Member Events:

Arapahoe Community College Annual Faculty Art Exhibit - August 31st - October 1st
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Citizen Academy - September 2nd - 30th
Labor Day Special at Speed Raceway! - September 4th - 6th
Audubon Society of Greater Denver Night at the Rockies - September 8th
Fitness Fair and Expo hosted by MakeItMe.Net - September 9th
"Chalk It Up to Education" Sidewalk Art Show at Arapahoe Community College - September 11th
Decisions, Decisions: Life, Family & Safety Planning for Senior Adults - September 23rd
Fall Plant and Blub Sale at Denver Botanic Gardens - September 25th & Fete Des Fleurs Gala - Sept 27th
Effective Presentation Skills Course Makes You Professional, Confident, Believable - Sept 30th, Oct 1st
Town Hall Arts Center 2010-2011 Season - September 2010 thru June 2011

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Become a Sponsor of University of Colorado Denver's STEMApalooza!
Cessna and Bye Energy Join Forces to Build Electric Skyhawk
Arapahoe County Treasurer Wins National Award
Irvin (Gene) Branch Joins Perkins Coie's Denver Office
Town Hall Arts Center Receives Grant for Children's Theater Program
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Arapahoe Community College Faculty Art Exhibition Opens August 31

The Colorado Gallery of the Arts will present an exhibition of work by ACC’s talented art faculty starting August 31.

Trish Sangelo, Gallery Director and a gifted photographer, says “Our faculty show is a great way to show off the skilled artists we have teaching in our Fine Arts Department at ACC. It also helps us promote our classes"

Working in many media, ACC faculty artists participating include: JT Urband, painting; Olga Esquibel, painting; Jan Fordyce, painting; Pam Hake, painting; Susan Elliott, drawing; Jennifer Ghormley, printmaking; Amy Bailey, metals; Joshua Leconey, photography; Robin Furuta and Jim Cooper, ceramics; Trish Sangelo, photography; Kathy Holt, ceramics and paintings; Jim Cannata, photography and Randy Burns, jewelry.

A number of ACC faculty artists have won awards for their work. Robin Furuta won Second Place in the Colorado Clay exhibition in Golden. It was the "functional award" from the Juror Adrian Arleo and Castle Clay. Pam Hake received an award at the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies' Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah. Carla O’Connor was the juror.

Randy Burns received a First Place award for earrings in the professional division in the NAJA annual design competition. NAJA is the local jewelry supply company that started a jewelry design completion four years ago for professional and student metalsmiths. Each year a different piece of jewelry is selected for the competition. This year, the piece of jewelry was earrings.
Mr. Burns says “In the four years of the competition’s history, I have won First Place twice and Second Place once. NAJA asked me to be a judge at next year’s competition so I will not be competing.
The Faculty exhibition will be open from August 31 through October 1. An opening reception will be held Friday, September 3 from 5-7 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, Noon-5 p.m., Tuesday evenings, 5-7 p.m. and Saturday, September 18 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Audubon Society of Greater Denver Night at the Rockies!

Join us for FAMILY FUN NIGHT!
Support the Audubon Society of Greater Denver and root for the Rockies (or if you really must, the “other team” - we welcome all fans).
Enjoy a social night at Coors Field - and maybe even spot a few birds and plenty of home runs.
Bring your family and invite friends, co-workers, and neighbors.

BULBS, PLANTS AND FREE GARDENING ADVICE AT DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS’ FALL PLANT AND BULB SALE

Saturday, Sept. 25 Members-only shopping: 8-9 a.m. Open to public: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

The best bulbs and fall plants for local gardeners will be offered at the Gardens’ Fall Plant and Bulb Sale on Saturday, Sept. 25. The sale will feature more than 10,000 bulbs, unique Grown at the Gardens plants and pansies. You’ll also learn valuable plant information that will send you home feeling like a master gardener!

October is a great time to plant for fall and winter interest. These fall-planted items acclimate in the ground through the winter so they are ready to burst forth often months earlier than spring-planted specimens.

