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📰 Just When Things Bloom… ❄️
📰 Beauty With a Purpose 🦋
💲 Your Money Matters 💳 The Credit Card Trick…
🌄 Trivia Time: A Tiny Crowd. A Big Legacy.
📆 Local Events + Concerts & Special Events
🌦 COS Weather - Colder temps with rain turning to PM wintry mix
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❄️ Just When Things Bloom…
Spring in Colorado Springs has a way of keeping us on our toes, just when everything starts to bloom, winter likes to make another appearance.
With heavy, wet snow and freezing temperatures on the way starting tonight, local experts are encouraging gardeners to take a few simple steps to protect early growth. Covering plants with breathable fabric like sheets or frost cloth can help, especially when supported by buckets or boxes to keep the weight of the snow from crushing them.
Mulching around the base of plants and watering ahead of the cold snap can also help insulate roots and prepare them for the temperature drop. And if damage does happen, there’s still hope, many plants can recover with a little care and pruning once things warm back up. Full Story
🦋 Beauty With a Purpose
If you’ve ever smiled at one of those colorful butterfly sculptures around town, here’s your chance to be part of it.
The Rotary Club of Colorado Springs is once again inviting local artists to help bring “Wings of Change” to life, an annual project that turns blank butterfly and dragonfly sculptures into vibrant works of art. These pieces will eventually be displayed around the city before being auctioned off to support local programs, from schools to community services.
Artists have until May 15 to submit your designs, with selected pieces coming to life over the summer and making their debut at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum later this year. It’s a creative way to give back and to leave a lasting mark on the community. Full Story
🛍 Bargain Box: This Week's Hot Deals!
May 5-9
A new week means new treasures! We're giving you a first look at the incredible finds and amazing sales hitting the floor for May 5-9 (New Deals, perfect for Mother’s Day gifts). Watch now to see what's waiting for you!
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💳 The Credit Card Trick That Can Add 40 Points to Your Score Overnight
We've been spending some time inside Mikey Caloca's community, Mikey's Money House. He runs multiple live classes a week on credit, debt, and saving…and a few things keep coming up that don't show up in normal money advice. Three quick ones:
Pay your credit card down before the statement closes, not after. Utilization is reported to the bureaus once a month. If your card hits the statement at 70% used, that's what gets reported even if you pay it off the next day. Pay it down early and your score can jump 20-40 points without doing anything else.
Pick the debt strategy you'll actually finish. Avalanche (highest interest first) wins on a spreadsheet. Snowball (smallest balance first) wins in real life because momentum is real. The "best" plan is the one you don't quit.
A side hustle that takes 20 hours a week is just a second job. The good ones use a skill or asset you already have so the second hour pays as well as the first.
Mikey covers stuff like this on rotating live calls every week, plus there's a full curriculum and 75 hours of past classes already in the library. Members can also DM him directly with questions.
🌄 TRIVIA: A Tiny Crowd. A Big Legacy.
Did you know MeadowGrass began the way a lot of the best local traditions do, small, hopeful, and a little bit magical? In May 2009, about 300 people found their way to La Foret in Black Forest for the first MeadowGrass Music Festival, tucked under the ponderosa pines where the music felt like it belonged to the woods as much as the people listening. What started as a quiet gathering has grown into a 17th annual return, with the festival set for May 22 to 24, 2026, but it still carries that same feeling of something intimate and special, like a place you have to know to find.
Who was the first artist to perform at MeadowGrass in 2009?
That is part of the beauty of it. MeadowGrass never had to become huge to matter. It grew into a tradition by staying rooted in a setting that feels very Colorado Springs, forested, scenic, a little hidden, and full of the kind of atmosphere that makes a weekend feel bigger than the calendar says it should. The event brings together music, camping, workshops, local food, and a community energy that turns a festival into a memory before the first song is even over.
Check out the origin story in this short video documentary:
Even if bluegrass is not the genre you reach for first, there is something deeply satisfying about watching a small idea become a local favorite, especially in a city where summer often feels like it arrives with a playlist and a breeze through the trees.
If this sounds like your kind of weekend 🎫 get your tickets now for May 22-24.
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📆 Local Events
*Weather permitted
Every Wed-Sun, 11am-2:45pm: Tea at the Castle @ Glen Eyrie Castle, 3820 North 30th St $50
Sept 5-7, Labor Day Lift Off Tickets on sale now!
Sept 19-20: Pikes Peak Regional Airshow @ COS Airport $50-$204
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May 9, 10am-2pm: Used Gear Collection @ Fire Station 20, 6755 Rangewood Dr at Dublin Blvd
May 16, 6-9pm: Murder Mystery, A Noteworthy Crime @Great Wolf Lodge, 9494 Federal Dr $79.95
Jun 4, 10-11am: Genealogy Basics @PPLD, Virtual Library on Zoom FREE
🎶 Concerts / Music
May 8 & 9, 7:30pm: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back @Pikes Peak Center, 190 S Cascade Ave $54-$126
May 24, 3pm: Pikes Peak Philharmonic: Rhap @ENT Center for the Arts, 5225 N Nevada $14-$20
July 30,5:30-7:30pm: Jelly Roll @ Weidner Field (will sell out)
🔥 Sept 26 & 27: Bruno Mars Concert @ Falcon Stadium, USAFA (will sell out)
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