The Joint Economic Development Organization set aside $700,000 in December to help small businesses. Its small business task force has approved the application process that soon will allow most businesses in the county to apply for aid.
The application won’t be active on any one specific day but must be live by April 19.
“I wholeheartedly believe that we are going to make a difference in some local businesses,” said task force member and Shawnee County commissioner Aaron Mays.
Who is eligible for the grant?
This grant will be less stringent than Topeka’s small business relief fund, so much so that Corrie Wright, Topeka s director of housing services, said the city might contact businesses rejected from Topeka’s program and encourage them to apply for the JEDO program.
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The April Thunderbird Lounge Market Is This Weekend
This weekend offers yet another Thunderbird Lounge Market (710 West Montecito Avenue), happening from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 11. There will be shopping and DJs, food trucks and pop-ups. So far, Sabor a Mi, MozzArepas, My Comadres Kitchen, and Roasted Roots have signed on to attend. For more information, see the Facebook event. For more dining options in the Melrose District, see this dining guide or our recent review of Valentine.
Time for round two.
The AZ Women in Food Are Back, Babes
Order buttons are now live for another run of tasting menus from the James Beard Foundation Women of Arizona. The second collaborative series (the first was in January) of takeout dinners will run three weekends: April 16 and 17, April 23 and 24, and April 30 to May 1. Course offerings are coming from The Joy Bus Diner, Maya s Cajun Kitchen, The Coronado, Worth Takeaway, The Breadfruit & Rum Bar, and lots more. Particip
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Anyone in Shawnee County can opt out of the mask mandate, but the city of Topeka and Shawnee County buildings have slightly different rules.
Commissioners voted on Monday to allow any party in Shawnee County to opt out of the mask mandate. That could mean businesses, churches or nonprofits might not require masks.
Commissioner Aaron Mays introduced the amendment so the county could have additional legal protection. Senate Bill 40 made it possible for people to sue the county over mask mandates.
How did mask requirements in Shawnee County change?
Recent votes by the commissioners made COVID-19 health orders recommendations rather than restrictions and allowed “any party” to opt out of the mask mandate.
Error forces Kansas hospital to throw out 570 vaccines doses
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNAMarch 12, 2021 GMT
MISSION, Kan. (AP) A Kansas hospital had to throw away 570 doses of a coronavirus vaccine because of a refrigeration mistake, officials say.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital said in a news release that city and county health officials transferred the doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the hospital on Wednesday. The hospital then put them in a freezer, not realizing they were thawed. Confusion arose because most doses are shipped frozen, but the health department had received this batch in a refrigerated state.
The hospital reached out to Johnson & Johnson for guidance and was instructed that the doses would have to be discarded.