W e e k l y RIALTO RECORD
April 16, 20 20
Vol 18, NO. 31
County’s ef for t to shelter homeless underway
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Above: 20 trailers are set up at Glen Helen Regional Park, each will accommodate one person or a family of two.
Right: Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Josie Gonzales and Sheriff John McMahon preview trailers. By Maryjoy Duncan
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n alignment with Governor Gavin Newsom’s Project Roomkey to shelter extremely vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness to protect them from COVID-19 by securing hotel rooms and travel trailers, the County of San Bernardino unveiled 20 statefunded trailers set up at Glen Helen Regional Park in Devore on Monday, April 13. According to Supervisor Janice Rutherford the trailers provide
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the opportunity to place “high risk individuals off the street and in shelter for their safety and for the wellbeing of the greater community.” Each trailer can house one person or a family of two. Occupants will sign agreements requiring them to remain on the park grounds for the duration of the emergency. According to CaSonya Thomas, San Bernardino County Human Services Assistant Executive Officer, individuals are being
identified by the County Department of Public Health and the Hospital Association to be placed in trailers over the next few days, those who need isolation who are either COVID-19 positive or COVID-19 exposed but do not require hospitalization or ready for hospital discharge. “High risk population individuals 65 and older, and underlying health conditions – those are the
priority groups established through the Governor’s Project Roomkey,” Thomas explained. “Our model’s purpose is prioritizing the homeless population along with that policy outline.” 26 people have been placed in a San Bernardino hotel and the County is working on agreements with other lodging facilities in Shelter, cont. on next pg.
Community Action Par tner ship needs volunteer s, endures 17 f ood distribution cancellations By Manny B. Sandoval
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ommunity Action Partnership of San Bernardino County (CAPSBC) continues to cope with the increase of food demand in the county, amid COVID-19. With the apparent food demand during these uncertain times, many of its partnered agencies are forced to cancel planned food distributions due to the lack of protective equipment to distribute food to the community. “We are backfilling food distribution cancellations. Throughout March and April we have had 17 out of our 250 agencies cancel their distributions,” said Patricia Nickols-Butler, president and chief executive officer. She shared that CAPSBC recently conducted a survey to garner its agencies’ prominent CAPSBC, cont. on next pg.
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CAPSBC volunteers and team members packing boxes of food amidst high food demands in response to COVID-19.