{"id":66982,"date":"2016-07-27T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T04:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-businesses-flagged-over-wheelchair-access\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:27:13","slug":"cortez-businesses-flagged-over-wheelchair-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-businesses-flagged-over-wheelchair-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez businesses flagged over wheelchair access"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e8e97dd4-6163-4546-ab27-75cd7bce2c83&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1353\" alt=\"Low-vision specialist Angela Kyle, from the Southwest Center For Independence, spray-paints a message outside the Farm Bistro in Cortez on Tuesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Low-vision specialist Angela Kyle, from the Southwest Center For Independence, spray-paints a message outside the Farm Bistro in Cortez on Tuesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A chalk painting left in front of each business that the center flagged shows a person falling out of a wheelchair beneath the words \u201cNo Access.\u201d The demonstrators also left an informational card informing the business that they are disabled along with 19 percent of the U.S. population, and that the businesses were losing customers because they aren\u2019t easily accessed by wheelchairs.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators notified Peterson Medical Supply, Garcia Jewelers, La Casita Restaurant, Farm Bistro restaurant, American Family Insurance Christopher McClure Agency and Pippo\u2019s Cafe.<\/p>\n<p>Farm Bistro owner Laurie Hall said she would have liked direct communication from the group instead of a public protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe care very much about all members of our community,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>The Southwest Center for Independence staged protests in Cortez and Durango, and both towns have SWCI offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-vision specialist Angela Kyle, from the Southwest Center For Independence, spray-paints a message outside the Farm Bistro in Cortez on Tuesday.Courtesy photo A chalk painting left in front of each business that the center flagged shows a person falling out of a wheelchair beneath the words \u201cNo Access.\u201d The demonstrators also left an informational card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66982","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=66982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73409,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66982\/revisions\/73409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66982"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}