From This Year Of Hurt And Beyond, There Is Hope While the task of addressing this trauma crisis is significant, it is not insurmountable.
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As we mark one year since the COVID-19 crisis began, a year that has been defined by loss, grief and isolation, there is hope on the horizon. Thanks to our dedicated essential healthcare workers, recently we surpassed 125 million vaccine shots administered to people across the country. Our nation may finally be turning a corner in our long and ongoing recovery from this deadly pandemic.
Since the onset of this crisis, we have grieved. Our personal and collective loss has been immense. Each death reported daily is so much more than a number on the TV screen. We have been robbed of our parents, siblings, cousins, teachers, nurses, aunties, grandpops. So many of us have had to say goodbye to loved ones through a screen. To keep each other safe we have had to forgo
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Daily Table announces free grocery delivery to customers
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Daily Table, a nonprofit grocery store with three locations in Roxbury, Dorchester and Cambridge, announced it will offer free grocery delivery to customers within a 2-mile radius of each of its stores.
Daily Table made the decision as communities continue to navigate how to best protect the health of their families during the ongoing pandemic. Online shoppers will benefit from the same low prices offered in stores with no markups or fees seen with other delivery options.
Customers can easily shop for their groceries online at https://dailytable.org/shop or download the “Daily Table” app via the App Store or Google Play. Orders will be filled by a Daily Table team member before it is sent out for contact-free delivery via delivery partners. Daily Table is one of the only local grocery stores in Massachusetts offering free delivery to customers.
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Boston has earmarked $34 million to build and preserve 841 affordable housing units across the city, Mayor Marty Walsh announced earlier this month.
The new funds, which are roughly equal to the cost of a single Back Bay penthouse sold last year, will go toward creating 608 new income-restricted units and preserving 233 existing units. Nearly 200 of those units will be set aside as permanent housing for people and families who are homeless, and others are reserved for seniors and adults recovering from substance use. Some units will be available to own instead of rent.
“Everyone deserves a place to call home, and this funding will go a long way towards making that reality for so many people,” Walsh said in a statement.
Florian Hall has been converted into a Covid-19 vaccination site this week. Harbor Health photo
Florian Hall, the firefighter’s union headquarters on Hallet Street, is familiar to generations of Dorchester people as a gathering place for family functions and neighborhood benefit “times.” This week, the Neponset landmark has been converted into a Covid-19 vaccination site, the first of its kind in this section of the neighborhood.
It was stood-up under the guidance of the medical professionals from Harbor Health, which operates the nearby Neponset Daniel Driscoll Community Health Center, one of Dorchester’s critically important neighborhood medical facilities.
The clinic is getting logistical and staffing support from members of the National Guard’s 972nd Military Police Company in Reading and the state’s Medical Unit from Hanscom Air Base in Bedford. The Boston Firefighters Union Local 718, which owns Florian Hall, made it possible with some help from Rep. Daniel Hunt
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