When a nursing supervisor shared stories of front-line health care workers at Scripps Green Hospital foraging for late-night food at vending machines during the exhaustive coronavirus fight, Tricia Roberts wanted to help.
The story, uncomfortably common among those representing the tip of the pandemic-fighting spear, was stirring. All that risk. All those hours. All the selfless sacrifice.
The wife of Dodgers manager Dave Roberts hatched a modest plan to raise spirits.
“We were just talking about what we could do to help,” she said. “We were going to bring donuts one morning, but the donut shops were closed.