AARP Colorado

Blog by Jane Barton

Give Nurses More Authority to Heal

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Join AARP staff, volunteers and other members at the Arvada Center for a performance of The Great Gatsby. Stop by the AARP Meet and Greet and mingle with local staff, volunteers and fellow members and hear what AARP

The AARP Foundation in Colorado is working with a variety of community partners to present the second annual Fraud Prevention and Safety Summit—a one-day, no-cost event to empower you with tools and information to stay safe and avoid fraud before it happens. The event is organized by the 18th Judicial District Office of the District Attorney and will be held Thursday, May 15, 2014, at the Parker Arts, Culture and Events (PACE) Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Avenue in Parker, Colo.

Blog by CJay Smith, CEC

Join AARP at City Park for the 5th Annual Jodi's Race for Awareness on Saturday June 7, 2014 and raise awareness about ovarian cancer. Knowing the symptoms of ovarian cancer may save your life or the life of someone you love. Ovarian cancer symptoms include:

AARP Colorado ASD Advocacy Director Kelli Fritts was chosen by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) to receive the agency’s Distinguished Service Award on April 23, 2014.

Workshop One: SELLING YOUR SELF

So I’m leaving one of my favorite neighborhood garden stores, and once again, for about the third year in a row, (no pun intended,) I think about planting a garden. Not a big garden, but something that would yield me some of the summer harvest I so enjoy. I think about my grandmother having a garden and so did my mother. I remember collard and turnip greens, squash, red, yellow and green peppers, and my favorite, cabbage. At Sunday dinner, if we ran out of tomatoes, someone would volunteer to make a trip to the grocery store and my grandmother would say, “No need to do that, just go out back to the garden and pick two or three, and while you are at it, pull up some onions too…”