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Restrooms, trash cans back in city parks
June 1, 2011 11:27 PM
Last year was a tough one for the Colorado Springs Parks Division. In 2008 their budget sat at $19,000,000. Fast forward to 2010 and that number plummeted to only $3,000,000. One look at the grass at many parks and the neglect shows. The city has contracted out mowing and... more » -
PETA offers trash cans with anti-meat slogans
March 11, 2010 1:02 PM
The animal rights group PETA is offering to help cash-strapped Colorado Springs by paying to put trash cans back in parks, if the cans carry an anti-meat slogan and a picture of a woman in a lettuce bikini. The city stopped picking up trash in parks to save money,... more » -
Park maintenance a grass-roots effort
March 9, 2010 2:54 PM
A growing number of people in Colorado Springs are volunteering to clean up their neighborhood parks in response to the city's removal of trash cans from them. Of the 125 neighborhood parks where the waste bins were pulled, some 22 have been adopted. Steve Immel lives across the... more » -
Colorado Springs scraps park trash cans
January 25, 2010 6:14 PM
The City of Colorado Springs is trying to save money by getting rid of trash cans in neighborhood parks. The city announced Monday that it's removing about 400 trash cans from 128 parks within the next two weeks. The city says eliminating the trash service will save $5,700 a... more »
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