FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Jeff Braswell, owner of Jaxon Edwin Social House in Ellicott City, Md., displays three cocktails, Liquid Mary Jane, Lockdown Lemonade and Persephone, available for to-go purchases, on Friday, May 15. (Brian Krista/Baltimore Sun Media Group/TNS)
Cocktails to go help restaurants stay afloat
Worried that the four Virginia restaurants she runs were headed for disaster during the pandemic, Sarah White branched out.
The neighborhood restaurants, which serve casual-style foods such as burgers and sandwiches, started providing curbside pickup. One of the owners applied for and got funding from the federal Paycheck Protection Program. And when Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam in April allowed restaurants to offer cocktails to-go, White decided to give it a try.
With hormonal changes at work and decisions about the future weighing on the mind, the life of a teen can be stressful. Living through the COVID-19 pandemic hasn t made it any easier, experts say.
Among Wayne County s young adults, local coalitions say shaming related to COVID-19 is circulating – and it could turn dangerous, especially because many feel attached to social media and detached from other human beings. A lot of what I m hearing is school-based, said Kristie Skaggs, coalition prevention specialist at OneEighty, which provides various health services to help people change their lives. An example might be if practice or a game got canceled for a sports team because somebody on the team contracted COVID or had to be quarantined. There were negative reactions.