Tag: senior
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Colorado Peaches, the oldest softball team in the country, celebrates 35th anniversary
Players for the Colorado Peaches, the country’s oldest softball team, are sweet, tart and still swinging — at a ripe old age. The group of 60 seniors aged 60 to 92 celebrated the team’s 35th anniversary with a doubleheader Tuesday at the Addenbrooke Park Ballfield in Lakewood, going head-to-head in subteams called the Schnapps, the…
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Colorado Springs teen wants to make healthy food more accessible to lower-income families
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado Springs teen has taken on a project to try to make healthy food more accessible to Coloradans. Jordan Hamilton, a senior at Odyssey Early College and Career Options, will plead her case in Denver this weekend at the state’s annual Family, Career and…
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Colorado Springs teen wants to make healthy food more accessible to lower-income families
A Colorado Springs teen has taken on a project to try to make healthy food more accessible to Coloradans. Jordan Hamilton, a senior at Odyssey Early College and Career Options, will plead her case in Denver this weekend at the state’s annual Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) conference. The conference, designed to…
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LIFE | One Colorado family’s passion for helping seniors find ‘forever homes’
Donna, Rob, and Taylor Walker took their passion for helping others to a new level in 2020. After 15 years working in long-term care, Donna and Rob decided to create their own host home in Calhan, Colo., where their residents—or as Donna calls them, family— have found their ‘forever home.’ (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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NEWS | Seniors at Aurora long-term care facility receive COVID-19 vaccine
Residents of the Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons in Aurora, Colorado were among the first seniors in the state to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. (Video by David Mullen)