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VOLUME 33 | ISSUE 30
WEEK OF JULY 27, 2023
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Farms to Families visits students monthly at the Greeley and Windsor campuses, providing fresh produce. They’ve partnered with Arty’s Pantry, housed on the Aims Community College campus, to bring the same services to Aims’ campus in Fort Lupton. “Amazingly, we have so many volunteers who help in the community that takes ownership of this
OK, Coloradans, let’s clear the shampoo out of our eyes: Your shower water is likely connected to the Colorado River water supply crisis. But can you really help by conserving water at home? In recent years, two decades of drought and prolonged overuse have brought the Colorado River Basin’s largest storage reservoirs to the brink of collapse. The crisis is reaching Coloradans’ lives in the form of summer lawn watering restrictions, higher utility bills and even a shortage of Sriracha. Some cities have bought agricultural water rights for more municipal water, and people with junior water rights often have their water supply cut in dry years. Water experts say Colorado residents can help with the crisis, and they have plenty of tips to help the conservation-minded Coloradan start saving water at home. One drawback: In many cases, there’s no guarantee that in-home savings help refill the system’s struggling reservoirs. “It’s like, OK great, our city is now saving 10% of what it was using,” said Gregor MacGregor, a
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Fort Lupton residents bring their wagons and load up food with help from the volunteers.
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The refrigerated truck pulls into Fort Lupton’s Recreation Center parking lot about 30 minutes before it’s expected on July 20. Weston Edmunds, communications manager for the Weld Food Bank, said he knows they’ll need that time to set up all the tables and prepare the produce. It takes about a half-hour to get it up and running
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for distribution. “We started getting people coming through, and by the looks of the line, and folks from the community, it isn’t getting shorter,” Edmunds said. “Fort Lupton is one of our busier sites. We serve 150 to 200 families at this distribution site. The average family size is about three or four members and you multiply that by 150 families each time we come here, so it’s very important.” The Weld Food Bank mobile truck
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