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2016-2017 Leadership Fort Collins Class Members Announced

Thirty-five current and emerging leaders were recently selected to participate in the 2016-2017 Leadership Fort Collins program. The group is a diverse mix of professions with representative from ed...

The Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the sold-out annual Golf Classic on Monday, Aug. 1 at the Fort Collins Country Club with 36 teams made up of Chamber members and the business community...

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Realities For Children Charities Launches Brick Fundraising Campaign for New Larimer County Homebase Facility

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Sept. 19, 2016 – Realities For Children Charities has launched a brick fundraising campaign to help the organization reach the $900,000 it needs to build the Realities For Ch...

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Madwire to Sponsor LIVE2LEAD: Fort Collins

Fort Collins, CO (September 14, 2016): Madwire will be a sponsor of LIVE2LEAD: Fort Collins. This half-day, leader development li...

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Chopping Off the Lowest Rung of the Economic Ladder

What was your first job?

Mine was doing yard work for the local neighborhood grocer at age 9. A short time later we moved to the country. For the next decade I worked for area farmers clearing brush, shelling corn, weeding soybeans, throwing hay, detassling seed corn, and castrating hogs. I’ve shoveled more tons of soupy piggy manure than anybody else I personally know.

I did janitorial wo...