Chamber to host Business After Hours
The Durango Chamber of Commerce will host Business After Hours from 5 to 7 p.m. July 18 at Animas Urgent Care, 450 South Camino del Rio, Suite 106.
The cost is $7 for chamber members and guests.
First National Bank adds five employees
The First National Bank of Durango has hired the following new staff members:
Cindy Welch, who grew up in California, moved to Mancos in 2010 and worked at First Southwest Bank in Durango before joining First National.
Morgan Zajicek, originally from Las Vegas, worked for the last year at the Bank of the San Juans before joining First National.
Adrianna Cage, a Durango native raised in Albuquerque, worked previously at Claire’s in the Durango Mall before joining First National.
Presten Dickinson, from Gunnison, joined First National Bank after receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics from Fort Lewis College.
Michael Zimmerman, who lived in various countries during his childhood as his father worked with the Foreign Service, graduated high school in Moscow with an International Baccalaureate Diploma, which provided him with enough credits to be considered halfway into his junior year at Fort Lewis College. He will resume school in the fall to finish his business economics degree.
Commercial brokerage takes on Greg Spitler
Rocky Mountain Commercial Brokers, Colorado’s only exclusive network of independent commercial real estate brokers, announces the addition of Greg Spitler, owner of WestCO Real Estate LLC of Durango, as its newest partner. In just two years, RMCB has grown to 14 partners and greatly expanded its operations in mountain areas.
Spitler has 33 years of commercial real estate experience, 22 of which involved working for major national commercial real estate firms. In 2002, he moved to Durango and became managing partner for Prudential Triple S Realty. He is owner/manager of WestCO, the only firm dedicated to commercial real estate in Southwest Colorado.
For more information, visit www.RMCBrokers.com.
Durango Natural Foods receives recognition
Organic Retail and Consumer Alliance, which promotes organics and truth-in-labeling and aims to increase public awareness about the difference between “natural” and organic, announces Durango Natural Foods Co-Op, 575 East Eighth Ave., has been named a regional winner in the Right-to-Know Grocers contest.
Consumers were asked to nominate stores, co-ops and farmers markets that are doing a good job of informing customers about the products in their stores.
DNF has implemented a new No Genetically Modified Organisms policy, which includes requesting statements from manufacturers regarding GMO content. The co-op is removing products that may contain GMO ingredients as well as ingredients such as canola oil that may be GMO-free but not a product the store wants to continue selling. The co-op is in the process of labeling all products containing GMOs and will not bring in any unlabeled GMO products. The co-op is a Non-GMO Project Participating Retailer.
For more information, visit http://blog.durangonaturalfoods.coop/dnfwp/store/ or www.facebook.com/pages/Durango-Natural-Foods-Co-op/33247124129.
San Juan Medical Center receives award
San Juan Regional Medical Center is a recipient of the 2013 Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence and is ranked among the Top 5 percent nationally for overall clinical excellence.
In addition, San Juan Regional Medical Center is the only hospital in New Mexico and the Four Corners to receive this distinction. Healthgrades evaluates hospitals solely on clinical outcomes: risk-adjusted mortality and in-hospital complications. The star ratings reflect performance that is better than expected, as expected or worse than expected.
For more information, visit www.healthgrades.com or www.sanjuanregional.com.
Herald staff
