Every Community Has a Story, What's Yours?
As told to writer Cindy Baldwin I lay on the floor of my silent mobile home praying to God that there would be some way out, bargaining with Him that there would be some way I could get my kids back. I had left an abusive husband and my family a year before, moving several hundred miles from home … [Read more...]
Being a mom is the most challenging job you will ever have, but at the same time the most rewarding. Before my daughter was born… I don’t know. My husband and I, we would just kind of go out to eat here or there, you know. It was Peppy O’Tools until they closed, now it’s Coyote’s. We didn’t have … [Read more...]
About a year ago- well, a little less than a year ago, in May of last year- there was this new cadet on patrol and he was just about to graduate cadet school. He was in the car with another patrolman, coincidentally whose father I worked with in the Sheriff’s department. Well, both of them were hit … [Read more...]
The speed at which a place closes up after you’re gone is scary, regardless of what you might have done during your time there. It just doesn’t even matter. None of it really matters. And, you know, my uncle on my mother’s side was Glenn Miller. He was actually inducted into the Colorado Music … [Read more...]
I would say it started in the year 2000, when my niece called me and told me my mom had fallen. By the time I got to my niece’s, where my mom was staying, she had already been taken to the hospital. I went to the hospital, and the doctors told me she did not have long to live. So, I called my … [Read more...]
Life can be planned to an extent, but interests change. Change… If anyone asked me a year back if I would have been a wife to someone or even a mother, I would have chuckled. With many different ways I could have went with my life, I picked one of the hardest but most rewarding jobs. The blessing … [Read more...]
I’ve lived in Greeley for my whole career — came here in 1999 and graduated from the residency program in 2002. I’ve been the sole wage earner my whole career, which wasn’t really the plan, but my husband just hasn’t found his niche. In Greeley, that’s a decent lifestyle, one professional — half … [Read more...]
We started putting on a block party a few years ago. It was a strong way to build culture in our community. Eight to ten thousand people would show up, which is crazy for a small town like Greeley. We were able to hire local bands, and people dipped in and out of the bars and shops while the bands … [Read more...]
I was pretty into music growing up. After I got to high school, I started playing in rock band, and we won the “Battle of the Bands”. So after that I knew I wanted to be: a rock star. I moved to Greeley with my band in 2006. A couple of us were going to UNC, a couple of us were just working up here. … [Read more...]
The sheer size of Greeley has really changed. When I was a kid, 35th Avenue was the city limit, and now it’s out by Windsor. As far as a city goes, it’s huge. I think the population has been about eighty thousand for a while now. Of course with students coming in, it grows another ten thousand every … [Read more...]
