Beane was featured in the best-selling book and movie “Moneyball”. The guest speaker will be Billy Beane, Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations for the Oakland Athletics major league baseball team. Vino is survived by his wife, Jackie Anthony his daughter, Kelli Anthony Rohrig and her husband Kreston Rohrig and son, Chris Anthony.John Bollier of Stacy and Witbeck, Inc., the 2022 President of the Beavers, has announced the recipients of the 2023 Golden Beaver Awards that will be presented Friday, January 13th at the J.W. He lived for almost six more months, through eight brain surgeries. Vino fell while skiing on Ramshorn with Club 50 - a group over the age of 50 who ski together - on Jan. I had my personal photographer,” Chris said. When they got time off so they could relax, “he used his photography as an excuse to travel around the world with me. “He was an excellent photographer and he and mom worked really, really hard,” Chris said. Vino pulled out two Golden Beaver earrings and gave them to her. She figured business must be slow, so she handed over the money. Not long afterward he wandered over to her shop to ask if he could borrow $5 for lunch. One day he asked another shop owner why she didn’t buy any of his jewelry. Vino was one of the Beav’s biggest boosters, and it seemed like he knew everyone. He opened a jewelry shop called the Golden Beaver. When Chris came along, Vino moved the family to Denver and became a jeweler with Jacques, the fourth generation in the trade.Īlong the way, Jackie, Vino’s wife of 50 years, took care of the business’s books.Įventually they landed in the Vail Valley when they built a home in Singletree and Vino was one of the first merchants in Beaver Creek. In Crested Butte, Vino worked with the Crested Butte ski patrol and later moved to the ski school.
They met while Adler was in Colorado recovering from tuberculosis. His mother-in-law was May Evans, a Colorado native whose family helped found the municipality of Colorado Springs. Vino’s father-in-law was Sir Jacques Adler, knighted by the king of Belgium and appointed as a duke. Vino’s own family is another great story. When Vino was a child, the family moved to Crested Butte where Sammy worked in the mines.
21, 1942, in Colorado Springs, one of nine children born to Sammy and Karina Rodriguez. But skiing put you on mountains,” Chris said.
Sure, baseball and football allow for playing catch in the yard or the park. “Not too many sports promote this kind of father-son relationship. At Copper, he started a children’s ski school called the Copper Choppers.Īll the while he perfected his craft as a jewelry maker. Vino was one of the first ski instructors at Copper Mountain when it opened, working with Andy Daly and Kent Myers. “My dad had to be one of the more creative.” At least this is how I was taught,” Chris said. “Their agenda may be to get their son or daughter to fall in love with skiing so they can ski more.
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