Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Colorado Springs’ Temple Beit Torah hosts special Hanukkah lighting ceremony
The lighting of the hanukkiah is a core component of the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, in the home and as a faith community. The special, nine-pronged menorah commemorates the 2nd century B.C. victory by Jewish leader Judah Maccabee, whose revolt against the Greeks led to the capture and rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem…
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The Gazette’s 2015 Gift Guide: Travel
You don’t need exotic destinations, an unlimited budget and more vacation time than you can handle to travel in jet-setter style. Even if you’re only jaunting for a long weekend, the little (read: affordable and packable) things still can make or break the travel experience … and we’re just going to keep telling ourselves that.…
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Is your child a bedtime staller?
Note: Scroll to the bottom of the story to participate in our poll question (Do your children stall when it comes time to go to bed?) “Just one more show/book/story.” “I’m too hot/cold/thirsty/awake to sleep.” “Five more minutes.” Does bedtime invariably cue a broadside of excuses and “Godfather”-style negotiation attempts from your child? If so,…
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Colorado Springs church among fastest-growing in America
Seven years ago, Discovery Church Colorado’s 75 members were meeting for services at a Colorado Springs high school. Today, the nondenominational Christian church has its own, permanent space inside a renovated Austin Bluffs grocery store and a congregation that’s among the fastest growing, percentagewise, in the nation. “We definitely have almost doubled here and it’s…
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Humane Society in Colorado Springs invites families, pets for holiday portraits with Santa
The portrait season is upon us, and the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region understands that for many families, the picture’s not complete without creature representation. Bring your pet – dog, cat, partridge out of pear tree, so long as it’s secured on a leash or in a carrier – for a fundraising photo…
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For three 102-year-olds at Colorado Springs senior campus, history is the stuff of memory
The year 1913 saw the birth of parcel post, personal income tax and zippers – and Beatrice Risinger, Alice Smart and Claribel Conway. The three residents of a senior living campus in Colorado Springs were toddlers when the U.S. entered World War I, 6-year-olds when women were granted the constitutional right to vote, and teens…
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Snow fans line up for first tracks on opening day at Loveland, A-Basin
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY – Pull those passes out of the freezer, Colorado snow fans: Your prayers worked. Lifts at Loveland Ski Area began turning a few minutes before 9 a.m. Thursday, whisking up eager skiers and snowboarders for the inaugural runs of a season that kicked off a scosh later than riders had hoped. “After…
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Coloring for spiritual contemplation is aim of new book by Colorado Springs publisher
Carving out quiet time and space for contemplation can require an act of defiance in a modern world. “We’re trained to jump from topic to topic to topic and thing to thing. How often in our culture do we take a half-hour to think about one thought? That’s a luxury most of us don’t have,”…
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Founder of Colorado Springs nonprofit dies at 87
In 1937, 10-year-old Rochunga Pudaite set out on foot from his village in the jungles of India to pursue the dreams of his father, who believed Pudaite was chosen by God to translate scripture, for the first time, into the language of his native Hmar people. Pudaite fulfilled that mission, and spreading the gospel around…
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Front Range zoos go boo for Halloween
The details: 4-8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; Oct. 23-25, 30 and 31, 4250 Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Road; $17.25, children 2 and under free; cmzoo.org Something else: ZooBoo at Pueblo Zoo, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 31, 3455 Nuckolls Ave., Pueblo; adult $10, child $3; pueblozoo.org Headed north? Boo at Denver Zoo, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 24…