ROCHESTER This is the design chosen by area artists to beautify the concrete barriers used for outdoor dining in the Lilac City. Volunteers are welcome to help paint the many barriers.
And a brand new way to order food and support local restaurants is coming within the next few weeks, enhancing the city s efforts to keep dining vital and easy.
By now, most people are familiar with the concrete barriers being used to help protect people taking advantage of dining in the streets, a tradition started last season during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many people still feel safer dining outdoors, but let s face it - while they help to keep people safe, those Jersey barriers are ugly. Restaurant owners have done their best to beautify the inside, creating a welcoming dining experience and next weekend the outside will get a facelift.
Rochester library, city create time capsule of 2020
Stephanie Piro
ROCHESTER – 2050 sounds very far away: who knows what life will be like then? One thing we hope is that whoever opens the Rochester Public Library’s Time Capsule will get a good idea of the current times and the year 2020!
RPL Time Capsule
The Rochester Public Library recently collaborated with other city departments to assemble a 2020 time capsule. Although ready to put 2020 behind us, we thought that it would be interesting to preserve some of the unique things we experienced, both personally and professionally.
The library included artwork done by our some of our librarians, award winning book lists, news articles that chronicle the turbulent election, social unrest and writings that chronicle the work environment. A staff picture was created in stages and Photoshopped to allow all staff to remain socially distant. One librarian included a smaller capsule housed in a wipes container, another a crocheted Be