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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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3rd Annual Adaptive Cycling Festival
Monday, July 7th, 2008
The 3rd Annual Adaptive Cycling Festival was met with sunny skies and numerous miles of paved and unpaved biking trails waiting to be ridden. The handcyclists worked hard cycling from Keystone to Montezuma, Breckenridge to Copper Mountain, Keystone to Frisco and a grand finale of cruising down Vail Pass. The mountain bikers experienced a variety of terrain including Keystone Gulch Road, Boreas Pass Road and Bakers Tank single track.
The BOEC’s Adaptive Cycling Festival is a family oriented, social event for beginner, intermediate and advanced riders to experience the beauty of Summit County through the challenge and excitement of cycling. A special thanks goes to the numerous volunteers who assisted with the weekend in a variety of areas.
” . . . thank you and all the staff and volunteers that came out to make the weekend a truly wonderful experience for myself and my family . . . I know my family had a genuinely happy time riding the trails and byways throughout the area.” - Rich Cunningham
“Thanks a bunch for letting me try mountain biking. I had a blast!” - Matt Hendrick
Post-News Community Awards $5,000 to the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
DENVER - Post-News Community is proud to present a $5,000 grant to the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 21 as part of the Ride The Rockies bicycle tour’s closing ceremonies at the Breckenridge Riverwalk Center.
Nonprofit agencies from each of the seven host towns on the 2008 Ride The Rockies route were invited to apply for funding through the Post-News Community/Ride The Rockies grant program. One organization in each host community was selected to receive a $5,000 award. The host towns provide valuable resources in order to make the tour run smoothly. They offer lodging, food, transportation, entertainment and volunteers to support the riders during the event. This grant program allows Post-News Community to thank the host towns by providing financial support that will impact the community long after the last cyclist departs from the town.
Since its inception in 2001 and including this year’s grants, the Post-News Community/Ride The Rockies grant program has distributed more than $350,000. This year, Post-News Community will be presenting grants totaling $35,000 during the bicycle tour. These grants are being given to nonprofit organizations that provide literacy programs or serve low-income youth through recreation, education or the arts.
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center seeks to expand the potential of people with disabilities and special needs through meaningful, educational and inspiring outdoor experiences. They were founded in 1976 to provide outdoor excursions, primarily for people with disabilities, and to train instructors to work with special populations.
Post-News Community’s mission is to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community through support of programs that benefit children, arts and culture, education and literacy, and the provision of basic human services. For more information, please visit www.post-newscommunity.com.
New Website for the BOEC
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Why a new website? We have greatly benefited from our website over the past eight years but all things must change, particularly as web technology changes. The new website grew out of the need to update the navigation, build in the ability for BOEC to make changes ourselves, to create a more responsive and dynamic site and to create a community networking section that will allow our users to communicate with us and with each other. The new website was designed by timeforcake, based right here in Frisco (www.timeforcake.com). eRin Pheil and Josh Petrucci have done a great job to create a site that BOEC can directly manage, works very well and and looks very nice. Many thanks to timeforcake!
Many thanks to Breckcomm, the web company who created and hosted our previous website. Scott Esmond and the staff at Breckcomm donated time and services for many years and we greatly appreciate their efforts.
We hope you will enjoy the new look and all the changes. Let us know what you think.
Sixth Annual Breckebeiner a Great Time
Friday, April 4th, 2008
The sixth Annual Breckebeiner 60 km Ski-a-thon happened on March 29th. Over 200 skiers and guests enjoyed great ski conditions and a great party with music provided by Gene Dayton’s accordion, Helmut’s Alpine horn and Doc PJ’s sound system. The food was great–pasta salad provided by the Hearthstone, green salad from Peak Provisions, beer from the Breckenridge Brewery, along with burgers and dogs and the rest. The theme was south pacific with palm trees and leis everywhere. Justin took total km honors at 120. Many others skiied the 60 km solo or as part of a team. It was all great fun and turning into an annual event that can’t be missed by locals. A great way to end the ski season.
Many thanks to Gene and Therese Dayton for hosting and working so hard to bring this event about, to volunteer coordinator Jim Anderson, to staff Bob Bond, Melissa Kuwahara and Jaime Benthin for their hard work, to volunteers Don Sullivan, Chris Cares, Doug Sullivan, Aris Sophocles and Laura Metz. And thanks to all of you who came to ski, to party and to support the work of the BOEC!
Mark your calendars for next year, the last Saturday in March.
