A couple of counties get good grades

Brief by Central Staff

Lifestyle – May 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine

Chaffee and Hinsdale counties got good grades in one portion of The 2005 State of the Rockies Report Card issued in April by Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

Among other things, this year’s study attempted to examine all counties in the Mountain West for “Civic Engagement and Capacity.” The difference? Capacity is how many books in the library; engagement is the percentage of people who use the library.

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Save the Siesta

Brief by Central Staff

Lifestyle – August 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine

One sensible tradition continues to be attacked by the one-size-fits-all globalizers.

That tradition is the siesta (sometimes called a “power nap” in yupscale America), and the current victims of the assault are in Portugal.

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