The Community Impact Council’s annual breakfast event that honors Mesa County nonprofits – and businesses and individuals who support them – will take place March 4 from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Colorado Mesa University’s ballroom. The Community Impact Council is a coalition of 80-plus local nonprofits and their supporters. Members of the public are […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Funded in part by grants, the City of Grand Junction acquired the 21.78-acre “Salt Flats” property. In a news release from the city, the acquisition is called a “significant step in addressing the community’s critical need for affordable housing.” The city received a Proposition 123 grant from the Colorado Housing […]
Tim Harty, The Business Times Jenny Smith was a middle-school girl in Fruita with an odd career goal: Work in a home-loan office. Then she went to college, graduated and ended up a long ways away from that middle-school dream. Like in Guatemala far away and working in an orphanage. Then, girl met boy. They […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times A new Bruin Waste Management recycling-collection facility received approval for a special-use permit to operate in a former Halliburton office and warehouse building on D Road. The 58,275-square-foot building, which once symbolized the rise, then fall of oil and gas on the Western Slope after Halliburton laid off 178 employees […]
“Blissfully Satisfied” by Erin Wright was voted the winner by the public to represent the 34th Annual Colorado Mountain Winefest presented by Fisher’s Liquor Barn. Second place went to “Colorado Dancin’” by Wendy Videlock, and “Harvest” by Marilyn Wilcox placed third. Wright said she was thrilled when she found out she was one of the […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times It wasn’t just a rarity when Randy Whetzell was sworn in Jan. 24 as the chairman of the board of the Colorado Association of Home Builders’ executive committee. Apparently it was a first. The CAHB couldn’t confirm it, but its CEO, Ted Leighty, believes Whetzell is the first Home Builders […]
Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times The upcoming 2025 Home Improvement and Remodeling Expo is a showcase of innovations. It’s also a crucial fundraiser and springboard for the Home Builders Association of Western Colorado, which represents more than 150 home and building companies that employ thousands of local workers on the Western Slope. The expo, which […]
SEE THE STORE, OR GET IN TOUCH Visit Ambassador Blind N’ Shutter at 1048 Independent Ave., Unit A-111. For more information go online to ambassadorblindsgj.com or ambassadorblindnshutter.com, or call 970-523-4566. SMART DECISIONS David and Patty Deters started Ambassador Blind N’ Shutter from their home in 2004, and the business has grown steadily since then in […]
BY TIM HARTY When David and Patty Deters decided to finally move their business out of their Grand Junction home and into an actual store, they knew they needed to do it. The owners of Ambassador Blind N’ Shutter Inc. got by for about 18 years at home, but they couldn’t store all of their […]
Individuals and families interested in applying for the chance to own a Habitat for Humanity of Mesa County home can begin the application process. Applicants must be Mesa County residents within 30 to 80 percent of the area median income. They must demonstrate need for housing and the ability to repay an affordable mortgage, and […]