The Veteran's Affairs clinic in Casper will be closed for the next week due to staffing shortages that were caused by illness, both from COVID-19 and other sicknesses like the flu.
"Standdowns are based on the old military stand down. Soldiers would come out of the field to rest and recuperate. It's the same philosophy with the homeless stand down, that's to bring veterans in to offer them a meal, provisions, a chance to clean up and to renew there spirit, maybe rejuvenate their whole outlook...