WHAT: A
free dental clinic called CoMoM is
sponsored by the Colorado Dental Association.
WHO: Senior
citize ns, adults and children who don’t have enough money to pay for dental
care and who have no Medicaid, no CHP+, and no dental insurance.
WHEN: Friday Sept 11 and
Saturday Sept 12
• Come early! Doors open at 5:00 am
• No appointments; first
come-first served
WHERE: Adams County Regional Park Complex
9755
Henderson Road
Brighton,
CO, 80601
INFO:
http://cdaonline.org
Stretching your Dollar During Tough Economic Times
WHAT:
Town Hall meeting with State Representative John Kefalas, State Representative Randy Fischer and State Senator Bob Bacon
Topic: Personal Finance - Surviving a Recession and Stretching Your Dollar, including:
*Refinancing and new ways to avoid foreclosure
*Bankruptcy - when and when not
*Consumer Credit
*Handling Credit and Credit Cards
*Retirement Planning - recovering from 401K losses, savings, investing
*Scams to Avoid
ALL welcome. There will be an opportunity for Q&A. Bring your questions, your friends, your family and co-workers!
WHEN:
Wednesday July 15th, 2009
6:00 PM
Harmony Library
4616 S Shields St
Fort Collins, CO 80526
WHO:
Hosts:
State Representative John Kefalas (D - Ft. Collins)
State Representative Randy Fischer (D - Ft. Collins)
State Senator Bob Bacon (D - Ft. Collins)
Panelists:
Laurel Kubin, County Extension Director, Family Economist, CSU
Sara Gilbert- Executive Director, Consumer Credit Counsel Service of Northern Colorado
Shelley Glause, Investigator, Better Business Bureau
Colleen Miller, Certified Financial Planner, Finance by Design
--Posted by Staff
WHAT:
Town Hall meeting with State Representative Dennis Apuan
Topic: Personal Finance - Surviving a Recession and Stretching Your Dollar, including:
*Refinancing and new ways to avoid foreclosure
*Bankruptcy - when and when not to declare
*Consumer Credit
*Handling Credit and Credit Cards
*Retirement Planning - recovering from 401K losses, savings, investing
*Scams to Avoid
* Pay Day Loans
ALL are welcome. There will be an opportunity for Q&A. Bring your questions, your friends, your family and co-workers!
WHEN:
Saturday July 18th, 2009
11:00 AM
WHERE:
Ruth Holley Public Library
685 North Murray Blvd.
Colorado Springs, 80915
WHO:
Host: State Representative Dennis Apuan (D – Colorado Springs)
Panelists:
State Representative Mark Ferrandino (D-Denver)
George Shoemaker - Regional Director of Education and Community Relations, Colorado Center
for Financial Education
Mason Finks – Director of Fraud Prevention, District Attorney’s Office,
18th Judicial District of Colorado
Marc Schtul –Attorney at Law with expertise in bankruptcy, Webb & Schtul, LLC
"While it may feel like we are in this economic crisis alone, we are not. During tight economic times, we can benefit each other with different tips and suggestions for stretching limited dollars." - State Representative Dennis Apuan
Rep. Primavera at Broomfield Safeway for a Government at the Grocery
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
WHERE: Safeway, 3602 W. 144th Ave. Broomfield
Click here for posts featuring Representative Primavera
--Posted by Staff
While Rice is in Iraq with Army Reserve, Carroll Holds In Absentia Meeting 7/11
For a few months while he is in Iraq as a Colonel with the Army Reserve, State Representative Joe Rice (D-Arapahoe County) won’t be able to talk to his constituents face-to-face, but he is still keeping in touch.
He has sent home to family and friends his photos and his personal on-the-ground insights of his experiences in Iraq. While off duty, he even somehow manages to return emails, texts and phone calls from his base in Baghdad. And since he’s not able to attend his standard monthly town hall meetings, he asked the Speaker of the Colorado House to be there in his stead. Speaker Terrance Carroll will share legislative updates with Rep. Rice’s constituents and will pass their questions and concerns back to him overseas.
Before he left for Iraq, Rep. Rice said, “I think it is important to be in touch with the people in House District 38. At our town halls, the people in my district always come with thoughtful questions and comments, and I always leave with new ideas about how to move Colorado forward. Some of my best legislative ideas have come from ideas brought to me by constituents.”
WHAT: An In Absentia Town Hall for Rep. Joe Rice
WHO: Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll
WHEN: 10:00 AM on Saturday, July 11, 2009
WHERE: Bemis Public Library www.littletongov.org/Bemis
6014 S. Datura Street, downtown Littleton, 80120
The event is free and open to the public. Coffee and snacks are available in the library.
--Posted by Staff
WHAT: State Representative Max Tyler is hosting a town hall meeting on
Personal finance: surviving during a recession and stretching your dollar.
