INSPIRITUS Community Health Foundation distributed more than $1 million from its 7th Annual Twice Blessed Program at a ceremony Wednesday. The Twice Blessed
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Minotâs Main Street businesses are among those in the city looking for ways to navigate a pandemic, and some have relied on the federal Paycheck Protection Program to retain their employees in 2020 during the economic slowdown.
Minot employers are taking a close look at a second round of a federal Paycheck Protection Program that already has released about $144 million locally to preserve jobs.
“It certainly helped us to keep the three employees we have at the shop here employed,” Artmain owner Beth Kjelson said. “There’s no question in my mind that we probably wouldn’t have made it if we hadn’t had it.”