For the past three decades, volunteers with the Pueblo nonprofit organization Trees Please have been getting their hands dirty to help beautify Pueblo.
Since its founding in 1990 by Puebloans Jean Latka and Jean Eskra, Trees Please has planted more than 4,500 trees throughout town and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local planting efforts.
Their latest initiative saw 106 trees planted Monday and Tuesday along the Elizabeth Street Parkway by about 20 Trees Please volunteers, funded primarily through $24,000 in grants from the Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation and the Rawlings Foundation.
Latka said for the past 30 years, she’d driven through the area of the parkway and wondered, “Why doesn’t somebody plant this?”
During the past weekend, Pueblo County Sheriff s deputies responded to a dozen off-highway vehicle complaints ranging across the county from Avondale to Colorado City.
With warmer weather and sunny skies, off-highway vehicle enthusiasts are once again ramping up for their sports season. But with a sharp rise in complaints regarding motorists riding on private property, the Pueblo County Sheriff s Office has issued an advisory on what is legal and illegal for off-highway vehicle riders.
An off-highway vehicle is any vehicle designed to be used off of a public roadway, such as four-wheelers, dirt bikes and go-carts. Unless specifically modified to be compliant with Colorado state law, using these vehicles on a public road is illegal.
The little red brick storefront built by the founder of Williams Seed Store has stood the test of time for 85 years while four generations of the Williams family have kept Pueblo gardeners deeply rooted.
Located on the Mesa at 2154 E. U.S. Highway 50, the store was built by Henry Williams when he moved the seed place from its Union Avenue location.
“That’s where he learned the trade,” said his son Henry Norman Williams, 80, who keeps the family tradition alive. His mother, Rose, “was the one who did a lot of work in the store,” while her husband was out working in the fields or selling Case Tractors next door to the seed place.