Colorado Center for the Blind

The Wood Shop Is Open!

by
Dan Burke

July 1, 2023

We are excited to introduce you to Dan Nixon, our new Home Maintenance and Wood Shop instructor. Technically, Dan has already been with us for a couple of months, but of course, he’s been doing training under learning shades, including training in the wood shop, so that he comes to thoroughly understand how blind people…
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Blindness training goals delayed by social distancing? Check out the new Breaking Blind Podcast

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Dan Burke

May 14, 2020

You know, this pandemic shutdown has been going on for a minute. Especially if you are a student at the Colorado Center for the Blind, or someone waiting to come, or someone newly blind and trying to figure out how to do the simplest things you used to do now that you’re blind, let alone…
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“How My Life Changed at the Colorado Center for the Blind” @CatchTheseWords

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Dan Burke

December 22, 2019

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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What You Carry in Your Soul & a Trip to the Wood Shop: A Visit from Alum Cathy @Kudlick

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Dan Burke

January 15, 2018

It has been nearly 18 years since Catherine Kudlick first arrived in Littleton as a student at CCB, but the lessons of her training have endured, as she told staff and students in Philosophy Class last Thursday. Cathy’s blindness is due to Nystagmus and she had never used a cane before she came for training.…
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Celebrating Our Senior Programs in New Video!

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Dan Burke

June 30, 2017

We’re proud of our senior programs and how they have changed the lives of seniors who have lost vision and the people who love them. We’re excited about how those programs continue to grow – from the residential Seniors in Charge (twice a year), to four support groups (one in Spanish), to ever-expanding opportunities to…
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Wind Chimes of Freedom: This week’s 3 Wood Shop Projects

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Dan Burke

May 10, 2017

We have three graduations this week – Courtney, or C.G. as she has been known in her time at CCB, graduated on Monday, Suzie today, wednesday, and Ellen finishes on Thursday. All of them finished excellent wood shop projects last week. Ellen built a very nice bookshelf, and both C.G. and Suzie made the first…
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Swolly-ness is Holiness: Ryan’s Pull Up Station

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Dan Burke

April 13, 2017

Everyone does a project in Wood Shop, and since Ryan is a fitness professional he built a pull-up station in our gym:
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Julie and Serena Making it smooth!

by
Dan Burke

April 6, 2017

Both Julie and Serena are new to the Wood Shop class, but Chirs has them in touch with the beginning’s of a refinishing project.
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From Super Bowl Parade to Freedom Bells: A Video Retrospective of 2016

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Dan Burke

November 2, 2016

Got about 20 minutes to be wowed? We’re just back from our 2016 National Federation of the Blind of Colorado Convention in Lone Tree from October 27 to 30. All staff and students attended and, since we’re an NFB training center (the NFB of Colorado started the Center in 1988), Executive Director Julie Deden always…
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The first cut is the hardest: Marlene on the chop saw

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Dan Burke

August 27, 2016

… or maybe it’s not if you have a career behind you as a surgical nurse.
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