Time is something that Katie West, a former employee with the now-defunct United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has a lot of these days.
Last week, Boulder resident West was one of a handful of former federal employees who met at Sister Carmen, a food bank in Lafayette, to volunteer a few hours of her afternoon to help in the community garden.
“We’re volunteering at a community resource center, a food bank, and one day, I might have to go to the food bank,” West said. “I don’t have any income anymore.”…