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Get your death off to a good start

ANDREA BROWN

Organ or piano? Roses or carnations? Casket or cremation? Death was the topic of a four-hour workshop Saturday at Colorado Springs Senior Center. Seven people showed up to plan their funerals. None were sick or intended to die anytime soon. But,... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Hats-4-Hope warms 1,000 tiny heads

ANDREA BROWN

One thousand hand-loomed hats. One thousand tiny heads. One $10 Christmas gift. One teenage girl. “I named it Hats-4-Hope,” says Suzy Luff. She’s the teenage girl. Suzy started the project to warm the tiny heads of babies in M... Full story

Limitations don't keep Springs bell-ringer from living large

ANDREA BROWN

Alphie Omar sits in a wheelchair, ringing a bell. The familiar red kettle of the Salvation Army sits nearby. “Hullo,” Omar says in his deep, throaty baritone. “Hullo.” He greets all, whether they feed the kettle or not. He&... Full story

Palmer Lake gets new police chief - again

ANDREA BROWN

PALMER LAKE • For the fourth time in almost as many years, the town has a new police chief. Kieth Moreland, former big-city cop, was sworn in last week, as Palmer Lake Police Chief. Moreland served 30 years as a Los Angeles patrolman, sergeant... Full story

Pooches and pals celebrate a sunny Saturday

ANDREA BROWN

Drinking beer with your best friend. It doesn’t get much better than that ­— but it can be a problem if your best friend is banned from most bars. Big dogs. Little dogs. Red dogs. Blue dogs. All are welcome at the dog-friendly beer ... Full story

Lots of caffeine, not a lot of clothing

ANDREA BROWN

Just in time for cold weather: hot lattes and hot ladies. Bikini baristas work the windows at two new drive-through coffee stands in Colorado Springs: Wiki Wiki Coffee and Bikini Xpresso. Customers come for the uh, well, everything. “Nice vi... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Car ding didn't dent this 'bull dog's' determination

ANDREA BROWN

You have one. Everybody does. A matter of a personal injustice that gnaws at you and forces you to make a choice: Get over it ­— or go forth to the bitter end. For Jerry McAffrey, what happened to her car wasn’t a disaster. It was a ... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Beer for breakfast? No problem at the county fair

ANDREA BROWN

CALHAN • Mel Trafton just might have the best job at the El Paso County Fair. Or it might be the worst. He’s the beer boss. Think “99-bottles-of-beer-on-the-wall” for eight straight days and nights. Living it, that is, not s... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Magician has a lock on new career

ANDREA BROWN

Locked in, locked out? Or maybe you just want some magic in your life. Lonnie Brown is your man. He’s the Harry Houdini of Memorial Hospital. He can open the 3,500 doors at the downtown hospital campus. He also can escape from locked barrel... Full story

YOUR SPACE: To couple, he’s Barry in a leather jacket

ANDREA BROWN

They used to party with him in college. He was the guy who'd drink a few beers, maybe take a toke, stay up until 4 a.m. then excuse himself to crank out an "A" paper due that morning. Other than the toke, good training to have for someday running a... Full story

YOUR SPACE: God tells man to build plane

ANDREA BROWN

J.D. Jackson is a man with a deep faith and a very understanding wife.The question is: Will these be enough to get his airplane off the ground?He says the Lord told him to make a 26-foot wooden prototype of a two-seater plane to fly missionaries to r... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Former classmates rekindle friendships

ANDREA BROWN

They were girls in the South Junior High Class of 1946. Years went by. They went their own ways. After all, it wasn't like they were BFFs. Not then, anyway, but now, 63 years later, they are Best Friends Forever. Ties to the past bond these seven ... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Take away an Aussie's Vegemite? Crikey!

ANDREA BROWN

Sylvia Richardson was going through security at the Sydney airport when the unthinkable happened. The Black Forest woman's Vegemite was confiscated. That might actually seem like a good thing. Vegemite is a dark, salty muck made from leftover brewe... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Near-death experience serves as inspiration

ANDREA BROWN

In a flash of smashed metal, Ethan Myers went from a 9-year-old who loved soccer to a near organ donor. He spent his 10th birthday in the rehab unit at Memorial Hospital. You'd think he'd never want to go back. Not so. Ethan, now 17, returns weekly... Full story

YOUR SPACE: Couple bringing Cajun concoctions to Territory Days

ANDREA BROWN

Meet Fat Daddy and Hot Mama. They are good ol' Louisiana folk who found themselves plopped in the suburbs of Colorado Springs without their Cajun potions. "We couldn't find our good food," says Richard Kennedy, aka Fat Daddy. So, the dark-haired Ca... Full story

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