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Child abuse and neglect are a reality in the Pikes Peak region and a new facility, designed to streamline child advocacy services for victims, will soon open to help combat the problem. Several local agencies are collaborating on the region’s first inaugural children’s advocacy center. A groundbreaking was held last week for Safe Passage at…

The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region has an urgent message for Colorado pet owners: Please don’t leave your pet in your car. To drive that message home, an animal law enforcement officer demonstrated the effects of sitting in a non-operating vehicle on a hot summer day: As temperatures reached a high of almost…

Education updates Cat Wright, of Colorado Springs, was among 30 athletes from the University of Alabama’s swimming teams to earn College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America, or CSCAA, Scholar-America honors in 2021. The Cheyenne Mountain High School graduate was named to the first team. Colorado Springs Health Foundation seeks board members The Colorado…

Everyone who regularly dines out has likely experienced less than satisfactory service. All one has to do is peruse Yelp and TripAdvisor reviews to explore issues in the restaurant industry today. Long waits for tables and food, out-of-sorts staff and occasional frustration is not uncommon. Of course, there is more than one side to every…

Once a student at the Children’s Literacy Center in Monument, Lewis-Palmer High School senior Ashlynn Tarleton is now volunteering alongside her former tutor 10 years later. Tarleton’s story with the CLC began in 2011, when she was 7 years old receiving extra help with reading. Her assigned tutor was Paula Primavera, who started volunteering at…

Steve Handen, who founded the city’s first soup kitchen and other long-lasting endeavors to give the homeless and the destitute a chance to succeed, died July 12 at age 81. “He was the conscience of Colorado Springs,” said Donna Johnson, a local clinical psychologist. “He was a natural to do the work he did in…

A frantic or concerned call has been placed to 911 to report a crime. First responders are on their way. With a crime, it is natural to expect a police officer to be en route. However, there’s another type of first responder likely on his or her way to the scene. Victim advocates are a…