Author: Carol Mcgraw
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Care and Share nourishing families
When Katie Shellenberger was a youngster, she took canned goods to school for annual food drives. “I always took beets because I loved them and thought the kids that needed help would, too,” she recalled. Now 38, she is receiving help from pantries affiliated with Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado. She found…
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Best and Brightest: Tragedy changed future mechanical engineer from Pine Creek High School
This is another in the series of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2018. — Last year, when a former childhood friend Sam Laib died in an auto accident, Austin Spafford recalled how fun and competitive it had been when they played street hockey. “It was the first death to affect…
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Best and Brightest: Pine Creek student helps refugees, aims to do medical research
This is another in the series of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2018. When Hadeel Khammash arrived at an orphanage and camp in Jordan where refugees lived in painful limbo, she wondered if she could do the aid work. She cried over the heartbreak she encountered. “I saw things like…
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Best and Brightest: Pine Creek student helps refugees, aims to do medical research
This is another in the series of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2018. When Hadeel Khammash arrived at an orphanage and camp in Jordan where refugees lived in painful limbo, she wondered if she could do the aid work. She cried over the heartbreak she encountered. “I saw things like…
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Best and Brightest: Grief gives Pine Creek perfectionist a new perspective
This is the fifth of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2018. Carolanne Walls was drowning in junior year expectations to get excellent grades, ace the standardized tests, win scholarships, find a college. Her high school days also were crammed with extracurricular activities like cheerleading, yearbook and swim team management. “I…
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Best and Brightest: Adversities forged Rampart senior’s aspiration
This is the third of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2018. Rupa Duggirala, a Rampart High School senior, has always been an avid reader. She says that when she picks up a favorite adventure novel or Indian mythology tale the real world disappears as she enters the story. Her enthusiasm…
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Best and Brightest: Liberty’s first female kicker inspired to work with disabled
This is the first of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2018. It was in grade school when Morgan Sibley, now a senior at Liberty High School, first met a child with special needs. She was a student in her class and Sibley enjoyed being friends with her because of the…
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Best and Brightest: Liberty’s first female kicker inspired to work with disabled
This is the first of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2018. It was in grade school when Morgan Sibley, now a senior at Liberty High School, first met a child with special needs. She was a student in her class and Sibley enjoyed being friends with her because of the…
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Empty Stocking Fund: Silver Key supports seniors in a multitude of ways
Like many seniors, Cecelia, 70, can’t make ends meet on her Social Security check. So once a month, she visits Silver Key Senior Services where she receives basic groceries. She doesn’t drive, and transportation to the food pantry means changing buses four times. “There’s no way I could get the food home on my own,”…
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Empty Stocking Fund: Peak Vista clinics offer many health services
Will Driscoll has seen a multitude of doctors in his 35 years. He was born with a heart defect and various other physical problems, and was diagnosed as having developmental disabilities. Finding help for a wide range of needs has at times been a challenge until he moved to Colorado Springs with his parents several…