Phil Castle, The Business Times Christopher Meinzen applied to family medicine residency programs across the country, but was accepted to what he says was his first choice — the program offered at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction. Three years later, Meinzen has started the next phase of his career at St. Mary’s as […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times An avid mountain biker, Dewet Marais can tell the difference in the types of lubricants used on the chain of his bike — not only in the way his bike performs, but also the sound it makes. A wet lubricant that combines with dirt or sand to form a sort […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Kennan Vance understands why his patients sometimes grow discouraged when their progress slows. Vance feels their pain because he’s endured pain of his own following a horrific bicycle accident, a succession of surgeries and more than a year of rehabilitation. While Vance reassures his patients they’ll eventually feel better, he […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Diane Schwenke considers a lot of factors in tracking business conditions in the Grand Valley, among them labor estimates, tax collections and housing starts. But Schwenke also considers the anecdotal information she gathers from the business owners and managers with which she talks nearly every day and what she hears […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Nick Silzell was frustrated — nearly to the point of giving up on his ambitions to create a new product and launch a business, not to mention continue participating in an instructional program for young entrepreneurs. The 12-year-old Grand Junction boy says he learned a lesson in the process about […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Within minutes of ceremonially opening F-Works, Jon Maraschin was already talking to someone about signing up for dedicated desk space in the co-working facility in Fruita. It’s a response that reflects what’s expected will be strong demand to use the space in the Fruita Civic Center. “Fruita needs a place […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Andy Kelley initially aspired to become a television repairman. But in his first job out of college, he went to work instead in the energy services industry. It was a path that led Kelley to a career as a serial entrepreneur. He bought the first company for which he worked. […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Nathan Perry takes into account a lot of information in putting together his quarterly economic newsletters — everything from drilling permits to labor estimates to real estate sales to tax collections. In connecting all those data points, an encouraging picture emerges, Perry says. “I think as a whole, the news […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Elizabeth Fogarty views her new role as not only involving efforts to market the Grand Valley as an attractive destination, but also managing that destination in a way that promotes quality of life — in other words, making sure it’s a nice place to visit and you’d want to live […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Angela Padalecki remembers well a trip to Grand Junction and the exhilaration she felt about a new phase in her life and all the possibilities the future held. She recently returned under far different circumstances, but says she felt the same way. “It was the same sense of excitement.” Padalecki […]