Family Health West has officially unveiled a newly enhanced radiology wing at its Fruita hospital. The event included a ribbon-cutting ceremony and presentations on women’s health care services offered by Family Health West, including three-dimensional mammography. “Our new radiology wing provides the best of technology, including 3D mammography, wide-bore MRI and digital X-ray,” said Mark […]
An annual bicycle ride is expected to generate more than $1 million for the Grand Valley economy when the event returns in October. The Icon Lasik Tour of the Moon generated an estimated $950,000 in local economic benefits in 2013, and that estimate is projected to top $1 million in 2014. At $890,000, tourism revenue […]
The application deadline for the Young Entrepreneurs Academy has been extended to July 31. The program, open to students between the ages of 11 and 18, takes participants through the process of starting a business or social movement. “With a shorter summer, we are hearing that families have been trying to pack in as much […]
A Western Colorado-based bank has earned more recognition for its environmental practices. Alpine Bank was honored as one of Colorado’s Top 50 Greenest Companies in a listing compiled for ColoradoBiz magazine. The companies were honored at the inaugural Green Colorado Awards presentation in Denver. “The event, participants and 50 designated organizations selected are the green […]
The great joy of publishing a business journal is telling success stories about businesses, in particular the entrepreneurs who find innovative ways to provide better services and products than their competitors. So it was especially enjoyable to tell the story of Hoptocopter Films, the Grand Junction company that has developed a reputation for storytelling in […]
A long-awaited economic roundtable between the governor of Colorado and Western Slope business interests afforded for two hours an amenable home on the range for the more than 50 people gathered there. Seldom was heard a discouraging word. As it turned out, the skies over Glenwood Springs were not cloudy all day. The question now, […]
In a fast-paced world in which everyone bustles from one task to the next, it’s easy for people to get stuck in the routine of day-to-day work. Maintaining workplace morale remains vital, though, to running a successful business. One way to keep employee spirits high is to arrange social gatherings outside of the office that […]
A monthly measure of optimism among small business owners has dropped on less upbeat expectations for the economy, sales and earnings. The National Federation of Independent Business reported that its Small Business Optimism Index fell 1.6 points to 95 in June. The decline snapped a three-month string of increases that had pushed the index to […]
A Grand Junction-based organization that provides hospice and palliative care services in a six-county area of Western Colorado earned perfect marks during a recent onsite survey. “We are very excited to have received notice that no deficiencies were cited for our survey,” said Terri Walter, chief administrative officer and senior vice president of HopeWest. “It […]
The pace of job growth continues to accelerate in the United States, in turn pulling down the jobless rate to its lowest level in nearly six years. According to the latest Department of Labor estimates, U.S. payrolls increased 288,000 in June. The unemployment rate slipped two-tenths of a point to 6.1 percent, the lowest level […]