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New COVID-19 indoor dining, personal gatherings DRAGON PRACTICE New officerestrictions will prohibit
helps veterans find benefits, assistance Adams, Arapahoe counties collaborate to open facility in north Aurora STAFF REPORT
A new veterans’ services office in Aurora opened this year to help connect the area’s large population of veterans to benefits, with the goal of meeting their needs closer to home, according to an Arapahoe County news release. Before the new office’s opening, Teams from the Colorado Dragon Boat Association practice their skills June 26 at Adams County’s Mann Nyholt Lake in the Riverdale Arapahoe County veterans had to visit the office in Littleton, far from Regional Park. Organizers said they brought four of the long, thin row boats to the lake for a practice regatta to work up their skills residents of the east Denver metro PHOTO BY SCOTT TAYLOR before the annual festival in Denver’s Sloans Lake later this summer. area. The new office sits at Arapahoe County’s Altura Plaza facility at 15400 E. 14th Place, on Chambers Road just south of Colfax Avenue. It’s a short drive east of Interstate 225. Adams and Arapahoe counties partnered on the necessary funding. Nearly 80,000 veterans live in the two counties, according to the news release. BY STEVE SMITH county is required to follow based on the By Ellis Arnold SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM Offices are A Veterans long line Service of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at severity of a county’s local virus spread. Colorado Community Media county-level departments in each Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent The dial grew out of the state’s safer-atstate that assist veterans and their There are a couple of schools of weeks due high demand. Adams County’s 14-day positivity rate As Denver metro counties continue to home order — the policy that came after families by to answering questions thought whentest it comes to the recent inch closer to local stay-at-home orders the statewide stay-at-home order this and about the benefi ts for Supreme Court Health decision that extend was educating 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Department. veterans available fromtest fed-positivity benefits to student-athletes as than part under Colorado’s system of coronavirusspring and allowed numerous types of Brighton that and are Commerce City’s rates were both higher eral, state, county and local resourc- of their scholarships. such as comrelated restrictions, the state announced businesses to reopen. 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have es, according to the news release. puters. a new level of rules that prohibits indoor The state recently switched to color died COVID-19 related health issues.The To limit the spread COVID-19, decision was 9-0.ofLast week, Thefrom offices also help eligible dining and personal gatherings — a identifiers — levels blue, yellow and the NCAAthat approved compensation persons with filing claims ben- restrictions at least 15 counties movedfor to tighter prohibits indoor and change that applies to the majority of the orange rather than numbered levels — to for athletes’ use of images, names efi ts. The VSO’s accredited offi cers personal gatherings. and likeness. Last month’s court — who typically are veterans themDenver metro area and many counties in avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red ruling does not allow students to selves — help determine eligibility other regions. meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level and prepare claims and applications receive money for playing college The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has red — “severe risk” — is the secondsports. ButPhoto some local college aththat go to the U.S. Department of by Belen Ward been in effect since September, is the set letes think that day is coming. Veterans Affairs.
Yes to limited education perks for college athletes
Local athletes say decision opens gates for pay to play
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