DID YOU EVER WONDER: Dr. Watson and NuGrape, where are you?
There was a business I heard about when it was either coming to town or had just opened. It was going to sell a wide variety of soda pop. I never heard any more about it. A friend of mine is a big Dr. Watson Egg Crème fan and I’d buy it as a Christmas gift.
— John Hudson
ANSWER: You’re looking for Sugarland Sodas, 2767 Briargate Blvd., which started smaller in February but now has 100 varieties of soda pop.
They have all sorts of oldies but goodies like Bubble Up, Nesbitt’s, NuGrape and Sioux City Cream Soda. The shop has a number of cream sodas but, we’re sorry to tell you, no Dr. Watson.
Sugarland supplies a number of cane-sugar sodas to local restaurants.
Check out the soda pop at sugarlandsodas.com
Oops, it’s a different air strip
Last Saturday a reader asked about a small air strip east of Colorado Springs. Turns out this time it’s not Colorado Springs East Airport and our readers who live out east as well as our military readers knew exactly what it is.
Mike Whedon,manager of Colorado Springs East Airport, said the strip on Sanborn Road “is Bull’s Eye, and it is not open to the general public. It is owned and operated by the Air Force Academy for the tranining of cadets.” It’s also used by the Army, according to other readers.
Dale Simshauser of Calhan said it is also known as the Air Force Academy Auxiliary Field and is “3 miles south of Ellicott and 4.5 miles east on the south side of Sanborn Road.”
Why isn’t Cimarron exit finished?
I’ve been wondering about this ever since the reconstruction of I-25 was supposedly totally completed through much of Colorado Springs. I sent an e-mail to the Colorado Department of Transportation about a year ago and never received an answer, and the situation still exists. On the west side of the southbound I-25 bridge over Colorado Avenue are some big yellow barrels and some concrete barricades, both of which look temporary, but which have been in place ever since the reconstruction project. Why have the permanent bridge railings or other permanent fixtures never been completed and why have these temporary protective barriers remained?
— John Poyzer
ANSWER: Bob Wilson of CDOT said this is the future offramp for the new Cimarron interchange. It was built during COSMIX and will remain until that part of the project is prioritized in the future. This is part of the regional and statewide plan and must be reconstructed, Wilson said. “Sometimes we will build an infrastructure for future projects so we don’t have to go back in and rebuild it later. This is more cost effective.” For example, COSMIX built parts of the interstate to accommodate four lanes in the future and there are just three right now.
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