shown are Daffina’s gold ballet slippers. Greetings! It’s no trick. Colorado Gives Day is December 10, with all donations for Colorado Gives Day eligible for a share of the $1 Million Incentive Fund from…

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