Candace Krebs
The Ag Journal
Many years ago, when Ft. Morgan-based business consultant Cathy Shull was president of the Colorado Rural Development Council, she attended a meeting in Cripple Creek.
Someone in the area had written a play about suicide among rural teens, which featured a few student actors sitting around on hay bales talking about their lives and struggles.
“It was the most eye-opening thing I ever saw,” she recalls now. “That brought the issue into focus for me better than all of the Power Point presentations or articles in the newspaper could have done.”
Shull, who is director of Pro15, an advocacy group for northeastern Colorado, was reminded of its impact during a recent “Plain Talk” webinar she hosted with Meredith Badler, deputy director for Colorado Business Community for the Arts.