The awards ceremony was still streaming online, but Shannon Squires-Toews had stopped watching. She was talking to friends on the phone, saying how overwhelmed she felt by winning some top prizes in the Professional Photographers of America’s international print competition, often referred to as the Oscars of photography.
She almost missed them announcing her name again, this time as the prestigious competition’s award overall winner. She beat out more than 5,000 entries.
Squires-Toews burst into tears. Everyone around her, the friends and family gathered at her studio for a small watch party, started screaming.
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“I was beside myself,” Squires-Toews, 37, said. “That wasn’t at all on my radar of possibilities at this point in my career.”
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June Hamm is an avid painter, and at 90 years old, her first gallery appearance is set in Colorado Springs in early February. Hamm didn’t have the time to actively pursue painting until she was in her 80s. Here she poses for a portrait in her room at The Inn at Garden Plaza.
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Lindsay Schultz of Colorado Springs has been promoted to CEO of MRC Recruiting, an executive search firm specializing in precious metals mining and the resource sector, that is headquartered in Denver and Albuquerque, N.M. She has been with the company for 15 years and was vice president. She has a bachelor’s degree in human resources and organizational behavior from the University of New Mexico and a master s degree in business administration from Arizona State University.
Tammy Rivera of Colorado Springs will be promoted to managing partner of BKD CPAs & Advisors for its Colorado and Salt Lake City operations on June 1. She has been with the accounting firm for 21 years as an audit manager and was appointed as a partner in 2017. She has a bachelor s degree in accounting from Colorado State University.
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers responds to the announcement about the future home of US Space Command. (Video provided by the City of Colorado Springs)
John Suthers has plenty of economic development wins as mayor a massive Amazon distribution center and Southwest Airlines expanding to Colorado Springs to name two but he called the loss of the U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., his biggest setback. We haven t had a whole lot of economic development bad news, but this would be my greatest (economic development) disappointment Suthers said during a news conference Wednesday on the headquarters decision.
Suthers was highly critical of the decision, calling it a political favor to Alabama s two U.S. senators, who championed President Donald Trump s efforts to object to electoral votes for Joe Biden by Arizona and Pennsylvania, and Republican U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, who represents the Huntsville area.