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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings
Big send-off for Thimmig student
Unknown subtance found in Adams County ballot Police investigating white powder in ballot from Thornton drop box BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
27J School board member Tom Green, far left, and cheerleaders from Prairie View High School lead the applause for 7-year-old PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH Dorian Hernandez during a send-off event at Thimmig Elementary School Nov. 3. BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
hallway as he rolls by in his wheelchair. They were in the halls at first, then crowded into the school gym.
THORNTON – Members of the Brighton, Commerce City and Big trip Thornton police departments Hernandez. a second-grader at were on hand at Thimmig ElHenderson’s Thimmig Elemenementary School Nov. 3. tary, suffers from leukodystrophy, Students from all three 27J Schools’ high schools – Riverdale a genetic disease affecting the A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Ridge, Brighton and Prairie View tissue that bundles nerve fibers Regional Park. The site to close early manycells daysininthe recent connected to nerve –Riverdale lined Thimmig’s hallways. Sohas had central nervous system. A stateweeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate did members of Prairie View’s from 27JHealth Schools said the was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, accordingment to Tri-County Department. band. 7-year-old has “already outlived Outsideand waiting their City’s turn in Brighton Commerce test positivity rates were both higher than his doctors’ estimated life expecthe celebration werepeople an ambu13 percent. Forty-five in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have tancy.” lance crew, the South Adams died from COVID-19 related health issues.He’s To limit spread of the COVID-19, alsothe a big fan of Tampa County Fire Department, two at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and Bay Buccaneers of the National school mascots, 27J School personal gatherings. Football League and, perhaps, a District administrators and a bigger fan of the Bucs quarter27J Schools board of education back, Tom Brady. member. Dream On 3, an organization And a lot of Dorian HernanPhoto by Belenwishes Ward that grants sports-related dez’s classmates and friends, to youngsters with life-altering many of whom he sees in the
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conditions, nominated Hernandez and his family for a special trip over the weekend. It included a limo ride to the Gaylord Hotel near Denver International Airport and a trip to Tampa Bay, Florida, over the weekend. It included a chance to go to a Bucs’ practice and to go to the Bucs’ By Ellis game against the Arnold Los Angeles Rams Nov. 6. Community Media Colorado Dream On 3’s Noelle Colligan As DenverDorian metro counties continue presented with his own to Tampa Bay jersey and his orders own inch closer to local stay-at-home number, 22. system of coronavirusunder Colorado’s School Principal Ritter related restrictions, theCindy state announced read a number of tributes a new level of rules that prohibitsfrom indoor Hernandez’s classmates. dining and personal gatherings — a “You’re kind. You’re funny. You changesoft thathair. appliesYou’re to the majority the have good atofbasDenver metro and“You’re many counties ketball,” shearea read. a bigin otherofregions. fan Tom Brady. You care about The state’s COVID-19 which has people. You’re awaredial, of other been in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each SEE SEND-OFF, P6
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An unknown substance found in a ballot dropped in a Thornton drop box Nov. 2 has triggered safety protocols at the Adams County Clerk’s Office and an investigation by the Thornton Police, the County sheriff and the FBI. Adams County Public Information Officer William Porter said the suspicious ballot was collected from a Thornton drop box Nov. 2 and taken to the county building in Brighton for processing. An election staff member was preparing to open the ballot envelope when they noticed a white powder leaking from one of the holes in the envelope. county is required to follow based on the “Weofcan’t process severity a county’s local that virus ballot spread. until we confi rm it is safe or The dial grew out of the state’s safer-atnot, but there was enough of the home order — the policy that came after substance in the envelope that it the stay-at-home order this isstatewide presumed to be intentional,” spring and allowed numerous types of Porter said. “We wanted to be businesses to reopen. transparent to let people know Thehave state a recently color we ballotswitched that is to curidentifiers — levels blue, yellow and rently in a holding pattern until we discover what this substance orange rather than numbered levels — to is.” avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red Porter said theorder. substance meant a stay-at-home Now, level appeared to be fl our but was red — “severe risk” — is the secondSEE INVESTIGATE, P3
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