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Colorado Gives Day on December 8!

Colorado Gives Day ad for December 8, 2015
Support us on Colorado Gives Day 2015 - an easy way to make an impact!

It’s only a month away – Colorado Gives Day 2015, and a great opportunity to support our programs and philosophy at the Colorado Center for the Blind! You know that we don’t just teach blindness skills, as important as they are, but aim for that belief in those blindness skills […]

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I’m Not Staying in my room anymore!

A young man gives a senior woman a cane lesson on the stairs

Six remarkable women made up our late-summer Seniors in Charge the week of August 31 to September 4. Ranging in age from 58 to 90, it didn’t take long to figure out that each of them were accomplished, dynamic people, and had been all their lives. They came to Seniors […]

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Another Tick Toward Fall

Two women practice the use of a file on a white stone
Ann shows Shelby how to file her alabaster stone. In the background Alex and Tech Instructor Yolanda work on their projects. Ann Cunningham has been teaching art classes at the Center for nearly two decades.

The days are hot, but the mornings increasingly cool, almost chilly, and the hot air stirs in the evening. The sound of those breezes, the sound of the leaves, has changed, though – just another tick toward fall. So we started up art classes with Ann Cunningham again on Monday […]

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Seniors in Charge – Better Believe it!

A senior woman and man explore a Braille cell with touch
Our Center's founder Diane McGeorge still volunteers a lot of her her time. Here she is instructing George on the basics of the Braille cell using the old reliable muffin tin and tennis balls.

by Diane McGeorge (Editor’s Note: Seniors in Charge is a five day sleep shade training for Colorado seniors. It is offered three times per year and two of those sessions participants stay in our McGeorge Mountain Terrace Apartments. This gives us the opportunity to work with Seniors from outside the […]