KOA Holiday receives award
The Durango KOA Holiday has earned the 2016 KOA President’s and Founder’s awards from Kampgrounds of America Inc.
The awards were presented Nov. 18 at KOA’s annual International Convention in Daytona Beach, Florida. The KOA President’s Awards are presented annually to campgrounds that receive high scores in customer service from their campers, and also receive high scores in KOA’s annual Campground Quality Review. KOA surveys hundreds of thousands of campers each year regarding their KOA camping experience, and those surveys are used as a basis for the awards.
For more information, visit www.KOA.com.
El Pomar makes additions to council
Beth Drum, senior vice president of Alpine Bank, has been invited to join El Pomar Foundation’s Southwest Regional Council.
El Pomar, based in Colorado Springs, utilizes regional partnerships across the state of Colorado to provide local expertise on funding needs in rural communities. Other council members include Durango Mayor Dean Brookie and Silverton School Superintendent Kim White.
Drum has served at Alpine Bank of Durango since 1996. In addition, she has served on the board of Mercy Health Foundation, the fundraising committee for Mercy Regional Medical Center, the board of the Women’s Resource Center, and the board of Durango Chamber of Commerce. In 2014, Drum received the Morley Ballantine Award for her work in supporting women and girls in the community.
El Pomar Foundation also invited Joe Keck of Cortez, former director of Small Business Development Center; Rebecca Larson of Dolores, OMNI Institute Regional Prevention Consultant; and Lisa Scott of Pagosa Springs, community volunteer. The four will begin their service to the Southwest Regional Council in the first quarter of 2016.
For more information, visit www.elpomar.org/what-we-do/regional-partnerships.
Financial statement workshop offered
The Southwest Colorado Small Business Development Center and the Durango Public Library will present a workshop titled “A Road Map to Your Financial Report” from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Dec. 2 in the program room of the Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.
People will learn how to read financial reports effectively beginning with the balance sheet and ending with the use of financial ratios to analyze financial statements. Content will include the basics of financial statement analysis, cash-flow analysis, and what areas signal a need for further investigation. Attendees will learn to understand the numbers on a basic balance sheet and income statement. In addition, they will learn to understand what the bottom line means and what to look for when inconsistencies occur in the financial statements. An overview of cash flow and its importance to the business and an overview of financial ratios also will be discussed.
The workshop is free and is limited to the first 25 students who register.
To register, visit https://clients.coloradosbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=170350076. For more information, call 247-7009.
David Waller joins Academy Mortgage
David Waller has joined Paul Root at Academy Mortgage Corporation as a mortgage-loan officer.
Root and Waller will work as a team providing mortgages for new purchases and refinances. Root’s 36 years in the mortgage-lending industry and Waller’s 27 years in the Durango business community will blend to make a customer-centered mortgage-lending team.
Academy is a full-service lender, and it is the No. 3 Federal Housing Administration lender in the nation. Products also will include conventional, VA, rural development and jumbo loans.
Academy is located on the fourth floor of the West Building, 835 East Second Ave., Suite 400. For more information, call 382-2903, email david.waller@academymortgage.com or visit www.academymortgage.com/davidwaller.
Earth Girls Goodies moves locations
Earth Girls Goodies and Eatery is moving locations to 2876 N. Main Ave. (where Red Lattern Catering used to be).
Starting Dec. 1 stop by the new location from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for healthy, gluten-free, vegan goodies. Earth Girls offers more than muffins and desserts, it is a healthful grab ‘n go eatery with pre-made salads, wraps, spring rolls, earth bowls, smoothies and more.
For more information, visit earthgirlgoodies.com or call 403-5720.
La Plata Electric promotes two
Longtime La Plata Electric Association staff members Dan Harms and Linda Looman have been promoted to new positions within the cooperative.
Formerly systems engineer, Harms is now manager of rates, technology and energy policy, overseeing energy policy development, financial analysis and rates, information technology and systems operations and planning. Harms, a 30-year Durango resident who was an LPEA scholarship recipient and interned with the cooperative while studying electrical engineering at Fort Lewis College and Colorado State University, has served full time at LPEA as an electrical engineer since 1995.
Looman, who has served as human resources director since 2003, is now manager of member relations and human resources, adding oversight of all customer and member relations to her human resources responsibilities. Looman is a 37-year Durango resident and a graduate of Fort Lewis College with a degree in business administration.
For more information, visit www.lpea.coop.
LPEA announces new staff engineer
Rachel Schur Wagner has joined the La Plata Electric Association engineering team as a new staff engineer.
Raised in Pagosa Springs, Wagner returns to Southwest Colorado after four years in Portland, Oregon, working in the electric utility industry with consulting firm HDR and Bonneville Electric Power Association. She completed her degree in mechanical engineering at Colorado State University in 2010 after attending Fort Lewis College for general course study.
For the past 10 years Wagner has been active with the Engineers Without Borders program volunteering her time to assist rural villages in Southeast Asia and South and Central America.
For more information, visit www.lpea.coop.
Chamber Business After Hours Dec. 10
The Durango Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 10 at ImageNet Consulting, 194 Bodo Drive.
The event will feature food, wine, beer and networking. The cost is $7 for chamber members and guests.
DHM Design firm announces promotion
DHM Design announces the promotion of Katie Feeney within its Durango office to senior associate.
DHM Design is a 50-person employee-owned planning and landscape architecture firm that provides a range of services, including landscape architecture, land planning, graphic design and environmental planning to clients nationwide. With a comprehensive ecological services division, the business approaches each new project with a grounded, site-based, and locally focused perspective. With offices in Denver, Carbondale, Durango, Bozeman, and Raleigh, the business is able to draw on each other’s talents and skills to offer integrated, place-based design.
For more information, visit dhmdesign.com.
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