by Alpine Bank Staff | Dec 3, 2021 | Community
LaSheita Sayer is an African American businesswoman and entrepreneur, with a passion for green energy solutions to reduce the impacts of climate change. “I’ve made a conscious decision to shift the focus of my marketing and outreach agency onto projects that educate...
by Alpine Bank | Nov 29, 2021 | Community
Montrose Donuts and Deli began in 2017, and specializes in homemade donuts made from scratch, along with sandwiches and smoothies. Founders Vuthy and Nancy Soeur ran the operation for two years, then passed it to the next family member, Piseth Soeur, who in turn...
by Alpine Bank | Nov 29, 2021 | Community
Intention. That’s what drives David Foster, and his identical twin brother Jonathan, every day. And for the past ten years, intention is the core value that has set downtown Grand Junction’s Kiln Coffee Bar apart from other chain coffee operations. “The journey that...
by Alpine Bank Staff | Nov 23, 2021 | Community
The romance started in Lake City, Colorado. That’s where Scott Stalker and Mary Carkin met and fell in love: with one another, the mountains and the forest and their entrepreneurial ambition to establish a small business, a retail gift store. That’s the backstory to...
by Alpine Bank | Nov 19, 2021 | Community
Dan Gearig is a serial restaurant entrepreneur. (And yes, we’re saying that like it’s a good thing.) In his 20s he bought a little pizzeria in Fenton, Michigan, called Pro Pizza. Past customers still rave about the famous Pro Dip that was served with breadsticks....