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COLUMBIA – Columbia City Council is looking at funding five organizations with $460,537, to provide social services to the community. The organizations plan to get the funding July 1, 2021. Three of those organizations want to focus some or all its money, which comes from the council's fiscal year 2021 budget, on rental assistance.  According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 30% of Missourians are either homeless or use more than half of their income to pay for housing, and 176,800 people in Missouri use federal rental assistance. Rock the Community, Central Missouri ...

MID-MISSOURI – First Chance for Children is holding three diaper drive-thrus in the next two weeks. This will help any and all families get the diapers they need since the price of diapers are more expensive. The cost of disposable diapers increased by 8.7% in the past year according to a market research report. One in three families in the U.S. experience a need for diapers, according to the National Diaper Bank Network. Kasey Hammock, First Chance for Children Executive Director, said that statistic is from before the pandemic. She feels the more families in the U.S. experience this. H...

Socially distanced 'First Chance' road race scheduled for Saturday in Stratford FacebookTwitterEmail Family friend and starter Marty Schaivone high fives walkers as they start of The Donnelly Dash Sunday April 9, 2017 at Tomlinson Middle School in Fairfield Conn.The 3. 5 mile run or walk event was founded to celebrate the lives of Tim & Kim Donnelly, tragically taken on Feb 2, 2005 ( murdered in their downtown jewelry store). The run and walk benefits local charities as beneficiaries and partners, the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras, Fairfield Police Explorers Post, and the Fairfield Poli...