Mount Evans Hospice and Home Health Care will receive about $500,000 in donations from the Cub Creek Ranch development in Evergreen.
Evergreen developer Dave Graham, whose father and brother were beneficiaries of Mount Evans hospice care, was grateful enough to pledge 1 percent from land sales in the development, which will generate $250,000.
In addition, Graham prevailed on real-estate agents and builders to give one-half of 1 percent of their revenues, equaling another $250,000.
Donated funds will help Mount Evans care for underinsured or uninsured patients and support various services.
Warm weather delays Vail resort opening
Vail Mountain Resort postponed its opening to Wednesday, five days later than originally planned.
While snowmaking crews have been working on the Born Free trail since early November, temperatures have not been ideal for the process.
A cold snap this week has Vail officials optimistic that there will be a good snow surface by Wednesday.
Steamboat Ski & Resort also rescheduled its 2007-08 scholarship/opening day to Nov. 30 because of the warm weather. Scholarship Day is a traditional opening-day benefit for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club.
Vail realty agent fifth in U.S. sales
Vail Valley real-estate agent Kathy Iverson has been recognized as the nation’s fifth-highest-producing agent.
With 2007 sales of more than $156 million, Iverson, an agent with Slifer, Smith and Frampton, moved up from ninth last year. Iverson has been the company’s top producer for 10 straight years.
The Real Estate Top 200 rankings were announced Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors.
Many retailers found vulnerable to hacking
BOSTON — Half of more than 3,000 retail stores that a wireless security company secretly monitored at major shopping areas in the U.S. and Europe use wireless data systems vulnerable to hacking, AirDefense Inc. said Thursday.
The data that stores routinely transmit on wireless networks include credit-card and Social Security numbers and other customer information.
Writers Guild rejects offer of Web fees
LOS ANGELES — In full-page newspaper ads Thursday, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said it’s offering writers a share of licensing fees paid by websites to offer shows.
However, the payments wouldn’t begin until six weeks after a show goes online, according to the Writers Guild of America.
The union has rejected the offer, saying viewer interest would be exhausted by then.
Dole told to pay workers over pesticide exposure
LOS ANGELES — A jury Thursday ordered Dole Food Co. to pay five Nicaraguan plantation workers $2.5 million in punitive damages for failing to warn them about their exposure three decades ago to a pesticide that left them sterile.
The award is in addition to $3.2 million in compensatory damages Dole was ordered last week to pay six workers.They won an additional $754,000 from Dow Chemical Co., which made the pesticide.
New Mexico denies alcohol sales by US Airways
SANTA FE — New Mexico has denied an application by US Airways to sell alcohol to passengers in the state.
US Airways had received a 90-day license after the state cited it in January for serving liquor to an intoxicated man who later crashed his car, killing himself and five others.
