{"id":26813,"date":"2024-07-03T19:49:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T01:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/candlelight-vigil-held-at-dolores-high-school-for-student-killed-in-car-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:46:06","slug":"candlelight-vigil-held-at-dolores-high-school-for-student-killed-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/candlelight-vigil-held-at-dolores-high-school-for-student-killed-in-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight vigil held at Dolores High School for student killed in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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=1d3cd725-79bd-596b-9afd-969dbe427b8e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2517\" alt=\"A cross made by Dan Heeny of Dolores in memory of Jesse Minor will hang on the fence at Dolores High School.  Sophia McCrackin\/The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A cross made by Dan Heeny of Dolores in memory of Jesse Minor will hang on the fence at Dolores High School.  Sophia McCrackin\/The Journal<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Around 200 friends, family and neighbors gathered on the field at Dolores Secondary Schools Tuesday night to remember the life of Jesse \u201cJD\u201d Minor, a high school student killed in a car crash on Colorado Highway 184 last week.<\/p>\n<p>The crash injured two other Dolores high school students, who have been reported to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The hushed crowd murmured condolences to one another as they shuffled around three tables draped in purple tablecloths \u2013 Minor\u2019s favorite color \u2013 with photos of Minor and his sports jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the vigil asked the attendees to sign a football or basketball in memory of Minor, and leave a purple painted handprint on  a quilt to give to the Minor family.<\/p>\n<p>Reece Alvarez, a pastor with the Dolores High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes, gave a short message about faith and grieving the loss of Minor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust talking with some of the students, Jesse had a vibrant personality,\u201d said Alvarez. \u201cYou knew when he was in class. And you knew when he wasn\u2019t in class because of his joking and outgoing self. Boy, his impact was felt, and we\u2019re gonna feel that impact this next school year.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>After the message, the crowd formed a large circle around a Mancos marshal\u2019s truck in the middle of the field, lit candles and prayed.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez encouraged everyone to stay and share memories of Minor for as long as they could.<\/p>\n<p>Minor\u2019s funeral is scheduled for 2 pm Saturday, July 6, at Dolores High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral scheduled for Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813","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=26813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79486,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions\/79486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26813"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}