Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

Category: Home Management

  • 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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  • CCB Featured in America’s Test Kitchen Podcast @Jason_Strother @TestKitchen @pang

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    Dan Burke

    Jason Strother gives a talk during a CCB philosophy class

    In June, 2022 we hosted journalist Jason Strother for a week of training at the Center. Jason, who has worked for years as a free-lance reporter and was headquartered for a time in Seoul, South Korea, was researching a story about how blind people obtain food. Groceries, that is. His interest in this subject is…

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  • Happy Thanksgiving 2022!

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    Dan Burke

    Three of our volunteer student servers for this year’s Thanksgiving feast, left to right, Rhonda, Shirley, and Aaron with hotel pans of cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and green bean casserole set out in front of them on the table

    Three of our volunteer student servers yesterday. From left to Right, Rhonda, Shirley, and Aaron serve up the cranberry sauces, the sweet potato dishes, and the green bean casserole, respectively. This is the end of the line (except for the dessert table), so by this time there’s precious little real estate on our plates! It…

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  • Turning the Tables: CCB Role Reversal Day 2022

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    Dan Burke

    A standing woman gestures to the room of seated fellow students as she talks

    Students from every continent and every epoch imagine, even if only idly, of someday, somehow turning the tables on their teachers. Likely they don’t realize until they have done it, that their teachers also may see such a reversal as an opportunity to return the torment. That’s partly the story of Role Reversal Day 2022,…

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  • Thank You for Our Best Colorado Gives Day, EVER! #Gratitude

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    Dan Burke

    Give Where You Live - Colorado Gives Day December 7 2021

    This December 7 you surpassed previous years with your support for the Colorado Center for the Blind and our programs for blind people of all ages, making 2021 one of the best we’ve been lucky enough to experience on Colorado Gives Day. And we’ve been part of it from the very beginning. So, we are…

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  • Seniors Are in Charge and In-person This Week at CCB!

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    Dan Burke

    a blind instructor talks with his student, a senior woman as they walk with white canes along a residential street

    Dishon and Olive on the return leg of a travel lesson near the center. Seniors in Charge this year was blessed with lovely fall days. For the first time in two years, our week-long Seniors in Charge is live and in-person at the Colorado Center for the Blind! These four dynamic and intrepid older blind…

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  • Happy Holidays! Thanks to All of You, Lives Change at the Colorado Center for the Blind

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    Dan Burke

    Three young students stand in front of a medical vehicle, all wearing Santa hats

    Caption: Cristian, Shyanne and Kelly stand in front of the medical vehicle at South Suburban Fire and Rescue Station #12 on December 16. They had just delivered a box of holiday cookies and treats baked by students to on-duty fire fighters. In turn, fire fighters showed students one of the trucks and the medical vehicle.…

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  • “Incredible Days” Lead to Living the Lives We Want! #COGivesDay

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    Dan Burke

    A young woman holding a white cane faces us as she talks to a vendor.

    Maura visits the vendor area at the 2019 NFB of Colorado Convention. Maura finished high school last spring and plans to go on to college next year. Before she did that, however, she was determined to obtain the skills she needed to be independent as a blind person so that nothing could hold her back…

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  • A Last Look at CCB Thanksgiving 2017

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    Dan Burke

    Dishon, Maureen and Vicki around the L shaped tables loaded with hotel tray full of food for Thanksgiving 2017s

    Starting with a little turkey structured discovery right up to the point where we start stuffing our faces, when the videographer puts away his camera to get in line. Even journalism has its natural limits.

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