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What started out as something for Amy Albritton to do on her Mondays off has created a local following of people who share her same dislike for litter.
Albritton’s work schedule changed last September, leaving her off every Monday. She quickly phoned her mom, Debbie Anderson, to see if she would join her in picking up trash off of roads.
The two posted a selfie on social media after cleaning parts of Highland Avenue and other surrounding streets, and Kinston s Trash Bashers was born on September 21, 2020. The duo soon turned into a group of five – and six months and 611 13-gallon trash bags later, four groups now clean up streets, ditches, and properties within Lenoir County.
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5 things to know about Ocean Bay Seafood in Kinston
1. Ocean Bay Seafood opened after COVID-19 hit as a food-to-go restaurant.
Jack Zhang shut down his family-owned Jacksonville seafood restaurant in the midst of COVID-19 last year and started a lucrative carryout business.
His family’s carryout-business model showed success, and the idea to open an Ocean Bay Seafood Restaurant in Kinston, serving mainly as a food-to-go hub with Styrofoam plates and plastic forks and knives, began.
“It was a fancy restaurant. That’s what we started in Onslow County,” Zhang said. “When COVID came, we shut down the dining and did carryout only. We were not even open, and we had a lot of customers.”
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Three days before a Lenoir County resident was tested for the novel coronavirus, North Carolina public schools were ordered to shut down.
And eight days after Lenoir County Public Schools did so with really no choice, the resident received the first lab-confirmed positive test in the county – on March 24, 2020. I don’t think that anyone imagined exactly what was about to happen locally and around the world last year at this time, LCPS superintendent Brent Williams said. In what seemed to be an instant, the uncertainty of the COVID-19 virus turned the world upside down.