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MAY 2020 PUBLISHER

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Faces Of Fort Collins FORT COLLINS BUSINESS OWNERS, NON PROFIT AND VOLUNTEERS, MED-

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ING OUR COMMUNITY DURING THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES, WHERE WOULD

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WE BE WITHOUT YOU? It is during the hardest experiences that we, as a country, celebrate one another a bit more. Fort Collins Lifestyle wants to recognize the people who build our community, so please reach out and tell us how you are impacting Fort Collins. We’d love to hear from you.

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14 Faces Of Fort Collins The Business & Non-Profits Working Hard For Fort Collins

20 Women Who Rock Getting To Know Fort Collins Women In Music

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Community Through Coffee MUGS COFFEE LOUNGE ARTICLE HAILEY GROO

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IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THE

and they literally embody local culture in their

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motto, “Community Through Coffee.”

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Mugs was originally founded in 2002 by

OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. The small busi-

McCabe Callahan through the desire to do

nesses in our town are so much more than

something innovative in Fort Collins. Today,

a means to an end for the people who own

Mugs has two locations, the original on

them, work at them, and utilize their services

College in Old Town, and Mugs @ The Oval

- they are a shining example of the life force of

on Laurel. Marli Callahan, McCabe’s wife,

our community. Mugs has been a corner sta-

now manages the operations at both loca-

ple of the Fort Collins cafe scene since 2002,

tions alongside McCabe.

McCabe and Marli, both longtime Fort Collins residents, place great emphasis on fostering community through their business. Not only have they both been part of several local community organizations and groups over the years, but fostering and enhancing a sense of community in Fort Collins is the main goal of their business - great coffee comes second. They have had the unique opportunity to nourish our community for over 17 years, remaining a steady constant throughout all the growth and change our town has seen during that time. They have steadfastly and enthusiastically served an evolving Fort Collins community for nearly two decades, adapting along the way as trends, innovations, and local culture brought growth and development. To Marli and McCabe, community is the result of social capital invested through meaningful and authentic exchanges between people. Community Through Coffee is their slogan because coffee has been the centerpiece that we can all unite around. The interactions witnessed at Mugs even led McCabe to start another local business, Community Funded, which is an online and mobile funding platform that empowers organizations to connect their donors to stories that inspire engagement, advocacy, and retention. The staff at Mugs is filled with many longtime employees, another testament to Marli and McCabe’s dedication to fostering community through coffee. When you step inside Mugs, you are stepping inside so much more than a cafe. You are visiting the home of the Mugs family, the birthplace of great ideas and meaningful connections, and a space where you can feel truly welcome. When asked why community is such a big part of Mugs’ culture and motto, Marli and McCabe said that “When you prioritize the community and listen, you hear all you need to hear to have a successful business. Every Mugs that has ever existed was a result of a “barn-raising” by our community all contributing their areas of expertise. Community isn’t just a big part of our culture and motto, it is our entire culture and motto.”

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GIVING BACK (CONTINUED)

Mugs has focused on serving great coffee

Mugs isn’t just a business - it is an entire family

by good people, all while appreciating the of people living and working in our community. value of people gathering together. Like many During these difficult times, it is so important to other businesses in Fort Collins, Now more remember all the times that local businesses like than ever, it is absolutely crucial to recognize Mugs were there for you when you needed them. the significance and true value of gathering Now is the time to give back to the cornerstones places in our community like Mugs. 12

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OUR TOWN ARTICLE JAHNA EICHEL

FACES of FORT COLLINS THE BUSINESS & NONPROFITS WORKING HARD FOR FORT COLLINS

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TA I L S A N I M A L CHIROPRACTIC I’m Dr. Alisha Barnes, owner of Tails Animal Chiropractic Care. I am also 8 months pregnant. When the pandemic went into full effect, I had to make the tough decision to close my practice in an effort to keep everyone in my community as safe as possible. Not only did it weigh heavily on my heart that I would not be able to see my patients, it weighed heavily on my mind to lose out on revenue that I was saving for my maternity

