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Support our restaurants

Sun., Sept. 27, 2020

I have an idea of how to best spend taxpayer money to support local restaurants during this pandemic: Fund the purchase of outdoor heaters so dining can be extended through the winter. The restaurants that have not yet folded have often been limping along using take-out and outdoor seating to get by.

More of them will be closing as outdoor dining drops off with cold weather. Let’s support them from our budget before we lose them!

Carol Vanhoff

Spokane

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