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From Powder.com: “How Ski Communities Are Rallying to Support Their Own“

Après Skier

Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Interesting article today by Lisa Lynn in Powder.com highlighting how some ski communities are coping with the crisis. My heart goes out to all those affected. If anyone has stories to share or links to other articles I would be very interested. I would also be interested in any Go Fund Me efforts to help resort communities in need.

Here is a link to Lisa Lynn’s article in Powder.com How Ski Communities Are Rallying to Support Their Own
 

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Angel Diva
There is a small ski company in Michigan that is making medical supplies. Keeps employees working and obviously helps hospitals.

March 28, Click On Detroit
Michigan brothers make supplies for hospitals across state, country
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...-supplies-for-hospitals-across-state-country/
" . . .
Shaggy’s Copper Country Skis is planning to make 150,000 disposable face shields -- and possibly disposable goggles too -- for healthcare workers across Michigan and beyond.
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Angel Diva
SAM (Ski Area Management) is collecting stories of how ski resorts are working to help their communities.

ASPEN SKICO COMMUNITY EFFORTS
The team at Aspen Skiing Company has jumped into a variety of efforts to support the local community amidst the challenges caused by the pandemic.

Staff are volunteering in a variety of community support roles. The event operations team is managing a weekly food drive through the month of April, while two additional employees are running point for a food delivery service to senior residents of Aspen and Carbondale. An additional group of staff are volunteering with Pitkin County to assist with emergency financial relief requests.

The mountain is also donating to the local community, including $1,000 and $5,000 donations to Foodbank of the Rockies and Aspen Family Connections, respectively. Ski patrol donated a variety of medical-grade masks to the local hospital, and has gloves at the ready should the hospital need them. Additionally, the purchasing department ordered 1,000 diapers for local families in need who were unable to source some during this time.

The resort and the Little Nell have collectively donated thousands of pounds of food to staff and local organizations in need, as well as rolls of toilet paper and bottles of hand sanitizer. The head of purchasing and the ski school team worked together to send snacks to nonprofits and schools that are serving meals to kids.

MT. SHASTA TO DONATE PORTION OF PASS SALES TO FOOD BANKS
Mt. Shasta Ski Park in Northern California launched its annual season pass sale this spring—with a twist.

On Friday, April 3, the mountain unveiled plans to donate 10 percent of the revenue from season pass sales during the month of April, up to $5,000, to two local food banks that are supporting the local community during the COVID-19 crisis. The Siskiyou Community Food Bank and The Food Bank distributions at Dignity Health Connected Living provide services to both local individuals and other local support agencies.

GREEK PEAK MOUNTAIN RESORT GETS CREATIVE WITH COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Greek Peak Mountain Resort in upstate New York has gotten creative in its efforts to support the local community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The mountain has opened the Greek Peak Community Grocery Store to members of the surrounding community to help ensure basic needs are met. The store offers both food and non-food items in addition to pre-cooked meals for 1-2 people, available for $4.99.

The mountain has also launched a new pizza delivery service, dubbed “Trax2Go,” and took advantage of the opportunity to spread a little joy during this tough time by sending its drivers our in dinosaur costumes. “Dino Delivery” has become a popular request for locals ordering food.

MOUNTAIN CREEK HELPS LOCAL BUSINESSES OBTAIN LOANS
Mountain Creek has offered its professional services to help local businesses navigate the application processes for federal and state assistance. The resort is providing free consultation and guidance as to what relief efforts are available and would make most sense for each individual business. So far, 25 businesses have signed up for help; Mountain Creek hopes to aid as many as 100. "The government passed the largest stimulus bill in history, and very small businesses might miss the opportunity to save themselves if we don't help. This pandemic will hurt all of our communities if we don't help. This is somethinig that each resort or anchor business can be doing right now," said Joe Hession, Snow Operating CEO.
 

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Angel Diva
DPS Skis is making face shields for medical workers in their SLC factory. Different design than what is made using a 3D printer. The head straps are headlamp headbands donated by Petzl.

https://www.dpsskis.com/en/blog/dps...-face-shields-for-healthcare-workers-in-utah/
"SALT LAKE CITY – April 8, 2020 – DPS Skis, Goal Zero, Petzl and Eastman Machine Company have joined forces to manufacture medical-grade reusable polycarbonate face shields for the Utah Department of Health. The combined efforts and resources of the four highly-respected brands has resulted in the expeditious manufacturing of key Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the medical community in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

“Our entire team is proud to be contributing to the nationwide effort of PPE production and are humbled by the enthusiastic support of key partners – Goal Zero, Petzl, and Eastman Machine Company – that are helping make this possible. . . .

