New Heart Heroes Location

The American Heart Association's Heart Heroes Gallery is officially up at the East Library in Colorado Springs.  Please stop by and visit these wonderful photos of some of the local kids in our community who were born with congenital heart defects.  Thank you to Beth for taking this picture of our gallery moving team today.  Tea and AnnaSophia, who are featured in the gallery, helped too.  Our kids are such good sports, accompanying us while moving the gallery and educating the public.  Saturday, January 8th, some of our volunteers will be at the library talking to people about CHDs, childhood obesity and improving our cardiovascular health.

Heart Heroes Gallery Update

The American Heart Association's Heart Heroes Gallery is currently located at Chapel Hills Mall in the north part of Colorado Springs.  We will have volunteers handing out information tomorrow, Saturday, January 1st, from 12pm to 3pm at the mall.  Sunday, the gallery will move to the East Library and Information Center.  This is one of the large branches of the Pikes Peak Library District.  The gallery will be located just outside of the children's area for all to see.  If you have not seen the gallery yet, I highly encourage you to take a look at it in person.  It is very moving and inspiring to see these beautiful children's faces and read their stories of triumph and bravery through their fight with heart disease.

KKTV 11 Interview for the Heart Heroes Gallery

At the unveiling of the Heart Heroes gallery on Monday night, our local KKTV 11 news channel came to the Antler's Hotel and gave us some wonderful publicity.  I post this with some trepidation, because I don't like myself on camera.  Thankfully, my part is ever so small (blink and you miss me--and that's a good thing).  Little Thad's picture steals the show.  He has the brightest smile and biggest blue eyes.  AnnaSophia's picture makes the cut too with her big big eyes and long lashes.  Click here to watch the clip.  Thank you KKTV 11 for helping us raise awareness in our community about congenital heart defects.

Heart Heroes Gallery Unveiling

The American Heart Association's Heart Heroes Gallery will be unveiled on Monday, November 29th at the Antler's Hotel at 4 S. Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 in downtown Colorado Springs from 4:30 to 6pm.  This event is free and open to the public, and I encourage everyone to attend. 

The photos are absolutely beautiful!  I know each and everyone of these children, and they are truly inspiring.  These are children who have battled and continue to battle congenital heart disease.  The amazing thing is that they do so with bright smiles, infectious laughter and amazing bravery.  Looking at these children, no one would know what they have dealt with or continue to deal with each day.  Some of these children may have physical limitations, but they don't let it keep them down. 

Life is not about what they can't do...it's about what they can do.