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THE SEASON FOR SHARING
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Aims expands metal art program to Fort Lupton
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Creative Welding program debuts in Fort Lupton this semester BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Officials at Aims Community College are hoping their Fort Lupton campus can become the starting point for a new generation of metal artists. “We want to expand the class to more folk and communities that want to learn how to create art with welding,” said Cody Jones, Department Chairman for the Welding and Technology Department for the Fort Lupton and Greeley Aims Community campuses. Aims has offered a welding program at the Greeley campus for ten years and the Fort Lupton campus for seven years. The Creative Welding class has been successfully taught at the Greeley campus, so the administration decided to bring it to the Fort Lupton campus. This is the first time the Creative Welding program will be offered at the Fort Lupton Aims campus. It kicks off in this upcoming semester, set to begin in February. The instructor for this class is Brian Martella, who owns Erie Atomic Forge & Welding. Martella and has an art sculpture degree from CSU. “He has been running his own Eventually, more than a decade business in art sculpture and general ago, she found a home at Orchard metal fabrication for over 20 years Crossing Apartments in Westminand has been teaching at Aims for BY TAYLER SHAW AND LUKE ZARZECKI said. ster. It is an affordable housing 10 years. He’s a fantastic instructor,” COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA The rising cost of housing in the community that includes Section Jones said. Denver area has made it difficult 8 housing, the federal government Jones said that each Creative A home means everything to for her to afford a home. She spent program that provides vouchers to Welding student works on their project, each with different ideas. Shelley Gilson, a 50-year-old single years bounding around working low-income families, the disabled “The class is designed for anybody mother of three girls who works as for low pay, including to several and elderly. Every yearservice beforeagent Thanksgiving, First United Methodist Church in Fort Lupton and the Fort Lupton Food and Clothing—Bank community withprovide zero experience or those a guest at an airline. affordable housing communities members with food boxes. This will be the program’s 10th consecutive year. Above, Joe Hubert, left China Garcia and Sue Hubert with Change Change, SEE TRICKLING UP, P7 who have been doing it for410 to 15 “It’s one word: priceless,” she across the state. years and may need little extra guidanother organization that helps with the food drive. See more on Page 2.
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