Owners Kori Henderson and Paul Blacketer at Whim Wine Bar. When Kori Henderson and Paul Blacketer opened Whim Wine Bar in late summer 2019, they never expected their long-dreamed-of venture would soon be closed for more than a year while waiting out the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Well past the initial 2020 shutdown s one-year anniversary, the couple is still waiting to reopen inside River Park Square, opting for now to see if the two-week pause on rolling Spokane County from Phase 3 back to 2 will last. Opening for two weeks and shutting down again 25 percent capacity is not sustainable for the small bar, says Henderson, plus there s the cost of supplies and other expenses to reopen could tank the business for good. If there is no rollback, though, Whim is set to reopen May 20.
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Blaise Barshaw: Why bother to try? The same people who have bitched about losing their freedom and telling everyone what a patriot they are for the past year-plus won t take 15 minutes of their precious time to get a shot to stop this it s unbelievable to me.
Molly Walts: Show them my smallpox vaccine scar. We beat smallpox by mass vaccination.
Brandon Hollee: Tell Republicans they
can t have it and it s only for the liberal elites. They would start vaccinating to own the libs.
Nicole Colby Pauls: I think bringing vaccines to where people already are is key. 1) Providers people already have a relationship with and are likely to listen to; 2) literally where they already go, to overcome the burden of appointments and going somewhere they don t usually go. Think pop-ups at parks, games, casinos, malls.
Reason 56: Take a vax selfie, rake in the Instagram likes.
We ve spent a year trapped in a nightmare. We ve seen a half-million people die in the U.S. We ve watched the places we ve loved boarded up and bankrupted. We ve gone crazy inside locked down, shut in and fed up. And we ve watched the world go crazy outside a soaring murder rate, riots, insurrection and Instagram videos of people screaming at Walmart greeters about masks. The good news is this is the kind of nightmare you can pinch yourself and wake up from. All we have to do is tap our heels together three times, poke your arm once or twice, and we can all go home again. The problem is that to truly banish the nightmare to stop the deaths, free the businesses, get rid of the masks everyone has to join in the ritual. Whether because of fear, misinformation or simple procrastination, a huge chunk of the Inland Northwest hasn t been vacc
CJ Verdell, Travis Dye the pillars of Oregon Ducks’ running back corps
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
Running back CJ Verdell (#7) tries to avoid a tackle by safety Bennett Williams (#15) as the Oregon Ducks hold their 2021 Spring Game at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday, May 1, 2021.Sean Meagher/The Oregonian
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With spring practice over, The Oregonian/OregonLive is reviewing Oregon’s depth chart position by position. We continue the 25-part series by looking at the running backs.
Nothing was supposed to change in Oregon’s running back room this spring, nothing did and that’s a good thing.
Roman, the general manager at Volstead Act, caps a bottle for a to-go Negroni.
If there was a silver lining for bars and restaurants during the past year it was this: While the pandemic caused massive restrictions to be imposed on the hospitality industry, the kind that bankrupted a lot of businesses, it also caused a few more-minor restrictions to be loosened. Take the Volstead Act, for example, a local bar named after the law that banned alcohol. After COVID-19 hit, that name became more literal than planned. While the Volstead Act could sell food to go, their signature cocktails had been ruled effectively illegal. Existing liquor regulations in Washington state were a little old fashioned: You could buy sealed liquor bottles, but not purchase cocktails for takeout.