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January 14, 2021
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
EnglewoodHerald.net
VOLUME 100 | ISSUE 47
Seniors wait for vaccines Metro residents 70-plus will have more access in coming weeks; teachers must wait BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
the hungry,” he said of nonprofits. “They’re the glue that helps hold the community together. I’m glad we can help them out.” The grants, funded with federal CARES Act money, were initially supposed to dry up at the end of 2020, but new guidance from the Treasury Department allowed them to continue into the new year, Hollingsworth said. Including a prior round of nonprofit grants last spring, Hollingsworth said the city had given out 17 grants to 12 different groups as of Jan 8.
As Colorado continued the early stages of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Gov. Jared Polis announced that people 70 and older would soon be eligible for vaccination in certain areas. The No. 1 question during a Tri-County Health Department town hall roughly a week later: How will those 70-plus-year-olds actually get it? Douglas “We understand that it’s frustrating that ‘eligible’ has not yet equaled ‘access,’” Kaitlin Wolff, Tri-County Health’s vaccine coordinator, told callers during an online and telephone town hall event Jan. 7, where local officials took questions from callers. As of that night, it appeared that residents age 70 and older in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties — and possibly nearby areas — didn’t all have an immediate avenue to vaccination as shipments of COVID-19 vaccines from the federal government remained small, Wolff said. “Our clinics are unable to provide vaccines to community members who are 70 or older right now,” said the website for Tri-County Health,
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Sarah Lesyinski stands in the kitchen of Englewood’s Cafe 180, which provides free meals to those who can’t pay. Lesyinski, the cafe’s executive director, said grants from the City of Englewood have helped keep the cafe afloat in a tumultuous year where PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT its services are in higher demand than ever.
City OKs another round of nonprofit relief grants Local groups can qualify for up to $4,000, with Jan. 15 application deadline BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Englewood officials have greenlighted another round of COVID relief grants to local nonprofit groups, and those receiving the funds say they are a big help. Qualifying nonprofits have until Jan. 15 to apply for grants of up to $4,000 that can be used for a wide
range of purposes, said Darren Hollingsworth, the city’s economic development manager. He said supporting nonprofits is important in a time of disruption to their typical fundraising networks. “Nonprofits are feeling the pinch just as bad as for-profit enterprises,” he said. “Whether they’re membership-based or tend to get revenues from events and activities, there’s a lot of pain out there.” Nonprofits backfill many roles a city might wish it could fulfill but aren’t in its mandate, he said. “We’re talking everything from the arts and humanities to feeding
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