Author: Carol Mcgraw
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Best and Brightest: Pine Creek student wants to live up to legacy in her name
This is the 13th of 25 profiles about The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2016. Lydia Sang Yun Han was a newborn when her grandfather gave her the gift that is her constant inspiration. She was born in Korea where traditionally the male descendants receive a family lineage name. But he insisted that she…
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Best and Brightest: Gohde’s Passion engineers ways to impact lives
This is the eighth of 25 profiles about The Gazette’s Best and Brightest Class of 2016. How do you get into college when you are 13 years old? Michael Gohde, now 18 and poised to graduate from The Colorado Springs School, wrangled his way into classes at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs while in…
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EMPTY STOCKING: Partners in Housing provides transitional housing, classes
This is one of a series of stories about the nonprofit agencies that receive money from The Gazette/El Pomar Foundation Empty Stocking Fund campaign that runs through the holidays. Tomarra Carey, who was expecting a baby, had to quit her job at a big box store when she developed high blood pressure and swollen feet.…
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Western heritage thrives on El Paso County longhorn ranch
Stan Searle has a dramatic way of reminding people of the Western heritage in these parts. He and local cowboys at noon Thursday will herd about 40 head of wicked-looking Texas longhorn cattle down Tejon Street. Some weigh more than 1,000 pounds and have horns that stretch 6 feet or more from one tip to…
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Broadmoor area estate packed with ‘jaw dropping’ items lures shoppers
Rich Schell had his arms loaded Friday with vintage clothes, including a Bill Blass gown of embossed taffeta. He was one of many estate sale goers mesmerized by the offerings at 12 El Encanto Drive in the Old Broadmoor area. The items he chose will be given to a designer friend back east, Michelle Workman,…
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Colorado Springs quilting guild boasts three decades of creativity
Janie Williams grew up in a quilting family, learning “by osmosis” from her mother and two grandmothers. She created her first quilt when she was 11, using scraps from their clothing. When she moved to Colorado Springs, she joined a group of eight women who met in each other’s homes. They called themselves the…
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Open house brings Christmas joy to Hanover students
There are Christmas open houses and then there is Cathie Salmon-Wolff’s Christmas open house. The Hanover School District 28 board member has opened her home during each of the past seven Decembers to all students at Prairie Heights Elementary School. The visits are spread out over four days. Salmon-Wolff makes sure there are learning moments,…
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Let the sun shine: Colorado Springs Utilities adding solar capacity
A ray of sunshine came out of the Colorado Springs Utilities Board meeting this week as the panel OK’d two projects that will add 20 megawatts of solar power and credits to the area’s energy portfolio. “It’s very exciting,” John Romero, Utilities general manager of energy acquisitions, engineering and planning, said Friday. He said the…
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Having pets in classroom remains tradition for Colorado Springs school
Draco won’t have to fight traffic and airport lines Friday like the millions heading out on holiday. Instead, the bearded dragon will be wrapped in a warm beige towel and stuffed into a blue bag for the short ride to Palmer Elementary School teacher Laura Wirsig’s home. It’s a packing ritual repeated in schools everywhere…
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Colorado Springs charter school becoming property owner
A charter high school in Colorado Springs and two others affiliated with Colorado Early Colleges are purchasing their buildings with a $17.3 million loan in a transaction expected to be completed Thursday. Colorado Early Colleges administrator Keith King said in a news release Monday that the purchases will help the three-campus operation be more efficient.…