The Confluence Center of Colorado breaks ground
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) – A few years ago, the Dos Rios Park opened its sidewalks to the community and on Wednesday there was a groundbreaking ceremony of the future sight of the Confluence Center.
Community members and officials from the city and state legislators were in attendance on Wednesday for a groundbreaking celebration.
Rusty Lloyd, executive director of Rivers Edge West and the president of the Board of the Confluence Center of Colorado, states, 'We started moving dirt this month, and so we're celebrating this, this momentous kind of first phase of this exciting building, a nonprofit building.'
The new building will house six local nonprofits that have similar goals of teaching kids about our water and land. For example, one nonprofit, EUREKA! McConnell Science Museum looks over the STREAM preschool. This program offers more than just STREAM education.
Jenn Moore, executive director for EUREKA! McConnell Science Museum, states, 'We're actually naming it the stream science, technology, rivers engineering, art and math in the STREAM preschool will be growing the next era of hydrologists and geologists and economists that are here to help us protect this valuable resource that we have in our backyard.'
The site will soon be a place for knowledge for the next generation.
Johanna van Waveren, executive director for the Colorado National Monument Association, states, 'I really think this is something special, because we're working so hard towards similar missions. so we're already collaborating. so to be able to be in one building and to be able to work together to make the next generation of leaders.'
And the best part about the center is naming it for what Junction is based off of.
Grand Junction City Council member Cody Kennedy states, 'I think it's an opportunity for us to come together as a community, to celebrate who we are being part of a community was built around a river and we should be looking for ways to care for it and incorporate it into our future.'
Joe Higgins, a member of the committee, states, 'I wish I had more money…'
WesternSlopeNow spoke with Higgins who was one of the major donors in this new building. Higgins says giving back to the future generation is something he wants to do
Higgins states, 'But the bottom line is, I do try to support things in the community that I think make a difference and make us a stronger and a better community. (…) It's really easy for me to be supportive of that and to invest in it with my own dollars.'
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