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Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica visiting Monroe County June 3-7 The Daily Jeffersonian WOODSFIELD - The Moving Wall, a traveling, half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will make a stop at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Woodsfield on June 3-7. The Moving Wall has been traversing the United States for more than 36 years after it was first displayed in Tyler, Texas, in October 1984. The visit to Monroe County is sponsored by Veterans in Distress, an organization whose mission is to help veterans facing financial hardships or who have needs that cannot be ...

AOC PAYS TRIBUTE TO OLYMPIC SWIMMING GREAT JOHN KONRADS 04/26/21 The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has paid tribute to the late John Konrads, Olympic gold medallist from the Rome 1960 Games, who passed away yesterday aged 78. In a career that saw him set 26 world records in the pool between 200m and 1500m, his signature moment came in the 1500m freestyle in Rome where he won gold, as well as claiming bronze in the 400m freestyle and bronze as a member of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay team with Murray Rose, John Devitt and David Dickson. AOC President John Coates says the story of the ‘...

Updated / Tuesday, 6 Apr 2021 16:10 "The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 offers more robust protections for Irish whistleblowers than available in other countries." Photo: Getty Images Analysis:  Ireland has one of the strongest whistleblower protection legislations in the world, and incentivises workers to make disclosures internally, but it also permits workers to go outside their organisation if they wish to do so. Last week's RTÉ Investigates revelations shocked the nation. It emerged that the Department of Health was secretly compiling sensitive medical, social care, and educati...

Chris Yates, managing director, Cafe Murano Hospitality has been treated awfully throughout 2020. The campaign for a minister for hospitality is vitally important. Property costs (rent and rates) in central London are unsustainable. This crisis and the impact on high streets should lead to revision of business rate structure and the commercial lease model. Fixed rents with five-yearly upward only reviews should be a thing of the past. During 2020 many sensible landlords have moved to turnover rents to support tenants and this has to be the model for the future of commercial leases. Roland Hor...

Turnover rents For better or worse, the impact of the pandemic is having a profound effect on the commercial property market. Since the lease forfeiture moratorium was introduced last year, tenants and landlords have been trying to negotiate new lease terms that suit both parties; often unsuccessfully - a recent study carried out by commercial property restructuring specialist Cedar Dean found that 77% of hospitality operators are currently being forced to look at restructuring or insolvency options, with current rents remaining unaffordable for the vast majority of businesses. A switch to tu...