TUESDAY ❖ MAY 4, 2010
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CRAIG DAILY PRESS S E RV I N G C R A I G A N D M O F FAT C O U N T Y
VOL. 109, NO. 88
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‘A long time coming’ CNCC breaks ground on new facilities
About 330 area residents screened at Saturday’s 9News Health Fair
BY NICOLE INGLIS DAILY PRESS WRITER
For almost two decades, Colorado Northwestern Community College officials, board members, teachers and students waited. They waited with patience, and persisted on the state and community levels to meet an important need in Craig. On a windy Monday afternoon, CNCC, city, county and state officials turned out to celebrate a realized dream. Officials broke ground on two new CNCC campus buildings on a 38-acre parcel off Moffat County Road 7 west of Craig. Aurora-based contractor Adolfson & Peterson Construction will erect a 70,000-square-foot academic building and an 18,000-squarefoot career/technical building on the site in coming months. Gene Bilodeau, CNCC vice president of administration, said it was a “thrill” to see eight gold shovels hit the dirt where the new campus is scheduled to open in the fall of 2011. “It’s a really exciting feeling,” he said. “We’ve heard about it, we’ve talked about it and now we’re finally going to get to see it happen.” Just before the ceremony, Craig Mayor Don Jones expressed his gratitude for the work the State Board for Community Colleges and CNCC put in to moving the project forward. “This groundbreaking is a great step for the city of Craig,” he said. “It’s a great day and it’s been a long time coming.” Bilodeau said the city and Moffat County have been staunch supporters of the proj-
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Care at the fair BY BRIAN SMITH DAILY PRESS WRITER
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JOHN BOYD, Colorado Northwestern Community College president, left, and Gene Bilodeau, CNCC vice president of administration, speak before a groundbreaking at the college’s new campus site Monday afternoon. The new campus, including an academic building, a career/technical building and a residence hall, is slated to open in the fall of 2011.
ect throughout the process of acquiring funding and land. Without community support, he said, there might have been nothing to celebrate this spring. “The primary reason we
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received the big money from the state was because we could leverage that locally with the mill levy and with the major gift campaign,” Bilodeau said. “Things don’t happen in Craig
without the support of the community.” Nicole Inglis can be reached at 875-1793 or ninglis@craigdailypress.com.
SEATS BY THE BAND: The Moffat County High School band is scheduled to perform a concert at 8 p.m. today in the high school auditorium, 900 Finley Lane. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call MCHS at 824-7036.
Josh Garfein’s hands worked diligently around Dan Martin’s collar. Garfein, 28, a first-year medical student at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, carefully examined and felt Martin’s skin, checking for anything abnormal. “Do you work a lot out in the sun?” Garfein asked. Martin, 68, a Lay buffalo rancher, chuckled slightly and admitted he enjoys working on his ranch without a shirt. “I just like the sun,” Martin said. “They say it’s bad for you, but they say drinking too much pop is bad for you, too.” Martin was one of about 330 people who attended the 9News Health Fair on Saturday morning at Sunset Elementary School in Craig. Kristi Shepherd, health fair site coordinator, said attendance was less than average for the annual event, which has been in Craig for about 33 years. At the fair, residents were able to receive a number of preventative health care checkups ranging from personal and mental health to nutrition and basic screenings, such as blood chemistry and count, vision, skin, pulse, blood pressure, prostate, colon and breast cancer. A senior blood draw, which was also part of the health fair and was hosted Thursday at Sunset Meadows II, tested 170 residents, which was slightly See HEALTH on page 7 INSIDE
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