Another big-name player has decided to enter the growing market ofsmoothie franchises in Colorado Springs. Smoothie King is now open at9275 N. Union Blvd., across from Memorial Hospital North.
According to a study by FRANdata, Smoothie King owns the biggestshare of the smoothie market. Jamba Juice, currently with threelocations in the Springs, is second.
Franchisees and local residents Vince Scarsbrook, Doug Howell andCindey Arroyo decided on this venture after Scarsbrook's sister, wholives in Florida, recommended Smoothie King.
In addition to its 50-plus smoothie choices, the new Smoothie Kingwill offer healthy living products, including energy bars, snacks andvitamin supplements.
Smoothie King's founder and CEO, Steve Kuhnau, began makingsmoothies in response to his own health issues and food allergies.After more than 30 years and 450 Smoothie King stores in 34 states,Kuhnau and his wife Cindy, Smoothie King's co-founder, accomplishedtheir desire to bring healthful products to mainstream America.
'Our mission is to relentlessly influence more and more people toachieve a healthier lifestyle,' Kuhnau said.
After-school golf program for K-8th grade
A local couple has started an at-school, after-school golfenrichment program for children in Colorado Springs.
'Todd and Amy Schaefer are a perfect team to manage a territoryfor us,' said Joshua Jacobs, founder and president of Total GolfAdventures. 'Between the two of them, they know youth, the community,the schools in the area and have a great small business background.It couldn't be a better fit.'
Todd has more than 12 years of experience selling sporting goodsthrough his family run business, SAI Team Sports. In addition, he hasbeen a junior varsity coach for Lyons High School and freshmanbaseball coach at Niwot High School. He also was a recreationcoordinator at the Carbon Valley Recreation Center in Frederick.
Amy worked as a speech language pathologist in the Greeley schoolsystem before giving birth to their son, Sutton, 14 months ago. Shehas a master's degree in education, and also ran a temporary staffingoffice for more than a year.
With the addition of Colorado Springs, Total Golf Adventures has38 programs in 23 states.
The TGA curriculum was developed with the help of PGAprofessionals and Ph.D.'s in child development and education. Becauseof their input, TGA teaches golf in a manner that is easy forchildren to learn and retain while reinforcing educational concepts.
In addition to instruction, students learn to keep score, countstrokes (addition/subtraction), judge distances to the hole (visualperception), and study golf rules and etiquette (reading rule booksby the USGA and National Golf Foundation).
Nearly 30,000 kindergarten through eighth-grade students haveparticipated in the at-school, after-school programs during the lastfour years.
