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Copper Cannon s biggest fundraiser goes virtual
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February 24, 2021LITTLETON Although vaccines have begun to roll out statewide, persistent and ongoing COVID concerns have led Copper Cannon Camp officials to shift their most important annual fundraiser to a digital platform this year.
Bidders can participate in a virtual silent auction beginning Wednesday, March 3 and ending at noon on Sunday, March 7. The traditional live auction hosted by emcees Chip Stowell and Bill Mellekas will be held through Zoom on the evening of Saturday, March 6. Attendees can expect to win raffles, hear testimonials from past campers and learn Copper Cannon trivia during the night s presentation, as in years past.
When Robbie Balenger decided one day that he would become the plant-based Forest Gump, he never anticipated how the journey would change his life, physically, mentally, and emotionally. It changed my entire identity, Balenger says since although he was the 330th person to run across the United States, and ran the full distance on a vegan diet. To be able to cover the 3,200 miles in 75 days without any animal protein, proved yet again that you don t need to eat meat to be an elite endurance athlete.
The 2019 cross country journey began two years after Balenger left his job running a pizza shop in Austin (he was not plant-based at the time). He moved to Denver with his fiancee, where he hoped to find a new passion and job. In 2018, a year after he had settled in Colorado, to his surprise, he still felt lost but had a desire to pick-up the hobbies that had made him feel his happiest in the past. One of those was running, something he had always enjoyed. He first started by s