Owning and operating a restaurant is not the easiest of endeavors.
Carlos Weir and his wife, Erika, have accepted the challenge of running not one but two local restaurants. The first, Las Chabelas, opened in Brawley on Main Street in 2003 with only four tables, two booths and three employees. The second restaurant is The Courtroom Bourbons and Grill in El Centro, which opened in 2014.
Carlos Weir is native Californian who grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and moved to Imperial Valley more than 30 years ago. Erika Weir is a native of Imperial Valley.
When the couple decided to operate a restaurant, they knew the risk. Although the closure rate for restaurants in the first year is reported as high as 90 percent, the real number over the past 20 years is closer to 17 percent. This is actually a lower failure rate than other service-providing businesses, where 19 percent fail in the first year.
From the secular world to the Church
These musical traditions are plentiful and diverse in style. In synchrony with the expectation of a Savior, greet the return of light to our dark winter and the return of light.
An entire repertoire of secular songs, such as noels and carols, was born in the Middle Ages in Central European, Iberian, Romanesque and Anglo-Saxon countries.
The liturgy often borrowed them to ensure the participation of the faithful. They found their way into choirs initiated by the Lutheran Reformation, Catholic hymns and motets.
From Josquin des Prés to Olivier Messiaen, composers have also drawn from this heritage and enriched it with works of religious or secular inspiration, vocal or instrumental.
District 2 Public Health to provide vaccine to emergency workers
Just days after the first seven healthcare workers at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville received the COVID-19 vaccine, District 2 Public Health began vaccinating emergency medical personnel.
District 2 Public Health received nearly 1,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine and is holding a clinic for emergency personnel at Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center today and tomorrow beginning at 8 a.m. Appointments are required for the clinic.
Additional doses of the vaccine are expected at both NGMC and the public health department, but further details are unknown.
Local businesses offer last-minute gift ideas
With less than a week before Christmas, local tourism and hospitality officials are urging people to stay close to home for last-minute shopping.
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December 21, 2020
TEMPERANCEVILLE, Va. – Tyson Foods took to Facebook to give a special thank you to Kevin Cropper and his sons, Jordan and Kevin Jr.
Tyson says Kevin and his sons started a Christmas Bicycle Drive this year and together with the Temperanceville Complex they were able to donate 7 brand new bikes to the Accomack County Social Services and Kegotank Elementary School.
Tyson added that they are very proud of Kevin and his sons for their commitment to their community.
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The Hall County Sheriff’s Office provided over 100 bicycles to local families in need Friday during their annual Christmas Bicycle program.
According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, 112 bicycles were provided to those in need at no cost. Bikes were provided to 37 individual families and to the Edmondson-Telford Child Advocacy Center, Hall-Dawson CASA Program and Hall County Victim Services.
Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch, members of the agency’s command staff and deputies distributed the bikes Friday morning at Sheriff’s Office headquarters on GA 369/Browns Bridge Road. Santa was also at the event, helping greeting families and helping them load their new bikes into vehicles.