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A virtual forum for congressional candidates, a summer reading carnival and a charity mini-golf tournament are among the things to do in Pueblo in the coming days.
Pueblo fighting substance use, ending stigma for treatment through exhibit
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and last updated 2021-07-01 20:31:19-04
PUEBLO â A local community is taking on the fight against substance use and the stigma around getting treatment. It s all happening through a traveling art exhibit showcased by the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment.
The traveling exhibit is called Your Words Have Power, and those words are an opportunity to educate the Pueblo community and help fight substance use. I think that people with substance abuse issues are just like you and me, they re humans and addiction doesn t discriminate, said Laura Lisonbee.
“That’s Ruth,” Brown said.
“She was definitely lovingly persistent. She didn’t give up and she never gave in. If she wanted it she just kept driving for it.”
Another of Steele’s crowning achievements involved a one-of-a-kind statue that was previously located in Denver’s City Park.
The statue depicts King with Emett Till, the 14-year-old African American boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. It is believed to be the only statue of its kind.
“Once she was able to get the Lincoln Home turned into a museum I think she went back to (Denver) Mayor Wellington Webb and, probably, persistently with love, hinted she would really like to have that statue,” Brown said.