COS Town Tidings #26-041

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🤣 Today’s Chuckle

📰 PB&J Drive Until Feb 13 🥜🍓

📰 Olympics Update 🥇

📰 Bighorn Sheep Day Is Back 🐏

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

⛸️ Trivia Time: 1930's 24-Day Ice Palace Shocked Colorado Springs

🛍 New: Bargain Box Weekly Sales, Feb 10-14!

📆 Local Events + Concerts & 💕 Special Events

🌤 COS Weather - Partly cloudy and breezy with cooler temps

One of the easiest ways to help local families right now is back again. Care and Share Food Bank is having their annual “Spread the Love” food drive through Feb 13, inviting the community to donate a simple but powerful combo: peanut butter and jelly.

Care and Share Food Bank
• 2605 Preamble Point

Kangaroo Coffee
• 319 S Hancock Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Hanson HotSpring Spas
• 1835 Dublin

YMCA Locations
• Briargate YMCA – 4025 Family Place
• Tri-Lakes YMCA – 17250 Jackson Creek Pkwy, Monument
• First & Main YMCA – 3035 New Center Point
• Downtown YMCA – 207 N Nevada
• Southeast & Armed Services YMCA – 2190 Jet Wing Dr
• Fountain Valley YMCA – 326 W Alabama Ave, Fountain
• Cottonwood Creek YMCA – 3920 Dublin

Community Centers & Other Locations
• Senior Center – 1514 N Hancock
• Banning Lewis Rec Ctr – 6885 Vista Del Pico Blvd
• Chapel Heights Community Ctr – 4320 Jericho Loop
• Cordera Community Ctr – 11894 Grand Lawn Cir
• The Gathering Place at the Farm – 11141 Ridgeline Dr
• Promenade Shops at Briargate (Mgmt Office) – 1885 Briargate Pkwy

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Currently, as competition continues in Italy, Norway and Switzerland are tied for the most gold medals so far, while host nation Italy leads in total medals overall. For the U.S., the biggest headline is curling: Americans Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse fought their way into the mixed doubles gold medal match after a hard-earned semifinal win, securing at least a silver medal for Team USA.

The U.S. currently sits at two gold medals total, and the upcoming matchup against Sweden gives Americans a chance to climb higher in the standings. While overall rankings often prioritize gold medals over total count, the race remains wide open as more finals are still ahead.

A new week means new treasures! We're giving you a first look at the incredible finds and amazing sales hitting the floor for Feb 10-14 (50% off these items). Watch now to see what's waiting for you!

Location: 405 S Nevada Ave, Open Tues - Sat 10am-2pm. (719) 475-1029

Bighorn Sheep Day (Feb 14, 10 am-2pm) is a FREE community event designed to celebrate and protect one of our region’s most recognizable wildlife species. Visitors can enjoy outdoor viewing stations to spot bighorn sheep in their natural habitat, join guided nature walks, meet live animals, and take part in kids activities and prize giveaways.

The event is hosted in partnership with several local and regional organizations, including Garden of the Gods Visitor and Nature Center, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Bear Creek Nature Center, and others, making it a great opportunity to learn about conservation while enjoying time outdoors. Extra parking will be available at the park’s main entrance off 30th St.

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

Did you know Colorado Springs once had waiters serving drinks on skates beside 100 tons of ice under Pikes Peak? In the late 1930s, just as America was falling in love with glamorous skating movies and touring ice shows, The Broadmoor’s owners, Spencer Penrose and Charles Tutt Jr., turned a simple riding academy into the Broadmoor Ice Palace in only 24 days. They spent $200,000 to create a 185-by-85-foot rink, warmed the edges with steam pipes, and set up tables where guests watched the ice while waiters glided by with drinks and snacks.

Almost immediately, the Broadmoor Skating Club formed, first under the name Pikes Peak Figure Skating Club. Skaters had to prove themselves with precise edges and turns just to join.

Which famous Broadmoor Skating Club standout went on to win Olympic gold in women’s figure skating at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France?

That first year, they put on ice shows for hotel conventions, launched a summer revue where the ice was painted like a Navajo rug with tepees and real bonfires, and staged a holiday spectacular. Their shows quickly earned a reputation as the most “professional” amateur productions anywhere, and Thayer Tutt’s passion for international sports helped attract world-class coaches and skaters to train right here in our local community.

Answer: Peggy Fleming *Source *Source2

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