Tag: funding
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Locked park restrooms is not a viable solution
The headline read, “Colorado Springs to Close 10 park bathrooms Amid Funding Shortfall. This inconvenience is caused by a $2 million shortfall in the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department. Sales tax revenue came in lower than expected so the department’s budget dropped from $19 million to $17 million. “Our staff tried to minimize and spread out the impact as much as possible, while…
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Colorado Springs man donates nearly 100,000 aluminum tabs to charity — one beer at a time
A Colorado Springs man recently made a sizable, if somewhat unorthodox, donation to Ronald McDonald House. On Thursday, Roger Wertheimer drove to the temporary home for families of critically ill children and dropped off a collection that took more than a decade to build, with a little help from his friends: a haul of aluminum…
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Feds award $75 million to Entegris for tech firm’s new $600 million Colorado Springs manufacturing center
Entegris, the Massachusetts-based supplier of electronic materials for semiconductor makers and other industries, is slated to receive $75 million from a federal program designed to boost the nation’s chipmaking capacity — money that would support construction of the company’s state-of-the-art, $600 million manufacturing facility being built in Colorado Springs. The company and the U.S. Department of…
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Contentious back-and-forth follows miscommunication, grant denial for NAMI Colorado Springs
After what El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal described as a miscommunication, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Colorado Springs will not receive funding for a school-based addiction prevention program. The Region 16 Opioid Abatement Council granted and then revoked almost $40,000 in grant funding during its April meeting that NAMI Colorado Springs had expected…
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Contentious back-and-forth follows miscommunication, grant denial for NAMI Colorado Springs
After what El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal described as a miscommunication, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Colorado Springs will not receive funding for a school-based addiction prevention program. The Region 16 Opioid Abatement Council granted and then revoked almost $40,000 in grant funding during its April meeting that NAMI Colorado Springs had expected…
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Prospect Lake beach house has reopened
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Prospect Lake’s beach house in Memorial Park reopened July 13 after the beach house shut down nearly two years ago for renovations, a city news release announced. The city planned to celebrate the Eni R. Jasperson Beach House’s reopening with a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday at…
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Prospect Lake beach house has reopened
Prospect Lake’s beach house in Memorial Park reopened July 13 after the beach house shut down nearly two years ago for renovations, a city news release announced. The city planned to celebrate the Eni R. Jasperson Beach House’s reopening with a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., the release said. “Our goal is that the contemporary…