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Bradley Davis

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado School for the Blind alumnus Tayler Moses is a key member of the USA’s first Goalball team in years as the girls prepare for the youth World Championship in Kazakhstan.

Goalball is a professional Paralympic sport that combines elements from bowling and soccer. Athletes are required to wear eye shades that block out all vision and throw a medicine-type ball filled with rattles at the opposing team’s net. Blind defenders have to go off of sound to block the heavy ball with their body, often at much pain to the defender!

While the professional USA goalball team receives grants and funding to compete, the young girls on the USA Youth team must individually fundraise to pay their way to Kazakhstan.

All day Wednesday, Panda Express is hosting a nationwide fundraiser for the Youth Goalball team. If you order online, use the code 9017040, and the chain will donate 28% of the sale to the team. Tayler also has a personal donation link here.

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Scott Harrison

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — This is exciting news for the thousands of daily drivers along Powers Boulevard who were tired of hitting several bumps that covered the width of the northbound lanes south of Airport Road.

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) recently completed a six-week overnight operation to remove the bumps that were caused by a variety of damage to concrete panels.

For several years, CDOT tried to stabilize the bumps by patching them with concrete or other materials.

During CDOT’s operation, crews replaced several dozen panels and repaired several hundred more by actually stitching them together.

That process, known as cross-stitching, lowered the overall repair cost and kept it to around $500,000.

CDOT said that many of the panels are as much as 30 years old and that, combined with constant traffic and water getting between and under the panels, this caused the damage.

In some cases, crews had to dig up to two feet under the panels to stabilize them.

So, what took so long for the repairs to happen?

CDOT said the operation is part of the ongoing project to build an overpass at Airport and Powers; it’s within a work zone that already has lane closures, signage, and lower speed limits for worker and driver safety.

The I-25 bumps are not in construction zones and are more challenging to fix.

However, CDOT said a new strategy—starting as early as this fall—would select a specific contractor to respond to concrete repairs quickly, within a designated time period.

CDOT already has such an agreement for asphalt repairs but not for concrete, because the latter is more of a design issue than a maintenance issue.

In a related development, crews repaired a rough spot that developed this summer in the northbound lanes at the west end of the MLK Bypass; asphalt paved over concrete had crumbled and created several large potholes.

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Rob Namnoum

The Air Force football team will play Duquesne on Saturday in their season opener. KRDO-13 Sports Director asked the players if they could spell Duquesne.

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Bradley Davis

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – It’s “Two Can Tuesday” at the Colorado State Fair, where fairgoers can forgo the $15 admission fee with a donation of two canned goods.

The donations benefit the Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado. It’s the fourth year the fair has partnered with Care and Share for Two Can Tuesday. Care and Share CEO Nate Springer said the event brought in over 10,000 pounds of food last year.

“Two cans is the minimum. Hey, look in your cabinet, look at all the canned food that you’re not going to eat, and just bring that to us at the state fair!” Springer said.

Springer said the word has spread year after year, and Two Can Tuesday has grown foot traffic on the fairgrounds.

“Tuesday is a really popular day at the state fair now because of the Two Can Tuesday. I think it benefits everyone,” Springer said.

Springer said the partnership with the State Fair helps prevent hunger in the immediate region. He said all the canned goods will stay in Pueblo County.

Two Can Tuesday is valid during full fair hours today, from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Final admission is around 10 p.m.

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Scott Harrison

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is a month away from the scheduled completion of a repaving of US 24 that began in April.

Crews are placing new asphalt from just east of Peyton to just east of Calhan; it follows similar paving last summer farther west between Peyton and Falcon.

Another facet of the work is the construction of a passing lane at the east end of the project, near the intersection with Harrisville Road.

The paving has occurred at night to limit traffic impacts during the summer tourist season.

Several drivers told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior that they’re happy to see the repaving, after years of asking CDOT to do more to improve safety on the busy highway.

Over the past decade, crews have added turn, merge, and passing lanes along the affected stretch of US 24.

Along with repaving through Calhan, the town has seen other recent improvements: Last summer, El Paso County performed a much-needed repaving of the road leading to the county fairgrounds off US 24 (Yoder Street), and CDOT repaired the main bridge through town.

The upgrades have drivers in neighboring Lincoln County hoping that CDOT will eventually bring the improvements farther east.

