Gov. Jared Polis signs Senate Bill 21-245, Backcountry Search And Rescue In Colorado, from Bonfire Brewing in Eagle on Sunday. From left are Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Amanda Jessen, Rep. Perry Will and Sen. Kerry Donovan. Jessen, the owner of Bonfire Brewing, lost her husband, Andy Jessen, to an avalanche on Feb. 1.
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EAGLE Gov. Jared Polis himself doesn’t spend much time in the backcountry, but on Sunday he told rescuers that he knows the importance of the work they perform on a daily basis.
Polis was speaking from Bonfire Brewing, a local establishment that became a place to honor the work of search and rescue following the large effort required to retrieve three well-known Eagle residents from an avalanche near Silverton in February. Bonfire Brewing co-founder Andy Jessen and Eagle residents Adam Palmer and Seth Bossung were killed in the slide. Jessen and Palmer both served on the Eagle Town Council and, along with Bossung, were community pillar
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Several Colorado medical groups and the state’s teachers unions have asked Gov. Jared Polis to encourage unvaccinated people including children to continue wearing masks in schools as part of a broader strategy to contain COVID.
While parts of Colorado have high vaccination rates among eligible adults and teens, the threat of COVID has not passed, the groups warned in a letter sent Monday. Children younger than 12, who cannot be vaccinated, are more vulnerable than before due to more contagious variants, the letter read.
“While vaccinations have helped drive a significant decrease in COVID-19 transmission throughout much of Colorado, we must acknowledge that over 800,000 Colorado children are not eligible for the vaccine,” the letter says, with the groups noting that vaccination rates remain low in many rural parts of the state.
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