Local love: supporting small businesses this week [Video]

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Driving through downtown, there is a unique element in recognizing the wide range of locally run businesses that fill the streets. From good books to cozy sweatshirts and even vibrant tattoos, these establishments have a little something of everything for the southern Colorado community.

Several of these local treasures have been around for decades like Poor Richard’s, which opened its doors in 1977 and is a unique blend of a restaurant and bookstore. Richard Skorman, alongside his wife, are the owners of Poor Richard’s and have seen the business evolve into four different entities.

“It’s very important that people support small businesses, and you know there are lots of times where you have to go to a national chain or go to Amazon or whatever but we give back more to the community,” Skorman said. “They say $0.06 of every dollar that people spend in the small …