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Volunteers Anthony Lepler, left, and Gabby Harrell, right, sort through peppers at Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado in Colorado Springs on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Care and Share distributed 22 million pounds of food last year. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Driver Taylore Thomas picks up donated food items, which were loaded into Share and Care s truck to be transported to the warehouse, in Colorado Springs on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Care and Share distributed 22 million pounds of food last year. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
Janet Stoddard has worked and volunteered for decades with abused children, special-needs kids, struggling readers and families seeking housing, but her newest interest is the first to require putting on a chef’s hat and adopting the title of “lasagna mama.”
“The things I was involved with in the community all came to an abrupt halt with COVID,” she said. “This is a great way to still be involved in a safe and meaningful way, help out a neighbor and share your love.”
Stoddard, a Woodland Park resident, is one of 1,500 volunteers across the country who have joined a COVID-inspired brigade called Lasagna Love. The grassroots effort started last April with San Diego mom Rhiannon Menn, who in 2019 began penning her thoughts on motherhood on her Be Good to Mama website.
Dan Nordberg has been hired as Colorado Springs market president by Bank of Colorado, replacing Collyn Florendo, who will retire in September. He spent the last three years as director
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For residents of Pueblo s eastside neighborhoods, access to quality food without personal transportation can be the difference between eating gas station food or having a real meal.
To help mitigate that issue, Care and Share Food Bank opened a new food pantry at 1230 E. Eighth St., using several distinct technological changes to ensure those in need can maintain dignity and receive discreet but important nutrition.
The ribbon cutting for Sunny Side Market was held Tuesday, and the first opportunity to shop at the pantry will be 3-7 p.m. Feb. 18.
A second market of the same design was opened later Tuesday in Fountain. Called Sunny Side Market | Food For All, the markets use several technological aspects to ensure customers can easily walk in, shop and check out without the usually laborious process of confirming a slew of information.