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PORTAGEÂ â The City Council plans to take its proposed smoking ban in for major surgery, with significant changes to debut in August.
Council Vice President Scott Williams, D-3rd, said the Ordinance Committee plans to revise the proposed ordinance to allow certain businesses and membership clubs to decide on their own whether to ban smoking. Restrictions will be recommended for government-owned property, however.
Mark Oprisko said his bar, Mark O Bar & Grill, went smokefree for six months, but the experiment was a flop. âIf this ban was to happen, I would lose probably 50% of my business,â he said. The building could be sold, but the liquor license and equipment âwould go to zilch,â he added.
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âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.