The Gardens’ horticulturists will be on-site to answer questions and provide expert gardening advice. Come learn which plant is best for your fall and winter garden, and how to plant your spring bulbs. Arrive early for the best selection; inventory sells quickly! This event will take place on the upper level of the new parking structure at Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street. Receipts from purchases at the Fall Plant and Bulb Sale include admission to both the Gardens and our new Mordecai Children’s Garden. One receipt is good for one adult admission. Guests can leave their purchases at our Plant Valet while enjoying free admission to the Gardens.

The Presenting Sponsor of the Fall Plant and Bulb Sale is Perry & Co. Real Estate Professionals.

2010 FÊTE DES FLEURS

On August 27 from 6 pm to midnight, Denver Botanic Gardens' members and guests will gather for the Fête des Fleurs. The elegant, black tie dinner-dance is widely considered Denver's premier summer social event. On this evening, the Gardens opens its gates exclusively for Fête des Fleurs guests to enjoy leisurely strolls through the Gardens while sampling cocktails and scrumptious hors d'oeuvres. Dinner will be dining 'al fresco' under a tent, and dancing to the sounds of a live band caps off the evening. Enjoy the beauty of the magnificent Henry Moore sculptures which will be enhanced by lighting as the evening progresses. Be among the first to see inside the new Greenhouse Complex, including the Orangery and Marnie’s Pavilion.

All proceeds from the Fête des Fleurs contribute to the Gardens' Annual Fund. The Annual Fund supports general operations and proceeds are used in the areas of greatest need for horticultural displays, education, outreach, research and conservation programs.

The 2010 Fête des Fleurs committee is planning a beautiful and elegant evening to celebrate the glorious abundance of flowers that grace the Gardens in late summer.

For more information and reservations: http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/fete-des-fleurs

Town Hall Arts Center announces 2010 – 2011 Season

Rent
September 17, 2010 – October 17, 2010
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
1996 Winner of four Tony awards including best musical and Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village while at the same time facing the realities of AIDS, infidelity, homosexuality and drug use.  Rated R

White Christmas
November 12, 2010 – December 26, 2010
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
A beloved and timeless story of a couple of WWII veterans with a successful song-and-dance act, who follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by their former army commander.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
January 7, 2011 – January 30, 2011
Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin
A hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

Chicago
April 1, 2011 – May 1, 2011
Book by Fred Ebb, Music by Bob Fosse, Lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Set in the roaring twenties, Chicago has one show-stopping-song after another.It’s a sensational musical tale of sin, corruption, murder, and all that jazz. Chicago has received countless honors, including six Tony® Awards.

Damn Yankees
May 20, 2011 – June 19, 2011
Words and Music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Based on the novel by Douglass Wallop “The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant”.
Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees.

Ticket Information:
Reserved seating tickets priced $21.00-$36.00 at the Town Hall Arts Center box office, 303-794-2787 ext. 5 or on-line at www.townhallartscenter.com.

ACC Sidewalk Art Show Promises to be More than Kids Play

The Arapahoe Community College Foundation will host a chalk art festival on Saturday, Sept. 11, at the ACC Main Campus, and booth space is available for non-artisan businesses, restaurants and caterers. Called Chalk it up for Education, the event on the ACC West Lawn will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is a fundraiser for the Arapahoe Community College Foundation.

This is the inaugural chalk art festival at ACC and is the first of its kind to incorporate professional and student chalk design in one place. The event will include four Colorado Chalk Artists who have built pieces for places such as La Piazza, the Belmar Italian Festival and the Winter Park Arts Festival, plus at least 25 other artists from around the Denver Metro area and 10 student artists from the College. In addition, there will be an entertainment stage all day, food vendors and fine arts vendors.

Courtney Loehfelm, ACC Foundation executive director, anticipates that this one-day event will bring together more than 4,000 people. “This promises to build into one of the finest events in South Denver,” she said. “We invite you to apply for a booth space at this exciting event. As a reminder, the more diversified and new or unique your merchandise, the more likely you are to have visitors. Think about how you can entice people to stay and play at your booth with a free activity, a drawing for a donated item, or an interactive opportunity at your booth.”

