Feed the Frontlines, an effort aimed at helping Durango restaurants cope with reduced business during the COVID-19 pandemic while providing meals to front-line workers battling the virus, is back for a second round.

Organized under the umbrella of Local First, Feed the Frontlines aims to take in donations to pay restaurants that will cook daily meals to provide to COVID-19 front-line workers.

“We’ll be providing really wholesome, nutritious meals when people are working these long hours and being put under stress. That’s the COVID reality,” said Chris Bettin, co-owner of Durango Land and Homes and Premier Vacation Rentals Group (now VRC), which is helping organize and finance the effort. Bettin is also a Durango city councilor.