Author: Bill Radford
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Crowd at Denver Comic Con will help celebrate the big 4-0 for Garfield the cat
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Garfield the cat is turning 40, and people attending this weekend’s Denver Comic Con can lead the birthday celebration. A new book, “Age Happens: Garfield Hits the Big 4-0,” celebrates those four decades of the…
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Good summer forecast for Colorado Springs tourism industry despite headwinds
This year promises to be one “that holds both opportunities and challenges,” states the Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau’s annual report, released this spring. And both are clearly on display this summer. The absence of one of the area’s star attractions, and rising gas prices, are among the challenges as the local tourism industry…
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Check out Colorado Springs chicken coops on annual tour
The trend of raising backyard chickens has been derided as urban hipness by some, but Kellie Dodson is part of the movement for a simple reason. “The eggs,” the Colorado Springs woman says. “The eggs are phenomenal.” Dodson, who lives east of downtown, got into backyard farming several years ago. “It started out with health…
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Colorado Springs company transformed by accelerator experience
Participation in the first business accelerator program in southern Colorado proved to be “life altering” for a Colorado Springs startup – and a learning experience for all of the companies involved. Catalyst Accelerator launched in January at the Catalyst Campus for Technology & Innovation in Colorado Springs with a focus on weather data and the…
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New website markets Colorado Springs as a health destination
In its early days, Colorado Springs was touted as a premier health destination. One Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce marketing effort touted Colorado’s clean air and “life-giving germ-destroying sunshine,” and the Springs was nicknamed “The City of Sunshine.” The Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau is returning to those roots with a new, medical tourism…
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New Colorado Springs walk-in clinic devoted to bone and joint injuries
Colorado Springs Orthopaedic Group has opened a first in the Colorado Springs area: a walk-in clinic devoted to bone and joint injuries. The group’s Express Bone & Joint Injury Care Center opened Monday. Despite an increasingly crowded landscape of urgent care centers and free-standing emergency rooms, “we felt there was a definite need in our…
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Colorado Springs stores, library district to celebrate Free Comic Book Day
Superheroes are flying high on the big screen, with “Avengers: Infinity War” setting box-office records. If that landmark gathering of Marvel Comics heroes has you wanting to delve further into their adventures, there’s no better time to visit your friendly, neighborhood comic book shop. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, an annual event drawing first-time…
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Wag N’ Wash grows from single Colorado Springs store to a coast-to-coast business
It was love of a dog that spurred creation of Wag N’ Wash. And it’s the mission of enhancing the life of man’s best friend that drives the company as it celebrates nearly 20 years since its start in Colorado Springs – and the recent opening of its 18th location, in Monument. Jef Strauss and…
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Two Colorado Springs-area companies honored at Colorado Manufacturing Awards
Two Pikes Peak region businesses won top honors at the 2018 Colorado Manufacturing Awards. The awards were presented Thursday night in Denver by CompanyWeek, which spotlights manufacturing companies in Colorado and other Western states. Colorado Springs-based Diversified Machine Systems won as outstanding industrial/equipment manufacturer. DMS makes large, computer-controlled, precision shaping and cutting machines and recently…
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Keep on truckin’: Colorado Springs food trucks see growing demand
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save You want your own business. You have a passion for food. So operating a food truck might sound ideal. Less overhead than a restaurant. Few if any employees. You drive to where the customers are.…