MIDCOAST A total of 163 businesses in Knox and Waldo counties received aid money from the Maine Tourism, Hospitality and Retail Recovery Grant program.
Funding for the program originated from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund with funding being provided to the first 2,500 approved applications from eligible tourism, hospitality and retail businesses in the industries of accommodation and food services; breweries; wineries; distilleries; retail trade; arts; entertainment; and recreation.
Applicants must have gross sales between $24,000 and $12 million annually and suffered a 20% or greater loss in gross sales as reported to the Maine Revenue Services on sales tax returns comparing either March 2019 through September 2019 to March 2020 through September 2020, for monthly filers, or April 2019 through September 2019 to April 2020 through September 2020, for quarterly filers.
The calendar is dotted with various holidays that celebrate pizza. From National Pizza Pie Day in February to National Deep Dish Pizza Day in April to National Cheese Pizza Day
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Weird how National Pizza Pie Day falls in February when October is National Pizza Month, but whatever. It just means more days to celebrate what is possibly the world s favorite food.
I think back to being a kid and going to Pizza Hut with my family: the checkerboard table covers, the salad bar, the pitcher of soda. Life was so much simpler then, and maybe that s what pizza really symbolizes to me - a simple life when we actually ate as a family and talked to each other while we waited on our order to arrive to our table.
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