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A couple of mainstays in the Summit County real estate and social scenes are soon moving down the hill and back to the Denver area.
Ken and Mary Deshaies of Silverthorne, who own SnowHome Properties and founded the long-running Summit Social Club, a Google-based group site with 300 members, say they will relocate March 1.
Their SnowHome assistant Jason Brewer will keep things running up here, and Ken will still oversee the Summit Social.
The downturn in the real estate market coupled with Ken's heart bypass surgery in December put a different light on things, he said during our coffee chat this week at Abbey's.
“If we'd known much earlier how long this economic downturn would last, we likely would have moved much sooner,” says Ken. “At least in Denver Metro, sales are still happening, and we have lots of family, friends and contacts there — it's a chance to start over.”
“In addition, I had open-heart surgery in December, and it's brought me a new perspective,” adds the former private investigator-turned-Realtor and published real estate author.
“I'm rather tired of working 12-14-hour days, seven days a week, as I did for about 14 years — 18 years here and it's time to move,” the active 65-year-old says. “We have lots of friends here and plan to visit often.”
Ken authored two books with Gabriel Publications: “How to Make Your Realtor Get You the Best Deal” in 1999, and “Get the Best Deal When Selling Your Home” in 2005. He also served as president of the Summit Association of Realtors.
Mary, whose background was in oil and gas, but became a broker with Ken in 1993, plans to seek more relaxing employment.
An admitted gadfly in community politics, Ken was asked by another wag via Hey, Spike!, “Who's going to keep Silverthorne's government honest?” he matter-of-factly responded: “Who's keeping them honest now?”
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Dillon resident and international educational guru Dr. Bill Spady ventured out to Utah's Thompson Canyon, off I-70, with longtime friend Bruce “Mr. Stereo” Wenger of just outside Washington, D.C., to visit a pictographs site with Steve the Shaman.
According to Steve, archaeologists think some of the paintings were made around 7,000 BC.
“If you think these pictures look like spacemen, so did we,” says Bill.
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Among those many thousands of International Snow Sculpture Championships visitors up in the Kingdom of Breckenridge were Michael Magill, a senior Seagate engineer and partner artist Jewel Ashley, who live in Arvada; and Longmont-ers Vicky and Randy Burrack. She is a registered nurse and clinical director for Front Range Orthopedic Surgery Center, and Randy's the operations senior VP at the First National Bank of Colorado.
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Hey, Spike! ran into Kim Dykstra-DiLallo, our “fav” spokesperson for the Town of Breckenridge, who sadly notes the recent losses of four popular business leaders: Marty Lassow, Marty Hibberd, Mary Ellen Orwig and Mary Zink Caamano.
Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed “Spike,” a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a local since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers here for 20 years.
Email your social info to milesfporteriv@aol.com
Ken and Mary Deshaies of Silverthorne, who own SnowHome Properties and founded the long-running Summit Social Club, a Google-based group site with 300 members, say they will relocate March 1.
Their SnowHome assistant Jason Brewer will keep things running up here, and Ken will still oversee the Summit Social.
The downturn in the real estate market coupled with Ken's heart bypass surgery in December put a different light on things, he said during our coffee chat this week at Abbey's.
“If we'd known much earlier how long this economic downturn would last, we likely would have moved much sooner,” says Ken. “At least in Denver Metro, sales are still happening, and we have lots of family, friends and contacts there — it's a chance to start over.”
“In addition, I had open-heart surgery in December, and it's brought me a new perspective,” adds the former private investigator-turned-Realtor and published real estate author.
“I'm rather tired of working 12-14-hour days, seven days a week, as I did for about 14 years — 18 years here and it's time to move,” the active 65-year-old says. “We have lots of friends here and plan to visit often.”
Ken authored two books with Gabriel Publications: “How to Make Your Realtor Get You the Best Deal” in 1999, and “Get the Best Deal When Selling Your Home” in 2005. He also served as president of the Summit Association of Realtors.
Mary, whose background was in oil and gas, but became a broker with Ken in 1993, plans to seek more relaxing employment.
An admitted gadfly in community politics, Ken was asked by another wag via Hey, Spike!, “Who's going to keep Silverthorne's government honest?” he matter-of-factly responded: “Who's keeping them honest now?”
***
Dillon resident and international educational guru Dr. Bill Spady ventured out to Utah's Thompson Canyon, off I-70, with longtime friend Bruce “Mr. Stereo” Wenger of just outside Washington, D.C., to visit a pictographs site with Steve the Shaman.
According to Steve, archaeologists think some of the paintings were made around 7,000 BC.
“If you think these pictures look like spacemen, so did we,” says Bill.
***
Among those many thousands of International Snow Sculpture Championships visitors up in the Kingdom of Breckenridge were Michael Magill, a senior Seagate engineer and partner artist Jewel Ashley, who live in Arvada; and Longmont-ers Vicky and Randy Burrack. She is a registered nurse and clinical director for Front Range Orthopedic Surgery Center, and Randy's the operations senior VP at the First National Bank of Colorado.
***
Hey, Spike! ran into Kim Dykstra-DiLallo, our “fav” spokesperson for the Town of Breckenridge, who sadly notes the recent losses of four popular business leaders: Marty Lassow, Marty Hibberd, Mary Ellen Orwig and Mary Zink Caamano.
Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed “Spike,” a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a local since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers here for 20 years.
Email your social info to milesfporteriv@aol.com
