Tag: Turkeys
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More than 800 turkeys distributed across Colorado Springs military bases
Colorado Springs military families will feast on about 850 free turkeys this holiday season. Soldiers loaded cases of birds into vehicles Friday morning at the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center so they could be distributed among the military bases. Later in the day, turkeys and red bags full of sides, such as stuffing and gravy,…
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Fort Carson military cooks work overtime to prepare 2,200 Thanksgiving meals for those in need
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Army Pfc. Caleb Owen was growing up, he rarely got to spend Thanksgiving Day with his mother. As a pastry chef with her own small business, the holiday was one of the busiest periods of the year. “She was always working,” said Owen, a…
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Fort Carson military cooks work overtime to prepare 2,200 Thanksgiving meals for those in need
When Army Pfc. Caleb Owen was growing up, he rarely got to spend Thanksgiving Day with his mother. As a pastry chef with her own small business, the holiday was one of the busiest periods of the year. “She was always working,” said Owen, a culinary specialist stationed at Fort Carson. “When she wasn’t baking,…
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Gobble, gobble, crunch: How some farmers have turned to birds to combat the ‘hopperpocalypse’
CAÑON CITY • Hundreds of grasshoppers flutter through the air as Matt Koster wades through his neighbor’s decimated hay field. Passing through the flattened grass and fog of pests, he reaches his own field. The clouds of insatiable insects seem to dissipate, and the rows of plants stand strong in bloom. Soon, we see why.…