As executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters, April Speake sees firsthand the difference a person can make in a child’s life. The group’s goal is to help children reach their full potential through one-to-one volunteer relationships. During 2008, Big Brothers Big Sisters in Colorado Springs supported 515 of those relationships. Speake took time recently [...]
Continue reading …During 2001, Bill Guman served as mayor of Colorado Springs — for about 10 days. He was the senior member on the City Council at the time. Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace was traveling outside the country and Vice Mayor Leon Young was in the hospital. So Guman was tapped to lead the city. But politics [...]
Continue reading …Few individuals can bring history to life, but Richard Marold has mastered the art of historic portrayals, designed to educate as well as entertain. While others contemplate retirement, he keeps a busy booking schedule, appearing as gold mining magnate Winfield Scott Stratton or as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He has been asked to consider adding [...]
Continue reading …While in high school, Megan Harmon helped during calving season on a ranch — and was convinced she’d be a large-animal veterinarian. But a few science classes during college persuaded her otherwise, and she switched majors. After writing computer code for an information technology consulting firm for several years, she joined the Garden of the [...]
Continue reading …Carm Moceri is a newcomer to Colorado Springs, but is no stranger to health care. He worked in various hospital positions in Michigan and Minnesota before moving to Colorado earlier this year to become Memorial Health System’s chief strategy officer. Moceri recently took time to tell CSBJ about himself and his organization. Organization: Memorial Health [...]
Continue reading …Justin Koback has been wrestling with the idea of expanding his printing and copying business for more than a year. Since business at American Printing and Copying, on the city’s south side near Academy Boulevard and Astrozon Way, has performed well during the 21-month national recession, Koback thought about opening a second location. Then another [...]
Continue reading …Lee Milner calls himself a geographic real estate broker because he has a master’s degree in geography. Geography, he reasons, is the study of people in the environment, and real estate sales, especially on the buying side, involves finding the right environment for people to live in. He also has been involved with trails and [...]
Continue reading …During high school, while playing football and baseball, being a banker was the furthest thing from his mind. Callen Borgias thought bankers were stuffy and uptight — much like those depicted in Mary Poppins. During college, he competed as an oarsman/stroke, and then worked as a geologist in Denver — “until the oil and gas [...]
Continue reading …Weldon Long knows firsthand that Maui is nicer than prison. After 13 years separated from society by concrete walls and razor wire, he emerged from prison during 2003 a transformed man. Breaking a 20-year cycle of prison, poverty and addiction, he has since built a multi-million dollar business — Wright Indoor Total Comfort — which [...]
Continue reading …As a child, Judy Blotz often accompanied her mom to the bank — where the numbers and money fascinated her. Blotz “always wanted to be a banker.” And she is. But along the way, she toured with a national choir in high school and traveled to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Her first job [...]
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