Briefcase August 23, 2013

GOOD DEEDS

First National Bank invested $300,000 in Rocky Mountain Innosphere’s Colorado Enterprise Fund to provide loan capital for startup companies. Innosphere currently provides support to 39 startup companies that employ 200 people. The bank’s investment is a low-interest loan from First National of Nebraska Community Development Corp. to the Colorado Enterprise Fund, which manages the fund. First National also is an Innosphere funding partner, and its president serves on Innsophere’s board of directors.

KUDOS

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Platte River must prepare for the retirement of 431 megawatts (MW) of dispatchable, coal-fired generation by the end of the decade and address more frequent extreme weather events that can bring dark calms (periods when there is no sun or wind).

Fort Collins-based Peterson Design’s remodeling of the rear façade at 151 S. College Ave. in Fort Collins was awarded Professional Remodeler magazine’s 2013 gold medal in the commercial remodeling category.

North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley was honored July 18 at the 16th annual Spirit of Women National Executive Meeting in Las Vegas for community impact through its Day of Dance initiative. Held at the Greeley Family FunPlex, Day of Dance 2013 offered a wide range of activities, games, health education and dancing. The event drew 3,500 people, up from 1,500 in 2012.

Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, was one of two Colorado state senators to receive a “Legislator of the Year” award from the American Legislative Exchange Council at its annual meeting in Chicago. At ALEC, conservative elected officials and representatives of business interests collaborate to produce model policies, providing drafts that members can customize and introduce in their own state legislatures.

NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing Co. has added what it calls an “unexpected kick” to its 2013 fall seasonal pumpkin beer. Pumpkick Ale is brewed with pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice – plus a healthy dose of cranberries. The aroma is full of spicy pumpkin, with a hint of cranberry and lemongrass. New Belgium’s press statement says it added some oats to “cream up the mouthfeel.” The brew is 6 percent alcohol by volume.

MOVES

Development-stage life-science company CHD Bioscience relocated its corporate headquarters to 2950 E. Harmony Road, Suite 252, in Fort Collins. Its research and technical work will remain at the Research Innovation Center at Colorado State University’s Foothills Campus.

Loveland-based Madwire Media will expand into space at the Rialto Theater Center, The fast-growing internet services company also had been looking at space in the Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology, but opted to go with the theater site instead.

OPENINGS

Everitt & Schilling Co., an interior design center that provides designs, details and interior finishes for homes and commercial spaces, opened at 151 W. Mountain Ave. in Fort Collins. The store is owned by Aaron Everitt and Luke Schilling, cousins whose families each have a long history in Fort Collins. Everitt formerly worked with Jamestown Homebuilders and Schilling came from Schilling Interiors.

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