• Houska Automotive in Fort Collins has scheduled its semiannual Women’s Car Care Clinic for 10 a.m. to noon April 7. The free clinic at the Houska shop, 899 Riverside Ave., will educate women on auto repairs and maintenance and allow them to ask questions of Houska’s mechanics.
• At the Governor’s Awards ceremony April 13, Downtown Colorado Inc. will honor Ginger and Baker, which renovated a 110-year-old grain mill in downtown Fort Collins into two restaurants, a rooftop bar, a market, bakery, teaching kitchen, event spaces and a coffee shop. Ginger and Baker is one of two winners in the Best Adaptive Reuse or Rehabilitation category. The Estes Park Library also will be honored as the winner of the Colorful Colorado Award.
• Daniel Insurance Agency in Fort Collins will distribute the workers’ compensations checks that are due to local employers that have maintained safe workplaces. The checks will come from Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s leading workers’ comp provider. Pinnacol’s board declared a 2018 general dividend of $50 million, and almost 53,000 employers across the state will get checks averaging $944, based on premium size and performance.
• The Colorado State University student chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors organization won second place in the recent ABC National Construction Management Competition in Long Beach, Calif. The team from Colorado State also won second place in the estimating category and third in project management and scheduling.
• The city of Fort Collins has selected Fort Collins-based CGRS to provide general environmental services over the next five years. CGRS already had worked on petroleum-related projects for the city, and the new contract will cover services such as environmental assessments, site remediation, health assessment risks and emergency response to hazardous spills, leaks and tank rollovers.
• North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley is enhancing its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The hospital, operated by Banner Health, will change its nursery from Level 2 to Level 3 and add incubators, ventilators, infant warmers, bilirubin lights and blankets, breast pumps and high-flow oxygen setups. Previously, the Level 2 NICU provided respiratory support for newborns for only a day or two before they were transferred to a higher-level facility.
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• Dr. Allison Brekke has joined Aspen Grove Veterinary Care in Fort Collins as an associate veterinarian. Brekke earned her doctor of veterinary medicine degree at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. She was in charge of the medical care of a large military working dog population when she served in the U.S. Army.
• Fort Collins comic book artist Moriah Hummer has been selected by simplyHR to illustrate its ” Define the Line” workplace harassment training comic book. Hummer writes and illustrates the Flat Track Furies series of comic books “which follow the adventures of the Nuclear City Furies as they play roller derby, fight monsters and learn about teamwork and friendship.”
• Loveland resident Steven Walker and Fort Collins residents Joseph Pawelski and Thomas Ingraham designed a “conveyed bottle guide apparatus and method” for which Flexibility Engineering of Loveland was assigned a patent.
• Bradley Clements and Perry Pierce, both of Fort Collins, invented “haptics for a handheld input apparatus” for which Microsoft Technology Licensing of Redmond, Wash., was assigned a patent.
• Domenico Chiera of Fort Collins was one of two co-inventors who developed a “controlled spark ignited flame kernel flow,” “passive prechamber direct injection combustion” and advancements in gaseous fuel combustion for which Woodward Inc. of Fort Collins was assigned three patents.
• Fort Collins residents Kevin Lear, David Dandy, Matthew Stephens and Guangwei Yuan invented an optical analyte sensor for which the Colorado State University Research Foundation in Fort Collins was assigned a patent.
• Sean Serell of Fort Collins invented an “encoding tool for a combination cap” for which Secure Medication Systems in Fort Collins was assigned a patent.
• Robert Handa of Fort Collins was one of three co-inventors who developed “the use of equol for treating androgen mediated diseases” for which the Colorado State University Research Foundation in Fort Collins and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, were assigned a patent.
• Mark Kollar of Fort Collins invented a “pharmaceutical composition comprising benzyl alcohol for the treatment of migraines” for which St. Renatus of Fort Collins was assigned a patent.
• Michael Handley of Windsor was a member of a team of inventors who developed “catheter-based apparatuses and methods” for which Transverse Medical in Fort Collins was assigned two patents.
• Fort Collins residents Curtis Richardson, Alan Morine, Brian Thomas, Jamie Johnson and Jason Thompson invented a “protective enclosure for a portable electronic device” for which Otter Products in Fort Collins was assigned a patent.
Calendar
April 3
• WY-CO Spring Regional Job Fair featuring almost 60 employers, First National Bank building at The Ranch in Loveland, organized by the workforce centers of Larimer, Weld and Boulder counties and Wyoming Workforce Services. Starts at 3 p.m. for military veterans and continues from 3:30 to 6 p.m. for all job seekers. Free; no registration required. Information: larimerworkforce.org/wy-co-regional-job-fair-spring-2018.
April 4-5
• Colorado Livestock Association‘s annual meeting and Colorado’s Finest Celebration, Embassy Suites in Loveland. Cost: $50 to $125. For more information and to register, go to coloradolivestock.org/events/annual.
April 18
• Loveland Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting for Penske Truck Leasing, 6310 Byrd Drive, Loveland, noon-12:30 p.m.
April 19
• Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, 11 a.m., Embassy Suites Loveland, 4705 Clydesdale Parkway. Cost: $50, or $25 for students. Register: bit.ly/2BeBSUr.
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