{"id":2449857,"date":"2019-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-skiing-co-receives-an-honor-from-governors-office\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:00:00","slug":"aspen-skiing-co-receives-an-honor-from-governors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-skiing-co-receives-an-honor-from-governors-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Skiing Co. receives an honor from governor\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crowds at the mall in Snowmass on Jan. 5. The holiday hordes were spread out rather than concetrated this season.<\/strong>
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Along with late Broncos owner Pat Bowlen and four other Colorado residents, Aspen Skiing Co. was recognized recently with a Colorado Governor\u2019s Citizenship Medal for its role in the community.<\/p>\n

The Medal awards were started in 2015 by an executive order and is one of the highest honors given to Colorado residents and organizations who play a role in the state\u2019s communities. The honors were handed out Saturday at an event in Denver.<\/p>\n

Skico received the corporate citizenship medal for having a \u201ccollective responsibility to ensure that the company is a rewarding place to work and the community a desirable place to live. They respect and nurture the delicate balance between \u2018resort\u2019 and \u2018community,\u2019 that makes them unique,\u201d according to Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe comments from the governor and the selection committee were really about our mission statement of live passionately, awaken the spirit, elevate community and honor place,\u201d Kaplan said Monday. \u201cAnd that commitment about being more than a ski area and being a place where people come to connect and people come to work to contribute to make a difference in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Gill, who is a part-time Aspen resident, received the Vanguard Legacy honor for his Gill Foundation, which was started in 1994 and is one of the leaders in funding for LGBT rights.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s office honored the late Bowlen with the Colorado Mountain Leader award, which goes for work in the state and also has an impact nationally. Bowlen, who died in June, owned the Denver Broncos for 35 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great to see the other honorees who all were pretty inspiring. Obviously the Bowlen family, and Pat Bowlen\u2019s legacy in the state and beyond,\u201d Kaplan said, \u201cand Tim Gill. It was fun to hear Tim talk about his passion for snowboarding and his passion for Aspen. It was very much a Colorado values and leadership in Colorado kind of night to hopefully show the way for the rest of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also honored were: Kylee Cisneros-Gomez of Antonio as the Emerging Community Leader; David Brown and David Cohen of Techstars for the Growth and Innovation award; and Barbara O\u2019Brien of the Denver Public Schools for Public and Community Service.<\/p>\n

Kaplan said the bulk of the winter season employees will start to come back in two weeks and it will be a conversation from the manager level to the new employees orientations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time of year, it\u2019s actually perfect because we are getting geared up to welcome everybody back,\u201d Kaplan said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be sure to use this as an example that validates their efforts and makes it all worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crowds at the mall in Snowmass on Jan. 5. The holiday hordes were spread out rather than concetrated this season.Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times Along with late Broncos owner Pat Bowlen and four other Colorado residents, Aspen Skiing Co. was recognized recently with a Colorado Governor\u2019s Citizenship Medal for its role in the community. The Medal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 14:57:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}