A DORSET-based manufacturer has ended the year on a high by reaching a massive £200,000 milestone in money raised for its charity partner. Superior, a sealing technology manufacturer in Wimborne, has raised £200,000 for Julia s House, a children s hospice charity supporting children and families in Dorset and Wiltshire. The manufacturing company has supported Julia s House since 2008 and, in this year alone, has raised £27,000 for the charity to ensure it hit the milestone before the end of the year. Staff have taken on a range of fundraising challenges over the years, including bike rides and Tough Mudder, and one brave worker even trekked the Great Wall of China.
Dorset-based manufacturer Superior has ended the year on a high by reaching £200,000 raised for its charity partner Julia’s House. Superior has supported Julia’s House children’s hospices since 2008 and in this year alone, despite not being able to fundraise in the usual manner due to the current pandemic, the business has donated just under £27,000 to ensure it hits the £200K milestone before the end of the year. Martin Edwards, Chief Executive of Julia’s House, said: “It has been a year like no other, particularly for the children and families Julia’s House supports, who have often felt fearful and isolated during lockdown. We’ve been caring throughout the pandemic and this has only been possible because our supporters have been with us, still fundraising and still donating.
Shepherd Focuses on the Why
By John Yevuta - | Dec 16, 2020
Any weekend warrior can tell you that fitness is as much about the mind as it is the body. That’s not lost on trainer Sarah Seabrook, who has built her business, Prodigy Fitness, by encouraging people of all sizes, shapes, and ages to get active.
As our area’s fitness doyenne, her own athletic accomplishments are impressive–a lifelong swimmer, a varsity high school athlete, and as an adult, a regular participant in “tough mudder” races. Prodigy clients will tell you that her inclusive approach to training, which capitalizes on her empathy and energy, is an even greater talent.
Opening ceremonies for Beaver Creek were held on Dec. 15, 1980. From left to right: Brain Rapp, president of Beaver Creek Resort Company; Harry Bass, chairman of Vail Associates; unidentified Forest Service representative; Jack Marshall, president of Vail Associates; then-governor Dick Lamm; former U.S. president Gerald Ford. (Vail Resorts
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Editor’s Note: The Vail Daily’s Tricia Swenson has compiled this information from talks with longtime locals, her own experience as a Beaver Creek Children’s Ski and Snowboard School instructor and from books from the Avon Public Library.
The first known inhabitants of the Beaver Creek Valley were primarily the Utes as well as hunting parties from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes. The Utes were called “Blue Sky People” by other tribes. They called the peaks that surrounded them “The Shining Mountains.”
Sheep Dog members stand ready to lend aid where it s needed
A sheep dog protects its flock watching out for predators and herding them to safety when necessary. A local group of veterans and first-responders use that ideology to give back and help the community in a variety of different ways.
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CINCINNATI â A sheep dog protects its flock watching out for predators and herding them to safety when necessary. In this case, the story isn t about an actual dog, but in reality itâs more of what the sheep dog represents that makes it a powerful symbol for a veteran and first responder group who is always at the ready to serve and protect others.