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The letter, from Kim s father Dennis, had been mailed back in 2011. Dennis died in 2016. I thought how can this be? Kim said. He’s be gone five years. It was a greeting card, Kevin Gruidl, to whom the letter was addressed, said. Telling me congratulations on my new job. Which I got ten years ago.
There was also a hand-written note, a $50 check and a $25 gift card to Outback Steakhouse.
The first thing Kim did was post a question on a local Facebook group asking if anyone else had recently received old mail. No one had.
It was after reading all the comments of those who wished they had, though, that Gruidl realized how special this delivery was.
Everybody is so nice, so friendly, Wu said. They all want to support you.
Wu has run The Red Pearl in the middle of downtown Boulder Creek for 15 years. This past year, for obvious reasons, has been the hardest. Yes, Wu said. Last year super hard.
Like restaurants everywhere, the Coronavirus Pandemic has put a huge dent in the Red Pearl s business, but Wu has had to deal with so much more hardship. In August, the CZU Complex wildfire tore through the region. Hundreds of homes were lost, including Wu s. Adding insult to injury, the restaurant remained closed for weeks while the area was under evacuation orders.
I started doing the delivery guy, mailman, somebody working at the cash register, Deckert said. Occupations where they had to keep working.
It was the start of a series of portraits of people who risk their health to keep our world working. Once finished, Deckert gives the painting to the subject for free.
Lately, Deckert has been focusing on painting those who are on the very front lines of the pandemic: nurses at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. It s one of my most prized possessions now, Sheila Smith, an emergency room nurse at the hospital, said.
She got a message from Deckert a few months ago asking her to take pictures of herself and her coworkers, which he then spent hours upon hours turning into paintings.