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  • Designs by Sundown Helps Our Garden Grow @dbslandscape

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    Dan Burke

    Fitz up in the raised bed on one knee is about to plant seeds. In the background, Bernice, Sarah, Alonzo and Master Gardeners are working

    Our Legacy Garden planting is complete, helped again this year by our partners with Arapahoe County Master Gardeners and of course all the rain in the past few weeks. (Actually, all the rain has made it difficult to plant on some days because the ground was too wet.) But now the hot weather is upon…

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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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  • How we held our first Juneteenth celebration

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    Dan Burke

    Two young Black men wearing COVID masks and holding white canes stand under leafy trees.

    Last month we celebrated Juneteenth for the first time at the center, thanks to a request made by two of our students, Q and James, shown left to right above. James is from Georgia and wanted to have a Juneteenth celebration because the day is celebrated back home. Julie readily agreed. Barbecue being the traditional…

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  • It’s a new kind of graduation, and Charis is the first!

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    Dan Burke

    Charis holding her Bell of Freedom standing next to Julie in the Front Lobby at the CCB

    Today Charis is graduating from the center. Hers will be a unique graduation, with the actual Freedom Bell ceremony and the “love session” that typically follows being conducted on Zoom for social distancing purposes. No hug from Julie. Charis was just one week away from finishing her program when we closed the building in late…

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  • “How My Life Changed at the Colorado Center for the Blind” @CatchTheseWords

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    Dan Burke

    Holly headed out from the Center with her cane

    Editor’s Note: We introduced you to holly some months ago, when the weather was warmer and she was a relatively new student at the center. She comes from the United Kingdom and her drive to attend the Colorado Center for the Blind stems in part from the fact that, as she says “there aren’t any…

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  • Turkeys and Ten Years of Colorado Gives Day #CoGivesDay

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    Dan Burke

    Emily with a golden-brown Turkey she just took out of the oven

    Colorado Gives Day 2019 is December 10, and it’s the tenth year of this highly successful program to encourage online giving to Colorado nonprofits like the Colorado Center for the Blind. And were proud that we’ve been a part of Colorado Gives Day from the very first! Sure, we’ll gratefully accept donations any day, any…

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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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  • Plenty to be thankful for: Our 2017 #Thanksgiving Feast!

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    Dan Burke

    Lia, Ravi, Mason S. and Mason M. prepare four large turkeys to go into the ovens

    There was plenty on Thursday, November 16 – plenty to eat and to be thankful for at our 100-percent student-prepared Thanksgiving Feast! It’s tradition at the Colorado Center for the Blind to hold our own Thanksgiving feast before we break for visits to family and friends on the official holiday. Our students cook it all…

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  • Pie-day Friday

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    Dan Burke

    Adia, Melissa and Tyler (with 2 thumbs up) showing off their pies

    There are always firsts at the Colorado Center for the Blind. For example, today Casey, a relatively new student, went on his first independent route to Romancing the Bean. Sure, he’d been there before, but not traveling on his own. And that’s what makes it a first. Adia has been at the center since August,…

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  • Thoroughbred Thursday: Throwdown, Throwback and the Thrill of Success!

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    Dan Burke

    a smiling girl with missing front teeth and a woman with their hands on the same page of Braille

    It’s a horse race, for sure. It started this morning with the announcement that Laura was about to go on her support drop with Daniel. She made it back about 11:30, no problem. Mickey has been working on her mini-meal – for fifteenn guests – for the past couple of days. At noon she served…

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