April Howie, left, and Alex Lambert of Springbank Care Home SPRINGBANK Care Home, in Silsden has completed its Dementia Friendly Keighley Recognition Award. It shows that the home has completed a number of steps to not only ensure the organisation is dementia friendly, but also a number of their members of staff. The care home now has ‘Dementia Champions’ members of staff who will be delivering dementia friends sessions to staff , residents families and businesses to create a dementia friendly community. The family owned care home currently has 40 bedrooms including 10 for those with dementia, and has recently opened a second community for residents living with dementia, expanding this by another 13 beds.
Since the outdoors remain the safest place for people to gather during COVID-19, Evanston restaurants are moving to the sidewalks this summer to provide additional open-air dining.
Evanston Building & Inspection Services division manager Gary Gerdes said a sidewalk cafe is an outdoor dining space, typically on a public sidewalk. The city waived sidewalk cafe permit fees for the season which will run from April 1 to Nov. 1 in an effort to help small businesses during the pandemic. These sidewalk cafes can include parkways, parking lanes and Custer Ave.
“Sidewalk cafes are not new the shift to use other space is relatively new due to COVID-19. There was less indoor dining space,” Gerdes said. “The city was looking for ways to assist the businesses expand their dining spaces.”