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CNCC selected for pilot project

CNCC has been selected by the Colorado Community College System Office to participate in a pilot project that will explore the effectiveness of centralizing some financial aid processes. › Continue reading

Tags: CNCC-Budget, financial aid, news briefs, pilot project

Banquet honors outstanding students

The Who’s Who award winners at the CNCC Rangely Honors Banquet. Photos by Andrea Gallegos.

By Kindal Cushman, Reporter

On Thursday, April 14, the 29th Annual CNCC-Rangely Honors Banquet was held in the Colorado Room. During this banquet, a total of eight awards or groups of awards were handed out that recognized outstanding students on campus. › Continue reading

Tags: Awards, CNCC-Rangely, Honors banquet

Rangely Senate picks 2011 officers

By Levi Cordova, Reporter

President Mathew Steele. Photos by Ayzha Haili.

If you want to get involved and be proactive in college, join Student Senate. Student Senate is where students get the opportunity to voice the concerns of the entire student body to the administration. › Continue reading

Tags: elections, Student Senate

Students test positive for STD’s

By Michael Dillon and Mat Steele, Copy Editor/Reporter

Chlamydia and other STD’s are a real threat on college campuses. Photo by Ayzha Haili.

Students have recently become aware that STDs are alive and well on the CNCC-Rangely campus. Some sexually active students have been getting tested for chlamydia.

According to Kim Long, Rio Blanco County Health Nurse, approximately 10-12 students have been tested, and a third of them have been infected. › Continue reading

Tags: Chlamydia, CNCC students, STD testing, STD's

Spring Fling fun

By Katie Stefanek, Reporter

Freshman Jamie Bair and Sophomore Ayzha Haili having fun with water balloons.

April 18-21, Spring Fling Week, featured many games and activities for the students at CNCC-Rangely.

On Monday, Spring Fling started off with a bonfire. Students gathered around, talked to friends, and ate hotdogs, chips, and pop. › Continue reading

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It’s been a good ride

By Ayzha Haili, Reporter

My name is Ayzha Haili. Two years ago, when I arrived in Rangely and began my journey here at CNCC, it was one of the hardest and scariest times of my life. › Continue reading

Tags: CNCC, graduation, Sophomore Reflection

Cosmetology program celebrates anniversary

By Michelle Einzinger, Reporter 

It’s been 10 years that Craig has had a cosmetology program, but do you really know what they have to offer? Twenty three people are currently enrolled in the program, and these students offer a variety of services, such as haircutting, hair color, manicuring, pedicuring, facials, backcials (a facial on your back with some massage), hairstyling, permanent waving, all-skin care, artificial nails, all waxing procedures and now hair removal by sugaring. › Continue reading

Tags: CNCC-Craig, Cosmetology

Western Slope native Cox loves what she does

By Michelle Einzinger, Reporter

Leana Cox. Photo by Ayzha Haili.

 Which CNCC employee was born six weeks premature in Grand Junction, Colo. on Nov. 27? Leana Cox, our librarian here at CNCC-Rangely. › Continue reading

Tags: CNCC Faculty, Leana Cox, library

Jah’s Salon gives CNCC women ‘the look of a lady’

Some of Jahnette Epperson's handiwork on hands.

Jahnette Epperson is a freshman student athlete on the Colorado Northwestern Community College campus. Epperson is a part of the women’s basketball team and will be returning as a sophomore leader for next season.

Jahnette Epperson always saw herself helping women feel beautiful. Now she has a way to do it through her hobby.

Epperson is from Denver, Colo. and graduated from Martin Luther King, Jr. (Early College) in 2010. She has kept her love for cosmetology going during high school and while here at college.

“I have been doing hair since I was little, but I got more into it during my junior year of high school,” says Epperson. “I would do my friends’ hair and nails for Homecoming and Prom or just because they would ask. I didn’t start doing fake nails until I got to college.”

During her free time, she enjoys doing hair, nails, playing basketball, working out, and drawing. Although she is busy with school and basketball, she does some cosmetology work on the side, such as hair and nails out of her room in Nichols 103 because it’s something she enjoys doing.

Also, on road trips, Epperson did many of her teammates’ nails and hair. She started by doing their natural nails and having some fun with it by adding a little bit of taste with some designs.

After basketball season was over, she started doing the real manicures with acrylic nails similar to those at a real nail salon.

“I love doing both hair and nails because I love making people feel good and making them feel beautiful,” says Epperson. “I’m also doing makeup so that my peers and friends can have the complete look of a lady going on.”

She generally does haircuts, flat ironing, curls, and braids.

Some women love the feeling of having the look of a lady, especially those ladies who have boyfriends, fiancés, and husbands they like to please.

“’Jah’s Salon’ is a great place to go if you want to get your hair and nails done,” says CNCC sophomore Ariel Sanchez.

Although Epperson isn’t licensed, she gets a lot of support from her family and peers.

“My services are open to anyone, but they have to understand that I’m still learning, and it takes me about two hours just to do the nails and add design,” says Epperson. “Also, I am a person to where if it doesn’t look right to me, I’ll fix it to where it does look good, or if it doesn’t look good to you, I’ll fix it to your needs.”

Jahnette has made a difference here at CNCC to the females’ needs and wants. Even though there’s a nail salon in town, some people find it a little out of their budget.

With the time that the students have, they find Epperson a very reliable source to get their womanly pampering done. She plans on taking classes over the summer to do hair, nails, and makeup. If sports medicine doesn’t work out for her, she plans on opening up her own Salon, but even if she does get a job in the sports medicine field, she would still love to do hair and nails on the side.

“She does good work with the time she is given,” says Sanchez. “She doesn’t take too long to get the job done and does good work.”

Tags: Features, hairstyling, Jah's Salon, Jahnette Epperson, nails, Spotlight

Will the bystanders please stand up?

You think you saw something, but you aren’t sure. You could be wrong; maybe it was nothing. So you let it go and you walk away. The next day you hear the news. Someone desperately needed your help, but you didn’t realize it. It wasn’t your friend. But it was someone else’s loved one. And they needed you to step in and prevent a sexual assault. › Continue reading

Tags: Features, Rangely Victim Services, Sexual Assault Awareness Month