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Jahna Eichel | jahna.eichel@citylifestyle.com Jason Eichel | jason.eichel@citylifestyle.com EDITOR IAL COOR DINATOR

In this season of giving thanks, we often find ourselves reflecting on the many blessings in our lives. The true spirit of Thanksgiving encourages the conscious expression of gratitude. Its focus is spending time with those that you love and encourages giving back in a meaningful way. While ambition, competition and slaying goals can be very healthy, forgetting to place importance on being present, enjoying the ride and appreciating those around us that have helped us along in our journey, can leave us missing out on what truly matters. We’ll never be content if we look outside ourselves and at our possessions or titles to determine if we are fulfilled. True contentment comes from within and from fulfilling who we were made to be.

Our November issue is dedicated to stories of gathering, gratefulness and giving back to our community. We are so thankful for the residents and businesses in our community who support so many wonderful organizations and help make our city the vibrant community that it is. We are especially thankful for our advertising partners who help bring this magazine to your doorsteps each month. They are part of our vision and purpose of bringing inspiring stories and the good news of the community directly to you. This holiday season as we prepare to gather with our loved ones, and in the true spirit of thanksgiving, let’s set time aside to consider what truly makes life meaningful and stop to reflect on those blessings.

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Truly legendary Thanksgiving spreads don’t simply come together the moment company arrives. Days of meticulous planning precede hours of hard work, with multitasking and attention to detail among the biggest keys to Turkey Day success. But are you utilizing that same intentional approach as you ready for your retirement years? Feast your eyes on five tips for achieving mouthwatering results both at your holiday gatherings and in retirement:

1. JOT DOWN A SHOPPING LIST. No one wants to realize they forgot to purchase pumpkin puree at 9 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving.

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3. FOLLOW THE RECIPE. Budgeting is crucial in both recipes and retirement plans. Just as adding too much flour can ruin a baked dish, failing to account for your biggest expenditures in retirement can sour the lifestyle you’ll live.

4. STAY AWAKE. When hosting guests, it’s bad form to fall into a tryptophan-fueled food coma. Retiring isn’t a free pass to sleep on your future, either. Be alert to any developments that could knock your plans off course.

5. BE THANKFUL. Thanksgiving and retirement planning are both all about perspective. As you build excitement for where you’re going, don’t forget to be grateful for everywhere you’ve already been.

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1-7: SNAPP is a non-profit that provides empowerment for teens through resources, mentorship, teen-driven curriculum, group activities, and peer-to-peer programs designed to create community, build relationships, and strengthen the sense of self needed to navigate today’s culture and process their lives. They hosted their annual fundraising gala on September 22nd with 150 guests in attendance and raising approximately $50,000 in support of their teen programs. The event featured silent and live auctions and music by DJ Lil’ Coop.

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8-14: Windsor’s Oktoberfest was hosted Saturday, September 24th to honor Windsor’s German heritage. The Windsor Chamber of Commerce brought businesses of all kinds together in celebration of harvest and community. The festivities included face-painting, bratwursts, vendors, NoCo race series, and of course beer!

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15-21: Alicia Lewis and Keri Livingston of Layman Lewis Financial Group and local realtor Christine Torres “Went over the edge” at the HNS Rope for Hope fundraiser held September 24th at The Foundry!

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22-28: Hope Lives! hosted their annual Golf Tournament fundraiser at Highland Meadows golf course. Hope Lives! adds quality of life to breast cancer patients by offering integrative support services and products that help manage the physical, emotional, social & financial side effects of breast cancer treatment.

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29-31: Kinston Centerra hosted a kickoff celebration showcasing 8 model homes from three different builders contracted for the new development. The event was held at The Hub, the centrally located community center built as a gathering place for the new neighborhood.

