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Recognition of Commerce City Nominees for Adams County Mayors and Commissioners Youth Awards
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Summary and Background Information:
The Adams County Mayors and Commissioners Youth Awards (ACMCYA) is a program that recognizes teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19 who have overcome personal adversity to create positive change in their lives. The award program provides business, community, and civic leaders an opportunity to actively demonstrate their belief in and support for the young people in our communities. Award recipients are determined through a nomination and selection process. All nominees are recognized at the local level by individual jurisdictions. A selection committee comprised of representatives from the county and local jurisdictions screens all nominations and selects approximately 20 nominees to be recognized at a county-wide celebration in the spring each year.
Locally, all Commerce City nominees were recognized at a banquet on April 6th, from 6-8 p.m. at Buffalo Run. Information about each nominee, along with recognition of those selected as finalists will be read at the 4/18/16 Council meeting. Because the City hosted the banquet on 4/6/16, the nominees will not be required to attend the Council meeting (they will not be receiving certificates at the meeting). Finalists will be recognized at the county-wide celebration at Brittany Hill in Thornton on Thursday, April 28th, from 6-9 p.m.
This year's Commerce City nominees are:
DOMINIC MIRANDA:
Dominic was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer when he was 12. He has overcome numerous surgeries, Chemo, partial amputation of his foot, and the many stays in the hospital away from family, friends and life as he knew it, along with mental and physical pain from the disease. When Dominic was told that walking and running would be hard, he knew he would not be defeated. He was determined to continue playing football. In the hospital, two days after surgery, and leaving Dominic a ...
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