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However, Bent County currently has the highest 7-day incident rate in the state with 431.2 over the week, forcing Santa Fe Trail Day events and activities to go virtual for the second consecutive year and forcing the Las Animas High School football team to sit out the postseason.
When it comes to vaccine distribution, Crowley and Bent are the two lowest counties in Colorado when it comes to percentage of the counties’ population receiving one dose and the counties’ population that is fully vaccinated.
According to data from the CDC, Bent County has the lowest total population fully vaccinated in Colorado with only 5.7% of people, 317 people total.
LA Junta Tribune
A longtime tradition will continue this year as students at Las Animas High School will help host the 87th Annual Santa Fe Trail Day on April 30 to May 2.
The theme of this year s event is 200 years of struggles along the Santa Fe Trail, which was chosen to coincide with the bicentennial of the Santa Fe Trail.
There are plenty of activities planned for the event with a costume contest, king and queen judging, a parade and plenty of more festivities. There will be booths downtown that day and that evening, we re going to have a street dance downtown with vendors and games, Teresa Garcia, a Santa Fe Day sponsor, said. Also, there s an art show at the museum and there will be wine and cheese to announce the winners on Friday afternoon.
Funeral Services for Isabell Simpson will be held on Thursday, January 7, 2021 at Horber Funeral Chapel in Las Animas, Colorado with Pastor Rod Coulter officiating. A private family interment will take place at Fort Lyon National Cemetery. Current COVID-19 public health orders will be followed.
Isabell Morrow Simpson was born February 22, 1939 in La Junta, Colorado to Bruce and Mary Jane (Land) Morrow. She passed away on December 21, 2020 at the Bent County Healthcare Center in Las Animas, Colorado at the age of 81.
Isabell loved books, sewing, dancing, 4-H, community volunteering, and having a cup of tea with friends.
Isabell drove the bookmobile for many years bringing books to many of the rural areas of Southeast Colorado. The bookmobile holds a special place in the hearts of those that looked forward to the arrival of the library on wheels. Isabell’s grandkids enjoyed going on the bookmobile to look for books that Grandma would read with them.