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  • Do Your Final Shopping at smile.amazon.com & Support Us

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    Dan Burke

    Do Your Final Shopping at smile.amazon.com & Support Us

    Only a few days and hours to shop online, so why not make your holiday gift-giving go a little further still? Amazon’s Smile program donates 0.5 percent of your purchase amount to the charity of your choice, and that could be the Colorado Center for the Blind. Just go to smile.amazon.com and select CCB as…

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  • Wrapping It Up on the Downhill Slope

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    Dan Burke

    Wrapping It Up on the Downhill Slope

    Students and staff wrapped it up on the downhill side of the year, putting final touches on Secret Santa gifts before our traditional holiday brunch. This year, we fed on breakfast burritos from Littleton’s GraceFull Cafe, a community cafe whose mission is “to provide a home in the Littleton community where people of all backgrounds…

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  • Not Exactly Winding the Year Down

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    Dan Burke

    Not Exactly Winding the Year Down

    We’re in our final week – final days, really – of the 2016 year at the Colorado Center for the Blind. It’s not exactly like winding down, but more like an all-cylinders-open surge for the finish line. Alejandro went on a support drop yesterday, and is cooking a big meal tomorrow. Ryan served his mini-meal…

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  • We’re Excited – Thanks for a Successful #COGivesDay 2016!

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    Dan Burke

    We’re Excited – Thanks for a Successful #COGivesDay 2016!

    Our 2016 Colorado Gives Day was our most successful ever, and we want to thank all of our friends and new acquaintances who helped make it so! In all, we received $15,230 via the online Colorado Gives web site, and all of that counts toward a share of the $1 million Incentive Fund offered by…

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  • Decorating for the Holidays 2016

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    Dan Burke

    Decorating for the Holidays 2016

    We’re nine days into December and, not all that surprisingly, 9 is the temperature this morning. Robert routinely interrupts class with overhead PA announcements, requesting some student or staff member to please stop by his desk on a break. This is a sure sign that there’s a Secret Santa something or other waiting for the…

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  • It’s Starting to Feel a Lot Like a Deep Freeze

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    Dan Burke

    It’s Starting to Feel a Lot Like a Deep Freeze

    We had a little bit of snow this morning, but not enough to keep us at home. Snow is just a part of everyday life and for our students, learning to travel in all weather means feeling confident about traveling to their jobs someday. But it was cold, and will be colder tomorrow!

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  • Kneading bread and philosophy together: Support us on #COGivesDay

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    Dan Burke

    Kneading bread and philosophy together: Support us on #COGivesDay

    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!

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    Dan Burke

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

    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

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    Dan Burke

    It’s All About That Pie: Crable’s Mini-meal

    “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

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    Dan Burke

    Friday’s Fish Flaying

    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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