Advertising Konstance Smith has joined SANDIA Advertising as a senior designer. She has eight years of advertising agency experience as lead designer working in various industries, including healthcare, athletics, education, manufacturing and banking. During her career, Konstance has designed campaigns and worked on projects for local and national organizations, including Junior Achievement Worldwide, U.S. Olympic [...]
Morris Roth, who has worked at AspenPointe for nearly 42 years, will retire at the end of July. As CEO, he has led AspenPointe, one of the region’s largest — and oldest — nonprofits, which serves those with mental health needs, substance-abuse recovery and employment, and career development. AspenPointe traces its roots to 1875 when [...]
Continue reading …In a letter last week to Pueblo County commissioners, Mayor Steve Bach and Council President Keith King patted themselves on the back for the city’s well-funded stormwater program. “All told,” the two leaders wrote, “the City of Colorado Springs will be devoting nearly $46.5 million to stormwater projects in 2013.” Why should the Pueblo County [...]
Continue reading …Health Care Cherie Gorby has joined Colorado Springs Health Partners as chief operations officer. She will serve as a collaborator on the CSHP executive team and oversee primary and specialty care practices. Gorby most recently served as care coordination manager for Community Health Partnership in Colorado Springs, where she acted as liaison with community resources [...]
Continue reading …Clean energy technology is one of the economy’s fastest-growing sectors, nationally and statewide, but is it a priority in Colorado Springs? When the newly seated City Council voted to overturn a previous decision to expand a community solar garden program, it caused homegrown clean energy company SunShare’s founder to wonder if he should move. “If [...]
Continue reading …Doug Berwick is CEO of Berwick Electric Co., which was founded in Colorado Springs and has operated as a family-owned business for three generations. From the beginning, the company has managed to remain on the cutting edge of technology, from the dawn of in-home electricity to energy specifications for chip manufacturers to electric power in [...]
Continue reading …Flash floods may cause intense property destruction and loss of life, but they are limited in scope and duration. Regional floods may affect much of the Front Range and are caused by massive weather events that typically last for days, leaving widespread damage that requires many years of recovery. Such floods are rare. There have [...]
Continue reading …Editor’s note: Last week, CSBJ writer John Hazlehurst began a three-part series on the history of flooding in the region and the ominous outlook after the Waldo Canyon fire. Part 1 focused on the historic 1935 flood, which killed 18, and Part 2 this week looks at the rising danger of flash floods even worse [...]
Continue reading …Nonprofits Nancy Wilson, the Front Range regional director for Mile High Youth Corps in Colorado Springs, has joined the board of directors of the Colorado Youth Corps Association. Wilson has a bachelor of science degree in nonprofit management from Regis University and has 25 years of nonprofit and youth development experience. Banking and finance Stephen [...]
Continue reading …Summit Wealth Group advisers earn designation Ross Haycock and Nathan Archuleta, advisers with Summit Wealth Group in Colorado Springs, have been awarded the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) designation from the Center for Fiduciary Studies. The designation signifies specialized knowledge of fiduciary responsibility and the ability to implement policies and procedures that meet a defined standard [...]
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