South West winery, restaurant owners lament ‘playing police’ during limited weekend
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The financial burden from Perth’s latest lockdown will stretch into the weekend for wineries, restaurants, pubs and bars and will have implications for hospitality businesses across Western Australia as the state enters two weeks of school holidays.
WA Premier Mark McGowan announced a slight easing of restrictions on Friday, allowing people from Perth and Peel to set off on school holiday trips across the state, but they are prevented from visiting regional hospitality venues until at least Tuesday.
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Biotechnology, sweet marketing skills, and some tasty juice products are the keys to success for Krystal Hamlett and Matthew Lovett, founders of the CBD brand Juice Joint. The two brought together their distinct knowledge bases Hamlett from a science and pharmaceutical background; Lovett from the music industry and their love of cannabis to create a company based on selling healthy, handcrafted CBD-infused juices and vitamin-rich CBD moss. Based in Philadelphia, Juice Joint ships nationwide.
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SoMa Nightclub Oasis Surpasses Fundraising Goal at Telethon With $270K Raised
Oasis appears to be saved, after a 12-hour telethon last weekend that brought an entire community of drag queens to its SoMa stage, and raised over $268,000 in the process. Now I have so much hope and courage, not just for Oasis. We want a real San Francisco to be here when this is over, said Oasis owner D Arcy Drollinger from the telethon stage on Saturday, as the total raised tipped $150,000 with the original goal of the event being $100,000. What we re doing now is banking on the future, so we can keep the rent paid, the bills paid, and weather the storm so we can be here when this is over.
In what will undoubtedly be recalled as the biggest drag fundraiser in local history, Oasis nightclub s 12-hour three-camera marathon telethon more than doubled the initial goal by raising more than $253,000 through the club s March 6 online event.
Streamed live from Oasis, the benefit, whose original target was a mere $100,000, also included several recorded tributes from celebrities, dignitaries and drag talents. Host and owner D Arcy Drollinger was joined by a bevy of guest-hosts, Dot Comme and Afrika America among them, with Mama Celeste and God s Little Princess, both injured, who nevertheless provided hilarious snark late in the event.
Just offstage, heading up the call center, Patti from HR (aka Michael Phyllis) offered witty comments as gogo guys and dragsters took donor calls. More funds flowed in through the online link as the entertainment cavalcade continued, with merely a few technical glitches.