Restaurant relief package comes at the right time, Suncoast owners say Andy Ameres owns the Shake Station in Ellenton. (Source: ABC7) By Summer Smith | May 6, 2021 at 6:19 AM EDT - Updated May 6 at 6:40 AM
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - During the pandemic, thousands of restaurants in the United States closed and millions lost their jobs.
To help, the Biden administration introduced the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. It is a $28.6 billion relief package that is designed to help restaurants who have been struggling financially.
Applications started being accepted on Monday. Restaurants and bars can qualify for grants equal to their losses, with a cap of $10 million per business.
FDOT to investigate deadly Manatee County intersection
Kimberly Kuizon reports
ELLENTON, Fla. - From cars trying to make u-turns to backed-up traffic, U.S. 301 at 42nd Avenue Road East has become a headache for many Manatee County residents. It don’t matter what time of day it is, time of night. All you hear is breaks squealing and everyone trying to do u-turns. It’s just so congested in this area, said Wes Thompson, who has lived in Ellenton his whole life. It scares me because also they turn into this neighborhood down here and fly down here.
He hopes the intersection will soon become a safer place for him and his son, Connor, to travel.
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Whenever it came to firing up students for a school fundraiser over the years,
Anthony Losada has never been shy about putting himself out there and taking one for the team with his zany ideas.
“Anything I can do to motivate the kids,” he said.
Like kissing a pig.
Or sitting in a dunk tank.
“With ice dumped into it,” Losada said, recalling that chilling stunt from his days as an assistant principal at Braden River Middle.
So when it came time to raise $500 for the Mayors Feed the Hungry program, the Johnson K-8 School of International Studies principal reached into his bag of tricks.