Cajun's Closet - All Spruced Up After Renovation & Ready for Shoppers

The Cat Care Society's "Cajun's Closet" Thrift Shop is newly renovated and ready for shoppers to explore - Wed through Sat, 9-5. Cajun's is Denver Westword's 2011 Best Thrift Store. We're located at 5707 W. 6th Ave - the red brick building next to the Cat Care Society shelter with the huge "Thrift Shop" banner on the roof. Check us out online: http://www.westword.com/bestof/2011/award/best-thrift-store-1770550/

We took a sneak peek at the better, brighter Cajun's today:


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Denver and the West: 'Job-growth ideas for Colorado sent to Obama'

Quoting from yesterday's Denver Post coverage: "After hustling together a group of business leaders to figure out what it would take to spur job growth in Colorado, Democrat Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall​ and Gov. John Hickenlooper shipped the findings to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, a week before he is set to unveil his jobs plan...

Those who participated included Mark Sirangelo, head of Sierra Nevada Space Systems, and Holli Riebel, president of the Colorado Bioscience Association. The business leaders held a series of meetings in the past several months to compile their recommendations."

Link to denverpost.com

Link to similar coverage in The Colorado Independent

Link to similar coverage by the Denver Business Journal

Link to the DBJ pdf posting of the “Colorado Competes” report

Thirteen Fitzsimons Companies Selected to Present at Regional Life Science Conference

Companies from the Colorado Science + Technology Park at Fitzsimons will comprise about half of all presenters at this year’s Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor and Partnering Conference. Located at the Brown Palace Hotel in Downtown Denver, the event will feature 30 presenting companies. The conference is organized by the Colorado BioScience Association as the Rocky Mountain region’s premier investor and partner conference. Link to the news release pdf

CCS' Suellen Scott and Rodrigo help 9News' Patti Dennis celebrate her Outstanding Women in Business award

The Cat Care Society's own Suellen Scott and resident kitty Rodrigo helped 9News' Patti Dennis celebrate her 'Outstanding Women in Business' award presented this week by the Denver Business Journal. Patti Dennis started PetLine 9 (among many more contributions).

Suellen and Rodrigo were at the 9News studios for a PetLine 9 interview when the Denver Business Journal photographer Kathleen Levine was shooting Patti's award photos.

Congratulations, Patti!

Link to the article

MassDevice: 'Colorado Sen. to FDA: Regulatory science isn't enough'

Quoting from the posting:

"The FDA's newly minted plan to revamp its scientific methods isn't enough to ensure that the watchdog agency is doing its part in driving the global economy, according to junior Senator Michael Bennet (CO-D).

'I applaud the FDA's efforts to advance regulatory science through the recent release of the Agency's - Strategic Plan for Regulatory Science -but believe there is much more to be done,' Bennet wrote in a recent letter to FDA head Dr. Margaret Hamburg."

Further, on Monday (Aug 22) Senator Bennet brought FDA Commissioner Hamburg to Colorado, with two administration colleagues for a CEO Roundtable assembled by the Colorado BioScience Association at the Anschutz Medical Campus.

Link to the related CBSA Business Wire

Link to the related CBSA PitchEngine Social Media Release

Link to the MassDevice posting

CEO Roundtable: Senator Michael Bennet, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg at Anschutz Medical Campus Yesterday

The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) worked with Senator Michael Bennet's office in assembling a group of more than 35 bioscience industry CEOs from its membership to dialogue with the Senator and Margaret Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and Dr. Vicki Seyfert-Margolis, Senior Science Advisor to the FDA’s Chief Scientist, accompanied Commissioner Hamburg here.

The announcement is made by Holli Riebel (formerly Baumunk), CBSA President & CEO, who says "Senator Bennet invited Commissioner Hamburg and her colleagues to Colorado for the CEO Roundtable. The session is a positive next step to work CBSA has already contributed to Senator Bennet's Coloradoans For An Innovation Economy (CFAIE), and speaks strongly to the work the Senator is doing on our industry's behalf. We appreciate the opportunity to host Commissioner Hamburg in our state for the first time and share our industry's specific and unique needs for bringing innovative drugs and devices to market under current, often constraining, market conditions."

According to Lilly Marks, VP for Health Affairs and Executive Vice Chancellor, Anschutz Medical Campus, the Roundtable session took place on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora where the FDA delegation also toured research and clinical trial facilities before departing the city.

Link to the Business Wire release

NCBR: 'Fort Collins companies to present at Denver science conference'

Quoting from the August 17th posting:

"DENVER - Three Fort Collins companies will present at the 2011 Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor and Partnering Conference, to be held at the Brown Palace Hotel, 321 17th St. in Denver Sept. 21 and 22. KromaTiD Inc., bioscience company focused on the creation of new products for chromosome analysis; Inviragen Inc., a vaccine development specialist; and VetDC Inc., which focuses on reverse-engineering human medicine to help treat animals, were selected to appear at the conference...The conference is presented by the Colorado Bioscience Association, and is expected to be attended by more than 50 national investment firms."

Link to ncbr.com