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    Hearts, Hope and Hay

    May 19, 2020 4 minutes
    BY LAUREL SCOTT AND COLLEEN FITZPATRICK, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOR DRIFTER’S HEARTS FOR HOPE

    When COVID-19 swept through the United States this spring, the toll on human life and the economy soon followed. As hospitals sprang into action, businesses shuttered and the scramble for provisions began, animal rescue organizations started bracing for the worst, knowing that surrenders and possible starvation weren’t far behind.

    At Drifter’s Hearts of Hope, a 501(c)(3) equine rescue in Franktown, Colorado, Jacqui Avis and Rachelle Nye sought to head this problem off at the pass. As president and director of fundraising for this group, they knew better than most that it’s seldom cheap to feed or care for horses,

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