Tag: homeless
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‘Safe parking’ for people living in their vehicles prepares to launch in Colorado Springs
Emergency Medical Technician Codi Natelli knows what it’s like to live in a cramped car with everything you own and sleep in a makeshift bed on a seat built for driving. After her dad drained the family’s bank account and took off, the three kids and their mom were evicted and spent two years living…
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Cold-weather protocols in Colorado Springs to include free bus rides to shelters, downtown terminal
In an effort to do everything Colorado Springs can to help people who are homeless get inside during this winter’s cold snaps, Mountain Metro Transit will provide free city bus rides for people to reach emergency shelters or the downtown bus hub. “We’ve had drivers say we’ve seen people who need a ride, they don’t…
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Holiday weekend weather necessitates adding more overnight shelter beds for street people in Colorado Springs
Colorado Spring property manager Tracey Porter usually can be found at lunchtime on Mondays feeding street people from her perch inside a mobile kitchen known as Food Trucks Against Homelessness. But on the first day of December, she was inside an old large gymnasium on the property of The Sanctuary Church dishing up baked ziti,…
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AROUND TOWN: We Fortify’s disco night a benefit for tiny-homes village and Care and Share
The crazy days of history’s club Studio 54 were “Staying Alive” once again as disco balls glittered and flashed to the beats of the Village People and Bee Gees. The Meanwhile Block in South Downtown was shimmering for a good cause Nov. 15 as the We Fortify tiny-house village program for housing-insecure young adults held…
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LETTERS: Re-evaluate decision; a gift worth protecting
Re-evaluate this decision I am deeply disappointed and angry at the failure of our elected city council officials,(with the exception of council Dave Donaldson)to protect our citizens, especially the vulnerable (seniors, disabled, children) by choosing to allow the continuation of car camping. The data indicates that allowing people to live in their car will not…
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‘Conversations on a Bench’ focuses on 24 hours of talk about homelessness in Colorado Springs
From 1 p.m. Thursday to 1 p.m. Friday, a park bench in downtown Colorado Springs is taking on the persona of a talk show stage, with the topic of the 24-hour day being homelessness. “I see a community that wants to be part of the solution and not just complain from the balcony,” Travis Williams,…
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Tri-Lakes Cares gets OK to proceed with land purchase to build new center
MONUMENT • Monument’s Planning Commission and Town Council both have unanimously approved a reconfiguration of property that Lewis-Palmer School District 38 wants to sell, which gives the go-ahead for a local social services organization to proceed with a bid to acquire 2.8 acres of vacant land to build a new headquarters. “We are currently in…
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Tri-Lakes Cares gets OK to proceed with land purchase to build new center
Monument’s Planning Commission and Town Council both have unanimously approved a reconfiguration of property that Lewis-Palmer School District 38 wants to sell, which gives the go-ahead for a local social services organization to proceed with a bid to acquire 2.8 acres of vacant land to build a new headquarters. “We are currently in discussions and…
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Tri-Lakes Cares gets OK to proceed with land purchase to build new center
MONUMENT • Monument’s Planning Commission and Town Council both have unanimously approved a reconfiguration of property that Lewis-Palmer School District 38 wants to sell, which gives the go-ahead for a local social services organization to proceed with a bid to acquire 2.8 acres of vacant land to build a new headquarters. “We are currently in…