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• State Sen. Tapia Named Director of Colorado Lottery

State Sen. Abel Tapia of Pueblo has been named Director of the Colorado Lottery. Tapia was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1999 and to the Colorado Senate in 2003. During his tenure, Tapia was the Senate President Pro Tem and the Chairman of the Joint Budget Committee.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• July 23, 2010

• Hooks v. Colorado Lottery, (10th Cir. 2000)

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS TENTH CIRCUIT BETTY LOUISE HOOKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v...

• Federal Circuits

• Improvements Coming to Bear Creek Dog Park

With Colorado Lottery games, ticket buyers aren't the only winners. A portion of lottery revenue gets funneled to Colorado parks, recreation, open space, conservation education and wildlife projects.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• November 26, 2010

• Colorado Springs and Woodland Park Receive 2006 Colorado Lottery Starburst Community Awards

Woodland Park and Colorado Springs have received 2006 Colorado Lottery Starburst Community Awards. Woodland Park received lottery money from Great Outdoors Colorado and the Conservation Trust Fund to expand the Meadow Wood Sports Complex. The project won a regional Starburst Award for projects that cost between $300,000 and $1 million.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• October 19, 2006

• The Colorado Lottery is Tracking Its Success; Mazerov Miller Conducting Consumer Surveys to Help Increase Lottery Participation.

DENVER -- After a thorough review of multiple marketing research firms, Karsh + Hagen Advertising chose Mazerov Miller Research & Marketing Strategy t...

• Business Wire
• March 01, 2005

• Business Briefs

Woodland Park, Springs receive Starburst Awards Woodland Park and Colorado Springs have received 2006 Colorado Lottery Starburst Community Awards.

• Colorado Springs Business Journal
• November 13, 2006

• Odds Against New Parks ; Colorado Springs Spends Little Lottery Money to Buy, Develop Open Space. Cash Pays Salaries, Maintenance.

Eric Peterson often watches his grandchildren and their friends play football on the streets of their Pikes Peak Park neighborhood, an area where ball fields are scarce. It's not that Colorado Springs doesn't have the land or the money to build two parks planned for that community.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• December 28, 2004

• Fountain Man Cashes in with $1 Million Lottery Prize

Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice, but the Colorado Lottery's second-chance drawings sometimes do. Fountain resident Gary Martinez, who won Broncos tickets in April thanks to the lottery's scratch-off ticket consolation round, got an even bigger surprise on Wednesday. Lottery officials covertly descended on his workplace, the Time Warner Cable call center at 2221 E. Bijou St., around noon and shocked Martinez with a check for $1 million.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• July 26, 2010

• Dog Park Donation Pipe Back On Site Following Theft

The recently vandalized donation container at Bear Creek Dog Park has been reinforced and is back in place. Donations in the metal collection canister were stolen in mid-July. The thief has not been caught. Public contributions amounting about $5,000 annually support maintenance and improvements at the park, along with grants from Colorado lottery proceeds.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• August 31, 2011

• Dog Park Donation Pipe Back On Site Following Theft

The recently vandalized donation container at Bear Creek Dog Park has been reinforced and is back in place. Donations in the metal collection canister were stolen in mid-July. The thief has not been caught. Public contributions amounting about $5,000 annually support maintenance and improvements at the park, along with grants from Colorado lottery proceeds.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• August 30, 2011