Yuba-Sutter businesses meet COVID-19 challenges
Business was going well in 2019 for Ragen Whittlesey, who had just moved to Marysville with her husband and opened a small hair and skin studio. So much so that she decided to expand the business into a larger location â what became The Parlor, a hair, skin and lash studio on D Street in Marysville.
âHeading into 2020, I had hoped to gain even more new clients, add stylists, estheticians and lash artists to my team and become a legitimate business that would bring people to D Street,â Whittlesey said. âTo boot, I was really looking forward to participating in all of the festivals and parades that take place in Historic Marysville.â
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Editorâs Note: This is the second in a six-part series looking back at the stories reported in 2020 by Appeal reporters. (Dates are when the news stories were published.)
March 1:Â Area residents refreshed their awareness of the legacy of Camp Beale, when a grenade was found in the backyard of a Wheatland residence. The base has a history with explosives, it was reported, from when the facility was the site of the old Camp Beale, 1942 to 1947. During WWII, the camp comprised 86,000 acres 10 miles east of Marysville â it was a training facility for the U.S. Army, including bombing and gunnery range.
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Adventist Health/Rideout is partnering with the Yuba-Sutter Food Bank to provide a Christmas dinner for up to 3,500 households, according to Adventist Health Director of Community Well-Being Ashten Phillips.
Phillips reached out to Food Bank CEO Michelle Downing about what it had planned about delivering meals to vulnerable members of the community.
âI wanted to know if we could partner on an initiative to provide a substantial Christmas dinner to individuals and families in our community,â Phillips said in an email. âBetween the incredible contribution of the food bank and the remarkable matching contribution given to the food bank by the Rideout Foundation and the Rideout Foundation board members, we together will be able to provide a substantial Christmas dinner to many individuals in our community.â