Author: Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazettedev.gazette.com
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AROUND TOWN: 2015-16 Empty Stocking Fund campaign tops a million dollars once again
A million dollars. It’s happily becoming a given: The Gazette-El Pomar Foundation Empty Stocking Fund and a million dollars. Once again donors – 2,284 strong – came through for the 2015-16 holiday-season campaign and raised $1,144,158.61 for 20 health and human service nonprofits. Nine million-dollar years. On Monday, with the snow floating down, agency representatives,…
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Must See Must Do: Best bets for weekend fun in the Colorado Springs area
Here are some of your best options for fun this weekend in the Colorado Springs area: – Complete weekend music and art calendar. FRIDAY – He’s the big buddy every child needs. And proper attire for an evening with Big Friendly Giant is your jammies as the delightful Roald Dahl bedtime story is on stage…
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Must See Must Do: Best bets for weekend fun in and around Colorado Springs
Here’s a look at some of the top happenings around Colorado Springs and the Front Range over the next few days: CALENDAR FOR FUN – Updated list with dozens of music, art and other events in the Pikes Peak region. FRIDAY-SUNDAY – Southwestern art, Native American dancers, drumming, Brulé, food and a 35-year tradition. It’s…
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AROUND TOWN: National Charity League a moms and daughters project
One of the most important – and most special – times together in their mother- daughter lives is how one mom described National Charity League. It has been a tradition for more than 50 years in parts of the country, 26 years locally. For six years as girls are in grades 7-12, mothers and daughters…
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Must See Must Do: Best bets for weekend fun in and around Colorado Springs
Here”s a look at what’s on tap this weekend in the Colorado Springs area: FRIDAY – Miguel Dakota didn’t let the results on ABC’s “America’s Got Talet” deter his forward progress. A year ago he released the album “Love & Freedom” with his band Miguel Dakota and the Differents, toured the country in support and…
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AROUND TOWN: 2015 Colorado Springs Debutantes presented
Sparkling Christmas tree lights and bouquets of flowers, a scarlet carpet, young ladies in pristine white gowns with white pearls and flawless white gloves, fathers and escorts in white ties and tails. It all signaled that special Broadmoor International Center night when 19 young women, all college freshmen debutantes, made their social debuts. As is…
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Must See Must Do: Best bets for weekend fun in and around Colorado Springs
This story has been updated to omit an Art on the Streets program planned for Saturday in Colorado Springs that has been canceled due to weather. Here’s a look at some of your best bets for fun and entertainment around Colorado Springs in the coming week: FRIDAY – Learn all about the art of woodturning at…
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Must See Must Do: Your best bets for weekend fun in and around Colorado Springs
Here’s a look at some of your best bets for fun and entertainment around Colorado Springs in the coming week: FRIDAY-SUNDAY – That new, giant white dome on the Union Boulevard side of Memorial Park will be the site of the 2016 Raise the Roof Banked Track Invitational Under the Dome at 2 p.m. daily…
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AROUND TOWN: Front Porch Giving Circle’s holiday grant awards celebrated
Just the words “front porch” conjure up nostalgic thoughts of neighborliness, conversations and friends. Such aptly describes the Front Porch Giving Circle, founded in 2005 and celebrating its 10th anniversary this month in the historic Old North End home of Paula Munger. This group of 35 women, each of whom pledges $1 a day for…
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AROUND TOWN: Wines for the season benefit Teen Court
It was a perfect opportunity to sample good wines in preparation for holiday season choices. As guests circled the tables at Norris-Penrose Events Center, there were calls to “try that Freemark Abbey Cabernet Sauvignon on 7” and “check the smoky spice in The Paring Red on 12.” Sovereignty Wines and its distributors were pouring for…