Solo Sacrifices Together
Marine Wife Kathleen Chandler and her husband Sargent Jacob Chandler Any woman will tell you that going through a pregnancy with all the help in the world is still a monumental experience. But try going it alone?...When your best friend and husband is halfway around the world?! That's exactly what Kathleen Chandler is doing right now. The 24 year-old mother of a five year-old and now ...another one on the way is experiencing just that. 34 weeks pregnant and still smiling, at least in the studio today recording this interview. The young mother not talking so much about herself...
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Tonettes in Tune
Listen to Story Tonette: Janae Steward Janae Steward loves to perform. So much so she even moved to New York City to pursue her dream of getting on Broadway. It was a good journey …but, home here on the Western Slope was calling and she came back after about a year. Why not? Her sister, her family, her friends…they’re all here! So she decided…along with some of her friends from Mesa State College, to start a little 40’s style singing group called The Tonettes. And of course it has taken off for the energetic Janae and her four classy...
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WTF- Welcome to Fruita
Clint Kinney had to laugh when he saw the bumper sticker, WTF February, 2012 Clint Kinney had to laugh when he saw the bumper sticker, WTF. Not because it’s an 3 letter acronym of exclamation and excitement in the texting and tweeting world …but because of the context it was used, not ‘What the F%$#...’ but ‘Welcome to Fruita’…the town where Clint is the City Manager. That started the marketing wheels turning and so Clint decided to pitch WTF to his town peeps ASAP. Thinking the naughty acronym might transfer nicely to his hip mountain biking town that is also...
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Brewing with a Passion
Eric Ross loves Beer and Brewing. Eric Ross likes beer. He always has. Not just the taste or the effect, but the idea of it, the sound of it, the color, the bubbles, the fact that it’s alive! The ‘art’ of the brew, getting it right…and failing miserably. It all started for Eric while he was a kid in Europe. Tasting his first beer in Germany and from the initial sip?...He was hooked. In college he started making his own beer in the dorm room, the sound of fermenting bubbles keeping him up at nights. His...
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Scott McInnis
Scott McInnis, life after a run for Colorado Governor. Coloradian, Scott McInnis will tell you he loves the Western Slope and he has more than two decades of public service to prove it. From 1983 to 1993, the Glenwood Springs native, served in the state house of representatives and eventually served as Majority Leader and Chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Protecting the Western Slope's Water rights was a priority. But it was a race for 2010 Colorado Governor job that took this legislative cowboy to places he hadn't been before. A commanding lead, years of service...the...
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I'm Dave Allgood and I've met some pretty interesting people here in Western Colorado. I founded the Allgood News to highlight some of the most positive, unique and genuine stories from those individuals.
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