This Week in Coronavirus in Potomac
United States approaches one million Covid-19 Cases, (988,810 reported as of Tuesday) and more than 50,000 deaths, while here at home we cope with hunger, eviction relief, relief for small businesses.
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Silver Diner at Rio and Real Food for Kids Increase Weekday Meal Giveaway
More than 6,000 free meals provided for area schoolchildren and their families in need.
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Earth Day Is April 22
Special Earth Day Address from His Holiness Pope Francis to be included in Earth Day.
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Banks to the Rescue
Small businesses wait for banks to get federal money from the Paycheck Protection Program.
Like many business owners across Northern Virginia, Cyrille Brenac is still waiting to hear back from his bank about his application to the Paycheck Protection Program. That’s the $350 billion program that was part of the $2.2 trillion stimulus law designed to offer money to small businesses who can demonstrate they are keeping their employees. For Brenac, who lives in the Cherrydale neighborhood of Arlington, the money would help him rehire about 50 employees of his two French restaurants he laid off when the economy abruptly shut down as the result of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
This Week in Coronavirus in Maryland
Surging unemployment claims to mandatory face masks: weekly synopsis of local news on pandemic.
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Obituary: Mary Ragan “Polly” Webster, 97
Potomac Almanac co-founder, founding member of St. Francis Episcopal Church.
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