Boonville restaurant eagerly awaiting COVID relief money Boonville restaurant eagerly awaiting COVID relief money By Brady Williams | May 13, 2021 at 8:27 PM CDT - Updated May 13 at 8:27 PM BOONVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The deadline to apply for COVID relief grant funding from the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs expired this past week. As of Thursday, businesses in Boonville were eagerly awaiting that money. Donna Ellis, owner of Yesterdaze, said that running a restaurant has been difficult over the last year. “Sometimes you just want to sit down and cry,” she said. “But that doesn’t help much.” Ellis has been running Yesterdaze for 20 years, but even her most loyal customers have needed to stay safe in a pandemic.