Border Kindness provides asylum-seekers, migrants, refugees, and the displaced with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal services, and they need your help to provide food to the most vulnerable at the border this holiday season!
Border Kindness provides asylum-seekers, migrants, refugees, and the displaced with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal services, and they need your help to provide food to the most vulnerable at the border this holiday season!
Food needs include both holiday meals and ongoing food support. In the last four years, Border Kindness has provided more than half a million meals to populations in need of food. They must purchase and prepare food on the Mexico side so financial donations are what is most needed at this time.
If you are interested in supporting, following, or joining them in this work please visit https://borderkindness.org/ and consider making a donation using your favorite e-method:
Cirque du Soleil is celebrating its 38th anniversary with a special ticket price promotion on ALL touring shows during Cirque Week, now through June 26th! Tickets are starting at $39 and $29 for children on select price levels.
Cirque du Soleil's OVO will perform in Colorado in three nearby locations:
Budweiser Events Center in Loveland from August 26th to 28th, 2022
Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs from September 1st to 4th, 2022
Ball Arena in Denver from September 8th to 11th, 2022
Generation Wild's new campaign to reconnect kids with nature by increasing the amount of time they spend outside in unstructured play, 99 Days Outdoors: A Wilder Summer, kicks off Sunday, May 30th! The campaign aims to inspire parents across Colorado to get their kids outdoors this summer by providing accessible, achievable ideas for spending time outside. Generation Wild’s popular part goat, part yeti, all friend mascot, Wilder, will return for an epic 99-day adventure across the state making appearances in Colorado communities and showcasing different ways to spend time outdoors.
“Kids are spending less time outdoors – and more time on screens and in structured activities – than ever before, and Generation Wild is on a mission to change that,” said GOCO Executive Director Jackie Miller. “Parents are busy! The goal for this year’s campaign is to provide 99 days of ideas that help them find inspiration for unstructured outdoor play so their kids can get outside every single day and have a blast doing it.”
Generation Wild will share daily inspiration with parents and a ton of ideas that will help kids and their families have “A Wilder Summer.” Examples of activities stem from the 100 Things To Do Before You’re 12 list and include:
Build a fort
See what’s hiding under a rock
Tightrope walk on a log
Find shapes in the clouds
The campaign begins on May 30 with an official send-off as Wilder heads out on his 99-day tour across the amazing land known as Colorado. Wilder will showcase our state's magical outdoor activities from the Eastern Plains to the Western Slope, with stops in cities and mountain towns along the way. He will make appearances in communities at special Generation Wild events including:
June 4: Get Outdoors Day (Colorado Springs)
June 21:Generation Wild Day (Grand Junction) - To encourage kids to get outdoors, Wilder has set up a scavenger hunt and has hidden 32 golden water bottles across every region of Colorado. Beginning on Monday, June 20, Generation Wild will be posting clues on social media for the scavenger hunt that begins on June 21. Messaging inside the bottle will reveal the prize won. Prizes include stickers, pencils, CPW park passes, zoo tickets and more. To help track winners, each water bottle will include an Apple Air Tag that can be disconnected and discarded after it is found. Winners are encouraged to post a photo with the prize to Facebook or Instagram @GenerationWildColorado and to be entered to win a grand prize.
July 30:World Record Hopscotch Event (Denver/Aurora)
Generation Wild will attempt to beat the record for the world’s largest hopscotch, which currently stands at 4.2 miles. With the help of the community, Generation Wild will seek to create the longest contiguous hopscotch as well as the most people hopscotching at one time along Denver’s High Line Canal.
Families are encouraged to follow along on social media to see what Wilder is up to as he explores destinations that are off the beaten path and shares treasures from every corner of the state.
“99 Days Outdoors will take families through every nook and cranny of Colorado,” said Miller. “From rural to urban, we’re highlighting unique aspects of Colorado that will inspire ideas for getting outdoors anywhere and everywhere.”
