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Jessie Rule, event director at Desk Chair Workspace, decorates a scarecrow Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, outside the building in downtown Loveland for the 2022 Scarecrow Scavenger Hunt. (Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Scarecrow hunt coming to downtown Loveland
The Loveland Downtown District will hold a Scarecrow Scavenger Hunt Oct. 13-31.
Businesses can sign up to sponsor a scarecrow or can create their own scarecrows. Artists have also been selected to create scarecrows.
Installations will take place on Thursday, Oct. 12.
A Scarecrow Scavenger Hunt app will be released prior to the hunt starting.
For details, visit downtownloveland.org/scarecrow.
Columbine facilities earn five stars
Fort Collins-based Columbine Health Systems recently earned a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for each of its skilled nursing facilities.
It was rated “much above average” in the categories of health inspections, staffing and quality measures, according to a news release.
The rating places Columbine’s four skilled nursing facilities – Centre Avenue Health & Rehab, Columbine West Health & Rehab, Lemay Avenue Health & Rehab and Columbine Commons Health & Rehab – among the top 21% of nursing homes in Colorado, the release said.
In Brief
• James Fisher Technologies of Loveland won a federal contract award for $4,040,000 from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
• Jeff Sorensen of Loveland won a federal contract award for $54,940 from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, for pest control services.
• Avaya Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (No. US 11756090 B2, initially filed March 27, 2015) developed by three inventors, including George Erhart of Loveland, for “Automated coordinated co-browsing with text chat services.”
• Covidien LP of Mansfield, Mass.,has been assigned a patent (No. US 11744631 B2, initially filed Sept. 5, 2018) developed by six inventors, including Eric M. Westra of Loveland, for “Systems and methods for controlled electrosurgical coagulation.”
• Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (No. US 11748008 B2, initially filed Aug. 16, 2021) developed by Bruce A. Liikanen, Berthoud, Colorado, for “Changing of memory components to be used for a stripe based on an endurance condition.”
• Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (No. US 11757632 B2, initially filed Dec. 19, 2018) developed by Michael T. Brady of Loveland and David L. Miller of Boise, Idaho, for “Generating a random value based on a noise characteristic of a memory cell.”
• Seagate Technology LLC of Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (No. US 11748277 B2, initially filed March 5, 2020) developed by five inventors, including David W. Claude of Loveland, for “Client input/output (I/O) access rate variation compensation.”
• Seagate Technology LLC of Fremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (No. US 11755078 B2, initially filed June 22, 2021) developed by three inventors, including Brian Lee Burski of Loveland, for “Solid-state drive with printed circuit boards coupled by a flexible interconnect.”
• Spidertrax Inc. of Loveland has been assigned a patent (No. US 11754125 B2, initially filed April 5, 2021) developed by Thomas John Kingston of Loveland for “Universal joint with reinforced yoke ears.”
• Superturbo Technologies Inc. of Loveland has been assigned a patent (No. US 11753987 B2, initially filed Feb. 18, 2022) developed by three inventors, Marc Montgomery, Jared Howe and Ryan Sherrill, all of Loveland, for “Spring preload for traction drive.”
• Textron Innovations Inc. of Providence, R.I., has been assigned a patent (No. US 11745867 B2, initially filed Dec. 11, 2020) developed by three inventors, including George Ryan Decker of Loveland, for “Pylon conversion actuator for tiltrotor aircraft.”
• Valyant AI Inc. of Denver has been assigned a patent (No. US 11755836 B1, initially filed Feb. 18, 2020) developed by three inventors, including Jacob Daniel Poore of Loveland, for “Artificially intelligent order processing system.”
• Water Pik Inc. of Fort Collins, has been assigned a patent (No. US 11744690 B2, initially filed June 28, 2022) developed by Harold A. Luettgen of Windsor and Gary L. Sokol of Longmont, for “Toothbrush tip.”
• Human Bean Northern Colorado raised $5,400 for local food banks on Aug. 18, when the company donated $1 from every drink sold at any Human Bean Northern Colorado location. Proceeds were distributed between the Food Bank for Larimer County, Windsor Severance Food Pantry and Weld Food Bank. On Sept.15, Human Bean presented a check for $1,800 to each nonprofit.
• On Sept. 2 and July 1, Wilbur’s Total Beverage hosted Hamburgers for Hospice, which raised $1,200 for Pathways Grief and Loss Program, an initiative that offers counseling, support groups, and creative therapies to help individuals cope with grief following a loss or during a serious illness.
Calendar
• HWY 34 RV will host complimentary winterization classed Saturday, Sept. 30,at its new location 6175 W. 10th St., Greeley. The class is designed to show RV owners the necessary steps to winterize their vehicles at home. Each class will be limited to 10 people, and there will be a class every 20 minutes beginning at 10 a.m. with the final class at 11:20 a.m. A Q&A session and a solar panel demonstration will be offered 11:20-11:40 a.m. Registration is required. RSVP at hwy34rv.com/free-rv-winterization-classes.
• Guardian Storage will offer a free Shred-It event at 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 7 at its location at 1057 Buckingham St, Fort Collins. The service is free, though the company will accept donations of cash or unopened school supplies at the event to help support the Kids in Need Foundation. People can bring up to five file boxes’ worth of paper waste and should remove file clips before arrival. Visit guardianstorage.com/shred for full safety precautions and other information.
• Registration is open for the Flood and Peterson Symposium at 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at Embassy Suites, 4705 Clydesdale Parkway, Loveland. Tracks include transportation, human resources and benefits, safety and risk management. Registration is free. Website: facebook.com/floodandpeterson.
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The Reporter-Herald strives to include newsworthy business briefs for its readers each Sunday. The focus of business briefs is on Northern Colorado businesses, not business promotions.
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• Business closings.
• New contracts.
• Anniversaries (divisible by five).
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• Business organization meetings, workshops, seminars or classes meant for networking or education.
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