River Market businesses adjust to new mask guidance
On Friday, Kansas City area jurisdictions began peeling away their pandemic health guidelines in order to better align with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Business owners are left with a decision to make about whether or not to require masks indoors following Friday s removal of Kansas City s mask mandate by Mayor Quinton Lucas.
Customers were met with a new sign on the door at The Farmhouse restaurant Friday morning saying masks are no longer required inside, but customers are welcome to wear them if they would prefer.
By Nina Culver The Spokesman-Review
Christmas Bureau recipients are eagerly awaiting word about their toy vouchers as Christmas marches closer, but the procedures to get those vouchers in the hands of thousands of families is still being worked on.
The plan to distribute toy vouchers instead of a drive-thru toy distribution is new and has been put together at the last minute, said Christmas Bureau Coordinator Sierra Heinen. Many different options were discussed as organizers tried to be fair in the amount given to each family and also tried to help as many as they could with limited funds.
The annual fundraising currently underway will pay for the toys and the books that organizers spent all year buying. Those now sit in storage, the plans to distribute them thwarted by the rising COVID-19 pandemic. Since those items still have to be paid for, there isn’t money in the budget to pay for toy vouchers. Organizers have scraped together what money they could in the hope