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Making Hayden Pop

Jun 12, 2024 | steamboatmagazine.com | Lyla Baker

06/12/2024 02:29PM●By Lyla Baker(Photo: Sophie Picking’s mural decorates the outside of the home decor store, Roost, in Hayden. Courtesy of One Reel Media House.)Featured in Steamboat Magazine Home Edition 2024. Steamboat Springs, CO - Standing outside of the home decor store, Roost, in Hayden, Colorado, one can’t help but smile at the colorful pooches indulging in a scoop of ice cream, immortalized in colorful paint strokes and pops of pastel.
STANDing Up Against Discrimination

May 2, 2024 | steamboatmagazine.com | Lyla Baker

(Photo: The “One Love Steamboat” mural, created by local students, lines the entrance to the tunnel under U.S. 40 from Starbucks to Walgreens. Courtesy of STAND.) Steamboat Springs, CO - A swastika was drawn on a car in the parking lot of the Steamboat Springs High School one month after Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahary started her new role as Rabbi of the Har Mishpacha congregation.
SSHS Students share essays focusing on Antisemitism and Discrimination

Jan 14, 2024 | steamboatradio.com | Shannon Lukens |Lyla Baker |Vanessa Perez |Vanessa Pérez |Will Hall

By Shannon Lukens. STAND (Steamboat Team to disrupt Antisemitism and Discrimination) sponsored an essay contest for students who shared stories about discrimination and bias. Five essays were chosen and awarded prizes. the essays were coordinated by the Student Programming and Support Committee, led by Jay Hamric, Jenny Shea, and Brian Krill.
STAND essay: Grandmother’s internment

Dec 27, 2023 | steamboatpilot.com | Lyla Baker

Editor’s note: The Steamboat Team to disrupt Antisemitism and Discrimination, or STAND, recently sponsored an essay contest in partnership with Steamboat Springs High School and invited sophomores, juniors and seniors to submit their work. Writers were asked to either tell a story of a time they have felt empathy for a marginalized person or group or identify and describe a time or situation when they felt like “the other,” stereotyped or outside the norm.
Get Ready for Another Steamboat Halloween

Oct 26, 2023 | steamboatmagazine.com | Lyla Baker

(Photo: Cast/crew of the 2023 "Screamboat" haunted house at Colorado Mountain College. Courtesy of Colorado Mountain College.)Steamboat Springs, CO - Looking to celebrate the spooky season in style? Steamboat Springs offers no shortage of opportunities. Dance the night away at United Way’s Monster Mash party at the Steamboat Grand.
Community Fit for a Fit Community

Oct 13, 2023 | steamboatmagazine.com | Lyla Baker

10/13/2023 07:02AM●By Lyla BakerSteamboat Springs, CO - After going through a serious illness or surgery, some find themselves asking: what’s next? How do I bridge the gap between where I am now and where I can be? Steamboat Springs local Rebecca Williams has provided a resource in Community Fit, a newly launched nonprofit that provides community members with the tools they need to recover and restore a healthy life.
The Feel of the Forest

Oct 5, 2023 | steamboatmagazine.com | Lyla Baker

(Photo: "Emerald Mountain" by Marion Kahn | 20” x 20” oil on canvas.)Steamboat Springs, CO - Marion Kahn used to be afraid of color. But now she is fearless, with a style that she describes as bold, expressive, experimental and joyful- and she is bringing it to Zandee Gallery in downtown Steamboat Springs this October for her upcoming show, “Thinking About It”. Marion always loved to draw and express herself, but didn’t consider it as a career.