Preparing meals for Everyone Eats Vermont Everyone Eats! has served more than 1,024,000 meals to residents impacted by COVID-19. The program helped save an estimated 500 restaurant jobs and provided consistent business to some 200 eateries when that industry was dealt a severe pandemic blow. The meals from chicken-and-leek pie with salad to chicken sausage with couscous and green beans even include local ingredients. Yet before the state legislature established the program in August 2020 with $5 million in CARES Act relief funds, a grassroots movement sprang up across the state to feed people in need. These early efforts swift business pivots that involved a collaboration of restaurants and nonprofits included ShiftMeals in Burlington, organized by the Skinny Pancake; a partnership in Vergennes among the city s Boys & Girls Club, Bar Antidote and Three Squares Café; and a southern Vermont initiative, Nourishing Artists, co
FAMILIES fear their homes are being devalued because of flooding caused by a neighbouring housing development. The new site by Redrow off Nethermayne, Basildon, is affecting properties in Rantree Fold, with surface water running into gardens. Bosses at Redrow and Basildon Council say workers are dealing with the issue. Resident Lisa Burr, 50, said: “The garden has been flooded for some time and it’s getting worse - we’ve been calling Redrow and they told us they can’t do anything. “The water is creeping up towards the house all the time and we’re so worried about the house flooding.