Crystal Gardens, with the financial support of numerous community members and businesses, is donating boxed lunches to local front-line heroes in Livingston County: hospitals, urgent care centers, the medical community, police and sheriff stations, fires stations, and EMS.
“We want to provide front-line workers with healthy, consistent meals they can count on, to give them one less thing to worry about right now,” said DeVonna Snowden, catering manager. “They are working long hours, tirelessly, and saving lives: they shouldn’t have to worry about what they are going to eat.”
To make this happen, Crystal Gardens contacts all agencies to make sure there is a need. “Our deliveries are scheduled and expected to avoid waste,” Snowden said. “Our goal is to provide consistent meals to those in need as long as needed.”
Crystal Gardens has a goal of continuing to deliver 500-600 meals a week during the pandemic; however, greater financial donations are needed to help cover all of the costs to continue providing these meals. The easiest way to donate to this is simply to go to the Crystal Gardens website, and click on “donate”; 100 percent of your donation will go to the meal donation service.
Crystal Gardens is taking extra precautions to ensure the meals are delivered safely. In addition to following the standard health department regulations — such as handwashing, gloves, and requiring that sick employees stay home — they have also brought PuroClean into the building to regularly clean and disinfect, as they have special products to kill COVID-19. They have also spread out all work stations for social distancing and all employees are wearing gloves and masks.
