News from Neighbors

McGinnis an inspiration and a winner

BURLINGTON RECORD, July 8 — With all due respect to LeBron James, Tom Brady, etc., folks don’t have to go far to find inspiration in sports — and life. Just up the road to Idalia, in fact.

Idalia High School senior-to-be Katie McGinnis provides enough inspiration to fill a proverbial football arena. Despite living with a crippling disease, McGinnis is the epitome of success, everything you could want your child to be.

Born with spina bifida, which is a hole in her spine, McGinnis received her first wheelchair when she was in preschool. Ever since she’s been using it to propel herself forward in life.

Her most recent success was winning three gold medals in the paralympics division at the Colorado High School Activities Association State Track and Field Meet.

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Input on maps focused on Washington County place

STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, July 12 — Eastern Colorado officials want to see Washington County put back in the 65th State House District.

That was the message the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commissions got on Friday and Saturday as they toured eastern Colorado holding public hearings on the preliminary redistricting maps.

By law, states have to re-draw the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts every 10 years, based on new census data. Coloradans voted in 2018 to establish independent redistricting commissions to handle the job, rather than leaving it to a legislative committee and judges.

The concern voiced most often at the Sterling hearing was that, on the legislative map, Washington County is assigned to the 40th House District, which stretches the length of the Colorado-Kansas border from the southern border of Yuma County all the way to New Mexico. Washington County is perched atop the 40th District, like a giant thumb sticking up into the 65th District.

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