Each summer, the GoPro Mountain Games serve as a gathering place for athletes, artists, musicians and mountain lovers in Vail. With all of these impressive and creative minds in one place, why not bring some.
Jack Reed, 13, receives his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by Dr. David Wahl on Thursday at Vail Health Hospital in Vail. The Pfizer vaccine was approved for children 12-15-years-old, with Thursday being the first day the kids were able to receive a shot.
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For months now, Eagle County Emergency Management Director Birch Barron has asserted that nobody will be happier than he is when the county can finally lift its COVID-19 public health restrictions.
Barron plans to celebrate in less than a week. He won’t be the only person at the party.
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Set at the beginning of what could be a very busy summer, the June 10-13 GoPro Mountain Games could be the event that brings us back to some sense of normalcy here locally, said Tom Boyd with the Vail Valley Foundation.
“Every year, the Mountain Games is the kick off to summer in Vail,” Boyd said. “Well now, we’re going to be somewhere along the way to the post-pandemic world, so it could be the kickoff to that here too … pandemics don’t just disappear overnight, but I think this will be the first big celebration that we have. People are dying to get out and see one another, even if it means they’re physically distanced.”