At some point in the past four years, the deranged nature of our current reality probably broke a little piece of you, to the point that you started taking a perverse pleasure in certain events. Maybe it was schadenfreude when Donald Trump supporters were literally praying for Joe Biden’s win to be overturned at their local election office. Maybe it was tense excitement when conservative operators told Trump voters to boycott the crucial Georgia Senate race. Or maybe it was the bizarre joy of an especially wild college football game. Whatever the situation is, there’s one meme that’s lately been able to capture such feelings quite well: a drawing of a wide-eyed, stubbly man wearing a shirt that reads “SICKOS” who leans up against a window while chortling evilly: “Yes … ha ha ha … YES!”
The Piedmont Triad Partnership, economic development officials and chambers of commerce from across the area are teaming up in support of small businesses, offering a new challenge to residents called the #Triad Together Challenge.
The challenge encourages “friends and neighbors to spend more where it impacts more in small businesses and restaurants in our community,” according to a release from the Piedmont Triad Partnership (PTP).
Among the participating agencies is the Alamance Chamber of Commerce. Mac Williams, president of the Alamance Chamber, said the county business organization got involved early on in the planning.
“The genesis for it began with the organization the Piedmont Triad Partnership, which is a regional economic development group over in Greensboro,” Williams explained. “At a meeting of that board a couple of weeks ago, they were all talking about, ‘We’ve got to do something to help these small businesses, people and restaurants that are getting