Author: Jon Lentz
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Doherty teacher sends automotive teams into high gear
Brad Wheaton is tired of hearing it, and he hears it a lot: Auto classes are for “dumb” kids. “It couldn’t be farther from the truth,” said Wheaton, 30, the automotive instructor at Doherty High School. “We have to get some of the school’s smartest kids. The car is so sophisticated and advanced, you need…
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Urban gardener eyeing vacant spaces for community gardens
Leading a group through the new demonstration garden at Harlan-Wolfe Park, Larry Stebbins paused next to a plot overflowing with leafy vegetables. Tearing off the leaves of several plants, he handed them to the others to munch on: radicchio, with its distinctly bitter flavor, a succulent broccoli raab and the surprisingly spicy Osaka purple mustard.…
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Advocates descend on D.C. to vie for limited medical research funding
This is a big week for 16-year-old Kelsey Willis of Colorado Springs. While many kids her age are lounging by the pool or flipping burgers for a summer job, she’s in Washington, D.C., today through Wednesday to meet with congressmen to advocate for people with juvenile diabetes, a disease she’s had for 10 years. Julie…
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Garden project blooms in honor of teen lost in gas pump fire
In an overgrown garden behind Miramont Castle, a crowd of people – many of them teens – donned dirty gloves and wielded clanking trowels as they tugged weeds from the garden beds, clearing the way for a colorful array of flowers and shrubs. The odor of damp earth and mulch mingled with the scent of…
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Wet month, budget cuts could increase risk of West Nile
The risk of contracting West Nile virus could rise this summer, as a wet start to June and a slashed El Paso County mosquito control program threaten to boost the population of the insects that spread the disease. Because of recent budget cuts, the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment will no longer…
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Being green about to get a lot easier with hardware center
The Conservation Hardware Center will open Monday, offering compact fluorescent bulbs, electricity monitors and dozens of energy-cutting devices at cost, plus advice on making homes more energy-efficient. But if customers can buy the same products closer to home and avoid a trip to the downtown Colorado Springs store, so much the better. “In fact, we…
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It’s parents wearing cap, gown at this graduation
At a typical graduation ceremony, parents cheer for their children. For many of the 194 local University of Phoenix students graduating today, it’s their children who will be cheering them on. “When they get to walk across the stage, it’s a very big day for all of us at University of Phoenix,” said Brittany Nielson,…
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Tech city no more?
Colorado Springs has fallen to 50th place in a ranking of high-tech metro areas, hobbled by its waning semiconductor and computer manufacturing industries.The city is down 13 spots since 2003, according to a new Milken Institute report. The economic research organization, headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., based its rankings on 2007 employment and wage data,…
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City’s high-tech ranking falls
Colorado Springs has fallen to 50th place in a ranking of high-tech metro areas, hobbled by its waning semiconductor and computer manufacturing industries. The city is down 13 spots since 2003, according to a new Milken Institute report. The economic research organization, headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., based its rankings on 2007 employment and wage…