RE/MAX Pinnacle has announced that Durango business owner Katri Annast has joined its team as a broker associate.
As a local entrepreneur Annast has owned and operated the Twilight Café coffee shop in the Tech Center and then Mercury Village prior to pursuing her passion of real estate.
After graduating from UCLA with a degree in economics, Annast moved to Durango and fell in love with the mountains, the town and its people.
Contact Annast at 903-3902 or drop by to visit at RE/MAX Pinnacle, 111 W. College.
The Durango KOA Holiday campground, 30090 U.S. Highway 160, has opened for the 2016 summer camping season.
The Durango KOA Holiday is one of 485 open-to-the-public KOA campgrounds in the Kampgrounds of America system in the United States and Canada.
Campers can pick up a new 2016 edition of the KOA Directory free at any KOA campground. The digital edition of the 2016 directory is also available at http://koa.uberflip.com/i/641109-2016-koa-directory.
U-Haul Co. of Colorado announces that Carhart Customs has signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the Dove Creek area.
Carhart Customs at 8984 Road 68 Loop will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment, pre-tow inspection and support rental items.
Hours of operation for U-Haul rentals are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and on-call Sunday. After-hours drop-off is available.
Reserve U-Haul products at this dealer location by calling 677-2205 or visiting https://www.uhaul.com/Locations/Truck-Rentals-near-Dove-Creek-CO-81324/005246/ today.
Carhart Customs owner is Kyle Carhart.
Trails 2000 has announced the hiring of Larry “Reed” Myers as the new crew boss. Myers, who has lived and played in La Plata County since 1978, joins Durango’s leading trails nonprofit organization to help further the mission to plan, build and maintain the more than 300 miles of local trails, educate trail users, and encourage connectivity of roads, paths and trails.
Previously, Myers fulfilled a 25-year career teaching elementary and middle school before returning to work in the bicycle and ski industry.
For more information, visit www.Trails2000.org.
Dr. Andrew Adamich with Highland Vision Center has announced that Ingrid Malberg has earned the status of certified optometric vision therapist. On April 15, Malberg was among 27 international vision therapists awarded certification at the 46th annual College of Optometrists and Vision Development meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.
Highland Vision is located at 49 W. Mill Street in Bayfield. For more information, call 884-2020.
With veteran journeyman Lineman Bruce Crangle retiring after 39 years at La Plata Electric Association, opportunities have opened up for others in LPEA’s Operations team.
Journeyman Lineman Ryan Peacock will assume Crangle’s position in substation maintenance. Peacock’s position as working foreman is now filled by journeyman lineman Bill Holtsford. Evan Moore has entered LPEA’s apprentice lineman program.
Crangle came to the cooperative at age 20 working initially as a groundman, but after five months he entered the four-year apprentice lineman program. As a journeyman lineman, he worked the line crews for 17 years until moving into substation maintenance, the department responsible for maintaining LPEA’s substations and regulators,
Newly arrived in substation maintenance, Peacock began his career in construction, during which time he initiated his lineman apprenticeship. He joined LPEA in 1998 and completed his journeyman lineman in 2000. He worked the line crews for six years, served as a serviceman for eight, and was promoted to working foreman overseeing a crew in 2014.
Holtsford joined LPEA’s line crews in 2013, though he had been in La Plata County for 15 years working for a variety of electric contractors. He has been in the industry nearly 40 years, employed in 20 different states. He earned his journeyman lineman in North Carolina, his “home” state. Now, as a working foreman, he is one of the four men who make up a hot crew, and will oversee his team and ensure safety and quality control.
Moore was born and raised in Dolores. He enrolled in Mesa Hotline School in Grand Junction, and upon graduation, joined LPEA’s apprentice lineman program. Moore will earn his journeyman lineman status in four years.
The Discover Colorado Rally and Colorado Tourism Roadshow will honor 11 frontline tourism workers across the state including Emily Spencer, group sales and catering for the Strater Hotel. Spencer joined the Strater Hotel’s sales and catering team in 2005 bringing with her more than 20 years of hotel sales and catering experience. She works behind the scenes to bring tours, weddings and other groups to Southwest Colorado.
Spencer will be honored at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Henry Strater Theater.
It is Colorado Small Business Appreciation Week. In recognition, the Small Business Development Center and Region 9 invites small businesses to an appreciation coffee gathering at Fort Lewis College, Education Business Hall Building in the School Of Business Administration Conference Room from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Friday. Breakfast treats and coffee will be available.
Dr. Pakhi Chaudhuri of Pediatric Associates of Durango announces that Jessica Rensner has joined the practice.
Rensner is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner who has been practicing pediatrics since 2007. Rensner obtained her Master of Science in nursing in the Nurse Practitioner Program from the University of Pennsylvania.
Rensner said she will incorporate integrative medicine into her pediatric practice, and in the fall of 2016 will complete an Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona. She is accepting new patients.
For more information, visit paofdurango.com or call 259-7337.
Herald Staff
