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THURSDAY-SUNDAY
Four days and nights of some of the best films and award winners of the year during the
Rocky Mountain Women s Film Shorts Nights, virtual for movie lovers nationwide. Watch whenever you want, finishing a film within 24 hours. Tickets per film or the whole festival: rmwfilm.org/rmwf-cinema/
THURSDAY-SUNDAY
It s springtime for sure and time for the online portion of the
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo s Plant Sale. Locally grown flowers and plants, herbs and veggies, grasses and bushes and more. Order by April 26 for curbside pick-up at the zoo April 30-May 1. In-person sale May 22-23, with plants that mature later in the season. cmzoo.org/plantsale
The following is part of KRCC s Peak Past essay series.
Glance east while driving I-25 alongside downtown Colorado Springs. You’ll see a giant, white, sleek, futuristic bridge that’ll soon open to carry pedestrians over the railroad tracks to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum. But I want you to look a little west, at a just-as-sexy bridge (yeah, I said it these bridges are sexy).
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Clip courtesy of FindAGrave.com
It’s relatively new. It s still got that new-bridge smell. And this isn’t just some fancier concrete.
There’s a story here. A good one.
According to local historians at the Old Colorado City Historical Society, the place where the new bridge crosses over Fountain Creek was known as “Adams Crossing” for over a century.
A neighborhoodâs quality of life depends as much on what you donât see as it does on whatâs apparent.Â
For Downtown Colorado Springs, that means things like sidewalks that are free of snow in the winter and clean in the summer. And itâs what you do see â flowers in pots and planters, colorful banners on lampposts, lights and decorations during holiday seasons. And itâs a sense of security from regular, visible patrols.
The owners of businesses and property in a 32-block area of Downtown Colorado Springs formed the Greater Downtown Business Improvement District in 2001.
âThe BID was founded because there was a need, not just for supporting Downtown as a whole, but specifically to be aware of cleanliness and safety ⦠in the hub of Colorado Springsâ Downtown,â said Carrie Hibbard Baker, co-owner of Terra Verde and a BID board member.
Being a geezer isnât much fun (oh to be 50 again!), but it has its advantages. You get Social Security, Medicare and early vaccinations. Not bad â especially the vaccinations!
My wife and I are both vaccinated, and ready to get out of town before airline fares and hotel reservations soar back to pre-pandemic levels. Denver, Vegas, New York City â the great world beckons. Vegas because itâs Vegas, Denver and NYC because of museums, restaurants and big-city ambiance. Weâve already booked a weekend getaway to Vegas, and yearn to head east in April.
For me, museums are the draw. I havenât been to the Denver Art Museum since 2018, and last visited New Yorkâs Metropolitan Museum of Art in the early 2000s.Â