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HIGHLIGHTING SIX LOCAL BUSINESSES WORKING TO BETTER OUR COMMUNITY ARTICLE BY TYLER WESTON

As a local business, we know that it’s incredibly important to invest in the community around you. None of us exist on an island and what’s good for the community as a whole is ultimately good for our businesses as well. That’s why we choose to invest significant time and resources into causes that we believe in and are passionate about furthering. That’s enough about us though. As a part of our November ‘Thankful’ editorial, we wanted to take some time to shine a light on some incredible local businesses that we see working hard to make a difference and act as a positive force in our communities every day. So here are a few who are making sure that impact is a part of their business.

When the father-daughter team of Chuck Layman Jr. and Alicia Lewis first founded their business, community outreach was already deeply ingrained in their mindset. Layman even used to operate a small food bank serving part of Denver’s homeless population and Lewis previously sat on the board of the House of Neighborly Service. Now, they utilize their resources and network to make the best impact they possibly can. In addition to hosting a regular radio show that dishes out financial advice for miles, the team regularly directs its efforts to support organizations like Realities for Children, House of Neighborly Service, and the Larimer County Food Bank.

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“For this family business, rooted in community and philanthropy, there is surely more to come. ”

While they do fundraise, gather resources for food and clothing drives, and volunteer their own time, one of their newest initiatives is to connect their clients with those same volunteer opportunities they participate in. While many of their clients express a desire to volunteer, the team noticed they didn’t always do so, often not knowing where to begin.

“We feel like we’re connectors,” Keri Livingston, the group's Director of Marketing and Events told us, “connecting our clients with those volunteer opportunities.”

Building those connections between a willing volunteer workforce and the places that need exactly that is just the latest way this team is working to create a stronger community. For this family business, rooted in community and philanthropy, there is surely more to come.

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Maxline Brewing “Craft, Community, and Culture.” When Maxline Brewing first opened its doors, a primary focus of the company was to create a gathering place for their community and to be helpful in that community in whatever way they could. Initially, that meant employees regularly donating their time to nonprofits and community causes. As their business grew, it began to make more sense to bring those causes to the community that had developed at the taproom, lending their space and resources more directly to those causes.

Now, Maxline plays host to so many fundraisers it can be hard to keep track of them all. Puppy Yoga with OmKai to benefit Bounce Animal Rescue, Ales & Scales for the Colorado Herpetological Society, concerts like Friends of Bluegrass that benefit the Alliance for Suicide Prevention of Larimer County and Stuff the Truck for Homeward Alliance, Chili Cook Off’s benefitting the Food Bank of Larimer County and the American Cancer Society, we’d need another magazine to go as in-depth as we’d like to.

“That’s what we wanted,” General Manager Casey Rentz says of their grassroots approach to community fundraising, "to promote those smaller nonprofits, and the big ones obviously, but help the smaller ones grow and get more awareness for who they are.”

It doesn’t stop there, of course. Since they began canning their beers for sale outside the taproom Maxline has also donated a portion of every package sold to nonprofit organizations. You can even see a record of who’s received their quarterly donations on their website at maxlinebrewing.com

“Now, Maxline plays host to so many fundraisers it can be hard to keep track of them all. ”

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For the team at Sprague Roofing, partnering with nonprofit organizations just makes sense. When Shelia Kolacz joined the team as the Office Manager for the company’s Fort Collins office, one of her first tasks was to organize community outreach. Going around to each employee and asking their favorite non-profits was a simple task that opened the door wide. Sponsoring Realities for Children, The Larimer County Food Bank, Hope Lives!, Living Her Legacy, running food drives and chili cookoffs, the list is already long and constantly growing.

The bar is high for this team as well. Last year’s Thanksgiving food drive raised a literal ton of food.

That’s over 2,200 pounds of food for families in need, and this year combining their Veteran’s Day Chili Cook-Off at Maxline Brewing and tabling efforts at King Soopers, they hope to at least match that contribution and increase their cash contribution totals.

