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 Milan Rewerts |
 Bob Heil |
 Glenn Schmidt |
 John Stulp |
Bob Heil will introduce CSU Extension 4-H Agent for Larimer County, Wendy Woerner, who will honor this year’s 4-H scholarship recipient, Rebecca “Becky” Hutchens.
Glenn Schmidt will present the Service to Agriculture Award to Terry Anders, President and CEO, Mountain Plains Farm Credit Services for their work in helping with competitive financing for small producers and the rest of rural America since being chartered by Congress in 1917.
Glenn will also present the Master Agriculturalist Award to Bill Markham and the Markham family, owner operators of M&M Farms, recognizing more than 100 years in production agriculture in the Longmont, Berthoud and Loveland area. There have been four generations of Markhams on the current home of M & M Farms: Walter, Willard, Bill and Brett Markham.
Keynote speaker, Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture John Stulp, is no stranger to vital issues facing agriculture and will discuss how the Department of Agriculture can assist rural Colorado with new opportunities like renewable energy to overcome challenges posed by drought and disease.
Stulp is a Powers County farmer and rancher who served as a Prowers County commissioner from 1991, when he was appointed to fill a vacancy, until January 2005. He served on numerous other boards and commissions, including the Board of Agriculture (1986 to 1995), Wildlife Commission (1995-99), the Connect Colorado technology committee (1996) and the Colorado Ag Development Authority and Value Added Board (2005-06).
A member of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union since 1975, Stulp, for the last several years has been a leading proponent of building wind farms in rural Colorado as a way to develop new economic opportunities and jobs for Colorado's farmers and ranchers. His family farming operation is home to the Lamar Light and Power Wind Farm and Stulp is a principal in Prairie Wind Energy LLC.
He graduated from Yuma High School in 1966, earned his bachelor's degree in veterinary science from Colorado State University in 1970 and his doctor of veterinary medicine from CSU in 1972. He and his wife, Jane, have five children.
 Lloyd Thomas |
 Chuck Rutenberg |
 Steve Laine |
If you have an interest in participating in this program or want more information, please contact Don Unger at donunger@comcast.net or Chuck Rutenberg at donunger@comcast.net .
 Rebecca Levy |
Rebecca intends to attend a university in northern California to study business and hopes to study a year in Europe.
The Board granted leaves of absence to Tanis Roeder who has accepted a new position in Longmont and to Connie Pfeiffenberger. The board also acknowledged the resignations of Rob Cagen and Bob Brookover.
 Doug Hutchinson |
 Darin Atteberry |
 Eric Nichols |
 Carol Bennis |
 Doug Johnson |
Doug said that the focus of today’s program would be the Mason Street Corridor, now called the Mason Corridor, and that the focus of that project has changed from a transportation project to being an economic development project. Four panelists would describe the Mason Corridor project from different perspectives. Three of the four panelists were partners or collaborators in the project and the fourth was the city. While each panelist spoke, a silent video was shown that depicted what the corridor would look like in the future.
Mayor Hutchinson first introduced fellow club member and city manager, Darin Atteberry, who gave us a passionate description of the transformation of the Mason Corridor project from a transportation project to the economic engine and enabler project for the city. He said that it will be the biggest public works project in Fort Collins history, a 74 million dollar project, and 80% coming from the federal budget. The remaining 20% of the project costs will be from the State's SB-1 Transit program. An economic study done by a consultant, EPS, indicted that the project would generate 108 million dollars in economic activity from the construction aspect alone.
The mayor next introduced Eric Nichols, of Realtec Commercial Real Estate Services, who called the corridor project a legacy project, key to economic development for the next twenty to thirty years. Because Fort Collins now has a fixed growth development area, GDA, our growth in the future would come from infill and that the corridor would facilitate that infill. Eric also indicated that the project would alleviate many of our current community challenges, such as student housing, affordable housing and transportation headaches.
Carol Bennis, Executive Director of Beet Street, was next introduced by Doug. She called the Mason Corridor an arts and cultural spine. Beet Street as we heard last weeks hopes to bring in the cultural tourist to Fort Collins with the expectation that over twenty percent of the audiences for arts and cultural programs would come from outside of the city. She said that a transportation spine would be the only way that Beet Street could meet its goals.
The fourth panel member was Doug Johnson, Executive Director of UniverCity Connections. Our club heard about the purpose and direction of this organization in a past program. Doug took us on an imaginary walk, a day in the life of the corridor in the future. That walk started at the Engines Lab in north Fort Collins and proceeded south for the five miles of the corridor. Along the way he mentioned all of the entities that would be reached by the transportation of the corridor and that would be of interest to residents, students, business people, visitors and tourists. He emphasized that it is this connectivity of the community that makes this project an economic project vital to the future of our city.
Additional information can be found at the web page prepared by the city about the Mason Corridor. It can be found at: Mason Corridor The web page includes a link to the video that we saw during the presentation, with the sound included.
| 1964 ---- Dale Peterson | 1978 ---- Edwin W. Johnson | 1992 ---- Robert C. Graves |
| 1965 ---- John Weitzel | 1979 ---- Francis Bee | 1993 ---- Adrian Weaver |
| 1966 ---- Steve Goodwin | 1980 ---- Kenneth Thayer | 1994 ---- Ken Knievel |
| 1967 ---- Roy Portner | 1981 ---- Sam Matsuda | 1995 ---- Willis Smith |
| 1968 ---- Harlan Seaworth | 1982 ---- Robert L. Stieben | 1996 ---- Calvin Johnson |
| 1969 ---- John Worthington | 1983 ---- Earl E. Hoff | 1997 ---- Richard Seaworth |
| 1970 ---- LeRoy Swanson | 1984 ---- Albert Kraft Sr. | 1998 ---- Rodney Nelson |
| 1971 ---- M.A. "Pat" Ferree | 1985 ---- Edward Hansen | 1999 ---- Don Le Fever |
| 1972 ---- Glenn Johnson | 1986 ---- Roland Feit | 2000 ---- Susan Moore &Jon Slutsky |
| 1973 ---- Philip Schnorr | 1987 ---- Raymond Rein | 2001 ---- Terry Dye |
| 1974 ---- R.E. Greenwalt | 1988 ---- Ron Ruff | 2002 ---- Lewis Grant |
| 1975 ---- H.F. Lind | 1989 ---- Michael Dickinson | 2004 ---- Eldon & Trulie Ackerman |
| 1976 ---- Paul Waag | 1990 ---- Reinholt Blehm | 2005 ---- Mario Herrera |
| 1977 ---- Ernest Nelson | 1991 ---- Gene & Allan Winick | 2006 ---- Jackie Holdemess Worthington |
| 2007 ---- Philip Christopher Schnorr |
| Year | Organization | Representative |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Centennial livestock Auction | Wayne Kruse |
| 2003 | Centennial Bank of the West | W. D. Farr |
| 2004 | Howard Stonaker | |
| 2005 | Ranchway Feeds, Inc. | The Bixler Family |
| 2006 | CSU County Cooperative Extension | Laurel Kubin |
| 2007 | Natural Resources Conservation Services | Todd D. Boldt |
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