Made in Abingdon, England, by Morris Garages beginning in the 1920s, MG automobiles have become famous for their sporty open tops, compact design and maneuverability, features that make them ideally suited as competition vehicles on Colorados curvy mountain roadways. Combining their love of driving top-down on the states open roads, friends and MG car enthusiasts Hazel Hopkins Marble and Dr. Robert Livingston, both former residents of Glenwood Springs, formed the MG Car Club Rocky Mountain Centre (MGCC-RMC) in 1952. On June 8 -10, the club will celebrate the 60th Annual Rallye Glenwood Springs with events that include a driving tour, a time-speed-distance (TSD) rallye and a car show.

The Glenwood Springs Chamber helped plan and host the first Rallye and we are delighted to welcome the MG Car Club back every year, especially for their 60th anniversary, said Lisa Langer, Vice President of Tourism Marketing for the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association. Along with Strawberry Days, the MG Car Clubs Rallye is one of Glenwood Springs most historic events.

The event is so significant that Colorado Governor, John W. Hickenlooper will sign a proclamation in May, officially recognizing June 8 -10 as MG Car Club – Rocky Mountain Centre, 60th Annual Rallye Glenwood Springs weekend in the State of Colorado. In addition to its 60th year, the MGCC-RMC has even more to celebrate; the 2012 Rallye Glenwood Springs also coincides with the 50th anniversary of the MGB, the worlds most popular sports car model during its 19-year production run, which began in 1962. Furthermore, as British car buffs and de facto anglophiles, the group will acknowledge Queen Elizabeth IIs Diamond Jubilee, her 60th year as the United Kingdoms monarch. In keeping with their British affiliation, North American MG clubs tend to adhere to traditional European spellings, hence the words rallye, centre and marque.

Event chairman and club historian, Alan Magnuson is a 28-year veteran of the Rallye Glenwood Springs and has many fond memories; We experienced a cattle drive west of New Castle in 2001 that blocked the road during one of our events. The entire county road was filled to the horizon with a sea of cattle being herded from one pasture to another. The cattle, horses and cowboys too, all looked down at us sitting in our little MGB as they walked around our car. This is the true Wild West! Along with cattle herd hazards, drivers have encountered unpredictable weather conditions including blinding hail storms on high mountain passes, and, in 2002, due to the Coal Seam fire the Rallye was forced to terminate early. In addition to talking shop, it is memories and stories like these that are exchanged at the annual Rallye Glenwood Springs. We come to enjoy the competition, the scenery, the automobile and the camaraderie, said Magnuson.

Named an honorary member of the MGCC-RMC, Glenwood Hot Springs President, Henry Hank Bosco could be counted on to help club members arrange their accommodations for the annual event. At the time, the Bosco family owned the Hotel Denver. Back in those days, other than Strawberry Days there wasnt a lot going on in town as far as special events. The Rallye was good for the hotel business and it was good for the town, Bosco recalled. It still is. The event continues to have a positive impact on Glenwood Springs, 60 years later, only now with a full calendar of events and a nearly endless variety of things to do, Glenwood Springs is recognized as Americas Most Fun Town. This year Rallye participants plan to take part in a downtown art walk dubbed 2nd Fridays Tour d Art Glenwood Springs, as well as enjoy other amenities including the Glenwood Hot Springs Pool and Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park.

While MGs remain the focus, the club welcomes auto marques of all varieties to join the Rallye. Magnuson anticipates over 100 cars will participate in this years event with Porsches, Mini Coopers, BMWs, Volkswagens and American muscle cars in the high-octane mix. Events rev up on Friday, June 8, with a scenic road tour winding through canyons and over mountain passes between Denver and Glenwood Springs. Saturdays main event is the Rallye Glenwood Springs, a time-speed-distance challenge for novice and experienced drivers and navigators. On Sunday, Two Rivers Park is the setting for the MGCC Car Show and Funkhana, an obstacle course that tests driving skills. For more details about the event or for registration forms, please visit the MG Car Club – Rocky Mountain Centre website.

The MGCC Rallye is one of many festivals that take place in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, named Americas Most Fun Town by Rand McNally and USA Today. Coming up June 15 17, is the 115th Annual Strawberry Days, the states oldest civic celebration. For a complete list of events and activities in Glenwood Springs, go to http://www.visitglenwood.com.

