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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Lots of Americans are traveling, eating out, doing all the things that were off-limits during much of the last year. For many businesses, this is the payoff they ve been - waiting for. But just as demand is surging, employers are having trouble finding enough workers to keep up. NPR s Scott Horsley reports.
SCOTT HORSELY, BYLINE: This summer should have been a bonanza for Aaron Baumhackl. He runs Solstice Wood Fire Pizza in Hood River, Ore., where the last pandemic restrictions were lifted just this week.
AARON BAUMHACKL: The demand is like we ve never seen before. People are clamoring to Hood River to get out of the city. It would have been a record-breaking year.
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Thoughtless drivers are putting lives and wildlife in danger and blighting the countryside by discarding tons of rubbish.
To cope with the tsunami of trash, special teams from Highways England risk their lives collecting thousands of bags of litter from roadsides.
Now the agency – which looks after the nation s motorways and A-roads and carries out litter picks nearly every day – has backed the Great British Spring Clean, with a plea for selfish motorists to take their rubbish home and stop using verges as a tip.
During the Great British Spring Clean last year, Highways England collected 12,000 bags of litter.
In the Midlands, more than 70 sacks, as well as a mattress and a 1,000-litre oil tank, were collected from the A38 in Staffordshire.
Seniors forced to rely on stairs after senior living center elevator outage
A four-story apartment building for seniors in College Hills has an elevator thatâs out of service. The buildingâs owner insists it has handled the situation responsibly, but as chief investigative reporter Craig Cheatham found out, one 80-year-old resident said the owner created an unsafe situation for the buildingâs elderly residents.
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COLLEGE HILL â At 5:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, 80-year-old Lillian Smith waited outside Marlowe Court, her senior living apartment building, for a medical services bus that would take her to dialysis treatment. By the time the bus dropped her back off at home, the elevator in the College Hill building was unavailable.