Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- The Art Center of Western Colorado (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- A prominent local arts organization that has long been a cornerstone of the arts in Mesa County. The Art Center displays local artwork, hosts exhibitions, and teaches artistic skills. According to Josephine Kate (Ramsay) Biggs, a local artist in the early Twentieth century, the Art Center may have had the Brush and Palette Club as its forerunner. The Brush and Palette club consisted of local artists who would meet in downtown Grand Junction in the 1930’s. The group included artist Harold Bryant. According to former director Dave Davis (1986-1995), the Art Center experienced economic difficulty starting in 1982, when the oil shale economy collapsed. During this time, under the direction of Alan Dodsworth (1982-1986), the Art Center had to spend most of its endowment to stay afloat. When Dodsworth resigned, Louise Moore served as interim director. The organization hired Davis as their director in 1986 and was financially stable as of 1987 (expected to be able to build up the endowment again). It had 750 members as of 1986. Events that the Art Center put on at this time included the All Member Show, the Altrusa Art Show, the Art USA show, the Brush and Palette show, the Boar’s Head dinner, the Founder Show, the Kite Festival, the Mardi Gras dinner, the Wildlife Show, and the craft show.
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church)
- A Christian organization with a headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah whose members are known as "Latter-Day Saints" or "Mormons" that send missionaries all over the world.
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- The Clark Store
- Located seventeen miles North of Steamboat Springs on Routt County Road 129, the Clark Store serves as general store, eatery, coffee house, and community hub for residents of north Routt County. In addition to groceries, sundries and gifts, the building houses a United States Post Office.
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- The Daily Sentinel newspaper (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- The Daily Sentinel was founded in 1893 by Isaac N. Bunting. He published the paper until 1911, when he sold it to Walter Walker. Under Walker's leadership, the paper became a staunch supporter of Democratic Party causes. The Sentinel's main rival in its early years was the Grand Junction News, a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. The News's publisher, Charles Adams, was friends with Walker, and the News was eventually purchased by the Sentinel sometime in the late 1920's or early 1930's. The Sentinel became an advocate of community development, and was important in pushing such causes as the construction of Grand Junction's airport and the establishment and growth of Colorado Mesa University. The paper also covered national issues and had fifty national correspondents employed during the 1920's through 1940's. During the 1920's, Walker founded Grand Junction's local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, and presided over its initial meetings (Hooded Empire by Robert Goldberg). Walker then turned against the Klan, and the Sentinel published many articles critical of the organization. Walker passed the newspaper onto his son, Preston Walker, who published it from 1956 to 1970. His successor, Ken Johnson, ran the paper until 1979. Cox News purchased and ran the newspaper until 2009, when it was purchased by the Seaton Publishing Company. Jay Seaton serves as the current publisher. *Some information taken from the website of the Daily Sentinel.
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- The Denver Post
- The Denver Post is a daily newspaper that has been published in Denver, Colorado, United States, since 1892. -Wikipedia
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- The Durango Democrat newspaper
- A newspaper in Durango, Colorado that ran from 1892-1928. According to the website of the Durango Herald, the Democrat was established in 1892, when Democratic party operatives in La Plata County brought Dave Day, publisher of the Solid Muldoon in Ouray, to Durango in order to establish a Democratic Newspaper to counter the Republican-leaning Herald. Day engaged in rivalries with fellow newspaper publishers, and in one instance, exchanged gunfire with the editor of the Trade's Journal. He died in 1914 and ownership passed to his son, Rod Day. In 1928, the Herald and Democrat merged. Day later founded the Durango News.