COS Town Tidings #25-261

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🤣 Today’s Chuckle

📰 Cuteness Alert: YOU Get to Name This Baby!🦍

📰 New Korean Festival Sat in Acacia Park🎉

📰 Amazon’s New Springs Hub Is Open!🚚

🤔 Why I didn’t let AI Do This

Recipe: 🌮 Easy Black Bean & Garden Zucchini Quesadilla

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

🌤 COS Weather - Mostly sunny with average temps

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🦍 Cuteness Alert: YOU Get to Name This Baby!

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is letting the public help name their newest bundle of joy — a critically endangered Western Lowland Gorilla baby born this July. A minimum $5 donation gets you a vote between three charming names, and all proceeds support CMZoo’s future Primate World exhibit. Every donation is matched up to $25,000, doubling your impact for the animals. It’s a chance to make naming history, support gorilla conservation, and help build a beautiful new home for the Zoo’s beloved primates. Voting is open until Oct 9 at cmzoo.org/babyname.

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🎉 New Korean Festival Sat in Acacia Park

Acacia Park will come alive this Saturday from 10am to 6pm for Colorado Springs’ first Korean Festival — and the largest the state has ever seen. The FREE event features live performances, games, music, and delicious food, all celebrating Korean heritage and the 80th anniversary of Korea’s independence. Organized by the Korean American Society of Southern Colorado, the festival also supports 38 Freedom, a youth-led nonprofit advocating for human rights for North Korean defectors. It’s a perfect chance to immerse yourself in something new, support a great cause, and celebrate community through culture. Full Story

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🚚 Amazon’s New Springs Hub Is Open!

According to KRDO, Amazon has officially opened a new delivery station on Forge Rd in Colorado Springs yesterday, adding around 100 new jobs to the local economy. The site will play a key role in package delivery across our region, connecting larger fulfillment operations with the community. With flexible and full-time job options available, Amazon expects to grow its local workforce beyond the current 4,000 employees.

Coinciding with the opening, Amazon also donated $100,000 to youth-focused STEM education nonprofits throughout the state, reinforcing its ongoing investment in both infrastructure and community development. Full Story

🤔 Why I didn’t let AI Do This

Ever feel buried under paperwork you keep putting off? I did too. I had 90 business spotlight applicant PDFs sitting in a folder—none of them were in my CRM or spreadsheet. Ugh! 😩

Instead of manually opening each file and copy-pasting info one by one, I used AI (Copilot or ChatGPT both work). I simply uploaded the files and asked it to pull the key contact info—name, business, email, phone—output was clean info I could copy straight into Excel.

✅ No typing ✅ No reformatting ✅ No stress

This saved me HOURS (possibly days!) And more importantly—it gave me momentum again. Pretty cool, right?! 😊 

*As promised, I share why I didn’t do it another way. Yes, it could’ve saved me even more time. But I didn’t do it.

🎥 In the video: I show the dashboard, how it works—and why I’m drawing the line (for now).

🤗 I want to personally invite you to join me inside AI For Everyone—a FREE community where we turn overwhelm into clarity, and scattered ideas into real progress.

It’s where the magic happens. Come see what’s working—and what’s possible!

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🌮 Easy Black Bean & Garden Zucchini Quesadilla

Created by local Colorado Springs chef, Christine Miller at Seasons Two Taste. The next time you're looking for an easy option for busy weeknights, game day munchies or a quick snack, give these delicious zucchini quesadillas a try! The addition of black beans makes this recipe a complete meal.

Access the complete recipe with tailored modifications to suit your dietary requirements, along with convenient print options.

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

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📆 Sample Local Events

Weather permitting

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

• Sept 18, 19 & 21, 1-4 PM: 3-Hour Original Colorado Springs Food Tour @1 Tejon St $69-$87

• Sept 19, 10-11am: Fall Craft Project @Silver Key Activity Center South, 1655 S Murray Blvd

• Sept 19, 6-9pm: Mabon Light Bottle Workshop @Blessings Bee Bzzaar, 1287 Lake Plaza Dr, Ste 30 $9

• Sept 20, 9am-Noon: Shred Day @Duryea Service Center, 7339 Duryea Dr FREE (Limit 2 bankers boxes per person)

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

• Sept 20, 11am-2pm: 4th Annual Westfest Potluck @Westside Community Center, 1628 W Bijou FREE

