Local nonprofit making sure no senior goes without holiday cheer [Video]

COLORADO SPRINGS — The holidays are supposed to be a happy time, but for some seniors, it can be lonely.

Whether it’s because their family lives across the country or they don’t have transportation, the nonprofit Silver Key says many seniors will be forced to spend the holidays alone.

“Some people, when you’re not alone it can be depressing, and when you’re alone, you feel terrible,” said Birdgit Lange, who lives in Colorado Springs.

At the Silver Line Call Center, volunteers and employees spend their time helping answer questions and offering services for seniors. They say that around the holiday season, calls increase.

“Many of our seniors don’t have the support systems that I think some of us assume they have,” said Cindy Carvell with Silver Key.

Lange has seen this first hand. She had met a senior on her street who didn’t have any family in Colorado, and Lange …