Restaurant owner seeing more business, credits vaccinations
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Illinois (KMOV) Due to metrics set by the Illinois Health Department, businesses in the Metro East were under strict health guidelines until a few months ago.
One of those guidelines was no indoor dining. Metro East restaurant owners say it was hard to survive off curbside only. Now, restaurants are operating at 50 percent capacity.
“To be sitting at a table without a mask and laughing, makes me feel a little bit more normal, and calm, and a little less stressed out,” Bill Haskins said.
Tuesday, Haskins and his friends dined inside for the first time since the pandemic started.
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Penn State Behrend’s Alumni Society has created an affiliate programming group that will link Black alumni to current and potential Behrend students. “I want to do my part,” said Tesha Nesbit, who will lead the group’s professional development committee.