Heaping Helpings: Nonprofit Feed Albany pivots from restaurant employees to packaged meals for anyone in need | The Daily Gazette
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SUNY Schenectady Culinary Arts majors Evette Maisonette and Panagiota Giakoumis preparing meals for Feed Albany.
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COVID-19 may be on its way out but Feed Albany, a nonprofit formed to address pandemic-related food insecurity, plans to stay.
What began more than a year ago as an initiative to feed out-of-work Albany restaurant personnel has grown into an organization that strives to provide high-quality packaged meals to any Capital Region resident in need.
Last March, when restaurants shut down as part of the effort to control COVID, Albany restaurateur Dominick Purnomo, co-owner of Yono’s and dp An American Brasserie, quickly realized the shutdowns would lead to layoffs and in turn, food insecurity.
Created: April 27, 2021 08:21 PM
Colleges and high schools in New York are making plans for graduations. However, there s a 10% cap on capacity.
That has some folks crying foul, as they see other venues being allowed more people.
Siena College President Dr. Chris Gibson says the guidelines do not make sense.
Starting May 19, arenas can hold 25% capacity for sporting events. However, if you go to an arena for a graduation with more than 150 people, capacity is capped at 10%.
Siena plans to hold their graduation on May 30 at the Times Union Center.
With the current guidelines, Dr. Gibson says they will have to hold two graduations for the Class of 2021. They are allowing two guests per graduate.
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Siena College President Chris Gibson is calling on New York state to revise its rules for in-person graduation ceremonies. The private college in Loudonville plans to hold commencement at the Times Union Center in Albany May 30th with the arena’s capacity capped at 10 percent. But if it was a sporting event, the downtown venue would be allowed to fill 25 percent of its seats. WAMC s Jim Levulis spoke with Gibson, a former Capital Region Republican Congressman, about the college’s plans.
Gibson: We plan in-person commencement. In fact, we re going to have in-person weekend of festivities. And that includes Sunday, May 30 commencement. At the moment, given where the guidelines are for capacity limits in The Times Union Center, what that means for Siena is two different ceremonies. So you know, we got about 800 graduates. And we ll have to do a ceremony for 400, along with a couple guests for each of our graduates and faculty and staff that are supporting. And then we ll cl
There were five new hospitalizations overnight and there are now 24 county residents hospitalized from the virus – up four from Friday. Five patients are in the ICU.