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Louisiana Save Our Screens Fund $4.5 million This Main Street Recovery program will provide grants for movie theaters in Louisiana that were forced to close or reduce capacity due to COVID-19. The grants are limited to $10,000 for each movie screen with a limit of $50,000 for each theater. Adam Holland, the Mayor of Oak Grove, spoke to the Finance Committee about the Fiske Theatre, a historical one-screen cinema his family operates. “I want to make clear that I have no objections to the corporations that are going to receive aid from this bill,” said Holland. “It’s necessary to point out the fact that the way this bill is presently written, the corporations with stockholders will be receiving the vast majority of these funds.” ....
BATON ROUGE, La. - A bill to provide relief dollars to the logging industry in Louisiana is headed to the House floor. House Bill 642 would create the Louisiana Loggers Relief Program to issue a total of $10 million in grants for timber harvesting and timber-hauling businesses. Rep. Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, authored the bill along with co-sponsors Sen. Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, and Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma. The House Committee on Appropriations unanimously approved the bill on Monday and could be heard on the House floor as early as Thursday. âThese businesses hadnât been included in any of the federal agriculture relief programs that other farmers and agriculture producers had been able to utilize,â Zeringue said. ....