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Side Streets: Technology innovation campus will fit nicely in Colorado Springs’ historic Santa Fe Railway station
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s back to the future as a technology, engineering and innovation hub is being created in the old Santa Fe Railway station southeast of downtown Colorado Springs. The Catalyst Campus of Technology & Innovation is…
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Side Streets: Technology innovation campus will fit nicely in Colorado Springs’ historic Santa Fe Railway station
It’s back to the future as a technology, engineering and innovation hub is being created in the old Santa Fe Railway station southeast of downtown Colorado Springs. The Catalyst Campus of Technology & Innovation is described by its creator, the O’Neil Group Co., as a place where educators, students, technology companies, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and…
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Side Streets: A toast to Enos Mills and his Rocky Mountain National Park 100 years later
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Earlier this week, Rocky Mountain National Park marked its 100th anniversary. I enthusiastically joined the celebration, offering a special toast to Enos Mills, a fellow Kansas native who moved to Estes Park in 1885 at…
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Side Streets: A toast to Enos Mills and his Rocky Mountain National Park 100 years later
Earlier this week, Rocky Mountain National Park marked its 100th anniversary. I enthusiastically joined the celebration, offering a special toast to Enos Mills, a fellow Kansas native who moved to Estes Park in 1885 at age 15, seeking a cure for tuberculosis. Like his mentor John Muir, Mills was a naturalist who campaigned vigorously for…
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Side Streets: Queen of Prince of Blades carved business out of swordplay
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In 1994, Dorothy Bretag came into a small inheritance. As she considered how to invest the money, her daughter asked her what she loved. Her answer: swords. It stemmed from watching classic swashbuckler movies about…
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Side Streets: Queen of Prince of Blades carved business out of swordplay
In 1994, Dorothy Bretag came into a small inheritance. As she considered how to invest the money, her daughter asked her what she loved. Her answer: swords. It stemmed from watching classic swashbuckler movies about pirates and knights when she was a child. So she and her husband, Mel, opened Prince of Blades in their…
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Side Streets: Being Colorado native no longer a draw as Springs club fades
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Back in the 1970s and ’80s, a bumper sticker became popular on cars across Colorado. It resembled the state license plate with its silhouette of the mountains. But instead of numbers, it bore the word…
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Side Streets: Being Colorado native no longer a draw as Springs club fades
Back in the 1970s and ’80s, a bumper sticker became popular on cars across Colorado. It resembled the state license plate with its silhouette of the mountains. But instead of numbers, it bore the word “NATIVE” in big block letters. The bumper stickers declared the driver not just a resident, but someone lucky enough to…
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Side Streets: Bambi Venetucci was an extraordinary woman and half of an amazing love story
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On a cold, gray day on Halloween eve in 2002, I watched as Bambi Venetucci comforted her husband, legendary pumpkin farmer Nick Venetucci. He was sitting at their kitchen table at the family farm in…
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Side Streets: Bambi Venetucci was an extraordinary woman and half of an amazing love story
On a cold, gray day on Halloween eve in 2002, I watched as Bambi Venetucci comforted her husband, legendary pumpkin farmer Nick Venetucci. He was sitting at their kitchen table at the family farm in Security, quietly crying as he confronted the end of their traditional pumpkin giveaway. The great drought of 2002 had ruined…