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"Great news, fantastic," said Mark Muia, co-owner of Luxe Appeal Salon. "We're excited to be open again." Places like hair and nail salons and tattoo parlours can reopen their doors at 25 per cent capacity come Monday. Masks are required at all times. "It's definitely been a long wait that's been mentally and obviously financially stressful,” said Tristan Everett, co-owner of Iron Horse Tattoo. "It's been a pretty substantial loss for us." Personal care services, like tattoo shops, have only been open for six weeks this year. In other changes, malls in the region can also reopen and patios can now seat tables of six.
KITCHENER -- The Summer Solstice Crawl returned this weekend, after taking a year off due to the pandemic. The event is a local initiative aimed at supporting small businesses. “This is something that we’ve done for many years in Uptown [Waterloo],” says Tracy Van Kalsbeek, the executive director of the Uptown Waterloo BIA. “We encourage people to come and visit restaurants in Uptown and do basically a pub crawl, but it’s more like a food crawl.” Participants will be visiting 14 different restaurants over the next few weeks. Each location is featuring a different item for the tour. “Arugula salad from Prohibition Warehouse, Dana Shortt and her shortbreads are amazing,” says Van Kalsbeek. “There’s ice cream as well at Scoop du Jour.”
Business improvement areas urge last push to shop local ahead of holidays Local organizations are giving the "support local" message one last push as many people begin to wrap up their holiday shopping this weekend, and as a potential lockdown looms. Social Sharing Downtown Kitchener BIA says 'this is the time to commit' to local businesses as holiday shopping wraps up CBC News · Posted: Dec 19, 2020 7:55 AM ET | Last Updated: December 19, 2020 The head of the Uptown Waterloo BIA says businesses in the area continue to be resilient by connecting with customers in new ways, but added it's time for the public to step up to show their support.(Uptown Waterloo BIA/Twitter)