Category: Boulder County Latest News

VA Farms Program Trains & Heals

According to VA’s Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention (OMHSP), more than 60,000 Veterans died by suicide in the last decade. For those of us who serve our nation’s Veterans, that number is more than a statistic – it is a reminder that failing to address mental health needs carries real and tragic consequences.OMHSP highlights …

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Telehealth Is A Growing Industry

Telemedicine has become a growth industry worth tens of billions of dollars. By 2025 the market for virtual doctors is expected to exceed $130 billion, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. The numbers of remote doctor-patient visits have been increasing at extraordinarily high rates over the past several years. A Journal of the American …

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Boulder Valley Spellbinders Storytellers Volunteer Training

Parents and grandparents have a unique opportunity to learn the art of oral storytelling by attending Boulder Valley Spellbinders® Oral Storytellers workshop at Frasier in Boulder in January. For the 2018-2019-year Spellbinders ® visited 22 schools in the BVSD, visited 131 classrooms and had a total audience of 34,133 listeners. The 42 storytellers in the …

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Celebration of Diversity

By Madeline Goldstein, Boulder Resident At the foothills of the Rockies, 30 miles northwest of the state capitol, is a little mountain town of 107,125 people called Boulder. Nothing much happens there if you disregard the second-largest 10k race in the US or the fifth largest road race in the world. But, above all, there …

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The Role Of A Physical Therapist In Healthy Aging

“Healthy aging” and “aging well” are used quite often, but people outside the aging services or health care sectors rarely understand the full meaning of these phrases. October was National Physical Therapy Month to remind the public of the value of physical therapy in supporting the health and independence of America’s older adults. In the …

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Tips to Celebrate Within Your Means This Holiday Season

For many families, the holiday season is the most expensive time of year. Americans spent over $707 billion dollars during the 2018 holidays, according to the National Retail Federation, and it would be no surprise for spending to increase in 2019. “It is important to ensure you are spending wisely and not turning the new …

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Mental Health Partners’ Senior Peer Counseling Program

Older adults face many unique changes in life. These can include retirement, children leaving the home, welcoming grandchildren, relocation due to a change in financial or family situations, the stress (and excitement!) of leisure planning, health challenges and the loss of family and friends. While some of these changes are welcome, others can leave older …

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Frasier Brain Power

By Naomi Rachel, writer & teacher. Telling our stories is good for our brains and it can also be a great deal of fun and help build community. When I decided I would like the challenge of teaching memoir writing to elders, I approached Molly Briggs, the incredible education director at Frasier . So many …

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Spellbinders® Fund-raiser to Continue Programming

After almost 30 years of oral storytelling provided by seniors to children throughout Colorado classrooms, financial assistance is needed to continue this great program. Since its inception, Spellbinders® has been supported primarily by individual donors. As non-profit donations are trending downward nationwide, Spellbinders® is at a crossroads. Spellbinders® is about children. Both students and teachers …

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Viva Theater presents “Dude It’s Boulder”

“It’s So Boulder”. Perhaps you have heard this phrase and wondered just what it meant. Viva Theater’s production of “Dude It’s Boulder” shows, through story, song, and dance, the history of Boulder and all the idiosyncratic events that have defined Boulder. “Dude, It’s Boulder” is an original theater piece written by Boulder native and award-winning …

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From Movie To Opera With Boulder Return

Favorite holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” has been transformed from screen to the opera stage. Following a three year tour from Texas to Indiana, and California, acclaimed composer Jake Heggie and renowned librettist Gene Scheer’s musical creation returns home to Boulder’s Eklund Opera Program. Heggie first brought the opera to be workshopped at CU …

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Lyons exhibits: “Singing Silence” collection

Plein air artist Donna Lyons’ drawings and paintings from her Colorado Plateau travels are on view at the Columbine Library located at 7706 West Bowles Avenue, Littleton. This solo exhibition runs from November 1-30. Plein air artists who work in watercolor are in the minority in outdoor painting groups. Colorado painter Lyons has many years …

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