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Data shows Buy-One-Get-One program delivers 2X return in 1 month, 4X in 3 months, up to 8X over time in revenue going exclusively to local businesses, with lasting increases in sales for main streets and downtowns (MENLO PARK, Calif.) — NEWS: As communities strive to help their local businesses weather the pandemic storm, Yiftee has grown to more than 270 Community eGift Cards across the United States and executed 74 “Buy-One-Get-One” programs. These programs enlist entire communities in purchasing eGift Cards that can only be spent at local businesses, where the card buyers also receiv...

Image: Dani Molyneux CGI images have given a glimpse of how the new community bookshop coming to St Helens may look. The Star reported in December as a crowdfunding campaign to bring the store to St Helens town centre reached its target of £40,000 thanks to donations from the community, which enabled the project to access additional funds. The former Furniture Boutique on Bridge Street, part of Church Square Shopping Centre, will be transformed into the bookshop. While the latest coronavirus lockdown has meant the initial aim of opening to coincide with World Book Day in early March ...

Cross-party task group satisfied with St Helens Council budget process A CROSS-PARTY group of councillors have come away satisfied that St Helens Borough Council’s budget setting process for the upcoming year has been “robust and thorough”. The local authority is facing a budget gap of £20.4 million for 2021-2022, with council leader David Baines warning earlier this month that it is “inevitable that frontline, much-loved and much-used services are going to be affected”. A public consultation over proposals to cut £21.9 million from the council’s 2021-22 budget in order to...

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SAVOY — The Savoy 16 has been idle since March, after it was closed due to state COVID-19 restrictions and later for good after Goodrich Quality Theatres filed for bankruptcy. Village officials, however, were hopeful that it would reopen under new management. “Mayors don’t like empty buildings, especially buildings as important as the Savoy 16,” Village President Joan Dykstra said. “We’re all very excited.” The new operator, Knoxville, Tenn.-based Phoenix Theatres Entertainment LLC, has an ambitious timeline, albeit one that will ultimately be controlled by ...