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Out of a maximum By TONY BRITT of $3,000 allowed per individual, the average [email protected] payout so far has been Financial assistance $1,769. remains available for Catholic Charities Columbia County resi- and the United Way of dents impacted by covid- Suwannee Valley, which 19. the county contracted The county has rough- to disburse the funds ly $1.7 million remaining to families in need, sub- in its CARES Act funding mit invoices every two dedicated to help county weeks for funding that residents seeking assis- has been distributed. tance in paying their bills The funding is limit- after they lost their jobs ed and the assistance, or their work hours were which is available on reduced because of the a first-come first-serve covid-19 crisis. basis for Columbia The Columbia County residents only, County Board of County is designed to provide residents financial TODD WILSON/Lake City Reporter Commissioners set Dispatcher Marcel Ferro (seated) uses a backup code book to explain the Lake City Fire Department’s new aside $2 million from assistance with paying rent, mortgage, electric, Fire Priority Dispatch System that went online Wednesday. Firefighter Matt Herndon, (left) Communication the CARES Act federal Supervisor Megan Hollis and LCFD Assistant Chief Joshua Wehinger look on. The new fire and rescue dispatch funds it received in early internet, electric and cell August for individual phone bills. system trains dispatchers on how to gather more pertinent information from 911 callers quickly and pass it household assistance. Suzanne Edwards, along to responding fire and rescue first responders. According to informa- Catholic Charities tion from the Columbia regional director, said County Clerk of Courts the agency has a case- LCFD system gathers specific info Office finance depart- load of about 120 appli- ment, which oversees cations where they are awaiting additional docu- By TODD WILSON each incident while they are specific details about the thing,” Public Safety county finance, there mentation so the applica- [email protected] responding to fire and res- crisis. The additional details Communications Supervisor was $1,731,963 remain- tions can be processed. cue calls. assist the dispatcher with Megan Hollis said. “This has ing in the account for She said they have The Lake City Fire The computer-based knowing exactly which vehi- all the dispatchers asking individual assistance on successfully processed Department’s Fire Priority system leads dispatchers cles to send to an emergen- the same questions, so we Wednesday afternoon. about 50 families since Dispatch System went quickly through a series of cy call, such as a pumper have consistency with the The county has paid the funding became online Wednesday and now prompts with 911 emergen- truck, a ladder truck or pos- calls in the least amount of out $268,036 in individu- available. al aid since the funding provides firefighters more cy callers that asks stream- sibly a rescue unit. became available. There CARES continued on 2A detailed information about lined questions to obtain “It streamlines every- DISPATCH continued on 3A Suwannee Riverside ‘Returns, Restores, Revives’ JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter LEFT: Students at Suwannee Riverside Elementary School gathered around the flag pole Wednesday morning for the school’s ‘See You At The Pole’ event. RIGHT: Shawn Johnson, the senior pastor at the First Baptist Church of Dowling Park, discussed the theme for the national prayer event of ‘Return, Restore, Revive’ as his daugher, Rebekah, looks on Wednesday morning. Vol. 146, No. 135 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Classifieds . 6A-7A Advice & Comics . 8A SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER: 87 70 Sports . 10A Voice: 755-5445 Fax: 752-9400 Showers likely, 2A 2A THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER CARES QUICK HITS Continued From 1A The criteria of the Scripture of the Day Columbia CARES Act fund- ing was that the individual “And not only so, but we glory in tribulations has to successfully show also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; where they have lost work And patience, experience; and experience, hope:” or pay due to covid. “Once that paperwork — Romans 5:3-4 (KJV) comes in, then we’re able to proceed with making sure we have all of the nec- Thought for Today essary federal documents The essential conditions of everything you do must that are required to be bechoice, love, passion. paid,” Edwards said. — Nadia Boulanger, 1887-1979, French musi- About six weeks into the cian program, Edwards said Catholic Charities contin- ues to receive applications from local families seeking Winning Lottery Numbers assistance. “We just pulled down Pick 3: (Tuesday p.m.) 4-7-2 36 new referrals just yes- Pick 4: (Tuesday p.m.) 6-0-6-8 terday,” Edwards said Fantasy 5: (Tuesday) 15-16-24-31-35 Wednesday morning, not- ing she and two case man- agers are processing the See an error? applications for the agency. 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