Tag: Around Town
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AROUND TOWN: Breakfast under bridge drew 988 supporters on belay for Urban Peak’s homeless youth
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save They were walking, biking and driving to breakfast. Under the Colorado Avenue bridge. They didn’t know they would leave as belayers, usually the word for support systems in rock climbing. Instead, they went on belay for homeless and runaway youths. The 988 people beneath the…
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AROUND TOWN: Broadmoor’s Komen Rally for a Cure one of country’s top
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For 10 years, this Rally for the Cure has been one of the best in the country, and today it’s the largest. And definitely one of the pinkest. The popular weekend of tennis and pickleball…
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AROUND TOWN: Baroness Anne de Selys Longchamps visits home of great-grandmother Julie Penrose
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some of her best childhood memories are of times she and her siblings spent with their great-grandmother Julie Penrose. The beautiful grounds of Julie and Spencer Penrose’s El Pomar home were their playgrounds, their great-grandmother…
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Around Town: Cowgirls & Cocktails an 11-year rodeo-season tradition
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was Cindy Fowler’s legacy. The totally Western woman in the pink cowboy boots, who lost a hard-fought battle with breast cancer in 2012, had founded the fundraiser Cowgirls & Cocktails during treatment. She had seen first-hand the unanticipated expenses and needs of other women:…
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Around Town: Latina keynote speaker at The Arc Pikes Peak Region celebration fights for services for those with special needs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mary Gonzales is a 78-year-old inspiration, a feisty international professional community organizer and a special sister who took up the fight for her beloved brother with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Gonzales, keynote speaker at The…
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AROUND TOWN: Delta Sigma Theta honors community leaders
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The late Dorothy Height is remembered for her work as an activist for civil rights and women’s rights, focused on improving opportunities for African-American women. She believed in giving back to one’s community and was…
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AROUND TOWN: Unstoppable Woman Pam Shockley-Zalabak leads way for KPWE scholars
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save She’s the 2018 Unstoppable Woman credited with “getting things done” at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Now retired Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak is passing her legacy along, this time to the nontraditional female students…
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Around Town: 2018 Art on the Streets artists honored at 20th anniversary reception
The 20th anniversary of Art on the Streets was celebrated June 14 with an opening VIP reception at the Pioneers Museum attended by sponsors, donors and a number of the artists. Seventeen new works are displayed throughout downtown, all pinpointed with all public art on a new Downtown Colorado Springs Public Art Map. Look here…
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Around Town: 2018 Art on the Streets artists honored at 20th anniversary reception
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 20th anniversary of Art on the Streets was celebrated June 14 with an opening VIP reception at the Pioneers Museum attended by sponsors, donors and a number of the artists. Seventeen new works are…
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AROUND TOWN: Pam Keller gets top United Way award for program helping Mitchell students graduate
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Pam Keller, who with her husband, Dave, is the Keller of Keller Homes, received Pikes Peak United Way’s top 2018 volunteer honor, the S. Jerrard Smith Award. The award is named for the late United…