a community hard hit by the economic crisis associated with the covid-19 pandemic. and speaking with local businesses, they re trying to make up for a lot of the loss profit by elongating the summer season. there was a decision in the community to keep the beaches open through the month of september to hopefully charge to have lifeguards here and offset the losses, about 40% less than this time last year. so hearing about how hard hit they were stuck with me. take a listen to what they told me. we need this weekend and every other weekend in september. there is no way that we could possibly do what we need to do by being closed as long as we were and then open up as late as we did. so i think most of us are grateful that we re open. if we ve through hurricane sandy and fires and we ll get through this and come out stronger on the other side. reporter: with the community having gone through so much they re looking to try to offset the losses and going beyond the last hoo
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