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Pagosa Springs Daily Digest Monday, October 12, 2026

Ty's Take

Friends and Neighbors in Need hosting a fundraiser isn't much of a headline until you remember that this outfit keeps people fed and housed when the margins get thin, which happens to more of us than we like to admit. In a town where half the year tourists are dropping money in the hot springs pools and the other half you're hoping they'll come back, that kind of vulnerability runs deeper than most outsiders see. A pancake breakfast or sandwich lunch might sound like small-town boilerplate, but in Archuleta County it's how we take care of our own when the winter's long or the work dries up. The fact that the community still shows up for this says something worth noticing.

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A community that supports itself: Friends and Neighbors in Need to host fundraising breakfast/lunch

The campaign is called “Who is Under the Blanket?” and is borrowed from a life-size bronze sculpture by Timothy Schmalz titled “Homeless Jesus.” The sculpture is a visual representation of the gospel passage Matthew 25:40 that reminds us to see Christ in the most marginalized amongst us: “Whatever...

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