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Glenwood Springs Elementary School is the home to a community art-project cross over thanks to Music teacher Emma Leake. Since the school still has its students separated by cohort, Leake said she was looking to come up with an art project with the GSES artistry fellow, Delaney Meyers, that would unify everyone.
“We wanted it to be centered around some kind of idea where the kids were all coming together. Even though the kids were making their own individual feather, when it went into the wings it would have a cohesive concept,” Meyers said.
Leake came up with the idea after a trip to downtown Glenwood where the chamber has multiple sets of wings on display for it’s “Find Your Wings” campaign. The “Find Your Wings” campaign is a joint project of the Downtown Development Authority, City of Glenwood Springs and Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association, and the idea came from local business owner Chrissy Lee-Maness of Homsted. Angie An
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A recent encounter with one of the many area teenagers YouthZone has taken under its wing was affirmation for Lori Mueller that, 44 years strong, the youth services organization she has led for the past nine years has an impact.
“I was in the Rifle office just before Christmas, and there was a young man in the corner on his laptop doing his homework,” Mueller recalled. “He said, ‘this is the best place I can go, because I know I can get help if I need it. And, you have internet.’”
It was one of those “ah-ha” moments that come every so often working with youth, she said.
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