Production of the face shields has commenced at DPS Skis’ Salt Lake City factory, with the first shipment of shields expected to be delivered in the coming weeks to Utah’s medical community. The four brands have come together in a unique way to make this possible, with tooling donated by Eastman, raw materials purchased by Goal Zero and by utilizing retrofitted Petzl headlamp headbands.
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Angel Diva
A little off topic but still a story from a vulnerable ski town. It's actually from over three weeks ago and lot has changed since then.

A nurse from Crested Butte went on a vacation in Hawaii in Feb. She had symptoms for quite a while before getting ill enough to be tested for COVID-19. She wasn't aware enough about COVID-19 after getting home to consider self-isolating because she thought she had the flu. On March 2 she was told she didn't meet the criteria for testing. By March 8 she had double pneumonia but was sent home. It took three days to get her test results back that confirmed she had COVID-19. Luckily she was able to recover without hospitalization.

March 14, Colorado Sun
A Crested Butte woman came home from Hawaii with sniffles. Then she found out it was coronavirus.
Lisa Merck, a nurse practitioner, was sick for weeks before she was finally tested for COVID-19. “It didn’t even cross my mind,” she told The Colorado Sun of having the life-threatening disease.
https://coloradosun.com/2020/03/14/lisa-merck-coronavirus-crested-butte/
 

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Angel Diva
Burton is donating 500,000 N95 facemasks for hospital workers in hard hit American hospitals in the northeast, including NYC. The AP article showed up in a North Carolina newspaper.

April 8, Charlotte Observer in North Carolina (USA)
Burton to donate 500,000 respirator masks across Northeast
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article241854316.html#storylink=cpy
"The Burton snowboard company is donating 500,000 respirator masks to hospitals across the Northeast, harnessing the company's worldwide footprint to help put a dent in the country's lagging stockpile of personal protective equipment for the coronavirus pandemic.

Donna Burton Carpenter said her company's largest binding manufacturer, Fudakin in China, directed her to a nearby factory that was making FDA-approved KN95 respirator masks. The price of masks were increasing almost by the hour as competing bidders sought to increase their supplies.
. . .
The first 48,000 masks have been delivered and are earmarked for hospitals across Vermont and for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, where Burton Carpenter's late husband, Jake, spent two months in 2015 while fighting a rare nerve disorder. The rest of the masks are scheduled to arrive within the next two weeks and will be distributed along the East Coast; at least half will go to particularly hard-hit areas of New York and Boston.
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Angel Diva
In addition to making face shields, DPS used the section that usually makes Phantom to make hand sanitizer. First batch was 80 gallons.
 

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Angel Diva
Mountain Creek in NJ has been pretty busy supporting the local community since it had to close in March.

May 17, NJ Herald
Mountain Creek food pantry initiative set for Tuesday
https://www.njherald.com/news/20200517/mountain-creek-food-pantry-initiative-set-for-tuesday
" VERNON — In any ordinary year, Mountain Creek would be making final preparations at this time for the opening day of its summer waterpark Memorial Day weekend, normally one of its busiest times of the year.

However, these are no ordinary times, so instead the region’s premier four-season destination for mountain adventure is making final preparations this weekend for a drive-up food pantry that will result in a mass distribution of free groceries Tuesday to Sussex County individuals and families in need.

The initiative, which builds upon the free legal and accounting help that Mountain Creek has been providing over the last eight weeks to dozens of local businesses seeking government help during the coronavirus shutdown, is open to any residents of Sussex County who have been adversely impacted by the economic effects of the public health emergency.

Tuesday’s grocery distribution will take place between 1 and 4 p.m. at the resort’s Red Tail Lodge, located at 123 Route 94 on the road’s northbound side, and will provide recipients with pre-packaged baskets containing a week’s worth of staple items including milk, eggs, produce, meats, bread, pasta, paper products and more to those in the community who need help the most. Pre-registration is required, but the resort has said all registration information will be kept confidential and used strictly for check-in purposes.
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