Rhyme On! ‘Hear Here’ Provides Poetic Forum for All Comers

May 10, 2012

Feeling poetic? Join the club. Literally. “Hear Here” is a FREE poetry open mic event featuring “nationally known and locally loved artists” that happens every second and third Saturdays of each month.The group meets at Movement Arts Community Studio, 525 E. Fountain Blvd.,  from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. It featues nationally known slam poets, local favorites, first-timers, grandmas, grandsons, anyone who wants to take a shot at it. For information, call 520-0024 or 964-4499 and ask for Luke Cissell. Rhyme on!

Eucerin Treats Dry Skin Woes with Samples and $2 Coupon

May 10, 2012

Living in Colorado, we all have dry skin.  Eucerin is here to help. The brand is offering two new FREE samples of their Daily Protection Line on Facebook, along with up a $2 coupon. To get the samples of Eucerin Daily Protection Moisturizing Body Lotion Sunscreen SPF 15 AND Eucerin Daily Protection Moisturizing Face Lotion Sunscreen SPF 30 just click on the link below, “like” the Eucerin Facebook Page and go to the Pledge For Sample App. Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/EucerinUS.

KFC Adds Dessert — Free Cake — to Family Meal Orders

May 9, 2012

According to the latest KFC newsletter, customers get FREE cake right now with an order of a 10-piece meal or larger. It’s a family-size Double Chocolate Chip Cake, so there’s plenty to go around.   Turn every day into a celebration. Put some candles on it. Serve it with ice cream. Whatever makes you happy. The offer applies for meals featuring Original Recipe, Extra Crispy, or Kentucky Grilled Chicken.  No coupon necessary. Offer good at participating KFC locations for a limited time and while supplies last. To see other details, go online to http://www.kfc.com/.

Help the Springs Bloom: Adopt a Flower Bed for the Summer

May 9, 2012

With cutbacks in funding for such things as flower beds in public medians, the City of Colorado Springs is seeking volunteers to participat in the Flower Bed Adoption Program. The 2012 Springs in Bloom flower bed adoption program seeks individuals, families, clubs and businesses to adopt flower beds located throughout Colorado Springs. The city’s  parks department will provide the flowers FREE of charge to all volunteer adopters. Flower bed adopters will take responsibility for planting and maintaining the beds in public spaces throughout the summer. If interested, contact  Donna Sanchez at 385-6568 or go online to www.SpringsGov.com/SpringsInBloom.

 

Whole Foods Sponsors ‘Good Stuff for Less’ Taste Fairs

May 9, 2012

Want good food at sale prices? Check out the Good Stuff for Less Taste Fair every Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Whole Foods store on North Academy Boulevard.  They have been holding tasting fairs every Friday, but those are moving to Thursdays instead.  Come check out the best value and quality at prices that give you the “Good Stuff for Less!” Try samples, throughout the store of sale items and learn how to save money from the Whole Foods Market at Pikes Peak store.

Financial Planning Classes Offered by the Springs Senior Center

May 8, 2012

Get a Stock Market Update and …  Social Security Information (May 17 ), Estate Planning (June 19), Education Planning for Granchildren (July 24) and Planning for Long Term Care (Aug. 21) with educational classes from the Colorado Springs Senior Center, 1514 N. Hancock Ave.  Classes are from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on those dates and each class costs just $3. For more information on classes at the center, call 387-6000.  Register in advance to make sure you have a spot. For more classes and information, you also can go ONLINE.

Whole Foods Lets You Print Out Your Coupons Before You Shop

May 7, 2012

Whole Foods wants to make your grocery shopping easier. So when planning your grocery list,  you now can print your coupons before you go to the store, and see what’s on sale that week. Get printable coupons from the latest issue of their in-store value guide The Whole Deal. Get those coupons ONLINE each week. Be sure to pick up the in-store guide for more great money-saving tips to help keep the budget blues at bay.

BJ’s Brewhouse Dishes Up Spring Specials Starting at $2.95, $5.95

May 6, 2012

If you like BJ’s Brewhouse, and from the size of the crowds, many of you do, you now have one more good reason to visit. They are serving some delectable-sounding lunch specials this spring — and they start at just $2.95 and $5.95. Specials on the lighter side,   starting at $2.95, include the mahi-maki tacos and a watermelon and feta salad. Lunch specials, starting at $5.95, include four new items: the Parmesan-crusted chicken sandwich, the light barbacoa or chicken tacos, Southern fried chickien and a chicken quesadilla. And there are more … and if you can indulge at lunch, their handcrafted beers are  only $3.50 at lunch. These deals are good from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays only.  ALSO, if you get the Sunday Gazette (May 6 edition)  look for a coupon on their flyer, giving your $5 off a purchase of $30 or more. Just an extra incentive.

L’Oreal Program Gives You Free Hair Color When You Buy Five

May 5, 2012

OK, some of us help Mother Nature along a bit when it comes to our hair color. If you do it yourself and if you use L’Oreal hair color, you might as well sign up for the L’Oreal Gold Rewards program. The deal is, you buy any 5 nd then you get 1 free. Pretty simple. To sign up for the program, CLICK HERE.

Like Pikes Peak on the Cheap? Tell Your Friends About Us!

May 4, 2012

Do you like the deals and freebies we tell you about? Have you taken advantage of a bargain, coupon offer or other money-saving tip? Then tell everybody about us! That’s the only way we can keep on doing this. Tell your family and friends about us on your Facebook page or Twitter account. Tell them to take a look at us … we think they’ll like what they see. Just have them go to www.pikespeakonthecheap.com and check us out. And thanks for being a fan of Pikes Peak on the Cheap! Also check out the Website of our new parent site, Living on the Cheap. You’ll find tips for saving money as well as national deals every day.

Arby’s Serves Free Fries and Drink and a Shot at $10,000

May 2, 2012

Try any of Arby’s new Market Fresh sandwiches  or wraps and get a FREE small drink and curly fry order with it. Think pecan chicken salad with hand-chopped chicken, crunchy pecans, chopped apples and grapes. Soujnds like summer in a sandwich, huh? To get the coupon, go ONLINE and print it out. (Don’t forget to take it with y ou.) Also enter Arby’s “Gourmazing Giveaway” for $10,000 at the same Website. No purchase is necessary to enter the contest. Just “like” them on Facebook.

 

Got Poetry? Local Past Laureate Makes House Calls

April 28, 2012

Looking for a way to class up your next  party? The past Pikes Peak poet laureate, Jim Ciletti, has a mission:  bringing poetry to the people. Get six or more of your poetry-loving friends together, and he’ll come to your house to do a FREE reading! As part of his gig as laureate, he generated lots of readings for groups large and small. Have a book group? A women’s group? A service club looking for a different program? He wants to hit senior centers, community centers, anywhere people gather and want a bit of culture. He’ll tailor a reading to your interests.  He might even read some of his own work! So what are you waiting for? Call him at 634-2367 or send an e-mail to  jimciletti@comcast.net.

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