“It’s just important to us to care about our community,” Kolacz says of their efforts. “When we come to work we know we are doing more than just replacing someone’s roof, we’re creating awareness for important nonprofits in our area.”

Not to say they don’t have a good time as well.

Participating in golf tournaments to benefit Hope Lives! and Living Her Legacy might mean a lot of time spent organizing and planning, but it also means taking a day off to enjoy the greens and grow their community in support of the causes they are passionate about. What more could anyone ask for in a job?

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Candlelight Dinner Playhouse How does a dinner theater give back exactly? That’s easy, you host a benefit concert! Of course, the details are a little bit more complicated than that, you’ve got to find the right performers, pick an appropriate cause, staff the venue, feed the crowds you draw in for a good cause…

Of course, that’s all in a day's work for the team at The Candlelight and they don’t seem to mind. After all, when a community has given so much to your business, it’s important to give back. As the Candlelight team enters their 15th season of shows, a major milestone in the world of theater, giving back is very much on their minds.

Over the past five years their consistent efforts have raised more than $45,000 for the Denver Actors Fund, whose tagline is, “For when you break a leg.” The fund helps Colorado performers who are unable to work due to injury or illness, keeping their heads above water while they’re out of commission. Most recently Candlelight hosted Tony Nominated Broadway star Beth Malone for a fundraising concert. Jalyn Webb, Candlelight’s Director of Sales and Marketing, is one of the fund's first ambassadors.

“I wish that we talked about this more,” Webb told us of her drive to help others.

“We need to be a society that gives.”

There’s more of course, much more than we have space for in this article.

Supporting Realities for Children through the holidays, responding to the crisis in Ukraine by partnering with local performers to raise funds for the USO, and sharing their theater with children's productions to give them the opportunity to perform on the big stage, just to mention a few places of impact.

The Honey Taps performing at The Candlelight's USO Benefit.

“I wish that we talked about this more. We need to be a society that gives.”

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A mattress recipient who came to visit Redmond in her store

Most of the businesses on this list find their way to impact the community through well-established nonprofits. Raising funds, hosting events, that sort of thing. All of that is excellent, of course, but every now and then you find someone who likes to work a little bit more directly than that. You might call it ‘grassroots.’

Lori Redmond, owner of BoxDrop Fort Collins, looks at it a bit more straightforwardly than that. “When I hear the need I try to fill that need.”

When Redmond first opened her mattress store, it wasn’t because she was particularly passionate about sleep or mattress components, it just made sense. She found an opportunity to support herself as a business owner and ran with it. Now, well established in the area, she gives back similarly - in a way that just makes sense.

She’s done that by building a network in which she is able to help. Churches, the Veterans Association, Loveland Housing Authority, sober living homes, you name it. When there is a need, she’ll fill it. That could be a family fleeing domestic violence in the middle of the night, a veteran fallen on hard times, a person fighting their addiction and simply in need of somewhere to rest their head, Redmond receives a call and out goes a mattress, or several, to ensure whoever needs that help can sleep soundly.

“I think we’re called to give to those who need a hand,” Redmond says, “It’s just the right thing to do, I think every business should give back to the community that supports them in some way.”

“I think we’re called to give to those who need a hand,” — Lori Redmond

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When Shawn Storeby, a nine-year Marine Corps veteran, and his wife Lauren decided to open their restaurant, they knew that other local businesses and community outreach would be a major part of their plan. Even more, they knew they wanted to work to support the local veteran community. Perhaps their largest event is the annual Community on Tap 5k they host alongside Odell Brewing, this year on November 12th. While this will be their fifth installment of the event, it will be the first effort benefiting Honor Street, the newly minted 501c3 founded by Shawn Storeby.

“It has always been Shawn's goal to create and operate his own nonprofit,” Lauren Storeby says of their latest move in working to support veterans in the community.

In order to address a gap in locally available support for veterans, Honor Street aims to help local veterans with basic and fundamental daily life needs to show up as their best selves and continue to thrive in their lives on the road to success.

