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WEEK OF CTOBER 24, 27, 2022 TUESDAY , NOOVEMBER 2020
New COVID-19 restrictionsfields will prohibit indoor dining, personal Foodgatherings for Hope Braving the haunted along Riverdale Road
volunteers understand their impact
Food charity that helps schools find demand is growing BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Families, friends, and kids can wear costumes and play on the haystacks at Palombo Farms Field of Screams. See story online at PHOTO BY BELEN WARD Commercecitysentinel.com
Commerce City cuts taxes to boost support for 27J Schools A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent schools. weeks due toBYhigh Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate STEVE demand. SMITH The district hasn’t a mill SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Healthpassed Department. levy override in more than 20 Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than years. city of Commerce City 13The percent. Forty-five people inanBrighton “They and 29 are in Commerce have the lowestCity per-pupil nounced a cut in its own taxes in died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, the hopes city voters will approve funded school district in the at least 15 counties to tighter restrictions that prohibits area,” Commerce Cityindoor Mayorand an upcoming mill moved levy override Benjamin Huseman said in a personal gatherings. proposal in 27J Schools. statement. “They need more The district is asking for a tax money to continue to provide a increase of eight mills. The cost, quality education for the children according to a release, is less Photo by Belen Ward in this community.” than $1 a day on a $500,000 home. The statement said the district’s If approved, money goes to local
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lowAsfunding situation means Denver metro counties continue to the district operates on about inch closer to local stay-at-home orders 80 percent of the budget that all under Colorado’s system of coronavirusother districts have. If approved, related restrictions, the state announced the increase would improve a new levelsafety of rulesby that prohibits indoor student putting a safety dining and personal gatherings — a officer at every school, pay teachchange that applies to the majority of the ers more so the district can hire Denver metro andand manyadd counties and keep thearea best, morein other regions. STEM/Career and tech ed teachersThe to state’s high schools stu-has COVID-19giving dial, which dents been injob-ready effect since skills. September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each SEE SUPPORT, P4
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Emily Stromquist, the CEO of Food for Hope, understands that her group is not simply keeping bellies full. Food for Hope provides meals for Adams County school students, including in-school food banks at numerous schools in the Adams 12 Five Star, 27J and Adams 14 districts as well as Westminster Public Schools. It also offers weekend food bags and in-school snacks to help kids concentrate on their work. Stromquist said when they started to serve an elementary school in the 27J school district and she learned of a fifth-grade boy who was having behavior issues in the classroom that staff could not figure out. The boy came in and received a bag of for to his family. county is food required follow based on the Stromquist said helocal started severity of a county’s viruscrying spread. anddial shared was and The grew how out ofhungry the state’shesafer-athow little had a home. home order food — thethey policy that came after “It turned out the whole year the statewide stay-at-home order this he was hungry because he wasn’t spring and allowed numerous types of receiving enough food. It was causbusinesses to reopen.issue,” Stromquist ing his behavior The state recently switched color said. “Sometimes signs of to hunger identifiers — levels blue, yellow and can be hard to miss with children orange rather thanparents numbered levels and sometimes too, it’s— to avoid confusion. Until Nov. to 17,say levelanyred embarrassing for them thing.” meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level ThornCreek Church, redThornton’s — “severe risk” — is the secondat 3853 E 120th Ave. started Food for SEE HOPE, P2
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