“Happy tastes good®” at the corner of 6th and Highway 50 in Las Animas, Colorado. It’s where you’ll find a delectable menu full of Grillburgers to Blizzards and everything in between, plus the amiable Dairy Queen owners, Bill and Nancy Long. Bill and Nancy operate the only Dairy Queen from Pueblo to Garden City, Kansas, ...
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Christine’s restaurant and catering business is a boy meets girl love story and so much more. While Rocky Ford locals Mike and Christine Laurent fell in love and married 38 years ago, their relationship has grown richer over their shared love for savory, home-cooked food. You can trace the opening of Christine’s Restaurant and Catering ...
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One of Mike Donelson’s greatest works of memorial stone art majestically stands hidden in a clearing of lonely pines in the Rio Grande National Forest. At 11,000 feet along Colorado’s Continental Divide, Soldierstone is an 8-ton tower of polished granite honoring the lives of foreign fighters who died during the Vietnam War. The occasional visitor ...
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If you ask Serranos Coffee Company owner Carl Nolt about his favorite coffee, he’ll no doubt take you back to his coffee research trip to Antigua, Guatemala. When Carl describes that best cup of coffee he’s ever had the edges of his salt-and-pepper mustache turn up in a smile as he exhales “a café con ...
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Enduring multiple blizzards, scheduling setbacks, a pandemic, and tending to lots of little, important details we opened First National Bank at Flying Horse, a brand-new, state-of-the-art community bank at Highway 83 and North Gate Boulevard in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Why would we open our seventh office when mega banks are closing offices all across the ...
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