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NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: Neighbor to Neighbor has been serving the Fort Collins community for 50 years, providing housing stability for thousands of families. This long-standing organization has weathered a lot of storms, but this crisis is presenting an unprecedented need for Rent Assistance. Neighbor to Neighbor is now taking our programs online to help keep everyone safe and also to streamline processes to assist as many people as possible. Applications for Rent Assistance are available at n2n.org/rent-assistance. Now, more than ever before, keeping people safely in their homes is critical. If you can help your neighbors, donations can be made at n2n.org/donate. CONTINUED >

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4 FORT COLLINS F A M I LY E Y E C A R E Fort Collins Family Eye Care continues to serve it’s patients by strategically spacing virtual and in-person reservations and has offered our patients the choice of how best to direct their health care. “There are important eye related side effects of the proposed high risk medications for treatment of COVID-19 that our community needs to know. Reducing the risk of distorted vision, blurred images, and permanent damage to the health of retinal cells in the back of the eye is of primary concern. Fort Collins Family Eye Care is one of three locations in the state that offers this preventative approach coupled with technologies to analyze the structure and function of eye health. There have been more changes in the eye care industry over the past three years than in the past 30 combined. Now is the time to insist on prevention for your eye health. Now is the time to evaluate with whom to place your long term eye care. Fort Collins Family EyeCare is ready to welcome you and offer the preventative perspective, even in the midst of global alarm. “ Dr. Jaclyn Munson told us. 16

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THE YOGA POD Yoga Pod has adapted as best they can by providing online classes for free to anyone on Facebook live and uploading them to YouTube as quickly as they can for any ever wider reach. “We also have a members only group that includes lectures on yogic philosophy. Our video views have been up over 3000% in one week and we have had yoga students from all over the world joining our classes online. The support of the community has made this possible and we could not be more grateful.”- Ken Conte told us.

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NOW MORE THAN EVER WE REALIZE THE IMPACT THAT LIVE MUSIC HAS ON OUR LIVES. We’ve spent time in our homes away from the excitement of finding a new local band to follow, venues & restaurants and making memories with our friends and family. Our creative community needs us to continue to support it by going to concerts, buying music and even the small but meaningful act of following them on social media and engaging with them online. Our friend and local musician Tyler Weston of The Kity Project & Sick Trick, sat down with the women who continue to amaze us with their talent and contributions to Fort Collins.

BONNIE SIMMS 33 - BONNIE AND THE CLYDES

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PERFORMING? IN FORT COLLINS AND OTHERWISE? Since I was three years old. My dad played children’s music and did this summer reading program at Texas libraries all over the state. It was a kids show about making the choice to read or be creative or write a poem, write a book. HOW HAVE YOU EVOLVED AS A MUSICIAN SINCE YOU FIRST BEGAN PERFORMING? So being a long time performer I feel like in my head I always had a way I thought it would be and reconciling that with how it really is has been my evolution as a performer. Just relaxing into who I am on stage instead of trying

K O C R H W O to be somebody on stage. I have a big personality anyways in real life, without a microphone. So I don’t need to play it up and I really had to learn to relax and not try to put on a show, just be myself.

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ALANA ROLFE 36 - VIVIAN, STELLA LUCE, FIERCE BAD RABBIT

WHAT FIRST GOT YOU INTO MUSIC? My parents. I’m from a musical family where both of my parents were music majors that decided to do something more lucrative. I started on violin when I was five and so did my siblings. I was in band and choir and stuff like that. My sister had piano lessons and my mom tried to convince me to do that too but I was a dancer too and I was tired of being in lessons. WHAT SORT OF MESSAGE, IF ANY, DO YOU TRY TO CONVEY WITH YOUR MUSIC? You know, I’ve been thinking about that one a lot actually. With writing the new stuff this week. I feel like, no, no overarching message but each song definitely. You could narrow each song down to a word or an emotion. When you’re songwriting, it could be about this thing that happened or this person or this one thing but in reality it’s about this shared experience that we all have. So the most recent one was about control. We’re all experiencing a severe lack or loss of control and some people are more into control than others. We’re all pretty much the same I believe so tapping into that shared experience as much as possible.

