COS Town Tidings #25-265

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🤣 Daily Chuckle

📰 Bear Cub Sneaks Into Hospital🐻

📰 90% Built by Volunteers 👷‍♀️

📰 Another Bulk Shopping Option Coming🛒

Wellness: 😩 This Is Why Your Back Aches

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

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🌦 COS Weather - Average temps with PM T-storms

What do you call a bear in the autumn rain?

👉A drizzly bear 🤣

🐻 Bear Cub Sneaks Into Hospital

This past Friday, a young bear cub found itself far from the forest—inside the underground parking garage at St. Francis Hospital off Woodmen and Powers. Colorado Parks and Wildlife responded quickly, temporarily sedating the cub and tagging its ear before transporting it to a rehab facility in Frisco. Fortunately, the cub is now safe and getting the care it needs before eventually being released back into the wild. Full Story

👷‍♀️ 90% Built by Volunteers

Community, helping community…on Sept 19, local Target employees joined Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity at the Ridge at Sand Creek construction site to support affordable housing in Colorado Springs. With 24 homes already built in the 30-home development, volunteers played a hands-on role in helping more families—like teachers and bus drivers—achieve homeownership. Since the majority of Habitat homes are built by volunteers, their efforts make a lasting impact right here in our community. Full Story 

🛒 Another Bulk Shopping Option Coming

Gordon Restaurant Market, part of Gordon Food Service, is preparing to open a new store in southeast Colorado Springs in November 2025. Located near S Circle and Monterey Rd, the store will offer wholesale-style grocery options, primarily aimed at restaurants and bulk shoppers. While early signs are up, interior work is still in progress. The store may not be ideal for those seeking organic or health-specific items (Costco is better for this) but could provide another option for families and local businesses needing bulk deals and catering supplies. Full Story

Why I didn’t let AI Do This!

I show you in the video below 👇

😩 This Is Why Your Back Aches

Most people with lower back pain walk away from a doctor’s visit with the same vague diagnosis—“non-specific lower back pain”—but that doesn't offer a real solution. This helpful video may offer some relief. Whether you sit all day or stay active, this is a great place to start your recovery.

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

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📆 Sample Local Events

Weather permitting

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

• Sept 23-28, 1-4 PM: 3-Hour Original Colorado Springs Food Tour @1 Tejon St $69-$87

• Sept 23 & 30: 5:30-8pm: Music & Blooms @Gather Mountain Blooms, 5210 South US Hwy 85 87 $11.17

• Sept 25, 7-9pm: 2nd Annual Missfit Monologues @Peak Improv Theater, 3440 Carefree Cir N $23-$55

• 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)

• 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 (8 ticket left)

• Sept 27, 7:30-9pm: Movies Under the Stars - The Princess Bride @Bristol Brewing FREE

• 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)

👩‍🌾 Farmers Markets - Weather permitting

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

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

• Sept 27, 7am-1pm (Sat's thru Oct 11): OCC Farmers Market @2407 W Colorado Ave

• Sept 27, 8am-2pm (Sat’s thru Oct 4): Monument Hill Farmers Market @66 Jefferson St, Monument

• Sept 27, 8am-2pm: Metcalf Park Market + Kids Day Event @618 E Ohio Ave Fountain (Last one for the season)

• Sept 27, 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 27, 10am-2pm: CFAM (Sat's thru Oct 4): The Margarita at Pine Creek, 7350 Pine Creek Rd (Local produce advertised)

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

• Oct 3, Noon-4pm: UCCS Farmers Market @3942 Regent Circle (Last one for the season)

• Oct 5 & 19, 11am-3pm: Southeast Farmer's Market (Food Coalition) @Stompin' Groundz, 2050 Jet Wing Dr

🎶 Fall Concert Series - Weather permitting

• 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 26-Oct 26, 10am-5pm (Every Fri, Sat & Sun): Long Neck Pumpkin Farm @ 7595 California Dr, COS $18

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

• Sept 27, 8am-1pm (Sat's thru Oct 11): OCC Craft Fair @Old Colorado City History Center, 1 S 24th St

• 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-4pm: Harvest Festival @Rock Ledge Ranch $8

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

• Oct 4 & 5, 10am-6pm: Oktoberfest @ Gather Mountain Blooms, 5210 S Hwy 85 $18-$35

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