In 2020 firearm sales have increased exponentially and buyers are a diverse population, particularly for Maine. Author: Shannon Moss (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 7:31 AM EST January 15, 2021 Updated: 7:34 AM EST January 15, 2021
MAINE, USA Mainers are buying guns in record numbers.
In 2020, the FBI received more than 137 thousand requests for gun background checks -compared to a little more than 90 thousand in 2019.
The numbers also show 40 percent of those customers were first-time gun buyers and women.
Mary Bunnell of Auburn is one of them. For me it s safety, it s all about safety, said Bunnell.
Bunnell is single and lives alone. I want to be able to be in a situation where I can take care of myself, protect myself.
Vegetable growers forced to dump $150,000 worth of celery crops due to picker shortage
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Busch Organics director Kane Busch had to dump a crop because it could not be picked in time to meet orders.
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Vegetable growers in Victoria s Lindenow Valley have had to dump $150,000 worth of celery crops due to a drastic shortage of seasonal workers caused by the COVID-19 travel bans.
Key points:
The Victorian Government is under pressure to allow seasonal workers into Australia
Growers have offered to charter flights and cover quarantine costs to secure pickers in time for harvest
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted two features of the Nepal-India economic relationship: Nepal’s ballooning trade deficit, and unrestricted cross-border movement of people of both countries. Attributing the trade deficit entirely to supply-side constraints is neither accurate nor conducive to the overall health of the relationship. This brief suggests ways towards more sustainable trade relations between India and Nepal, among them, India relaxing the non-tariff measures it imposes on Nepali goods, Nepal improving its quality testing infrastructure, and a revision to the bilateral trade treaty. The brief points to the economic and security hazards of a porous border and argues that regulating it will be in both countries’ long-term interest. It highlights the need for a resolution to the territorial disputes between the two, and strict non-interference by both in each other’s internal affairs.
LOS LUNAS â What better way to remember a year like 2020 than with a time capsule?Â
Thatâs what Jubilee Los Lunas, a retirement community near Huning Ranch, did to commemorate a year they say many will remember for a long time to come.
âMany people and myself think that having a time capsule â at least you can reflect on the whole year,â Nick Blea, owner of Jubilee, said. âIâve spent quite a bit of time just thinking about all the different things that happened this year.â
Blea said they chose to bury the time capsule, and open it in 20 years because âthereâs going to still be a few people around then here from Jubilee.â