TUESDAY ❖ NOVEMBER 17, 2009
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craig daily press VOL. 108, NO. 229
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‘Friends like these’ Former resident wins volunteerism award By COLLIN SMITH DAILY PRESS WRITER
BOTTOM LEFT: TAEKWONDO grand master Jim Sautel demonstrates some of the art’s exercises during a seminar hosted by the Colorado Taekwondo Institute on Saturday at the Centennial Mall. Sautel is a seventh-degree black belt and was brought in by Jason Walker, master of the Craig branch of the Colorado Taekwondo Institute. TOP LEFT: SAUTEL LEADS A SESSION on technique during the seminar Saturday. Sautel made moral qualities, such as respect and politeness, a part of his teaching throughout the event. TOP RIGHT: SAUTEL HOLDS A TARGET for a student practicing his striking. In this exercise, the teacher counted how many kicks a student could land on the target in a ten-second period. (Photos by Shawn McHugh/Daily Press)
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BROADENED HORIZONS: Intercambio, a free Spanish and English conversation group, meets from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the Boys & Girls Club of Craig, 1324 E. U.S. Highway 40. For more information, e-mail Eveline Bacon at learn@ciiccolorado.org.
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When Pres Askew moved to Craig in the 1990s, it was to help take care of his grandchildren after retirement, not to help take care of the entire community’s children. Soon, however, he found himself doing exactly that. Askew was named the Out standing Vol unteer of the Pres Askew Year at the 20th Annual Nation al Philanthropy Day in Colora do on Friday in Denver, in part because of his role in galvanizing community support to open the Boys & Girls Club of Craig about five years ago. Askew’s daughter, Pamela Kinder, who co-owns Kinder Family Clinic in Craig, said she never knew him to be very active in programs for youths until he moved here. Now, Askew is the president of the Colorado Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs and chairman of the Tony Grampsas Youth Services Board, which grants state funding to local youth organizations around the state. “It was really surprising, and now it’s kind of his passion,” Kinder said. “I couldn’t be more proud.” Askew said he started as a volunteer for the Recreation Afterschool Doorway program once available to Craig’s fifth- and sixth-graders, and he soon realized it did too much good to limit it to select students. “I was just helping kids with their homework and other things,” Askew said. “You could see from being involved in it that it was really beneficial for children to have something after school. We would hear from teachers, also, who would say the kids were doing better with their behavior and in their schoolwork. “I thought, ‘Well, if it’s good See AWARD on page 3