Topics to be discussed include:
Refinancing and new ways to avoid foreclosure
Bankruptcy - when and when not
Consumer Credit
Handling Credit and Credit Cards
Retirement Planning - recovering from 401K losses, savings, investing
Scams to avoid
WHEN: Tomorrow, Thursday, July 9th
6:00 PM
WHERE: American Legion
1655 Simms, Lakewood
WHO: Host: State Rep. Max Tyler (D-Jeffco)
Panelists:
Margaret Chapman, Public Trustee, Jefferson County
George Shoemaker, Regional Director of Education & Community Relations,
Colorado Center for Financial Education
Mason Finks- Director of Fraud Prevention, District Attorney's Office, 18th
Judicial District of Colorado
Austin Lewis, Certified Financial Planner, Wagner Wealth Management
"While it may feel like we are in this economic crisis alone, we are not. During tight economic times, we can benefit each other with tips and suggestions for stretching limited dollars."
State Representative Max Tyler
Click here for posts featuring Representative Tyler
--Posted by Staff
DENVER – They talk the talk, they walk the walk and they bike their bikes: they are the hard-core bicyclists of the House Democrats!
On Wednesday’s Bike to Work Day, Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll, Assistant Majority Leader Andy Kerr (D-Lakewood), Rep. Michael Merrifield (D-Colorado Springs, and sponsor of several pro-biking bills), Health Committee Chair Jim Riesberg (D-Greeley), and the newest legislator in the state Rep. Max Tyler (D-Lakewood/Golden) will use just two wheels as they go about their legislative, family, and professional business.
Rep. Tyler said, “I plan to bike from my home in Lakewood to the Higher Grounds Coffee Shop in Golden to discuss the School of Mines.”
“I have been getting ready for a big mountain-bike race, the Leadville 100,” said Rep. Merrifield. “So I’ll be doing a long training ride around Colorado Springs.”
Rep. Kerr says that he’s saving Colorado a quarter-ton of pollution by his biking. He has already shown his commitment to a more sustainable Colorado by often biking from his Lakewood home to the Capitol during this past legislative session. On twenty-eight days from January through June, he used pedal power to make the 22-mile round trip.
He figures that his efforts saved our air from nearly 530 lbs. of pollutants. Each mile in a car can put 390 grams of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide into the air. Each mile on the trails kept smog out of our air, took us a small step closer towards energy independence, and even saved the taxpayers a few dollars.
On the days Rep. Kerr biked to the Capitol, he deducted the charge from his daily mileage allowance. It might not have closed the hole in the budget, but in these tough times, every dollar counts!
Speaking from the side of the Lakewood Gulch Trail, Rep. Kerr said, "If you ride your bike, it is healthy for you and healthy for the community."
Rep. Riesberg will be out on his bike from 6:30 AM to 8:30 AM, stopping at a number of bike-to-work stations and cheering on his fellow Greeley-ites.
“I’ve been doing this event for a number of years,” said Rep. Riesberg. “I see old friends, earn a new t-shirt, and get my morning exercise, all before 9AM!”
--Posted by Staff
(DENVER) - When Rep. Randy Fischer (D-Fort Collins) started to talk about a bill to increase the recycling of electronics – from TVs to stereos to computers – he found a lot of like-minded people. With Senator Gail Schwartz (D-Snowmass), they passed House Bill 1282, forming an action-oriented group to help spur the growth of Colorado’s small e-waste recycling industry. They hope to push Colorado on its first steps toward a comprehensive “e-recycling” program.
In Colorado, the vast majority of consumer electronics – including cathode ray tubes, circuit boards, and toxins - end up in our landfills. This e-waste puts substantial amounts of heavy metal pollution into our air and water and it wastes valuable resources that could be easily recovered and re-used.
The interim committee will meet on Thursday to begin to tackle the problem.
WHAT: First meeting of the interim Electronic Device Recycling Task Force
WHO: Rep. Fischer, Rep. Jim Kerr, Sen. Dan Gibbs, Sen. Pat Steadman and non-legislative appointees
WHEN: 9:30 AM Thursday June 25
WHERE: HCR 0111, Capitol basement
“We need to plan a thoughtful response to electronics dumping,” said Rep. Fischer. “With the potential for lead and mercury to leach into our drinking water, we must address this public health threat now. This task force should lead to the creation of jobs, will keep toxins out of the environment, and will recover valuable resources.”
Nation-wide, recyclers recover more than 100 million pounds of materials from electronics each year. Recycling electronics helps reduce pollution that would be generated while manufacturing a new product and reduces the need to extract valuable and limited virgin resources. (source: EPA) E-recycling also protects public health by keeping heavy metals like lead and mercury out of our drinking water. And best of all, e-recycling creates jobs in the recycling industry.
The task force is comprised of 19 members, will meet just three times, will report back to the legislature next session, and requires no state general funds.
Click here for posts featuring Representative Fischer
--Posted by Staff
(Denver) Tomorrow, State Representative Dennis Apuan (D-Colorado Springs) will speak to the Colorado South Asian Bar Association’s Networking Event after being introduced by Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll. Rep. Apuan will discuss his experiences as an Asian-American candidate and first-term lawmaker at the State Capitol.
