The Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration honoring King and his work looked and sounded different Monday, but that may have helped drive home some of the things the legendary
Fruita City Council will have a moment of silent reflection at the beginning of each regular city council meeting after a request from Mayor Joel Kincaid to open meetings with
Last Sunday, members of the Fruita Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was burned down the week before, spread out among the other LDS churches in the valley to worship for the first time since the fire.
Megan Graves, who had attended the Fruita church with her family for years, said she made the nearly half hour drive to Orchard Mesa last weekend. Despite the drive, Graves said she was grateful to have a place to go.
âWe are fortunate here in the valley that we have other buildings and we have been able to relocate our displaced members to these buildings, which has been a huge blessing to all the members who did attend the Fruita chapel,â Graves said.
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Amid mounting COVID-19 deaths in Mesa County, mayors of the local cities and towns say they are focusing on tangible action, but have not considered resolutions acknowledging the dead.
Palisade Mayor Greg Mikolai said the Town Trustees have, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, been vocal about following public health guidelines. He said the only way to get the virus under control is for everyone to practice social distancing, wear masks and follow what the health department recommends.
âAll the resolutions in the world, all the votes in the world arenât going to make a difference unless the individual members of this valley recognize the seriousness of the situation and start behaving and acting responsibly to try to get this virus under control,â Mikolai said.