COS Town Tidings #25-223

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📰 Major Bridge/Road Work on Woodmen & Academy🚧

📰 Cuteness Alert! Meet These Adorable New Sisters🐒

📰 30 Years, $7.5M… And Counting🌄

Wellness: 🦵 The Real Reason for “Knee Fat”

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📆 Local Events + Free Concerts & Farmers Markets

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🚧 Major Bridge/Road Work on Woodmen & Academy

Starting today, a three-month project will repair the Woodmen bridge over N Academy and repave Woodmen from East Rockrimmon to Olga Wilson Way. Work is expected to happen overnight, 8pm to 5am, with single-lane closures to reduce daytime traffic impacts.

Crews will fix concrete, replace joints, refresh markings, and use a longer-lasting asphalt to handle the 80,000 daily vehicles that pass through. Funded by the voter-approved PPRTA and 2C programs, the project should finish by early November, weather permitting. Businesses will stay open, but drivers are encouraged to plan alternate routes. 

🐒 Cuteness Alert! Meet These Adorable New Sisters

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s Primate World has welcomed two new residents: emperor tamarin sisters Mattessich, 4, and Gianna, 3. Weighing just about a pound each, these tiny primates are known for their signature mustaches, boundless curiosity, and love of interaction. While nearly identical, guests can tell them apart by their beards—Mattessich’s is a bit unruly, Gianna’s more polished. The sisters are adjusting quickly, exploring their habitat, participating in health-focused training, and often greeting visitors with soft chirps and inquisitive looks.

🌄 30 Years, $7.5M… And Counting

Garden of the Gods Visitor and Nature Center celebrated its 30th anniversary, marking three decades as both a community hub and the park’s main source of preservation funding. Beyond exhibits, programs, and family activities, the center has generated $7.5 million to maintain trails, facilities, and natural beauty, ensuring the park remains free to the public as its founder intended. Make sure you put it on your “to do” list to visit and check out their exhibits inside. Full Story

🦵 The Real Reason for “Knee Fat”

That stubborn fullness around the knees isn’t always fat — in many cases, it’s fascia that has shifted due to years of poor posture or misalignment. This connective tissue can “balloon” in certain areas, but simple, targeted movement can help restore balance. It’s gentle, doable at home, and takes only a few minutes a day.

*Information is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please consult a health care professional, nothing above should be construed as medical advice.

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• 🩸 TODAY Aug 11, 11am-3:15pm: CSFD Blood Drive @Medical Division headquarters building, 370 Printers Pkwy - Reserve your slot

• Aug 12-17, 1-4 PM: 3-Hour Original Colorado Springs Food Tour @1 Tejon St $69-$87

• Aug 13, 5:30-7pm: Sustainability Series: Natural Dyes & Paper Making @Flying Pig Farm in Manitou $30

• Aug 15-16 & 22-23, 7:30pm: Circus of the Night @The MAT, 1626 S Tejon $28

• Aug 16, 9-11am: Sustainability Series: Natural Dyes & Paper Making @Bear Creek Nature Center $30

• Aug 16, 11am-2pm: Sunflower Scribbles with Renee Darling Art @JAKs Brewery, 555 Amelia St $60

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• Aug 16, 5pm: Velvet Hills Chorus Presents: A Million Dreams @ENT Center $20

• Aug 16, 6-9pm: Murder Mystery, Dirty Money @Great Wolf Lodge, 9494 Federal Dr $63.71 (19 tickets left)

• Aug 22: Farm Days @Forest Bend Farm, 9525 Burgess Rd in Black Forest (Limited time slots left)

• Aug 22-Sept 1: Colorado State Fair @ 1001 Beulah Ave, Pueblo $9-$75

• Aug 23, 7pm: Chicago @Ford Amphitheater, 95 Spectrum Loop $47-$658

• 🎲 Sept 13, 6-10pm: Casino Night FUNDRAISER – An Evening of Games, Giving & Good Times! @WhirlyBall, 3971 Palmer Park Blvd $81.88

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👩‍🌾 Farmers Markets - Weather permitting

🍑 Palisade Peaches & 🍉Rocky Ford melons now available!

• Aug 11 & 13 Summer Farmers Market @ Western Museum of Mining & Industry, 225 N Gate Blvd

• Aug 13, 9am-2pm (Wed’s through Sept 24): Briargate Farmers Market @7610 N Union Blvd

• Aug 13, 3-7pm (Wed’s): Colorado Farm and Art Market (CFAM) @Pioneers Museum, 215 S Tejon

• Aug 14, 5-8pm (Thurs thru Aug 28), Manitou Made Market @Manitou Art Center

• Aug 14, 6-8pm (Thurs thru Aug 28): Summer Market at the Lodge @Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort, 2 El Paso Blvd, COS 80904 (Manitou)

• Aug 16, 7am-1pm (Sat's thru Oct 11): OCC Farmers Market @2407 W Colorado Ave

• Aug 16, 8am-2pm (Sat’s thru-Oct 4): Monument Hill Farmers Market @66 Jefferson St, Monument

• Aug 16, 9am-1pm (Sat’s thru Sept 27): Homestead Yard Farmers Market @The Yard at The Homestead Collective, 9633 Prominent Point COS

• Aug 16, 9am-1pm (Sat’s thru Oct 11): Backyard Market @Black Forest, 6845 Shoup Rd

• Aug 16, 10am-2pm: CFAM (Sat's thru Oct 3): The Margarita at Pine Creek, 7350 Pine Creek Rd

• Aug 17, 9am-2pm (Every other Sun, thru Oct 26): COS Sunday Market @Acacia Park, Downtown

• Aug 17, 10am-2pm (Sun’s thru Aug 31): Cordera Farmers Market @11894 Grandlawn Cir, COS

• Aug 17 (2x/mth, Jun-Oct), 11am-3pm: Southeast Farmer's Market (Food Coalition) @Stompin' Groundz, 2050 Jet Wing Dr

• Aug 22, Noon-4pm (Every other Fri thru Oct 3): UCCS Farmers Market @3942 Regent Circle

🎶 Summer Concert Series - Weather permitting

• Aug 12, 5:30-7:30pm (Tues’s thru Sept): Music in the Park: @Bancroft Park, 2400 W Colorado Ave FREE

• Aug 13, 6pm: Summer Concerts in the Glen - Aries Brass Quintet @Broadmoor Community Church, 315 Lake Ave FREE

• Aug 15, 7-8:30pm: University Village Colorado Summer Concert Series - Inman Brothers Band @5246 N Nevada (North Plaza next to Hacienda) FREE

• Aug 16, 4-8pm: Music on The Mesa - USAFA BAND “PEGASUS” • STEELHENGE @Goldhill Mesa, 142 S Raven Mine Dr FREE

• Aug 22, 7-8:30pm: Jazz in the Garden @Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 601-631 N Tejon FREE

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