Summer of Service Has Begun!

This month marked the beginning of project work for our Summer of Service crews. To help give you a better perspective of what the Summer of Service entails, I have combined a few numbers to make it clearer. 12 weeks of service 13 crews 106 youth employed as Corpsmembers 34 youth are chain-saw certified 25 [...]

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Toast the Corps at MHYC’s 2010 Fall Wine Tasting

The weather may not seem Autumn-like, but October is here and that means less than two weeks before Mile High Youth Corps 2010 Fall Wine Tasting on Thursday, October 14 from 6:30-8:30 at downtown Denver’s premier high-rise community SPIRE, 891 W. 14th Street. Tickets are $40 and available here. Tickets will be $45 at the [...]

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Sawyer Education Day

From the South… Last Friday the fall Sawyer Crew spent the day at the Garden of the Gods Park and in class at the MHYC office. The day began with the movie “How Did Those Rocks Get There?” which taught the crew about the origin of the famous rock formations. The crew headed back to [...]

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Mental Toughness

On Monday a new crew of potential YouthBuild Corpsmembers will come to MHYC for “Mental Toughness.” Below, Alanis Chambers a 2010 YouthBuild graduate and current YouthBuild Alumni Mentor explains what Mental Toughness is, how it works and what makes a good YouthBuild Corpsmember. “Mental toughness is the month before the program begins. It is to [...]

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From the South…

The Colorado Springs youth Corps merged with Mile High Youth Corps last summer. Despite the distance (exactly 69 miles) we make a great team. Check out our “From the South…” blogs starting today to find out what’s up down here! Currently our Fall Sawyer Crew is at Cheyenne Mountain State Park thinning oak. In an [...]

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End of Summer BBQ

Today the whole MHYC gang – and we mean the WHOLE gang including MHYC CO Springs Crews, Summer of Service Crews, Water and Energy Conservation Crews, staff members, family, friends and MHYC supporters – gathered at a Denver park for the annual end of Summer BBQ. Every year the crews compete in the MHYC Olympics, [...]

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Getting to the Nitty Gritty: CO Springs Energy Crew

We are the first crew of the new Colorado Springs location of the Mile High Youth Corps (MHYC). Last July, we started working with the Energy Resource Center (ERC) here in Colorado Springs as Energy & Weatherization Interns. The ERC is a local non-profit organization that is part of a network of agencies for Colorado’s [...]

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