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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, gatherings DIA chief: ‘Holiday season will personal be tough’ Security lines long amid passenger surge, labor shortage BY MATT BLOOM DENVERITE
Lizzie Johnson describes her most recent trip through Denver International Airport as “stressful, to say the least.” She’s flown in and out of the airport for decades, but this time was different. When the Denver resident arrived at DIA on Oct. 15 with her husband and two kids, the Transportation Security Administration security line wrapped all the way through the baggage claim area and beyond, she said. At one point, she and her husband got separated in the crowd and had to call each other to link back up. “There were lines and confused people everywhere,” Johnson said. “I’ve never seen it that packed.” Passenger traffic has bounced back sharply at DIA since the pandemic began, leading to record long security wait times and parking
Passengers fill the Great Hall at Denver International Airport as they wait to pass through the south security checkpoint on Oct. 22.
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Frederick teacher, coach returns to African homeland “It’s one of the poorest slums,” Miller said. “There are a million people inrapid an area that extends A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s testing site at from Frederick High School to state HighThough he was born in Denver, Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent Frederick High School physical edu- way 52, maybe Colorado Boulevard. weeks teacher due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test You positivity rate It’s unbelievable. have to see it cation and boys basketball believe it.” Health Department. coach Enoch Miller one17, thing was 15.9 percent, as had of Nov. accordingtoto Tri-County But for Miller, week-long trip he particularly wanted to City’s do. test positivity Brighton and Commerce rates werethe both higher than was more personal. Return to his family’s native 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton “I and Commerce City have am29a in product of missionary Africa. died from COVID-19 related health To through limit the the spread of of COVID-19, work Pillar Fire Miller joined an entourage from issues. Church,” that Miller said. “My father is Rocky Christian Church at leastMountain 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions prohibits indoor and from Liberia. He lived there until in Frederick and Mission of Hope personal gatherings. he was 21. That’s where he met my International to spend a week doing mom. The church didn’t like it. He missionary work in the Mathare was black. She was white.” Valley, part of the Mathare slum in The couple eventually moved to Kenya and a short distance from Photo by Belen Ward the Denver area, where Miller was Nairobi. The population is about born. a half-million people who take up “It’s always been near and dear to about half a square mile. BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUITYMEDIA.COM
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VBS As Denver counties continuehis to Miller and metro the group (including inch closer todaughter, local stay-at-home orders 13-year-old Savannah, the church’s pastor,system Shawn his under Colorado’s ofMoyers, coronavirusdaughter, Grace, and the church’s related restrictions, the state announced campus pastor, Matt Cote) spent a a new teaching level of rules that prohibits week Vacation Bible indoor School dining and personal gatherings —a to some 800 youngsters and taking change that appliesthings to the as majority the kids to such healthof the check-ups. The church group raised Denver metro area and many counties in money over the past eight months to other regions. cover about 80 percent of the trip. The state’sno COVID-19 dial, which has “There’s playground,” Miller been in effect since September, is the said. “There’s an armed guard atset of different levels of restrictions thata each the front. There’s a little bit of roof, but there are pillars in the way.
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Outside, it’s pandemonium. It’s the world’s eafollow market, people county isbiggest requiredflto based on the selling oldlocal cars, trash that severity trinkets, of a county’s virus spread. comes up to almost the top of the The dial grew of the state’s safer-atdriver’s sideout window.” home order — thethe policy thatwas came afterto After school, group able the statewide stay-at-home orderinthis visit some students’ homes teams of fourand to fiallowed ve people at a time. spring numerous types of “That was the most businesses to reopen. impactful part,” Miller said. “Most of these The state switched to color homes wererecently the size of a master identifiers — levels blue, yellow andthe bedroom closet. It’d be easy for orange rather than numbered levels — to temperatures to reach 100 degrees. There were wild animals avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17,outside. level red “But that was the best he meant a stay-at-home order.part,” Now, level added. “The kids were 10 times more red — “severe — not is theexaggeratsecondhappy to see risk” us. I’m ing. We all gave a million hugs. But
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