Category: Larimer County Latest News

CEO Invoice Scam or Bossy Scam

Businesses in Larimer County have been receiving bogus invoices from scammers. These invoices seem real since they are supposedly from someone from your upper level management directing your finance personnel to set up a payment to a new vendor and send an express payment to this new vendor for some kind of services. Naturally, finance …

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Larimer County Office of C.S.U. Extension receives grant from NextFifty Initiative

The Board of Larimer County Commissioners today approved a grant awarded to the Larimer County office of CSU Extension for $149,500 from NextFifty Initiative to expand Senior Access Points of Larimer County. NextFifty Initative, a Denver nonprofit, seeks to partner with organizations that are working to improve community services for older adults and their caregivers. …

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Property Tax Statements And New Postcards In Mail

Larimer County Treasurer Irene Josey announces approximately 163,300 tax notices have been mailed, including 152,383 real property, 5,043 personal property, 5,691 mobile home and 196 state assessed tax bills. Another 1,751 property notice reminders will be sent to individuals via email who have signed up for electronic notices. Josey said payment of these taxes will …

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Fort Collins Veterans Fair

The Larimer County Veterans Service Office is organizing a Veterans Services & Opportunities Fair for veterans & their families. This event is February 27, 2019 from 3pm to 6:30pm at the Fort Collins Elks Lodge, 1424 E. Mulberry in Fort Collins. Admission is free, with a wide variety of exhibitors available to discuss the services …

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Larimer County Releases Community Report

The Larimer County Office on Aging released their Community Assessment Survey for Older Adults (CASOA) report last month. The report is updated every four years and provides a statistically valid survey of the strengths and needs of older adults as reported by older adults in Larimer County. A total of 847 completed surveys was obtained, …

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Seven Lakes Memory Care Staff Has Dementia-Friendly Training

Dementia-Friendly Leader® Training for senior professional organizations is offered through the nonprofit ‘Dementia-Friendly Communities of Northern Colorado®.’ Cyndy Luzinski, Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit explained, “Our support group, memory café, and other life enrichment program attenders often inquire about which agencies ‘will take good care of my loved one’ when the time comes …

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Next Fifty Initiative Provides Grant to Senior Access Points

Next Fifty Initiative, a Denver nonprofit, provided a grant for $149,500 to expand Senior Access Points of Larimer County. With Next Fifty funding, the Senior Access Points coalition will be able to conduct targeted outreach to connect rural and isolated residents with aging-related resources and services. This will be accomplished by recruiting and training rural …

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Community Enrichment and Engagement

Colorado is ranked one of the most desirable locations to retire and Northern Colorado has some of the most active retirees. The conundrum for those starting a new phase of their life is figuring out where this journey will take them and what resources are available. Volunteers of America SeniorCorps/RSVP, Poudre River Library District, and …

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Ending Age Discrimination

Seminar Sponsors (l-r): Jim Becker w/PAFC, Lisa Sullivaqn & Margaret Franckhauser w/Next Fifty Initiative, Janine Vanderburg w/Changing the Narrative, and Jason Morgan w/A Little Help Next Fifty Initiative and the Rose Community Foundation in collaboration with Partnership for Age Friendly Communities of Northern Colorado (PAFC) and A Little Help sponsored a seminar on age discrimination, …

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Tough Talk Series on Fighting Isolation

Pictured Panelists: (l-r) Gloria Luong, Anna Von Dreele, Jason Morgan, & Jim Green Jason Morgan, Executive Director with A Little Help of Fort Collins, presented Tough Talk, their new quarterly lecture series about compelling issues facing the elderly. Their first lecture included a panel of three specialists discussing “Fighting Isolation.” The panelists included Jim Green, …

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Annual Toast to Caregivers Celebration

2018 Powerful Tools for Caregivers Program Leaders The seventh annual Toast to Caregivers celebration held last month at the MacKenzie Lodge in Fort Collins, honored all the caregivers who completed the six-week Powerful Tools for Caregiver program during 2018. Over 75 caregivers and their spouses attended the celebration to give thanks to the class leaders …

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A Memoir by Roy W. Lilley

“Just As I Am” a unique memoir by Roy W. Lilley is now available online through Amazon Books. In his introduction Chuck Schroeder, a cattle industry leader and the CEO of both the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, wrote “This is the story of an …

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