{"id":88472,"date":"2020-05-15T20:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/flyover-speeds-by-southwest-memorial-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:11:54","slug":"flyover-speeds-by-southwest-memorial-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/flyover-speeds-by-southwest-memorial-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyover speeds by Southwest Memorial in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:bdf9368a-4878-4697-abce-e2eb1512cae6 --><\/p>\n<p>Locals spread in front of Southwest Memorial Hospital Friday morning with eyes to the skies as two Colorado Air National Guard jets sped by on a flyover over Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez was one stop on the National Guard\u2019s flyover, which aimed to raise spirits and honor people working on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak. The F-16 Fighting Falcons flew over health care facilities in Cortez, Durango, Pagosa Springs, Montrose, Delta and other towns on the Western Slope.<\/p>\n<p>About 100 cars showed up of the noon event in Cortez, bearing American flags and posters supporting health care workers.<\/p>\n<p>Donna Fitzpatrick works with the nonprofit<a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/176300-colorado-leads-for-people-with-developmental-disabilities-during-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Community Connections<\/a>, which supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and brought a client to the flyover. She\u2019s had to explain the pandemic to her in bits and pieces, Fitzpatrick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe goes to the Rec Center, and she goes to the library and she sees her adult friends,\u201d Fitzpatrick said. \u201cAnd all of a sudden I had to explain to her that she can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday might have been the first day in about two months that they left the house, and that too has required some explanation. Her client loves airplanes, and Fitzpatrick told her that while they have been well, a lot of people have been sick, and health care workers at the hospital have been working hard to keep the community healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time that we were staying home, and we couldn\u2019t go to the Rec Center, and we couldn\u2019t go to the library, and we couldn\u2019t walk in the park, all these people in all these cars outside of these two buildings have been working really, really, really hard to keep us healthy,\u201d Fitzpatrick said.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Kobi brought her son to the flyover. They were excited to see the F-16 jets, she said, and had posted cardboard signs thanking health care workers on the outside of their car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re grateful,\u201d Kobi said. \u201cGrateful to be healthy and happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>out to see F-16 jets over Cortez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,28,29,538],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-88472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88472","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=88472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88476,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88472\/revisions\/88476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88472"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=88472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}