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Fifty businesses have received grants totaling $450,000 from the Town of Normal’s Small Business Relief Program to assist with COVID-19 impacts.
The town had 67 businesses apply for grant. In total they asked for more than $700,000 in assistance more than $300,000 than what Normal had to award.
“Helping all of our businesses survive this pandemic is essential,” said Assistant City Manager Eric Hanson. “I think Normal certainly fared very well, in terms of the amount of funds that we were able to bring back to the local economy in support of our small business community.”
Grants were awarded across six categories. Restaurants received the highest allocation of funding, with $192,755 awarded in grants, or 68% of the funds requested in that category.
My New Orleans
12/21/2020
WE Fellowship Committee - Taylor Morgan (Vice Chair), Nicole Fuller, Kate Mick (Co-chair), Jessica Derenbecker (Co-chair), Caroline Robichaux, Kristyn Harris, Ashley Robinson (Vice Chair) Missing - Michelle Van Vleet. The committee was very excited to be able to have the finalists pitch in person with a limited audience and adhere to the CDC guidelines. Pitching in person gives the finalists a more similar experience to other events they may have in their future. We also had over 100 attendees online to hear the pitches and learn about the companies. Photo by Nicole Fuller
On October 20, the Junior League of New Orleans (JLNO) hosted its annual pitch competition to determine the winner of the Woman Entrepreneurship (WE) Fellowship. To be considered for the Fellowship, women must have at least a 50% stake in an enterprise that has been in operation between one to five years with profits under $750,000. Winners receive a $5,000 grant from Fidelity Bank’
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President-Elect Shannon Brice, Community Council Director Rachel Stickney and President Kristin Moore sort donations received for Hurricane Laura Relief at JLNO Headquarters. Photo by Sonia Godfrey.
The forecast was ominous. The warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico provided the perfect conditions for a weather disturbance to explode from a tropical storm into a category 4 hurricane in just 48 hours. Predictions included a 20-foot storm surge that local officials described as “unsurvivable.” Coastal residents from Galveston, Texas to Gulfport, Mississippi braced for what may lie ahead, but ultimately it was southwest Louisiana that bore the brunt as Hurricane Laura made landfall at 1:00 am on Thursday, August 27, 2020.
and you want to look towards tax reform, you vote for the next bill. straight up or down. there have been enough discussion, enough hearings in this in the ways and means committee as well as the budget committee. these issues were central to our budget. you are a member on a budget committee as well as ours, had a full, open hearing on that budget document and markup, we believe now is not the time to raise taxes on working people, small businesses, and large. the onomy is anemic. we don t have enough job growth. why do we want to take more people s hard earned money? that s why we are bringing this bill forward. this bill is straight up or down. stop the tax hike or not. i yield back. . mr. hoyer: i take it the answer is no that there won t be a markup on a bill that will have consequences to all americans and extraordinary consequences to the deficit and debt and to our economy. is that am i correct in interpreting your answer is, no, there will not be a markup of this