May 14, 2021
Galesburg Police during the early afternoon on Tuesday, May 11th, responded to Steele School on West Main Street for a well-being check after reports came in of three female juveniles were seen in the intersection of Main and McClure Streets. The three females were aged 2, 4, and 5 years old. They were not wearing shoes and were still in their pajamas. A custodian saw the children and brought them inside the school. Police made contact with the girls’ mother: 40-year old Jamie Howard who told GPD she was asleep and the girls were being watched by their father, but must have followed him out the door when he left for work. According to police reports, officers informed Howard this was the second incident involving her children being unsupervised in three days. Howard was charged with Endangering the Life of a Child and the Department of Children and Family Services was contacted to hold an investigation.
For two decades, Historic Preservation Alliance of Colorado Springs volunteers, many of which are longtime area residents, have advocated for and honored the preservation and protection of the community’s historic sites.
Awards for the best of 2020 were changed from the traditional formal event to a virtual video presentation and a category was added for “preservation in progress,” introduced by group president Tim Boddington.
It’s about “places that matter,” Boddington said.
The Historic Preservation Alliance awards (hpasprings.org):
HistoricCOS: The inaugural Preservation in Progress Award went to the people of the community’s neighborhoods for the Historic Master Plan, adopted unanimously by the City Council in December 2019. It was a planning effort by neighborhoods throughout and “will enhance and guide preservation efforts in the City for years to come,” the award stated. It will help neighborhoods become National Register of Historic Places, and create Ne