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• After a successful first year, Himalayan Healers Spa Boutique and massage therapy announces that Sudarshana Adhikari will be taking over 100 percent of the operation. Adhikari specializes in Ayurvedic and Nepali massages. Prices are $50 for a one-hour massage, or purchase a package of two for $40 each. A 90-minute massage runs $70, or two for $60 each. Gift certificates are available.
Himalayan Healers is located at 131 S. Sixth St., suite 2, behind Main Street Bagels, in downtown Grand Junction. For information or to make an appointment, call 234-9072 or visit www.himalayanhealers.org.
• Curves, a ladies-only fitness gym, is encouraging women in the local area to show their philanthropic strength by participating in the annual Curves Food Drive. From March 1-31, Curves locations in the area will collect nonperishable items and monetary donations for food banks in the local area.
Members who donate a bag of groceries or make a minimum donation of $30 during the month of March will receive a reusable Curves grocery freezer bag for free. Nonmembers who do likewise between March 8 and 20 can join Curves for free. Curves will waive the cost to join.
For more information about and the Curves Food Drive, contact Kelli Oneal at, Curves of Grand Junction, 2478 Patterson Road, suite 23, at 245-7318; or at Curves of Clifton, 590 32 Road, suite 5, at 434-7331.
• Tickets are on sale right now for the second in a series of three-course dinners at Il Bistro Italiano March 28 featuring the regional foods and wines of the Lazio region of Italy. This is a joint event hosted by Il Bistro and Planet Wines. Dinner is at 5 p.m. and cost is $55. Purchase tickets at Il Bistro, 400 Main St., or at Planet Wines, 420 Main St. For more information, call Mike Chariton, owner of Planet Wines, at 424-5432.
• Keller Williams Realty recently announced that Colorado Heritage Real Estate Company in Battlement Mesa has merged with their Grand Junction organization.
CEO Sandy Barger Borman said she is excited to begin growth up the I-70 corridor. Keller Williams Grand Junction Realty now has 71 agents with the seven agents added from this merger.
“The experience level of the agents coming to Keller Williams from Colorado Heritage will provide wonderful expansion opportunities for our office,” Barger Borman said.
Jack Pretti, former owner and managing broker of Colorado Heritage, is the current chair of the Glenwood Springs Association of Realtors and has a long successful track record in real estate. Colorado Heritage has boasted a majority market share in their area. The agents who have joined Keller in addition to Pretti are Karen Jones, Pete Rock, Jim Warren, Cookie Schaller, Paula Dueitt, and Mary Lee Mohrlang.
• The Grand Junction Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Center announces that Gino Mazza II, C.F.E.R., has successfully completed the Board Certification for Sterile Processing and Distribution.
Mazza is now the only “Certified Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor” on the Western Slope. He has been in the sterile processing field for 13 years.
• Grand Junction-based Ruby Canyon Engineering (RCE), an engineering consulting company whose main focus is greenhouse gas emissions, has been awarded a portion of the $400,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Methane to Markets grant. For this project, RCE is subcontracting with the University of Colorado.
Through this grant, RCE will develop inventories of gassy abandoned coal mines and estimate their abandoned mine methane emissions in the coal-bearing regions of Shanxi and Hebei Provinces, China. The project is scheduled to begin in March 2010. RCE was instrumental in developing the U.S. abandoned mine methane emissions inventory for the U.S. EPA.
Ruby Canyon Engineering Inc. was founded in 2005 and is located at 743 Horizon Court, suite 385. For more information, visit www.rubycanyoneng.com.
• David Posta was the top producer for the month of January at Cherry Creek Mortgage.
Posta joined Cherry Creek a few months ago after owning and operating Apex Mortgage for several years.
Posta is a devoted father to his two girls and one boy and great husband to his wife, Melissa, of eight years. His personal hobbies include snowboarding and scuba diving.
Reach him at 243-7800.
• Congratulations Michael Wulfeck, January employee of the month at Family Health West!
During his first year at Family Health West, Wulfeck, working in Environmental Services, was recognized as an outstanding employee by his coworkers.
Michael was born in Indianapolis, Ind. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Seabee and was a member of a 12-man special forces combat unit that served a two-year tour in Vietnam. After the service, he attended the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since then, Michael held two notable positions, one with the Department of Interior as a senior water specialist for the Water Resource Division of the U.S. Geological Society where he was awarded two special achievement awards, and with ROHR Aerospace where he was an engineering tech assisting on components of the F14 Tomcat, the Titan 4 Rocket and the Space Shuttle.
