Jan 14, 2021
BORING, Ore. (AP) A line formed out the door during the lunch rush at the Carver Hangar, a family-owned restaurant and sports bar, and waitresses zipped in and out of the kitchen trying to keep up with orders as customers backed up in the lobby.
Indoor dining has been banned in much of Oregon for nearly two months, but the eatery 20 miles southeast of Portland was doing a booming business and an illegal one. The restaurant’s owners, Bryan and Liz Mitchell, fully reopened Jan. 1 in defiance of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 indoor dining ban in their county despite the risk of heavy fines and surging coronavirus cases.
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Oregon beer in 2020: Stress, tanked sales and adaptability define a COVID-cursed year
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
Jarek and Sara Szymanski were among the first brewery owners to adapt to new realities post-COVID shutdown. They quickly began home delivery of their Threshold Brewing & Blending beer and built a covered seating area in front of their taproom.Courtesy of Threshold Brewing & Blending
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April brought a grim outlook for the craft brewing industry.
About a month into the COVID-19 shutdown, a national survey showed three in five breweries said they wouldn’t survive if the pandemic persisted for three more months.
A suggested protest that had chambers of commerce across the state worried has not produced the feared impact so far.
Last week the Hermiston, Pendleton, Umatilla, Boardman, Irrigon and Heppner chambers shared a message they had received from the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce, citing a user post on the Open Oregon Facebook page asking people to flood the Oregon Occupational Health and Safety Administration with complaints against businesses in order to overwhelm the agency so that it couldnât take action against businesses flouting COVID-19 restrictions.
âWe realize that local businesses are at their breaking point and wanted to make you aware of this effort,â the message from the state chamber said. âOR-OSHA anticipates hundreds/thousands of new anonymous complaints against businesses across Oregon, and these complaints could result in compliance letters being sent to your members by OR-OSHA.â