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For the time being, the children of city employees, hospital staffers and other essential workers are still romping around Little Angels Daycare.
The childcare fixture near the intersection of South Abilene Street and East Exposition Avenue in Aurora has weathered multiple waves of the pandemic since March, along with government restrictions and parents’ anxieties about keeping their kids at home.
“This year, to be honest with you, is one of the toughest years I’ve ever had,” said Little Angels co-owner Frank Omair, who immigrated to the U.S. after living in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines. He runs the daycare with his wife, Gigi.
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Jimmy Brown is Kiowa County s elected coroner, its only funeral director and a third-generation. Exceptional drought has prompted increases in anxiety and depression, but getting people to talk about it won t be easy.
EADS - The Splotch, as some here call the brown mark on the map they check weekly, is the color of scorched earth.
Here in Kiowa County, farmers have always relied on whatever moisture happens to fall from the sky rather than on irrigation. In August, this 1,300-person community bordering on Kansas was the first part of Colorado where drought conditions surpassed extreme to a level meteorologists call exceptional.
Millete Birhanemaskel, a refugee, long-time Denver resident and businesswoman, grappled with 2020 as many others have. And she managed to keep her coffee
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ALAMOSA | Even now, nearly three months after COVID invaded his body, Jason McGinnis cannot stop asking himself how he contracted the virus.
Jason McGinnis, 52, of Alamosa, Colorado, rides an eliptical bike while going through rehab one afternoon. McGinnis has been an EMS medic for more than 30 years and contracted COVID in October of last year while on the job. He spent eight days in the hospital and is still struggling both physically and mentally to fully recover from the ordeal. He gets winded easily and is on oxygen as well as in pulmonary rehab at the local hospital. | MARC PISCOTTY PHOTO