Rod Slyhoff, the longtime Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce president who spent decades championing Pueblo and its businesses, died Monday at 66 years old. He had a heart condition.
Slyhoff began working for the chamber in 1988 and became its president in 1994 after he’d previously served as vice president of membership and small business development, membership director and account representative.
He was known throughout Pueblo as one of the city s fiercest advocates and greatest boosters and oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion for the chamber. As its head, chamber membership grew from 800 to more than 1,300.
In October, Slyhoff and the chamber reached an agreement that would have seen him continue as its leader through 2024, at which point he said he was “very happy to continue to serve Pueblo and our business community.”
Pueblo County gives more scholarship money than ever before, pulling funds from marijuana tax
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and last updated 2021-02-02 19:56:08-05
PUEBLO â Pueblo County is able to provide more scholarship funds than ever before.
$1.95 million are going to help students afford college education this springs, as a result of pulling from excise tax of marijuana sales.
These scholarship funds would usually only go to the Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation and allow them to provide students with money. This time around, the county accepted applications for more distributors.
âWe felt that if we opened it up for entities to apply, we were going to have fresh ideas, a lot of innovation and those dollars would be competed for and weâd have some really good places to award, said Pueblo County Commissioner Garrison Ortiz.
Thanks to state taxes, Pueblo County was able to distribute $1.95 million in scholarship funds drawn from excise taxes on marijuana sales.
The funds, titled the Pueblo County Scholarships, were distributed to Colorado State University Pueblo, Pueblo Community College, Pueblo African American Concern Organization, the Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation and the Southern Colorado Press Club.
The funds were distributed as a one-time out-of-cycle award allocation that was deemed necessary to aid in balancing the marijuana excise tax scholarship program account.
The funds are to be distributed to students for the 2021 spring semester and were divided among the institutions based on the applications sent in. The size of an institution as well as academics were weighed in the applications.