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Boomers and Beyond: Brookline Senior Center announcements Community Content Food commodity: Due to COVID-19, the senior center conducts its modified Food Commodity program outside the senior center. Participants pick up their food at specified appointment times wearing masks and maintaining strict social distancing. Any low-income senior older than 60 wishing to participate in the program to receive 35 pounds of shelf stable food on the third Wednesday of each month should contact Patricia at 6...

Boomers and Beyond: Brookline Senior Center announcements Community Content Food commodity: Due to COVID-19, the senior center conducts its modified Food Commodity program outside the senior center. Participants pick up their food at specified appointment times wearing masks and maintaining strict social distancing. Any low-income senior older than 60 wishing to participate in the program to receive 35 pounds of shelf stable food on the third Wednesday of each month should contact Patricia at 6...

Buddy Program helps New Haven-area seniors get signed up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments "Our volunteers are getting to know the individual, calling, reassuring, calling back, making sure it all worked out. And that is helping to reduce the anxiety." Author: Angelo Bavaro (FOX61) Updated: 11:27 PM EST February 13, 2021 NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A new program is helping seniors get signed up for the COVID-19 vaccine appointments as they deal with challenges like navi...

Boomers and Beyond: Brookline Senior Center announcements Community Content Food commodity: Due to COVID-19, the senior center conducts its modified Food Commodity program outside the senior center. Participants pick up their food at specified appointment times wearing masks and maintaining strict social distancing. The February distribution will be held Feb. 17. Any low-income senior older than 60 wishing to participate in the program to receive 35 pounds of shelf stable food on the third Wedn...

Chelsea Self / Post Independent Students and mentors in the LEAD Outdoor Leadership Program took part in a 2-day, 16 hour wilderness first aid training course last weekend at the Rifle CMC Campus. Outdoor Leadership is a year-long, school-day course designed and taught by Buddy Program LEAD staff members at Basalt High School and Roaring Fork High School. LEAD stands for: Leadership through Exploration, Action, and Development at both middle and high school levels and is designed to introduce s...

Students attend a fall backpacking trip through the Buddy Program’s LEAD (Leadership through Exploration, Action and Discovery) high school outdoor leadership program. To abide by COVID-19 safety guidelines, the program purchased single-person tents, served individually-wrapped meals and followed mask and social distancing protocols. The Buddy Program/Courtesy Image When COVID-19 brought life to a grinding halt in March, youth throughout the Roaring Fork Valley were left in the lurch. One aft...

Share Dolly’s dream of inspiring young readers has put 150 million books—so far—in children’s hands Each month in homes in Knox County, more than 21,000 children receive a book in the mail. The packaging comes off and the children rediscover the joy of reading. And parents relish the moments spent poring over a story with their young ones. “When you sit down and read with your child or with a child in your life, it’s not just building preliterate skills or their imagination, it’s ...

Editor: The Buddy Program is so grateful for everyone who helped make December so “sweet” and spread holiday joy through our eighth annual Gingerbread House fundraiser. Thank you to our host committee members, Helen and Jim Fifield, Candice and Jeff Gorsuch, Amanda and Bret Hirsh, Hannah Thompson and Karen Wing. Thank you to our event sponsors All Set Aspen, US Bank and the Aspen Times. Over 70 businesses and individuals lent their support to ensure that over 130 youth in our programs...

Mountain Mayhem Chace and Chelsey Dillon with their children, Charlie and Stella, greet Santa and Mrs. Claus for their carriage ride around town. Egan Hinderberger with his dad, Kirk, on the Santa and Mrs. Claus parade route. Signing, sealing and delivering a letter to Santa for the mailbox in the Hotel Jerome lobby. Santa and Mrs. Claus on a carriage ride around town. The Buddy Program’s creative gingerbread house kits. Courtesy photo. Buddy Program staff Maddie Hawken and Laura Seay assembl...

Fugitive spotted and killed friday richard matt the more experienced of the two in evading captured. we know sweat told police that he ditcheded matt because matt was dragging him down. ultimately was it a mistake to split up? >> i believe it was a mistake. they operated on a buddy program. they were a team. i think they had two sets of eyes four sets of if ears and they complemented each other farce keeping each other informed. >> were glad they made that mistake. mr. gachb, a former new york c...