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camera icon iStockPhoto/milehightraveler Denver, CO – A former Japanese American incarceration camp in Colorado may be one of our next national park sites, following legislation introduced today by U.S. Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Representative Ken Buck (R-CO). The National Parks Conservation Association commends this progress, which would designate Amache National Historic Site. “As America’s storyteller, the National Park Service is entrusted with preservi...

Located in Colorado’s southeastern corner, Amache is a dry and desolate place.  Tumbleweeds and the occasional guard tower line the grid of dirt roads that made up the bones of the internment camp that once stood here. While some buildings have been restored, all that remains of others, like the elementary school, are foundations overgrown by weeds.  During World War II, more than 7,000 Japanese-Americans and non-citizen Japanese were relocated from the West Coast and incarcerated at Amache...

Richard Kaufman For the past year, nearly all of the world’s attention has been on COVID-19, and rightfully so, as a once in a lifetime pandemic has wreaked havoc on the globe. But on Friday, the Town of Greenwich hoped to shift some of the focus back on some of the lesser known diseases and ailments that families are facing everyday, by declaring Feb. 26 as Rare Disease Awareness Day. First Selectman Fred Camillo issued a proclamation at Town Hall to John Hopper, President of the Greenwich-...

Submit Release   February 26, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Health NewsNational Rare Disease Awareness Day (RDAD) takes place during the last week of February. This year, the awareness message is even more critical. The pandemic has caused numerous difficulties for rare disease patients, families, and the healthcare community. Major obstacles have included a delay in diagnoses, limited access to treatments, and the lack of clinical trials. Helping to spread the word on awareness is Greenwich, CT- b...

Remains of the Amache internment camp, approximately one mile southwest of Granada, Colorado. The coronavirus pandemic has stalled the push to establish the Amache internment camp in southeastern Colorado as a unit of the National Park System. The Colorado Sun reports the crisis has stifled the normal schedule of public comment and wreaked havoc on the prescribed timeline. At first, the trip unfolded as just an academic tracing of family history. John Tonai had for years heard the stories from ...

Copy Link A sign marks the location where Block 26 barracks were located at Manzanar National Historic Site in California on December 9, 2015. For the Amache site, in Colorado, effort on the federal level officially began in late 2019 with the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, but the COVID-19 crisis stifled the normal schedule of public comment and wreaked havoc on the prescribed timeline.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) At first, the trip unfolded as just an...

1 BRUNSSUM, Netherlands – The “giant voice” broadcast system announced “EXERCISE, EXERCISE, EXERCISE” to the community Jan. 29 at the Brunssum Site of U.S. Army Garrison Benelux in the Netherlands. The alert was the result of a coordinated, planned training event, engaging key stakeholders at the garrison, which included U.S. Army military police; host nation partner Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (Koninklijke Marachaussee or KMar), a military police force that falls ...

    Members of the Granada Trustees, local school board and Prowers County Commissioners were on hand for a streaming and live-time ribbon cutting ceremony today for the Consolidated Return Mail Center in Granada. Operations Manager, Pete Hernandez with Commissioners Commissioner Wendy Buxton-Andrade provided opening remarks at the outset of the January 14 th event, “This day and journey started a year ago at a CCI conference. Lanie, Prowers County Human Service Director, received a proposa...

Syracuse Dairy Adding Beef Cattle to Holly Operation  The Prowers County Planning Commission, following a public hearing on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, approved the request from Syracuse Dairy in Holly for an amendment to their Special Use Permit.  The dairy intends to add about 20,000 head of beef cattle on their 610 acre operation south of Holly.  The dairy consists of 8,000 head of dairy cows and the heifer operation has 14,500 head.  After additional discussion and a reading of the rec...