The Tri-Lakes in pictures

Benn Farrell/ The Tribune

Town of Monument Trustee Jim Romanello, left, helps members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7928 Auxiliary distribute wreaths to volunteers which placed them on the final resting places of U.S. military veterans placed there Dec. 19 at Monument Cemetery during an observance of Wreaths Across America.

Chancey Bush/The Gazette Ryan Lewis, a junior at Lewis-Palmer High School, started a tradition of playing the Highland bagpipes at dusk at his home in Monument evenings as part of a movement among bagpipers called “Sunset Solidarity,” to share hope and strength during the pandemic.

Tri-Lakes snapshots

Chancey Bush/The Gazette Haley Chapin, executive director of Tri-Lakes Cares, left, and Suzi Huette, 76, right, share a moment at Tri-Lakes Cares in Monument after Huette received a bag of food items on Feb. 25.

Chancey Bush/The Gazette Haylee Nolan, 14, holds on tight as she is spun in a large circle by on an innertube during the Monument Watermelon Festival at Colorado Kids Ranch, the Monument facility that hosts a popular pumpkin patch each fall, in Monument on Aug. 1.

Chancey Bush/The Gazette

Labradoodles Gracie and Pyper pose for a portrait inside their B&B Kustom Kennel at their home in Monument Nov. 15.

Courtesy of Monument Academy

Freshmen students at Monument Academy East Campus learn in one of the new building’s science labs.

A VISION BECOMES REALITY

Monument Academy East Campus enables expansion to secondary students

By Benn Farrell

One of the largest developments in the Tri-Lakes area over the past year has been the opening of Monument Academy’s East Campus.

The campus devoted to middle and high school levels, which opened at 4303 Pinehurst Circle, Colorado Springs, Aug. 29, launched almost 24 years after the original Monument Academy location opened its doors at 1150 Village Point Road in Monument. The opening realized a vision which through 2020 proved daunting to complete with COVID-19 pandemic prevention measures.

“Like the establishment of Monument Academy a quarter of a century ago, this school build was not without

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