2013 Around Town Archive Stories

Twenty-seven young women will be presented at the 2013 Debutante Ball on Dec. 21 at The Broadmoor. The Debutante Ball traditionally is held Dec. 22, which this year falls on Sunday. The 2013 debutantes are graduates of 11 area high schools. A 47-year tradition, the Debutante Ball has raised more than $550,000 for

It was an evening to salute the volunteers who had worked with Special Kids Special Families to help families of the disabled. But the attendees at the SKSF appreciation dinner April 30 learned all about the exciting agenda for the next year as well.Tops on the list, announced Fundraising/Media Manager Chana Kolman, is the Koscove Ki

At breakfast and lunch on April 25, Trudy Strewler Hodges had an unusual request for her guests: “Join me and close your eyes.”She didn’t have a surprise awaiting the 1,400 Light of Hope attendees. Instead, she asked them to “think of the children in your life and think of your hopes and dreams for their lives

The 2013 Komen for the Cure season shifted into full gear with the April affiliate meeting and awarding of more than $317,000 in grants to seven organizations providing breast care/breast cancer services in El Paso, Pueblo and Teller counties. Another $80,000 went to research grants on the national level.The meeting also

The romance novel writes itself.Beautiful young woman, handsome young man spot each other across a crowded room.Soon the young man’s appointed messenger makes his way to her table, telling the blushing blonde that his friend thinks she’s cute.Exactly one year later. The pair have a date to return to that

The mountains served as the backdrop for a weekend of conservative interaction and thought-provoking discussions as the first Weekly Standard Broadmoor Symposium came to the resort May 3-5, drawing participants from across the country.Kicking it off was a shotgun-start golf tournament on the resort’s West Course and a barbecue

It was an evening of partnerships.The third annual Chef Showdown benefit for Rocky Mountain Health Care Services April 25 at the Colorado Springs Marriott brought together some of the area’s most notable retired chefs and teams of current chefs serving up favorite dishes to guests from a variety of agencies.Keynote

All across the community on April 24 teams of volunteers built and cleaned, painted and fixed up.Pikes Peak Regional Volunteer Day was capped late that afternoon in Pikes Peak Center’s Studio Bee when the 2013 awards for top volunteers of the year were presented.Emcee Rob Quirk, looking out at an audience of 200, sa

It was an event new to Colorado Springs and oh what an impact it had.The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man & Woman of the Year - Colorado Springs filled a small ballroom at the Antlers Hilton, drew seven teams of competitors and raised $67,200. And, promised enthusiastic coordinators, you haven’t seen anything yet

Ah, ah, ah, ah, they’re “Stayin’ Alive,” and for the second straight year, disco was alive and groovy at the Red Ribbon Ball.The fro was back, bigger and puffier than ever. Neon-colored polyester — far out, man — reigned. And there were still enough disco mirror balls around to fill an Antlers Hilt

All around the world scientists, space flight aficionados and stargazers have set aside each April 12 to commemorate the 1961 first manned space flight of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and the April 12, 1981, launch of NASA’s space shuttle. The local Yuri’s Space Party at the Fine Arts Center had a larger purpose, the launch of

The “partners” who make up the nonprofit Partners in (Hope and) Housing celebrated a year of achievements with a “Spring Forward” dinner March 14 at the Colorado Springs Senior Center.The teams of partners that work together to help homeless families with children achieve self-sufficiency include the families

Urban Peak Colorado Springs gave its Pathmaker Award to Colorado Springs City Councilwoman Jan Martin.Past recipients Juliet Draper and Pam Jones called her “a champion, a heavyweight champion.”Board President Police Commander Pat Rigdon said Martin represents all parts of the community, even those without a v

Teen Court has had an unexpected impact on some youthful first-time misdemeanor offenders. Referred to a court of their peers instead of the regular municipal court for offenses such as shoplifting, at least 55 of the former defendants completed their sentences and then joined Teen Court as volunteers. That was just one o

It will forevermore be known as “The Kiss.”At the 2012 Catholic Charities’ St. Patrick’s Day Gala, Howard Price, wearing a puckish green and gold chapeau, greeted longtime friend Marilyn Conn with a peck on the cheek. The photo was a highlight of that week's Gazette Around Town page and on the progra

They’re set to recycle 1.25 million pounds of electronics this year, have moved into a larger facility and created 17 jobs, 11 of them for people with developmental disabilities. It was time to celebrate the people and companies that helped make this a reality, so Blue Star Recyclers’ CEO Bill Morris was host to the nonpr

The women who filled the Carter Payne Event Center on March 8 weren’t just idly daydreaming about making an international impact, they’re doing it.Celebrating International Women’s Day and charting a course to help make life better for women around the globe, the diverse gathering shared an appropriately internation

Last year, the Care and Share Food Bank Recipe for Hope luncheon was considered a success, filling half The Broadmoor International Center. On March 14, 750 people filled the center, helping the food bank net $78,775 to provide food for a multicounty region. There were sighs of relief from president/CEO Lynne Telford, her board and staff

Call it a true interfaith collaboration: a Reform Jewish congregation with offices in a Presbyterian church and meeting space in a monastery.Those were the beginning days of Temple Beit Torah in 1992, recalled by members at a 20th anniversary celebration March 10 at Embassy Suites.The Rev. Bob Leivers, now with The Samari

It was noted that keynote speaker Air Force football coach Troy Calhoun, describing the attributes of those young people chosen as academy cadets, could well have been describing the attributes of the top award winner at the 134th annual YMCA dinner and awards ceremony: leadership, integrity, class, perseverance, ability

The Center for American Values in Pueblo brought its patriotic story and supporters to town March 2, introducing Medal of Honor recipients and its core-values mission of honor, integrity and patriotism.More than 225 were on hand for a dinner and auction at Broadmoor West."We don't want the center to be a secret," said Dalton Sp

The word “just” was banished from the Antlers Hilton Ballroom, starting with lunch on March 1.Attendees at Nonprofit Day 2013, a project of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, were forever after no longer allowed to call themselves “just a volunteer,” “just a manager,” “just an assistant,&rd

Margaret Sabin, CEO of Penrose-St. Francis Health Systems, practiced restraint at the Feb. 23 Heart Ball. The physically fit co-chair didn’t have the black-tie audience doing jumping jacks, spinning or running laps. Instead, she and co-chair Mike Scialdone, Memorial Hospital CEO, encouraged the 500 health-conscious supporters a

  Leadership Pikes Peak has announced the winners of its 2013 community leadership awards who will be honored at LPP’s annual gala April 6 at the Olympic Training Center.Honorees are:Martha Barton, president and CEO of Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care, is the winner of the Makepeace Community Trustee Awar

Newborn Hope grants of almost $70,000 went to 14 recipients for neonatal, maternal and fetal health care during a reception March 5 at St. Francis Medical Center.Grants covering care for Latina women, mothers-to-be in rural areas, outreach, preemie monitors, the S.T.A.B.L.E. neonatal education program and care in 17 areas of southern