{"id":807649,"date":"2020-05-20T15:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=383419"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:27:16","slug":"breckenridge-woman-organizes-donation-program-to-bring-meals-to-essential-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-woman-organizes-donation-program-to-bring-meals-to-essential-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge woman organizes donation program to bring meals to essential workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/program-768x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-383420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/program-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/program-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/program-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/program-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/program-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Bold Restaurant donated nine meals to Breckenridge Post Office employees as part of a program to support essential personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Tricia Stokes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Restaurants in Summit County are supporting the local community by donating meals to essential workers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tricia Stokes, a Breckenridge resident, is coordinating the Summit County Essential Personnel Support Program to bring the community together during a time when workers are risking their health to keep essential businesses going.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to start this program to support those essential workers,\u201d Stokes said. \u201cThe mission of the program is to pull the community together during this time of hardship by coordinating meal donations between restaurants and essential personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, 11 restaurants have volunteered to donate meals, including Breakfast in Breckenridge, Peak of Asia, Bold Restaurant and Blue River Bistro in Breckenridge. Frisco\u2019s Pure Kitchen and 5th Avenue Grille have signed up to donate meals as well as Dillon\u2019s Lili\u2019s Bistro, Red Mountain Grill, Sabor Mazatlan, Cala Pub and Restaurant and Dillon Dam Brewery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meals have been donated to the Breckenridge fire and police departments; Summit Fire &amp; EMS in Dillon, Keystone and Frisco; the Krystal 93 Radio Station; Breckenridge\u2019s Family &amp; Intercultural Resource Center; and the post offices in Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorne.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI focused on the police, fire, EMS and post offices,\u201d Stokes said. \u201cI basically started calling restaurants and the police department and the fire department and began asking how many meals essential workers needed and how many meals should restaurants donate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Lipsher, a spokesperson for Summit Fire &amp; EMS, expressed his appreciation of the community coming together to support essential workers and first responders through donated meals and public messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how much we appreciate support from the public and organizations like this,\u201d Lipsher said. \u201cIt\u2019s a morale booster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis weekend, I drove past signs that said \u2018We heart first responders,\u2019 and it meant a lot,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes is hoping the program will benefit local restaurants and essential personnel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been trying to team up a restaurant with essential personnel in the same town,\u201d Stokes said. \u201cThat way, it is building that town up, and maybe the essential people have a great meal and go back to that restaurant or tell their friends about it so that helps the restaurants survive this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to coordinating donations, Stokes created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/donate\/844401012736142\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> page where people can donate to the program. Financial donations will be used to provide meals for workers at larger businesses, such as grocery stores.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I am going to do with those funds is subsidize the restaurants that are donating to grocery stores because it is just too much to ask them to donate the entire 50, 60 meals,\u201d Stokes said.&nbsp;\u201cSo I will pay them a proportion on the donation so it is not such a big loss to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stokes hopes the program is an opportunity for locals to work together during a universally trying time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all about strengthening the community by all pulling together,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-woman-organizes-donation-program-to-bring-meals-to-essential-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bold Restaurant donated nine meals to Breckenridge Post Office employees as part of a program to support essential personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic.Courtesy Tricia Stokes BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Restaurants in Summit County are supporting the local community by donating meals to essential workers.&nbsp; Tricia Stokes, a Breckenridge resident, is coordinating the Summit County Essential Personnel Support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 14:18:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}