Wicked Local
Waltham restaurants need help. The people who love them are now being asked to act to save this crucial industry.
It has been a year since the country began lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a necessary action that dealt a devastating blow to local restaurants.
Since then, 20% of restaurants in the state have closed permanently due to the pandemic as of September last year, according to reporting by the Boston Globe.
“Restaurants cannot survive this indefinitely,” said Bob Perry, executive director of the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation and board member of the Breezers Ball organization.
That amount of money could also buy the winner a lifetime’s supply of Whitestone cheese, made in the heart of Oamaru. They could also buy a case or three of the Oamaruvian 18-year-old, 100-proof whisky from the Oamaru-based NZ Whisky Company.
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Oamaru’s New World supermarket sold the winning $18.25m Lotto ticket. The winner could choose to deck themselves and their family out head to toe in steampunk gear, especially since Oamaru is the steampunk capital of the world, according to
The Guardian. They would also have enough money to make themselves a tea pot to take part in the tea pot racing at the next Steampunk Festival in June.