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Event Templates
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Event Templates

Do you use templates for marketing materials? Probably. What about for an automated email response? This is likely a template that you built quickly, and it goes out anytime you receive

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All Fired Up
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All Fired Up

From tableware and serving bowls to portrait busts, bird baths, and garden beasts, Chapel Hill’s Community Clay Studio has offered an extensive variety of ceramics classes to residents

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Smooth Skating
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Smooth Skating

In 2009, a group of local high school-aged skateboarding enthusiasts—frustrated by a lack of nearby skateboarding opportunities—lobbied their state delegate for funding to build a

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Time Well Spent
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Time Well Spent

“Nice move.” “Checkmate!” “Good game, man.” These are all common phrases one might hear at any chess match.  For a few moments, as I study the board, I forget that this is no ordinary

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Ready To Ride
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Ready To Ride

Etched into the natural terrain of an 80-acre urban park is Denver Parks and Recreation’s (DPR) Ruby Hill Bike Park. Unveiled in July 2016, Ruby Hill, the largest public bike park,  is a

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Something To Smile About
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Something To Smile About

Amazon.com has become a staple in online shopping. The company saw record-breaking sales in 2016, bringing in $43.7 billion in the fourth quarter alone. And now your park foundation or

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Tell it Like it Is!
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Tell it Like it Is!

If you’ve read my columns in the past, you might remember me quoting a presenter I saw several years ago at a conference (unfortunately, I remember the statement but not the

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

When did it all change? When you read the words above by some of the great minds of their time and contrast that with the people we read about today, there is an absolute conflict in

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Sharing Secrets
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Sharing Secrets

Many years ago, the girls’ basketball program was one of the most popular winter league activities that I oversaw in Wilmington, Del.

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