MERRILLVILLEÂ â A business relief program is among ideas being considered for the $7 million Merrillville will receive through the American Rescue Plan Act.
No final decisions have been made, but town officials had initial discussions Monday regarding how the funding could be spent.
âWe just penciled in some stuff,â Town Councilman Richard Hardaway said. âThings that we would like to see the money used for.â
Council President Rick Bella said there are many permitted uses for ARPA funding, and assisting businesses that were affected by the pandemic is being explored.
âThere may be grant money available for the small businesses in the area that had to lay off workers or lost money during the last year,â Hardaway said.
Former BYU basketball center Kolby Lee has committed to Dixie State, the junior from Meridian, Idaho, announced Monday on social media.
The 6-foot-9, 240-pound center played four years at BYU, including a redshirt season in 2017-18 shortly after he returned from a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Lee s best season came in 2019-20, when he averaged 7.0 points, 3.2 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game in 30 games, including 28 starts, playing alongside Yoeli Childs and even starting in his stead while Childs served a nine-game suspension due to improper benefits after returning to school out of the 2019 NBA draft.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
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