Tag: community
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Teaching Tradition
The five masters of ceremonies reflect on growing up with the Diwali celebration in Colorado Springs. (Video by Katie Klann)
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VIDEO | National Pride Month: The Path to Equality
A Gazette short documentary explores the LGBTQ community’s path since the passage of Amendment 2 in 1992, then and now. In 1992, Colorado voters passed the contentious legislation that barred local governments across the state from making sexual orientation a protected class under the law — a startling outcome to many that gained Colorado national…
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Helping the Hidden Homeless
Dream Centers and Mary’s Home are transforming two meth houses into new community gathering space in ten days to help the homeless population in Colorado Springs. The grand reveal and ribbon cutting ceremony will take place on October 15. (Katie Klann/The Gazette)
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Keeping the Lights On
Craig residents reflect on economic growth in Colorado coal town. (Katie Klann/The Gazette)
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Falcon Scouts collect more than 6 tons of food for neighbors in need
Boy Scout Troop 149 of Falcon collected 13,278 pounds of food during the Scouting for Food Drive 2015 in April. Cub Scout Packs 149, 159 and 231 also helped collect food during the drive to donate to the High Plains Helping Hands food pantry (HPHH), a Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado agency…
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Falcon Scouts collect more than 6 tons of food for neighbors in need
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Boy Scout Troop 149 of Falcon collected 13,278 pounds of food during the Scouting for Food Drive 2015 in April. Cub Scout Packs 149, 159 and 231 also helped collect food during the drive to…
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Simpich announces 2010 schedule
David Simpich has just announced the schedule for his 2010 season, which features five of the many marionette shows he toured with before finding a permanent home in the new Simpich Showcase Theatre earlier this year. All of the shows are original adaptations (in this case, not an oxymoron) by Simpich himself. The FirebirdJanuary 27-March 21 Based on the…
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Fun writing contest!
My favorite editor is hosting a contest and I know followers of my blog are going to ROCK it! Below is Moonrat’s description of the contest. Go to her blog at editorialass.blogspot.com to find out more about her and the contest. The contest: Create a tribute to (or a character assassination of) someone who contributed…
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Zoo group heading out to save frogs, save the world
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A group from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo leaves for the jungles of Panama on Friday, seeking to rescue tiny frogs from a giant threat. The deadly chytrid fungus has decimated amphibian populations around the globe.…
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Zoo group heading out to save frogs, save the world
A group from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo leaves for the jungles of Panama on Friday, seeking to rescue tiny frogs from a giant threat. The deadly chytrid fungus has decimated amphibian populations around the globe. The group of five will travel to a small section of Panamanian rainforest untouched by the fungus — though, like…