Tag: COVID-19

Chipmunk gets special daily meals thanks to bored restaurant reviewer.
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Bored Restaurant Reviewer Serves Chipmunk Daily Custom Fine Dining Meals

The chipmunk living in Angela Hansberger’s Atlanta front yard has the best seat at the table. Hansberger is a food writer by trade. An industry hard hit by the pandemic. Hansberger shares her journey of dealing with sadness and boredom in a delight piece in Bon Apetit Magazine. She writes,  “There are no more new cafés to review or omakase dinners to critique or chicken wing competitions to judge. I’ve hoarded the beans, planted the garden, and grown the scallions

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Couple married 60 years have beautiful reunion after 215 days apart.
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Beautiful Reunion for Couple Married 60 Years After 215 Days Apart Because of Covid Restrictions

Beautiful reunion after Covid restrictions kept this wonderful couple apart for 215 days This beautiful reunion is what you need to see today. If true, everlasting love is your kind of thing. Joe and Eve have been married for 60 years. This crazy pandemic threw them a challenge they couldn’t have seen coming. BBC World reports that husband Joe got sick about the time his beloved wife, Eve, had to move into a memory assist facility. COVID restrictions meant they

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The Holy Honey jarred each year with the honey from the synagogue's rooftop beehives.
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Sweet Heroes Step Up When Synagogue’s Rooftop Beehives Become Pandemic Casualty

Synagogue’s rooftop beehives had sweet beginning that only gets better They are beehives with the sweetest of beginnings. Arthur LaBan started the project about five years ago when he was in seventh grade. This would be his service project for his upcoming bar mitzvah at Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia. KYW radio did a story at the time. Beekeeper Don Shump helped Arthur and his dad, Craig, get quite the operation going on the synagogue’s rooftop. As Craig describes in

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7-Year-Old Boy Throws Mini-Prom For His High School Babysitter When Hers Is Canceled

7-year-old Curtis Rodgers believed his babysitter deserved the best prom ever. Little kid to the rescue of babysitter Leave it to a devoted 7-year-old to show his babysitter she is the best ever. Curtis Rodgers was feeling bad for Rachel Chapman when his mom explained she wouldn’t be able to have a high school prom because of the coronavirus lockdown situation. Brilliant Curtis to the rescue. He told his mom they could throw Rachel a prom in their backyard in

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South Korea is sending 10,000 face masks to Navajo Nation code talkers.
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South Korea Sending 10,000 Masks To Navajo Veterans Honoring Their Service During Korean War

Gratitude for Navajo code talkers used their unbreakable code to help defend South Korea Navajo code talkers made significant contributions to help defend South Korea during the Korean War. It’s a story from 70 years ago that many Americans don’t know. South Korea has not forgotten. South Korea sends gratitude The country is sending 10,000 face masks and other protective gear to the Navajo Nation to aid in the fight against the coronavirus. Stars & Stripes reports the Navajo Nation

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Magic Johnson will offer $100 million in loans for women owned and minority owned businesses.
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Magic Johnson Offering $100 Million In Loans To Women And Minority Owned Businesses

Magic Johnson wants to help out women and minority owned businesses left out of PPP loans NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson wants to help out women and minority owned businesses who haven’t been able to secure PPP loans. These company owners missed out on the early loans during the coronavirus pandemic economic crisis because they might have not had relationships with big banks.  EquiTrust Life Insurance Company will fund the loans. Johnson is a majority shareholder.  The Small Business

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Quarantine Christmas
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Dad Creates Magical ‘Quarantine Christmas’ With Toys & Food Already In The House

Quarantine Christmas reminding all of us to be happy and excited with what we already have Quarantine Christmas should join the list of pop culture holidays like Festivus. Dad Neil Robinson came up with the idea for his young children Carter and Kennedy. The general idea? Wrap up toys and food the family already had. What brilliance! The parents woke the kids up with all the excitement of a traditional Christmas Day. Carter and Kennedy ran downstairs to find the

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girl creates plastic curtain with arm holes to hug her grandparents.
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Girl Creates Plastic Curtain With Arm Holes To Hug Her Grandparents

Plastic curtain with arm holes is genius hack to get to hug grandparents A plastic curtain with armholes brought 10-year-old Paige Okray the thing she’s really been missing during this coronavirus lockdown. A hug with her grandparents. She and her mom, Lindsay, created the curtain using a shower curtain, paper plates, Ziploc bags and a hot glue gun. ‘You get to hug me!’ Paige Okray to her grandparents on the other side of plastic curtain Mom Lindsay is a nurse

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Twitter tells employees they can continue to work from home even after Twitter offices reopen after coronavirus lockdown eases.
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Twitter Will Let Employees Work From Home Forever

Twitter email tells employees they will be able to work from home as long as they want Twitter now says it will let employees continue to work from home even after the coronavirus lockdown situation subsides. The company sent an email to its employees today bringing them up to date on company policies. The biggest take-away–If you’re an employee who wants to keep working from home even after company offices reopen, then have at it. “We’ve been very thoughtful in

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