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Recent Around Town Columns
The Fur Ball is the special fundraising gala of the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, and this year’s April 27 “Bark to the Future” rai…
The annual Cheyenne Village Shrimp Boil near the beach at Cheyenne Mountain Resort headed indoors when lightning threatened.
The annual July 26 ADA anniversary celebration by the Independence Center centered around a focus on disability-friendly healthcare.
A breakfast crowd of almost-1,000 went under the Colorado Avenue Bridge to support the homeless youth of Urban Peak Colorado Springs.
The Western Street Breakfast, leading Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo season in June, drew almost 8,000 folks and raised money that was distributed to four military programs at a reception.
Hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and dancing welcomed more than 120 patrons to the annual Green Box Arts Festival outdoor patron party.
They lit candles, bringing homelessness into the light at the first “Dinner in the Dark” inside a big, white tent on the grounds of the Myron …
It was all for military veterans when Phil Long Dealerships head man, philanthropist and Marine Corps vet Jay Cimino was host for a classic car evening for Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center.
$200,000 goal is met at the Community Celebration to support Pikes Peak United Way's 2-1-1 help line.
Achievers, providers and supporters were celebrated by The Arc Pikes Peak Region.
Advocacy group Citizens Project encouraged guests at its fundraising breakfast to examine their own "privilege."
AROUND TOWN: London came calling for the Broadmoor Garden Club show judged by Garden Club of America
British royalty visited Little London for the Broadmoor Garden Club's show judged by Garden Club of America.
The Chef Showcase events are a delicious annual benefit treat by Rocky Mountain Health Services and area chefs.
A luxury handbag auction and fashions from Macy's made for a delightful benefit luncheon by the Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary.
Race cars and speed painting were highlights of the UCHealth Memorial Gala, a benefit for the Grandview orthopedics and spine specialties.
Twenty-one young women from nine Pikes Peak region high schools have been named 2019 Colorado Springs Debutantes.
Silver Key Senior Services, turning 50 in 2020, focuses on opportunities for Colorado Springs seniors of all ages.
The second annual Fuel the Fire fundraiser helped the Fire Foundation of Colorado Springs equip firefighters with ballistic gear.
NAMI Colorado Springs once again steps "Into the Light" against mental illness, raising $212,100 for support programs.
Why not a cuppa Wacky Tea, the women of the Assistance League of Colorado Springs decided and the fun afternoon supports their seven El Paso County children and family projects.
Marty McFly and friends arrived in a DeLorean "Bark to the Future" for the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region's 22nd annual Fur Ball, raising $431,000 for animals.
They’re the dreamers, the builders, the doctors, professionals who will work here and the donors who helped make it happen. It was their night…
She wasn’t alone on the stage at The Broadmoor, Discover Goodwill President and CEO Karla Grazier said, saluting about 700 attendees at the 20…
Let’s salsa, they said. And they did.
The Colorado Springs Teen Court peer program has helped 9,000 juvenile offenders since 1994. The first-time offenders, ages 10 to 18, had plea…
Students’ classroom studies in the kitchen were showcased in the most elegant way at Pikes Peak Community College’s Fran Folsom Culinary Arts …
Elegant masks stayed on until midnight during a gala Angels Against Alzheimer’s evening April 6 at The Pinery.
Superheroes, masked and unmasked, packed The Gold Room April 6 for the sold-out 25th anniversary celebration of Safe Passage, a nonprofit with…
It was the rally cry: #endalz.
The night after Red Cross volunteers instantly set up nine emergency “bomb cyclone” blizzard shelters for more than 700 stranded motorists and…
Emerald green and gold. Glittering shamrocks. Bright ties.
Oenophiles enjoyed a special four days and nights this month and received an education on the best wines of Portugal in the process.
The people who come to the Care and Share Food Bank are “our neighbors.”
It was much more than a 22nd annual fundraising luncheon after church Feb. 24.
Who were those Masquerade folks walking into the Antlers hotel Feb. 22?
Delightful youngsters dressed in red, happily skipping around a ballroom in Broadmoor West, were a big reason for the 36th annual fundraising …
In a little twist of song lyrics, Pam Shockley-Zalabak isn’t the Oklahoma “girl who cain’t say no.” She’s that powerhouse lady to whom communi…
The words “I Am for the Child,” are meaningful to volunteer CASA advocates nationwide. Since 1977, that has equated to providing the voices fo…
For 43 years, community leaders have been developed through Leadership Pikes Peak training.
AROUND TOWN: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center delights crowd to kick off its 100th anniversary year
They experienced art in the best of ways.
Since 2012, some local women have enjoyed quarterly social gatherings for a cause.
The Gazette/El Pomar Foundation Empty Stocking fundraiser is done for 2018, with preliminary donations blowing the top off the $1.1 million do…
The holiday white-light night at The Broadmoor sparkled even brighter Dec. 22 when 21 young women were formally presented as the 2018 Colorado…
The new year is filling with nonprofit fundraising galas, benefits, sports activities and well-known speakers around Colorado Springs and the …
AROUND TOWN: Green Box Arts Festival celebrates a happy Musicial Swings success, plans for next July
Musical Swings, back and forth, back and forth, 110,000 tuneful times.
The powerful sounds of Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky resonated across Garden of the Gods Club as the Colorado Springs Philharmonic played for the Ph…
With its 21-year theme “A Voyage for Children,” the YOT Club (toy spelled backwards) partied the night away Nov. 17 as members gathered 1,000 …
One telephone number is all a local military member, family or veteran needs, because they never “should do it alone when they need help,” sai…
For 24 years, gingerbread men and their houses have welcomed holiday partygoers into the 119-year-old Historic Day Nursery for Early Connectio…
