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Archive for March 5th, 2009
Mona Lisa Restaurant… a perfect romantic dinner
Mona List Restaurant in Colorado Springs
In the mood for a truly romantic getaway? Come to The Mona Lisa in Manitou Springs and you won’t be disappointed.
Mona Lisa is a fixture of West-Side Colorado Springs cuisine. The restaurant is in an old building with small rooms, creaky, crooked floors and steep stairs (check out the bathrooms where you’ll feel like you’ve gone back in time about 100 years). It was originally built as a hotel in the late 1800’s. Old, signed wine bottles from previous guests line the walls and cubbies where a few of mine are there somewhere.
The food is magnificent. The four course meal includes salad; your choice of a regular salad, Caesar or their salad of the day (which when we went was a spinach with goat cheese, yummy), Read the rest of this entry »
Colorado Springs Vintage Home, open house on Sunday 3-8
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Kathy will be at an house this weekend: on Sunday from 12:00 – 3:00pm, you can stop by and see her at this home at 1434 McArthur Road in a vintage Colorado Springs Neighborhood, close to Palmer Park and Union
This home has four bedrooms, Read the rest of this entry »
Government and Military are #1 employers in El Paso County
Employment in El Paso County
Have you ever wondered what the top industries are in El Paso County?
I recently went to an Economic Breakfast Forum which included a presentation by Fred Crowley and this informative breakdown of employment in the area and I thought I’d share it with our readers. It’s good to see that the area has a wide variety of employment; as it’s important for the local economy to be diversified.
