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Colorado wedding planners say the lifting of pandemic restrictions will likely lead to a surge in weddings this season. (Ali and Garrett Photography)
When it comes to weddings, several planners and industry experts expect this year to be the storm after the quiet of 2020.
Weddings that were postponed last year because of restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus were rescheduled this year. Couples who opted for “microweddings,” small gatherings with close family and friends, are holding bigger followup ceremonies or receptions this year and next.
The loosening and lifting of restrictions have inspired people to upsize this year and bring back dancing. On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis ended the state’s mask mandate in most public settings, while suggesting that unvaccinated people still wear them.
The coronavirus pandemic hit Native Americans especially hard.
But as the spotlight turned to larger communities like the Navajo Nation,
the much smaller White Mountain Apache Tribe, in eastern Arizona,
quietly battled to save its people.
Photos and text by Alberto Mariani/Cronkite News | May 4, 2021
Justin Tafoya, left, a registered nurse and public information officer, talks with Lafe Altaha before a nurse checks his vitals at his home in Whiteriver, Arizona.
WHITERIVER – Last year, the community of 15,000 in eastern Arizona was considered a hotspot. By Sept. 1, five months after its first recorded COVID case, the tribe had 2,400 cases and had lost 39 people. Over the next six months, there were 1,500 new cases and just 10 additional deaths.
Photo illustration by Nick Roy / theScore / Getty Images
Twenty-three yards from the far chain, 44 yards from the goal line, Trey Lance crouched in shotgun formation intending to pass to the right. Jimmy Kepouros lined up wide left, processing the situation: third down, start of the fourth quarter, his and Lance s undefeated squad up eight in the 2020 FCS national championship game. Teeing up a field-goal attempt might have padded the lead, provided Lance was inclined to settle for the safe play. But no receiver got open, so he sprinted forward, ball in hand, and no defender so much as laid a finger on him.
Since June 2019, the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center has reported four suicides, a sharp increase since the last previously reported suicide in 2009. According to recent reporting by Reuters, which filed more than 1,500 public records requests to compile data on inmate populations, health care and deaths from 500 jails across the nation, suicide is the second leading cause of death in Colorado jails after illness. Between 2009 to 2019, in Colorado, 64 inmates died by suicide. Coloradoâs inmate death rate is 1.64 per 1,000 inmates, compared to the national inmate death rate of 1.46. The factors that contribute to inmate suicide are varied and complex, and the rise in suicides at the El Paso County Jail coincide with both a change in medical service providers and ongoing issues with El Paso County Sheriffâs deputies completing required inmate checks, which has also led to inmate injuries from fights going unnoticed by jail staff.