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8 unusual facts about Beaver Creek


AEI World Forum

Held every summer in Beaver Creek, Colorado, it is sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Vail Valley Foundation, and it features a number of AEI scholars and fellows.

Area code 867

The largest distances between exchanges are 2,200 km from Sanikiluaq to Grise Fiord, and 3,365 km from Beaver Creek to Pangnirtung.

Beaver Creek, Colorado

Adventurist Steve Fossett also lived here, and actor Kelsey Grammer (and his ex-wife Camille) had a house in Beaver Creek, and an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was shot here.

Although he had originally opposed it, Governor Richard Lamm referred to the ski area during the grand opening ceremonies as the "Tiffany's" of ski resorts.

Christian Newcomer

In 1775, to escape the issue, he sold his farm in Lancaster County and moved to another he had bought at Beaver Creek, Maryland, seven miles south of Hagerstown in Washington County.

Kelly Liken

She moved to Colorado in 2002 and began to work in the kitchen at Splendido at the Chateau in Beaver Creek, Colorado where she met her future husband, Rick Colomitz.

Sweet Water High School

The late 1920s saw some consolidation of Marengo County schools, with children from former schools in Beaver Creek, Exmoor, and Aimwell moved to Sweet Water.

Tara Llanes

Retired: Her career has been on hold since her paralyzing injury suffered at the Jeep King of the Mountain finals event in Beaver Creek, Colorado on September 1, 2007.



see also

Ashe County High School

Previously, high school students in Ashe County attended either Ashe Central High School in Jefferson, Beaver Creek High School in West Jefferson, or Northwest Ashe High School in Warrensville.

Centennial Bridge

Teegarden-Centennial Covered Bridge, over Little Beaver Creek, in Columbiana County, Ohio

Made in Canada

The company's cash cows are two series, The Sword of Damacles (sic), a parody of mythological adventure series such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Beaver Creek, a parody of Canadian period dramas such as Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea.

Penrose, Colorado

In the early 1900s, Spencer Penrose organized the "Beaver Land and Irrigation Company" and began buying water rights in the Beaver Creek area.

Spago

Additional Spagos have opened at The Forum Shops at Caesars on the Las Vegas Strip, at Four Seasons Resort Maui (Maui, Hawaii in 2001), and as the Spago Beaver Creek in the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Avon, Colorado.