Michael fell in love with the lifestyle in eastern Utah and western Colorado and today he lives in Fruita.
Himalayan Healers is located at 131 S. Sixth St., suite 2, behind Main Street Bagels, in downtown Grand Junction. For information or to make an appointment, call 234-9072 or visit www.himalayanhealers.org.
• Curves, a ladies-only fitness gym, is encouraging women in the local area to show their philanthropic strength by participating in the annual Curves Food Drive. From March 1-31, Curves locations in the area will collect nonperishable items and monetary donations for food banks in the local area.
Members who donate a bag of groceries or make a minimum donation of $30 during the month of March will receive a reusable Curves grocery freezer bag for free. Nonmembers who do likewise between March 8 and 20 can join Curves for free. Curves will waive the cost to join.
For more information about and the Curves Food Drive, contact Kelli Oneal at, Curves of Grand Junction, 2478 Patterson Road, suite 23, at 245-7318; or at Curves of Clifton, 590 32 Road, suite 5, at 434-7331.
• Tickets are on sale right now for the second in a series of three-course dinners at Il Bistro Italiano March 28 featuring the regional foods and wines of the Lazio region of Italy. This is a joint event hosted by Il Bistro and Planet Wines. Dinner is at 5 p.m. and cost is $55. Purchase tickets at Il Bistro, 400 Main St., or at Planet Wines, 420 Main St. For more information, call Mike Chariton, owner of Planet Wines, at 424-5432.
• Keller Williams Realty recently announced that Colorado Heritage Real Estate Company in Battlement Mesa has merged with their Grand Junction organization.
CEO Sandy Barger Borman said she is excited to begin growth up the I-70 corridor. Keller Williams Grand Junction Realty now has 71 agents with the seven agents added from this merger.
“The experience level of the agents coming to Keller Williams from Colorado Heritage will provide wonderful expansion opportunities for our office,” Barger Borman said.
Jack Pretti, former owner and managing broker of Colorado Heritage, is the current chair of the Glenwood Springs Association of Realtors and has a long successful track record in real estate. Colorado Heritage has boasted a majority market share in their area. The agents who have joined Keller in addition to Pretti are Karen Jones, Pete Rock, Jim Warren, Cookie Schaller, Paula Dueitt, and Mary Lee Mohrlang.
• The Grand Junction Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Center announces that Gino Mazza II, C.F.E.R., has successfully completed the Board Certification for Sterile Processing and Distribution.
Mazza is now the only “Certified Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor” on the Western Slope. He has been in the sterile processing field for 13 years.
• Grand Junction-based Ruby Canyon Engineering (RCE), an engineering consulting company whose main focus is greenhouse gas emissions, has been awarded a portion of the $400,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Methane to Markets grant. For this project, RCE is subcontracting with the University of Colorado.
Through this grant, RCE will develop inventories of gassy abandoned coal mines and estimate their abandoned mine methane emissions in the coal-bearing regions of Shanxi and Hebei Provinces, China. The project is scheduled to begin in March 2010. RCE was instrumental in developing the U.S. abandoned mine methane emissions inventory for the U.S. EPA.
Ruby Canyon Engineering Inc. was founded in 2005 and is located at 743 Horizon Court, suite 385. For more information, visit www.rubycanyoneng.com.
• David Posta was the top producer for the month of January at Cherry Creek Mortgage.
Posta joined Cherry Creek a few months ago after owning and operating Apex Mortgage for several years.
Posta is a devoted father to his two girls and one boy and great husband to his wife, Melissa, of eight years. His personal hobbies include snowboarding and scuba diving.
Reach him at 243-7800.
• Congratulations Michael Wulfeck, January employee of the month at Family Health West!
During his first year at Family Health West, Wulfeck, working in Environmental Services, was recognized as an outstanding employee by his coworkers.
Michael was born in Indianapolis, Ind. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Seabee and was a member of a 12-man special forces combat unit that served a two-year tour in Vietnam. After the service, he attended the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since then, Michael held two notable positions, one with the Department of Interior as a senior water specialist for the Water Resource Division of the U.S. Geological Society where he was awarded two special achievement awards, and with ROHR Aerospace where he was an engineering tech assisting on components of the F14 Tomcat, the Titan 4 Rocket and the Space Shuttle.
Michael fell in love with the lifestyle in eastern Utah and western Colorado and today he lives in Fruita.
