Author: Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazettedev.gazette.com
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AROUND TOWN: With chocolate and wine, Pikes Peak Women shares a platform for women’s successes and issues
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There was teasing about the soaring decibel level of female voices filling The Pinery at the Hill on April 8 as 185 members of Pikes Peak Women gathered for the 15th annual Wine, Women and Chocolate evening. Established in 2011, volunteer-led Pikes Peak Women has a mission “to provide a platform where women in the…
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PIKES PICK: See floral designer create everyday life beauty
Broadmoor Garden Club presents Garden Clubs of America floral designer Liz Wozencraft in a free program and demonstration, 10:30 a.m. May 8 at Broadmoor Community Church. Coffee at 9:45 a.m. RSVP by April 24, broadmoorgardenclub.org – Linda Navarro
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El Paso County Poor Farm, one of the last in the country, cared for the needy, old or ill
Since 2017 the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum has told the area’s history with an interactive alphabetical “Story of Us.” “P” stood for the Poor Farm in the exhibit. Fittingly, the Poor Farm had been here since the beginning of the city. In 1880 the county commissioners chose a cottage on El Paso Street for a…
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The Antlers’ 143-year history: 3 incarnations and ghost stories, too
Since 1883 every photo or painting of downtown Colorado Springs seems to focus west along Pikes Peak Avenue to include the mountains. And that view has had one other feature, the Antlers Hotel. And what a history it has had. More than 12 years earlier, Gen. William Jackson Palmer had been pulling together plans for…
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AROUND TOWN: Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado’s Recipe for Hope means over 1 million meals
Hundreds of Southern Colorado donors are making a big difference about pressing food insecurity issues. Annual Recipe for Hope fundraising luncheons are in three Southern Colorado locations over three months. Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado distributes food to 29 counties with its longtime rallying cry focus: “We believe no one should go…
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PIKES PICK: Racing season begins in Calhan
The engines will be roaring at the popular El Paso County Raceway on Saturday. Sprint cars and featured star Sammy Swindell. Heats at 5 p.m., main event at 6. Beer garden. Tickets: bstracing.com. – Linda Navarro
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Famed sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein designed his Colorado Springs bomb shelter house
Young Robert Anson Heinlein was a Navy man, graduating from Annapolis and becoming a naval officer. But that’s not what made him famous, as he went on to be called a “dean of science fiction writers” and a politically controversial one at that. His military career was sidelined in 1933 when he was seriously ill…
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AROUND TOWN: Catholic Charities’ 25th annual St. Patrick’s Gala draws 325 sparkling in green
For 58 years Catholic Charities of Central Colorado has answered the call for help from people in need in a 10-county diocese area. The 25-year St. Patrick’s Gala is its traditional night of Irish green, shamrocks, Celtic music and dancing, corned beef and purple cabbage to raise funds – and toasts – for that work…
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Pikes Pick: Go hunting for chocolate bunnies
Fun for the kids at the Saturday Chocolate Bunny Egg Hunts in Fountain Creek and Bear Creek Nature Centers on April 4, 9 a.m., 11 a.m., noon or 1 p.m. Hikes for ages 2+. Meet a live bunny at Fountain Creek and see a puppet show at Bear Creek. Reservations $6, elpasocountynaturecenters.com – Linda Navarro, The…
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Major gifts, famous artists behind the Fine Arts Center’s historic permanent collection
For the next year the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will spotlight the “Gifts That Shape Us,” a special look at the top works of art, the donors and acquisitions that helped make the museum what it is today, leading into the future. The museum’s Lane East Gallery at 30 W. Dale…