• Sept 20, 7:30-9pm: Movies Under the Stars - The Hangover @Bristol Brewing FREE

• Sept 20, 2-4pm: Doyennes, Disputes, and Woman's Political Domain in Early Colorado Springs @McAllister House Museum, 423 N Cascade Ave $17.85

• Sept 22, 7-9pm: Fall Equinox Hike @Garden of The Gods $5

• Sept 26 (5pm), 27 & 28 (9am): Chasing Colors – Fall Hiking Weekend @Locations in COS, Woodland Park & Victor (choose 1, 2 or all 3) $45-$99

• Sept 25, 6-9:30pm: Tails, Tunes & Tastes @Cheyenne Mountain Zoo $64.75-$74.75 (Last one for the season, limited tix left)

• 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 $74.95 (12 ticket left)

• Oct 4, 7pm: Fashion With A Purpose @Phil Long Music Hall $78-$153

• Oct 5, 11am: The Local Motive - Leaf Peepin' Party @Kinship Landing $54.50

• 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

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

• Nov 8, 3-6pm: Senior Holiday Dinner Dance @COS City Hub, 4304 Austin Bluffs 65+ FREE (must register, limited spots available)

👩‍🌾 Farmers Markets - Weather permitting

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

• Sept 20, 7am-1pm (Sat's thru Oct 11): OCC Farmers Market @2407 W Colorado Ave

• Sept 20, 8am-2pm (Sat’s thru Oct 4): Monument Hill Farmers Market @66 Jefferson St, Monument

• Sept 20, 8am-2pm (Sat thru Sept 27): Metcalf Park Market @618 E Ohio Ave Fountain

• Sept 20, 9am-1pm (Sat’s thru Oct 11): Backyard Market @Black Forest, 6845 Shoup Rd (Local produce advertised)

  • 🌟Stop by this booth…🧄 You HAVE to Taste What They're Growing at The Green Witch Homestead!

• Sept 20, 10am-2pm: CFAM (Sat's thru Oct 3): The Margarita at Pine Creek, 7350 Pine Creek Rd (Local produce advertised)

• Sept 20, 2-5pm: Annual Farm & Art Market @Green Box, 6990 Lake St, Cascade, CO 80809

• Sept 21, 9am-2pm (Wed): Briargate Farmers Market @7610 N Union Blvd (Last one for the season)

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

• Sept 22 & 24, 10am-5pm (Mon & Wed’s thru Oct 15): Summer Farmers Market @ Western Museum of Mining & Industry, 225 N Gate Blvd

• Sept 24, 3-7pm (Wed’s thru Oct 15): Colorado Farm and Art Market (CFAM) @Pioneers Museum, 215 S Tejon

• Sept 28, 9am-2pm (Every other Sun, thru Oct 26): COS Sunday Market @Acacia Park, Downtown

🎶 Fall Concert Series - Weather permitting

• Sept 20, 11am-2pm: Music on The Mesa - FALL FESTIVAL, COUNTYWYDE @Goldhill Mesa, 142 S Raven Mine Dr FREE (Last one for the season)

• Sept 21, 2-4pm: Pikes Peak Music Assn presents - Echoes of the Heart Land @Bancroft Park, OCC FREE

• Sept 23, 5:30-7:30pm (Tues’s thru Sept): Music in the Park: @Bancroft Park, 2400 W Colorado Ave FREE

🍂 Fall Festivals & Fairs - Weather permitting

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

• Sept 20, 8am-1pm (Sat's thru Oct 11): OCC Craft Fair @Old Colorado City History Center, 1 S 24th St

• 🍺 Sept 20, 10am-6pm: Oktoberfest @Cerberus Brewing, 702 W Colorado Ave

• Sept 20, 10am-6pm: Korean Festival @Acacia Park

• Sept 26 (5-11pm) & 27 (11am-11pm): Oktoberfest @WMMI, 225 North Gate 

• Sept 27, 9am-3pm: Village Moms Craft Fair @4050 Nonchalant Circle South, 80917

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

• Sept 30, 5-9pm: Pikes Peak Oktoberfest @Hillside Gardens & Events, 1006 S Institute St $12.51

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

• Oct 4 (10am-6pm) & 5 (10am-4pm): Market Days @Norris Penrose Event Center $7.23 (Early Bird, sale ends Oct 3)

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