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Photos courtesy Pagosa Springs Elementary School Pagosa Springs Elementary third-grade students show off their new dictionaries courtesy Pagosa Springs Rotary Club. The pandemic couldn’t stop Rotary from delivering its annual gift of colorful dictionaries to the students. While Rotarians weren’t allowed in the schools due to restrictions, the students still received a gift of words and knowledge. By JoAnn Laird Pagosa Springs Rotary Club While a pandemic may shut down, close up and change o...

An invisible service in need of help By Blythe Alspaugh Jeremy Holsing, left, packs food in bags for a local student in need with his DSP, Kyle Casey. Holsing volunteers through the Backpack Program at First United Church of Christ, in Troy. PIQUA — While there’s a current shortage of help for those with disabilities, Bobby Pritchard and Jason McCabe don’t seem to notice. “Things are good. She’s been checking up on us almost every day,” Pritchard said. “She’s helping us out ver...

Cultivate Food Rescue recovered 1 million pounds of food By: Larionna Green Photo Courtesy of Cultivate Food Rescue ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. – Cultivate Food Rescue has recovered 1 million pounds of food and is ramping up efforts to meet a growing need for food assistance in the wake of COVID-19. Cultivate Food Rescue is a local nonprofit that is dedicated to reducing fo...

A firefighter from Fire District No. 14, which is comprised of Colton and Uniontown, spreads flames across a field near the state line about 10 miles south of Moscow on Sunday afternoon. The firefighters were performing a prescribed burn that was also used as practice for wild land fire figh… More Headlines

By Pauline Benetti Archuleta Food Coalition Here we are entering the holiday season with all of its expectations and, at the same time, so many in our community are facing unfortunate circumstances, making the COVID-relief work of the Food Systems/Food Equity Coalition all the more necessary and urgent. The coalition in collaboration with other community organizations is responding on several different fronts. The coalition’s use of the Participatory Budgeting Process — a process involving ...

Enough to be sent home with a bag. >> kids come to me and they ask me miss weldin, can i get on the backpack program. you know how i feel when i say to a kid i dont have room for you and i know thats a hungry student? success is not going to happen if you start at the bottom with hungry children. they are our future. if right now we cant address a basic need as hunger and feeding, then we need to open our eyes. >> reporter: coming up next, we go shopping with a single mother on a food stamp budg...

Ben stiller, third, rounding out the top five, ryan reynolds and tom hanks. really? >> helena bottom carter and tim burton are no more. they separated and say they will continue to be friends and co-parents to their two children. duane "the rock" johnson tweeted out this picture to get everyone in the holiday spirit, fanny pack and all. im betty nguyen. this is "first look" on msnbc. reminder, "morning joe" is coming up at the top of the hour. for many children in kentucky, survival depend...

For many children in kentucky survival depends on free meals at l school. when theyre not at school, some kids dont eat at all. >> the backpack program is to feed the children of families. >> im alex wagner. find out what you can do about childhood hunger. tonight in jewish households the festival of lights lasting for what some call eight crazy nights. well celebrate here on "the rundown" not with eight but with fave. five things festival of lights. the it takes 44 to get through all eight ni...

For many children in al by county, kentucky, survival depends on free meals at school. when theyre not at school, some kids dont eat at all. >> the backpack program is to feed the children of our county. >> im alex wagner. find out more about childhood hunger and what you can do about it at msnbc.com/backpack. really dramatic moments ending this siege. we are watching the rapidly evolving situation out of sydney, australia. the dramatic scene unfolding at a downtown cafe where in the last hour...

Homes until monday. thats called the backpack program. and were sponsoring some outreach and do nations to that group of people. because they operate on something like $50,000, $80,000 a year. and the service they provide is critical. vuj being a second grader and going home from school on friday and not eating again until monday morning when you went back to school. its unconscionable. >> there was a hearing where a food stamp recipient testified to him about the difficulty of her life and you ...