COS Town Tidings #25-252

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🤣 Today’s Chuckle

📰 PSA: Silent Sign for Help🚨

📰 The 1 Thing That Could Be Killing Your Trees🍂

📰 Overnight COS Closures🚧

💃 Trivia Time: Forgotten Family, Remembered Roots

📆 Local Events + Free Concerts, Farmers Markets & Fall Fairs/Festivals

⛅ COS Weather - Hot with slight chance of isolated PM T-storms

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🚨 PSA: Silent Sign for Help

A hand signal known as the “Signal for Help” is quietly saving lives by allowing abuse victims to alert others when they can’t speak out. Recently, it helped lead to an arrest after a bystander noticed and called police (this could be you one day.)

With local shelters stretched thin and domestic violence cases on the rise, experts urge everyone to recognize the sign and be alert when in public. If you see it, don’t intervene directly—call 911 or alert security. Full Story

🍂 The 1 Thing That Could Be Killing Your Trees

In this eye-opening video, Barrington—owner of Green And Growing, LLC in Colorado Springs—shows how improperly installed tree supports can do more harm than good. While these straps are meant to stabilize young trees, Barrington reveals that when they’re too tight, they can actually choke off vital nutrients, stunting growth or even killing the tree.

He contrasts struggling trees with one that had its supports break off naturally—and it’s thriving, full of lush green leaves. The takeaway? Sometimes nature knows best, and a little freedom can lead to flourishing growth.

📹 Click on the image above and watch the video to see the difference for yourself and learn how to support trees the right way.

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🚧 Overnight COS Closures

Tonight through Sept 11 from 7pm-5:30am, northbound S Academy between US 85/87 and Milton Proby Pkwy will be fully closed overnight for paving work, with a signed detour in place.

Drivers will also continue to see lane reductions between Venetucci and Coventry Dr, narrowed lanes on bridges, and ramp realignments as part of ongoing improvements. These changes, expected to last through the month, may cause delays during peak travel times, so plan extra time, merge early, and stay alert near construction zones.

💃 TRIVIA: Forgotten Family, Remembered Roots

Step back in time to the Conejos Neighborhood—once a close-knit enclave just south of downtown Colorado Springs, where generations of Hispanic families grew up side by side from the 1920s through the 1990s. This was a four block neighborhood located south of Colorado Ave, north of the former Martin Drake Power Plant, east of Monument Creek, and west of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks.

Life in Conejos meant backyard weddings, block parties, and sharing home-cooked meals with neighbors who felt more like family. But the city’s plan to redevelop downtown changed everything: homes and businesses were cleared to create America the Beautiful Park, leaving behind just one historic building.

Which original Conejos Neighborhood building still stands today, connecting generations to its history?

Every September, past residents and their descendants gather at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum (Sept 13, 2025, 10am-2pm) to honor the resilient spirit and loving legacy of the Conejos Neighborhood, trading memories to keep a vanished community’s heart alive.

Answer: The Chadbourn Community Church (formerly the Spanish Gospel Mission) *Source

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🎉 Events Calendar! (More events including FREE, click here)

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📆 Sample Local Events

Weather permitting

• Sept 9-10, 12-13, 1-4 PM: 3-Hour Original Colorado Springs Food Tour @1 Tejon St $69-$87

• Sept 10-21, 10am-6pm (Closed Mon & Tues): Parade of Homes in Colorado Springs $18

• Sept 12, 6-9pm: Happy Trails BBQ Fundraiser- Hoot-enanny! @Bear Creek Nature Center $75

• 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, 10am-2pm: Conejos Neighborhood Reunion @Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, 215 S Tejon FREE (Pls Register)

• Sept 13, 11am-4pm: HSPPR’s Pawtoberfest @Union Printers Home at Printers Hill 

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

• Sept 13, 7:30-9pm: Movies Under the Stars - Shrek @Bristol Brewing FREE

• Sept 20, 10am-5pm: Annual Powwow @Rock Ledge Ranch $8

• Sept 27, 9am-11am: Beginning Bridge Workshop @Bridge Center, 901 N 17th St $10

• Sept 27, 6-9pm: Murder Mystery, Game Over @Great Wolf Lodge, 9494 Federal Dr $69.95 (1 ticket left at this price)

• Oct 8, 2-3:30pm: South/Southeast Colorado 50+ Workforce Listening Session (Virtual)

• Oct 10-12, 17-19, 24-26: First Company Theater Presents, Brigadoon @First United Methodist Church, 420 N Nevada $20

👩‍🌾 Farmers Markets - Weather permitting

• Sept 10, 9am-2pm (Wed’s thru Sept 24): Briargate Farmers Market @7610 N Union Blvd

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

• Sept 10, 3-7pm (Wed’s thru Oct 15): Colorado Farm and Art Market (CFAM) @Pioneers Museum, 215 S Tejon

• Sept 13, 7am-1pm (Sat's thru Oct 11): OCC Farmers Market @2407 W Colorado Ave

• Sept 13, 8am-2pm (Sat’s thru-Oct 4): Monument Hill Farmers Market @66 Jefferson St, Monument

• Sept 13, 9am-1pm (Sat’s thru Oct 11): Backyard Market @Black Forest, 6845 Shoup Rd

• Sept 13, 10am-2pm: CFAM (Sat's thru Oct 3): The Margarita at Pine Creek, 7350 Pine Creek Rd

• Sept 14, 9am-2pm (Every other Sun, thru Oct 26): COS Sunday Market @Acacia Park, Downtown

• Sept 19, Noon-4pm (Every other Fri thru Oct 3): UCCS Farmers Market @3942 Regent Circle 

• Sept 21, 11am-3pm: Southeast Farmer's Market (Food Coalition) @Stompin' Groundz, 2050 Jet Wing Dr (Last one for the season)

🎶 Fall Concert Series - Weather permitting

• Sept 9, 5:30-7:30pm (Tues’s thru Sept): Music in the Park: @Bancroft Park, 2400 W Colorado Ave FREE

• Sept 12, 6-7pm: Palmer Lake Library Concert Series, Some Sweet Day @Palmer Lake Village Green & Gazebo, 66 Lower Glenway St FREE

• Sept 13, 11am-2pm: Music on The Mesa - WIREWOOD STATION @Goldhill Mesa, 142 S Raven Mine Dr FREE

🍂 Fall Festivals & Fairs - Weather permitting

• Sept 13, Noon-5pm: Palmer Lake Wine Festival @399 CO-105, Palmer Lake Ages 21+ $58

• Sept 19-21: Chile and Frijoles Festival @downtown Pueblo along Union Ave $6-$65

• Sept 27, 10am-2pm: McAllister House Museum Harvest Festival @ 423 N Cascade Ave FREE

• Oct 4, Miner's Pumpkin Patch @ Western Museum of Mining & Industry, 225 North Gate $13

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