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Good afternoon, Montrose!
I can't start my morning without a good breakfast. Kudos to all y'all who make it to lunch without a bite — I don't understand how you do it!
For the past year and a half or so, my defect breakfast has been a slab of homemade sourdough toast with almond butter and raspberry jam. I like to mix things up with eggs and breakfast sausages sometimes on the weekends — sometimes pancakes if I'm feeling extra fancy — but my regular breakfast is quick, easy and absolutely scrumptious.
What do you like to eat (or not) for breakfast? Hit reply on this email and let me know!
New mascots will be finalized next week: The Montrose Board of Education is convening next week for a special session to finalize the choices for the new mascots replacing the Indians at Montrose High School and the Braves at Centennial Middle School.
The Centennial committee voted at their meeting last week and the Bears came out on top, but we won't know how the MHS committee voted until the meeting next week. Data from MHS student leaders and staff show the Red Hawks and Mavericks as the leading contenders.
Here's an interesting tidbit: Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs also used to have Indians as their mascot, but they decided to change theirs right before the state law passed that banned Native American mascots statewide. Their new mascot is the red-tailed hawks.
While the process to choose new mascots is coming to a close, implementing the new mascots will still be a lot of work. New logos need to be designed and finalized, sports uniforms need to be ordered and there's plenty of physical changes at both schools that need to happen before the June 1 deadline set in the law.
Free masks in Montrose…soon: A state-funded program to distribute free masks at community sites around the state hasn't reached Montrose yet, but you should be able to pick up KN95 and surgical masks at the library, fire station and rec center soon, my colleague Josue Perez reports.
You'll be able to get up to five masks per month.
Higher-quality KN95 and N95 masks offer the best protection against COVID because of the tighter seal on your face and higher-quality materials, but they can be kind of pricey. Still, experts say that you can rewear them up to five times, and their lives can be prolonged by rotating masks. Whatever you do, don't clean them with soap and water — that damages the effectiveness of the filtration.
This day in history: January 20 has been a special day marking the peaceful transition of presidential power since 1937, when the default date was changed from March 4. But when the date fell on a Sunday, the inauguration was pushed to the next day, which happened most recently in 2013.
Over the years, the event has transformed from a simple constitutionally mandated recitation of the oath into daylong festivities. Last year's events were curtailed, though, because of security concerns and the COVID pandemic.
Since the first inauguration of George Washington in 1789, nine vice presidents have also been inaugurated without much ado in between terms. All but one followed a president's death in office, but the most recent example was when Gerald Ford moved over to the Oval Office after Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.
As a bonafide Gen-Zer — or, as I like to call myself, a "zoomer" — I remember live-streaming the inaugurations in school: Obama's in 2009 when I was in 4th grade was probably the first one I saw and definitely the first one I can remember.
What is the first inauguration that you can remember? How did you hear about it? Just shoot me an email: annalynnw@montrosepress.com.
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