Author: Bill Radford
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Small business spotlight: Beef, alligator and everything in between at Andy’s Meat Market in Colorado Springs
Editor’s note: This is one in an occasional series of profiles of small businesses in the Pikes Peak region. Beef. It’s what’s for dinner. Well, that or chicken. Or maybe pork. Or buffalo. Then there’s rabbit. And venison. Or, if your tastes truly range beyond the ordinary, how about some rattlesnake? Or you could toss…
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Man overcomes troubled childhood to lead Colorado Springs church, guide thriving business
His childhood, Justin Knapp says, is “the normal poor kid story.” His dad was sent to prison when Knapp was 4. With his mom working to support the family, he was largely raised by his grandmother — an amazing woman, he says, but also an alcoholic. Drugs became a constant in his life. “I didn’t…
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One-armed Colorado Springs girl finds success in trap shooting
VIDEO: From an orphanage in China to a loving family in Colorado Springs, Sophia Bultema has her eyes set on the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020. Sophia Bultema puts two shells into the shotgun, then takes her stance, holding the gun with her right hand while resting the barrel on the stump where her left…
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One-armed Colorado Springs girl finds success in trap shooting
VIDEO: From an orphanage in China to a loving family in Colorado Springs, Sophia Bultema has her eyes set on the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020. Sophia Bultema puts two shells into the shotgun, then takes her stance, holding the gun with her right hand while resting the barrel on the stump where her left…
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Fourth of July holiday a prime time for longtime Colorado Springs-area business
This is one in an occasional series profiling small businesses in the Pikes Peak region. Affordable Flags & Fireworks has diversified a lot in its 30 years, but flags remain the heart of the business. Along with sales of the Stars & Stripes — “top-quality, American-made U.S. flags,” owner Jody Ilett says — you can…
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Father’s Day reflections: Colorado Springs business people thank dads for lessons learned
In honor of Father’s Day, we asked Colorado Springs-area business people who have followed in their father’s footsteps — entering the same business or even taking over the company — this question: What are the most important business and/or life lessons you learned from your father? Jim Johnson, owner, GE Johnson Construction Co. Gil and Jim Johnson…
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New Colorado Springs clinic welcomes mental health patients, but can’t afford to accept insurance
For those struggling to find a psychiatrist in Colorado Springs, good news: A new practice has opened in the northwest part of the city and is welcoming new patients. The bad news: You won’t find Dr. Kristine Dangremond on your insurance company’s provider list. Like a majority of private-practice psychiatrists in town, she won’t be…
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Facing it together: Colorado-based nonprofit offers support to those with addictions
Shane Mezhir never drank or used drugs until he went off to college — “and then it kind of got out of control.” He found himself snared in the web of addiction. He entered the military for a while; he thought it could help him, thought it could give him the discipline to fight his addiction.…
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Colorado Springs woman seeks to lift shroud of shame covering mental illness
Mental illness, Chaundra Rush says, “is not a casserole illness.” Rush was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, which involves symptoms of schizophrenia and a mood disorder, more than 30 years ago and has been in and out of mental hospitals many times. After a “normal” stay in a hospital, neighbors and friends often drop by with…