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Sign language has become a bit of a competitive strategy on the court for the Glenwood Springs High School girls basketball team in recent years.
One of Lady Demons’ key players, senior co-captain Graci Dietrich, has severe hearing loss and relies on hand signs and lip-reading, rather than verbal communication, between her teammates and coaches.
Since her days attending and playing basketball at Glenwood Springs Middle School, Dietrich has also had her personal interpreter, Kyle Larson, in the classroom and on the sidelines with her making sure she understands those she interacts with on a daily basis.
Grand Junction High School placed fourth and sixth in the team standings of the Western Slope Regional Mock Trial Tournament over the weekend. The tournament, which was an online virtual
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Being a first-generation college student can be daunting, especially navigating the application process when your parents aren’t totally familiar with it either, Ana Vasquez said.
“It is definitely really scary just the thought of going to college since you do feel kind of lost. But I would say that the PreCollegiate program has helped not just me but guide my parents because they’re just as lost as I am,” Vasquez said.
Roaring Fork PreCollegiate is in its 13th year of offering mentorship to local students in the valley who will be the first in their family to attend college. Vasquez is a senior at Roaring Fork High School and has been a part of PreCollegiate since before high school. She said not only does the program provide valuable information to other students like her and their families, but a place of belonging and the sense of not being alone in her situation.
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Anna Cole and her husband, Grand River Hospital physician Dr. Dustin Cole, were pretty confident her education career and his medical career wouldn’t cross paths.
Until last March when the pandemic came along.
“Now, we’re both on a standing meeting every Thursday with Garfield County providers and the schools,” Anna Cole mused. “He’s at the hospital, and I’m at home, and the kids are getting ready for school, and they make funny faces when they see dad on the screen … it’s kind of hilarious at times.”
Anna had just stepped into the interim role as executive director of the Roaring Fork Family Services and Resource Center, a nonprofit arm of Roaring Fork School District, when schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.