Carver Hangar joins ranks of restaurants resisting coronavirus dining bans
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
BORING, Ore. A line formed out the door during the lunch rush at the Carver Hangar, a family-owned restaurant and sports bar, and waitresses zipped in and out of the kitchen trying to keep up with orders as customers backed up in the lobby.
Indoor dining has been banned in much of Oregon for nearly two months, but the eatery 20 miles southeast of Portland was doing a booming business and an illegal one. The restaurant’s owners, Bryan and Liz Mitchell, fully reopened Jan. 1 in defiance of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 indoor dining ban in their county despite the risk of heavy fines and surging coronavirus cases.
Indoor dining has been banned in much of Oregon for nearly two months, but the eatery 20 miles southeast of Portland was doing a booming business and an illegal one.
Jan 14, 2021
BORING, Ore. (AP) A line formed out the door during the lunch rush at the Carver Hangar, a family-owned restaurant and sports bar, and waitresses zipped in and out of the kitchen trying to keep up with orders as customers backed up in the lobby.
Indoor dining has been banned in much of Oregon for nearly two months, but the eatery 20 miles southeast of Portland was doing a booming business and an illegal one. The restaurant’s owners, Bryan and Liz Mitchell, fully reopened Jan. 1 in defiance of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 indoor dining ban in their county despite the risk of heavy fines and surging coronavirus cases.
Salem gym hit with Oregon s largest-yet fine for defying COVID-19 closures
Courthouse Club Fitness in Salem has been fined $126,749 by Oregon OSHA for willfully continuing to potentially expose employees to COVID-19 against Gov. Brown s executive orders.
Posted: Jan 12, 2021 12:40 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
SALEM, Ore. A fitness center in Salem has received Oregon s largest-yet fine for defiance of coronavirus restrictions, OSHA announced on Tuesday.
The company that owns Courthouse Club Fitness in Salem, Capitol Racquet Sports Inc., was fined $126,749 for willfully continuing to potentially expose employees to the infectious coronavirus disease despite a public health order to limit the capacity to zero for such establishments in extreme risk counties.