365 Days of Texas True Crime: Karla
On June 13th 1983 Texas learned the name of a woman the state and most of the US would never forget. Karla Faye Tucker.
Karla had smoked pot for the first time at just 8 years old and began taking drugs and having sex at the age of 12, with the approval of her mother, a drug addicted prostitute with a job during the day as a secretary. By the age of 14 she had dropped out of school and her mother had introduced her to the world of prostitution. Some people say they had a bad childhood but Karla didn t really have a childhood at all. She went through life with no one who truly cared about her well-being and no one to guide her. She developed a temper and was known to start fights in bars with both men and women. When a friend of Karlas shows up beaten by Karlas ex-house mate, she s livid. Jerry Dean and Karla had already had been involved in a minor tussle with Karla kocking him in the face and cutting his eye for cutting up some pictu
The National Endowment for the Arts recently awarded $65,000 in grants to four Colorado Springs organizations.
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs received $10,000 for a music project; Colorado College collected $15,000 for a multidisciplinary project; Sprinkle Art (aka Imagination Celebration) was given $30,000 for a multidisciplinary project; and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs won $10,000 for a theater project.
This is the 10th grant Imagination Celebration has received from the endowment.
“I really love that they value what goes on in the community,” said Executive Director Deborah Thornton. “We’ve done projects with their help for decades now. They demonstrate that they value what goes on in small towns, cities away from the coast and rural communities.”