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Get Outdoors Leadville! offers bikes, packs, skis and more to Lake County residents in a national model for increasing diversity in outdoor recreation. Geonna Bowers, Get Outdoors Gear Library intern, cleans and applies bike lube on a chain April 9, 2021, on the Colorado Mountain College Campus in Leadville, CO. (Hugh Carey, Special to The Colorado Sun) Vanessa Saldivar was 5 when her father hiked her up the bunny slope at Mt. Hood Skibowl in Oregon. She didn’t have a fancy jacket. She used socks as mittens. Her dad gave her a nudge. And she was hooked. “All these barriers just broke down...

Build a snowman for patients at Children’s Hospital Colorado COLORADO (KRDO) -- Children's Hospital of Colorado is asking people across the state to bring a smile to a child's face who has to be in the hospital by making snowmen. In partnership with Generation Wild, Children's Hospital of Colorado hopes to brighten patients' days through the "Say Hi with a Snowman" campaign. The campaign encourages patients at Children's Hospital to submit drawings of their dream snowman. The hospital will then pair families who volunteer through Generation Wild to bring these creations to life. “Most ...

  The Lamar City Council finished business for 2020 with their final meeting of the year, Monday, December 21 st with a reminder that city offices will be closed December 24 th and 25 th as well as January 1, 2021. City Administrator, Steve Kil, noted the Community Development Block Grant of $900,000 for the administration of funds earmarked for improvements to Plainsview Apartments on South 11 th Street in Lamar was awarded by the Department of Local Affairs. The city will be a third-party funding conduit between DoLA and the apartment complex owners. Kil told the council the city is workin...

Sarah Fields Photography The board of Great Outdoors Colorado, a program that uses Colorado Lottery funds to support parks, trails and wild areas, committed $1 million to the city of Colorado Springs and its Generation Wild of the Pikes Peak Region (GWPPR) coalition, which “serves residents of Southeast Colorado Springs and engages youth and families in enriching, culturally relevant outdoor experiences,” according to a news release. The funding is part of GOCO’s Generation Wild program, which supports locally based coalitions that work to break...