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ZOE BERMAN 24 - ZOE BERMAN WHAT IS YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS LIKE? That’s always a tricky question cause there’s no exact formula. I find that I often write lyrics first, 99% of the time. Sometimes I’ll come up with a lick on the piano or something on the guitar but I’ll end up pairing it with lyrics that I’ve already written cause I’ve got so many scraps of lyrics either in my songwriting books or in voice memos on my phone. So I’ll kind of mix and match that way. I’ll often find myself on a hike or a long walk and I’ll end up writing out, I’ll come up with some kind of idea or I’m struck by something and I’ll real quick write all the lyrics to a song or at least a verse and a chorus or something then I get home and actually try to figure out what that’s gonna sound like musically. It often changes completely. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SONG TO PERFORM? Right now, probably, so I have a song that’s coming out on all the streaming platforms, it’s on Bandcamp right now. But I did like a prerelease of it on band camp, but it’ll be out on April 10th. That song I played actually with Futon Down and they’re all the guys that played with it on the record so that song is really fun to perform. It’s called Edit, Delete, and Save. It’s really happy and has like a boppy horn section. I think I just put out a prerelease because people are doing nothing. This song is so happy and it’s all doo-woppy and I was just trying to think of anything that’s more positive that I could put into the world right now.

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S A R A H S L AT O N 33 - SARAH SLATON PREVIOUSLY OF EDISON WHAT FIRST GOT YOU INTO MUSIC? What first got me into music, Mr. Robin, my neighbor, playing guitar out in the driveway next door. That was always huge, our neighbor, whenever we were little-bitty kids, we’d always dance every night to him playing guitar. Whenever I got older I sang in church. We didn’t have instruments at my church so it was all acapella. I was never in choir but I really fell in love with vocal harmonies that way, and then when I was a teenager I turned super emo and listened to a lot of Dashboard Confessionals and Deathcab for Cutie and Counting Crows were really huge for me and I fell in love with songwriting that way. That kinda led me to start playing. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LIVE PERFORMANCE MEMORY? My favorite performance ever was when my band got to play at Red Rocks. It was for Film on the Rocks which is put on by the Denver Film Society in collaboration with Red Rocks. It was in 2017 and it was sold out, and we had all of our dear friends fly in from around the country and my family flew in and it was just a magical experience to have. Like, all the VIPs of your heart at one show. WHO HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST SUPPORTER? My mom, she was always my biggest supporter. She passed away in 2010 and she’s the reason that I ever played my first shows and when I was a teenager playing in coffee shops she would always come to my shows and bought me a guitar. My dad too, both my parents have been super supportive, but my mom’s been a huge influence on me and when she passed away it’s honestly the reason I ended up starting Edison. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO YOUNG WOMEN OR NEWER ARTISTS WHO ASPIRE TO BE MUSICIANS? I say focus on your craft and really work on expanding your working knowledge of music as a business. Especially if you want to be out gigging and releasing albums, don’t just wait for someone to tell you what to do. Learn how to do it yourself. I think that’s the most important lesson for any artist and for women just make sure that you stay confident and stay strong and don’t be afraid to speak up for the things that you want and the things that you’re passionate about.

