Columbia Dining During COVID-19 Creates Waste in a Time of Food Insecurity
Columbia Dining During COVID-19 Creates Waste in a Time of Food Insecurity Noelle Hunter / Staff Illustrator March 7, 2021, 1:31 PM
The “new normal” I had heard about for months was in front of me. I was eating lunch in an outdoor tent in mid-January, talking with classmates I had previously only seen in Zoom squares. I was grateful to experience a taste of campus life. I’d been home since March, but the comfortable warmth I felt seeing the lit trees along College Walk for the first time and building a snowman in front of Butler Library was the most at home I’d felt in months.
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Denver Community Fridge program expands amid pandemic
By JOHN WENZELJanuary 16, 2021 GMT
Jim Norris is loving the Denver Community Fridge program despite having reservations at the start.
“Any trepidation I had about (negative) neighborhood reactions or people abusing it are gone,” he said recently on the one-month anniversary of the fridge’s debut outside his store at Ellsworth Street and South Broadway. “In fact, I’m surprised at how it’s taken off.”
When 24-year-old Eli Zain, founder of Denver Community Fridge, emailed Norris months ago about hosting the fridge, Norris immediately said “yes.” The idea of stocking fresh, donated food for food-insecure residents and unhoused people was something he was already working on thanks to Mar Williams’ Squash the System, a donation cart offering free, fresh vegetables. (Now, in the winter months, it’s a canned-food program.)