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Bill Cox, 83, was born Aug. 10, 1937 to Archie and Isabel (Heggen) Cox in Lewistown’s St. Joseph Hospital and resided his entire life at Forest Grove.

For WUNC Tables sat empty at several restaurants in the Triangle last year at the start of the pandemic. The hospitality industry in Wake County, and across North Carolina, is struggling to hire back workers that were laid off during the pandemic. At the same time, the demand to travel and eat out at restaurants is increasing quickly as more people get vaccinated and pandemic restrictions ease. "The need is very immediate and dire," said Scott Peacock, the public relations director of Visit Raleigh, the city’s tourism agency. “We need to fill these positions.” About 66% of the 67,000 e...