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“We’re in a place where this couldn’t have come at a better time,” said Food Bank of Nevada County’s executive director, Nicole McNeely, on the Community Involvement Day held Monday at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
The event offered visitors an opportunity to receive a free admission ticket to the upcoming Nevada County Fair if they donated blood with Vitalant, or a buy one, get one coupon if they donated to a number of other organizations present including the Food Bank of Nevada County.
According to McNeely, both food donations and volunteering have “become stalled as things open up,“ following a period earlier in the pandemic in which the nonprofit was receiving more of both. Need for the food bank’s services has gone down at the same time, said McNeely, although it is still higher than in regular distribution times.
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The Distance Learning Center and Youth Hub, run by local nonprofit Bright Futures for Youth, is preparing for a “relaunch” in January, said Bright Futures for Youth Executive Director Jennifer Singer.
The center, which operates at the Nevada County Fairgrounds’ Main Street Center, opened in late October after county supervisors approved $450,000 in funding in order to lease the space through June 2021.
The center began a two-week winter break alongside most local schools Dec. 21, and will reopen Monday, Jan. 4.
Singer described the center so far as a “Distance Learning Center by day, New Events & Opportunities activities center by late afternoon.”