Thanks to partnership, program resumes hot meals in Orange
Franklin County Community Meals Program Executive Director Rachel Berggren and Hillside Organic Catering co-owner Patrick O’Hearn outside the rear entrance to the Orange Armory, where hot meals and packaged foods are handed out on Thursdays from 5 to 5:30 p.m. STAFF PHOTO/ZACK DELUCA
Hillside Organic Catering has partnered with the Franklin County Community Meals Program to provide hot, prepared meals at the Orange Armory each Thursday. Last week involved pulled pork macaroni and cheese with a side salad for 50 people. STAFF PHOTO/ZACK DELUCA
Hillside Organic Catering has partnered with the Franklin County Community Meals Program to provide hot, prepared meals at the Orange Armory each Thursday. Last week involved pulled pork macaroni and cheese with a side salad for 50 people.
ORANGE Thanks to a new partnership with local restaurants, the Franklin County Community Meals Program has been able to resume serving hot meals to those in need in Orange for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.Franklin County.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development announced last week that the Orange County Housing Finance Trust has been awarded $4.2 million. The awarded funding will be used by the Trust to help finance the development of 7 affordable and permanent supportive housing developments totaling 467 units scattered throughout Orange County. The 7 projects will receive these funds in the form of a project loan from the Trust.
The Trust competed against 33 other similar organizations throughout the State of California for this funding and was ranked number 2. To obtain a high score on the application and obtain the funding, the Trust needed to match the State funding amount. The Trust worked closely with the County of Orange Board of Supervisors to obtain qualifying matching dollars so that the Trust application ranked well and would bring new funding into Orange County to help address the affordable housing crisis facing the region.
Orange Schools employees to receive first dose of COVID-19 vaccine Feb. 19 Ed Wittenberg, cleveland.com
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio – Employees in the Orange City Schools will have an opportunity to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 19.
Superintendent Lynn Campbell also told the Orange Board of Education Monday (Feb. 8) that participating district employees are scheduled to receive their second dose of the vaccine on March 12.
The meeting was held via Zoom video due to a quarantine issue, board President Rebecca Boyle said.
Campbell said 477 staff members indicated in a survey that they are interested in receiving the vaccine. That represents nearly 90 percent of the district’s employees.
We’re about a month away from the year anniversary when COVID-19 took hold, sickening and killing so many and upending our lives in unimaginable ways. Now, people are anxiously waiting for a vaccine, herd immunity and hopefully a return to.