• Flying Horse Foundation info@flyinghorsefoundation.org.
• Food to Power Formerly Colorado Springs Food Rescue, 582-6676, foodtopowerco.org.
• Fort Carson Red Cross Therapy Dog Program 526-7144.
• Friends of Garden of the Gods Bret Tennis, 219-0108.
• Gateway Prayer Garden 574-0500.
• Leading with Love tinyurl.com/yb8w8uf7.
• Memorial Hospital Volunteer Services Department 365-5298.
• Mission Medical Center Vision Clinic 219-3402, missionmedicalclinic.org.
• Multiple Sclerosis Alliance 633-4603, msasoco.org.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness 473-8477.
• Need Project Inc. needproject.org.
• One Nation Walking Together 329-0251, onenationwt.org.
• Open Bible Medical Clinic 475-0972.
• Operation Christmas Child samaritanspurse.org/occ.
• Partners in Housing mdunlap@partnersinhousing.org.
Summer of Love 2?
Where are history’s marketing muses when you need them?
The global and domestic events that helped launch the counterculture movement in the 1960s may be entirely different than those that got us to today, but the feeling that we’ve reached some kind of watershed moment of shared catharsis and forever-changed perspectives echoes across the ages.
This time, though, it’s not just for the kids.
“I think if you’re trying to draw a parallel between that summer and this summer, I think it’s very similar in many, many ways, but it’s older people rather than 16- and 18-year-olds,” said Mark Robbins, a Colorado Springs native who was a teen when the West Coast awakening began rippling nationwide more than 50 years ago, via airwaves, fashion and attitudes. “A lot of the people who’ve gotten both shots of the vaccine, they are the people who are somewhere around the age where they might remember the Summer of Love … and they might relate those fee
LITERARY EVENTS
Pikes Peak Writers Virtual Open Critique 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday. Registration required: pikespeak writers.com/ppw-events/open-critique.
Virtual Write Drunk; Edit Sober With Pikes Peak Writers, learn to write without letting your inner critic get in the way and then use critical analysis to continue to work, 6:30-9 p.m. May 12. Registration required: pikespeakwriters.com/ppw-events/may-2021-write-drunk-edit-sober.
Virtual Writer Night With Pikes Peak Writers, 6:30-8:30 p.m. May 24. Registration required: pikespeakwriters.com/ppw-events/april-2021-writers-night-2.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
Recent regional author offerings:
• “The Kingdom’s Sandcastle” by Luai Qubain. Published by Rare Bird Books. Summary: Based on true events that ensued in a Middle Eastern kingdom, Louie, a closeted young gay man, has been forcibly brought back from California because of a drug rumor. Just a few weeks after his regression back into the kingdom, his mother dies under suspic
The Tenderfoot Bluegrass Band checks their sound system in the Manitou Art Centerâs Hagnauer Gallery. Jeanne Davant
SeaChange Capital Partners, an organization that helps nonprofits with complex challenges, warned a year ago that nonprofits would have to take decisive action to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the strategies they recommended were that nonprofits refocus on their missions, plan for the future and explore new fundraising options. That is exactly what local nonprofits have been doing.
The Manitou Art Center, for example, has repurposed its two buildings, and its leaders have used the pandemic slowdown to do the strategic planning they didnât have time to do before.
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Pikes Peak Library District will host COVID-19 vaccine clinics in partnership with Gov. Jared Polisâ Vaccines for All plan. The first clinic takes place at Sand Creek Library beginning Wednesday, May 5, with a focus on vaccinating 250 community members in Southeastern Colorado Springs.
Sand Creek Library, located at 1821 S. Academy Blvd., will host the clinic from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., with vaccinators administrating the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine while supplies last. Appointments are required and can be made online in English or Spanish directly here through the State of Coloradoâs registration website. No ID or insurance is needed, and an American Sign Language interpreter and Spanish translator will be on-site for the clinic as well.