September 21, 2016
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Bistro on 2nd replaces former Wisdom Tea House Editors note: We are rerunning this story due to garbled text in last week’s story.
The old Wisdom Tea House, a longtime fixture in historic downtown Monument, didn’t stay vacant for long. The Bistro on 2nd, serving dishes like bacon wrapped bison sliders, chicken piccata over mashed potatoes, sweet potato ravioli and fruity salmon salad, will opened Sept. 19 for lunch. It will start dinner service at a later date. The news was announced as the owners received approval for liquor license from the town of Monument for the bistro. According to the license application, the bistro owners are Stephen Garard of Black Forest, and Jay Burgan and Rick Velliquette, both of Colorado Springs. Velliquette, who is known for his work at Little Nepal Indian Restaurant & Bar and at Joseph’s Fine Dining in Colorado Springs, will be the managing partner. They have signed a lease on the property at 65 2nd St. in Monument. On Jan. 4, Tom and Diane Wisdom announced they would be closing Wisdom Tea House, surprising many in the Tri-Lakes area. The couple spent eight years serving tea and sand-
wiches in the popular café. They cited personal reasons for the closure and they had hoped to sell the business and building. “We’re hoping somebody will take this over,” Diane Wisdom said at the time. When the building and business didn’t sell intact, they recently held an auction of the furniture and equipment. Terri Hayes, president of the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce, called the Bistro opening great news because the closing of the tea house left a hole in historic downtown Monument. “It absolutely is important to fill that space,” Hayes said. “Local businesses definitely felt the decrease in traffic when Wisdom Tea House closed. We’re very excited the Bistro is coming in. And we’re especially happy they will be offering lunch. That gives everybody another option to eat in downtown Monument.” Hayes said she’s impressed by the menu planned at the Bistro, which will include crab cakes and spicy tuna roll wrapped in avocado among other offerings. The Bistro to be open was Sept. 15 for the final Art Hop of the season and then to opened for lunch Sept. 19. “This gives people another opportunity to spend a whole day shopping and eating in Monument,”
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A large banner alerts passersby to the upcoming opening of the Bistro on 2nd in the former Wisdom Tea House location at 65 2nd St., in downtown Monument.
Hayes said. “Some of the items that will be on the menu are amazing.” Cara Hoyer Vanderkolk, manager at Hangers to Hutches thrift store and president of the Historic Monument Merchants Association, said the downtown group was excited to see the space filled. “We’re thrilled,” Vanderkolk said, hinting that more news is coming. “We’ve got a couple new restaurants coming into downtown. This is good news.”
Learn what it’s like to live in poverty, for a couple hours By Bill Vogrin
Ever wonder what it’s like to be poor? To struggle paying the rent and groceries and utility bills? You can get a taste of it in a two-hour “poverty simulator” class next week sponsored by Tri-Lakes Cares and the Pikes Peak United Way. “In two hours, you live a simulated month in the life in one of our clients,” said Haley Chapin, executive director of TLC, the Monument-based nonprofit that operates a food bank for area needy and offers emergency relief programs and self-sufficiency classes to the poor in northern El Paso County. Among TLC’s goals is to raise public awareness about the poverty in the community and the work it does helping the poor. The poverty simulator is part of that effort, Chapin said. Participants will be provided with an identity and circumstances that face the poor each day. They will be challenged to figure out how to accomplish all the needs of the family on the limited income available. “All the troubles our clients face in a regular day are added to the simulator so participants can experience it,” Chapin said. After the exercise, participants will talk about their experience and struggles living inpoverty. Chapin said the poverty simulator helps break down stereotypes by allowing participants to step into the real life rings
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Tri-Lakes Cares is partnering with Pikes Peak United Way to host a Poverty Simulator class. It’s scheduled 4:30-6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Lewis-Palmer School District 38 administration building, at 146 Jefferson St., in downtown Monument. To participate, please contact TriLakes Cares to reserve either by email at RSVP@Tri-LakesCares.org or by calling 719-481-4864 x109, by Sept. 23. situations of others. Poverty is often portrayed as a standalone issue, she said, but the simulator shows participants how complex the issue of poverty really is. Although the simulator involves role-playing, fictional scenarios and the use of “play” money, it is not a game. “It’s a simulation that enables participants to view poverty from different angles and then discuss the potential for change within local communities,” Chapin said. TLC invited the entire community to participate in the free simulator. And she thinks it is important to have officials from Town Hall, the Board of Trustees, Lewis-Palmer School District, churches, police, fire and nonprofit service clubs participate. Young people age 12 and older are welcome and encouraged to participate. After the experience, individuals will have the opportunity to discuss
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