Generation Wild was created by Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) to reconnect kids with nature by increasing the amount of time they spend outside in unstructured play – the kind of play that used to be way more common. The program is an integrated, statewide effort supported by a statewide network of non-profit, public, and private partner organizations. In 12 Colorado communities, diverse, locally based Generation Wild coalitions are creating equitable access to the outdoors with new places to play, outdoor programs, and pathways to leadership opportunities and jobs in the outdoors.
For more information, follow Generation Wild on Facebook and Instagram. #GenerationWild #99DaysOutdoors
ABOUT GREAT OUTDOORS COLORADO
Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) invests a portion of Colorado Lottery proceeds to help preserve and enhance the state’s parks, trails, wildlife, rivers, and open spaces. GOCO’s independent board awards competitive grants to local governments and land trusts and makes investments through Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Created when voters approved a Constitutional Amendment in 1992, GOCO has since funded more than 5,500 projects in urban and rural areas in all 64 counties without any tax dollar support. Visit GOCO.org for more information.
This Earth Day, we're once again reminded how essential it is—more so now than ever—to take care of our planet. Today we share some recycling resources to keep our community green and help the Earth.
Ridwell and The Happy Beetle
Do you want to recycle everything but can't put it all in the bin? Recycling services Ridwell (Seattle-based) and The Happy Beetle (Denver-based) not only recycle difficult items for you, they also pick everything up right from your front door! Styrofoam, damaged clothing, batteries, plastic film, electronics, wine corks, baby food pouches, and even seasonal items such as Christmas lights - both services keep these items out of the landfill.
Denver does a fantastic job of picking up our big purple recycling bins every other week. Use of these bins is not what the city would like it to be, so the city has a new plan that's currently being considered that would charge residents for regular trash but make recycling pick up a weekly occurrence and would make composting bins free and give one to every household (right now this service costs about $100/year and is only by request). They hope to make this happen by 2027, which gives us time to adjust our habits. About 30,000 households currently have compost bins - learn more and sign up for composting here.
For now, we can make sure everything that can go in our purple bins gets recycled. Do you know what can and can't go in the bins? The full list is here, and the Denver Post put together solutions to some common recycling mistakes that we make. We can do better!
Most grocery stores have bins for clean plastic bags, including King Soopers, Safeway, Target, Walmart, and others. King Soopers even has a new Terracycling plan for its hard-to-recycle packaging.
Several stores have mini-recycling centers that accept other non-purple-bin items, so dropping off your recycling is easy and convenient. Here are a few we know of:
Home Depot: rechargeable batteries, cardboard, CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs), and lead acid battery cores
Lowe's: plastic bags, CFL bulbs, rechargeable batteries, and cellphones; also plastic planter pots and cases in the garden center
Best Buy: TVs (some have a small fee), cables, DVD players/VCRs, headphones, computers and peripherals, tablets/ereaders, monitors (for a small fee), ink cartridges, phones (any kind), calculators, chargers, shredders, fans, vacuums, and more
Ace Hardware: batteries, paint, light bulbs (varies by store - call to check)
Other Recycling Resources
You can always drop off other recycling as you're out and about. Sometimes people will let their neighbors know when they're going to a recycling center in local Facebook groups and offer to take things for others (holiday lights, for example). These are the centers closest to Central Park:
The first round of restaurants has been announced for Tacolandia, the taco festival of the year!
Join them on Saturday, June 4, at Civic Center Park in the heart of downtown Denver for unlimited tacos from 40 plus taquerias and Mexican restaurants, live mariachi, lucha libre, beverage sampling, and more!
VIP - Presale/Early Bird ($55): Includes early access to the event at 3 p.m., unlimited taco samples from 40 plus taquerias and Mexican restaurants, a special VIP area featuring exclusive food samples from VIP restaurants, and two drink tickets redeemable at VIP bars.
GA - Presale/Early Bird ($30): Includes entry into the event at 4 p.m., unlimited taco samples from 40 plus taquerias and Mexican restaurants, drink samples from beverage partners, live entertainment, and full cocktails for purchase.
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