The Dillon community will hold events this week to honor the memory of a 13-year-old Summit Middle School student who died of flu complications.
The visitation for Bryan Pineda Rosas, who died Wednesday, will be from 5 to 7 tonight at Dillon Community Church, 371 E. La Bonte St., with a memorial there at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The memorial will be followed by a potluck lunch and then the burial in Breckenridge Valley Brook Cemetery.
Bryan’s Boy Scout Troop — Troop 188 in Silverthorne — has set up a fund at Alpine Bank to help pay his medical bills and funeral costs.
Bryan contributed more than 100 hours of community service during his two years in scouting, the Summit Daily News reported. He was to receive First Class Scout rank at a ceremony Oct. 11.
“His smile will be greatly missed,” his scoutmaster, T. A. Rosko, told the newspaper.
Blue River Bistro in Breckenridge held a fundraiser for the family Monday.
Bryan, an eighth-grader, had talked of someday joining the Army or studying in England. He liked to skateboard, play soccer and play the violin and viola, said his father, Javier Pineda.
Bryan did not approve of fighting, his father said, a sentiment shared by the boy’s friends, according to the Summit Daily.
“Bryan was always a peacemaker and a friend to everyone,” Jennifer Pierson, the committee chairwoman for Troop 188, told the paper. “We heard overwhelmingly of his never-ending smile and positive attitude.
“If a friend was ever in doubt about what decision to make, Bryan would ask, ‘Is that the right thing to do?’ ” Pierson said.
Bryan died Wednesday after he tested positive for Type A flu on Sept. 18. Ninety-nine percent of Type A flu cases are thought to be H1N1 influenza.
Health officials have scheduled a bilingual community meeting about H1N1 from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Summit County Community and Senior Center in Frisco.
