Jan 7 2021 Newscast ~ Rio Blanco County News #37

Thanks for listening to another edition of Rio Blanco County news. Here’s our community newscast for the week of January 7th, 2021 ____________________________________________________________ Music | https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gangi/Bonus_Beat_Blast_2011/22_gangi-proton_beat Copyright: CC-BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Composer: Gangi ____________________________________________________________ Happy new year to all our readers. The first edition of The Herald Times in 2021 begins with an update on COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. Walk-in clinics started Wednesday in Rio Blanco county for eligible residents of Tier 1B, which includes people over 70 years of age, moderate risk health care workers, first responders, frontline essential workers and essential officials in state government. More about vaccine rollout is on page 1A. The HTs collaboration with Colorado News Collaborative continues this week with another story bringing awareness to topics like depression and anxiety, stigma and a dearth of mental health resources in Rural Colorado and the US as a whole. In the wake of furloughs, closings and suicides a mountain town businessman searches for balance. Read the full story on page 2A. 20 year barber Jason Boudreaux grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, before coming to Colorado to work in the oilfield. After being laid off in early 2020, he took the opportunity to pursue his passion for barbering again. More on Boudreaux’ story, work philosophy and more is on the front page. This week’s editor’s column proposes the idea “Maybe Politics shouldn’t be a profit game. Dolly Viscardi’s “Loose Ends” column talks about news years resolutions, and in a letter to the editor, Dr. Bob Dorsett responds to last week’s column about covid-19 death statistics. All that and more in the opinion section on page 4A Two Meeker High School students have started a fundraiser to give back to healthcare workers. EMTs, school staff and administrators, and law enforcement. The HTs Sophia Geodert shares more detail