Author: By STEPHANIE EARLS [email protected]
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‘Hero’ Army vet who tackled Club Q mass shooter says he acted on instinct
A 45-year-old Colorado Springs Army veteran who was at Club Q in Colorado Springs when a mass shooter opened fire late Saturday night says he suddenly found himself in a situation for which he’d been uniquely, horribly, trained. Rich Fierro now is being hailed as a hero, after he says he reacted on instinct to…
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Club Q victim Raymond Green Vance: ‘Kind, selfless’ man was ready for next step in life
Twenty-two-year-old Raymond Green Vance was at Club Q with his longtime girlfriend, her parents and a group of friends on Saturday night, when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire inside the Colorado Springs nightclub. Vance was one of five people killed in the brief but horrific shooting rampage that injured more than a dozen. “Raymond was…
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Lighting the way to the holidays: A roundup of displays and trains in Colorado
Colorado looks good no matter what season you catch her, but the holidays are when she really shines — like Hollywood and Hallmark created the perfect set for a feel-good Christmas flick and transported it to our backyards. One of the few upsides of an earlier sunset is more time to enjoy the region’s seasonal…
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Lighting the way to the holidays: A roundup of displays and trains in Colorado
Colorado looks good no matter what season you catch her, but the holidays are when she really shines — like Hollywood and Hallmark created the perfect set for a feel-good Christmas flick and transported it to our backyards. One of the few upsides of an earlier sunset is more time to enjoy the region’s seasonal…
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Almost 106, Lakewood WWII veteran recalls top-secret Project Ultra and running, mending the wires of war
John Sekulich learned at a young age what it meant, and how it felt, to be responsible for others. The only son in a Penrose farming family of eight daughters, he grew up fast — but happy, with “no complaints” — in the years after World War I. As a senior in high school, he remembers…
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World’s largest Olympic memorabilia club sets up pins, and more, in Colorado Springs
Collectors, get ready to drop a pin: The world’s oldest, largest Olympic memorabilia club — and modern bane of autocorrect — is bringing its annual collector’s fest to Olympic City this weekend, for a three-day show that’s part museum, part swap meet. The Olympin (Olympic + pin, get it?) movement began quietly in the Albany,…
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Emma Crawford coffin races: 5 things to know, including parking details
The Emma Crawford Coffin Races and Festival starts at 10 a.m. Saturday in downtown Manitou Springs. The parade starts at noon, an after-party and awards ceremony is 2-5 p.m. in Soda Springs Park, 1016 Manitou Ave. The festival is in its 28th year after a pandemic pause in 2020 and adjusted scope last year. Here…
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Emma Crawford coffin races: 5 things to know, including parking details
The Emma Crawford Coffin Races and Festival starts at 10 a.m. Saturday in downtown Manitou Springs. The parade starts at noon, an after-party and awards ceremony is 2-5 p.m. in Soda Springs Park, 1016 Manitou Ave. The festival is in its 28th year after a pandemic pause in 2020 and adjusted scope last year. Here…
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Coffin races and festival in Manitou Springs an annual nod to the spirit of Emma Crawford
Colorado is home to a host of kooky festivals that frolic with the macabre. Consider: Frozen Dead Guy Days, named for the relic of a failed backyard cryogenics undertaking in Nederland. And Fruita’s Mike the Headless Chicken fest, honoring a chicken that lived for 18 months after botched meal prep left him headless but still…
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Fossil hunter who ‘cried T. rex’ brings the real deal home to Colorado dinosaur museum
For dinosaur museum curator Anthony Maltese, a quarter-century spent scouring thousands of miles of fossil fields in the American West had yielded a wealth of prehistoric finds, including a triceratops, as well as a standard joke that never failed to elicit eyerolls from his colleagues. No matter how the day’s field work had gone, his…