WHAT:
The Colorado South Asian Bar Association (SABA) will host a networking event with Speaker Terrance Carroll and Rep. Dennis Apuan. Rep. Apuan, the only Asian American presently serving in the Colorado legislature and the first Filipino-American lawmaker, will “share his experiences in getting elected and serving in the political system as an Asian American.”
WHO:
Speaker Terrance Carroll
Representative Dennis Apuan (D-Colorado Springs)
Members of SABA and other Bar Associations will attend.
WHERE:
Fairfield and Woods PC, downtown Denver
please RSVP to Katie Reinisch at 303-866-2774 if you would like to cover the event
WHEN:
Tuesday, June 16
5:30pm
Click here for posts featuring Representative Apuan
Click here for posts featuring Speaker Carroll
--Posted by Staff
(DENVER) State Representative Dennis Apuan (D-Colorado Springs) will be an honored guest at Saturday’s Philippine Festival at 1900 Harlan Street in Edgewater, Colorado. Rep. Apuan will be participating in the day-long event and speaking at 1:15 pm when he will present the "“Philippine Independence Day” proclamation.
Earlier today, Gov. Bill Ritter proclaimed June 12, 2009, “Philippine Independence Day” throughout Colorado, “recognizing the friendship the Republic of the Philippines has shown the United States for more than a century, and the contributions that Filipinos and Filipino-Americans have made to the State of Colorado. According to a 2007 survey by the American Community Survey, more than 15,000 Filipinos currently reside in Colorado, helping grow the economy and adding another unique cultural dynamic to Colorado’s already-rich melting pot.” (Governor Ritter’s Office)
Rep. Apuan said, “As the first Filipino-American elected to the Colorado Statehouse, I am deeply honored to extend my heartfelt felicitations and best wishes to the general membership of the Filipino-American Community of Colorado and to the wider Colorado community. The Filipino community's noble efforts to showcase the very best of Philippine arts, entertainment and culture -- along with a taste of our world-renown hospitality and cuisine – are a magnificent testament to the enduring Filipino spirit of bayanihan or community cooperation…”
More information on the event is available here:
http://www.mycharityweb.com/
State Representative Karen Middleton, (D-Aurora), Chair of the Committee, is inviting stakeholders concerned about education funding issues to discuss the upcoming work of the Interim Committee on School Finance.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
10:00 am – 3:00 pm (as needed)
State Board Room
Colorado Department of Education
201 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, 80203
The purpose of the meeting is for education stakeholders to provide input and ideas about the proposed scope of work of the Interim Committee on School Finance. This is an opportunity to weigh-in before the Committee officially convenes to begin its work and forms working groups on key issues.
This is a chance for advocates to share:
- Issues you would like to see addressed by the Committee.
- Areas of focus to be addressed by the working groups.
- Feedback from earlier work – what can we learn from what has already been accomplished?
The meeting will be conducted similar to a legislative committee hearing. There will be a sign-up sheet and stakeholders will have approximately 3 minutes for comments. Audio of the meeting will be available over the Internet. To access the audio stream, go to http://www.cde.state.co.us/
Denver –On May 27, JeffCo technology consultant and businessman Max Tyler was selected to succeed Gwyn Green as the State Representative for House District 23, representing Lakewood, Edgewater and Golden. Representative-elect Tyler will serve at least through the remainder of Green’s term.
Representative-elect Max Tyler will be sworn in to office on June 4 at 10:30 a.m. in the House Chamber.
House Speaker Terrance Carroll said, “He’s a smart guy and a strategic thinker. Max is just what we need in these tough economic times to help us expand the circle of opportunity.”
Tyler expects to contribute to the next session in which creating jobs and bolstering the economy is at the top of the Democratic agenda.
“It’s an honor to serve my friends and neighbors in Jefferson County,” said Rep-elect Tyler on Friday. “I know how to create jobs and what it takes to run a successful business. I well understand that part of the economy.”
Max Tyler, 61, has been active in grassroots campaigns and has run three successful technology consulting companies including The Star Group.
--Posted by Staff
This meeting is open to the public and all residents are invited to watch legislation become law. Governor Ritter will give an overview of the 2009 legislative session, including accomplishments to get Colorado’s economy back on track.
WHO:
Special Guest: Governor Bill Ritter
State Representative John Kefalas (D-Ft. Collins)
State Representative Randy Fischer (D-Ft. Collins)
State Senator Bob Bacon (D-Ft. Collins)
WHO:
State Representative Claire Levy (D-Boulder)
State Representative Dickey Lee Hullinghorst (D-Boulder)
State Senator Rollie Heath (D-Boulder)
WHAT:
Representatives Claire Levy and Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, and State Senator Rollie Heath will host a town hall meeting to discuss the accomplishments of the 2009 legislative session which concluded last week.
WHEN:
May 16th, 2009
10:00 AM
WHERE:
Boulder City Council Chambers
Boulder Municipal Building
1942 Broadway St
Boulder, CO 80302
--Posted by Staff
