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Metro briefs: Ramsey blocks picketing in residential areas
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Ramsey has joined the growing list of cities that prohibit targeted picketing in residential areas.
The City Council on Tuesday approved the measure 6-1, with Council Member Chelsee Howell casting the dissenting vote. She supported the spirit of the law, she said, but would rather do that with laws we already have.
Though the city of about 28,000 residents in northwest Anoka County has not had any cases of picketing in neighborhoods, Police Chief Jeff Katers said the measure is aimed at keeping residential areas peaceful and safe, but still allowing protesters to gather in other parts of the city.
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At a Dec. 16 special meeting, the Prior Lake Economic Development Authority approved a resolution for a COVID-19 Restaurant Assistance Program, which authorizes city staff to issue forgivable loans in the amount of $10,000.
The loans will provide financial assistance to restaurants impacted by the governorâs recent order of closure, the EDA agenda report states.
The loans are for full-service restaurants in the city that hold âon-sale intoxicating liquor licenses which rely primarily on the service of lunch and/or dinner to customers in its interior dining room without access to a drive-thru or take-out window; or full-service restaurants serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where the majority of customers are served and consume food in its interior dining room without access to a drive-thru or take-out window,â the report states.
To help provide one-stop shopping every holiday season, Becky Leffler, owner of Sweet Nautical Boutique in Prior Lake, purchases gift cards for her customers to pair with items they picked out from her store. In the past, sheâs picked up gift cards from various chains like Starbucks or Caribou Coffee, just for the sake of convenience to her shoppers. But this year she saw her holiday tradition as a way to give back.
Leffler, along with seven other Prior Lake boutique owners will now sell gift cards to Charlieâs on Prior through the holiday season to help support shopping and eating local.