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ERIN YOUNGBERG 38 - FY5 HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PERFORMING? In Fort Collins and otherwise? About 30 years, I had to stand on a little stool and I just busked with my dad a bunch. When their bass player quit their bluegrass band I was 12 and he told his bandmates like, ‘my daughter’s been playing bass for a couple years and she can keep up, let’s try her out.’ So I played this weekly gig at The Gun Barrel Steakhouse in Jackson Hole. It was nice because I could be there with my dad, so that was a cool connection that we got to share through my middle-school and high-school years. Then we got busier, we’d play weddings. You know, growing up in Jackson Hole, everybody goes up there to get married. So we got to learn a lot of cool songs and saw a lot of beautiful spots. Made more money than my highschool peers. They’d invite me to parties and I’m like, ‘sorry, I’ve got a gig with my dad.’ That afforded me to save up for college and kept me out of trouble. WHAT WOMEN HAVE BEEN MOST INSPIRING TO YOU AS AN ARTIST AND A WOMAN? Good question, and you’d think I would say yes, but all of my musical influences are dudes. All my favorite bass players were guys, bluegrass bass players. A lot of my vocal influencers bluegrass-wise were guys. I didn’t even learn who like Allison Kraus was, if I’m gonna stick to bluegrass as a genre, until I was in college. But I really loved Tony Rice and Tim Bryant, some of these other vocalists, I just like their delivery. I never really thought about trying to sound like a girl cause I have a lower voice anyways and, I don’t know, I never tried to jack up the key to sing like a girl. So I wasn’t really listening to girl singers either. I mean in highschool I think I went through like a Jewel phase and an Ani Defranko phase, but I never tried to emulate that, I just enjoyed it. So, as far as like inspiring me musically, not anybody specific. Besides people like my mom, I love my mom. She’s a go-getter, fearless, that kind of thing. You mention something and she gets it done right away, I love that about her. I have strong female family role models. WHO HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST SUPPORTER? My husband. I love that we can play music together and it’s not competitive. I’ve dated other musicians and it’s kind of fallen apart because it gets competitive and I really appreciate that we can support each other in that and hear what each other is going for musically and encourage and not take it personally when we’re like ‘try that note, it’s better than that note.’ When you’re learning to sing or to take a solo, he’s made me feel really safe in trying to learn new things. As a songwriter and a performer too. That’s been awesome and my dad I would say, encouraging me when I was younger. Sometimes he was learning a new banjo tune and be like ‘grab your bass’ and I’d roll my eyes like I don’t want to like, ‘c’mon it’ll take like 30 minutes,’ and he always hooked me in and then next thing we’d know we’d been jamming for two hours. I appreciate his playfulness with that as my parent when I was learning so I’m trying to impart that to our girls because I want them to enjoy music, but you have to practice to do that, so where’s the line, ‘let’s jam, show me what you’re learning, oh, do it again.’

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PACK YOUR SMALL SPACES WITH A BIG PUNCH BY STARTING YOUR OWN CONTAINER GARDEN

IT MAY BE THAT YOU DON’T HAVE MUCH SPACE TO WORK WITH; MAYBE YOU ARE ALWAYS ON-THE-MOVE; OR, MAYBE YOU JUST SIMPLY COLOR TO YOUR SPACE. It doesn’t matter what your reason may be. Container gardening—the practice of growing plants exclusively in containers rather than in the ground—is a great way to pack some punch into a small (or portable!) space. With container gardening, there are almost endless possibilities. Whether you’re looking to grow decorative plants or edible ones, there’s likely an option for you— and it doesn’t have to be limited to simply growing herbs

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on your windowsill. There are several factors to keep in mind when you first start your container garden, the first of which being to decide whether you’re going to keep it indoors or out. Different plants grow best in different environments, so be sure to choose species that will thrive where you’ve decided to put them—making sure they are receiving the proper amount of sunlight and moisture.

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Here are a few other things to be aware of when you get started: CONTAINER SIZES: Large containers may be easier to grow plants in than small since

they have more space for large root systems and larger amounts of soil retain more moisture. + CONTAINER DRAINAGE: Your container must have a drainage system—even if it’s just a few holes you drill in it yourself. For plants that need to be watered more frequently, consider self-watering containers. + CONTAINER MATERIALS: The fun thing about container gardens is that you don’t have to limit yourself. Get creative with the containers you use (while keeping the above information in mind)! We love repurposing vintage items into unique containers.

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Try these container garden combos:

Why stick with one kind of garden? Once you’re a container garden pro, there are tons of different theme gardens you can create all around your home. CLEAN-AIR GARDEN Snake Plant + Spider Plant + Dragon Plant + English Ivy FRAGRANCE GARDEN Lavender + Lemongrass + Mint LEMON GARDEN Lemon Verbena + Lemon Balm + Lemongrass + Lemon Geranium

Save some space by building your garden vertically instead of horizontally. If you’re running out of room indoors, try placing all your pots on an old bookshelf or baker’s rack.

The containers you choose are going to largely depend on the type of plant you’re trying to grow and the best space and environment for it to grow in. If you’re looking for the bare basics, there are a lot of different vegetables — like cabbage, celery, green onions, lettuce and leeks — that can grow in water alone. If you’re looking for a way to use that vintage glassware or pitchers hiding in your cupboards, here’s your chance! If you don’t have a lot of counter space (or space in general for that matter), herbs don’t need a ton of room to grow. Consider turning several small planters into a window garden for basil, cilantro, dill or thyme. In order to grow larger plants, such as tomatoes, lemons or — yes, even avocados — you’ll need some larger containers, like large pots, baskets or box planters.

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