Owner of Point Roberts only grocery store says she can t afford to stay open
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The owner of Point Roberts’ only grocery store says she will be forced to close next month if Canada and the U.S. don’t ease border restrictions.
Point Roberts, which sits south of Vancouver in the Lily Point Marine Reserve, is officially part of the U.S., but you have to go through Canada to gain access. The only other way would be a two-hour boat ride from Bellingham.
Ali Hayton, the owner of the Point Roberts International Marketplace, told KIRO Radio that she “just kind of lost it” when she found out the border closure was extended until at least July 21.
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Cut off from the rest of America, a small town endures lockdown
COVID had a pretty hard time finding its way to Point Roberts, Washington. There s been only one confirmed case there since the pandemic began.
It is remote; on a map, Point Roberts looks like it should be a part of Canada, except that this fingertip of land dangles just below the 49th parallel, officially making Point Roberts part of Washington State. They call it Pretend America, the world s largest gated community, laughed Jeff Ferguson.
He s kidding, sort of. The only way for Americans to get to the rest of the U.S. by land is a 24-mile drive through Canada. That means getting past two international border guards.
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