Generations-old family businesses work to uphold their family s livelihood, legacy during pandemic
Posted at 1:41 PM, Jan 12, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-12 17:04:50-05
Small businesses continue to struggle amid the pandemic, including family businesses that have had generations of success.
With the most recent round of stimulus money on the way, and 10 months into this pandemic, we wanted to ask them one simple question: how are you doing?
âTerrible,â said John Ellwood, who owns a dry-cleaning business near Boulder, Colorado with his wife of nearly 30 years, Wendy. âItâs funny, we havenât paid ourselves since June, and I never thought Iâd collect unemployment, [but] weâre collecting unemployment.â