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More than 200 hospitality businesses in York County are staying afloat with the help of a state COVID-19 recovery grant.Businesses in the county are receiving a combined $6.4 million.Assen Achu, who runs the Global Café at York’s Central, is among the recipients. The pandemic has been a struggle. We didn t know if we were going to make it, she said.After being shut down early on, the café reopened. We started really small and we looked at it like we were starting over – like we were a new business, Achu said.A $15,000 grant is helping the business recover. Much of it is being used to buy food and pay staff. We’re still in the process of figuring out how best to use it, Achu said.The average grant amount awarded to eligible businesses was nearly $29,000. The real take away from this is this funding was a lifeline to weather the storm, to keep these businesses in operation, and these are all the businesses that we care so deeply about because they really define our c ....