COS Town Tidings #26-013

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🤣 Today’s Chuckle

📰 Big Recycling Goals for COS ♻️

📰 More Affordable Grocery Choices for the Springs? 🛒

📰 Speed Cameras Now Ticketing 🚸

💲 Your Money Matters 💸 Erik's no-nonsense financial tips

🏔️ Trivia Time: The History Behind Colorado Springs’ Biggest Eyesore

🛍 New: Bargain Box Weekly Sales, Jan 13-17! 

📆 Local Events + Concerts & Special Events

🌤 COS Weather - Partly cloudy and mild temps with PM wind gusts

Why did the soda can go to therapy?

👉It felt crushed 🤣

♻️ Big Recycling Goals for COS

The City of Colorado Springs has finalized its WastelessCOS Waste Diversion Action Plan, a data-driven strategy shaped by local residents, businesses, and waste experts. The plan sets a long-term goal of increasing the city’s waste diversion rate to 37% by 2045, with targeted improvements for single-family homes, apartments, and commercial properties.

Focus areas include expanding recycling and composting access, reducing contamination, improving education, better tracking waste data, and diverting construction and specialty materials. Funded through the Colorado Circular Communities program and developed with technical support from Resource Recycling Systems, the plan will roll out in phases as funding becomes available, helping protect resources, support local jobs, and keep more reusable materials out of landfills as the city continues to grow.

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🛒 More Affordable Grocery Choices for the Springs?

With grocery prices still pinching household budgets, local residents are feeling a spark of hope after learning that ALDI plans to expand into the Colorado Springs market. Known for affordable pricing and a no-frills shopping experience, ALDI could offer local families another way to stretch grocery dollars at a time when food costs remain high.

Economists say added competition in the Colorado Springs grocery market can help slow future price increases and improve access to affordable food especially for households already feeling the squeeze. For many residents, just knowing another budget-friendly option may soon arrive is welcome news.

🛍 Bargain Box: This Week's Hot Deals!
Jan 13-17

A new week means new treasures! We're giving you a first look at the incredible finds and amazing sales hitting the floor for Jan 13-17. Watch now to see what's waiting for you!

Location: 405 S Nevada Ave, Open Tues - Sat 10am-2pm. (719) 475-1029 (Closed New Year’s Day)

• —> 🤲 They Have 5,000 Reasons to Work for Free

🚸 Speed Cameras Now Ticketing

After a month of warnings, mobile speed cameras operated by CSPD are now actively ticketing drivers who exceed posted speed limits. The camera-equipped vehicles rotate throughout the city and are prioritizing school zones, neighborhoods, construction areas, and roads near parks, places where speeding can quickly turn dangerous.

While some residents are hopeful this will slow drivers down and make streets safer, especially around schools, others are watching closely to see whether the added enforcement leads to meaningful change. Citations will be mailed to drivers after violations are recorded, and signage will continue to alert motorists when speed enforcement is in use.

👵 From "Too Fragile" To Daily Adventures... with Kristen Nielsen

🏔️ TRIVIA: The History Behind Colorado Springs’ Biggest Eyesore

Did you know one of Colorado Springs’ biggest “eyesore” is quietly on its way to becoming one of our newest playgrounds?

For more than a century, chewed into the hillside above today’s I‑25, sending limestone down to build the streets we drive, the playgrounds our kids use, and even major landmarks like the Air Force Academy and downtown high‑rises. When it opened in 1903, the pit sat well outside town; as neighborhoods crept north, that stepped gray wall turned into a daily reminder of what it costs to build a city.

Mining stopped in 2018, but what was left behind was daunting: unstable cliffs, bare rock, and a slope locals had long nicknamed “the scar.” Instead of walking away, the quarry owner and engineers are now “recycling” the land itself, carefully reshaping the high wall, rebuilding the hillside with rock and soil from the site, and replanting it so grass and trees can slowly stitch it back into the Front Range.

