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Recognition of Commerce City's 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 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 March 18th, from 6-8pm at Buffalo Run. Information about each nominee, along with recognition of those selected as finalists will be read at a council meeting. Since the city hosted the banquet on March 18th, the nominees will not be required to attend the council meeting (they will not be receiving certificates at the meeting, as they have in years past.) Finalists will be recognized at the county-wide celebration at Riverdale Golf Course on April 30th.
Micayla Bellamy
Eighteen year old Micayla Bellamy is a senior at Adams City High School. Micayla is second in line for valedictorian and a candidate to attend Yale University in the fall. These successes, however, did not come easily for Micayla. Throughout her young life, Micayla has moved households many times and has been faced with challenges that would have made it easy and understandable for her to give up, but she did not do that. Instead of giving up, Micayla did the opposite, realizing that the only way to better her life was to make the most of...
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