Colorado
Colorado man spends holiday volunteering, helping migrant families
DENVER — In Denver, migrants are arriving by the lots of. These with town stated they “proceed to handle a reception heart and two congregate emergency shelters for migrants and asylum-seekers.”
As of 11 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 26, the Metropolis and County of Denver offered the next statistics:
- Variety of Migrants that Arrived In a single day: 156
- Whole Variety of Migrants Served by the Metropolis since Dec. 9: roughly 2,295
- Variety of Migrants Presently Sheltered in Metropolis Emergency Shelters: 656
- Variety of Migrants Presently Sheltered in Accomplice Emergency Shelters: 622
Volunteers are serving to workers the emergency migrant shelters. A type of volunteers spent each Christmas Eve and Christmas Day serving migrant households, after changing into shut with a Venezuelan household of immigrants a couple of months in the past.
“We, as a household, we really feel that it’s our responsibility,” Ricky Cardenas stated about serving the migrant households. “It is extra than simply numbers. It’s actual individuals.”
Initially from El Salvador, Cardenas got here to Colorado round 20 years in the past as a part of a job switch.
Round 4 months in the past, he and his household met a Venezuelan immigrant household, who got here to their Christmas dinner this week.
“The circumstances of their nations are so harsh, and the American dream is so large, that they do not thoughts risking the whole lot. They put the whole lot on the road, the whole lot,” Cardenas stated concerning the households looking for asylum. “It was the very best Christmas dinner that we have now had in lots of, a few years.”
Cardenas stated whereas volunteering the previous two days with migrant households, he is already heard so many various tales about why they fled their houses.
“2023 goes to be onerous, and so far as I can inform, it is a disaster that we should be ready and prepared to assist, as a result of there isn’t any approach to cease it,” stated Cardenas. “What are we going to do? We’ll pitch in, we have to step as much as the plate and assist.”
Cardenas stated having the Venezuelan household over for dinner warmed his coronary heart this vacation season.
“That is when the rubber hits the street. That is when it really turns into human. That is whenever you say, oh my gosh, I could not be in your sneakers,” Cardenas stated about sharing a meal and a vacation. “We ought to be grateful and we must always at all times be attempting to assist different individuals in want, as a result of that is what we’re right here for.”
Governor Jared Polis’ Workplace despatched Denver7 the next assertion concerning the migrant households arriving in Colorado:
The Governor instructed DOLA to open up further funding for native governments which are in want of quickly increasing their shelter capability. Our emergency administration group is actively engaged with native municipalities and planning for potential eventualities during which this turns into a statewide occasion. The Governor continues to induce Congress to lastly cross actual immigration reform. As well as, $2.5M of state funds are being transferred to the Colorado Division of Public Security to offer funding to service suppliers, nonprofit, governmental, or personal, to offer humanitarian reduction to households and people in want of shelter throughout this chilly winter. The Governor has been in common contact with the Congressional Delegation and the Administration, asking for higher border safety, a plan on what to do as soon as Title 42 ends, funds for profitable immigrant intervention, and an expedited technique of offering work authorization for migrants, which is able to enable them to turn into self-sufficient and reduce sheltering wants.
Spokesperson, Governor Jared Polis’ Workplace
For extra info on changing into a volunteer with the Metropolis and County of Denver to assist migrant households, go to Denvergov.org/OEM [denvergov.org].
Colorado
'Thanksfest' giving back more than a meal to Colorado Springs families in need
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – This weekend was Thankfest, an event started by Vaughn Littrell, to give back to families in need. This year 250 families got all the ingredients they needed for Thanksgiving and more.
The families were chosen ahead of time through the CPCD Head Start Program. They help serve our community’s most vulnerable children and families.
The giveaway was a chance for families to come down and do some shopping for free. It was more than just getting food, families also received all the kitchen tools they would need to cook too.
It wasn’t just food either. Clothes and shoes were also available for those who needed them.
“Some of our families are in really, really bad situations. They need they need help. You know, and it’s this is a this is a tangible way that we can do something. We can’t do everything, but you can do something. We’re excited to be able to bless these families,” Vaughn Littrell told KRDO13.
Vaughn says he started the giveaway with just a few families. He says he knows what it is like to struggle, and wants the giveaway to keep growing so he can help more people.
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I-70 closed near Vail, Silverthorne for safety concerns, weather hazards
Interstate 70 closed near Vail and Silverthorne on Sunday for “safety concerns” as snow battered the Colorado mountains, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
The eastbound interstate was closed between Exit 180 for East Vail and Exit 190 for Vail Pass Summit, about 1 mile west of Copper Mountain, as of 6 p.m. Sunday, CDOT officials said.
CDOT cameras in the area of the closure showed snow-covered roads and white-out conditions.
Westbound I-70 was also closed at 6 p.m. Sunday between Exit 216 for U.S. 6 near Loveland Pass and Exit 205 for Colorado 9 near Silverthorne, according to CDOT.
Multiple Waze users reported “weather hazards” in both closed sections of I-70.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Shedeur Sanders shoves referee, ‘lucky’ to avoid ejection as frustrations boil over in Colorado loss
There was certainly a scenario Saturday night where Colorado would’ve needed to navigate the final 20 minutes of its upset loss to Kansas without star quarterback Shedeur Sanders.
Sanders, the son of Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders and a projected top pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, shoved referee Kevin Mar after taking a sack on third down with Colorado trailing by nine in the third quarter, and he was “lucky” that didn’t result in an ejection, Fox rules analyst Mike Pereira said on the broadcast.
“There’s no question that he does,” Pereira said when asked about Sanders shoving Mar. “Look, I get why he’s upset because people are almost climbing over him after he was down, but, you know, the officials can use their hands all they want to try to keep order. But you cannot come back as a player and push an official.
“In the chaos, the officials don’t see it, but he’s lucky that he wasn’t ejected from the game.”
After the sack, Sanders approached Mar from behind — who was surrounded by a cluster of players — and shoved the longtime official with his right arm.
By that point, three other referees had moved closer to the scuffle and attempted to separate the players and Sanders while protecting Mar.
Sanders, who finished 23 of 29 for 266 yards and three touchdowns during No. 16 Colorado’s 37-21 loss, wasn’t penalized on the play, but his frustrations had started to boil over.
The game featured plenty of physical hits, with Colorado’s College Football Playoff hopes at stake and Kansas attempting to claw its way toward becoming bowl eligible.
At one point in the first half, defensive end Dean Miller lowered his head and flung himself toward Sanders’ knees while he attempted a pass.
“I mean, I just don’t know how that’s legal overall,” Sanders told reporters after the game when asked about Miller’s hit. “I ain’t understand that, but, you know, it is what it is. There was a couple plays like that.”
The Buffaloes trailed 17-0 at one point but managed to trim its deficit to two points early in the third quarter, when Travis Hunter — also projected as a top pick in the upcoming NFL draft — and Sanders connected on a touchdown pass.
But Devin Neal accounted for the final two touchdowns, providing the Jayhawks with some cushion and ensuring Colorado was on its way to ending the night in a four-way tie atop the Big 12 standings.
Deion said after the game that Colorado had become “intoxicated with the success.”
“We started smelling ourselves a little bit,” Deion said, according to ESPN. “… We got intoxicated with the multitude of articles and the assumption that we’re this and the assumption that we’re that. And we did not play CU football. Therefore, we got our butts kicked. It is what it is.”
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