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A social and charitable organization founded in part by Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel newspaper. According to Grand Junction Lions Club founder Silmon Smith, the Rotary Club came into existence when the original Grand Junction Lions Club folded in 1922, with some Lions members joining the Rotary. According to William "Bill" Rump, whose father Charles Rump was a charter member, the Grand Junction Rotary was an early proponent...
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A utility service that generates distributes and sells electricity in Colorado. Currently, it's a subsidiary of Xcel Energy. According to William "Bill" Rump, his father Charles Rump served as the local manager in the 1920's or 1930's. According to longtime employee Robert Gustafson, the company consisted of different divisions organized by region. By 1945, when Gustafson was office manager of the Grand Junction division (formed in the late 1920’s...
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It was established in 1913 as The Redlands Realty Company by Albert J. Schwartz, W. C. Osborne, and R. J. Bardwell. It was preceded by the Redlands Water and Power Company, which was organized in 1905. The history of the two companies intertwines, with the Water and Power Company conceived of as a means to bring to fruition the broader development and sale of real estate on the Redlands. According to William Rump, whose father Charles Rump was involved...
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Originally called the Redlands Irrigation and Power Company in 1905, it was created to run irrigation operations on the Redlands area and run a hydro-electric plant. Currently, it's called the Redlands Water and Power Company and is a non-profit organization. The company was conceived as a way to provide the Redlands with the necessary utilities for growth as a community. It was organized in 1905 and incorporated in 1906 by F.C. Keifer, A.J. McCune,...
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Created by people of the Redlands, it began as a social club that met in the homes of people around the Redlands in 1921. Viola Rump and other women were the primary founders. When the Grand Junction Country Club and Golf Course (now the Redlands Community Center) put its building and grounds up for sale during the Great Depression, the Women's Club held dinners and dances to raise money to purchase it. The Club held many luncheons, dinners and...
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According to Marjorie (Morrow) Thomas, who grew up in New Liberty, it was a women’s club organized shortly after the settlement of the New Liberty area in the early Twentieth century [1918]. The club held dances and other events in the New Liberty school. The name for the club was suggested by Mrs. Sumnicht, one of the “old timers” in the area. It helped out families in need and sponsored events. They also made quilts and did some work for the...
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A bank that operated from roughly 1918 until 1922. At that point, its owners bought out the competing Palisades National Bank, and the two institutions merged. The name Palisades National Bank was used, and the Producers Exchange name was discontinued (information from the oral history of Luella (Muth) Morgan). *Image of the bank courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
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A local branch of the national organization that develops youth into leaders in the agricultural industry.
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A country club that owned and operated a club house and nine-hole golf course from August 1921-1937 on the Redlands at 2463 Broadway. When the organization dissolved during the Great Depression, the buildings were sold to Redlands Women's Club, who raised the money to do so through bake sales and other fundraisers.
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While it is not known what became of Grand Junction’s first attempt to organize a public library (a meeting of the Grand Junction Library Association in January 1883), we do know that an effort in 1897 was successful. When Grand Junction was sixteen years old, members of two women’s clubs, the Grand Mesa Club and the Grand Junction Womens Club, united as the Woman’s Library Association in 1894. The goal of the association was to establish a...
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An organization founded in 1895. It was a predecessor to The Twentieth Century Club and other women’s organizations. Among its accomplishments, the club organized a small subscription library in a building on Main Street where the Avalon Theater now stands. The library was established entirely with donated books. At first, the library was open only to members of the Women’s Club, but then was opened to for the use of anyone in the public “whose...
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A women’s club begun by Harriette (Dyke) Ottman, who had moved to the Pomona area from the Midwest by 1900. Lucy (Ferril) Ela states that the club began around 1901. It disbanded after a short time and several members later became members of the Reviewers Club. While professor Don MacKendrick maintains in his lecture on Grand Junction's cultural history that the Twentieth Century Club assisted in the creation of the Grand Junction Public Library,...
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According to William McHarg Ela, the cattle ranch was begun by his great-uncle Charles “Charley” Ela, who had come from New Hampshire in 1881 to the Little Dolores River while working for the Palisade Land and Cattle Company. He seems to have died around 1883 and his brother Wendell Phillips Ela arrived to take his place in the business. The Sleeper family eventually took over ownership of the ranch. It was co-owned by John Frank Sleeper, a...
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A bank founded in 1905. At the time of its inception, J.J. Durkee was the bank president and Herman W. Kluge was a bank director. T.W. Bowman became president of the bank in 1910, shortly after the institution had constructed a new building on Main Street and was in danger of insolvency. He helped keep the bank solvent and remained the president until 1942. According to oral history interviewee Luella Morgan, who worked for the Producers Exchange...
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Yampa Valley Sustainability Council (YVSC) is a nonprofit organization based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, that fosters and maintains sustainable practices in the Yampa Valley region.
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Piknik Theatre is a nonprofit theater company in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Piknik Theatre creates professional, entertaining, and inclusive performing arts in the Yampa Valley.
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The Telluride Tourism Board’s mission is to market and maintain the quality of the Telluride region experience for the benefit of both the visitor and the economic sustainability of the community.
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