Author: Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Must See Must Do: Best bets for fun this holiday weekend around the Springs
There are plenty of great options for fun over Labor Day weekend in Colorado Springs and beyond. Here are a few of the best: FRIDAY – First Friday Downtown – Let the kid in you – or the closet artist – loose during the Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival, sponsored by the Acacia Park Visitors Hub as…
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AROUND TOWN: Children’s Garden celebrates Judy Noyes’ love of books and reading
She left a legacy of public art, a passion for downtown and for giving back through community service. But more than anything, Judy Noyes, who loved books and reading, found ways to excite a lifelong love of reading in children. She and her college sweetheart, Dick, passed along that literary legacy as owners of The…
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Must See Must Do: What’s happening around Colorado Springs this weekend
Here’s a look at some of the top events happening in the Colorado Springs area: FRIDAY-SUNDAY – It’s closing weekend for the inaugural Breckenridge International Festival of Arts, the newest ski town summer arts festival. There’s music and art, dance, yoga, art exhibits with links to the area’s environment, a paint-the-trees-blue project and bicycle poster…
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AROUND TOWN: A Summer Bash at Ronald McDonald House
What better place to celebrate providing a home away from home for 9,000 families with critically ill children hospitalized nearby over the years than at the spacious, homey Ronald McDonald House itself? Volunteers, sponsors, supporters, neighbors, residents and former residents – and Ronald McDonald himself – were on hand July 18 for the Summer Bash…
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AROUND TOWN: 100+ Men Who Care – Colorado Springs
100+ Men Who Care – Colorado Springs: “Now this is the way the fellows like to have meetings and raise money,” one enthusiastic member said. A drink with friends at the El Paso Club after work, five-minute presentations and a potential $10,000 raised for a local charity. Over and done. Founders Bill Kurtz and Russ…
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AROUND TOWN: The Arc Pikes Peak Region celebrates 60 years
One mother, Peggy Marshall, set out to create a way to a better future for her daughter with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She rallied other mothers and started what evolved into The Arc Pikes Peak Region as well as numerous other nonprofits. The Arc Pikes Peak Region celebrated 60 years with a dinner for more…
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Must See Must Do: What’s happening this weekend around Colorado Springs
Here are some of the best bets for fun this weekend and beyond in the Colorado Springs area: FRIDAY – List: Loads of free summer concert series in Pikes Peak region parks – LIST: Farmers markets in the Colorado Springs area – Pack the car: 16 quality places to camp in and around Colorado FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY…
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AROUND TOWN: Imagination Library brings books to area children’s mailboxes
“The Little Engine That Could” is chuga-chugaing its way into thousands of of area homes, teaching kids “I think I can. I think I can” as it brings them the magic of books. This is the first book in a program that mails books monthly to 8,000 children from newborn to 5 years old all…
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Must see, must do in Colorado Springs this weekend: Touch-a-Truck
Here are some of the top events in the Colorado Springs area this weekend and beyond: FRIDAY-SUNDAY – It’s absolutely a kids’ touchy-feely weekend. Pretend you’re on a construction site in a cement mixer truck, put your hands on a SWAT vehicle, be a pretend firefighter or go “vroom vroom” sitting inside a race car.…
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AROUND TOWN: New downtown communities
Hello, New South End. And the new North Tejon Street neighborhood. It was an event to experience new downtown communities and to welcome the first men to a special public meeting of Artemis Women. The Jan. 17 “Creating Neighborhoods” at Tim Gill Center for Public Media drew an overflow crowd of people. The gathering was…