HOW TO HELP
Here's a great way to help local families that may be struggling during this time: donate to the United Way of the Northern Shenandoah Valley's emergency fund. The special emergency relief fund will match dollar-for-dollar donations up to $50,000, meaning that a total of $100,000 could be available for local families. So far today, they have raised over $10,000. Click here for the link to donate.
Shenandoah Valley Orthodontics is hosting a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) supplies drive on Tuesday and Wednesday for the Winchester Medical Center. Any dentists, veterinarians, painters, nail salon owners, etc., who have masks and other PPE equipment can donate these items to the Shenandoah Valley Orthodontics office at 1705 Amherst St. between noon and 2 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
The Laurel Center is in need of several items, including bottled water, disinfectant wipes and sprays -- click
here to see the list and how to donate.
HERE'S AN IDEA
As a way to get fresh, local produce and other farm-fresh goodies like eggs, consider joining a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture, offered by a farm). Many local ones are signing up for the spring or summer season. Here are a few we've seen announced lately:
West Oaks Farm Market,
Powder Keg Farm,
Skyview Acres (meat), and
Willow Grove Farm.
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Schenck Foods is offering free grocery delivery on orders from residents ages 65 and older; click here for details. (Delivery available to 22601, 22602, 22603, 22655 and 22656)
The Top of Virginia Regional Chamber has compiled a list of all takeout and delivery options from local restaurants - we recommend to check it daily as situations may change. Click here to see the restaurant list; see the bottom for more tabs, including business statuses and businesses that are hiring.
For local coronavirus news, check our special section on The Winchester Star's website here. All stories are free to the public to read, you do not have to have a subscription.
P.S. Small business owners - the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) has a survey on its website, to gather data about how COVID-19 is affecting your business. Click here to take the survey.
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Here are some good ways local businesses are adapting to the current climate:
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is offering a series of online screenings of new releases that you can enjoy at home. The first four films are: "Corpus Christi," "The Wild Goose Lake," and two restored 1976 films, "L'Innocente," and "Dora Flor and Her Two Husbands." Films are $12 per rental, and viewers have 72 hours to watch them. Click here for more information. New films will be added each week.
While Taste Winchester History Food and Beer Tours cannot currently give tours of restaurants at this time, they are doing fun interviews and cooking lessons with local chefs, using Facebook Live. Follow their Facebook page here to stay up-to-date on upcoming chef interviews (and check out today's interview with Fresco Kitchen's Barbara Hineline.)
Need some inspiration for new books to read or movies to stream? Click here for ideas.
Beer and wine can now be sold 'to go' by all Virginia restaurants with on-premises licenses. Consider picking up a bottle of wine to go with your takeout dinner this week.
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