Vail’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs provide students with opportunities to gain job skills, certifications, and even employment out of high school. And, the programs certainly set students up with a launching pad to pursue advanced certifications, degrees, and professions. Vail’s CTE programs are an integral part of helping...
By Jill Wells In keeping with Vail Unified School District’s motto, “Where Education is a Community Effort,” Resources Vail Food Bank maintains a unique program in collaboration with Vail USD that works to meet the needs of children with food insecurity. The Weekend Backpack Program provides each eligible student on Friday afternoons with enough...
By K. Nepsa I recently read a great article in The Vail Voice highlighting one of Vail’s new premiere neighborhoods. If you’ve driven through the greater Vail area recently, you may have seen a few new neighborhoods being built faster than you can say “new homes.” And if you’re a potential homeowner of one of these new beautiful homes, then you...
By Miki Lee Hall This Easter as we give thanks for Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection, we find that looking more closely at the day of Thanksgiving celebrated here in our country may help us to celebrate Easter more dearly. Why do the churches not herald the story of Squanto from the rooftops to prove to a disbelieving...
The Good Neighbor Place Online remote computer services enable monitoring of the computer’s health and proactively resolve computer issues before they become a pain. Things are going to happen to your computer that require attention or put it at risk like, viruses, new software updates or data breaches… The online connection to the computer is a...
Disaster Preparedness – A Community Effort By Rick Bass Being prepared for a national emergency or crisis is critical for everyone’s survival in these turbulent and unpredictable times. Supply chain problems, food shortages and limited essential services may be the fall-out of the current geo-political and global challenges. Being prepared can...
By Anthony Samuel With many Americans complaining about meat department prices, I’m going to drop a few helpful hints to ease the pain in the meat aisle: Price compare among your local stores, as each week different stores have different commodities on sale. Even if you have to drive a few extra miles, it’s worth it in the end.Buy bulk...
By Hollie Warnick That’s just what life is: a play full of light and shadow. It’s so easy to love ourselves and others when we are at our best, when we are achieving and blowing past expectations. It’s when we fall short, “fail”, and mess up that it’s hard to show self-love or compassion for others. Sometimes we even consider our “mess ups” to be...
By Rabbi Yisroel Shemtov This year, on April 12, marks the120th birthday of Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory (1902-1994), the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty. He is considered to have been the most phenomenal Jewish personality of modern times. To hundreds of thousands of followers and...
By Alisha Brewer It’s that time of year again when the warm sunshine beckons us outside. While we spend more time outdoors, it becomes more likely that we will run into some of the creatures that share our home. Spring is the perfect time for snakes. They love the weather as much as we do. For some, just the thought of a snake can send them into a...
