COS Town Tidings #25-243

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🌟 Local Spotlight: ❤️The 45-Year Nurse Who Sees What Others Miss👀

📰 News from this week in Colorado Springs!

🤗 Wellness Tips you missed

🍳 Sizzle Up Your Week with Our Recipe Archives!

📆 Local Events + Free Concerts & Farmers Markets

🌤 COS Weather - Mostly sunny, cooler AM temps then warming up mid day

🙋‍♀️ Who Should We Feature?

Why did the nurse bring a red crayon to work?

👉In case she needed to draw blood! 🤣

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After 45 years in nursing, Ellen recognized this pattern throughout Colorado Springs: compassionate people who could provide desperately needed care, if only someone would show them the way. Families struggled to find quality caregivers for aging parents or family members with chronic conditions, while potential healthcare workers lacked the pathway to turn their natural compassion into flourishing careers or confidence to be the caregiver they needed to be.

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📰 News from this week in Colorado Springs!

Here are some of the stories we shared this week. Check out any issues you missed.

• 🌟Community Nonprofit Spotlight: 🛠️ Discover What One Repair Means To A Neighbor (Issue #25-242)
   

• 🎪 TRIVIA: The Untold Story of Colorado’s Fair Legacy! (Issue #25-238)

   

• 🏛️ Colorado’s New Laws After Special Session (Issue #25-240)

  • —> 🏡 Home and Living: 😷 Back-to-School = Back-to-Germs, Brandy’s Tips

     

• 🚫 Tariff Trouble Halts Shipments (Issue #25-237)

   

• 🥇 Which Restaurants Restaurants Scored Big—And Failed (Issue #25-241)

   

• 🚧 Why Hwy 24 Is Back in the News Again (Issue #25-239)

• 🍽️ Post-Meal Trick That Changes Everything

• 🥾 Love Nature? You’ll Want to Explore Ute Valley Park

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• 🥗 Bean Salad with Salami and Feta (under Sides)

• 🍑 Honeyed Peach Cheesecake

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📆 Sample Local Events

*Weather permitted

• Aug 31-Sept 1: Colorado State Fair @ 1001 Beulah Ave, Pueblo $9-$75

• Aug 31, 9am: Phelan Gardens Labor of Love Labor Day Weekend Sale and Event @4955 Austin Bluffs

• 🎈 Aug 31-Sept 1: Labor Day Liftoff @Memorial Park FREE to attend, Tickets needed for special events (weather looks good for liftoff and glow)

• Sept 1, 10am-3pm: Labor Day Vintage Base Ball @Rock Ledge Ranch $8

• Sept 2-7, 1-4 PM: 3-Hour Original Colorado Springs Food Tour @1 Tejon St $69-$87

• Sept 4-8, 11-14: The Shark is Broken @Springs Ensemble Theatre, 2409 West Colorado $25 (tickets selling out fast)

• Sept 4, 8-10pm: “Weird Al” Yankovic feat Puddles Pity Party @Ford Amphitheater $63+

• Sept 5-21, 10am-6pm: Parade of Homes in Colorado Springs $18

• Sept 5-7: Briarfest @St Gabriel The Archangel Catholic Church, 8755 Scarborough Dr

• Sept 6, 10-11am: Create Natures Fall Wreath @Phelan Gardens, 4955 Austin Bluffs $28 (Only 2 Tickets Left)

• Sept 6, 6-9pm: Murder Mystery, Dirty Money @Great Wolf Lodge, 9494 Federal Dr $59.46 (5 early discount tickets left)

• Sept 12, 7pm: LA Phil Trio: Mastery in Motion @ENT Center $44

• Sept 12 & Oct 10, 7:30pm: The MAT!ch Game @The MAT, 1626 S Tejon $17.50

• Sept 13, 1-4pm: Food To Power’s annual Harvest Celebration @Hillside Hub, 1090 S Institute St $10

• Sept 20, 10-11:30am: Growing Great Gourmet Garlic! @Phelan Gardens, 4955 Austin Bluffs $22 (Only 4 Tickets Left)

• Oct 3-4: Beyond The Grave Presents: The Phantom of the Opera @Evergreen Cemetery, 1005 Hancock Expressway $28 (tickets selling fast)

👩‍🌾 Farmers Markets - Weather permitting

• Aug 31, 9am-2pm (Every other Sun, thru Oct 26): COS Sunday Market @Acacia Park, Downtown

• Aug 31, 10am-2pm: Cordera Farmers Market @11894 Grandlawn Cir, COS (Last one for the season)

• Sept 1 & 3, 10am-5pm (Mon & Wed’s thru Oct 15): Summer Farmers Market @ Western Museum of Mining & Industry, 225 N Gate Blvd

• Sept 3, 9am-2pm (Wed’s thru Sept 24): Briargate Farmers Market @7610 N Union Blvd

• Sept 3, 3-7pm (Wed’s thru Oct 15): Colorado Farm and Art Market (CFAM) @Pioneers Museum, 215 S Tejon

• Sept 5, Noon-4pm (Every other Fri thru Oct 3): UCCS Farmers Market @3942 Regent Circle 

• Sept 6, 7am-1pm (Sat's thru Oct 11): OCC Farmers Market @2407 W Colorado Ave

• Sept 6, 8am-2pm (Sat’s thru-Oct 4): Monument Hill Farmers Market @66 Jefferson St, Monument

• Sept 6, 9am-1pm (Sat’s thru Oct 11): Backyard Market @Black Forest, 6845 Shoup Rd

• Sept 6, 10am-2pm: CFAM (Sat's thru Oct 3): The Margarita at Pine Creek, 7350 Pine Creek Rd

• Sept 7, (2x/mth, Jun-Oct), 11am-3pm: Southeast Farmer's Market (Food Coalition) @Stompin' Groundz, 2050 Jet Wing Dr (Produce vendors)

🎶 Summer Concert Series - Weather permitting

• Sept 2, 5:30-7:30pm (Tues’s thru Sept): Music in the Park: @Bancroft Park, 2400 W Colorado Ave FREE

• Sept 5, 6-7pm: Palmer Lake Library Concert Series, Ricky Sweum @Palmer Lake Village Green & Gazebo, 66 Lower Glenway St FREE

• Sept 6, 4-8pm: Music on The Mesa - Harry Mo & The Cru @Goldhill Mesa, 142 S Raven Mine Dr FREE

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