Author: Andrea Brown
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YOUR SPACE: Girl’s garden is field of dreams and weeds
ELLICOTT • Aubrey Blood wanted to do a good deed. For her Silver Award project, the Girl Scout planted a community garden in this tiny ranching town on the eastern plains. “I decided it would be cool to plant a garden,” she says. “Then we’d have fresh vegetables for everyone. It will help the school and…
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Bandits steal the wheels off old wagons in Florissant
Wagon train robberies are alive and well in the wild West. Only these days, it’s not the cargo that bandits want. Bandits made off with six wagon wheels Thursday night at Hornbek Homestead at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. And homestead officials want their wheels back. The Teller County Sheriff, antique stores and auctioneers are on…
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YOUR SPACE: Will bike for love
Ryan Rosenhahn has raised the handlebar for guys trying to impress their girlfriends. He’s risking his butt straddling a jackhammer on wheels for 51 days and 3,328 miles. It’s a case of an incurable romantic taking on an incurable disease. His sweetie, Laura Kurica, has diabetes, so he’s biking across America to raise $100,000 toward…
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YOUR SPACE: Dude, where’s your suit?
I met Pablo and Adam at a coffee shop. They were easy to spot amid all the men slouching in ball caps and T-shirts. These two gents sat up straight. Drinks on the table. Elbows off. Pablo, in a crisp pin-striped shirt, vest and tie, sipped an iced chai. Adam wore a blazer, white shirt…
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Kush magazine lets medical pot users read all about it
The brunette in this magazine centerfold is sultry. Sure. But the seedy turn-on is her sidekick: Super Silver Haze, the hazel buds of a female pot plant. A bud-and-babe pullout is a staple in Kush magazine. The glossy monthly is on the freebie publication racks at 7-Eleven stores, King Soopers, Blockbuster or a pot shop…
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Gambling couple hits the $11 million jackpot malfunction
Maryann and Jim McMahon had a wild night Tuesday at the Wildwood Casino in Cripple Creek. They woke up Wednesday from a quarter-slots hangover wondering if they were multimillionaires or mere thousandaires. Due to a machine malfunction, they’ll likely have to wonder for several weeks if their progressive slot jackpot is $11 million — or…
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YOUR SPACE: Former firefighter puts a face on Alzheimer’s
John McClelland was the mastermind of global sales projects. He led a busy life: was a voluntary firefighter/EMT and smart enough to join Mensa. He was that guy who didn’t need directions to get anywhere. Now, John relies on GPS to go from Colorado Springs to Denver, because he no longer recognizes the route. He…
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DARE to Just Say No/Yes/Maybe to marijuana
Claudia Varas moved to Colorado Springs from Florida four years ago to raise her three kids in a conservative bubble. “In Florida, it is a very happy, party state,” Varas said. “I didn’t think it was the right atmosphere for children.” Little did she know she was arriving at the dawn of the new age…
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YOUR SPACE: Beer doc keeps the crud out of the suds
Ken Andrews is living a Miller High Life Super Bowl commercial. He studied at Harvard. He lives with Barbie. He wears a tie-dyed lab coat to work. And, get this, he is paid to improve beer. He’s every guy’s hero. Ken is the Bristol Brewing beerologist-zymurgist. Try saying that after a few Laughing Lab ales.…
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Cripple Creek’s mayor moves on
Cripple Creek is looking for a good man or woman to fill a council seat. A vacancy was created when Mayor Dan Baader resigned at the May 5 council meeting to move to California for a construction management job. “I had no clue. I was very shocked,” city clerk Debra Blevins said. Councilman Bruce Brown…