Author: Andrea Brown
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YOUR SPACE: The horn man keeps on tooting
Remember that Big Band classic “It Had to Be You”? Bob Jorgensen does. And when he’s done blowing it on his trumpet, you won’t be able to forget it. That song will be stuck in your head for days. It’s a tribute to his skills on a horn. Bob, 80, started tooting at 14…
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Long haul quilting: Driver fills his spare time in front of a sewing machine
From the outside, the 9400 International cab looks as macho as its long-haul driver. It’s a galvanized steel man cave with 10 speeds, a 200-gallon gas tank, tandem axles, and a 435-horsepower engine that can pull 40,000 pounds of tractor parts. But don’t be fooled. Behind the monster cab’s studly bucket front seats lies a…
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Colorado gets into the Mega Millions game
Colorado Lottery is getting into the Mega Millions jackpot game. The $1 game is like a clone of Powerball, but the odds of being a Mega Millions millionaire are a bit better. Odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1-in-176 million. Compare this to the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot: 1-in-196 million. Mega…
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Area towns put lid on pot shop free-for-all
Pot shops are sprouting in towns around the Pikes Peak region, but don’t expect them to flourish as they have in the “miracle grow” climate of Colorado Springs. Small town governments are taking a strict approach to regulating the medical marijuana dispensaries, or “centers” as the state calls them in a bill passed last week…
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YOUR SPACE: School of hard knocks supergrad
It took Georgina Segura eight years to finish college. Too many parties. Birthday parties, that is. She’s a single mom with two kids. It took so long that her daughter, Christina, 20, joined her two years ago as a student at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. “People stop me and say: ‘Is your…
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Police arrest man after bumper cars escapade
A man who caught the attention of Colorado Springs police on a call for a suspected drunken driver was hospitalized late Friday after crashing into a car. Police said Escobar A. Pascual, 43, hit several cars in an apartment complex parking lot at 1331 Potter Drive shortly before midnight. Police said Pascual drove away on…
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Mail carriers happy to collect Spam
Santa Claus gets cookies and cocoa. Bob Prine gets Spam and canned peas. And the more the merrier. On Saturday, Prine, a letter carrier, picked up food donations from customers on his Security route for the U.S. Postal Service’s “Stamp Out Hunger” drive. He collected more than a dozen mail tubs of goods to unload…
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Dog dies in early morning car crash
A driver was injured and his dog killed early today when the man crashed his car into a tree. The dog died at the scene of the 4:37 a.m. crash at 930 N. Union Blvd. “The dog was apparently riding in the front seat of the car,” Colorado Springs Fire Department Lt. JJ Halsey said. “The…
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Middle school’s flamingos invade Calhan
CALHAN • What the flock!? Funky flamingos are taking over lawns in this bucolic ranching town on the eastern plains. In the pink crush are pirate, clown, baseball, hippie and jail birds. One looks strangely like Alice Cooper. The clan of 35 costumed birds is a fundraiser for a Calhan middle-school team heading to Tennessee…
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Boy’s heart is bigger than a toy box
Will Koinzan has a good heart. And it’s not because the 7-year-old had a surgical aortic repair job when he was only six days old. On a recent routine checkup with his cardiologist, Dr. Greg Brames, Will decided to make the doctor’s office the benefactor of his gift of turning seven. The two dozen kids…