Crafty minds think alike
Exhibit offers diary of a disease
Colorado Springs Craft Corner offers a Friday evening creative outlet.
Pioneers Museum uses unique technology, historic re-creations to tell story of TB.
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January 2016
Fine Arts Center extends Victor photographic exhibit A
special exhibit at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center titled Anderson & Low: City of Mines has been extended through Feb. 14. This unique photographic exhibit captures the sense of wonder experienced by London photographers Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low over many years of visiting the town of Victor. Anderson and Low found the town to be a place of contradictions—“it has few pretensions of elegance, yet somehow there IS elegance in its individual, stark reality,” they wrote. “The town feels less much like a mere piece of ‘21st century eccentricity’ and more like some hidden, forgotten place that time passed by, or more accurately a place that time has ‘re-curated’ into a unique style.” The images in the exhibit, primarily architectural, range from expansive landscapes to intimate
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Mining structures in Victor, photographed by Anderson & Low.
PACE program moving to stunning new quarters By Jeanne Davant
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hen Carol Ann enrolled in PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) in September 2012, her life changed. Carol Ann had Parkinson’s, depression and other challenges. “I was in a wheelchair 75 percent of the time,” she says. But after two years of hard work and lots of help from her team of medical and support personnel, she reached goals she never thought possible. By her Dec. 16 birthday, she wanted to be much more active, and on that day, when she walked into PACE headquarters, she was serenaded with “Happy Birthday!”
Carol Ann’s physical improvement has been remarkable, but her whole attitude changed as well. She was very shy at first. “I needed to have a place to be safe. I needed to have a place where I felt welcome,” she says. Two years later, she had become a PACE ambassador, greeting people and telling them about the program. Carol Ann also stars in a video in which she tells her story—something she never would have done before. PACE is one of the programs under the umbrella of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services. Its purpose is to provide all the services needed to enable eligible clients 55 and older to remain in
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Our new facility will allow Rocky Mountain PACE to keep up with the forecasted growth of the older adult population in El Paso County and will allow the PACE program to support more people in their own homes and communities. - Thomas Reiter Rocky Mountain Health Care Services CEO