Booth spaces are a single 10 feet x 10 feet for non-food vendors. For food vendors, single booth spaces will be 10 feet x 20 feet (10 feet wide from the street and 20 feet deep). Additional space is available per the instructions on the terms and conditions in the booth application section. The application deadline is Aug. 1, 2010, but spaces will be given out on a first-come first-served basis with the first applications getting some of the best spaces. The number of food vendors will be limited. Applications can be downloaded at the Webpage http://www.chalkituptoeducation.com. For questions regarding booths call Sara at 303. 907.4452.

During the festival, prizes will be awarded in a number of categories including amateur, professional, age group, original design and use of color for the chalk drawings designed at the event. Education will be the main theme for the event. Students and faculty from K-12 and higher education will be encouraged to participate. Booths for sponsors and ACC departments and programs will be designed as interactive educational experiences, such as face painting for art students, nursing simulation man demonstrations and an Alchemy Club magic show.

To read the entire article follow this link.

8/3

UCD STEMApalooza Sponsorship Opportunities Now Available

Don’t miss the opportunity to become a sponsor of University of Colorado Denver STEMApalooza.

Help Colorado educate its next-generation workforce and give the state a greater voice in the national STEM dialogue. More than 10,000 people attended last year’s event, and 15,000 are expected this fall. It’s an excellent venue to:

• connect with other STEM industry representatives
• engage policy-makers in discussion
• present your company or organization to the public
• meet students who’ll be part of tomorrow’s workforce

View the 2010 Sponsorship Levels
Become a Sponsor

8/3

Bye Energy and Cessna Join Forces to Build Electric Skyhawk

Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. company, today announced that it is collaborating with Bye Energy, Inc., an integrator of clean, alternative energy technologies for business and general aviation aircraft, to design and develop an electric propulsion system for a Cessna 172 proof of concept (POC) aircraft.

Cessna’s Chairman, President and CEO Jack J. Pelton said, “As we look at the landscape of alternative fuels for general aviation aircraft, the electric power plant offers significant benefits, but there are significant challenges to get there. We believe Bye Energy has gotten off to a good start in understanding those challenges and how to overcome them.”

George Bye, CEO of Bye Energy Inc., thanked Cessna for its collaboration. “We are honored to work with Cessna in accomplishing the proof of concept endeavor. Cessna’s support of the electric and electric-hybrid program is vital to moving general aviation into the future,” he said.

Representatives from Bye Energy will be at the Cessna exhibit during EAA’s AirVenture on Thursday, July 29, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., for one-on-one interviews. First flight of the electric-powered Cessna 172 Skyhawk POC is expected to take place by year-end.

Cessna has delivered more than 43,000 Cessna 172s, making it the most popular general aviation aircraft in history.
8/3

Arapahoe County Treasurer Doug Milliken wins national award for County’s investment strategy

Arapahoe County Treasurer Doug Milliken has received an Award for Excellence from the Association of Public Treasurers of the United States and Canada for investment strategies that earned the County a return on its investments that is more than double the national average and one of the highest in the nation.

The County’s investment portfolio has earned 3.59 percent during 2010, more than double the national average of 1.6 percent for county investment portfolios.

“This is quite an honor,” said Milliken, who is serving his first term as County Treasurer. “With the professional money management techniques we’ve introduced, the County’s investment portfolio has become one of the highest-earning county investment portfolios in the United States. In fact, of the 10,000-plus portfolios we’ve checked no one comes close to earning as much as we are.  The higher earnings on our investments translate into lower property taxes for our residents.”

The Award for Excellence was announced July 26 at the Association's 45th annual conference in Charleston, S.C.
8/17

Irvin (Gene) Branch Joins Perkins Coie Denver Office

Perkins Coie has announced that Irvin (Gene) Branch has joined the firm's Denver office as a partner. Branch will be part of the firm's Intellectual Property practice. 

