American History Comes to Life at the Autrey Museum
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THE AUTRY MUSEUM of the American West located in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park offers thought provoking online and onsite resources which brings history to life. Courtesy photos provided by Autry Museum of the American West.
By Laurie Hanson • May 11, 2021
The Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park brings the past to life with the vision of making history relevant in today’s tumultuous times.
The whole idea of the museum being alive among people is the aspiration and accomplishment that President and CEO W. Richard West, Jr., has held throughout his nearly 10-year tenure. Though retiring at the end of June, he still clearly sees this as central to the museum’s future.
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Marina Martinez teaches others about Down syndrome and advocates for others
Like many younger siblings, Marina Martinez followed her older brother to college.
She always looked up to him and saw how much fun he had attending the University of Georgia, being on the spike squad and taking business classes.
But Martinez, already a lifelong Dawg fan, didn’t think UGA was for her because she was born with Down syndrome.
UGA’s Destination Dawgs program
Her brother, Juan Carlos Martinez, a 2018 graduate, encouraged her to apply to UGA’s Destination Dawgs program, where students with intellectual disabilities can attend UGA for two years and learn life skills, independent living and career development.
A trio of ordinances that would have hired a new city employee in partnership with a national economic empowerment organization failed Monday during the Pueblo City Council meeting on a 3-3 vote, highlighting the new reality of a six-member city council following the death of Ray Aguilera that could result in stalemates and unpassable ties.
The ordinances would have accepted a grant from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, an organization that works with municipal governments to provide financial literacy education the fundamentals of building credit and how to manage bank accounts effectively. The ordinances would have created a new city employee position with benefits for a CFE fellow.
Ray Aguilera, a longtime Pueblo City Council member and fixture of the Bessemer community, died Sunday morning at age 78, surrounded by his family.
Aguilera was living with his family in Denver under hospice care since early last week. The cause of Aguilera s death is not yet known.
Aguilera served on
Pueblo City Council for more than a decade, first with two consecutive four-year terms starting in 2003 and then again from 2016 until this year. He represented District 4, which encompasses the Bessemer area.
He was devoted to those constituents, and a heroic advocate for Pueblo’s Bessemer neighborhoods, according to a statement from the city announcing his hospice care.
Pueblo County currently has some of the lowest vaccination rates and highest COVID-19 hospitalization rates in Colorado, and health officials are working hard to let people know that it’s easier than ever to access the shot.
As of May 7, 35.8% of people in Pueblo were fully vaccinated, according to the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment. The goal to achieve herd immunity is a 70% vaccination rate. That leaves a lot of opportunity for the virus to spread in our community if people are not vaccinated, and there’s going to be a percentage of all of those people that end up in the hospital,” PDPHE Director Randy Evetts said.