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WINCHESTER â The Winchester Rescue Mission is not allowing volunteers into its menâs shelter due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
Eight of the 28 residents living at the shelter at 435 N. Cameron St. have tested positive for COVID-19 within the past week, and the other residents are being quarantined. In order to feed the men and others who rely on the shelter for food, the nonprofit is seeking help providing boxed meals for 75 people everyday for the next 10 days.
âWe cannot have volunteers come in [to help prepare meals],â said Winchester Rescue Mission Executive Director Brandan Thomas. âEverything is basically left up to the staff to do everything right now and all of the staff are putting themselves at risk to get COVID-19 because we canât allow volunteers to come in. So itâs all on the staff. And the staff cannot do everything. We canât make all of the meals and serve them. We are so heavily reliant on our volunteers to get stuff done. So the on