With degrees in engineering, science, business and the law, Branch brings unique depth to clients and their intellectual property needs. He works diligently with clients to enhance their company's value through targeted innovation and strategic development of their patent portfolios. To that end, Branch's practice focuses on patent prosecution in the electronics, software and mechanical arts, with a particular emphasis on business method and computer-implemented inventions in the financial services industry.  Branch has drafted and prosecuted numerous US and international patent applications.

Prior to joining the firm, Branch was a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew. While there, he represented several large integrated financial services companies including Western Union and the United Services Automobile Association (USAA). 

"Our office is growing dramatically," said Denver managing partner Robert Miller. "We are pleased to welcome Gene to the firm. We know his international intellectual property experience will be an asset to our team and to our clients." 

Since 1997, the firm's Denver office has provided legal services to clients based in the Rocky Mountain region and nationwide.  Such legal services include commercial, IP and franchise litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, telecommunications, white collar criminal defense, environmental and natural resources, labor and employment, corporate and commercial finance, real estate and product liability.

Branch joins Perkins Coie's Intellectual Property practice. Ranked by Law360 as one of the largest IP practices in the country, the practice includes more than 200 lawyers focused on IP litigation, patent and trademark prosecution, technology licensing, copyrights, and trade secret and unfair competition counseling. The firm's IP clients include companies in all technologies and industries around the world. The IP practice also has extensive experience litigating patent and trademark infringement actions, Internet-related disputes and gray market and anti-counterfeiting claims for companies in the software, online retail, search and electronics industries. 

Branch is an active contributor to the Colorado School of Mines' 8th Continent Project, an organization founded for the purpose of commercializing space-derived technologies. In addition to being a licensed attorney, Gene is licensed as a Professional Engineer in Colorado. 

Branch's addition to the Denver office comes only a few months after the firm announced the addition of M&A attorney Nate Ford, and two other attorneys in the business group, who joined from Faegre & Benson. The firm also recently announced that Markus Funk, a former Assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, will be joining the Denver office later this fall. 

The addition of these new attorneys in Denver, along with the recent opening of the firm's San Diego and Dallas offices, reflects Perkins' continuing efforts to expand its national presence through strategic acquisitions and lateral hires. Since 2005 the firm has added more than 200 lateral attorneys in a variety of practice groups. 

The firm has been recognized for its accomplishments in the legal profession, its commitment to diversity and its excellent client service. In January, the firm was recognized by FORTUNE magazine for the eighth consecutive year as being one of the "100 Best Places to Work." In addition, the firm was recently named as one of the "2010 Top Ten Family Friendly Firms" by Yale Law Women.  For the second consecutive year, the firm was named one of the "Best Law Firms for Women" by Working Mother magazine and national consulting firm Flex-Time Lawyers LLC and also earned the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's top rating of 100 percent in the 2009 and 2010 Corporate Equality Index.   In addition, the firm received the Corporate Partnership Award for Supporting People with Disabilities. 
8/17

Town Hall Arts Center Receives Grant from The NORD Family Foundation

The Board of Directors for the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, has announced that the organization has received a grant of $12,000 from The NORD Family Foundation, a private family foundation based in Amherst, Ohio.  This grant was awarded in support for Town Hall Arts Center’s 2010-2011 Children’s Theatre Program.

The grant will support the creation of children’s theatrical pieces that are designed, directed and performed by professional artists at Town Hall Arts Center’s main stage and subsequently through outreach performances touring to schools.  The funding will not only help offset direct production costs, but also underwrite attendance for hundreds of children in Title I schools who would otherwise not be able to participate.

Town Hall Children’s Theatre will produce Aesop-A-Rebop September 27th through October 15th at Town Hall Arts Center for children aged pre-K to 5th grade.  In addition to the children’s theatre performances this fall, Town Hall will also offer Actors’ Playground classes from September 13th – November 18th, including “Ramona Quimby Play Production,” “Harry Potter Play Production,”  “An Actor Prepares,” and “Musical Theatre Expertise.”

8/24

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