The Castro s Seward slides may offer one of the city s biggest thrills
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Twin concrete slides at Seward Mini Park in San Francisco s Castro neighborhood offer thrills.Yelp / Lynn R.
How do you peel a 16-year-old away from video games and a 7-year-old away from Full House reruns?
This is a question I ve faced for months amid the seemingly never-ending pandemic that has my children locked up in our San Francisco home with zombie-like stares gazing at screens.
One thing that gets them out in the fresh air are walks through our Castro neighborhood to the Seward Mini Park, which has two super-steep cement slides that offer a surprising thrill you d expect to find only in a theme park with a high price for admission.
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And just like that, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order magically disappeared, seven weeks after it was decreed.
I’ll have more on that in a moment, but in case Newsom changes his mind again in the time it takes you to read this, I want to be sure to refer you to Noozhawk’s newest section, Shop Local, where you can keep up with Santa Barbara County’s retail community.
The brainchild of Kim Clark, Noozhawk’s business development vice president, and her sales and marketing team, the section provides insight and locals only-type information about great area businesses, including sweet deals and custom items.
This Week in Lincolnville: A Dream Come True
..the day they didn’t need me
Diane O’Brien Mon, 01/25/2021 - 11:30am
The Bean Supper assembly line saw that everyone got what they ordered: vegetarian or not, gluten or not, and plenty of coleslaw and cookies.
Photo by Diane O’Brien
As I drove away from the Historical Society the other day, even as cars were arriving, one after another to drop off food, it felt like a dream come true. The downstairs dining room, home of the Improvement Association for the past 50 or so years, was bustling with activity, as huge pans of beans and mountains of coleslaw were laid out, assembly-line fashion. The biscuits I’d just taken out of the oven, my one contribution to the effort, waited their place in the line, along with those of the other biscuit-makers. Cookies, cookies, cookies – gluten-free and gluten-full – completed the menu.
Senators explain PPP 2 relief, what it means for NH small businesses
Following the passage of the latest federal COVID-19 relief bill, $284 billion will be made available to businesses in the new Paycheck Protection Program as of Friday.
On Thursday, U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan held a virtual panel with state business leaders to explain how the program, dubbed by many as PPP 2, will be rolled out for small businesses and nonprofits.
PPP 2 attempts to prioritize directing financial relief to small businesses. Over the summer, one of the major complaints with the first PPP over was larger businesses, multinational corporations and tax-exempt organizations, like churches, obtained hundreds of millions of relief funds while many small businesses were left with inadequate aid relative to the financial losses they endured due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lucid Group bolster its talent with a further twelve new starters for 2021
As if welcoming eight new graduates was not enough to bring some excitement to the start of the new year, Lucid Group has also welcomed a further twelve new employees this week.
This impressive tally includes, three new team members joining its finance department: Marina Roblett, Lori Bors and Kim Clarke.
Lucid welcomed the remaining nine new starters into its client services and medical writing teams, with four people joining its HealthCare21 team: Alicja Partridge joins as a new Trainee Medical Writer, Palvinder Basra joins as an Account Manager and Anneka Watts and Kirsty Henson start their career at Lucid Group as Senior Account Executives.