WEEK OF JULY 11, 2024
VOLUME 104 | ISSUE 20
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Helping like Haley
Parents want progress in bus abuse case Plans for litigation against Joshua School in the works BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Chris, Haley and Jay Timothy on the Li River during a 2016 trip to China.
New nursing endowment at ACC honors daughter’s legacy BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
About once a week, Haley Timothy would spend $25 at Starbucks during her work shift down the
COURTESY OF JAY AND CHRIS TIMOTHY
street at TJMaxx. When she returned home, her father, Jay, would scold her for spending so much money on coffee. He said he was trying to teach her a lesson about frugality. But when Haley died, her parents learned that she wasn’t just buying coffee for herself. At her funeral, her coworker told them that Haley bought coffee every day for many of her colleagues at work.
“She always just wanted to help all of her friends,” Haley’s mother, Chris, said. “She would never really say no to anybody that needed her help.” This quality — paired with her ability to administer tough love — would have made the 20-year-old a great nurse, her parents said. And that’s what she was on track to do. But, in October 2022, one week
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Parents are ready for the criminal case against a former Littleton Public Schools paraprofessional to move forward after it was continued in court Monday. The arraignment for Kiarra Jones, 29, who was hired to assist nonverbal autistic students on their school bus but is accused of abusing students on her watch, was continued to Aug. 26 at 10 a.m., according to Eric Ross, public information officer for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. “I am just anxious,” said Blake McBride, father of a named victim in the case, 10-year-old Andrew McBride. “I am looking forward to seeing what can be moved forward because right now we’re kind of just in limbo. There’s nothing going on.”
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