5-Point award — there’s more
We accidentally missed an award in our first email and want to be sure we celebrate “Arctic Alchemy” for winning the Hayden Kennedy Award. This award represents the best of human endeavor to better understand and experience our world.
Team 5Point
Newsletter excerpt
THANK YOU for your teaching
When a member of our community achieves an academic milestone, it becomes a collective celebration. Professors, mentors, friends and family all contribute in one way or another through guidance, advice, support or simply by listening.
To everyone who has been part of my journey, thank you. From my English as a Second Language teachers and tutors, to my GED instructors, to my incredible graphic design teacher and the faculty at Colorado Mountain College, THANK YOU endlessly for your teaching. I truly appreciate you all.
Ingrid Zuniga
Parachute
Glenwood against ICE
I am so grateful to the women and men who give their time to serve on Planning and Zoning in Glenwood Springs, and the time they allotted to hear everyone who came to testify last week about ICE abuses in our area. After hearing that ICE had detained immigrants beyond the 12 hours allowed by the lease many times, the P&Z voted to terminate the lease even though the town lawyer had made it clear it would be difficult to get ICE out of that building. Taking a stand against the illegal actions of ICE is important for our community.
We are not a mean-spirited community in this valley. Many people volunteer in myriad ways to provide needed services to people of all backgrounds and ages. Human decency comes from awareness that we are all one human family, and I am grateful to live where most people care for others with kindness and generosity.
I just read an article about the number of children in ICE detention facilities across the country being denied adequate medical care when they are ill and also being kept far longer than allowed by law. Why did the Trump administration run on “making America great again” and decide to make America the biggest bully in the world?
The billions spent to destroy Iran over the past two months could have provided adequate medical insurance and safe, decent, affordable housing to American citizens. Representative Hurd does not stand up for the law, which requires Congress to authorize a war, not the president to bomb whomever he pleases. I am sad, ashamed and appalled by our nation’s actions.
Vote for decency and courage come fall.
Illène Pevec
Carbondale
Cozy Home progress
The Cozy Home Project launched by Mountain Valley Developmental Services in January is making good progress.
Recently, with the help from our partners, Black Hills Energy community grant, Kiwanis Club Glenwood Springs, Habitat for Humanity Roaring Fork Valley and Belmont Clean & Restoration, our first residential home is finished and cozier than ever.
New windows, paint, furniture and clean carpets go a long way in creating a sense of home. Many thanks to our partners; on to the next home!
Sara Sims
Glenwood Springs
Hon. Rep. Jeff Hurd
You are a pretty smart man and I’m hoping that you have been observant of the massive deterioration of the federal government and the debilitating effect on our country along with America’s new role as the ally-less, laughing stock of the United Nations.
With your abilities to work across the aisle, I would like to offer you a chance to become an American hero. Become a Democrat. Step across the aisle and work with the people who are striving to save the country.
Everyone of your initiatives would benefit and be strengthened by the Democrats, from economic development, currently being shattered by the Republicans; energy independence that has come to a grinding halt and defunded by the Republicans; water infrastructure, agriculture and new technologies, all of which are prized by the Democrats and ignored by Republicans, whose gaze is solely on tax breaks for billionaires.
The Republican congress is beginning to waken from its hypnotic slumber and you may be able to talk one or two others to join you in your escape to freedom of thought in the Democratic party. Imagine what you would unleash with a Democratic majority. We would get a new speaker that would unleash a wave of empowering legislation ready for the new Democratic senate in November.
John Hoffmann
Carbondale
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