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Cooler temperatures mean more hours to enjoy the Phoenix outdoors. What are some of the events happening around downtown Phoenix during these brisk months to engage residents in a healthy lifestyle?

Cole and Dayna Reed, owners of GreenHaus Gallery and Boutique on Roosevelt Row will close their doors for the last time Feb. 11 following their last First Friday Feb. 6 before the couple moves to Portland, Ore., a state with more parentage rights protection.

HandsOn Greater Phoenix, a local nonprofit organization that manages volunteers, celebrated 21 years of service to the city Friday.

Poetry enthusiasts congregated at {9} the Gallery Friday evening for the six-year anniversary of the Caffeine Corridor Series, a monthly reading that brings together a wide variety of people.

At the end of October, the city of Phoenix installed new 2-hour-limit parking signs on one side of Sixth Street and both sides of Fifth Street in between Roosevelt and Garfield streets. Businesses in the area asked for the signs to help promote higher customer turnover.

Activists organized by Tonatierra and the Comites de Defensa del Barrio gathered outside the Consulate General of Mexico on Friday to bring awareness to the abduction of 43 students in Mexico.

Young or old, big or small, dogs and their human companions filled Margaret T. Hance Park on Saturday morning to partake in the first Phoenix Police and Parks, Pups Festival.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, Phoenix City Council and the PlanPHX Leadership Committee hosted a community celebration to unveil the 2015 General Plan at the PlanPHX Summit in City Hall on Saturday.

Casey Hopkins-Johnson, the baker responsible for the acclaimed menu at the newly opened Welcome Chicken + Donuts, has applied hard work, creativity and principles of sustainable development to her varied culinary career.

Changing our slogan represents the growth Downtown Devil has seen over the years and gives us a strong foundation for our future.