{"id":25044,"date":"2024-10-29T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sunday-fundraiser-to-be-held-for-sheriffs-office-detective-amid-health-battle\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:08:58","slug":"sunday-fundraiser-to-be-held-for-sheriffs-office-detective-amid-health-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sunday-fundraiser-to-be-held-for-sheriffs-office-detective-amid-health-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday fundraiser to be held for Sheriff\u2019s Office detective amid health battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9da8aa5a-8ee3-5186-943f-17392703db79&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1086\" height=\"1581\" alt=\"Tomas Parker (right) was hospitalized in September for \u201cvery serious medical issues.\u201d The fundraiser will benefit him, his wife and their son. (Tomas Parker Benefit Dinner and Auction Facebook)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Tomas Parker (right) was hospitalized in September for \u201cvery serious medical issues.\u201d The fundraiser will benefit him, his wife and their son. (Tomas Parker Benefit Dinner and Auction Facebook)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A fundraiser for Detective Tomas Parker of the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office will be held Sunday as he battles \u201cvery serious health issues\u201d in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>A chili dinner and silent auction will be held at the Lewis Arriola Community Center, 21176 Road S beginning at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomas and Alexis Parker need our help,\u201d organizers said. \u201cWe are hoping to repay a bit of the service they have both given to this community. \u2026 They still have a significant fight ahead of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to information provided to <em id=\"emphasis-f75f4d46c3d6adc4f8affdc9b3953d2b\">The<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-b9c77d9d7ad109c2d45f87a5dc494450\">Journal<\/em>, Parker was hospitalized the first week of September for \u201cvery serious medical issues\u201d and was flown to Grand Junction soon after. Since his initial life flight, he has been moved to a hospital in Denver, where he is \u201cstill fighting for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Alexis, is a Montezuma-Cortez dispatcher. She and their young son are in Denver with him.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the chili dinner and silent auction are $10 for adults and $5 for children ager 12 and under. Everyone is invited.<\/p>\n<p>To donate a silent auction item, food or dessert, contact organizers at <a href=\"mailto:tomasparkerfundraising@gmail.com\">tomasparkerfundraising@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The family also accepts donations through Alexis Parker\u2019s Venmo account, Alexis-Avila-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundraiser will help offset medical and other expenses <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,52,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-law-enforcement","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78780,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044\/revisions\/78780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25044"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}