Applicants to grade tests flood job fair
Applicants flooded a job fair to hire more than 700 seasonal workers to grade K-12 assessment tests, but plenty of positions are still open.
Kelly Services plans to continue recruiting today at another job fair at Arapahoe/Douglas Works, 14980 E. Alameda Ave., in the CentrePoint Plaza in Aurora, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday, the job fair will move to the Denver Convention Center, 14th and California streets, from noon to 5 p.m.
Kelly Services will hold two more job fairs Oct. 25-26 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Arapahoe/Douglas Works.
Health guru Weil files response to lawsuit
Firing back at a partner turned adversary, alternative health guru Dr. Andrew Weil said in a court filing Monday that drugstore.com breached their marketing contract by revealing its contents in a lawsuit filed in Denver in August.
The well-known herbal-medicine specialist said he was damaged by publicity surrounding the suit because it coincided with the publication of a new book.
N.Y. hospital CEO
will lead CU facility
Bruce Schroffel will be the new president and chief executive at the University of Colorado Hospital. He is the director and CEO at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York.
Schroffel will take the helm effective Jan. 17.
He’s been at Stony Brook since 2001.
Crocs adds firms for IPO, reveals ’04 loss
Crocs Inc., the Niwot-based shoemaker, has added three investment-banking firms to handle its pending initial stock sale, according to a Securities and Exchange document filed Tuesday.
BB&T Capital Markets, D.A. Davidson & Co. and Wedbush Morgan Securities will join Piper Jaffray, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and SG Cowen & Co., as underwriters.
The company also revealed a $1.5 million net loss in 2004. It recorded net income of $6.1 million in the six months ended June 30, according to the filing.
The company hopes to raise $145 million for the company and its current shareholders.
Airport adds United, American flights
American Airlines will begin offering daily nonstop 757 jet service from Dallas/Fort Worth to the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport, the Gunnison- Crested Butte Tourism Association announced Tuesday.
Returning to the area after a four-year hiatus, the American Airlines flights will begin Dec. 15 and end April 2.
Gunnison-Crested Butte will also have three daily United Express flights and one new daily United Airlines jet service from Denver this ski season.
Denverites’ charitable efforts topic of study
The Denver Foundation, Colorado’s largest community foundation, will release its 2005 Giving and Volunteering Study today.
The study provides data on the giving and volunteering habits of residents in the seven metro counties.
The study also details which causes Denver residents support, what the barriers are to charitable giving and the impacts of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. The study is intended to improve community philanthropy in Denver.
Charter-referral group up and running
A new charter-referral operation called Charter Alliance Group started referring travelers this week to book individual seats on Denver Air Connection charter flights between Grand Junction and Centennial and Jefferson County airports. The planes seat 16 passengers.
Charter Alliance Group founder Wade Goetz took over the business from a similar operation called Colorado Airlines. Denver Air Connection is run by cargo carrier Key Lime Air.
Royal Gold invests in Burkina Faso project
Royal Gold Inc. announced Tuesday it has agreed to provide a total of $35 million over the next year to Somita SA, a 90 percent-owned subsidiary of High River Gold Mines Ltd.
The funds are for the construction and development of High River’s Taparko open-pit gold project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Airline jobs drop; Frontier workers up
Employment at U.S. airlines fell 5.4 percent in August, compared with August 2004. Part-time employees inched up 0.1 percent, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.
The count of full-time equivalent employees at United Airlines fell to 53,923 in August, from 58,490 in August 2004. At Denver-based Frontier, the count increased to 4,082 from 4,019.
United recalling some furloughed mechanics
United is calling mechanics back to work from furlough, including nine line-maintenance employees in Denver.
United has about 500 mechanics in Denver. The recalls cover attrition and retirements.
Mariner files details on Forest Oil merger
Mariner Energy Inc. filed documents Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission giving details on its previously announced merger with Denver-based Forest Oil’s Gulf of Mexico operations.
Forest shareholders are expected to own 58 percent of Mariner, based in Houston.
