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Mid-June in Pueblo is always hot, as any resident knows.
So rain was a welcome change for residents during 1921. All day on June 3, 1921, residents watched a torrent of rain pelt the region.
Normally dry riverbeds were flooded to their banks, and the Arkansas River which at that time ran through the center of downtown Pueblo was also pressing its borders with angry rain water.
By nightfall, the community was watching with baited breath to see if the levee would hold this time around, and also watching smaller tributaries fill further.
Mid-June in Pueblo is always hot, as any resident knows.
So rain was a welcome change for residents during 1921. All day on June 3, 1921, residents watched a torrent of rain pelt the region.
Normally dry riverbeds were flooded to their banks, and the Arkansas River which at that time ran through the center of downtown Pueblo was also pressing its borders with angry rain water.
By nightfall, the community was watching with baited breath to see if the levee would hold this time around, and also watching smaller tributaries fill further.
The river flooded that night, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of Southern Colorado residents as the raging floodwaters swept away individuals, families, homes, livestock and even toppled trains from their tracks.
For nearly as long as Pueblo has celebrated the Cinco de Mayo holiday, local Chicana activist and event organizer Rita Martinez was a fundamental figure in each year’s festivities.
And despite her death from COVID-19 in December, Martinez’ spirit of impassioned community activism lived on Wednesday at Plaza Verde Park on the East Side in the first Cinco de Mayo event since her passing.
“It’s taking 15 of us to replace one Rita,” said Denise Torrez, the chair of El Movimiento Sigue, which sponsors Pueblo’s most well-known Cinco de Mayo celebration each year.
“It’s been tough and we’re really missing her leadership … but when you talk about leadership development, she did that in each of us. She planted a seed in each of us and recognized each of our talents and nurtured us along the way, so she probably knew she could leave (the event) in our hands … she left us ready to roll.”
Stephanie Murphy’s scream while receiving her first COVID-19 vaccination shot was quickly followed with, “thank you,” Wednesday morning at a federally run mass vaccination site in Pueblo.