Client News

Austin Exploration launches new website

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:44:28 +0000

Austin Exploration, an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Lakewood, Colo., has launched a new website to provide investors with the most current information on its projects in the United States and Australia. The website, which was created through a joint effort between JohnstonWells and Peak Creative Media, can be viewed at www.austinexploration.com.

“This new website will enable us to provide all our shareholders, local communities, media and other interested parties with a comprehensive resource for keeping up-to-date with the company’s progress,” said Mr. Richard Cottee, Austin Exploration’s Chairman of the Board.

The Denver HALO Center changes name to the Heart & Hand Center

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:25:52 +0000

The Denver HALO Center, a nonprofit organization that serves at-risk youth in the local community, will no longer be associated with The HALO Foundation and will operate as a new entity known as the Heart & Hand Center for Youth and their Families.

Located in the Five Points area of Denver, the Heart & Hand Center will continue to provide warm meals, after school activities and support on week days to underprivileged Denver children, which it has done since 2008.

“As the HALO Denver Center evolved, so have the needs of the Five Points Community,” said Nikki Cady, president and founder. “We decided that our branch needed to focus our efforts at a local level and expand in order to support the families of Denver.”

The Arc of Colorado celebrates Developmental Disability Awareness Month with film festival

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:55:06 +0000

More than 140,111 Coloradoans have a developmental disability. To celebrate Developmental Disability Awareness Month, The Arc of Colorado and the 11 chapters within it will hold a film festival on Tuesday, March 20 at the Denver Film Center.

“Too often people with developmental disabilities are marginalized in movies and on television,” said Marijo Rymer, Executive Director of The Arc of Colorado. “The film festival aims to raise their profile by showcasing works of all genres, featuring people who may learn, communicate, move, function and think differently.”

The film festival, which is titled “Achieve with Us,” will showcase films by and about people with developmental disabilities. This event marks the first opportunity for Coloradans to view some of the hundreds of films that feature accurate portrayals of people with developmental disabilities. The show times are at 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. and will each feature seven different films that range from 2 minutes to 25 minutes.

Heska's "Inspiration in Action" Contest to fund projects that save animals

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:38:33 +0000

Animal lovers everywhere can support and honor veterinary medicine by voting for one of five projects submitted in the 2011 Heska Inspiration in Action Contest.

Heska, a leading provider of veterinary diagnostic and specialty products, will award the grand prize winner $25,000 and the second place winner $5,000 to help bring inspired ideas to life (subject to official contest rules).

"Veterinarians spend countless hours working to impact the human experience through our bond with animals," said Robert Grieve, Heska's Chairman and CEO. "Serving that bond every day creates room in the imagination to think differently about solutions to important problems that directly impact the health of both animals and humans worldwide. Heska promotes this contest as a means to encourage innovation. We are honored to provide this opportunity to our colleagues.”

Austin Exploration hires JohnstonWells

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:41:35 +0000

Austin Exploration, an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia (with a satellite office in Lakewood, Colo.) has chosen JohnstonWells Public Relations to implement an intensive public relations campaign, as it prepares to be introduced to the American oil and gas industry.

JohnstonWells will execute an all encompassing campaign that includes a corporate name change to Arapahoe Energy, a new design aesthetic and website, and media and community relations.

Surgeons successfully implant ValveXchange® two-part heart valve system

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:08:03 +0000

ValveXchange, Inc. has performed successful First In Man (FIM) surgeries demonstrating the practicality and advantages of its novel Vitality™ two-part heart valve system.

“With other valves if you break a suture you’re basically committed to taking the valve off and out. Here there are no leaflets, so it’s very easy to see and put in extra sutures.”

The surgeries were performed by two highly renowned U.S. cardiac surgeons, Lars Svensson, MD, PhD of The Cleveland Clinic and W. Randolph Chitwood, MD of The East Carolina Heart Institute, working with Adrian Ebner, MD at his facilities in Asuncion, Paraguay. The surgeries took place Sept. 26 and 27, 2011. Three men aged 49, 62 and 72 received the Vitality™ heart valves. All have been discharged and are recovering normally.

LUNGevity's‘Breathe Deep Denver’ 5K walk/run will be held at INVESCO Field at Mile High

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:48:06 +0000

LUNGevity Foundation, the nation’s largest lung cancer non-profit, has teamed up with JohnstonWells to hold the first annual Breathe Deep Denver 5K run/walk at INVESCO Field at Mile High on November 5, 2011.

The event – part of the organization’s nationwide effort to raise funds for lung cancer research – will kick off with a yoga warm-up led by Sarah Russell, owner of Breathe Yoga & Cycling Studio, and a performance from the Breathe Deep Tuba Chorus, sponsored by the Downtown Denver Partnership and directed by Bill Clark, who is also the director of the Queen City Jazz Band.

Entrepreneurs honored at 25th annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 award gala

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:43:57 +0000

Ernst & Young LLP is pleased to announce the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year^® Mountain Desert Award winners. This group of leading entrepreneurs was selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous winners of the award, leading CEOs, private capital investors and other regional business leaders. The winners were revealed at a gala event on June 16, 2011 at the Seawell Ballroom in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

AORN Works taps the collective brain of the perioperative professional

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:16:44 +0000

AORN Works, a subsidiary of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), just announced that its market research and surgical insights division will lead the strategic priorities of its business.

On behalf of clients, market research/surgical insights measure the attitudes of perioperative professionals who are the end users of medical products and services.

The new strategy results from its niche ability to provide exceptional market intelligence to medical device manufacturers and service providers that sell to operating rooms throughout the United States.

Corporex sets public pedestrian bridge over East Colfax Ave.

tmagnus@johnstonwells.com (Teresa Magnus) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:45:26 +0000

Did you see a bridge being driven down Colfax last weekend? It was part of our client, Corporex's Fitzsimons Village project.

Corporex, developer of Fitzsimons Village, set a public pedestrian footbridge over East Colfax Ave. near Xanadu St. in Aurora.

JCF Bridge Company, headquartered in Driftwood, TX, built the 163-foot steel truss structure that will connect the Anschutz Medical Campus to Fitzsimons Village. The bridge will provide safe and easy access to the new Fitzsimons 100 office building, more amenities including a bank, restaurants and shops and a 153-room Marriott Springhill Suites Hotel that will open soon.