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On the Saturday night of Mother’s Day weekend 2017 my life was saved. Five prior years on kidney dialysis had resulted in the extreme urgency for a transplant. My dire health status was a secret from most people, except one woman who pushed me for two years to spread the word seeking a kidney donor. I politely refused. How do you ask someone for a body part?
That woman was
Carole Pickup of Laguna Beach. She sponsored that Saturday night organ donor awareness cocktail and dinner event at Balboa Bay Resort and some 500 guests converged. They heard testimony from baseball champ
The latest survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce shows that most of the nation’s 31 million small-business owners, 62%, believe the worst is yet to come. About three-fourths of small-business owners say they will need more help from the government to survive this year.
The past year has been the worst for small businesses in three decades, said Maggie Horne, director of the Small Business Development Center at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. She said the problems include inconsistent lockdown rules from state to state and the slowness of some business owners to move parts of their operations online.
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