This address reflects on Pueblo during 2020 with the pandemic, job loss, increased COVID-19 cases, moving into vaccine distribution, and other items regarding the city as well as discuss the hope moving into 2021.
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Pueblo City Council received an update Monday as to how the city’s $6.5 million in CARES Act funding was spent.
Head of grant and resource development for the city of Pueblo Shelly Dunham, Pueblo City Chief of Staff Laura Solano and Mayor Nick Gradisar gave a presentation to council members during the work session meeting.
The foundation hosted a modified version of its annual Bessemer Christmas Extravaganza.
The annual event, started by city councilman and Pueblo Poverty Foundation founder Ray Aguilera, took place as a drive-thru celebration.
For more than two decades, Aguilera has hosted the event to reward the hardworking young scholars of Carlile, Columbian and Minnequa elementary schools.
“It may seem like we just do this,” Aguilera said. “But there is an alternative motive.”
Aguilera has partnered with the three elementary schools to encourage the children to find joy in learning.
The Vocabulary Challenge tasks students with enhancing their lexicon with as many new words as possible over the course of a school year.