Pueblo community overflows Blessing Boxes with donations
Over 20 Blessing Boxes have been built throughout Pueblo to help feed the hungry
Pueblo s community members are overflowing Blessing Boxes with donations, so many that there is enough to spare.
and last updated 2021-07-19 20:13:21-04
PUEBLO â Pueblo s community members are overflowing Blessing Boxes with donations, so many that there is enough to spare.
GT Davis began the Blessing Box movement on Christmas 2020, not knowing how big the little food pantries would become.
âIâve never been so attached to a community as I have now and it just grows as people donate, said Davis, who moved down to Pueblo from Denver five years ago.
Dangerous temperatures bring change to Pueblo s warming shelter
Natalie Chuck
and last updated 2021-02-12 08:38:39-05
PUEBLO â Sub-zero temperatures approaching are forcing the City of Pueblo to expand the Emergency Warming Shelter s hours of operation.
Pueblo s Transit Center downtown opened earlier in the week from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, providing shelter to the homeless people who need it. As temperatures this weekend drops to single-digits, the city is opening the shelter from 6:00 pm this Saturday through 6:00 am Monday, providing warmth for the entirety of Sunday.
âWe donât want anybody freezing to death on the streets, and weâre doing what we can to prevent that, said Mayor Nicholas Gradisar.
Southern Colorado faces 2020 with grit and endurance
12/30/2020 One of the things Pueblo residents like about their town is its Goldilocks size; not too big, not too small. Even its rush hour is over in minutes. But even smaller towns, Pueblo included, couldnt escape what the rest of the country and world faced in 2020. COVID came to Pueblo and in a big way. It, this invisible, often deadly microbe was the citys biggest story of 2020. But it wasnt the only notable Pueblo story.
Last January, La Voz Bilingue wrote about a festering issue southern Colorados hub city has been dealing with. Pueblos eastside has been without a grocery store for more than four years. The Safeway that had served the eastside for more than fifty years shuttered in 2016. Puebloans c