Ernest Gurulé

1 week ago | lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé

If anyone can confirm that ‘orangutangs are skeptical about changes in their cages,’ or that ‘monkeys stand for honesty,’ a good source in Pueblo, would be Kyle Davis. Davis is the city’s new associate director of marketing at Pueblo’s Zoo, and he has his hands full with a summer schedule that, he says, has something for everyone. “It’s our busiest time of the year,” said the Eagle Pass, Texas, native. “And we want to make sure folks who come,” leave with the most positive experience they can have.

1 week ago | lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé

If there is one thing Maritza Job Giordano knows, she is not a high-risk candidate for kidney cancer. “I did do the genetic testing,” she said in a recent telephone interview. “For me it was negative.” There is irony, a boatload, in fact, in her declaration. And Job knows it oh so well.

2 weeks ago | lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé

Each night as we sleep, our brain manufactures visual episodes of events that can often and only be described as surreal. As we dream, we witness people, places and moments we know could never be. But every now and then, something witnessed in deep sleep or even fanciful escapism actually becomes reality. Being named as president of a school that bears the name of one’s hometown, leading the school that both built the foundation for a career as it reenforced lifelong values might be such a dream.

2 weeks ago | lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé

As drivers speed through Pueblo, no doubt many simply read its slogan, ‘Home of Heroes,’ and continue on their way never giving thought to that three-word billing. But in Pueblo, those three words mean a lot. Pueblo, throughout its history, has answered the call. In WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam and in the Gulf Wars, the young men and women of Pueblo have stepped forward. Their patriotism even impressed President Eisenhower when, in 1953, he awarded Puebloan Raymond G. ‘Jerry’ Murphy with the medal.

3 weeks ago | lavozcolorado.com | Ernest Gurulé

When the first puffs of white smoke belched from the newly constructed Sistine Chapel chimney, thousands spread across the expanse of Saint Peter’s Square cheered with delight. A new Pope had been chosen. But their enthusiasm soon coupled with shock—a joyful shock—when it was announced that the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is American-born. One person not shocked was Regis University’s Father Kevin Burke.