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JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO

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VOLUME 155 | ISSUE 8

JCPH will soon provide more COVID-19 vaccines Process is challenging; Over 21,000 Jeffco residents have received one dose BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

D’Evelyn band members get fitted for inauguration uniforms.

COURTESY OF JACK MAHER

D’Evelyn band marches to a presidential beat Lakewood band one of only two chosen for inauguration BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jace Carlton playing saxophone in the D’Evelyn marching band. COURTESY OF JACE CARLTON

“When your country is so divided like this, it’s so nice to flip on a TV or stream a video and see bands and music and people coming together.” Wise words from D’Evelyn Jr/Sr High School senior Jace Carlton. Carlton is a saxophone player in the D’Evelyn Marching Band — one of only two marching bands invited to play in the virtual ceremonies for the Inauguration of President Biden. “It’s pretty cool to think that

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with 50 states, hundreds of bands in each one, over 50 performances at the Inauguration and only two marching bands, that we were selected,” he said. “It feels surreal.” That surreal moment was ushered in by D’Evelyn’s Director of Instrumental Music, Becky Paschke. She said the band had a goal to perform in the parade for the last several years, but you don’t get to apply for the gig until November of the presidential election year. So, she filled out an application on the joint congressional website and went about the business of making it happen. “I told the kids about it and they got excited and really involved,” she said. “They wrote letters to Sen. Bennett, and he was so supportive. He wrote a letter on our SEE BAND, P14

A Jefferson County Public Health official said the county’s COVID-19 vaccine providers will soon be able to give residents their first vaccine dose at a faster rate than they have so far. That change is a result of new direction from the state to begin giving doses that were previously being saved for second doses as first doses. “What we are intending with that is to really make sure that we can get to some of the most vulnerable, particularly the 70-plus population, with at least one dose without having some vaccine sitting in the refrigerator waiting for someone to come in for a second dose,” said JCPH Community Health Services Director Margaret Huffman. According to Huffman, about 21,000 Jefferson County residents had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Jan. 20. About 6,000 of those people have received two doses. Counties across the state were set to begin using doses that were previously being saved for a second dose starting the week of Jan. 25, which would allow about a week of ramp-up time from Gov. Polis’ SEE VACCINES, P7

PERFORMERS ON THE CORNER Poets, musicians taking their talents to the streets P12


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