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In Colorado Springs we have already experienced our fair share of climate-change-driven natural disasters, from the devastating Waldo Canyon and Black Forest fires that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and took
In Colorado Springs we have already experienced our fair share of climate-change-driven natural disasters, from the devastating Waldo Canyon and Black Forest fires that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and took four lives, to the historic 2013 flooding that followed shortly after.Â
The average temperatures in our community have been rising over the years and Colorado Springs Utilities is now predicting that 70 percent of all the cityâs residences will have air conditioning installed over the next few years. Colorado Springs is growing hotter faster than the rest of the state, and Colorado is often in the top 10 states showing the greatest temperature increases. Last summer, record-burning wildfires translated to terrible air quality, putting our health and well-being at risk. Â
“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.
Pueblo humanitarian Ruth Steele, who spent her entire life advocating for civil rights and the preservation of Black history, died Jan. 17 from stomach cancer at the age of 85.
Steele, a founder of the Pueblo Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission, was best known for her efforts to bring the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday to Pueblo in the 1980s and her preservation of the historic Lincoln Home a former orphanage and senior home for Pueblo’s Black population that Steele later transformed into the Pueblo Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission and Cultural Center and Museum.
Her death came one day after the holiday commission’s annual march through Pueblo to commemorate King’s life, which Steele led for more than three decades, and one day prior to the federal MLK holiday.