The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. August 22, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable brenda l. Lawrence to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house gathered here at the capitol for an extraordinary session in extraordinary times. Inspire them with wisdom as they hope to address the needs of our nation in such a difficult period of our shared history. Continue to bless those who labor to attend to the sick among our citizens and those also who strive to find effective treatments and vaccines. Keep us all safe in your divine mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Ame
A 40-second video of Duane Swenk turned him into a minor TikTok star and led thousands of customers to Sparta Candle Co., a North Carolina-based candle- and soap-making business that his daughter Jennifer Swenk started three years ago in a spare bedroom.
SPARTA — Who knows why a video featuring a 70-year-old Sparta man wearing an Allman Brothers T-shirt and cutting a bar of peaches-and-cream soap registered 9 million views on TikTok?
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The Bluffs Restaurant will reopen May 27 on the Blue Ridge Parkway
The Bluffs new operator is Heritage Dining and Events, LLC, led by Sharon Pinney and Chef John Gamradt of Boone.
The Bluffs, at Milepost 241 on the parkway, briefly reopened last August but closed after just five days of operation, in part because of issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Shana Whitehead and Bill Health of Muddy Creek Cafe in Winston-Salem and Sparta had signed on to operate the restaurant the year before and were on board through the renovation spearheaded by the nonprofit Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, based in Winston-Salem.