Roughly how much material is being moved and reused on‑site to stabilize and reshape the Pikeview Quarry’s high wall during reclamation?

The plan does not end with safety or scenery, though. Once it is stable and green, the 100‑acre site is set to be donated to the City of Colorado Springs as public open space, with a proposed mountain bike park and trail network perched right where haul trucks once rumbled.

If it all comes together, a place that provided the rock under our lives will become a place we visit on purpose, to watch sunsets, ride bikes, and s

how future generations how a scar on the landscape can be healed instead of hidden.

Answer: Engineers plan to use about 3.4 million cubic yards of material, mostly sourced from the quarry itself, to buttress and stabilize the former mine before it’s transformed into public open space. *Source

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📆 Sample Local Events

*Weather permitted

• ⛸ Through Jan 31: Skate In The Park @Acacia Park $15

• Through Feb 21: Ice Castles @ Cripple Creek $16-$29

   

• Jan 13, 1:30-2:30pm: Marking Time: Commemorating the Past in the Pikes Peak Region @Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

• Jan 13, 2-3pm: Energy in Motion: How Your Thoughts Attract Your Life @ Treehouse Cafe $20

  • —> With Laurel: 👁️‍🗨️ The Strength To Endure Comes From This.

• Jan 15, 6:30-9:30pm: Salsa 719! Latin Dance Night & Social @ Movement Arts Community Studio, 525 E Fountain Blvd $5-$7

• Jan 15, 7:15-8:45pm: Satya Kirtan @ Yoga Studio Satya, 1581 York Rd FREE

• Jan 16-18: The Springs Home Show @ Colorado Springs Event Center FREE Admission

• Jan 17, 10-11:30am: Build a Bird with Bricks & Minifigs @ Fountain Creek Nature Center $25 (Prepaid registration required)

• Jan 17, 10am-5pm: Picklefest, Colorado Springs’ largest FREE pickleball festival @ 2975 New Center Pt

• Jan 17, 2-4pm: Community Cooking Class - A Taste of Northern Italy @ 11990 Swingline Rd, Peyton $20 + $15 for each additional serving (Must pre-register)

• Jan 17, 3-5pm: Jigsaw Puzzle Swap @ Sand Creek Library FREE

• Jan 18, 10am: Tallow Balm Making Class @ Meraki Springs, 2703 W Colorado Ave $55

• Jan 18, 11am-3pm: Chunky Knit Blanket | $10 Bottomless Mimosas! @ 2834 N Powers Blvd $75

• Jan 23, 6:30-9:30pm: Live Show! True Crime & DIY Craft Night FREE DRINK @ Painting With A Twist, 2834 N Powers $35

• Jan 23, 7:30pm: The Mat!ch Game @The MAT, 1626 S Tejon $17.50

• Jan 24-25, 1-4 PM: 3-Hour Original Colorado Springs Food Tour @ 1 Tejon St $69-$87

• Jan 24, 6-9pm: Murder Mystery, The Hollywood Hit @Great Wolf Lodge, 9494 Federal Dr $79.95

• Jan 28, 9am-5pm: Dog Days at the Zoo @ Cheyenne Mtn Zoo

• Feb 6-8: Colorado Springs Home & Garden Show @ Norris Penrose Event Center $5

• Feb 12-Mar 1: The Roommate @ Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale St $30-$60

• Feb 14, 11am-1pm: Native Seed Saturday @ Manitou Springs Library FREE

• Feb 24-26, 7:30pm: Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" @ Pikes Peak Center $44-$102

🎶 Concerts / Music

• Jan 24 (7:30pm) & 25 (2:30pm), 7:30pm: Brahms / Tchaikovsky @ Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts, 190 S Cascade $57-$120

• Feb 6, 7pm: Three Dog Night @ Pikes Peak Center $63-$260

• Feb 22, 3pm: Pikes Peak Philharmonic: Pops @ENT Center for the Arts, 5225 N Nevada $14-$20

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