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Benefactor supports Home Front Cares, buys dinner for 1,000

LINDA NAVARRO

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Nearly 1,000 people at The Home Front Cares fifth annual military appreciation dinner Wednesday had purchased $125 tickets or sponsored full tables in support of military families. No one suspected what was to come. A collective gasp rose from the... Full story

GREAT KIDS: Zachary Manzi, 16

WILLOW WELTER

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Why Nominated: “Zach is a musician, not the typical type of music that most 16-year-old boys choose to listen to at all,” wrote his mom, Tracy Manzi. “He loves classical music and wants to study clarinet performance in college.... Full story

Economy of words marks poet

T.D. MOBLEY-MARTINEZ

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AFA cadets go from the stairwell to the spotlight

TOM ROEDER

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Sometimes, the mind-numbing nature of life as a freshman at the Air Force Academy brings unseen advantages.Those long months of confinement with few privileges, a government-mandated wardrobe and screamed instructions from upperclassmen gave birth... Full story

NONPROFITS AROUND TOWN: Christian-Jewish Dialogue and Miracles in Motion

LINDA NAVARRO

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Let’s talk. It’s what makes the Center for Christian-Jewish Dialogue work. For 14 years. At the annual dinner and dialogue Oct. 13 at the Doubletree Hotel World Arena, the man wearing a yarmulke chatted and laughed with the man with a... Full story

DID YOU EVER WONDER: The Great Pumpkin and 'Pumpkin Man's' statue; all those helicopters

LINDA NAVARRO

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On a recent walk past the Dominic T. “Nick” Venetucci statue adjacent to the Pioneers Museum I counted 26 pumpkins. Are these started from seed or plants? Who plants them and when? And what happens to the mature pumpkins?– Chris J.... Full story

Signs of a storm: Tires, jackets, soup fly off local shelves

BILL REED

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The time has come for the grasshoppers of summer to stop singing and start acting more like ants, before it's too late. With the approaching winter weather - one of the first menacing storms of the season - residents spent the morning scurrying to... Full story

NONPROFITS AROUND TOWN: Woman's Club history goes back to ... Charles Dickens

LINDA NAVARRO

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They started getting together in 1902, local women meeting, learning, volunteering, spending time with friends and raising money for community causes. Now, several generations later, their legacy lives on and The Woman’s Club of Colorado... Full story

DID YOU EVER WONDER: Applejuice, the T-Gap donkey, and a fond farewell

LINDA NAVARRO

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Every time I pass by Fillmore and Templeton Gap, I can’t help but miss Applejuice, the donkey. Can you tell me how is he is doing in his home in Fountain?— Susan Broz He’s “doing great and is just being him,” said... Full story

Good intentions butt up against reality when starting a nonprofit

DEBBIE KELLEY

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You won’t get to meet Kevin M. Fikes. He died in January from a stroke at age 36. But his mother, Dora Fikes, would have wanted you to know him and his story. How, despite becoming a paraplegic nearly 20 years ago after a car crash, he learned... Full story

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