Florence Brewing Company lines up Food Truck Rally – Canon City Daily Record

Florence Brewing Company lines up Food Truck Rally – Canon City Daily Record

Florence Brewing Company is hosting Florence’s inaugural food truck rally on Saturday and has several others lined up throughout the fall.

Saturday’s event will feature food trucks from the Flames with their wood-fired pizza, Mimi’s Grill with their Tex-Mex cuisine, P-Dubs Rolling Smokehouse with their freshly smoked barbecue, and SoCo Chicken with their fried chicken, cheese and more. They’ll all be serving up their delicious eats from 11 a.m. until dark. Mark’s Midnight Carnival Show will keep the crowd jamming with live music from mid-afternoon and into the evening, depending on the weather.

Florence Brewing Company, located at 200 S. Pikes Peak Ave. in Florence, has 20 different beers and seltzers on tap to go with all the delicious food. All food truck rallies are family-friendly events. Seating, on a first come first serve basis, will be inside the brewery and on the outdoor patio area. Well-behaved dogs on a leash are welcome.

For more information about food trucks and live music for each date visit the Florence Brewing Company Facebook Events page or at www.florencebrewing.com or www.facebook.com/florencebrewingcompany.

Upcoming rallies:

• March 20
• April 24
• May 29
• July 3
• July 31
• Sept. 4
• Oct. 23

GOCO awards $116,822 grant to Central Colorado Conservancy to support Arkansas River Headwaters conservation

The GOCO board recently awarded a $116,822 grant to Central Colorado Conservancy, in partnership with the Upper Arkansas Conservation District and the Natural Resources Conservation Service to support its Collaborative Conservation for Private Lands in the Arkansas Headwaters Region project. This initiative will help CCC continue to meet the needs of communities in Chaffee, Fremont, Gunnison, Lake, Park and Saguache counties through more conserved land, added staff capacity, new partnerships, and established best practices.

This grant is part of GOCO’s Resilient Communities program, which helps grantee partners advance outdoor recreation, stewardship, and land protection work. Funded projects will respond to one-time, immediate needs or opportunities that have emerged in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic all within the context of GOCO’s five program values: resource conservation, outdoor stewardship, community vitality, equitable access, and youth connections to the outdoors.

CCC will use GOCO funding to establish a funding agreement and partnerships with UACD and NRCS to deliver technical, educational, and financial support for conservation on private lands. CCC will also evaluate efficacy of existing conservation practices on 3,300 acres of private lands enrolled in its Community Conservation Connection program. This program provides financial incentives to agricultural producers in return for restrictions on development, tying water rights to the land, and implementing conservation practices where appropriate. CCC hopes to enroll five new landowners into the program as part of this project.

Additionally, funding will support the Upper Arkansas Watershed Partnership, which aims to develop a framework for prioritizing water planning efforts with a coalition of agricultural landowners and other constituents. Along with this effort, CCC aims to begin development of at least five new conservation easement or acquisition projects with the goal of protecting 1,000 acres of wetlands, rivers, and working landscapes across the Arkansas Headwaters region.

To date, GOCO has invested more than $5 million in projects in Fremont County and conserved 149 acres of land there. GOCO funding has supported Rouse Park Playground, the conservation of Taylor-Oswald Ranch, John Griffin Regional Park, and the Arkansas River Trail, among other projects.

Published at Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:24:37 +0000