Even through the monumental task of founding a nonprofit, the Storebys have continued to support the community in every way they can: fundraising for schools, the Larimer County Food Bank, healthcare worker support through the pandemic, breast cancer prevention and then some.

“Anything that we feel has an impact in our community, that’s where we’ll link arms.”

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ARTICLE BY GRAHAM MACKEY PHOTOGRAPHY BY GRAHAM MACKEY & TYLER WESTON

Scu lpt i ng Ou r C om mu n it y Loveland's Artistic Heritage

The artistic roots of Loveland run deep. An art colony settled here in the 1960s building up around the bronze industry. When you think of bronze, sculptures come to mind, right? Well, you’d be right as that was the focus of the art scene in Loveland until about 20 years ago, according to Susan Ison, Loveland’s Cultural Service Director. Now all types of media are represented in the art community of this creative Northern Colorado city.

With arms stretched wide, artists from all over come here to live and work thanks to an organization called Artspace. Ison says that “they focus on providing affordable live/work space for artists around the country.” Loveland was the first place in Colorado where Artspace settled. This is no surprise, considering the city’s long creative history. These things have turned Loveland into a mecca for not only artists mastering their crafts but for anyone who has an interest in the arts.

Connoisseurs of the arts can thank the hard-working people at the Art in Public Places Program (APPP), which literally holds the city together by having artists create pieces that are part of new construction projects. From railings, flooring, and murals the creatives have made their home here in Loveland. The APPP has been around since 1985 and there is no sign of stopping. Ison says that the program will continue creating art and buildings hand in hand - one percent of any municipal capital program of $50,000 or more is dedicated to the arts. Sometimes this symbiotic relationship does more than provide an interesting piece. Recently the railings that were part of the addition to the Rialto Theater were designed by an artist, “and it turned out fabricating those was actually cheaper than what the contractor had planned,” says Ison. From the Benson and Chapungu Sculpture Parks (the latter coming all the way from Zimbabwe) to the various art installations and decorated transformer boxes around the city, these provide beautiful walking spaces and experiences for all who live in or are visiting Loveland.

Loveland is home to many arts events but those don’t just happen by themselves, says the Show Director of the Governor’s Art Show, Ruth Scott, “We couldn’t run our art shows or organizations without our volunteers.” These non-profit shows give CONTINUED >

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C ol laborat ion bet we en a r t ist s is the nor m here . It is a lso why a r tist s h ave jou r neye d to Nor ther n C olorado - be c au se the ide a of sh a r i ng a r t ist ic k nowle dge is not a s c om mon elsewhere .

back to the community by donating the entirety of their proceeds to provide art scholarships and assist unhoused youth in Larimer County. The artists that work and live in Loveland feel this sense of camaraderie as well. Scott says that collaboration between artists is the norm here. It is also why artists have journeyed to Northern Colorado - because the idea of sharing artistic knowledge is not as common elsewhere, “I say that’s the sign of a good artist, that they’re willing to share their information.”

The artists wouldn’t get too far without the support of the local businesses which provide the raw materials that are transformed into beautiful artworks, all part of the art economy that thrives in Loveland. Scott mentioned the base, mold, and patina makers (don’t worry I had to look up that last one too). It’s the polish that gives sculptures that greenish look and is usually used on works of bronze, copper, or other similar metals. Usually, it takes a long time to achieve that look due to a bunch of sciency stuff but we can save that for another time.

It is safe to say that the city of Loveland is thankful for the artists that have built their community over the years - sometimes literally - and for what the arts can continue to bring to the proverbial canvas with their support for arts education and unhoused youth. The artists have a network of dedicated volunteers to thank for assisting in that mission.

It seems the future for the arts is as bright as the sun reflecting off of the wide variety of works in the Benson Sculpture Garden. So if you’re looking for something to do during this lovely Colorado autumn, then just take a step out your front door as the arts are all around.

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