About Glenwood Springs

Glenwood Springs is located between Aspen and Vail, 165 miles west of Denver or 90 miles east of Grand Junction, on I-70 off Exit 116. For more information about Glenwood Springs, Colorado, call 970-945-6589 or go to http://www.visitglenwood.com/. For lodging reservations, call 888-4-GLENWOOD (888-445-3696). A complete press kit and press releases are available at http://www.visitglenwood.com/press-kit and http://www.visitglenwood.com/press-releases. Access to downloadable photos is available at http://www.visitglenwood.com/photos.

Media Contacts:

Lisa Langer, Vice President of Tourism Marketing

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Vicky Nash, Public Relations Representative

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Ninth grade students from the Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School in Allentown, Pa. will soon embark on a Gettysburg leadership development experience sought after by some of the nations top executives.

Through a partnership between The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg founder and president Steven B. Wiley and the Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School, 30 ninth grade students will receive a complimentary leadership development experience offered by Wiley and the faculty of The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg on May 10 and 11. The experience will relate lessons learned from the Battle of Gettysburg to the daily challenges the students face in their school community.

The Lincoln Leadership Institutes leadership development experience is one that has helped to develop thousands of the nations top executives from the majority of the Fortune 100 companies such as Apple, Bank of America, Pfizer, Federal Express, ExxonMobil and Time Warner, as well as scores of federal government agencies, including Homeland Security, Departments of Defense, Justice and Interior and over 75 Presidential Appointees and their teams.

In addition to the leadership experience, the students will meet with Lincoln Leadership Institute faculty and take part in a walking tour of downtown Gettysburg. In addition, students will visit the David Wills Househeadquarters for The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg and the place where Lincoln put the finishing touches on the Gettysburg Addressand visit major interpretive points on the Gettysburg battlefield.

These offerings culminate to form The Lincoln Leadership Institutes signature leadership development experience that uses the battlefield as a classroom, history as a metaphor and multimedia presentations to provide insight into historical characters.

The Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School is committed to creating a holistic and integrated learning community dedicated to the educational success of each student. The school serves sixth through ninth grade students who come from high-risk environments. Approximately 82 percent of the students are Latino, 15 percent are African-American and 3 percent are white. The school endeavors to equip its students with the necessary tools needed to achieve a quality education and develop their full potential in an at-risk world.

We found that the students who have gone through the leadership program in the past have been transformed, said Sandra Figueroa-Torres, Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School principal, CEO and founder. They learn about leadership and understand the importance of leadership decisions and choices using the lessons learned from Gettysburg. These stories from the battle become real to them. I believe that this year the impact will be even greater than in the past.

In order to make the visit to Gettysburg possible, The Lincoln Leadership Institute has joined the Gettysburg Hotel to provide complimentary transportation and lodging accommodations for the students during their visit.

I appreciate the level of commitment from the entire team at The Lincoln Leadership Institute and how welcoming they have been to our students, Figueroa-Torres said.

Wiley said this is the third year that The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg has provided this leadership development experience for the charter schools students, and hes thrilled to be offering the opportunity again.

Nothing is more enjoyable and rewarding than watching these young adults soak up leadership lessons from Gettysburg. It is indeed our privilege to work with them, Wiley said.

About Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg

What do the majority of Fortune 100 companies, such as Apple, Bank of America, Pfizer, Federal Express, ExxonMobil and Time Warner, scores of federal government agencies, including Homeland Security, Departments of Defense, Justice and Interior and over 75 Presidential Appointees and their teams all have in common?

When it comes to motivating, educating and developing their greatest asset, their people, they turn to Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg.

Steven B. Wiley is a proven entrepreneur, author and highly acclaimed speaker who has trained and entertained tens of thousands of top executives from around the world. He receiveswithout exceptionthe highest ratings possible from his audiences, which include the top executives from the world headquarters of Apple, Merck, State Farm, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Homeland Security, Black & Decker, Shell, IBM, Caterpillar, the L.A. Times, Orlando Sentinel, USA Today/Gannett, Pharmetica, Frigidaire, Century 21, Johnson & Johnson, PhRMA, ExxonMobil and the Ford Motor Company. His business experience includes the founding of three companies: two international franchise organizations and a national chain of fleet management centers. He has successfully negotiated multi-million dollar funding agreements for his own companies with some of the top venture capital organizations in the world.

