Roaring holiday spirit
The Denver Zoo has teamed up with the Denver Santa Claus Shop on a program to help put holiday gifts in the hands of children in need. The zoo’s Kibongi Market Gift Shop is a two-story store packed to the gills, so to speak, with stuffed animals, animal T-shirts, animal puzzles and just about anything else to make an animal-adoring child smile. The shop is asking the many customers who pass through this week after visiting the popular Zoo Lights attraction to purchase an item and donate it to the Denver Santa Claus Shop, a volunteer-run, nondenominational nonprofit. A portion of each purchase also supports the zoo’s daily operations. For admission prices, hours of operation and general information, visit .
Windups
and here’s the pitch
Some toys demand to be played with — and it doesn’t matter whether you’re 5 or 55. Windup toys fall into that category. A new online store is designed specifically to appeal to the windup- toy-loving kid in all of us. The people behind Z Windups have assembled an inventory of nothing but wobbling, bobbling plastic creatures. Some swim, others slide. All of are priced around $5 — an old-fashioned price for old-fashioned toys that seem to never lose their appeal.
Living history
As part of the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of the Bessemer and Minnequa neighborhoods in Pueblo, the Bessemer Historical Society is inviting local residents to donate such historical community artifacts as store receipts, photographs, maps, blueprints, amateur films and home movies. Donations will become part of the CF&I Archives collection. Historical Society staff members also are interested in interviewing current or former residents of the neighborhood for an oral history collection. For more information, call Tim Hawkins, CF&I archivist, or Victoria Miller, Steelworks Museum curator, at 719-564-9086.
Compiled by Elana Ashanti Jefferson
