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Kavod on the Road: Sara Shvartzman makes it happen

Friday, October 20, was a big day for Sara Shvartzman. It was her three-year anniversary as director of Kavod on the Road (KOTR), an outreach program for seniors in the community. Plus, that day, KOTR counted its 700th individual participant. It was a day of double validation for Shvartzman: She had found her place in the right career after years of struggle and setbacks. She is succeeding in her mission to reach out to active seniors and bring them together as a community. Sara Shvartzman, 31, was born in California, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. The family moved to Colorado Springs after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. She was the only Jewish student at Rampart High School in the Springs, where she says she experienced “serious […]
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