The Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce has recognized six businesses for opening or expanding operations and in the process investing in the community and creating jobs. Buffalo Wild Wings invested $3.2 million and created 80 jobs in opening a restaurant. Sprouts was honored for creating 107 jobs. Grand Events invested $300,000 and created five […]
Family Health West has launched a service offering transportation for patients with appointments at its outpatient procedure center in Fruita. “In order to better serve our community, we are extending the service within a 100-mile radius. That means that our patients in Rangely, Montrose and Rifle can benefit and get the care they need,” said […]
Hilltop Community Resources based in Grand Junction has earned the Purple Ribbon Award as the Outstanding Domestic Violence Organization for 2013. The Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence presented Hilltop the award in recognition of the Latimer House program in Mesa County and Tri-County Resources program in Delta, Montrose and Ouray counties. Latimer House and Tri-County […]
Callie Hendrickson offers Crucial Conversations training in Western Colorado through E-Z Consulting in Grand Junction. Hendrickson offers leadership and board member training as well as partnership development and meeting facilitation. She brings to her duties seven years of experience in nonprofit and local government management. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing […]
A Grand Junction marketing and communications agency has earned two awards for its work in an international competition. Cranium 360 received awards for two entries in the print and design categories of the International Academy of the Visual Arts Communicator Awards program. “It is an honor to be recognized for the work we do,” said […]
A couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama effectively declared the war on terror was over. Now, he wasn’t entirely clear about what matrix was used to arrive at that determination. It was not that the enemy had surrendered, signed an armistice, called for a cease fire or just gave up the fight. It appears […]
Perhaps you find that harsh. Well, so are life, love, war and especially business for the vast majority of us. Unless, of course, you are General Motors, Chrysler, certain banks, insurance companies, a campaign donation bundler who happens to have a green energy firm or a favored political group, then life is a subsidy away. […]
There’s a curious, at least to us, juxtaposition between the series of media events announcing large construction projects in the Grand Valley and the characterization that, overall, local construction activity remains slow. By one count, nearly a dozen projects are expected to soon begin in the Grand Valley — from the construction of a small […]
There are four simple options to consider when looking to strategically grow your business. Note the word strategic: This is not about just working harder or making more things in hopes of growing your business, it’s about developing a plan that makes sense for how to grow your business for the long term. Before we […]
Rancher Ralph was married to Matilda and they had a son named Ralphie Jr. They bought an insurance policy insuring Ralph’s life and naming Matilda as beneficiary. It’s a very common and, unless one has a trust in place, appropriate thing to do. Regardless of whether you have had a will or a living trust […]