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Good afternoon, Montrose!
The Super Bowl is this weekend and I'm really excited to make party snacks for the first time, even though I'm just going to be with two other people.
Growing up, I seldom watched football — while my grandma is a huge Broncos fan, my parents prefer the sport that the rest of the world calls "football" but is known as "soccer" stateside. One of my first excursions out of the house when I was a newborn baby was to a US Men's National Team practice at Mile High Stadium! My mom said that the goalie, Kasey Keller, kissed my forehead. I also played soccer for a few years growing up, but I was never that good at it. Alas! I digress...
The menu this Sunday includes extra-creamy homemade guac, queso, spicy cauliflower wings, BBQ chicken wings, totchos (they're just like nachos but with tater tots instead of chips), mozzarella sticks and buckeye balls, an Ohio-y dessert that I've heard tastes like peanut butter cups, but better. I also wanted to do an LA-themed snack, but I struggled with brainstorming anything realistic. Besides, I'm rooting for the Bengals.
Am I more excited for the food than the actual game? Absolutely. Is this maybe too much food for just three people? Check in with me at 8 p.m. on Sunday evening.
If you're watching the big game this weekend, what do you have on the docket? I'm curious! Hit reply on this email and share your menu with me.
Why this newsletter is two hours late: Montrose County School District announced this afternoon that COVID policies are getting relaxed, as cases in the school district and in the county continue to decline from all-time highs earlier in January.
Quarantines will no longer be required following routine exposure starting at the end of this month and district staff won't be doing contact tracing anymore. MCSD is also reverting to the pre-pandemic illness policy, which allows people to return to school 24 hours after serious symptoms abate, instead of waiting 72 hours.
The latest installment of the Tina Peters saga: In case you missed it, the story-generating Mesa County Clerk was arrested earlier this week at a bagel shop in Grand Junction. She turned herself in yesterday morning and posted $500 bond for obstructing a peace officer and obstructing government operations, according to a statement from the Mesa County Sheriff's Office.
The bagel shop snafu was over the district attorney's investigation into whether Peters clandestinely recorded a court hearing for one of her colleagues on her iPad, but that's not all of the legal issues she's dealing with: state and federal authorities have been looking into her involvement with a security breach of election equipment in May 2021. Secure passwords were leaked online after someone not affiliated with elections staff took photos of a secure room.
Fixing funeral home rules: Delta's representative at the state capitol, Matt Soper, is co-sponsoring a bill that would revise regulatory access to funeral homes. Yesterday, a near-unanimous vote moved the legislation out of the House Business Affairs Committee.
House Bill 1073, sponsored by the Delta Republican and Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Avon, could now be heard by the Committee of the Whole as soon as next week. If it signed into law, it would allow the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies to inspect funeral homes and business records when a complaint has been filed.
Currently, DORA can only make such inspections with permission from the funeral director in question — to Soper, an obvious flaw that allowed Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors to avoid oversight that might have exposed the now-closed Montrose mortuary's alleged "body brokering" scheme earlier.
Spotlight on singers: A small group of students from Olathe Middle/High School and Montrose High School will be traveling to honors choirs over the next few months. I got to talk with these students and their directors about what they're doing to prepare and what they're looking forward to at the festivals.
"I'm really excited to see all of the songs come together with all these talented people around the state," Danielle Thole, a sophomore from Montrose, told me. "We're going to make beautiful music."
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