Many very important adults attended Thursday’s groundbreaking for an $8 million renovation of a downtown Colorado Springs building that’s in sight of the Weidner Field soccer stadium and in the midst of a future residential development.

But it was the tykes the new Alice Bemis Taylor Center for Early Education will serve when it opens next March at 415 Sahwatch St. who commanded all eyes, ears and cellphones to focus on them.

After seven speakers talked about how Early Connections Learning Centers’ longtime vision for expansion was coming to fruition with help from supporters, a gaggle of youngsters marched down the center aisle and onto a large pile of dirt.

Wearing pint-sized yellow “hard hats” and construction vests, the excited preschoolers picked up small plastic shovels and began

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