Author: HAP-FRY
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Taste of Fort Collins marks the unofficial kickoff of summer
FORT COLLINS • Joseph McQuain was ready to throw in the towel. Four years into operating his Fort Collins-based barbecue food truck, BIGS Meat Wagon, McQuain’s confidence and energy had wavered in 2016. “The first four years were brutal,” said McQuain, who launched his food truck in 2012. “I definitely had some second thoughts. I thought,…
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From interment camps to pioneer of science, CSU’s Doug Ishii dies at 83
The photo caption in the 1960 San Francisco Polytechnic High School yearbook of Douglas Nobuo Ishii striking a soccer ball was as profound as it was prophetic. It would serve as an apt metaphor that Ishii applied throughout his life. “Doug Ishii could really direct the ball where he wanted it to go,” it read.…
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Welcome to Walden, the tight-knit town known as the Moose Viewing Capital of Colorado
WALDEN • When Stacey Gollobith was presented with the idea of moving to the picturesque, yet remote community of Walden, she was skeptical, to say the least. Gollobith was enjoying life just fine in Fort Collins, working as a banker at a credit union with her husband and newborn in the late 1980s. But when…
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Colorado’s coin industry rivals that of just about any other state in U.S.
FORT COLLINS • The clicking of the bulletproof 1930s vintage Brandt Coin Sorter and Counter is both constant and unforgettable, as it spits out coin after coin while Tim Jackson is busy talking shop to a recent visitor from behind his desk at the Corner Coin and Jewelry Inc. on a brisk winter morning. While…
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Fort Collins Rescue Mission to expand to new state of the art campus
FORT COLLINS • Kevin Monson Jr. didn’t have a whole lot of options when he was released from Larimer County Detention Center in 2021. He was homeless. Though Monson was able to crash at a friend’s house for two weeks after being released, he knew the stay there was temporary, so he showed up at the…
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Larimer County-owned addiction treatment facility welcomes those who show up at the front door
FORT COLLINS • Terrell Keith’s journey into substance abuse and subsequent mental health issues is unique but not uncommon. Keith had, up until sophomore year in high school, what he describes as a “normal” childhood with support from his family, while also excelling academically at a Fort Collins high school. “I would say, I grew up…
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Larimer County-owned addiction treatment facility welcomes those who show up at the front door
FORT COLLINS • Terrell Keith’s journey into substance abuse and subsequent mental health issues is unique but not uncommon. Then a sophomore in high school, Keith had up to that point what he describes as a “normal” childhood with support from his family, while also excelling academically at a Fort Collins high school “I would…