Bill Briggs always had a heart for the poor
ZANESVILLE - The 1960s was a time of racial rioting throughout the U.S. and Ohio witnessed its fair share of violence. By 1966, Bill Briggs had been called to serve as director of the Northeast Inner-City Mission in Canton. From 1967 to 1969 things were pretty bad, Bill s wife, Dottie, said. The mayor at the time, Stanley Cmich had recruited Lee Anderson - a black man - to create activities to deter racial rioting in Canton. Bill was part of that effort called Operation Positive. They provided a youth recreation program and training program for low-income adults. As a consequence, Canton was spared the riots that were happening at that time.
CT band the Remains rubbed elbows with the Beatles, Donna Summer and more
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From left, Chip, Bill, Barry and Vern on stage after playing a club show in Los Angeles in 2006, the 40th anniversary of the Beatles tour.Courtesy of America’s Lost Band, Manhattan Productions Inc.
When four young, bleary-eyed rock musicians ambled into the midtown Manhattan office of General Artists Corp. one June afternoon in 1966, they could have had no idea that what they were about to hear would inform their careers and lives forever.
“You guys wanna play on the Beatles’ August tour across America?” a GAC exec asked the band members of the Remains, who had all recently dropped out of Boston University to play and write songs full-time. “If you do, I can get you on it.”
Getty Images Those Costco runs were lifesavers, says Bill Briggs, of the early days of the Paycheck Protection Program, a forgivable loan offering that s helped millions of U.S. small businesses access about $750 billion in aid. Briggs most recently served as the acting associate administrator for the Small Business Administration s Office of Capital Access, where he oversaw the launch of the current round of the PPP and served as the SBA s liaison to financial institutions. Here, in honor of the one-year anniversary of the forgivable loan program, Briggs discusses what it was like to get the PPP off the ground. As told to Diana Ransom
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