Drivers should be aware of crews still working on paved areas to smooth bumps that often form.

“There will be some slight bumps, just inherent with the paving,” said Wayne Pittman, a CDOT engineer. “So, the contractor will come through and diamond-grind. It’s not the milling machine with the big teeth. It’s a much finer tooth, to just take out those little bumps.”

Pittman also said that some of the old asphalt millings will be spread over Fairplay Road — a short, dead-end, dirt road along the highway.

“That was an agreement with the county because there’s a special needs child who lives down that road, and emergency vehicles have been stuck in the mud there,” he explained.

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Bradley Davis

GOLDEN, Colo. (KRDO) – The Coors Brewing Company may have been at the forefront of the beverage industry’s switch to aluminum cans, but in the late 1800s, they bottled beer with glass just like everyone else.

Despite over two decades of local glass manufacturing, the Coors family had very little physical record from that era of bottling.

“Before we actually started construction here at the site, we didn’t have a single example of one of our glass bottles in our archive and in our collection, and very few actually existed anywhere,” said Coors family archivist Melanie Keerins.

The company Coorstek, a technical ceramics company within the Coors family trust, recently started renovations to its old historical manufacturing buildings on 9th and Washington Avenue. It will turn the abandoned factory spaces into the “Clayworks” community, with housing, parking, office and retail spaces, according to the City of Golden.

One of the old buildings was the original site for founder Adolf Coors’ ‘Colorado Glass Works’ company. He created the venture in 1887 to produce glass bottles specifically for bottling at his brewery across the street.

Soon enough, Coorstek’s renovation turned into a hoppy archaeological excavation.

“We did actually find complete bottles, which you wouldn’t think of from like 1887. We actually find complete bottles. Most likely beer,” Keerins said.

Beer bottles so old, it’s hard to tell if they actually held beer.

Coorstek does not yet have a timeline for when the renovations will be complete, but Keerins hopes they continue to make historical discoveries along the way.

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Rob Namnoum

Top prep performances for the week August 26th.

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Bradley Davis

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – A local author is bringing the story of Pueblo Fire to life in a new children’s book about her husband, an assistant fire chief with the Pueblo Rural Fire Department.

Iva DeSiata is a fantasy author from Pueblo and works at the Giodone branch of the Pueblo library. She said she came up with the idea for a book two years ago while setting up a first responder section in the youth department of a different library.

“I was looking at some of the stories, and they all had to do with like the action of it all, but nothing really behind the scenes kind of a thing for their families and stuff,” DeSiata said. “I start thinking, I am married to one, so why not create a story of that?”

DeSiata’s previous book series is a fictional fantasy, but ‘Rodney Dean, An Assistant Fire Chief’ features a real-life protagonist.

“He’s my hero,” DeSiata said.

DeSiata and her husband have done live readings of the children’s book across Southern Colorado. Their next stop is the Briargate Barnes and Noble, sometime in the next couple of weeks. You can find her book for sale here.

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Scott Harrison

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Most people who live along remote rural roads don’t expect city conveniences, but at least one resident doesn’t want a road so muddy that her cars get stuck and can delay emergency responses.

The road at issue is Whittemore Road, south of Truckton Road, just east of the Lincoln County line — a road that KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior previously reported on in January 2025.

Although dry weather for the past year has produced less mud on the road, it turns into a quagmire in spots after any significant rain or snow.

Tresia Easom has lived along Whittemore Road for 11 years and said she became stuck on several occasions and experienced long delays for ambulances responding to help sick family members.

However, county officials explained that Whittemore is designated a historic road — meaning it has a long history of public use and previously received some level of maintenance, but was never built or formally accepted for current standards.

As a result, the county can perform only limited maintenance when necessary to keep the road passable.

Furthermore, the county said that any maintenance depends on road conditions and available resources.

The only solution remains for drivers to wait days — or even weeks in extreme conditions — for the mud to dry.

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Michael Logerwell

FALCON, Colo. (KRDO) – One person is in the hospital after being hit by a fast moving car outside a Walmart in El Paso County.

The Colorado State Patrol says a car came flying down the parking lot, hitting a person, a parked car, and then a pillar outside the superstore.

The state trooper on scene told KRDO13 that the person hit by the vehicle suffered serious but non-fatal injuries. The driver behind the wheel also suffered serious injuries.

The cause of the crash has not been released.

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