Author: Carol Mcgraw
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Empty Stocking Fund: Lutheran Family Services provides respite day care, more in Colorado Springs
Lisa was at times so hyper-vigilant that she would startle easily at everyday occurrences. “I’d even freak out if I saw something unexpected that had fallen on the floor, “she said. She learned through counseling that spouses who live with those with PTSD sometimes begin mirroring those behaviors. It’s referred to as Secondary Post Traumatic…
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Empty Stocking Fund: Mercy’s Gate assists those left behind
Jeffrey Chambers and his mother were on an early morning shopping trip. They chose bread, cereal and some beef from the shelves. “This place is awesome,” Chambers said. This is no ordinary grocery store. The items in the food pantry at Mercy’s Gate are free. Chambers is grateful for the help. It wasn’t always like…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Special heartbeat leads to plans for medical career
This is the fifteenth of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. – When Aliza Anderson was 14, she became a teen volunteer at a local hospital. She noticed that all the nurses wore stethoscopes. “I went online and found a pretty hot pink one for $7.26, ” she recalls. She…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Early physical challenges defined future engineer
This is the 11th of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. Grace Quereau would like to be a biomedical engineer. The Sand Creek High School senior explains the career to others by using an example of a true story and movie of Winter, a dolphin, who lost a tail at…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Student’s focus goes from robotics to business
This is the seventh of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. —- One wouldn’t think that using engineering techniques to create a robot would inspire a student to major in business administration. But that is what happened to Jessica Mills, an Air Academy High School senior. This all started when…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Overcoming technological adversity motivates teen
This is the third of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. There are computer problems and then there are really bad computer problems. Just ask Holly Rieping who almost ruined a chance of a lifetime in the “Captain America Civil War – Girls Reforming the Future” competition last year. The…
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Best and Brightest 2017: Future physician wants to serve humanity
This is the second of 20 profiles of The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2017. Atop 9,000-foot Machu Picchu mountain, Colin Welge looked down at the Inca ruins far below. “We were surrounded by the Andes, 20,000-foot peaks. “There aren’t words to describe it. I was reminded there must be something bigger than us…
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Genealogy project delves into early days of Colorado Springs hospital
Maggie Steele is a genealogical Sherlock Holmes. She’s digging out mysteries more than a century old in a unique project of the Pikes Peak Genealogical Society and Pikes Peak Library District. Steele, 83, and other volunteers are indexing about 1,025 pages of the first four St. Francis Hospital patient admission registers. The material includes more…
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Best and Brightest: Megan Cho, community builder
This is the last of 25 profiles about The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2016. When Megan Cho was in fifth grade, she spent a school year in Korea where her extended family lived. “I still remember the very first day. A boy asked if I was American. I said yes, and he replied,…
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Best and Brightest: Palmer student a believer in mind over matter
This is the 16th of 25 profiles about The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2016. One afternoon after a swim meet, Xavier Bower saw spots before his eyes, and slid to the concrete in a coughing fit that produced blood. It was a severe allergy or asthma attack, something he has lived with all…