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    Community Resource Center looks to set up in Granite Shoals

    By Phil Reynolds Staff Writer,

    2024-06-14
    Community Resource Center looks to set up in Granite Shoals Phil Reynolds Staff Writer Fri, 06/14/2024 - 03:19 Image
    • https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0YSnEk_0trrREct00 The Community Resource Center, with its main location pictured here in Marble Falls, is once again extending its reach with plans for a once-a-week operation in Granite Shoals. Contributed photo
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    Granite Shoals is about to get a new way to help residents, albeit on a temporary and experimental basis.

    Dawn Capra, director of Community Impact for the Marble Falls-based Community Resource Center (CRC), told city council members at their June 11 meeting that her nonprofit agency is exploring putting an office in the city on a one-day-aweek basis.

    CRC provides office space for non-profits that specialize in aiding residents. It has full-time offices in Burnet, Llano, Johnson City and Liberty Hill as well as its Marble Falls headquarters.

    "What we would like to do here in Granite shoals is open up what we call a satellite," Capra explained.

    "It's a new program that we started this year." She said CRC already has satellite offices in Bertram and Kingsland and Donna Wheeler, who has run those offices, is a Granite Shoals resident.

    "What we want to do with these satellites is extend our reach and support of services by utilizing these buildings in other people's settings, so that your your people, your residents, don't have to drive in, especially if they're having trouble getting it,” Capra said. "If they work weird hours … they can contact Donna by phone and by email and by text, be- cause we have a system that will allow them to do that."

    More complicated matters can be referred to the main office in Marble Falls, she said.

    Asked if Wheeler was bilingual, because a recent census report identified 35 percent of Granite Shoals resi-

    dents as Spanish speak ing-only, Capra said no.

    But, she said, work ers have successfully relied on technology in such situations and she expected bilingual volunteers to be available.

    The satellite office would be set up in the city's community cen ter, but the city and CRC are still work - ing out which day of the week the satellite would operate. No opening date was dis cussed Tuesday.

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