Steven Hurst opens Kool Kids Kustoms in Dolores
Steven Hurst has opened Kool Kids Kustoms in Dolores off Colorado Highway 145 by the Skyline store.
He will specialize in custom cars, frames, roll cages, fabrication and side-by-sides. He also will be doing all types of repairs on vehicles, ATVs and UTVs, as well as all types of welding.
Hurst graduated from Wyotech with a double major in street rod with custom fabrication and motorsports with chassis fabrication and a core of automotive technology.
He graduated with national technical honors, and a 4.0 grade point average. He also had perfect attendance.
First SouthWest announces Sherry Waner graduation
First SouthWest Bank says that vice president Sherry Waner, vice president, specializing in commercial government guaranteed lending, graduated from The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado in July.
Participants in the program broaden their banking-industry knowledge while engaging in a curriculum focused on community banks. Waner is recognized by the State Banking Commission of Colorado.
Waner has 21 years of banking experience. She is based in Pagosa Springs and serves markets including Durango, Alamosa, Center and Cortez.
Education programs nominated for grant
The Durango Education Foundation has nominated three earlier grant awardees for the Innovation Award given for the first time last year by the Bank of Colorado.
The winning applicant will receive up to $2,500 to complete a request for funding that was not fully met. The winner will be announced Aug. 21 at a convocation at Miller Middle School.
The nominees are:
Julie Popp, the Durango School District 9-R spokeswoman, sought money for a conference to teach eighth-grade boys skills for success in high school.
Kelly Von Stroh, a teacher at Animas Valley Elementary School, taught reading to English-language learners. The methods were devised by the Center for Applied Linguistics. Von Stroh would train other teachers.
Destiny Schipman, Rob Javier and Mike Jordan – teachers at Escalante or Miller middle schools – started a shared-reading experience for about 300 eighth-graders. The book was the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Enrique’s Journey.
Half of farmers markets in Colorado take food stamps
More people shopping at Colorado farmers markets and farmstands can now use food stamps.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says half of Colorado’s 140 registered markets and stands can swipe the government debit cards issued to low-income shopper under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Year-over-year U.S. home prices are slowing
U.S. home prices rose in June by the smallest year-over-year amount in 20 months, slowed by modest sales and more properties coming on the market.
Data provider CoreLogic said that prices rose 7.5 percent in June compared with 12 months earlier. That’s a solid gain but less than the 8.3 percent year-over-year increase in May and a recent year-to-year peak of 11.9 percent in February.
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