PPP and Me Joan McGuire
Paycheck Protection Program loans provided lifelines to Oregon’s small businesses but triggered messy headaches for banks. A look back at the process proves the struggle paid off in many ways.
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans offered a desperately needed helping hand to Mitch and Cathy Teal, owners of BREW Coffee and Taphouse in Independence and West Salem. Their business, like all service providers restaurants, salons, medical offices and the like was hurting from restrictions imposed to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The cash infusion (basically free money from the federal government if you followed the rules) promised some relief. Securing the loan, however, was messy and stressful from the start.
Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Spencer S. Hsu, Peter Hermann and Emily Davies, The Washington Post
March 15, 2021
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A sign outside the Rotunda in early February memorializes Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the Jan. 6 insurrection.Washington Post photo by Salwan Georges
WASHINGTON - Federal authorities have arrested and charged two men with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with an unknown chemical spray during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but have not determined whether the exposure caused his death.
Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, W.Va., were taken into custody Sunday. Authorities said they grew up together in New Jersey.
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John F. Gembara, grandson of the founder of Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Bridgeport, was found dead, reportedly of suicide, in a client’s home shortly before the bank was shuttered.
1913 was a good year for European immigrants and their children seeking home ownership on Chicago’s Southwest Side. That year saw the creation of two savings banks just three miles apart, one in Brighton Park and the other in Bridgeport.
I know about the first one, Grunwald Savings, because it was founded by my grandfather, Edward Obrzut and associates, to bring home ownership to their many striving, industrious fellow immigrants. Obrzut had several other business ventures, including building a number of the solid brick bungalows that still stand stately today on the Southwest Side. My mother grew up in one of those bungalows, with her six siblings, on South Komensky Avenue. I have a single memory of being in that house in about 1949. A year later, in 1950, my parents secured a loan fr