Steve brings a wealth of knowledge in the areas of successful marketing, negotiation, sales and business development. His lucrative and varied high-ticket consultative selling and negotiating experience began more than twenty years ago and includes tens of millions of dollars in the sales of companies, divisions, hard goods and services. His strong leadership ability has earned him recognition in top publications, including Venture Magazine, USA Today and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Steves speaking experience includes three years as National Spokesperson for the Quaker Oats/Pritikin Longevity Centers for whom he has been featured in television commercials and advertisements in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Over the past ten years, he has conducted thousands of seminars on negotiation, sales leadership and wellness for numerous public and private sector organizations.

He is the president of The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg and the founder of the Institutes Communicating with Executive Presence program as well as its Transformational Journey from Gettysburg leadership development experience.

Through The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg, Civil War history becomes a metaphor, and the battlefield a classroom, as Steven B. Wiley leads your organization toward unprecedented success by developing leaders at all levels. Through the unique and creative use of historical metaphor and an examination of the lives of historical characters we develop bookmarks in the minds of participants.

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Dirty Dynamite Productions, LLC officially launches today while in preparation for their first feature film: Evolution of the Fallen, which is tentatively set for worldwide release in 2013.

Dirty Dynamites first film, Evolution of the Fallen, based on a story written by MJ Goodnow, with screenplay adaptation written by Shannon Edwards; is helmed by Executive Producer Johanna Mateo, alongside Producers Michael Ross and Richard Schwab. This film follows four troubled teenagers suffering various personal ailments in a recovering facility. Through severe afflictions and tragedies, their house mother discovers a solution that helps piece themselves back together through the strength of one another. Evolution of the Fallen will be directed by David Boyd (known for his work on The Walking Dead, Get Low, Joyful Noise, 12 Rounds, Academy Award-winning short film Two Soldiers, Friday Night Lights, Cast Away, Galaxy Quest, and Firefly) and film score composed by Russ Whitelock. Dirty Dynamite Productions cast their first lead role to Quinton Aaron, who starred in the Oscar

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Colorado Petroleum, celebrating 85 years of motor oil lubricant manufacturing and distribution, announced today that it has expanded its facilities to a new worldwide headquarters location in Denver, Colorado. The new facility includes 185,000 square feet of warehouse space, 30,000 gallon blending tanks, four bottling lines, Quality Control laboratory, tank farm that holds in excess of 1,000,000 gallons as well a concrete based tank truck and rail car receiving and shipping depot. The new buildings size has more than tripled the square footage of our previous buildings where they have resided since 1960.

The new headquarters is a 230,000 square-foot building. It will house members from every Colorado Petroleum department including the executive team, sales, finance, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and support. The financial details of the agreement are confidential and not available for disclosure.

The steady growth of Colorado Petroleums products, coupled with years of profitability as a corporation, has positioned us to make this move at a very strategic time, said Clark Thompson, Colorado Petroleums CEO. We were able to identify an excellent real estate investment opportunity that enables the company to continue to build our business in a world-class, state of the art facility.

In the new headquarters building, Colorado Petroleum will continue its 85-year history of Colorado-based manufacturing and distribution to maintain its high-quality and customer satisfaction.

Colorado Petroleums new worldwide corporate address will be 5590 High Street in Denver, Colo., USA.

About Colorado Petroleum

Colorado Petroleum Products Company was originally founded in 1927, and has been under current ownership since 1971.

Colorado Petroleum Products Company is a compound blender and distributor of finished lubricants for the automotive, heavy duty and industrial industries for the Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, California Utah and Nevada markets. Tucson Arizona is our satellite manufacturing facility with an additional distribution and warehouse in Phoenix Arizona.

Our brands include Rugged Motor Oil and Silver State Full Synthetic Motor Oil. Colorado Petroleum specializes in private labeling for OEMs, Retail Parts Stores and Supermarket Chains to name a few. Colorado Petroleum is actively seeking partnerships and/or distributorships throughout the western half of the United States now that we have the means to do so with our quality products and competitive pricing. For more information, visit http://www.colopetro.com.

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