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New COVID-19volunteers restrictions will win prohibit indoor dining, gatherings Brighton awards frompersonal the President Kathleen Pierz helped many displaced families with shelter BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Brighton volunteer Kathleen Pierz, Brighton Rotary Club president, received a couple of U.S. Presidential Administration and Humanitarian Organization ShelterBox USA Service Awards for providing emergency shelter and supplies to people that lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled civil conflict, according to a press release by ShelterBox. She did the work in 2019. “It’s for working a certain number of volunteer hours in any given year. The award was started by President George W. Bush. It was the ‘Points of Light’ program. It’s been continued by every president since then. So last year, I got one signed by President Trump and this year, ShelterBox Ambassadors Kathleen Pierz, Rotary president, and David Addor, Rotary member, both received awards for their work one signed by President Biden,” said with ShelterBox USA. PHOTO BY BELEN WARD Pierz. “I have a big passion for doing said Pierz. “Eight-five percent of or natural. Over the years, Shelterwork with ShelterBox and doing to keep those communities together the funding goes directly to ShelterBox added more contents, such as work for the Rotary.” and hopefully within three to six Box.” kitchen sets, lights, mosquito nets, months, life is back to normal.” David Addor also received a Pierz said the Rotary Club is an water purifications, blankets and The Rotarians started ShelterBox bronze medal for his contribution of important partner because local tools. As of this year, they added a in Cornwall, England, as a millennihundreds of hours raising money. Rotarians know how to get things washtub and soap. al project. The groiup sent 10 boxes He has been volunteering since 2007 through customs and courts. “In March, ShelterBox hit a to a disaster area. and first learned about ShelterBox “Rotarians often own a business, milestone, having helped 2 million “They all realize that the gap in when an ambassador came out and people in a disaster. After we deploy have trucks to lend us and those providing aid when there’s a disastalked to the Rotary Club. in a situation, we go back and talked trucks get the aid delivered. So, it’s a ter was shelter. So they came up “It’s such an impactful organizato the families who got aid from with an idea and worked with an tion. Our mission is to help people wonderful partnership with Rotary us, and we ask, ‘What worked for English tent manufacturer,” said stay in their community, if we can and a wonderful organization in you and what didn’t work for you? Pierz help people rebuild where they live, terms the number of people they county of is required to follow based on the By Ellis Arnold Or, what do you wish we give you The Rotary came they can stay Everything is of Brighton’s help,” said Pierz. local virus spread. A long line of there. cars outside the city rapidClub testing siteupatwith a severity of a county’s Media to instead Colorado so that Community we can continue basic kit for essentials for people to there, their job, their families, and Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent out of the state’s safer-atsurvive a natural disaster, manmade improve and do what we do better?’” The dial grewSEE churches,” said Addor. “The idea is VOLUNTEERS, P5
weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than Newand location 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton 29 in Commerce City have died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and personal gatherings.
As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in other regions. The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each
home order — the policy that came after the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen. The state recently switched to color Scan to apply or visit identifiers — levels blue, yellow and amazon.com/startnow orange rather than numbered levels — to avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level red — “severe risk” — is the second-
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