MONTEZUMA CREEK, San Juan County Pete Sands was scrolling through Instagram Thursday night when he thought he saw a familiar face on the cover of Time. I thought, That guy looks like me! he said laughing, because it was a picture of the actor, activist and creator of Utah Navajo Health System sCOVID-19 Relief program, which was honored as one of Time s Guardians of the Year. It was definitely a shocker.
Sands and Utah Navajo Health System were honored along with other front-line health care workers and Dr. Anthony Fauci as Guardians of the Year a feature that is part of the magazine s Person of the Year awards. Sands said he was flattered when a Time reporter called and just wanted to include them in the story.
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Utahn featured on cover of Time as one of its Guardians of the Year
Pete Sands created the Utah Navajo Health System’s COVID-19 Relief effort that has delivered food, firewood and water to thousands throughout the Navajo Reservation in Utah, New Mexico and Arizona
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Pete Sands, Utah Navajo COVID-19 Relief program project manager, delivers wood to an elder in Oljato-Monument Valley, San Juan County, on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. The Navajo Nation has one of the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rates in the country.
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MONTEZUMA CREEK, San Juan County Pete Sands was scrolling through Instagram Thursday night when he thought he saw a familiar face on the cover of Time.