New retailer, April Cornell, opens 50th store in Boulder

April Cornell has opened its 50th store in the United States in Boulder. The store, founded by April and Chris Cornell and opened March 22, is located at 1123 Pearl St.

April Cornell is a fashion retailer with nature being the focus of the designs. The store carries such items as table linens, romantic apparel and hand-painted home furnishings, all of which are decorated with colorful flowers, leaves and birds.

The items in the store were inspired by the Cornell’s vacations to India, Indonesia and Turkey. Through all these vacations, they collected things which they eventually housed in a boutique in Montreal.

Now they own stores across the United States with plans to eventually have an 80-store chain.

Kathy Coyne, the director of Community Food Share, is stepping down from her position.

After spending 19 years as director and having met all of her goals for the organization, Coyne is retiring.

Employees, board members and volunteers met to say goodbye to Coyne and to celebrate everything she had done for the organization.

The Community Food Share is a non-profit organization located in Niwot. The organization helps fight hunger in the county by acquiring food from farmers, food companies and private citizens to distribute to homeless shelters and other related agencies.

Since Coyne started the Food Share in 1981 as the first employee, she has expanded it to 12 full-time employees and distributed more than 1.5 million pounds of food last year alone.

The Colorado seasonal unemployment rate was down to a record low of 2.6 percent in January. The cause for this was better-than-expected employment gains and fewer persons looking for work.

According to Vickie L. Armstrong, director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, the current rate is below December’s rate of 2.8 percent and last year’s rate of 2.8 percent.

Also, Labor Force data has confirmed that the annual jobless rate fell to 2.9 percent in 1999, down from 3.8 percent the previous year and the lowest in a series going back to 1978.

Total resident employment expanded by about 43,000 while unemployment slipped about 20,000. As a result, overall labor force growth in the state was only up 23,000.

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